Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Man Utd thrills, spills, makes up and pleases!

It's been a while since I've stayed up to watch a Man United match - kinda shameful for a self-proclaimed hard-core Man United fan, but I stayed up tonight to watch Man United take on AC Milan.

Man United scored the opener with C. Ronaldo heading in a goal in the first 5 minutes of play - what a way to start! I was kinda scared cos Man United have the tendancy to let goals in - especially after an early one.

Kaka wrecked havoc on the Man United defence which was short of Rio Ferdinand, Vidic and Gary Neville - leaving Heinze in in central defence with Wes Brown, and scored 2 goals, sinking Man United down 2-1 at a home game.

It was 2-1 at half time and when the second half kicked off, Man United were in top gear, pushing for the equalizer which came from Scholes and Rooney. A beautiful flick-off from Scholes left Rooney in the open and Rooney took his chance, slamming the ball just under Dida for the equalizer. Dida got his body to it, but it came so hard that it just bounced under and into the goal! 2-2!

The remaining 30 minutes or so were gruelling... the thrills were there in the opener, the spills (both defensive errors) that led to the two goals from Kaka and then the make-up goal from Rooney. The lot of us watching the game were waiting for that one more goal for Man United to take the game. We waited till the 90th minute and added time... then it happened.

Ryan Giggs stole the ball from midfield (on the right side) and played it down to the middle at the corner of the penalty area. Rooney ran in the center of the penalty area and Giggs slipped the ball through the defence. Rooney touched the ball once and curled it with so much speed and accuracy that a diving Dida could do nothing to reach the ball. 90+1 minutes!!!!

WHAT A GAME!! I'm glad I stayed up for it! Man United beat AC Milan 3-2, even with a 2nd string defence! Wooo!!! Gooooooooood morning!

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Ben (Soontorn) is up in Muak Lek!

Ben and his crew came up to Muak Lek, Saraburi from Suphan Buri (near Bangkok) and we met up at a campsite near Mission College! Beautiful place... I've got some pix here, including my fiancee Doca and Kishen who's been our traveling companion!

1. The car... my '00 Toyota Camry :P




2. Doca, Ben and Kishen strike a pose...







3. My turn to strike a pose!!!

4. Doca Strikes a pose!!!

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Roadtrip!

YEAHHH!! Okay, finally Nat posts... FINALLY *phew* Right...

My roadtrip... all about it *without pix cos nobody brought a camera*. Went to a few provinces with my fiancee and a friend and classmate of mine from M'sia, Kishen, meeting up with an ex-classmate and other friends along the way! All this was done in my rented '00 Toyota Camry 2.2 SE.G - super luxurious though it's 7 years old... nice... did a good 650km in three days and I must say, I had heaps of fun on the road with my friends!!!

Doca
Pr. Ben
Kishen
Ji
Pr. Myo
Suwala

Friday, 13th April 2007
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Woke up, brushed teeth and did mathematics, took a shower and had a look at the maps that I'd gotten, going through them again to make sure that I knew where I was going. Called Doca up at around 7:30am and went for breakfast... we had to have a big one. Planned to head down to Bangkok, walk around the malls (haven't been there for ages!!) before heading up to a different province to check out a church that my friend Ben was setting up (church planting).

So, Doca, Kishen and I drove from Mission College to Bangkok and the drive there was rather uneventful, other than getting my first tollway ticket that cost a whopping 30Baht! haha! Navigating in Bangkok is rather confusing with heaps of one-way streets and times where certain streets are 2 way and 1 way (crazy). We got to MBK shopping mall at about 12pm (a 2 hour drive) after getting through nasty traffic with bikes and cars squeezing for space and stretched our legs, welcoming the airconditioned mall.

After a sumptuous lunch at the food court, we walked around and pretty much window shopped... went to Siam Discovery and Sian Center to walk around also and I ended up buying a few gift books for a few friends (these are VERY VERY nice). It was about 3:30pm then and Doca wanted to head to Platinum Plaza (it's a huge mall full of clothes and women's accessories), so we pulled out the trusty map and plotted the route. Full of one-way streets *faint*. We reached Platinum and the parking was really fun!!! Super steep and narrow passages up to the 7th floor... where parking is at - could see all the scrapes that were on the walls... hahaha~ Lotsa cars must've left a sign that they were once there...

Well, for Friday... ended up at Ben's place (after making a U-Turn one bridge too early) at around 6:45, just before the sun went down and we stayed over for Sabbath. Ben, Myo, Ji and Suwala were there and we all had a nice dinner cooked by Ben.

I'll update more next time~ hehehe :D