Proud Malaysian Sports Moment

One night in 1980.... (who could forget these lines)
"Hassan, cocok Hassan, masih lagi Hassan, kepada James!!!!)

Looking back, I think that was a night when all Malaysian became one entity. Malaysian football were never able to reach that level of euphoria that still caused my hair to stand just reliving the moment in the mind. How proud I was then. How I longed for that moment. The closest was when we turned the tables on the Thais at Shah Alam few years back with our Rusdi Superman.

I guess to be fair, another moment was this one...

16 May 1992 - Stadium Negara

The determination of Rashid, the steely performance of Kok Keong and the Dream Provider of Soon Kit and Beng Kiang (of course Hasbullah's rantings past midnight). And I wonder who is that bespectacle, skinny fellow gyrating in the stands (wherever you are).

My personal pick for the recent Proud Malaysian Sports Moment was the SUKOM 98 hockey semi-finals against India. (because I was there!)

The above my dear friends were true Sport Performance where I could be proud of.

now back to the Olympic

(remind me to write about Nolan Ryan) who?

Electoral College

US politics always fascinates me. Since I took my class in American Politics back in 86 (Thanks to Mr Burgess, for making it an interesting class and enthusiatic explanation of Judge Bork's 'de-selection' to Supreme Court easier to understand), I kept comparing the goings-on in the US with our 'so-called' parliamentary democracy practice and hope for a better execution (not). Its election year again in the US. Thanks to Michael Moore, I think its' gonna be a 'bloody' affair, (not in a literal way) - Americans never failed to make a fool out of themselves 'democratically' for the whole world to see. Either we love them or hate them, they don't seemed to care anyway. I look forward however to Hillary Clinton's turn, hopefully sooner and make Mr Burgess proud (wherever u are).

The Shopping Mall

I was at Alamanda to see the 'soft' opening of THE SHOPPING MALL of Putrajaya. Apart from the non-existence PA (can't hardly make out whatever the person's speeches was all about) the yellow clad ladies of the complex personnel made the event bearable till the end (end here means until the makan time - its free lunch everybody!) Anyway the yellow clad ladies sure can take on the MAS stewardesses anytime .wink wink

I think that place will be full each time at lunch - with all the govt employees making the bee line (the end of Anjung and Souq?) come night time, that is another story. Unless Bangi, Sepang, Serdang and even Puchong folks managed to find their way to Parcel Z (which I doubt unless its a weekend thing)

The parking layout and location is good (Malaysian shoppers don't want to walk far to entrance) except for the fine dining restaurants located outside the mall area. Other than that the minimalist design is interesting. The abundant amount of sunlight entering the mall area creates an outdoor 'feeling' indoors. The only thing is that repair works are being carried out here and there (plus almost 50% of the shoplots still being boarded up for renovation) and I think the center court need more sitting benches.

ps -

my wife want to see this yellow clad ladies herself when I told her about them. he he he

Highways

It's official, RM20.00 (RM19.60 to be exact but not including toll for KL-Karak) one way for ECE (East Coast Expressway). Now I have to rethink the Cherating getaway I've been planning for year's end (AirAsia, here we go). Maybe I'll have to meet halfway, travel to Temerloh and sample that 'Sup Gearbox' near Jengka, then make a U-turn, drop by Karak town and buy few kilos of Jambu Rias.

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I took an LRT ride to KLCC yesterday evening. It has been quite sometime I 'drop-by' downtown KL, since 2001 my line of work no longer requires me to be in Kg Baru ( yeah I worked there for almost 10 years.. go figure) and my recent job only put me at the perimeter of KL (I managed to avoid the traffic jam hassle). Back to KLCC, not much different this time of the year except more and more of Middle Eastern tourists flocking around the areas, and they love to travel in a group do they. This one family of 15 (I guess) maybe of 4 generations, Dad and GranDad with one stroller (couldn't see any babies inside, not with the shopping bags and all) lingering around the foodcourt, at one end of the floor the 'Burkha' ladies flocking one accessories stall, trying out few earrings and so forth, while the mom and her mom shifting inside the boutiques. After a short while some teenage boys exited one electronic shop with bagful of digicams, pdas, hps etc. Later they regroup at a designated place (take a wild guess?---The Glass Lift of course) all this happened while I take a long pause before entering Kinokuniya (I love to watch people - should have been a psychologist or sociologist instead of......) KL has turned cosmo instead of metro.

I got inside and went straight to get whatever I planned to do (to get some Malay-Japanese Dict for my lil sis who is now in Japan for some exchange program - more of that later). I thought of staying back a little while longer and enjoy my outings, when my wife sms me reminding to be back in time for the Amazing Race at 8:00 (I wouldn't miss that would I?) With that, I scooted to LRT station and enjoyed my few moment of new cosmopolitan KL rushing crowd.

Athens Olympic

I was at home last night switching channels on ASTRO (Now that 'demam AF2 dah kebah' = recuperating from the AF2 fever) when my attention got to the skeet shooting final... Hey isn't that Al Makhtoum feller looks familiar? Well when he nails the clinching shots for gold with only one missed shot (he missed another 2 after that) my mind just wandered off wondering whether Letterman will make a reference to it later or not.. We'll see....

Then the blows.. all our shuttlers faltered.... what to do... another 4 years down the road I couldn't pin point the younger shuttlers moved up the ranks. How jealous I am when I saw other Asian countries started to flood the podiums or at least showed the fighting spirit that make us want to believe them. (ok our shuttlers did showed glimpses of that.. I trust them, but still..)

Oh by the way... way to go Puerto Rico.
Now.. besides EPL.. I'll keep in touch for NFL and College Football (from this side of South China Sea)

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I've been wanting to do this for quite a long time....
Well here goes nothing...