Dari JB ke Manchester

Bukan gambar photoshop. Image from soccernet.

Dalam banyak-banyak team, sekarang dia pergi team yang tak ternama. Team apa ntah.

Masa tu 1997, aku first time tengok dia main kat Stadium Larkin. Walaupun condition padang tak bagus, skuad-skuad Belia Piala Dunia semua main cun (kecuali Malaysia). First touch macam ada gam UHU kat boot. Tak sia-sia aku turun naik bas pergi Larkin.

Dia ni player paling menonjol kat J.B. masa Piala Dunia Belia 1997, umur baru 17 kalau aku tak silap. Menendang sambil lari, dah la lari macam pelesit. Tapi sekarang sebab injury kronik, value dia drop dan finishing pun dah tak macam dulu.

Dah tu free transfer plak ke team setan nih. Suka hati kau la Owen.

Pork Free

Aku jalan-jalan dengan bini aku kat shopping complex.

Nampak banyak restoran tulis "Pork Free" kat pintu masuk.

Apa ingat "pork free" tuh sama macam "halal" ke?

Atau maksud sebenarnya makan pork secara free-free kat kedai tuh.

Macam-macam.

Michael: Always Work With The Best

Michael Jackson punya cerita sana-sini. Sampai tahap kerani aku tanya, "Michael Jackson dikebumikan macam mana?".

Aku pun nak cerita jugak.

This is what I call a true entertainer and a musician. His music have effects on people's life and last forever. Aside from his personal life, as a musician he is truly a genius. I notice that one of the way he marketed his album was, hiring the best, the most hyped & the most popular guitarist on planet earth to play on his album. That was his niche.

Beside making your album looking supercool, when you work with the best, you can expect the outcome of the end product. That's why he managed to break the barrier between artistry and commercialism. This level of coolness was when people say "ehh...itu Slash siottt perform dengan Michael...!" That was 1992.

And you know what, Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, MC Hammer and the rest need to thank MJ, because, regardless what color MJ's skin was, in 1982 MJ was the artist that initiate the pressure on MTV to play a Black artist video clip. At that time, MTV primarily prefer to air white rock group videos.

The Thriller album was a huge pressure for MTV to mount at that time and MJ simply paved ways to other Black artist, and Billie Jean video was a breakthrough and the rest was history. This story was highlighted in MTV's Rockumentary last Saturday. Needless to say, one man, one album, did it all.

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Always go with the best. Below are the list of guitarist that worked with MJ.

Eddie Van Helen. "Beat It."

Steve Stevens. Billy Idol's guitarist, "Smooth Criminal."

Slash. Brader ni contribute dalam lagu "Black or White", &
"Give It To Me".

Carlos Santana. Track: "Whatever Happens",
album "Invincible".

p/s: The guitarist list was from him and the images are googled, banyak la free time arini. I must have rub some salt into Udin's wound to write this entry 90% in english....auww. Ha ha.

Today I resign

Today I resign...from being a workaholic.

Yang bawak balik keje sampai ke rumah.

Yang kadangkala buat kerja sampai 2-3 pagi.

Kalau ada meeting pagi Jumaat lagi jahanam. Pagi...dalam kamus Jepun bermaksud pukul 8.00 pagi.

Kerja kerja kerja.

Kerja takkan habis. Kata mak aku.

Aku resign, dari hari ni, Jumaat...sampai Isnin.

Selasa aku sambung balik...

Bagi aku holiday jap. he he.

Pergi jela mana-mana, asalkan jauh dari benda-benda teknologi ni.

Good Luck to Real Madrid

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Image from arsenalspot.net.