Wednesday, July 23, 2008

There's something to be proud of in SMK Hamid Khan

I can really say that this year has been a real breakthrough for Hamid Khanians because we have brought back a lot of medals and trophies, not only that, there was the rise of fame during our journey; getting great success for our school. I can list a few that is worthwhile mentioning, our school this year there were a few people who joined the MSSPP challenge which is representing our state. There are divers, gymnastics, shooters and etc. As for our recent taste of our best success would be the winning in the national region in Malaysia for school actology and our school got the first standings and they have earned every right to go vacation in Hong Kong as a prize giving award. Secondly, it would be our school's Scrabble players which made it to the nationals but didn't turn out well. At least the Scrabble players which include yours truly tried our best but luck didn't turn out our way. Last but not least, We, SMK Hamid Khan made something that is worth recording it into books of history in Christian camps. We organized a Christian combined camp alongside PCGHS and it is always something to be proud of. My point of writing this post is that, even though we're not part of the cluster school list, our school name should never been written off because there's much potential that is yet to be unveiled. So I believe in years to come, we will surely earn our rights to name our school as a cluster school. WOOHOO!

What is wrong with Ramon Calderon & his fellow associates?

There has been not just little but a lot of disturbance from Real Madrid over their dream player which is Cristiano Ronaldo because they were wiling to lure him away from Manchester United and we will never sell him off because we needed him to rebuild our team. Thanks to Sepp Blatter, it made things worse. He commented that Ronaldo was treated like a slave when he's already been paid for hundred thousand in a week and yet you call that a slave? Not only that, he did complained that players should leave whenever their desire wants to. I mean if they would want to leave when the team is not willing to sell nor is even keen to look over to other clubs interest you as a player must and I repeat must respect that. Because if you don't, then what's the actual purpose of a contract? No point at all I tell you, because if you can terminate the contract anytime then there's no worth in a player anymore. And in modern football, players tend to earn more than managers do. But I'm not saying that managers earn a lot, it's just that players earn way higher than managers do. I believe what Sir Alex Ferguson said was right, there's really no point for Ronaldo to go over to Real Madrid, cause after awhile his fame will go off because Spanish league is not under the infamous league so no one even bothers watching him play by then.

Furthermore, I have a feeling that the purpose Real Madrid wanted to buy him is just because of commercialism as what they did to David Beckham in the past few years. They bought Beckham not for his good free kicks but just to get more sales in tickets and jerseys through him. According to reports, Real Madrid earned at least 400 million+ after his arrival in ticket sales, merchandises and jerseys. And let me repeat, Real Madrid are no longer the galacticos!!!! Go Man United!

Monday, July 21, 2008

There's a lil' lil' something that caught my eye.

To be honest, how good is Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has yet to be confirmed in my own perception because there's always much to prove your real worth in football when you're still stuck with your own local league and has not really made a choice whether or not you're gonna move on to take up the challenge whereby you might risk your fame because it may turn out you're not suitable in that particular league and so on. But due to his scoring feets, some have called him 'The Hunter' and not only that, he even has the potential of being the next Ruud Van Nistelrooy in which both of them are from the same country. Furthermore, he's always had a good ratio per game so that proves to us that he's always hungry for goals.

There are a less than a dozen players currently playing in Europe who can guarantee you 20 goals or more a season and Huntelaar, while playing in the Dutch league at least, has been one of them. The Dutch Eredivisie is considered a second tier competition by European standards and herewith lies the problem. Statistics can be misleading if the standard of the leagues are not taken into account. Mateja Kezman was the top scorer in Holland for three seasons but he hardly set the world alight when he arrived at Chelsea. Many believe Huntelaar’s pace will let him down in the quicker leagues of Spain, Italy or England. Nevertheless, slower goal scoring forwards can survive in the top leagues as long as they can understand and read the game. We only have to look to craft and guile of Henrik Larsson or Teddy Sheringham in past seasons.

Nevertheless, over the past few seasons he had been more matured and is willing to give more opportunities to make teamwork rather than self claiming glory. He is having a quite balanced assist and goal ratio for now. It’s reasonable to assume that Huntelaar will struggle to fill the shoes of Van Nistelrooy in the national team. Although his goal scoring talents have been almost peerless domestically, his lack of pace to stretch defenses or give midfielders the option for longer defense turning passes could continue to haunt him. Until now, despite Huntelaar’s dedication to improving his game, it is clear that his contribution remains restricted to pure finishing and finding space.

Sooner or later he will surely and I mean surely move to somewhere else to broaden his mind set on football and not just stay in Holland. According to a website, that's the nature of Dutch football businesses. And what makes him so cheerful to my sight is that he has made it clear that he would go to Manchester United rather than other English league teams because he think that United has the capability of making him a better player as what we (United) did to Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Friendster's Current Problem

WTF is wrong with friendster? I mean do they have to make it so hard for users and we (Malaysian users) have to keep changing the language back to English? What do they think we are? I mean they expect everyone to acknowledge BM as if its our mother language. Just having some frustrating thoughts over it so just writing it to make it clear.