Unsportmanship Behaviour

It's official, three of DPMM players were handed long suspensions after they manhandled the referee during their home game against Home United a few weeks ago. I'm not a bit shock with this news as I already expected this thing to happen as soon as the game was momentarily stop that night. I saw the whole incident that day as me my friend was sitting right in front of the incident when it happened.

One of my friend wrote on his facebook that Pg Sallehuddin should not be strip of his captaincy as he is only doing what a captain should do which is an inspiration to others especially on the pitch. I for one does not agree with this statement. Firstly, a new captain should be appointed as he will be suspended for 12 months, and secondly, whatever he did on that night was far from being inspirational. What he did was wrong and no matter how stupid the referee was. Moreover, he had endure a far more worse decision in his career especially during our time in the Malaysian League and being a veteran he should know better.

I have doubt if he will play again for DPMM as he is in his mid thirties now and a lengthy ban will surely give other players to settle down in the vacant position. As for Rene Kumar, he was slap with a ban for 15 months as he was accused of punching the refreee, which I think he did. As for Yussof Salleh, a ban of 6 months is best for him to reflect on what he did that night and try not to repeat it ever again.

I still not sure whether the DPMM management will appeal the S-league decision but the damage had been done and this is certainly a bad chapter in Bruneian football.

Scale Modelling

Early this year I restarted my hobby of making and collecting scale models. A hobby which goes way back in my teens. The only difference back then was I don't have the money to buy those things and also the assistant and guides to built a nearly perfect models. Today. information regarding scale modelling is easily available thanks to the internet and not to mention ebays for the convenience of online shoppings as Tamiya models are very hard to come by in our country.

Currently I had finished around 12 models altogether and each one is equipped with it's own diorama for display purposes. In case you all wonder what diorama is, it is a scene that captures a moment in time. It can be almost anything as long as it captures a moment in time and displays some type of scene with multiple objects. As an example, since I'm doing tanks at the moment, the diorama can be a scene during world war 2 or a muddy terrain.

Scale modelling hobby is fun, satisfying and sometimes can get a bit expensivee, but it can also teach us to be patient and creative at the same time.

Flash Mob

I don't know whether you all have heard the term "Flash Mob" or not. Also I'm not sure if you were aware that the craze had reach our shore sometime this year at The Mall, Gadong. For your information "Flash Mob" is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place and perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. It can be anything such as a pillow fights, a dance routine or like what the locals did, frozen in time.

The flash Mob that happened at the mall a few months ago involved around 178 people that froze for exactly 5 mins at the same time. And recently the same group of people also did what they called the "High Five Escalator", also at the mall. This is where a person stand on top of an escalator and some of his friends spread out along the adjacent stairs or at the bottom of the stairs, holding signs that prepared anyone ascending the escalator for the upcoming high five fun at the top of the stairs. This can be hilarious as it is not easy to give a high five to a complete stranger.

Recently my brother informed me that they are about to have another Flashmob next Sunday at the mall at exactly 3pm. This time around I can gurantee that people will be amaze on what they plan to do but if only all of the "Flash Mobers" successfully do what they suppose to do. As a hint of what they plan to do next Sunday, I leave you all with this video that happened in Sweden not so long ago.

Adios Xabi Alonso

"It will be hard for them to match last season, let alone improve on it. Other teams will know more about them, so it has to be Chelsea as the main threat." That is the exact word coming out from Sir Alex "Know it all" Ferguson's mouth recently. He has written off Liverpool chances of winning the title even before the league started.

To be honest, and no matter how harsh it may be, I kind of agree if the current pre-season form and transfer market activities is an indication. The loss of Xabi Alonso is a major blow and although he was immediately replace with Alberto Aquilani from Roma, he is yet to proof his quality and hope not to be another "Dossenna".

Pre-seson friendlies result is not that good and the defeat by Espanyol with all full team in the squad is alarming. Liverpool still rely heavily on Torres and Gerrard for the third year running but as Ferguson said other teams will know more about their partnership style of play and it may be difficult for them to excel. Hope they can proof me wrong.

I'm Back!!!! (I Hope.......)

Wow, it is nearly 2 years since my last post way back in 2007, ironically my last entry was during the fasting month and here I am trying to rejuvinate my blog just before Ramadhan. A lot of things happened during the nearly two years of abscene and the big difference is that Asyraf is nearing 3 years old now. I actually don't have any reason why I stop blogging although I actually have the space do devote a few minutes of my time to do my writing on daily basis but I guess I'm just preoccupied with other things which is reading other people's blogs!!!!

During my abscene, a lot of thing happened which played an intergal part in my life. Being a father to Asyraf is one of it but life at work and dealings with office politics has also make me a better person. I hope this time around I will be able to actively blog and my target is a least once every week. I still consider blogging as a way for me to reach out my inner feeling (beside talking to my other half) so I'll try to blog as much as I can from now onwards. Chow.......

Old Habits Die Harder

This morning the missus called me while I was at a meeting at exactly 11 in the morning, informing me that she is going out from her office to do some shopping for Hari Raya goods! I was caught by surprise at first but when she explain that she is doing this just to proof a point, I hesitantly allowed her to do so.

You see, for the past few days since the month of Ramadan, her colleagues have been MIA from the office just as soon as they arrived in the morning. My wife was always the person who have to "Jaga Kadai" while they went out, such as getting their hair done or busy looking for goodies for the coming Hari Raya. Complaints to the higher authority fell on deaf ears as the head honchos of her department are also involved in this act of stupidity, hence she can't do anything about it.

I guess today my wife was so fed up with her being the scapegoat all the time, finally snap and do an MIA of her own! The story of this irresponsible act is not new as this have been going on since she was assigned to her new department. As her office is located in a what use to be an apartment, every afternoon, and after doing minimal work in the morning, her colleagues would cook some fried foods for their afternoon tea and finish it of by watching movies in the makeshift living room having the time of their live while my wife busy doing her work in her office. And not to mention their working hours are shortened an hour or two every day! And don't make me start of telling you their ingenious way of punching their individual Punch Card everyday which my wife have to follow as this was "democratically" decided upon collectively by her colleagues and her big boss!

It make me wonder if they really deserve their full salary at the end of the month, Hmmm.......

Ramadhan

It is more than a week, we as a Muslim celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan and I guess it is not to late for me to say Selamat Berpuasa to all Muslims out there in our beloved country Brunei Darussalam. This year is the same as any other year, I pray to Allah SWT to give me strength and health to fulfill my obligation as a muslim to fast throughout the month of Ramadhan without missing a beat(which never fail as far as I can recalled).

As I said earlier, no sooner we were only on the early days of Ramadan do you guys ever noticed that some or maybe all shopping complex out there is already playing Hari Raya song on their music box. For crying out loud, baru jua kan panas injin kali ah bepuasa ah. I know that it is not wrong to prepare early for the big occasion but could they at least wait until Nuzul Al-Quran holidays kah or after Pay Day kah to do that which I believe the time where we can truly feel the real buzz of the coming Hari Raya festivites.

Anyway, to all my friends out there I like to wish you guys Selamat Melakukan Ibadah Puasa and hopely this time around our annual "Sungkai beramai-ramai" will be a success unlike the last time which was very disappointing he he he.....