Football in Malaysia

I was chatting with Likai, and we talked bout our country's footballers and we found some interesting but sad facts:

Did you know?

1. It takes 8 days for Ricardo Kaka, FIFA World Player in year 2007, to become a millionaire. It takes 1102 days for our highest paid player - yet not local - Frank Seator, to become a millionaire.
2. It costs £94 to watch an Arsenal match, RM8 to watch Selangor FA, yet the stadium is empty.
3. You can't watch any Super League - our league, nice name la - games on TV now, they've got no money to broadcast it.
4. Another reason for not broadcasting it is because they believe by doing so, more people will go to the stadium. And the stadium, yea, still... empty. No people actually realised that TV no longer showing the games, not even i do. No one cares.
5. The controversial decision by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) banning foreign players from the Malaysian League next season will change the football landscape: Yup, indeed, from bad to worse.
6. Golden Boot winner Marlon Alex James of Kedah led the charts with 23 goals followed by Carlos Caceres of Perak (17), Frank Seator of Selangor (15) and Walter Ariel Silva of Johor FC (14). The best Malaysian player not even in the list - He scored only 13 goals. How do you improve your league without foreign players?
7. Ban on foreign players has just made malaysia football more boring and less competitive. When the foreigners were around, it made locals work harder for a place in the team. Without them, who wants to work hard?
   
8. Someone - Er Hrm, someone la - suggested we should stop the league for 1 year, i doubt he knows how many people will lose their jobs - from players, referee, coaches, and so on.
9. There are 24 coaches in just 40 years for Malaysia National Team, not a single coach has lasted longer than 2 years - clearly, they always put blames on coaches when they failed.
10. In Malaysia, when a player joins a club, the first thing they want to know is whether the club able to pay their salary or not. In England, especially in Premier League, players want to know how much the club willing to pay.
11. When you look at the World Ranking at fifa.com, there are only 5 pages, and you can't find Malaysia in the first 3 pages - We are at the 161th at the 4th page, out of 200 plus national teams. In other words, among the last.

Malaysia Boleh? Boleh...
Credits to Likai

Yongjie thinks that Malaysia Boleh

Responsibility

Today, we talk bout responsibility.

A week ago, i lent my tie to some unknown in form 4 during photographic session. Yes, unknown. Eunice asked me to lend him, so i did, which i think i shouldn't have. After i gave him my tie, moments later it was our class turn for photo shoot. Myself have to borrow from others, how funny that i brought my tie but i have to borrow from others. So, i did not get my tie back from that boy. He did not look for me either.

Then the next day i went to his class. I can't recognize who was that, because i wasn't wearing my specs. I can hardly recognize him. I found someone that look like him, but not very sure if it was him. He insisted he didn't get the tie from me but from Eugene instead. I had no choice but to leave, since i have not enough evidence.

I asked Eugene and Eunice to find for me. I didn't expect much tho. I lost my tie, not them, they probably won't really help me to look for it. Then i got to know the boy's name from Eunice. I went to his class and i saw his name tag. Yup, it was that person that insisted he got the tie from Eugene.

He followed me to see Eugene and they two argued. I remember clearly i gave the tie to him MYSELF. While he insists he got it from Eugene. I was angry and i scolded him. He gave me 10 bucks and left. Then a classmate of mine, who i believe is a friend of they boy, asked why did i do that, and she has an extra tie, she can give it to me.

What i wana say is:

• It's not about whether i get a tie or not, it's regarding his responsibility. He borrowed my tie, so he should be responsible for it, look for me, even if he lost it.
• You should analyse the situation rationally and objectively, he should be responsible for it, not you.
• If you give me your tie, you are responsible for it, which you shouldn't. Its just like he killed someone and he ran, leaving all the responsibilities to you.
  
• Even if i get a tie from you, i will still find him. He must be responsible for his mistake.
• In this incident, i feel very innocent.
  

I am not blaming anyone, not even that boy. I just want him to be responsible. Now i got 10 bucks from him, and i think the tie costs roughly around 7 bucks. I will return the change to him. I have learnt a lesson, not to lend something to some unknown.

Yongjie feels innocent

Birthdays

A few birthdays to update:

19/2 Jonathan Guan. Happy birthday!

24/2 Serene Lai. Happy birthday Serene!
( save money! )

26/2 Likai! Happy birthday Likai!

And finally, someone Likai known him as 'soul mate'
26/2 E-Shen
Happy birthday EASON!

We want PJ!

Again, yes, AGAIN. Cyberlink split into 2 different parties, one support takeover for Bio, and another party support PJ. Once again i urge school teachers stop taking over PJ for other subjects, and claims PJ as an unnessary subject. It is NOT. Once a week, just 1 hour and 10 minutes a week. Please and thank you. My friends, please support me.

We want PJ NO MATTER WHAT!

Pendidikan Jasmani

It is SPM year, and many teachers are rushing to finish the syllabus, so they like and want to takeover Pendidikan Jasmani (PJ) to teach students in order to finish the syllabus in time and prepare for SPM. I strongly disagree with this move, and i feel that PJ should not be taken to teach other subject.

Why is PJ so important? During PJ, we run all over the field, we do sports. The importance of sports in students' life is invaluable. It enables students to learn values like discipline, responsibility, self-confidence, sacrifice and accountability.

Besides that, sports also enables our brains to work better and exercise can develop our right brain, as the Malay idioms stated, ' Badan Cergas, Otak Cerdas' ! And there is no disadvantages in doing sports, you can simply sit down and count until the next morning for the benefits of sports.

Some students just want to study and they think that PJ is somehow a waste of time. They go to the field, warm up ( "walk" around the field ), then they sit down, and chat. Okay, fine, you do not wan to PJ, then keep quiet, let those who wants to PJ to play. But instead, when teachers suggest to takeover PJ to teach other subject, they just agree, and claim that PJ is a waste of time, better we study. Come on, you do not want to PJ, but what about those who wants? If you don't like to PJ, you can just sit aside and chat, but what if you agree with teachers to takeover PJ, those who likes to PJ will have to sit inside the class as well, and as if all of those who don't like PJ WILL study.

Moreover, PJ is just once a week, 1 hour and 10 minutes, and that's all! Why can't you just compromise and let us PJ? Okay, you say that it is SPM year, we have to study, but what difference can 2 periods of PJ make? We wait 1 whole week just for that 2 periods of PJ, when we can do our favourite sports activities, run, laugh, enjoy. Those who don't do sports just never will experience the fun.

In conclusion, I strongly disagree teachers to takeover PJ to teach other subjects. I urge everyone who loves sports and PJ, stand up and support me, defend PJ.

Please, its just once a week, let us PJ. Thank you.

Yongjie:' Let us PJ, please? '

Andrey Arshavin!

What an amazing week im having, with tons of homework accumulated. I didn't do my work during Chinese New Year holidays, so ended up the homework accumulated. 5 essays, 5 peka, 5 modern maths graphs, 3 thick sets of add maths test papers, 3 days of latih tubi coming, about 3 weeks away from March test. 2 digits score for chemistry test, the score is 11, and 1 scrapbook.

Fuh
I NEED MORE TIME
I NEED MORE TIME
I NEED MORE TIME
I NEED MORE TIME
I NEED MORE TIME
!!!!!!!

And finally, after 32 days of negotiations, Andrey Arshavin is here, at Arsenal, in London. Many transfers happened quite unexpectedly, including a loan spell of Ricardo Quaresma at Chelsea, and return of Robbie Keane to Tottenham. Now perhaps the hottest topic among football fans is the transfer window.

Arshavin's move to Arsenal was not an easy one tho:

During the January 2009 transfer window Arshavin was persistently pursued by Premier League club Arsenal. On 2 February, transfer deadline day, Andrei Arshavin had flown into England and was staying in a Hertfordshire hotel, just a few miles from the Arsenal training ground. At around 10am, he left the hotel and was rumoured to be heading back to Russia, but with less than an hour of the transfer window left a bid from Arsenal was accepted by Zenit. By this point he had agreed personal terms and passed a medical, but a payoff sum by Arshavin himself to Zenit was supposedly holding up the deal.

But in the end he is still here, Number 23!!

Yongjie says: Yay Arshavin, Yay! ARSHAVIN!

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