The Year of the Rabbit

This year, I anticipate CNY more than ever. I am still wondering why.

Maybe because I was away and I longed to go home. The friends and family gatherings seems very enticing. I got this wanna-be-connected feeling. Maybe its because of the small office environment. Maybe its just the angpows. Heh.

Coming up, there will be lots of Gong Xi Fa Chai greetings to be made. Lots of ang pows to be received (hopefully). And this year the Reunion dinner is going to be different. Instead of the usual steamboat, which has been the family tradition for the past...hmm...forever, we decided this time we go for the restaurant package. Guess everybody is becoming either too ancient or too busy to prepare the steamboat. Good thing is we can still eat it as 1Family. (Sorry Najib, have to steal your 1M idea.)

So yeah, another year gone, another year coming. Hmm..

Have you seen an unorganized CNY rant before? Well, you just did.

Happy Chinese New Year! Keong Hee Huat Chai!

A New Hope

Liverpool fans will always be accused of harbouring high hopes, even when the reality doesn't permit it. Me included.

But come today (Wednesday), we will be against a team with an eccentric manager and an industrial-like team that had, most of the time, defied odds of going down straight away after one season. Meet Ian Hollaway and his unfancied Blackpool team.

Last time around, the "mighty" Red Pool actually lost to the Orange Pool. Disgrace.

As aforementioned, we have hopes. This time, it's newly found.

Meet King Kenny

Kenny Dalglish, the legendary one. And whatever titiles that can be bestowed upon him. This guy is in charge to at least guide Liverpool from a great slump.

The buid-up to today's match has been positive. We saw a gritty performance from the team that was a goal and a man down at Old Trafford maintaining the score at one-nil. That was the first match the King was at the helm. And at press-conferences, KD has been very positive about the club and the players. What he said about Fernando Torres is especially encouraging. An assurance to the fans and the star himself.

Score please.


Today, there was only one hope. And that will be: Win against Blackpool.

Like KD, we were taking things step by step. Magic wands or not, we will not walk alone.

Out and Out

Roy Hodgson is a good manager. But apparently that was not enough.

At Liverpool FC, we always have (sometimes delusional) high expectations.
He might have took Fulham to the Euro Cup final. But come to think of it, he hasn't actually won anything big.

But that is not the point, we always give people a chance to prove themselves.

However, when you took a Liverpool team out and lost to the likes of Blackpool, Blackburn and Stoke City. Sorry lar. Unacceptable.

Via Studs Up . Apparently he doesn't have the chance to do so.

Its not uncommon that we the fans have to go through the down-u-go taunts from rival fans (yes you opportunistic Mancs). But going down seems to be unforgivable if not impossible. Newcastle and Leeds comes to mind.

Now the legendary Kenny Dalglish will be leading a bunch of misfits out to salvage anything from a shitty enough half season. Come July, we should be winning the league staying in the league with a respectable position. Say 7th?

We will never walk alone. And hey, all the best Roy! I meant it.