I'm back! Hardly blogged since World Cup 2010. Football season is back! It's moments like these that inspire me to blog.

I only realized Manchester United was playing against Chelsea in the Charity Shield after I got a message from Chern Yao when I woke up from my afternoon nap.

And here we go! Valencia broke the deadlock. :)

Goal scorer congratulated by the provider - Rooney.

Hernandez, our new signing, someone the gets us excited since the days of Ronaldo.

Celebrating after he scores on his competitive debut. =)

Berbatov with an amazing chip to restore a 2 goal cushion right at the end.

Manchester United winners again. :)

What a season to look forward to. :)

Just woke up from my long afternoon nap. Rarely enjoy one of those these days. My body can doze off anytime! Lack of sleep I guess?

World Cup just finished the first 16 matches where we saw all teams in action. Frankly it has been disappointing. Some matches are just plainly, a waste of my time. The most exciting one came last night. Switzerland stunned Spain 1-0.

Watched Toy Story 3 last night at the premiere. Boy was the security tight. We had our phones locked up somewhere outside. They even made rounds during the movie! Quite annoying. But the movie was amazing! Never been so touched by a animation movie since Finding Nemo. :)

Tonight's most exciting match happens to be at 7.30pm! Argentina vs South Korea. Cell group starts at 8pm. :(

Just can't resist from blogging about World Cup.

Just watched the first win of the tournament. South Korea 2 Greece 0. Manchester United midfielder scored the second goal of the match after evading two defenders. :)

Host country South Africa almost caused an upset by a stunning strike from Tshabalala. Mexico equalised later.

Just got to know that South Africa is known as the Rainbow Nation. Colourful!

Pictures from the opening ceremony.

I love fish eye effects.

Starting line-up for the most boring match so far. Uruguay against France.

Argentina and Nigeria are playing a very open game now. Plenty of chances! Exciting.

Argh! Some family carnival at UCSI woke me up before 8am! As quoted from my student, What's the big idea?

Jazz is playing an amazing game against Lakers. Impressed by Kirlenko. Somehow there's another athlete by the same name that's more famous than him. :)

Iron Man 2 was great yesterday. Some how I felt I had a great day at work yesterday. Wonder was it because of a movie before work. 先苦后甜 (literally - first bitter later sweet)? Questionable. Anyways, a 45 second secret ending after 5 minutes long of credits. In case you don't know, I did some research, it's Mjollnir, Thor's Hammer. ;)

Lovely doughnuts from Kelly and Leanne for Teacher's Day. How thoughtful! I'd take Big Apple over Krispy Kreme anytime.

2 very cute seal-wanna-bes. :)

Nothing much on my schedule today. Just the FA Cup Final. For some strange reason, I'm rooting for Portsmouth. ;)

I have got to say that I'm totally against Barcelona now. Sore losers they are. Play acting. Fireworks during the player's sleep. Police even joined in to disturb Eto'o. Lastly, turning on the sprinklers to try dampen Inter's celebration. Wonder why the media is so quiet about all this?

Congratulations Fulham for being the only English representative in this year's European cup finals.

Oh, and Kei Kamara's worst miss of the century!

I'll ned my wholly-football-dedicated post with a gift from Poppy. She just came back from England.

Glory, glory Man United~~

Here's a nice video clip of Paulo Guerrero hitting a fan with a bottle. Perfect accuracy! :)



And who can forget Eric Cantona's kung fu kick. ;)

I've only got 3 more holidays until my December holidays. I've got 2 of them planned. Especially excited for the upcoming one in May!

Asia Conference! It's going to be HUGE. Believe it'll be bigger, better, and more impacting than the previous one. RM250 for the bus tickets to Singpore, 6 nights, and the shuttle buses. Thanks City Harvest Church! =) Can't wait to see Cho Yonggi in person. Reinhard Bonke's going to be there too. Calvin, too bad you're in England. ;)



And what's more is we're planning to visit Universal Studios Singapore! Pray that all the attractions will be in its best conditions, cloudy but no rain, and less queue-ing. ;p It'll cost only S$66. I think it's worth it.





Then I'm still wondering whether to visit Night Safari or not. Seems pretty costly for just a few hours. And wonder if I'd get to see the most of the animals. S$22 for the entrance ticket and another S$10 for the tram ride. Almost half of the theme park all-day ticket. Then there's also the Singapore Zoo. As Carrie puts it, 'choices choices choices... You're never that easy, ya know?'



Anyways, Earth Hour tonight. 8.30pm-9.30pm. Thinking of what to do then as we're so dependent on electricity. Mom did manage to get those kind of 'scent candle lamp' from Ikea the other day. Should have gotten one myself. Thank God Manchester United plays later in the night. To any Bolton Wanderers fans (I doubt), wrong time to have us as opponents.

Glory, glory Man United...

Glory, glory Man United! If you haven't known. Man United 2 Liverpool 1. And Rooney scores again! =)

Ex-classmate found some old photos and decided to post it up on Facebook. I did have huge spectacles then.

Havent's posted for some time. Pictures have been 'piling up'. A few more to add to my 'student-in-jerseys' collection.

Imran in Lampard jersey. I'm so sorry for the draw last night. ;)

Joshua in Loserpool's jersey.

*pictures removed, lest I get in trouble.

I forgot his name. Beckham.

*pictures removed, lest I get in trouble.

Ukelele.

*pictures removed, lest I get in trouble.

Twins.

Soft toy from WWF.

Joseline. Joslinna. Jocelyn. I still don't know her exact name.

Cool t-shirt from my baldy student. 'there are day I hate being me, but then I smile because I'm not you!'

Lunch at work. :(

Mom was here for the last weekend. She's the greatest. She somehow cleaned the whole kitchen. I forgot to take a before/after picture. But it was amazing. Cooked a lot. Shopped a lot too. Ikea and Jusco. Where else would she want to go? ;) She even managed to get me a haircut.

Before.

During.

Didn't take an after photo. Love you mom! :)

Finally decided to open some long overdue presents.

Going off to work. Another brand new week. Tonight watching Chucho Valdes at MPO! Exciting stuff.

Another brand new week. Highlight would be Mom coming over. :)

Much happened over the weekend. Went to Alexis Bristro for a gig. Jazz Latino. Got lost in KL for more than 45 minutes. Very frustrating. Watched From Paris with Love too. I'll give it a 3 out of 5. John Travolta adds another half maybe. And a triple delight last night.

A Ferrari 1-2 finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

An emphatic 3-0 win over Fulham. Rooney scored a brace.

Berbatov was man of the match with a goal and a fantastic assist.

Completing this fine day was Chong Wei winning his first ever All-England. :)

Got myself another corn plaster. Carnation brand. Pray that it works better than Scholl!

Trying to remove my corn. According to the pharmacist I've got to use 'brute force'. Viewer's discretion.

Mila with her shirt/cloth. I don't know what's that. What's cool is she got her name on it. ;)

Lara. Not my student. Just tagged along 'cause she's going to Anne's house for sleepover. I miss doing that. ;)

Silvia has finally decided to learn how to drive. Not exactly a diving tutor myself. Watch out for her 'middle' finger. :)

Listening to an argument about Jesus' tomb that was discovered. Interesting. Jesus had a son - Jude. Unbelievable. :)

And while on the tomb topic. Joel's preaching last week was amazing. He talked about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Before doing so, He said, 'Roll over the stone'. Joel stated that if He could raise the dead what's so difficult in rolling a stone. He concluded that God won't help us in the things that we can do. Only when we do the natural, He adds in the super, thus supernatural. =)

All the best to my students that are sitting for their theory exams! ;)