Jurulatih Indonesia kata "Team terbaik tidak jadi juara"!

Sombong lagi mat saleh ni!

Dah kalah tu kalahlah mangkuk!

Dari akhbar KOMPAS, Indonesia,

Riedl evaluasi pemain

Dalam jumpa pers seusai laga, Pelatih Indonesia Alfred Riedl ditanya soal masa depan tim Indonesia, tetapi ia tidak secara tegas menjawabnya. Ia menyatakan bakal melakukan evaluasi terhadap skuadnya.

Riedl menambahkan, timnya bermain sangat bagus, tetapi kurang beruntung. ”Kami ucapkan selamat kepada Malaysia, tetapi kali ini tim terbaik tidak menjadi juara,” kata Riedl yang juga mengucapkan terima kasih kepada dukungan suporter yang luar biasa.

Menurut Riedl, kegagalan Indonesia merebut juara sudah dipastikan pada laga pertama di Kuala Lumpur. ”Kami kalah di Kuala Lumpur, dalam 15 menit yang kacau,” ujarnya.

”Itu adalah permainan terbaik kami sepanjang turnamen. Kami memiliki banyak peluang, tetapi kurang beruntung. Pada babak kedua, tim memperlihatkan karakternya untuk bangkit, saya berterima kasih pada pemain,” katanya.

Soal penalti yang gagal, Riedl tidak mau menyalahkan Firman Utina. Firman mengatakan, kegagalannya menendang penalti bukan karena tekanan. ”Itulah sepak bola, malam ini saya gagal. Saya memang ditugaskan oleh pelatih untuk mengambil penalti, kalau bukan saya siapa lagi,” kata Firman.

Bambang Pamungkas menambahkan, pertandingan final kedua sangat luar biasa dan Indonesia hanya kurang beruntung. ”Kita tidak kalah, kita menang, tetapi tidak juara,” ujar Bambang.

Save RM4 to help kill Palestinian kids. Lovely.

I can't recall when the last time McDonalds Malaysia reduce the price of their meals or any of the items in their menu, if ever. Sure, sometimes they come out with two-in-one type of promotion, and even then it's for the less than popular item, like apple pie, or promo items, like the Prosperity burger.

But menu-wide price cut? On McValue Meals nonetheless? Never! Yet this is what is happening now. Expensive meals costing RM10 and above (with tax charges) have now been cut to less than RM6! It's just crazy!

And we all know why. It must be the boycott. The boycott must have hurt them, and they took this unprecedented step.

And is it working? Have McDonalds managed to get the boycotters to come back? Those warriors who sacrificed so much, i.e., who've sacrificed their daily or weekly McDonalds fix?

You betcha. Now, I can see MCDonalds being filled to the brim again, especially at lunch time. I suppose savings of RM4-5 on their McDonalds is too much temptation for them.

Now we know that one of the reasons of the boycott is that McDonald actually give money and support the Israeli regime and their slaughter of human beings including kids in Gaza.

So for you out there who forgot your boycott so quickly, the next time this


and this ...


and this ...


happens again, do know that your saving of RM4 help kills them.

Congratulations. Now tomorrow lunch don't forget to get your McValue meals and kill some more Palestinian kids.

When will Malaysian politicians tackle the real issues?

I'm really, really sad and disgusted with Malaysian politicians today (at least with most of them). Don't they know that the citizens are really suffering from this economic slowdown or slump or whatever you want to call it?

Then why are you guys just soooooo interested in wresting power here and there, in by-elections, in party elections, in petty political matters? You people should all jump off buildings for all we care!

People are actually having difficulty to pay their mortgages and rent, their cars and motorcycles monthly payments, buying foods and diapers for their babies. Come-on lah woi! Malaysian babies are suffering inadequate nutrients and care but you politicians talk politics only! Lancaulah! (I'm so pissed off bcoz I may have to downgrade my baby's brand of milk, wtf!)

Address the real issues. And it's so particularly difficult for us the urban so-so income class, with astronomical parking charges, tolls and so on. I just can't imagine what the urban poor are facing.

At least I come across this just now, an interview with Datuk JJ, an UMNO VP candidate. It's not so focused on politics, makes a fresh change. Read it all for yourself here.

As for this blog, i'm just gonna post these part which is relevant to what I'm feeling.

"But I see it as a cue for BN and Umno to look for new ways in managing our success and to revise our approaches in facing the challenges of 21st century Malaysia.

Q: What sort of challenges?

A: One big challenge is the management of the demographic changes. For instance, statistics show that given a city that has a population of 100,000, two-thirds are now urban Malays, unlike before when the majority were Chinese.

Policies such as the National Economic Policy have to take into account these new demographic changes.

If the country focused on eradicating poverty irrespective of race in rural areas before, we must now focus on those low-income groups in the cities, regardless of race and religion.

You have those living and working in the city earning below RM1,500; they must be helped.

We need to find ways to boost their income and meet their housing and transport needs. Such issues and challenges surely will be at the forefront of the agenda under the new leadership.

New policies need to be structured in order to continue and sustain the country's successes, and allow the young to create their own success stories and achieve their dreams.

People no longer fight and protest only for their basic needs like water or electricity; they also strive for greater human rights, civil liberties, justice and so on.

Yet, we still need to solve the bread and butter issues, especially in the rural areas."

and some more here he said,

"Q: You were minister of finance when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister. How do you view our position in the next couple of years vis-a-vis the global meltdown?

A: We may want to revisit some of the economic models in this country. We may have gone overboard with the laissez faire free market model. Recently we have seen the failure of the unfettered free market model in the United States.

For instance, low-cost housing and public transport have to be government-led and not private sector-led.

You should only allow people to make money when it is a market product and not a social product, which is why low-cost housing, for example, should be handled by the government.

The same goes with regard to public transport. It is a basic need of the low income community. It will also help manage the traffic congestion that currently pervades our towns and cities.

Put these public products or social products in the hands of private companies and the objective will always be money and how to obtain the highest returns, which then translates into higher costs to the public.

We all realise that public transportation and public low-cost housing need to be delivered at affordable level to benefit the low-income group.

It is the duty of the government to provide for and develop such social products for public good."

Spot on.

I know we all have issues with JJ. But credit where it's due.

The regular people could use some help and visionary solution

Boycott and Malaysian Companies

I've come across two very good articles defending the boycott vis-a-vis the issue of whether our boycott of Israel and Israel-related goods will only hurt Malaysian companies and Malaysian workers.

Just click on the link to read them on their blogs: The articles are in Bahasa Kebangsaan though.

from tansrimat.blogspot.com
Benarkah syarikat Malaysia yang jadi mangsa boikot barangan Israel dan US?

and from utaraonline.net
Apakah kesan sekiranya kita boikot ...

Please read them if you have problems arguing for the boycott at your workplace, with friends, families etc.

My boycott update - No more Huggies for Baby

So what products have you boycotted? I've started boycotting Nestle products, so no more MILO, Maggi etc. There r still some at home, we're not boycotting eating and consuming what we've bought, but those will be the last ones we bought, probably forever. In the meantime, I'm making a list of all Nestle products to be put up in this blog.

We also use a lot of Johnson&Johnson's products because we have a baby. Anyone knows what are the substitutes for their "No More Tears" shampoo and bodywash for babies? Please suggest.

My baby wears Huggies. Not anymore though. We've just bought the new Mamypoko pants. And they're cheap too, at only RM27.50 for 42 pieces. So Huggies, since you support the Zionists and have blood on your hands, you are not getting my money anymore. I've done a check on Mamypoko, they are a product of a Japanese company, Unicharm, so they are in the clear and Zionist-free.

What else? Oh,I've switched to Petronas petrol. No more Esso, even though my I've chalked up more than 15,000 points on my Smiles card.

So how about you people? Don't forget, this remains the best way to act on the Palestine issue. If all the Muslims who numbers into the billions plus the non-Muslims who are also joining in the boycott do as I'm doing, it'll be a matter of time before those Israeli and US companies will have to change their policies and re-consider their support for the Zionist regime. Money talks!

At the very least, they'll have less money to spend on their weapons and bombs.

Palestinian product boycott: How bout your cigarettes?

I support the boycott of Israel products - and those US products manufactured by companies that are known to support the Israeli regime.

However I just realized something lying besides me that should fall into that category - my box of Winston. That's a US product innit, and I'm pretty damn sure they support Israel. So I'm gonna give up smoking for now until I find a cigarette brand that are not from US. No Gudang Garam for me. The ashes burn your trousers and shirts. And furthermore my wife hates them. When we started dating I always had a pack of Gudang Garam Hitam and Dunhill with me. It was Gudang Garam or don't date with me situation then, and of course she won.

So guys and girls, please think about giving up your US cigarettes if you are really serious about supporting the boycott.

We weep for Gaza's children

I urge everyone to look at this blog I just found and copy paste the images and messages in there to everyone else. Every little things count.

Please post this blog in your blogroll.

I'm also gonna copypaste images and text from this and other websites as and when I have the time so please do come in and visit this blog for your materials. Thanks

Malaysian adults take note!

This is another one of my favourite Youtube video, courtesy of our very own Yasmin Ahmad. It tells of how children are blind towards racism, something that us adults can learn a thing or two from.