Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all MiB agents who are celebrating.. Enjoy the time with your family and loved ones.. Bring some kuih for us.
On a side note, Harvey, Puvan, Prak (with a new look!) and KK went to watch Eagle Eye yesterday. Not bad but a bit far fetched. 2.5/5. (wait for the dvd)
Friday evening let's meet up. Mind's cafe? I wanna play the Scotland Yard game again! Who can make it? So far me, prak, puvan and kk can. Others please state your availability on the side ->.
And congrats to Zal for winning the MoM for the last match. I was thinking about it, maybe MiB should reward the MoMs from now on. SK, using the money from the fund, the winner of the MoM will get a bottle of sparkling fruit juice (looks like a champagne bottle, costs 8-9 dollars). What do you guys think?
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Updates..
- Congrats to Maran for winning the Man of the Match deservedly for the match last week. Poll for this week's game is up please vote.
- This blog has been relatively quiet and I am sorry about that. I'm really busy at the moment so its hard to update. These 2 weeks you guys might not be able to see me cos I'm busy with my FYP stuff so please bear with me, stuff will be back to normal soon!
- This Saturday Liverpool vs Everton 745pm kick off. Those who wanna come to my place and watch can do that.
- Sat keep organizing matches for us. Don't worry about scorelines for now, just keep playing and improving.
MiB FC 1 - Blue Manjanns 5
Well, I guess the scoreline speaks for itself. But can anyone comment about the game? Include them in the comments below.
But I guess heads up guys, long time since we played field soccer so slowly little by little we will improve.
But I guess heads up guys, long time since we played field soccer so slowly little by little we will improve.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Somethings to think about!
In The 1500's
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Aliens Have Landed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wat the flying F%^K! Ok guys you can go and commit suicide now.
MiB FC 2 - Wong's Eleven 2
In what was an eventful match played out at Bishan Park Secondary, MiB salvaged a 2-2 draw with Wong's team despite going in at half time 2-0 down. The game will always be remembered for some awwwful refereeing decisions that led to yellow cards for Harvey, Sat, Harish and SK.
Prak started in goal. SK was at right back, Riz and PP made up the centre of defence. Rooban played at left back and had Harvey in front of him on the wing. Sat and Vana controlled the midfield with Harish out wide on the right. Zal supported Maran in attack.
The game started off well enough with MiB starting with ten men as Rooban was late. When he had joined up we continued to enjoy majority of the possession and Vana had a couple of long range shots that came close.
Then out of the blue, after a long punt by their keeper, as Riz headed the ball against the striker, the ref game them a corner. Wanting to outdo himself, he missed a clear push on Prak and the ball trickled in. The ref gleefully blew the whistle. 0-1.
MiB continued to press on and the ref insisted Harvey dived after pushing the ball pass the rightback. It did not matter that he was faster than him or could have gotten the ball if the opponent had not kneed his thigh, that was not a penalty in the ref's book.
Out of the blue off another punt by the keeper, Prak and PP misjudged a ball and this tall angmoh striker nipped in to make it 2-0. MiB kept playing but as usual the ref wanted to be the star of the show missing clear fouls on Rooban and Sat.
After strong words from Sat at half time, MiB came out fired up and could have scored in the first few minutes after good pressure from Zal and Harvey led to Maran shooting just wide.
Then after good work from Harish and Vana, Maran slid in and hammered the ball pass the keeper on his near post. 2-1. Game on.
It was all MiB at this point with wave after wave of attack. Vana came so close to scoring when he burst through from midfield but slid the ball just wide. At this point the ref felt he was not in the picture, so when Harvey burst down the left wing to break clear, he judged that the ball had crossed the line eventhough he was on the other side of the pitch. Even the opponents started laughing at this point.
But MiB kept plugging away and after regaining possession in midfield, Sat slid a delicious ball to Harvey who controlled and finished past the keeper. 2-2 and there looked to be one winner only.
MiB started to have waves of corners. Off one delivery from Maran, a defender wrapped both his arms around Harvey, and hugged him tight. Harvey screamed at the ref, who saw the whole situation, as the defender continued to hold him desperate to give away the penalty, but the ref said Play on. Unbelievable. Worse was to follow when he clearly missed 2 blatant handballs by the opponent strikers that led to goalscoring chances. Sat had obviouly had enough and screamed at the ref "Oei ref you want me to buy you glasses ah?!". He got a yellow card. Lucky for us he did not take up Sat's offer, judging from the half a thousand dollars Philbert paid for his specs.
About 10 mins from the end, off another MiB corner, as Harvey lined up to volley the ball, he twisted his left knee badly and had to be taken off. MiB played out the last few minutes a man down but Ben from CJC helped us out a bit at the end.
The opponents grew confident and had a couple of corners, off which the striker headed it towards goal and reeled away in celebration, only for SK to dive and head it away.
Game ended 2-2. Great comeback from the guys but we will feel we should have won. No one played well in the 1st half, but in the 2nd, I think the whole team played decently well to come back. Special mention to Maran who did not stop running throughout the game, picking up a leaf from Dirk Kuyt's book. On another day he would have scored a hat trick.
Did i mention the ref was awful?
Prak started in goal. SK was at right back, Riz and PP made up the centre of defence. Rooban played at left back and had Harvey in front of him on the wing. Sat and Vana controlled the midfield with Harish out wide on the right. Zal supported Maran in attack.
The game started off well enough with MiB starting with ten men as Rooban was late. When he had joined up we continued to enjoy majority of the possession and Vana had a couple of long range shots that came close.
Then out of the blue, after a long punt by their keeper, as Riz headed the ball against the striker, the ref game them a corner. Wanting to outdo himself, he missed a clear push on Prak and the ball trickled in. The ref gleefully blew the whistle. 0-1.
MiB continued to press on and the ref insisted Harvey dived after pushing the ball pass the rightback. It did not matter that he was faster than him or could have gotten the ball if the opponent had not kneed his thigh, that was not a penalty in the ref's book.
Out of the blue off another punt by the keeper, Prak and PP misjudged a ball and this tall angmoh striker nipped in to make it 2-0. MiB kept playing but as usual the ref wanted to be the star of the show missing clear fouls on Rooban and Sat.
After strong words from Sat at half time, MiB came out fired up and could have scored in the first few minutes after good pressure from Zal and Harvey led to Maran shooting just wide.
Then after good work from Harish and Vana, Maran slid in and hammered the ball pass the keeper on his near post. 2-1. Game on.
It was all MiB at this point with wave after wave of attack. Vana came so close to scoring when he burst through from midfield but slid the ball just wide. At this point the ref felt he was not in the picture, so when Harvey burst down the left wing to break clear, he judged that the ball had crossed the line eventhough he was on the other side of the pitch. Even the opponents started laughing at this point.
But MiB kept plugging away and after regaining possession in midfield, Sat slid a delicious ball to Harvey who controlled and finished past the keeper. 2-2 and there looked to be one winner only.
MiB started to have waves of corners. Off one delivery from Maran, a defender wrapped both his arms around Harvey, and hugged him tight. Harvey screamed at the ref, who saw the whole situation, as the defender continued to hold him desperate to give away the penalty, but the ref said Play on. Unbelievable. Worse was to follow when he clearly missed 2 blatant handballs by the opponent strikers that led to goalscoring chances. Sat had obviouly had enough and screamed at the ref "Oei ref you want me to buy you glasses ah?!". He got a yellow card. Lucky for us he did not take up Sat's offer, judging from the half a thousand dollars Philbert paid for his specs.
About 10 mins from the end, off another MiB corner, as Harvey lined up to volley the ball, he twisted his left knee badly and had to be taken off. MiB played out the last few minutes a man down but Ben from CJC helped us out a bit at the end.
The opponents grew confident and had a couple of corners, off which the striker headed it towards goal and reeled away in celebration, only for SK to dive and head it away.
Game ended 2-2. Great comeback from the guys but we will feel we should have won. No one played well in the 1st half, but in the 2nd, I think the whole team played decently well to come back. Special mention to Maran who did not stop running throughout the game, picking up a leaf from Dirk Kuyt's book. On another day he would have scored a hat trick.
Did i mention the ref was awful?
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
The guys came over to Harvey's place to catch the game. I won't write a game review as I will be obviously biased. We also half-celebrated Prak's birthday. Photos will be up soon. Just as fast as Kevin stops chatting with the girls on his MSN and uploads them.
Friday Night Out at Mind's Cafe
The guys met up on Friday at Boat Quay to go to Mind's Cafe. It's pretty weird seeing a group of Indian guys walking along the Singapore River seemingly going clubbing, pubbing or even for dinner, only to see them head excitedly to Mind's Cafe. But that's MiB for you..
We started off with this game called Telepaths. Riz and Prak reluctantly paired up (the mind games started early as you can see). Sat and Sk were the 2nd team, and Harvey paired up with Puvan to ignite some VS spirit.
The game started off well and Prak and Riz took an early lead. Sat and SK were lagging far behind when the real "games" began. First off Sat had a rare disease of miscounting and proceeded to move 4 steps when he had only scored 3 pts. Worse was to follow when he moved 3 steps to hit the spot he wanted when his team actually scored 4 pts. Not to mention he deducted 1 place off Riz and Prak for supposedly "helping" Harvey and Puvan.
Then, upon scoring points, Sat tried to avoid going back to the "back to your old place" spot by miscounting again. This did not happen once, but twice in fact. Sat's drink was clearly spiked and Riz tried to bring the cafe down but settled on one extra brownie. Not content with that, when asked to describe what looked like a baking oven, as Sat wrote "store", and SK clearly wrote "stove", SK then innocently said "No Dei its store."
Then the moment of the night came. Sat and SK had to come up with the words and needed 4 pts for the "double" spot, which could have given them victory on their next turn as the other 2 teams were miles away. SK wrote the word "fireman" on his slip of paper while Sat wrote.. Haf a look: (Click to enlarge image)
Sat refused to play the game because he insisted it was fireman. Prak, Riz, Harvey and Puvan subsequently made appointments with their opticians and will desperately need to go for eye check-ups. So vehemant was Sat in his protest he said the best way to settle it was to tear the piece of paper. Hmm..
Eventually Prak and Riz did win, but Sat said it was not fair as they had cheated.
We then moved on to play a game called Scotland Yard. Pretty interesting game where Harvey was Mr X and the rest were policemen trying to catch him. I know it sounds lame but you will only know what I mean when you play the game. Anyways, they managed to catch Mr.X and iz was the copper who did that. But Sat was not happy because eventhough his team won, he was sure he had caught Harvey first. Okay.
We then headed home. Not before getting an almighty scare in the lift that almost jammed. Have you seen Prak run up a flight of stairs? It was one of those nights...
And here's a super cool foto of MRJ. Girls who view the blog, he is single and available, but running out hot so hurry.
We started off with this game called Telepaths. Riz and Prak reluctantly paired up (the mind games started early as you can see). Sat and Sk were the 2nd team, and Harvey paired up with Puvan to ignite some VS spirit.
The game started off well and Prak and Riz took an early lead. Sat and SK were lagging far behind when the real "games" began. First off Sat had a rare disease of miscounting and proceeded to move 4 steps when he had only scored 3 pts. Worse was to follow when he moved 3 steps to hit the spot he wanted when his team actually scored 4 pts. Not to mention he deducted 1 place off Riz and Prak for supposedly "helping" Harvey and Puvan.
Then, upon scoring points, Sat tried to avoid going back to the "back to your old place" spot by miscounting again. This did not happen once, but twice in fact. Sat's drink was clearly spiked and Riz tried to bring the cafe down but settled on one extra brownie. Not content with that, when asked to describe what looked like a baking oven, as Sat wrote "store", and SK clearly wrote "stove", SK then innocently said "No Dei its store."
Then the moment of the night came. Sat and SK had to come up with the words and needed 4 pts for the "double" spot, which could have given them victory on their next turn as the other 2 teams were miles away. SK wrote the word "fireman" on his slip of paper while Sat wrote.. Haf a look: (Click to enlarge image)
Sat refused to play the game because he insisted it was fireman. Prak, Riz, Harvey and Puvan subsequently made appointments with their opticians and will desperately need to go for eye check-ups. So vehemant was Sat in his protest he said the best way to settle it was to tear the piece of paper. Hmm..
Eventually Prak and Riz did win, but Sat said it was not fair as they had cheated.
We then moved on to play a game called Scotland Yard. Pretty interesting game where Harvey was Mr X and the rest were policemen trying to catch him. I know it sounds lame but you will only know what I mean when you play the game. Anyways, they managed to catch Mr.X and iz was the copper who did that. But Sat was not happy because eventhough his team won, he was sure he had caught Harvey first. Okay.
We then headed home. Not before getting an almighty scare in the lift that almost jammed. Have you seen Prak run up a flight of stairs? It was one of those nights...
And here's a super cool foto of MRJ. Girls who view the blog, he is single and available, but running out hot so hurry.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Quiz
Three guests check into a hotel. The Cashier says the bill is $30 so each pays $10.
Later the cashier realizes the bill should only be $25.
To rectify he gives the bellhop five singles to return to the guests.
On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly.
As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.
Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. 3 x 9 = 27 and the bellhop has $2. 2 + 27 = 29.
If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?
Later the cashier realizes the bill should only be $25.
To rectify he gives the bellhop five singles to return to the guests.
On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly.
As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.
Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. 3 x 9 = 27 and the bellhop has $2. 2 + 27 = 29.
If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Weekend That Just Past
MiB met up on Friday evening for dinner and chill out. Vana Harvey and PP had Mackenzie Rex Chicken Rice while waiting for the rest and then when Sat, SK, Prak and Riz had arrived, we headed to Mind's Cafe at Boat Quay. We had our usual banter and it was fun playing board games with the guys again. We were so engrossed with the games that we didn't even realise that it was past 12. For the record, Riz beat everyone else hands down at Balderdash, which can only mean that he is very good at manipulating people. Hmm..
We then headed to Yassin for Pratas and teas. Standard was not so good as Chan was not around. Talk turned "spiritual" as we were discussing ghosts and the like. Guess that's what intellectual conversation sounds like at 3am.
We also met up on Sunday for pool and dinner. Attendees were Faizal, KK, Riz, Prak, Harvey and Kevin. We played pool at Toa Payoh and headed to BK for dinner. Night ended early as some of us were schooling and working the next day.
Plans for the coming week:
Let's have the usual dinner and meet up on Friday. More details to follow. Anyone got any good suggestions?
Saturday: Harvey's place at 7pm. Liverpool vs Manchester United at 745pm. Tentatively dinner not provided but there will be the usual bites od wedges, sausages and coke. We can head somewhere for dinner after that. Please let me know your attendance by Friday night latest.
Sunday: Sat is trying to organize a game for Sunday afternoon. Keep it free.
That's all for now. Have a Blessed week ahead!
We then headed to Yassin for Pratas and teas. Standard was not so good as Chan was not around. Talk turned "spiritual" as we were discussing ghosts and the like. Guess that's what intellectual conversation sounds like at 3am.
We also met up on Sunday for pool and dinner. Attendees were Faizal, KK, Riz, Prak, Harvey and Kevin. We played pool at Toa Payoh and headed to BK for dinner. Night ended early as some of us were schooling and working the next day.
Plans for the coming week:
Let's have the usual dinner and meet up on Friday. More details to follow. Anyone got any good suggestions?
Saturday: Harvey's place at 7pm. Liverpool vs Manchester United at 745pm. Tentatively dinner not provided but there will be the usual bites od wedges, sausages and coke. We can head somewhere for dinner after that. Please let me know your attendance by Friday night latest.
Sunday: Sat is trying to organize a game for Sunday afternoon. Keep it free.
That's all for now. Have a Blessed week ahead!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Bloody Hilarious!
I know this is a bit too much Liverpool stuff, but you guys HAVE to read this by Jamie Carragher when being interviewed for his new book...
I was never sure if Eriksson was an international manager or international playboy. I know what he was best at. The longer he spent in the job, the worse his status became as a football coach and the better he became a Casanova.
Before one of his early World Cup qualifiers, a story broke about girls finding their way into the team hotel to provide some of the players with pre-match 'entertainment'.
Eriksson summoned us for what we expected to be a stern warning. Instead we received some fatherly advice.
"There's no need to have girls in the team hotel," Sven told us. "If you see someone you like, just get her phone number and arrange to go to her house after the game. Then we will have no problems."
Eriksson took the blame when we lost to Portugal in the World Cup, but for a while the investigation even focused on me. Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip highlighted my penalty miss as a chief factor in our demise.
When asked why I was one of those involved in the shootout, he explained that I took one really well in the Champions League Final.
I've watched our penalty shoot-out win in Istanbul a thousand times since 2005 and I still can't recall taking a penalty.
It's frightening to think England's assistant manager could be so ill-informed.
I was never sure if Eriksson was an international manager or international playboy. I know what he was best at. The longer he spent in the job, the worse his status became as a football coach and the better he became a Casanova.
Before one of his early World Cup qualifiers, a story broke about girls finding their way into the team hotel to provide some of the players with pre-match 'entertainment'.
Eriksson summoned us for what we expected to be a stern warning. Instead we received some fatherly advice.
"There's no need to have girls in the team hotel," Sven told us. "If you see someone you like, just get her phone number and arrange to go to her house after the game. Then we will have no problems."
Eriksson took the blame when we lost to Portugal in the World Cup, but for a while the investigation even focused on me. Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip highlighted my penalty miss as a chief factor in our demise.
When asked why I was one of those involved in the shootout, he explained that I took one really well in the Champions League Final.
I've watched our penalty shoot-out win in Istanbul a thousand times since 2005 and I still can't recall taking a penalty.
It's frightening to think England's assistant manager could be so ill-informed.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
MiB FC Player Profile: Faizal
9. Faizal
Position on the Pitch: Started off as goalie, promoted to striker, now “General” in midfield
Nicknames: Zal, Abang Roy
Player he Tries to Emulate: No one in particular but his play now resembles a certain Roy Keane
Memorable Quotes: “I F**ed YOUR MUM!! 3 WAYS!!”
“Guys, this is Ian.”
“Let me introduce you guys to backstage.”
Nothing. Just puffing furiously after Rizvi made him watch Forbidden
Kingdom.
Will most likely say: “So what time are we going drinking?”
Will never be caught saying: “Alright guys let’s play board games and the Playstation the
whole night!!”
“Liverpool? Pretty decent team to me!”
Faizal is MiB’s most unique personality, but you really have to know him well to know that fact. Most of the guys have now spent more than 10 years of their life trying to understand and figure out who Zal really is, but till today, no one really can say for sure. Brilliantly eccentric one minute, playful the next, serious in the next instance and then suddenly “emo”, we have seen Faizal in all sorts of moods and looks. From the long curly hair to the “escape from Changi” botak look, Zal is perhaps the only guy in MiB to have seen and done what the rest of us can only imagine.
To Faizal’s credit, he has stuck around with MiB all these years and become one of our closest friends, eventhough sometimes it feels like MiB and Zal were never cut out for the same thing. But the one thing that really unites the two is football, and on the pitch, Zal is one monster of a player. From starting off as the goalie who would take the ball and dribble everyone and score, he then occupied MiB’s prized “No 9” jersey, and took on the mantle of being our main goal getter. Some of Faizal’s goals are truly memorable and his knack of meeting crosses with crisp volleys is his signature on the pitch.
In recent years however, Zal has dropped further into midfield and now reprises the role of a modern defensive midfielder, breaking up the opponent’s play and starting attacks for his own team. Think of the Mascheranos of the world. It is only due to the hard work of players like them that the so-called stars are able to shine. And similarly, despite being a big game player, Zal has never been one to hog the limelight. His tenacious tackling and never say die attitude in MiB is truly inspiring and I personally remember the Rotaract Cup tournaments at NUS where Faizal really came to the fore. Playing in front of him and as a striker later, I felt really confident that we were not going to let in any goals, because Zal was going to stop the next attack or hack down the opponent and stare at him when he was lying on the floor bleeding. Roy Keane anybody? That’s the new Faizal in a nutshell.
Always one to be different, I am glad that our aspiring film-producer and internet journalist has done pretty well so far. Never one to comply with the ordinary, Zal completed his diploma and is destined for greater things, though it might not be the same vein of success that the rest of us deem to be. It is always refreshing to have a friend like Faizal around, and we are glad to have him as a integral part of MiB. Though we might not always do the things he loves to do, we do appreciate him and above all, if all else fails, we know we have a beach-house in Phuket waiting for us.
Faizal Mazlan, a man of few words and a killer stare, try to dribble him look at the floor you'll end up there.
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