Feel The Wrath of My Lens

So, Kedah managed to secure a goal minutes before the final whistle blew off ending the match with UPB MyTeam tonight. Afif was the prime scorer for the match. Thanking him and the team, Kedah assured the vital 3 points in the Super League standing.

Tonight, I brought Aki as a backup photographer to cover the match. But, there’s a tiny little story behind it. We arrived at the stadium approximately at 1830, early, as I needed to prepare him for the shoot. We entered from the front Astaka Utama entrance. I proceeded to go in first, then Aki followed me from behind. However, he was stopped by this so-called security guard at the doorway, stating that he’s not allowed to wear sandal following through that entrance.

When I look at what he’s wearing, I swear I’m very annoyed by the security guard’s ignorance. Aki was wearing clogs and clogs is a type of shoe. So I went at him and told him that he’s wearing shoes whilst he started to keep arguing, raising his voice and yelling at me that those are a pair of sandals. The best part was, it’s not even 7pm just yet! Pissed as I was dealing with stupidity I guided Aki through another entrance. You don’t teach cows, they’re just there to be slaughtered and consumed.

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The security guard is an old hag (but he’s a man, can’t find the word to describe, so yes .. hag ). He has yet to realize that this is 2009, not 1969. There’re thousands of fashion designed shoes after his time. KFA should stop appointing ignorance people into the association. Those old hags, if they wanted to remain in such a place, should keep upgrading themselves from time to time. If they’re not fit (physically, mentally and intellectually), they should not carry any more task they used to be carrying. It would definitely tarnish the image of the organization they’re working with somehow or other.

These are some of my works that being featured in the Malay bridal magazine by Karangkraf, Pengantin for the month of July 2009.

I would like to thank Azim, Nabil, Hani, Eman, Ayie, Pait and the models which I can’t remember their names (adoi) for working high and low in providing all the support at the shoot.

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If any of you readers interested in getting wedding services from Nabil, these are the contacts:

Nabil Hair Saloon
1911 Level 1 and 2,
Jalan Stadium,
05100 Alor Setar,
Kedah.

Phone: +6012 570 9288 / +6012 297 0702

Comments would be most delighted

On the day of the match, when the football players were having their final rest before the match, Fakhrul, Hadi, Nazri, Pak Su and I made a visit to Chu Chi Tunnel. I’d recommend you to read more at Wikipedia about Chu Chi Tunnel and what is it like to the modern Vietnam today.

The journey took approximately an hour from the resort we were staying.

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Nothing much to be told here. I have already captioned the pictures so many of you would understand well what they are. Don’t forget to leave comments!

We arrived at LCCT via Airasia at about 1130. The flight supposed to be taking off at 1055 local time from Tan Son Nhat International Airport. That’s 35 minutes late comparatively to our 5 minutes late (refer to this entry). So, Airasia was indeed late. However, they did not even compensate on their very own lateness. KFA however, lost approximately RM24K in regards to the previous lateness at checking in.

Oh yes, Airasia is so good at making money that they will squeeze you till your blood surge through your brains and pops out through your eyes! That’s how they make their money – ensuring lives at the most painful of all pains. But yeah, we safely arrived at LCCT at about 1430 local time

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We took a connecting flight from LCCT to Alor Setar at 1620 and arrived at 1720. Enjoy the strobist images and don’t forget to leave comments!

So, everyone knows about the explosive blow the Vietnamese club, Becamex Binh Duong (BBD) gave to Kedah just a while ago. The final score was 8-2. Kedah did put up a fight. However, it wasn’t enough. Beneath the result, there’s a meaning that needs to be translated, and it needs to be translated fast!

The maturity of football that being seriously demonstrated by BBD tonight was somewhat a good lesson to Kedah in drawing the next path in championship quest and glorious football history.

I’ve got to say that their imports really shine at the match. I know quite a number would argue with me that Kedah can survive without import players, yadda yadda yadda. Reality is, we are in the ‘syok sendiri’ cocoon where the rest of the world population has been practicing imports into their football scene.

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And it will always be a reality that imports provide the internal challenge and education in within the team bringing the knowhow and spirit from whatever experience they’ve gathered. We cannot deny that they’re exposing knowledge and skills to the local football players whilst spending time playing for their respective teams. Football development is not about rewinding into history that was badly written. Sadly, that’s what the football government in Malaysia is doing.

Oh, by the way, nobody touched the crocodile. *Note – if you don’t understand, browse the pictures

I forgot to mention about the time composition in the previous entry – subtraction of an hour from Malaysian’s time zone. So, whatever time you see in Malaysia, subtract an hour by it and that’s the sort of time we have in Vietnam at current. So anyways, about the sort of time that we need to deal when it comes to our solat, here goes:

1. Subuh – 0400
2. Zohor – 1230
3. Asar – 1530
4. Maghrib – 1815
5. Isyak – 2030

Oh, and by the way, we learned about the prayer time through the hotel’s Muslim chef.

On the 2nd day in Ho Chi Minh, the day kicked off with morning training. In the afternoon, we took a bus to the city just to have a light stroll and shop session. Then, there’s the training in the early evening at the Becamex Binh Doung’s home ground. Have a look at the 360 view (you need to have quicktime installed) around the stadium from the center of the field:

It was drizzling lightly at the time of that training. We took the bus back to the hotel (Phuong Nam Resort) then after to have our dinner.

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Enjoy the view!

The team kicked the journey off at approximately 2300 on Saturday, 20th of June 2009 from Stadium Darulaman. We targeted to arrive at LCCT at about 0530. However, the bus driver seemed to be at lost while most of us were sleeping. The moment I woke up, I saw KLIA by my side thinking that I might have heard it wrong when briefed about where we supposed to take our flight to Vietnam.

Then all in a sudden, someone shouted “Sapa bleh tunjuk jalan pi LCCT!!” from the front seat (I was seated at the most back). Since no one complied to the request, I jumped right away to the front, giving directions to the bus driver. We supposed to be at LCCT the latest at 0655, however, we only manage to arrive at 0700. The consequence to that, we were not allowed to check into the flight (this is AirAsia we’re talking about). The tickets purchased were considered burned just like that.

The tour administrator called up to arrange for the next ‘whatever’ flight available. He managed to arrange for a flight via MAS at 1445. Soon after, we took a shuttle bus to KLIA. Tiring as most of us were, many raced to find a proper sleeping spots after checking in.

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We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport at 1525 local time – that’s 1625 the time in Malaysia. Alhamdulillah

Kedah managed to secure victory last night’s match with Negeri Sembilan. The score goes 3-1. The 3 scores were scored by Sabree Abu, Khyril Muhymeen and Azrul Ahmad respectively.

In the Super League current standing, Kedah climbed up to the 3rd after last night’s match.

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