Auf wiedersehen (Bye-bye) Swiss.....

VERDAMMT! The Swiss are out of WC!!!!! DARN!!!!! I 'm still having the trouble digesting the fact that the Swiss lost to Ukraine!!!! Ukraine!!! The country who have never in a million years participated in the WC!!!!! To add salt to injury, the Swiss lost in the penalties!!!! WTF?!?!?

To give credit to the Ukrainians, they played pretty well. The Swiss themselves were good too. Or else why wouldn't any team score a goal during the game? Or was it both teams weren't that good.....that's y neither team scored a goal......wut say u? Mourning for the Swiss, I can't believe the fact that they actually LOST in the penalty....but what can I say? They lost, the Ukrainians won. Period.

I'm kinda caught up in the world cup fever. At the beginning, I chose my matches. Now, I practically watch every match. Now I've something to blame for the cause of the extra pimples on my face. Watching these matches, I find something interesting that I would like to point out. I'm sure many ppl like me have noticed that footballers are used to falling down during the game. It's inevitable. Some might say that they are just acting. Some may be authentic. It's hard to be 100% sure.

What I find amusing is that when a football player falls, they fall.Then they plaster a "pained & hurt" on their faces. They look up wondering of others saw them fall. They look up again, hoping the referee would offer a free kick to them. When they realize that the referee decide to turn a blind eye to them, they stand up and continue RUNNING (mind u, there's no limping involved). Hmmm.... ok lah...to be fair to the footballers who strive hard, maybe they did swallow their pain and continue to defend their country's honour?

I wonder whether there's a secret segment involved in these footballers training schedule. The sacred art of falling and getting free kicks. *An hour long of practising the perfect angle of falling and putting on a pained look as if someone kicked them in their groin. * I wonder......

Footballers also tend to raise their hands to prove their innocence when the referees blow the whistle when a teammate falls to the ground. Raising your hands doesn't mean that u r innocent. Please. All of us have eyes. Even if our reflexes aren't that sensitive, with the help of today's technology of REPLAY, we always have the option of watching the EXACT scene AGAIN, and even CLEARER.

Yes, we saw you put up your hands to prove your innocence. Yes, U didn't push the opponent. But yes, u did trip the opponent with your legs. So y bother raising ur hands in the air?

Recalling the time I went to a live football match in Zurich with my hostsiblings, I had a great time immersing myself with the football atmosphere. The fans were split into 2 huge groups: FC Basel and GC Zurich. Fans were singing literally bad stuff bout their opponents. It was HILA RIOUS!!. However, I was more amused with the footballers' "falling and looking pained" act.

I guess all football matches are the same. It's all part of the game. Winners smilers ; losers weepers.

p/s : No offense to football fans. I'm just writing down what I see. It's just an opinion.

HOPP SCHWIIZ!!!!

Swiss fans cheering for their national team...

HOPP SCHWIIZ!!!

HOPP SCHWIIZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Swiss fellas kicked the Togans' butts at yesterday's match. The underdogs won, 2 to 0!!! WOOO HOOOO !!! HOPP SCHWIIZ!!!! Now, the Swiss can at least prove to the world that they can not only produce world-class tennis players, but also football players too. It wasn't a match where much people might watch, but for me, it was something that I would never miss in a million years. Yeap, the Swiss Jakuns will definitely agree with me, gell?

Despite the pressure and tension to revise for my mid-terms, my eyes stuck to the TV set like glue. My eyes didn't turn away from it once. The game started off ok, but I felt that the Swiss played kinda clumsily, compared to the Togan's (does this word even exist? I dunno) aggresiveness in the match. However, the Swiss player's efforts were not in vain. I bet my hostfamily and ex-classmates at AKSA have been estatic when Frei shot in the 1st goal for the Swiss team in the 16th minute. So was I. Can't blame me for my fanatic love toward the land famous for chocs, cheese and breathtaking sceneries. It was the land where people embraced and accepted me into their lives, the land where beautiful relationships and friendships were formed and blossomed....gawd...I'm getting all emo now...n sorry for all those "swiss crapping".....Can't help it though........so sue me....

When Barnetta shot the 2nd goal at th 88th minute, I was almost practically screaming my lungs out....Clapping so loudly that my sister knew that the Swiss team won without coming out from her room to watch the match. Bernetta and Frei put the Swiss team on the map. Koebi Kuhn must be sooooooo pleased with them. The often cool and calm looking Swiss coach also couldn't help jumping with joy when Barnetta shot the next wonderful goal. Gosh, I soooo wished I was there during the match cheering with my friends at AKSA. I bet all of us would've made each other promise to skip school whenever the Swiss team plays and watch these matches together. Talk about patriotism.

Next round would be Swiss Vs. South Korea. Given the normal circumstances, I would've supported the Asian team. But now, things have changed. The Swiss better strut their stuff well enough and show the world that they're more than just chocolate and cheese.

Rocking with the gang at Castle 2

Deep and I each with a glass of Tiger....cheers!

Shaynik, Amir, me and Deep

Deep, me , Isabelle and Lynnette

Rocking with the gang at Castle

Lavan's room mate (which btw I dunno how 2 spell his name), me and Lavan Amir, me and Wen Hoe

Together with the twins: Wen Hoe and Wen Leong

Together with the gang rocking at Castle....u guys rock, man!!!!!

Pictures from Fete de la Musique 2006

Fete de la Musique 2006

Chilling at Castle.......

With the gang at Fete de la Musique, Jalan Telawi












With one the members of the French band - La Casa

Fete de la Musique 2006

Fete de la Musique 2006, was basically another excuse for us to go out, have fun and chill, despite our mid-term is just next week. Talk about irony. Talk about good time management. For the French Society members, we had to arrive so bloody early juz for that merely-less-than-5-minute dance routine at Bangsar Village. I wouldn't categorize the place where we performed our so-called "French Can -can" a stage though. It was merely a slope outside some restaurant which can be considered hazardous to us gals who were wearing heels, dancing to the French can-can beat. Met up with the gang later at Castle, where the main stage was. There were some cool music played, and of course a couple deafening music which some people may call them as rock music. In my opinion, it's just a bunch of ppl screaching and sreaming their hearts out, thinking the shrill of their voices is juz so "cool". No offense to rock fans. I have nothing against rockers. In fact I do admire cool rockers who have a style and sense of their own. Rockers like Bon Jovi, Nickelback, Bo Bice (American Idol runner up 2005),Chris (fr American Idol 2006). These rockers are definitely worth listening to. To rockbands wannabes, plz do create ur own sense of style and music. There's always a difference between singing rock and sreaching ur lungs out. thanx.

Had dinner at some mamak restaurant, which was actually more costly compared to Ali Maju and Limau Purut. Well, it explains it coz we were at BAngsar! Nothing comes cheap in places like Bangsar. A French band " La Casa" performed and they were really darn good! It was kinda pity they didn't have any CD or demos...I definitely would've bought them. The Malaysian Capoera Society also did capture a group of their own spectators while they performed the beautiful art Brazilian martial arts to the brasilian beats. I say, it was really not bad at all, considering they were doing head/face stands on on the hard,rough, tar roads of Jalan Telawi.

Sharmin and Sue arrived later and also joined us. They first checked out Castle as it was Ladies Nite....n not 2 forget da free flow of drinks for da ladies...*grin* Babe, remember the good ol' times in all those parties in Zurich? It did bring back wonderful memories, didn't it? Eating colours, Alex (washing machine), singing "weil wir traurig sind" to that New Years Eve party to Lucern and not giving a damn of how the people were looking at us.....i know I've said this a billion times, but WIR MUESSEN UMBEDINGT ZURUECK IN DER SCHWEIZ!!!

After some time of stoning at the streets of Jalan Telawi, we finally went to club 11:15, but God, it so sucked! It was nothing compared to the 1st time we went there the last 2 weeks. It wasn't packed, there wasn't any crowd, the music sucked. The reason : World Cup. Lessons learnt. Unless we really wanna watch football, it isn't advisable to go to clubs with projectors when we really wanna dance. Though we wanted to start the party like the last time, this time was definitely a challenge as we were competing against World Cup. In my opinion, which wasn't a competition cz we lost. World Cup won.Period.

Thanks to Sharmo, we switched clubs to Castle. Thanks babe! Had a negociation with the Castle bouncers to let my classmates in as not all were 18. Thank goodness the discussion wasn't in vain. I say, that should've been the party!Castle had really good dance music and there was a crowd. It rocked! Danced our hearts out and it was really really fun. In short, the evening started off ok, then detoriated to sucky, but then the perfect ending.=) What more can a girl ask? Of course had tons of photos taken...it was a must as how often ppl get to bond so fast and so well in less then 2 months? not too often I say. That's y I'm one lucky gal. To my pals at Help UC, u guys r THE BEST & u guys ROCK!!!! N of course not to forget dear Sharmo and Sue who joined us, there's definitely a next. Sharmo, hoeffenlich dass du eine tolle Zeit gehabt hast! Und danke fuer die Vorschlage dass du gemacht hast dass wir nach Castle gehen koennen.

A rocky start, but a perfect ending. That was my night chilling with my pals in Bangsar. I dun wanna think about how it'll be after 7 weeks when we start our 2nd semester and go to different classes. That's reality. F***. Somebody please shut me up.

Pics with College pals

At club 11:15 with muh class buddies.....had a rockin' time!!

Buildin' an empire with da gang at DSA....who knew DSA was fun?!?!?!?

Spontaneous movie outing at MV.....b4 The Omen on the 06.06,06

College Life Vs. Exchange year

I'm totally enjoying my college life at HELP. Met new peeps, new lecturers, new classes.

I'm so thankful dat I'm in a group where the peeps are cool and fun to hang out with. Since classes started, I've been to the movies every week, sometimes even more! I guess I'm just making up for all the lost time with all the movies I missed during my exchange year. Can't blame this movie-deprived chic. Can't blame me considering it cost CHF16 - CHF18 per movie in Switzerland, which is a RIDICULOUS ammount of RM54.40 - RM61.20 (= CHF16 X 3.4) a movie!!!!! Therefore, we had no spontaneous movie outings coz it was also considered expensive for the Swiss students temselves! Even more so for me! All movies that we watched there were made sure it was carefully chosen and equally good.

My classtimetable rocks. No classes on Fridays. How cool is dat?!?!?! On Wednesdays and Thursdays, I only haf a mere 3 hour class! While getting my time-table straight at the beginning, I was pleasantly surprised dat I only had such a limited time for college. Considering the fact that I used to have looong hours of classes during secondary.Morver, during my exchange year, where even though I had da "illegal privilledge" of skipping classes, I still had looong hours of classes!

Last but not least, the ppl in my class rock! Yes, I mean u guys...da whole gang! It's been totally fun hanging with u guys, all the spontaneous movie outings, clubbing(club 11:15....wasn't it a gr8 time?!?!?), mamaking (at AM, Garuda, Limau Purut...lol)..etc... luv u guyz tons!!!!!!!

XOXOXOXO