KHIS Merdeka Cup 2010

    On the morning of 31st August 2010  , Merdeka Cup was held in Arena PJ. A crowd of about 20 people showed up. For most hockey players this is inline hockey tradition here . Rules of  the are  :

1. Each player pays RM 25.00  /  Teams dividend equally according to players skills on the day itself. Winner    takes all the money .







 



    
 Yes that is it . This small tournament was pretty intense for a small tournament . Only 3 teams were formed from the group of hockey players that showed up .Teams really put up a good fight among each other.

1. Team Sure Loose
2. Team 1 Malaysia
3. Team Mat Salleh

        When it comes to playing outdoor sports the weather plays an important role especially in our country were it rains and shines all year around. Thank God for the beautiful weather which we had that morning. It was sunny and cloudy making it perfectly perfect weather. Playing indoors would definitely be a better option as we used to play indoors , but that venue is no longer available. 

                                                      

      After several  intense  matches , Team Mat Salleh emerged as Champions of Merdeka Cup 2010 beating Team 'Sure Loose'  in the finals at a penalty shoot out.

Team Sure Loose

Team Mat Salleh 

     Team Mat Salleh deserved to be champions as they played very well together. Thats how a team should be , no ' I ' in team if you know what I mean . It was a great day out lets not forget the others volunteered and played at the same time to make this tournament a successful one . 

Agnes ' The Nurse & Bow

                    Thank you Agnes and Bow who did all the score keeping of all matches. Where would all the MVP's be without these people.

Areef 

Steven Tan 

                          

Craig @ Captain of The Undersdogs

                    Not forgetting the others Oliver , Areef , Steven Tan for reffing the games. Of course Craig Matthew Lee who has done so much for Inline Hockey in Malaysia . Most of importantly all those players who should up to play and keeping this sport alive .























                                                  

Concerts Experience

The thought of a concert happening over joys any music enthusiast or if it happens to be your favorite band or artist. Everyone gets excited on the big day. If you had tickets to show awesome, if you manage to score free tickets far out, what more can I say if they were free VIP tickets. Either way you really look forward to a good time out .   

      I was fortunate enough to attend these 3 music event or should I say experience close calls :

1. MTV World Stage , Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach 31st July 2010 

2. Heinneken Green Room ,KL Live Centre , 31st July 2010 

3. Slash Live ,Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach, 8th August 2010 

    Great music, great bands ups and downs. Its starts on the morning of 31st August 2010 , one of colleagues decides to do a 'no show' , this really screws up my morning at work. Lucky enough  I was able to find a replacement in time. This got better later in the evening when the 'no show guy' shows up, I was yeah !!  you take care of the  ship , I'm going to MTV World Stage baby !!! .  Really got me all pumped out . Now the thing is , I had tickets but they were not with me. It was with one of my friends who was already at the venue lining up. They got really worried, cause of the crowd that showed up. I told them its ok ,you guys can go in , then come out later and pass me my tix. 

     Then when I finally show up at the main entrance, it just rained like a motha !! to my surprise people were still lining up damn no shit sherlock. Then it hit me oh my daysszz , the fucking line is nuts. So I bbmed the person who had my tix and was told " there no way , i could get out there , i'm soaking wet , i'm sorry" .  At this point I was like shit , fuck should have just stayed at work and not to forget it was still raining like a motha. Then I decided to bbm my bff , she came to my rescue straight away. Gave me a number to extra tix . I called her up but there was no answer , so just sent her a text. Waited and waited for abit….

       There had been no reply. I did understand this person was a really busy person and that she was kindda working at that event.  So I waited a lil longer, by now the rain had subsided. Few minutes later, I decided to just screw this shit and went to get coffee at Starbucks. As I was sipping my java chip and puffing smoke , my phone rang !!! your tickets are here come pick them at this entrance. Yes , by now I had realized there 2 entrances, 1 more normal people like me and  another  for VIP’s. Fuck yeah , don’t hate the player hate the game. This entrance was like on the other side of world.

    

          So, yeah made my there.  I was so happy to get my tickets, they were shining like gold as I held them. Then I had to get back to the other entrance, so I ran as fast as I could. When I reached there and saw the line , it was soo sooo soo long . Thought to myself fuck it , ok I surrender !!!!! . So I didn’t even go in . By then I was tired and bitching all the way home on twitter. What a screwed up day . 

   When I got home, first thing I did was charge my bb it when flat from all the complaining done on twitter and chatting on BBM. As the night was falling in, everything changed from better to best. My BFF bbmed , let’s go Green Room , we have VIP tickets . Fuck yeah let’s do it!!

     This was an awesome party! Big ups to Future Sound Asia truly know how to organize an awesome party event unlike those MTV wankers. Alcohol was decent at RM 15 per bottle I got there in just in time. The Rapture is an amazing band, never knew a band could make sounds like that. I was blown away by their performance and their tracks rule my play list at this very moment. When they were done, our own favourite boys LapSap unleashed their power with their electro sounds that just got the whole KL Live ridding on that beat. By far this is one of the best parties I’d been in a while.  What a blasting night !

    This was a concert I did not plan at going at all, but it magically came to my work place lol! I was out teaching, when I got to the office my colleague told me hurry up go home, go go go!!  In his hand was an envelope, take and go. I opened the envelope , saw 4 tickets to Slash live in KL .Plus these we quite ex tickets , like RM 300 ish , I was wtf !! hooo hoo. Grabbed my phone, first person to call, BFF lets goo !!!. Who else could you call at that very last moment?  I did try to call a few friends but it was too late, so 2 tickets were burned.

     We got there late. Knowing our Malaysian timing, so we weren’t really worried but to our surprise they started on time, yea wow !! . The crowd not at much as MTV world stage, lines we quick what a relief. When I got there  Slash was already on stage rocking and grinding on his solo’s . If  I had paid for those tickets I’d be really pissed off cause , there was no one there directing us on our tickets on which area we should we really be. The crowd was pretty much everywhere, so we ended up quite far away from the stage. Slash poured out a superb showmen ship. I was thinking that he’d be old by now and hadn’t had it in him to rock a show but boy I was wrong. Listening to his music, made me reminisce times when I was 14 listening to Guns and Roses on cassette.  It made my day, looking at Slash soloing up his Gibson Less Paul legendary guitar. I’ve always wanted that guitar for some reason, even thou my guitar playing skills are no way close to that. Watching that band play ‘Paradise City” and “ Sweet Child Of Mine”  it was music which I longed to hear played live for a very long time now.  Well  that’s pretty much my side of the story.

     

The History Of Sneakers

The History of Sneakers

Sneakers go back a long way. In the late 18th century, people wore rubber soled shoes called plimsolls, but they were pretty crude—for one thing, there was no right foot or left foot. Around 1892, the U.S. Rubber Company came up with more comfortable rubber sneakers with canvas tops, called Keds. By 1917, these sneakers began to be mass produced. (They got the nickname sneakers because they were so quiet, a person wearing them could sneak up on someone.)
That same year, Marquis Converse produced the first shoe made just for basketball, called Converse All-Stars. In 1923, an Indiana hoops star named Chuck Taylor endorsed the shoes, and they became known as Chuck Taylor All-Stars. These are the best-selling basketball shoes of all time.

Sneakers Go Global

Sneakers went international in 1924. That’s when a German man named Adi Dassler created a sneaker that he named after himself: Adidas. This brand became the most popular athletic shoe in the world. Track star Jessie Owens wore Adidas when he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. Adi’s brother Rudi started up another famous sports shoe company: Puma.
During the first half of the 20th century, sports shoes were worn mostly to play sports. But in the 1950s, kids began wearing them as fashion statements. Even more teens followed the fad after seeing James Dean in sneakers in the popular movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Innovation at a Price

Sales of sneakers really took off in 1984, when Michael Jordan signed a contract to wear a Nike shoe called Air Jordans—the most famous sneaker ever made. Even after Jordan retired from the NBA, his shoes continued to be best sellers. As companies like Nike, Reebok and Adidas competed, they changed the way sneakers looked, adding wild colors and doing away with laces. Sneakers began to be produced for every sport, including walking, skateboarding and “cross training.”
New sneaker technologies increase performance. Nike’s Air Force used little pockets of gas to create better cushioning, while Reebok introduced The Pump—air pumped into shoes to make them fit more snugly. Sneaker surprises continue: Spira Footwear, for example, has built a spring in the soles to reduce foot stress. Of course, innovations like these come with a price: Athletic shoes often cost more than $100 a pair!


History of Sneakers in Malaysia


As far as I can remember sneakers in Malaysia started off about in the 80's . The most famous sneakers to hit the streets here was Aliph . I cant quite remember having a pair , I was quite young to even know what the word 'style' meant but somehow I had taste.  I knew , I had a pair of North Star from Bata that looked like a converse and  a pair new balance New balance with front bit curling up .

  Aliph shoes were worn by alot of Rock Stars in the 80's . I think they even custom made one for Axle Rose ? lol  ! , sure look like they did.  I wonder if their still around or back in style.

I love sneakers  , I cant quite roll without a pair. Its like rolling with a gun without bullets.



                                        Check my kicks out ....

      






  

Choosing An Inline Skate

Inline skating or " Rollerblading " is one great way of staying fit and healthy these days. "Rollerbading" a term most often misused, the correct term would be Inline Skating . Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates or I would say the inventor of inline skates. Quite the similar case of Colgate and toothpaste.

Here's some interesting fact's about Inline Skating :

• Low-impact exercise for joints ( Knee's especially )
• High caloric burn
• Aerobically as good as jogging or cycling
• Involves all the major muscle groups
• Mentally uplifting
• Most importantly fun

A brief history of inline skating in Malaysia it started some where in the early 90's . First pairs of skates that hit the racks were brands like Rollerblades , Ultra Wheels and K2. Only kids and teenagers where skating at that time.

Today we see parents, adults , teenagers and kids skating. People are seeing it as new healthy way to fit , not as an extreme sport. Families do it as way to have good quality time together.

For a beginner learning how to skate would be the first goal to achieve. A decent pair can cost about RM 599.00 - RM 700.00 . Here's a pair I highly recommend to anyone out there learning how to skate.

The K2 Exo 2010 , Its a very good skate to learn skating with and don't forget to wear protective gear when skating. There are a few inline skating disciplines which are Speed Skating , Aggressive Skating , Slalom and my most favorite Inline Hockey .

I love to skate, If people out there go jogging every evening mine is skating softer to the knees . It gives me a good workout rather than hitting the gym and most importantly I have fun while at it.

A New Begining

Its been a while since I've updated or even wrote anything here. Why ? Honesty I forgot I had a blog. I even forget the URL , hahaha .

I woke up today feeling that i need change in my life. Its kindda like the feeling most people get on new years eve about their new years resolution. I think mine started yesterday.

Ever wondered what your purpose here ever was ? what was your destiny ? . I believe we create our own destiny. If you ever wanted something work your ass out for it , and you'll get . If you don't achieve it , maybe it just was not yours. Fate.

Listen to R. Kelly's I believe I can fly , then get up on ya feet again. There for from this day onwards , I will just blog it !! Rawrrrrrrrr !!