Thursday, May 7, 2009

Barcelona, Perak State Assembly, and FYP

This week is a very tense and interesting week. I had my FYP presentation on Thursday and I think I did excellent. Thursday also was the day for Perak state assembly which turned into chaotic incidents. It was like a bunch of adults fighting like kids and I wonder where the maturity went to. BN is a power crazy government, which rules Malaysia like they inherited the land from their mother. However I have a great respect for the rightful state speaker, Mr. Siva who stands still for the Pakatan Rakyat.

The night before, we had a Champions League game between Chelsea and Barcelona and the results was a draw (1-1) and Barcelona went to the Final thanks to away goal rules. Generally it was the best game I had ever seen since the 2006 World Cup Semifinal between Germany and Italy which ended with (0-2) . It was a tense game, playing beautiful attacking from Barcelona, although I would say the referee is stupid. A flip flop decision from the referee and I dissapointed with the red-card decision for Abidal. Anelka is a great actor and a very stupid referee made the drama more interesting.

There were a few hand ball incidents in the penalty area made by Barcelona players and the referee didn't give any penalties for Chelsea. However I think it's fair since Barcelona was playing down to ten men from the 74th minute. Chelsea playing like a coward and they don't deserve to be the Champions. I don't think a team playing against a team of ten men, questioning every moment for easy goals like penalties deserve to be the Champions.

As a matter of fact, I never watch any final match for Champions League, European Cup and even the World Cup since 1998. I do think Semifinal is a game to watch (usually either one of the semifinals) because the game is more interesting and more tense. Everybody is fighting to get a place to the final. If there are two great teams playing in the semifinal, then it is obviously the game to watch. However I will break the trend as Barcelona meet Manchester United in the Champions League final and I hope Barcelona will win.

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