disappointed..

man united lost to portsmouth last night. back to square one. i am disappointed. nuff said.

life's short...

went to a funeral wake last night of a former colleague. he was 49 and left behind a wife and two children. he died of a heart attack in his hotel room while on a business trip in germany. he died in a country which he loved .... he has always been fascinated by germany, where he also spent his years as a student.

i still could not get over the fact that he is gone. i am not close to him but i always remember him as a friendly and funny person. my first memory of him was when he called the office to look for another colleague. i did not know that he was one of the guys from the office and said, "alan is not around." his response was,"he is not a round? is he a square?" corny, i know but that's how i remember him. and all of us who knows him will remember him that way.

his death tells me that life is short and you should make the best of it. live for the moment. wear that outfit that you've been saving for a special occasion because everyday is a special occasion.

before sunset....

went to see a movie last evening.... before sunset. it is a sequel to before sunrise, starring ethan hawke (worra hunk!) and julie delpy.

if you are into action packed movies, this movie is not for you. a total chick flick but i love it. i am a sucker for romantic movies.

before sunrise is about an american guy who met a parisian girl on a train to vienna. jesse, the american guy suggested that celine, the parisian girl spends his remaining 14 hours in Vienna with him. she accepted his invitation and they spent the 14 hours talking about all sort of things , getting to know each other and falling in love. at the end of the 14 hours, she left on the train but before that, they made a pact that they would meet 6 months from then at the same train station.

for years, fan of the movie wondered if they met again 6 months later. then, you have to catch before sunset to find out. well, i tell you anyway... it was ten years later that they met after jesse has written a book about that night. celine met him at the bookshop promoting his boook in the last stop of his european tour. they have about two hours before jesse has to catch a flight back to new york and in that time, they walk around paris, talking about all sort of things and fall in love all over again. off course, they talked about what could have been. i was touched when jesse mentioned about a day has not gone by where he has not thought about celine. how romantic is that???

this movie makes you want to fall and be in love with someone... well, that's my view anyway...

they were hungry..

i missed the live telecast of the manchester united & arsenal premiership match last night. it was late and i could not afford to be going to work on monday morning with lack of sleep, what with the amount of follow-up i have to do?? i know, i am being responsible. gone were the days when lack of sleep was not a problem. now, it is a different story.

anyway, the gunners have won the 2003-2004 premiership without losing a single game. they began this season with 9 games unbeaten and when they went to old trafford, they have been unbeaten in 49 games. the red devils went into this game after a string of draws and were, what?, 11 points adrift from arsenal who leading the table. they have to win this game. a draw or losing this game was not an option. united were hungry for a victory!

i get nervous when i watch this sort of match when there are stakes. however, next morning, i saw the results & put a big smile on my face. united won 2-0 on what could be one of the many controversial matches between these two clubs. i started to imagine my head the look of wenger's face and also picture him giving an interview with his cute french accent (which by the way, one of the many inspirations of my trying to improve my french).

i just saw the re-telecast of the live game. yes, it was indeed controversial but i think the important thing is that man united won a crucial three points. they must keep this up and go on winning week in and week out. easy for me to say but i know that fergie is capable of driving his men to a consistent championship winning side.

and for once, alan hansen made a correct prediction that man united is the team to break the gunners' unbeaten record because they are capable of not giving arsenal the space and time to attack. alan, this comment has written off that comment you made about man united could not win the league with kids. ;-)

a weekend of tears...

it was a weekend of tears for me. no, nothing tragic happened but it was the emotional side was getting the better of me. and it was not just tears rolling down my eyes but i was practically sobbing.

it all began with watching a documentary on BBCWorld. The journalist who opened the eyes of the world to the famine in Ethiopia in 1984, returned to that land for a follow-up documentary.

his documentary began from uncovering the famine to the various charity events which took place all around the world i.e. Band Aid's do they know it's christmas to LIVE AID & those marathon all over the world to help the famine victims. my eyes started to well up when i saw those pictures of young children who were mal-nourished. it got worse when pictures of a young boy trying to stand-up. i started to cry when the documentary went on to tell a story about a girl who everyone thought was dead due to mal-nourished. she had not eaten in days. her father was asked to bury her in a cold grave but he did not because he could feel that she was still warm. that little girl survived the famine and now, she is a grown woman and healthy. she lived with her father up a hill and she is financially supported by a Canadian reporter. it was tears of joy for me at the end of the documentary until later that night when i was watching the Oprah Winfrey Show.

I had a 30 minutes of laughter from watching the Kumars at No.42. Then, Oprah came on to interview a firefighter who was rescued by his fellow workers in a fire. He thought he almost died but because of his fellow workers, he survived to see his children grow up. That brought tears to my eyes and it got worse until Oprah featured a story about the death of Matt Stepanek, who died this June from a rare muscular disorder, i think. He lived with a breathing support system which goes wherever he goes. However, despite all that, Matt was a talented and gifted individual. He has written books & poems.

You have to watch the shows to understand why I was in tears and was practically sobbing. It is situations like this that make you realise that the issues that you have are just menial.

a book about men - why?

My best friend, Sal, sent me an e-mail today about a book. It's called "He's Just Not That Into You : The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys", which Sal found on the internet. She also sent an excerpt from the book, which is quite funny.

Click here to go to amazon to read the excerpt.

In all honesty, I have gone through all these and have given up on over analysing about what went wrong a long time ago. Men, such uncomplex creatures and we still don't understand them at all. If only I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have wasted so much time on them. Men, can't live with them.... end of sentence.