9 Syawal

This week is known as D-Day for the world of sports, presumably the return of EPL, the F1 season finale that involves 3 racers for the drivers' championship and of course, the highly anticipated Rugby World Cup Final.

EPL was well resumed yesterday with all the Big Four winning their matches fashionably( except for the case for Liverpool, who need two penalties to win their matches, u lucky fags!!).
But what was intriguing is that for United. Thrashing the Villains at their homeground is not something common insight for u today. Villa has been the most improved side today, boasting 6 ENgland U-21 stars and of course their captain Gareth Barry, who has been wonderful for England this season, partnering for Stevie G. But yesterdays match shown the difference between a Champions side and a side that is in transition. Shockingly down 1-0 after 11 minutes, United scored 3 in 10 minutes from two goals from Wazza and another by a deflectedshot fom Rio. Giggsy completed the rout in the second half after Villa finish the match with 9 men. Ronney could have his hat-trick if he converted the spot-kick and a further fourth if his wonderful chip has went into the net instead of the crossbar.

Didnt manage to catch Rugby World Cup Final as i fell asleep during the pre-match commentary. Good thing I rooted for Springboks to win. And they won 15-9.

I didnt know Raya was a hurting experience for some of our Muslim mates. Especially the part waiting for your friends to come to your house. I had a painful expereince last year while organising a house-warming cum Raya gathering last year. While I anticipated 20 friends to come to my house on the third-day of Raya, only 6 came down. The others giving excuses like tired, having work commitments and of course going out with family. As family outings could be excused as i emphasised on visiting family first before visiting friends, you could have put aside work to visit your loved ones at raya. I mean work is important, but Raya is all about meeting your loved ones, mengikatkan tali silaturrahim. This is not Raya spirit. I always took the trouble of taking a week off during the first week of Raya to meet my "once-a-year" relatives. I can't see why others couldnot take off. Cuz u cant get rich just by working. If you want to get rich, join the "Fast-To-Get-Rich" scheme. The scheme, you can try to find it out on the Net.

Others have bad Raya experience too. Let me give you some scenarios:

• One particular soul wanted to visit his family in the afternoon. But received the call from his friend to come over his house, he asked his wife to cook. He waited for 5 hours. Afternoon turns to night and still friend didnt come. Angry, he decides to lock his doors and cancelled his outing. Next day, he goes to call friend. Friend's excuse: CHild was sleeping and didnt want to wake him up.
• Another soul wanted to visit his parents in Malaysia. But his cousin called, said he wanted to visit him immediately and asked him to wait. He waits. And wait. And wait. His arrival: 11PM!! Reason: Goes rounding and lastly visit him last as his house was the furthest.
• Another wanted to go out but his uncle called to visit him. But he waited unbelievably.... overnight for the uncle to come. Uncle came tomorrow morning. Reason: they decided to visit their relatives in hospital first. And they just plain forgotten their promise to their nephew.

All I can say is: we have two days of weekends to visit our relatives. Technology is so advanced nowadays. We have a house phone and a handphone. Some have two. If you dont have either, use the public phone folks!!!