Friday, May 27, 2005

Liverpool won!!!

Watching the Champions league final between Liverpool and AC Milan was good. I must admit i am not a real fan of Liverpool or AC Milan but what made me want to watch it was how liverpool managed to defeat AC milan when they were already down by 3 goals. The amazing thing is they managed to do that in only 6 minutes. ITs just amazing. AC Milan dominated the game during the first half. Liverpool on the other hand was really messy. The typical scenario is....Liverpool attack, Ac Milan defend...Milan counters liverpools attack....Liverpool 's defence wasnt there...and Milan scores. After the first half Milan was so happy....as if they already won. Well the probabilty to catch up when you are 3 goals down is very low, esspecially when there is only 45 minutes left...and thats what makes it so amazing....and its a must see match.
The second half was just amazing. Liverpool were now more organised and they were attacking all the way and also defending rather well although there were some times when they were still caught off guard( credit must be given to liverpool goalkeeper for good keeping ). I guess Milan was too confident that they didnt really play with all thier heart. And just 10 minutes after the start of the second half....Liverpool scored....after 2 minutes scored again.....after 4 minutes scores again....AMAZING.....the first 2 goals were wonderful goals...the third was a penalty. After that, Milan started playing with everything they have and the game was more balanced. Both sides had chances.
In the end, it was a tie and the game was decided by penalties. Obviously Liverpool won. Liverpool might be 5th in the English Premier Lague and might not even have a chance to defend thier title next year but they are still worthy champions because they showed determination throughout the whole game and didnt give up eventhough the odds were against them. Liverpool aint a team with big "galactic" names but it just goes to show...winning requires more than jsut big names. The attitude and mentality is equally as important. I think if Milan werent so confident by the end of the first half they could have won the match. In fact over these 3 years since i have been following the Champions League, Ac Milan has been the most consistant teams. They are always up there in the group stage and in the finals of semi-finals. I guess its true when ppl say "Pride comes before a fall".....hmmmm

Monday, May 23, 2005

Bro coming !!!

Cool man....my bro said he will be coming during the holidays....yeah...i finally can see and touch my beloved Yamaha FGX412 acoustic guitar again....after 2 long years...

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Another sleepy sunday....

Another sleepy sunday...After nearly 2 months, its my turn to play bass again. Like any other bass playing day, i would have to wake up damn early just to get to church damn early to sound check etc etc. I think i played quite well today. Didnt make many obvious mistakes, except maybe for the hymn. Well obviously noone heard the mistakes i made in the hymn. The reason being....i followed one of the most important principles in "amateur musicianship" which is...."IF u cant play- POSE". Well...i nearly always do this when playing those complex hymns with 6-7 chord transitions per bar. Its just too much processing for my brain to perform. What can i say, those hymn writers are professional composers and i am a mere amateur. So just go up to the stage, pick up my bass, pretend to play with the volume knobs of my bass( infact i am merely turning it up and back down to 2). When the hymn starts, just pretend to play some notes, do some complex finger patterns...and in the end noone notices anything and ppl think you are very good because u can execute those complex finger pattern. The good thing about the bass is...when u play it ppl can hear the difference in the music, but if u dont play anything ppl dont really care...unless of course u are playing some other genres which are highly dependent on the bass(which of course is not church music).
And i managed to talk to christo today. Apparently i made quite a good impression on the guy i used to work with in the radio station during summer and he wants to work with me again. Thats good to know because the probability of me staying in sydney to do my work experience higher. So even if no engineering firm wants me because i do not have a PR, i can get an engineering apprentice job at ABC. YEAH......
And got the results of my other mid-sem today. Got 20 /25. I guess this one is alright. I was expecting it to be somewhere around 20-21. But i could have gotten higher. I guess the important thing is not to look at the mid-sem and cry over it. Maybe just cry for a few minutes...or a few hours. More importantly is to know where are the mistakes correct it.....If my father was here i would have gotten a scolding already....fortunately he aint.