He saved...

The penalty from Scholes, and a couple more in the game. (photos from BBC)

We win!

The Cup.

Man U sold off, gone case. See, you cant wear black. Its a bad omen!

Now maybe we dont need to get rid of him to find another keeper if he could just maintain at this level.

Where are the bikini clad babes???!?!?!?

Its a trap! There are no babes in Bikini's roller blading in Venice Beach! They just want you to think that way through the movies so that you would visit Venice beach! You cant even spot a single roller blading girl or guy, much less gorgeous bikini clad babes!

And just another useless fact:

1) Driving 638 miles (about 1085km) in just under 50 hours alone without a co-driver is not too good an idea. Every bit of your body will hurt, especially the foot when you hit London traffic, but its so incredibly fun that I am tempted to do it again, but going a little further this time. Maybe to John O Groats.

Another Huge Photo Post!

Venice? Or Just another canal?



A Hint….



More Obvious Hint?



TaDaaaaaa!!!!



Its Venice Beach! Think it must have been in quite a number of older movies, especially those about muscle men, boxers, fighters and all that kinda stuff with men pumping iron. Arnie was supposed to have started his career bodybuilding somewhere near here. Not that sure of the facts, but that was what I was told.

The open-air gym at muscle beach



Erm, but there was no one present when I was there! Oh well, not like I was that interested in half naked guys glistering with sweat. I was more of looking out for the rollerblading babes in bikinis that you see on all the movies and TV shows.

Basketball Court



Well, at least there were some people playing basketball, or it would have started to look like a ghost town.

Finally, Sandy Beach and the Pacific!



Surf Dudes!!!! (and dudettes to be politically correct)



What’s California without some surfing!

Guess Where?

And just a quote from the papers...
(February 2000)
'If I wait for NUS to produce the engineers, the project would have
gone to Timbuk- tu. World's my talent market. If Singaporeans can't
make the grade, they go to Perth. You know what Perth is like? A very
boring place.'

Guess Who!

Oh Bugger.....

Oh bugger.... They can trash Everton which is in the champion's league 7-0, they can beat Liverpool which is in the Champion league finals, and they cant beat something as low as Birmingham....

Crap....

And Bergkamp scored the equaliser for them just 2 mins before full time. Dammit. Just sign him for he next year! The restof the team needs him. Look at the role he played in the 7-0 trashin of Everton. Look at him being the only goal scorer now!Sign him NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Now how to keep up the pressure on Man U for the FA cup finals?

Fatt Kao

This was what the Fatt Kao was ment to look like, though w/o the colouring.

Man U! Going going gone!

Its incredible to me how stupid some people can be. They can only seem to see from their own point of view and they cant seem to see at all how destructive are they to their own cause.

So these guys are fans of Man U.
So these guys HATE some arrogant loud american old fart coming to buy their club.
So the american old fart has the power of money and has his way with things.
So now the club is in the hands or almost in the hands of the old fart.

What to do?

Hit back at the old fart. Hurt his finances. Boycott the club! Dont buy club merchandise! Dont buy tickets! Dont support the sponsors!!!

Okay, say you have your way. Club finances hurt, Old fart losing money. Club not viable as business for old fart or anyone for that matter.

You win.

You got your way.

Then how? Club is almost bankrupted. What can old fart do? He is not another rich russian with billions to pour into getting new players and all that. He may go bankrupt.

You have achieved your final aim. Yeah! That will show those americans how they cant mess with us. Yeah.

Along anywhere did you not notice that as you destroyed Malcom Glazer that you have also destroyed your own club?

Oh by the way, he still has other business interests that he owns separately that he can still use to feed his family.

You on the other hand,
1) Showed that Man U fans are not to be messed about (yeah!!! good for you!)
2) Saved money by not buying club merchandise and not renewing your season ticket (that will help the overdraft!)
3) Erm, will be left with a club in the conference. (or third division if you are lucky)


Thank goodness I am not a Man U supporter. Sad to be surrounded by such nitwits.

Ever notice how different the supporters of Arsenal are?

Glazer statement infuriates fans

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4545339.stm

Manchester United supporters have reacted angrily to a statement from Malcolm Glazer's son Joel saying his family are "avid United fans".
Glazer now owns 74.81% of United shares and only needs 75% to delist the club from the Stock Exchange.

Independent Manchester United Supporters' Association spokesman Mark Longden said: "That statement is an insult to human intelligence.

"Does this guy really think anyone will actually believe him?"

Longden added: "Maybe it should not be a surprise given what has gone before, but the ignorance of the Glazers about ordinary Manchester United fans is truly astonishing."

Fans have vowed to continue their battle against the Glazer family, calling for a mass boycott of club merchandise and the products of major club sponsors Vodafone and Nike.


We're confident we can affect turnover so it will make it impossible for him to continue
Sean Bones
Shareholders United

"The most recent poll suggested 93% of United fans were totally opposed to Malcolm Glazer's involvement with the club," said Shareholders United vice-chairman Sean Bones.
"He has to launch some kind of charm offensive and this is probably the start.

"But I doubt very much anyone will be taken in by it and our fight to get rid of him continues.

"We are urging all supporters to boycott any club merchandise and even refuse to buy a pint and a pie inside the ground on match days.

"Sponsors' products should also be avoided and eventually we hope the message will get through.

"We now know how much debt he has taken on. We know he has massive repayments to service and we are confident we can affect club turnover to such an extent it will be impossible for him to continue."

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4545339.stm

Published: 2005/05/13 15:35:12 GMT

Fatt's In The House!

Not that Fatt kinda Fatt Kao

Having been trying pretty hard to make this for the past few days and this is as close as I can get to it. At least this time there is a hint of a split coming in the middle, unlike the other times when it just rose equally on all sides, becoming more like a sponge cake than a Fatt Kao

Ingredients

1) 4 eggs, red lion quality from chickens vaccinated against campylobacter
2) 160g white sugar
3) 150g self raising flour
4) 1 teaspoon baking powder
5) dash of extract of vanilla

Instructions

1) Throw all ingredients into one large bowl and mix well with power mixer.
2) Smell and check that it smells like fatt kao, just uncooked. If not, adjust ingredients accordingly to make sure it smells right.
3) Pour into large casserole dish and put in Tefal Steamer
4) Make a cross on the top in the centre of the mix with white sugar to encourage it to split.
5) Steam for 30 mins

The splitting bit is getting to me, not that I am that superstitious, but would appreciate if anyone has any suggestions to make it split properly.

Anyway, it cant be that bad, considering that Arsenal managed to THRASH Champion League qualifiers Everton an incredibly embarrassing score line of 7-0. I probably will try to make this again on FA cup final day. Would love to see Arsenal whack Man U 7-0 in the FA cup final!!!!

Its supposed to be French!

French Breakfast Muffins


Paid £2 for the muffin cases from Robert Dyas to make fatt kao and they suck.... They can’t hold the batter and opens up spilling liquid fatt kao all over the steamer, which becomes a pain to clean. Decided that they have to be used to make something so I tried out making my version of French breakfast muffins.

Ingredients

1) ¼ of a 250g tub of “I can’t believe its not butter”
2) 2 eggs (red lion eggs laid by chickens immunised against campylobacter)
3) 2 “rice cups” of Self Raising Flour
4) Some baking soda
5) Significant quantity of silver spoon white sugar
6) Muffin cases

Instructions.

1) Scoop out about ¼ of a 250g tub of “I can’t believe its not butter” with a metal spoon and put into bowl.
2) Put bowl with spoon in steamer and steam for 5 minutes to melt “I can’t believe its not butter”
3) Take out bowl careful not to touch hot spoon first. Break 2 eggs and add to bowl.
4) Use metal spoon still in bowl to jab at the yolk to burst them and beat mixture until it looks a little like oily soup with micelles on the top.
5) Take another large cereal bowl like a 555 metal bowl and put in about 3 rice cups of flour, some baking powder, and a good measure of sugar.
6) Pour the liquid from 4 into the powder mix from 5 and just roughly mix it with anything handy until it becomes nice and moist with lumps in it.
7) Put into muffin cases with large Chinese soup spoon. (1.5 spoon per muffin case)
8) Bake in Daewoo Combination Microwave oven using “temp” function preheated at 180 C for 30 mins, or until you can smell the fragrance spewing out from the kitchen while watching Scrubs on Paramount Comedy, or just until the tops are golden and have cracked a little bit.

Just be careful because some of the cases came apart and there was muffin mix all over the microwave. And if you are using the Daewoo microwave, the table actually turns while baking which means that there will be a circular dribble of half cooked muffin mix all over the microwave……

Faggots!

Wild Mushroom Fagottini with Small Chinese Pak Choi in Oyster and Sesame Sauce.


Might not look very much, but they are really tasty!

Materials and Methods

Ingredients
1) 1 packet expired Sainsbury Wild Mushroom Fagottini.
2) 2 stalks small Chinese pak choi
3) Oyster sauce
4) Sesame Oil
5) Kit Kat or other chocolate

Cooking Instructions

1) Chop off the bases of the small pak choi and wash/soak the leaves in a large microwave rice cooker.
2) Find a small pot, fill it with cold water from the tap and put onto stove and wait to boil.
3) Take a break. Have a kit Kat (or other chocolate)
4) When water is boiling, add in the fagottini.
5) Take the leaves of the small Chinese pak choi and fling them dry while trying to avoid spraying water all over the kitchen floor.
6) Heat up a tefal large frying wok and pour a little sesame oil in.
7) Fry the vegetables for about 5 mins
8) Turn off the heat on the fagottini pot and drain.
9) Add oyster sauce to the cooked leaves
10) Pour in the fagottini and mix well with leaves and add another dash of sesame oil.
11) Eat and try not to feel guilty.

Election Day!

I voted! Did you?

My first real chance to play a role in the democratic process, and I just had to do it. Just too bad that its not my home county, or country for that matter.

I guess I am pretty old by any standards now. Can buy knives, can smoke, can drink, can buy lottery, can vote, can watch RA, and now, can even go any club and not get kicked out for being under-aged. Now that significantly old. Some annoying stuck up clubs back home wont let you in if you are male and under a certain age, but they will gladly let a 18 year old gal in. Sexist if you ask me (and I don’t know you), or more like meat market (if you are one of those friends that I share everything with). But then again, better be careful what I say about them on the blog, or else can end up being sued even if I offer apology and take my blog down.

Anyways, Its just kinda weird. Back home, either no one runs in the local election and challenged the incumbent in my ward, or I will be overseas when there is an election that I can vote in. So, till now, haven’t gotten the chance to vote.

To accumulate all the years of yearning to vote (as if I am that bothered) I decided to turn up this time with my voting card to show Tony the twat what I think of him.



Din't think I was going to leave my name and address on the card did you?


Just because we live in a ward that has been so predominantly Labour, (the incumbent has been here since the year I was born with over 50% majority most of the time) and he was a good guy (he was against the war as well), there was no case at all of voting him out.

I did consider voting the Tories, but hearing how Michael Howard goes on and on about immigration and putting a quota and stirring up xenophobic sentiments in the country, it did occur to me that it was going to be incredibly stupid to vote for a party that will initiate proceedings to chuck me straight out of the country the moment they get into power.

Charles Kennedy and the lib dems on the other hand was picking up so much anti-war votes, and much as I am anti-war, I don’t want to follow the crowd, just because I don’t like going with the crowd but like going against the flow. They don’t help by announcing a manifesto for a 50% tax rate for the higher income earners (which I aspire to be in that category) They do seem to have the idea of robbing the rich to feed the idle. At least Robin Hood was robbing the rich to help the poor, not the idle. (I read this article in metro where they did a breakdown and then realised that a family of 4 with 2 working adults and paying off a mortgage is only £7 better off than an identical family with no one working and on full benefits.)

So in the end how? Apparently voting not as easy as just turning up and putting a huge X across the party that your parents had always voted for. I guess its all part of growing up. Politically I mean.

Election Fever!

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