EURO 2008 is just around the corner so I’m beginning to catch the fever.

I was never a big fan of football even when Manchester United won the trebles back in 1998-99 season. I was only beginning to like football when Brazil won the World Cup.

I love sports and I’m quite an active guy despite my size. The fact that I’m a ‘Kaki Bangku‘ didn’t stop me from engaging in other sports such as Basketball and Volleyball, which I played a lot during school days. I still play basketball socially twice a week with a group of working adults.

I do have my own reasons why I love these sports. Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was the reason why I love basketball. My 3rd brother Edmond was the reason why I played volleyball back in school days. We continued the tradition of being the district school champions.

As for football, it was none other than the 2 R’s, RONALDINHO and Cristiano RONALDO even though I believe a lot others can be a better examples.

Well, it doesn’t matter to me. I like watching them in action. Playing football as a team and winning a game is important, everyone knows that. But watching these 2 individuals PLAYING FOOTBALL with style, it’s something to remember. Yes, there are plenty more better players out there who can kick a football and score goals, but where’s the fun to it?

They reminds me of legendary players like Pele with his bicycle kick, Maradona with his winning dribbling skills and perhaps David Beckham with his ‘banana’ kick.

It’s as entertaining to watch Ronaldinho and Cristiano Ronaldo on the field and I have my reasons why. Watch this clip and you may agree with me.

I swear a lot, I admit.

Swearing is good, it’s another way of anger management. I chose to swear than to pick a fight. Of course, some may say that this is such a cowardly act, but I beg to differ.

You see, swearing increases my vocabulary, especially when I swear in different dialect. Since my school days, I often hang around with a lot of machas. Until today, I still have a lot of Indian friends at my work place. Eventually, I picked up quite a number of words from them. Well, let’s not share what I’ve learned from them. Instead, I would like teach them some Hokkien words in return.

Let’s begin with Lesson #1:

Ok great lesson there! Now if you’re familiar with all the words in Lesson 1, let’s proceed to Lesson #2

Lesson #2:

I hope these simple lessons will benefit my fellow friends who taught me so many wonderful words. Let’s keep spreading the joy

Cheers and happy learning!!

YouTube sensation, Marié Digby recently commented in her video blog on her showcase in Malaysia. For those who were there, you should know what she’s talking about.

During her showcase at One Utama two weeks ago, the turnout was so great that everything went rather chaotic after the show. You can read more about it here in my previous post. After listening to her video blog, I realised that the comment on my blog was probably by Marié herself.

Now how did she find my blog? I did a quick check on Google and my blog came up on the 5th page for the search result on ‘Marie Digby One Utama‘. So could that be her, randomly looking around into fans’ blog?

The great HeartySamsengBurger (HSB) alliance has come to and end. As of 27th May 2008, HSB is now officially disbanded!

Sigh, just about a year ago, I started playing Fighters’ Club (FC) in Facebook. 10 months after, we’ve got it all and it’s time to give it a rest.

HSB came, saw and conquered FC. We have gone through many good times and perhaps a couple of bad times but we have proven ourselves to be the strongest alliance in FC.

The 3 gang leaders of HSB have decided to call it a day and to make way for new gangs and alliances.

BHW, RAMLY and VR SAMSENG will no longer be in an alliance but we will remain as friends.

HSB will remain as one of the most feared and successful alliance in FC. Ok ok, we’re not that scary… but we are definitely the strongest!

To all my fellow comrades from BHW, RAMLY and VRS. It’s been an honour. Much respect to all of you from the HEARTYSAMSENGBURGER ALLIANCE!

Now here’s an important tip for all Wordpress Bloggers out there. Be aware that Wordpress comes with Akismet plugin preloaded. Akismet is a plugin which identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam on blogs with integration to various blogging systems. What you’ll need to do is to activate plugin via the WP plugins section.

What happened was, I’ve just upgraded my Wordpress to the latest 2.5.1 with a handy tool called the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. After successfully upgrading my WP, the plugin requires me to reactivate all my plugins. You’ll need to do so or else your WP will not function properly. I’ve reactivated most of the needed plugins except for one. Yes, you guessed it, the AKISMET plugin.

So what happens if you do not reactivate your Akismet plugin? YOU GET SPAMMED!

For less than 24 hours, I got hit with 172 spams in my comment box!

So make sure you reactivate your Akismet plugin everytime you do a WP upgrade. And for those who are not using it, give it a try cause it helps … A LOT!