The end is near……

Its been well over 7 months since I last updated!!! I think I am encouraged to continue writing entries after reading through some of my old entries. When I read the old entries memories start to come back to me. For the past 7 months, although life has been very busy, I know in a few years time when I read my blog, this 7 months of my life will be missing. So here goes…..

I’m a bit lazy to upload pics into this blog because it takes so long and furthermore all the pics are up in facebook, might do it later. The general feeling I have now is a feeling ‘sadness’. Not the kind of sadness because something bad has happened, but the sadness because time is flying by too quickly. I have enjoyed myself in Leeds so much and I know its coming to an end very soon, even if I do stay back another year for masters, a lot of my good friends will be leaving and leeds will not really be the same place it was for me. As it is so many of my good friends have left over the years, but majority of them are still currently here. I would say throughout these 3 years in leeds I have not held back, and I have experienced everyday to the limit, working hard n playing hard. I know I have invested my time well as well, in MASSOC and Cell group as well as church, and have not many regrets about many other things here in leeds.

The end is indeed near. I still remember vividly the day I left Malaysia for leeds. I could not hold my tears back as I was embarking to this new place with no friends and unfamiliar territory. I took that big leap of faith and trusted God to look after me and provide for me, and He did. And although its nearly 3 years, it still seems like only yesterday…. Its all coming to an end, way to quick, way to soon….

This year, work has taken a toll on me!!! Biochemistry is tough!!! My third year project has been very demanding and even the course as a whole. I know I made the right choice of staying near to university, and leaving my ex-british housemates whom I have stayed with for the past two years. And I do feel guilty about it when I can never make it on Fridays and Sundays to meet up. When I used to stay with them, we would hang out every other day, so I had time for massoc n cell group. But now that we hardly see each other I do feel bad for not attending events, but I know it’s for a bigger purpose….

In the midst of my busy biochem schedule, I have been really enjoying myself and maximizing my time. Birthdays are abundant, meet-ups are a must and dinners are a dozen a dime. No short of travelling as well!! And I know this feeling will all go away very soon….   I think I’ve also slowed down in the events department. In the first year I wanted to try a lot of different things and 14 of us in charles morris gang, dobree/wetton gang, would go partying almost 4 times a week during freshers week!! Those were crazy times!! When we came back our feet would be numb eating hot takeaway pizza. I’m not as interested in going partying nowadays and attending socials and sometimes I rather stay home n rest or just meet up with friends. I used to do so much in the first 2 years, and also with MASSOC. I think it also has something to do with me taking up the role as cell leader,  that I have invested a lot of my time to cell. I think thats my personality, when I take something up I am fully dedicated to it, sometimes over dedicated. It was the same in MASSOC, I would put so much time and effort into what I was doing.

The MASSOC Agm has just been over, it brought back a lot of memories to me, cause MASSOC is something that I hold very close to my heart. I ran for president some years back, and it was one of the turning points of my life, until today I still remember that day crystal clear. That was because I ran for that post not really for position and fame, but really for a higher purpose. Some of my ex-committee members have come to me and said that they have missed the MASSOC involvement, cuz although it was very tiring and hard work, at the end of the day, we know the reason we did our best for massoc, and I hope the next committee will do the same. Lives were touched and lives are continuing to be touched, and I think I’ve done my part in imparting that message to the juniors, its now up to them and their turn to show me they can do the same.

I will continue doing my best in what ever time I have left here, travelling, cell group, studying, playing, as I always have. Nothing much can slow me down. It’s going to be a few last few months of year 3. I finally perfected nasi lemak (with the help of a few of my housemates) when I cooked it for the cell group juniors one Saturday evening. Jokes aside I thought it tasted so much like home!! Because I used to eat nasi lemak about 6 times a week, and I was suffering when I first came over to leeds!!! Hope the juniors liked it…

if only i knew how to cook this in yea 1.........

not bad eh food critiques? hahah

bad presentation, got carried away after cooking, didnt think of taking many photos.

 I finally watched a match at anfield! After 3 years!!!, thanks to Julian, one of my good friends from 1^st year, he used to look after me so much in year 1, and even until today he still is kinda like a big bro to me!!! I was literally 3 metres away from gerrard and riena, the only bad point would be that torres was injured n did not play, but other than that everything went well!! I even saw myself on Match Of the Day!!! Because I was actually sitting 3 rows behind the goal post.

very blurry picture of the kop!!! ad another cear one somewhere but lazy to upload again. i shed a few tears when before the match when 40000 ppl stood up, lifted their scarves and sang you'll never walk alone! it was a surreal feeling! never thought i would experience it myself. 

This is how close i was to the players! it was like a dream come through! 

And recently we went for the ALL-ENGLAND Badminton championshps in Birmingham. Had such a good time over there, went over on Friday after handing in my FINAL YEAR PROJECT!! (Yes that is done as well!! More reason to celebrate!!) met up with kang han, had dinner at a Malaysian restaurant, which the nasi lemak was no where as good as mine, visited a few places in Birmingham at night. Daniel and I slept at kanghans place while the 7 others stayed in hotels. The next day we went to the stadium and it was crazy stuff!!! Shouted like mad and finally got to see all the badminton players in person!!! After 3 attempts of going to the all-england (always the same date as massoc ball except for this year). Then did more sightseeing and eating. On Sunday the final between chong wei and Lin Dan had a crazy crazy Malaysian atmosphere! And we even appeared on National tv holding the Malaysian flag!!!

The Malaysian contingent

Also before the easter holidays, there was the MASSOC Ball 2009! It was slightly different from the past years however nevertheless significant in its own way, then there was the hugely successful easter outreach which we had really little time to prepare for, and lastly my 10 day italy and Switzerland trip (will blog about tht another time).

The new and old MASSOC committee, i am actually not part of these 2 committees, just a retiree.. hahaha

Now as I sit in my room studying, realizing that time has slowed down so much, I wonder what the future holds for me. Its times like this when we actually have time to reminisce and many thoughts come in and out of our minds. Life is not as hectic as before, but after the good break I had in italy, I know its now time to study hard. Will leave my thought at here for now. Until my next post? In 6 months? Probably not!!!

Peace_out

what a summer !!!!!

its been one great holiday, 13 consecutive weeks of fun since i came back on june 19th. As my aunts are about to board the plane back to london tomorrow (they came for approximately 5 weeks!), everything is going to be back to normal, not only a well needed rest for me, but also for many other people in family.

I have got roughly less than two weeks in malaysia myself. And the last weekend i have here will be back in batu pahat! i can sense another food marathon. Well, its been a good holiday n i can say im quite ready to head back to the uk, and start studying hard again for my final year. Got to play hard and work hard as well. I noe third year is gonna be tough, but i am quite settled there already i suppose, have left Massoc so am relieved of many of my duties, and got a real nice place very close to the university (no more 40 minute walks).

And i may head to sweeden to stay with shaun for 5 days or so depending if i can get cheap tickets, n travel plans go according to plan. But yeah, ill be going back soon, but it has been a blast.

Just a recap:

Bangkok : My first trip back in malaysia, with my parents n sis.I have already been to bangkok. This was more of a holiday for relaxing and shopping.Where i bought a years supply of tshirts! cause they were so cheap.

Batu pahat : Met up with all my relatives on my dads side n had countless meals.

(Picture to be up soon)

Kijal : We drove there with all my aunts n relatives from london. Did sooo many out door sports, kayaking, snorkelling, squid catching, bicycling, swimming, island hopping etc etc got roasted at the end of the holiday, but it seems like it was such a long time ago.

Penang : The big one where 30 of my relatives and family drove up to penang for 4 days, for my grandmas so-called 80th bday celebration in penang, we went up in six cars, booked 2 suites and 6 rooms in the hotel (practically taking up the whole floor), and had a dinner with our relatives n friends in penang one of the nights. Not to mention the constant eating, visiting the cemetary and shopping sprees, was a great one!

Japan : Went to japan for ten days, stayed with waijung again. He took me all over for natural hot spas, shopping, a bit of sightseeing, disneyland, disneysea and we climed up mount fuji!

 Outside Disneyland

Mt Fuji

What else?

Countless mahjong session!

Many other Birthday dinners!

Poh renes bday

shinnys bday

Local Fruit Marathons!

Swimming, swimming and more swimming!!!

Food Marathons!!!

Family Photo Shoots!

And Lots of shopping and packing!

I THINK,,,,, IM ABOUT READY TO GO BACK!!!!!!!!

IT WAS A GOOD BREAk

Liverpool so far....

Its been a good start to the premiership for liverpool. 2 wins out of 2. With some good players such as robbie keane, dosenna, daegen and a few more. Robbie clearly needs time to gel with torres and when that happens something magical will happen at anfield. Two underpar performances (and one miserable draw in the champs league qualifier) but 6 crucial points, more so the one at anfield.

What a lot of pundits have been saying regarding, winning ugly and winning when the team is playing badly is very true, something liverpool hardly do. I remember writing an article about this time last year when liverpool won the first game of the season, and gerrard scored that late free kick, that it was our year. Well this time i wont say it too soon and wait for a few more matches, although i do feel that this is our year, like many other liverpool fans.

I was as frustrated as any other liverpool fan on saturday. Gerrard was clearly not at his best due to injury, skrtel was out of sorts, dosenna was allright, but just like arbeloa they have not taken my heart away as of yet. Bernayoun was not playing well, and alonso had an off day. And like i said above torres and keane would take time. Luckily reina was at his commanding best, carra as consistant as usual and torres had a few sniffs on target.

Thoughts were pondering through my head, babel came back to anfield unnoticed, and a few days ago mascerano claimed he wanted to win the gold medal for rafa benitez, something of a sweet talk to cool his gaffers anger of him playing in the olympics. Clearly the limbo of alonso was also something not very nice which im sure affected his game (hope he does not sign for arsenal) and lucas was at the olympics as well. Not to mention the boardroom scuffle, and even with rick parry of all people!! Amidst all the chaos, stevie n carra came up with the goods at the very death, when i was consigned to all but defeat.

Very true, 3 points when the team is not performing is crucial in the premiership championship race, and only in a few weeks time will we be able to confirm if liverpool trully have what it takes, not to win the throphy at the end of the season, but to contest for it!

signing off with a pic of avril as she gets ready to perform in kl, peace_out.

Farewell John Arne Riise! Thank you for the memories....

John Arne Riise, JAR, reds no 8. As you leave today to life in rome, you will be forever remembered and greatly missed. We understand your decision of leaving, and we will be supporting you in as roma. Its unfortunate that you had to leave with that memory of an own goal againts chelsea, and some fans diced and scapegoat-ed you for that, but rest assured the strongest fans of liverpool fc will remember you for other reasons. ive read quite a bit of fans pages attacking our left footed red head, and am disgusted to be called 'fans' in the same bracket as them.

have you guys forgotten the wonderstrike in the nou camp?

riise's first goal for liverpool againts bayern munich winning the super cup!

the manchester united howler.

and the stunner of a goal againts chelsea in the community shield!!

and what a swagger of a left foot.

as well as important goals throughtout the 7 years at the club.

25TH MAY 2005, unforgetable.

Its a pity you will not be here next year, but along with many of the istanbul legends u have to move on and we understand. Thank you for being such a fantastic servant to liverpool fc and your presence will be greatly missed.      

yOU'LL nEVER wALK aLONE! 

P.S.  also by the way, im back home in malaysia! have been eating like mad these two days!! its been so good to be home! so much has changed and am just itching to explore everything new. will be off to bangkok next week, and genting, penang, kijal, batu pahat and japan soon-ish! am still jetlagged but its allright at the moment cause of the european football cup!!! oh n results are out! thnk God for them n thnks to everyone for their prayers! will catch up with u guys soon, btw, core gang trip to genting in the process of planning.... get ready to rumble...

peace_out

finally, its over..........

its over!!! year 2 exams are over!!! I couldnt sleep last night before today, my last exam. Not because i was stressed or worried or anything like tht, but because i was so excited and couldnt wait for the exam to be over!!! (PS. Not in anyway implying that the last paper was easy!) The last paper was was the hardest, when i look at most of my Biochemistry freinds MSN Nicks,,, "BIOC2300! The monster of all exams!" or "Taming the Beast! BIOC2300!". It was tht hard! but i think i did alright! At the moment words cant describe how i am feeling, just so relieved and feel like such a heavy burden has been taken off my shoulders!!! Some of my frends said, take a break a day or two, but i told then,,, i AM recharged and ready to GO!!! WHEREVER! WHENEVER!! and then steph ting says, ok then u can follow to me to shop in morrisons for the bbq on friday and carry all the stuff back............ well, thts better than studying i guess haha!!!

this morning, i was having so much pleasure in crumpling one by one, the paper notes on my wall and throwing them into my dustbin, (after starring at them for more than a month!) The fact is that i have been studying really hard for this exam since the easter holidays, although my 2 cousins whom i stayed with will beg to differ! Its been a really dry period, just staying home everyday doing 7-8 solid hours a day of work, sleeping at 6am and waking up at 3pm (more productive at night), with the occasional pro evolution soccer game on the ps2 every now and then for a break. but its pretty much been like that for the last 2 months. The reason i had to work so hard for this exam was because my first semester results were not very good at all, in fact the first sem exams were so hard to score in that i was even in the top 25% of the class!! and on top of that MASSOC had taken so much time out of me n my studying. So i basically just worked hard on this one...

i was telling my frend the other day, i dont know if i ever worked this hard in my life? not spm not a levels... and she replied me, maybe cuz the stakes are higher this time. her answer did get me thinking. well, ppl always say that it get easier, and at university its the easiest!!!! WELL THINK AGAIN!

my now retired ex-cell leader and now accomplished docter, jean,made mee siam for us during our stressfull times.

when i got bored me n jeff would start tatooing our bodies with different colours!!

the good thing bout this exam was tht i had a study buddy jeff! cuz our exams were at the same time,, while the rest of the medics have their exams next month! we would have breaks together and pop in to each others room regularly, to take a break and encourage each other!! as well as the odd football game on the ps2! hahaah,, and we would get told off by thaxter for singing with our guitars at 3am in the morning!! hahah

but i would have to say, that one thing that got me thru this exam was definately God. I must say in my first semester exams, i worked really hard as well, but i didnt rely on God as much as i did this time! initially i was really stressed and worried that the same thing would happen as the first semester, but then i decided not to worry and trust God, and just pray to Him and rely on Him. And that was what i did. and God didnt let me down, just wanna thank everyone for the prayers and continuous support!! it has been a tough two hard months but it was all worth it, my phone bill even went up quite a bit, because my mum and grandaunt was texting me before and after every exam. thanks to all my cell group members who have also kept me in prayer, i guess u guys knew tht i was finding second year quite tough!! and all my other friends as well. I will b praying for u guys when ur exams come up!!! trust in Him, He will not fail you....

 so ppl have been asking me wht i am gonna do now,, well, i have tonnes of stuff to do, just went to get my letter for my japan visa application, return my books to the library and pay my book fines and throw away tonnes of stuff. in the next few days will be having quite a few parties, bbqs and dinners as well. i also need to settle my deposits for various things, settle my tennant for summer, and transfer my stuff for storage, set up my iphones, paper work, bills, buy sum stuff in town,etc etc...

and then MALAYSIA, here i come......

peace_out

not bad!! i have my own broucheure!!! although it should be shen's wei and not shen's way! haha

2 more weeks till freedom.....

my title for the day says it all, 2 more weeks of hard work. then exams will be over. i noe i said tht i would blog about the massoc ball in this post but i guess i will leave it for another day as there are too many pictures to upload. i feel rather relaxed nowadays because i have stepped down as president in massoc. i can just feel the difference in my lifestyle, so much more time on my hands, less problems to worry about, and just the general relaxation mode i am in. it makes studying and revising so much easier. i have been working hard since easter hold in london, and i must continue doing so for another 2 solid weeks (as this week is study break) to make all the hard work count. im a bit lost at the moment, not sure where im going with biochem, as the topics and sectors are so tedious and difficult. the sylabbus is sooo wide, although interesting, i feel a bit lost as to where im going with my career. but i will strive on and finish my degree before actually worrying bout the future.

okok recently the buzz has been going round, tht was tht the apple iphone had dropped by 130 pounds, the news spread fast in leeds. after sum thinking and since the rate from malaysian conversion to pounds dropped, i decided to get.......

i never thought i would own one of these, but the price dropped by so much it was almost inevitable i got one, but who knew....

two??? why?? haha one for my mum actually. by the way, the phones are all sold out every single shop in leeds. The thing is ppl who owned 2 iphone would be quite boastful and wanna show off, but the thing is im not,,, i actually have to be humble, because some of my frends bout 5 iphone each!!!!!!!! no wonder its all sold out, and instantly they went up on ebay!! so if ure looking for one at this price or a bit more, u will have to bid from them!

SUMMER

i cant wait for it!!! i want to go home and eat nasi lemak till i get sick! because im sick of cereal every morning!!! cornflakes with milk!!! i noe cheryn will tell me, why la, have CHEERIOS!,,, the thing is I AM SICK OF CEREAL!!!! i want some sambal. although i must admit tht day wee leon and jean made sum homecooked nasi lemak for all the cell leaders durin one of our meetings!!! it was sooo good!!!! i have a very blur picture of it!!!  by the way so it is confirmed tht all my relatives are comming down from london this july, for a belated celebration of my grandmas 80th bday!!! its gonna be meal after meal after meal i can imagine!!! and we will prob be going to kijal or sumthing!!! n quite a bit more!! and im going to japan again!!! and maybe angkor wat!! haizzz cant wait for summer......................

ok, back to stuff happening in leeds.... till now... from who knows when....

earthquake

recently in leeds, well not so recently,im sure all my frend bloggers in leeds will scold me for blogging bout this only now when it happened so long ago. There was an earthquake! in the uk! i dun think many ppl in malaysia knew about it because i did not get a text from my mum or any of my relatives in malaysia!, although i did get a few texts from my aunts in london asking how i was (cuz it only happened in north england). Well it was just like any other night in leeds, i was on my table studying. And all of a sudden everything started to shake, n i was thinking, wow the wind is strong tonight or 'must be tht james thaxter moving his stuff again in his room'. well so i just left it and continued with work, and suddenly the house shook again!!! all 5 of us got out of our rooms and asked wht happened! it was scary!! never experience an earthquake before....

i switched my msn nick to "earthquake in leeds?" and instantly i got like 20 messages, all over uk, sheffield notts, portsmouth....

tht night it was so funny because almost everyones nick was about the earthquake!!! sorry for the low quality shot

i think we were all quite worried, scrambling websites to find the latest info on the websites.

thank God it was only those 2 tremors. it just shows we can never take anything for granted. who knows wht might have happened. regarding natural disasters, i just heard about

the cyclone that hit myanmar a few days ago.

so far there have been 22000 deaths and still 41000 people are missing. its very sad to hear of such tragedy. prayers go out to all the families of the victims and all the people of myanmar.

only recently after some crazy weather, we had s week of spring/summer!! which was this monday!! its been hailing, snowing, windy, cold unstable weather since christmas and finally the sun came out to play, so we decided to hold a small bbq at our residence with our small gang.... pics....

bbq-ing

played badminton for the first time on our GARDEN!!!

normal bbq stuff

and we also had a round of football

interesting.....

on a brighter not, during the easters hols i did make a short trip down to oxford, the home of famous universities and harry potter! yes thts right! even hermoine granger (emma watson) studies in a college next to craig pattersons university accomodation, how cool is tht! most of the films of harry potter were filmed in oxford, and im not really a hardcore harry potter fan, but the only filming set i could vaguely remember was the dining hall at hogwarts.

the place where harry had his meals!!!

the set i dont really remember, according to the information, it was the infirmatory, the sickbay in the movie.

there was also this bridge in the movie which i cant remember.... and quite a few more, the staircase, the playing hall, the gardens and the quidditch stadium, but i shall not post everything up here so tht this post wont be clasified as a harry potter post.

and if u guys are familiar with the show the golden compass?? this was also the movie set for tht film.....the show with the talking polar bears!!

a rather dark pic with craig with the background of the golden compass again! stayed at craigs place for a night, was a well good holiday, as usual the dynamic duo would cover 'almost everything' to cover in oxford. craig hadnt been to any of the places yet in oxford although he studied there for about 6 months already due to his tight schedule. tht night we also went to one of the oldest pubs in oxford with his hsemates for dinner and sum really good homemade traditional ale.

picture of the place int he morning...

one of the famous n oldest universities in oxford, bill clinton used to study there as well as many other famous ppl, but ironically i cant remember any of them and i cant even remember the name of the uni, will have to do sum research and update this part i guess.

easter is really publicised in the uk....

look at the amount of easter eggs we had in the hse, and the scary part was tht half of the amount was already eaten. u thought u would never hear shen wei getting fed up of chocolate? think twice!!

ok and recently it was roberts ___ birthday!!!!! Secret!!!

the thing was he had a really big deadline the next day, and so did all his hsemates, so it was quite hard to organise anything! but luckily due to my persuasion skills from MASSOC! hahaha, i managed to persuade him to come for his own bday dinner at red chillis! hahaha, there were about 25 of us, but after dinner and a cake we all went home to resume with work! just a few pics...

  cell group pic

and robert wanted a pic at milinium square!

recently been watching the series MALAYSIAN DREAMGIRL! it just finished and the worst candidate won. I must say tht initially the show was terrible, but it did improve along the way! there was one whole episode just for girls to talk about each other (bitching fest)!!! thts crazy! and it was all one sided, they just let a group of girls talk about cindy without letting cindy explain herself, but in the later episode they tried to even things out by giving cindya lot of airtime. There have been so many blog reviews just cursing each girl and the producers, but i wont go that low. In fact it was not really the winners fault tht she won it, but the producers fault. I think the show was terrible, but it was our first try for such a show in malaysia, and there were sum good parts about it. but clearly the amount of talking behind ppls backs has to be reduced by the producers and more of modelling n stuff! well, i could go on and on bout things to be improved but im in the midst of my exams so i shall not write it. one thing i noe for sure is tht whether how many ppl dont like cindy or anything, tht is her personality n tht is the way she is! and she won the competition due to the producers loopholes and downfalls! so if season 2 is gonna be a success the production crew will have to buckup! but good first attempt! my british hsemates watched a few episodes in my room while i was out, n were appalled, but i had a hard time explaining to them tht it was the first attempt of a reality show like tht, appaled by the english as well! BUT HEY THTS MALAYSIAN ENGLISH!

i met up with my cousin in london, and we went to the emirates stadium hoping to get cheap tickets to watch arsenal v liverpool but when we found out tht the price was like 100 pounds per ticket, we decided to watch it in a bar as it was not even the full strength teams playing! well done liverpool on that draw! after tht we went shopping n had sum really good food in chinatown.

noway was i paying 100 pounds to get in tht stadium

there was this funfair a few weeks ago, just a random pic!!

all of them went on tht ride except me n hannah! i had to carry the bags so was excusable, i dont know why hannah didnt go on it!

if ure bored and have nothing to do........ 2 things to pass ur time....

1) Go to wikipedia the online encyclopedia at www.wikipedia.org and type in "Shen Wei" youll be surprised with wht u find, guaranteed!

2) Go to youtube and type in SNEEZING PANDA www.youtube.com If this video does not make u laugh, something is wrong with u!

as i did in a previous post, the very good and the very bad! Part 2

please scroll down to the next topic if u r not interested in football!!! hahaha

it was the quarte finals, and liverpool were drawn with arsenal of all other ppl! well, i suppose we had to meet the big guns to progress anyway. it was a rather tame affair which according to many biased ppl, liverpool didnt deserve to come home with the draw at the emirates, but like u know in football if u dont take ur chances, u dont deserve to win. and our euro hero dirk kuyt took his chance.... advantage liverpool..

euro star kuyt

maybe it was just our year again to win the champs league. bentnar saving us from going behind by clearing for us a definate goal! thnks nicklaus! 

then it came the night in anfield, euro madness euro euphoria! the anfield crowd was fantastic and were hoping to be the 12th man again! but shortly we were silenced by an abu diaby killer shot. to be fair arsenal started off the game fantastically, and well deserved their lead. n in my mind i was saying it was a good thing arsenal scored, cuz we were on the backfoot for the first 15 mins till the goal, and now we at least had to attack. and then....

STEP UP SAMI HYYPIA! hyypia took advantage of weak defending and scored the equaliser off the post, euphoria again! finally liv were composed and took the game to arsenal.. liverpool were magnificant attack after attack, and then our wonder kid torres struck in the second half!! wht a goal son! perfectly placed!

well deserved hug from stevie G. However,,, i never felt comfortable unless liverpool scored a third due to the away goal rule. any experienced football fan would know tht it takes a minute of madness to change the complexion of a football match, and there was well over 30 minutes left, liverpool pushed on but i was as nervous as ever. and then, out of no where theo walcott went on a unstoppable run, getting pass liv player after liv players, those were very long seconds.and pulled back an inch perfect pass for the reliable adebayor, and suddenly, quiet struck anfield, with 9 minutes plus added time to play. it was over.... surely,,,, our euro dream was over,, but lets see how they respond. and just as the camera pointed back to the field from the replay, babel runs into the arsenal penalty box and goes down! PENALTY!!! CRAZY!!! WHTS GOING ON WITH THIS GAME! hardly 2 minutes after the goal where we saw fabregas smiling with walcott, we have a chance to be level? but it was by no means a goal yet! up step STEVIE G and ithing seconds we were in the lead again.

stevie did say after the match he had one of his worst games for liv, but he scored a penalty andbeat arsenal! wht is a good game for u then stevie?? hahah,, thumping penalty... and a little while later...

super sub babel put it beyond arsenals reach! wht a cheat cesc!

well, i must hand it to arsenal, we were lucky to win this game, it could have gone either way, and this time luck was on our side! arsenal were a really good challenge and proved a lot of ppl wrong this season, but was it our year again? istanbul?  

tht weekend arsenal also lost in the race for the premiership to manchester u, and suddenly they were out of everything. like i said it was unlucky for them and their young squad did tremendously this season.

even ferguson tried to control an unconsolable wenger!! looks at wengers face! classic pic!

the very bad..... then at the semi final the tables were turned! we had to play at anfield first! i thought it would be no prob, we dominated the game!!!! dominated the shooting!!! and petr cech was man of the match with 3 outstanding saves! Kuyt did get a goal but we would have been disappointed to just win 1-0 because of our domination, but in the 95 th minute....

a second of madness by riise... and it was 1-1, chelsea with the away goal

i read a lot of comments after the game, bout how some people blammed riise. fans like those dun deserve to be called liverpool supporters and change opinions of ppl just for such small things. HELLO, have u forgotten our RISSE? the one who scored tht screecher at old trafford! the guy tht scored againts on 2 ocasions againts chelsea to win the comunity shield and the facup! our flambouyant left footed red head! riise youll never walk alone!

chelseas confidence must have really been boosted after they beat manchester in the weekend, love this pic as well! i actually quite avram grant! so much more respect than whiner mourinho!

well the game was heartbreaking and i dont really want to go into details of it, as i have just recovered from tht loss! yes, tht is how much it affected me! drogba started off the flames with a goal n dived right in front of benitez! pre match benitez accused drogba of diving and said he had a four hour video of diving from drogba! how cute was tht? classic benitez! and whiny droggie came out and said he lost all respect for benitez bla bla bla,, well drogba! we all know u are a great player and great goalscorer! but ure a diver!!!

this was funny as well, grant wanted to waste a few second by reaching for the ball but stevie grabbe dthe ball from him and grant slipped down! his face looked as if he was gonna have a heart attack! hahah

chelsea dominated the game, and i was wondering where the goal was going to come from as the last 8 visits to stamford bridge has been unproductive in the goal department for liverpool, the last goal from bruno cheyrou.... well well well, a bit of fancy footwork by bernayoun, a killer pass to....

torres!!!!!!!!!!!! the complexion of the game changed! now liverpool needed tht away goal to win! FAST FOWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unfortunately chelsea killed us off with 2 quick goals and our euro dream was over. Well we cant win them all, and we have always been extremely lucky in europe, and this time our luck just ran out!

jerome and i went to watch it in one of the loudest bars in leeds and the atmosphere in the viewing room was fantastic,,, non stop singing between liv fans (80%) and chelsea fans (20%). such the advantage. Songs like " Chelsea you aint got no history", "Terrys mum is a scouser" and they had songs for each player as well!!! it was crazyyyyy!!! unfortunately we lost the semis and well done chelsea..

i think tht is avrams winning celebration!! i dont think i can bear to watch the final in moscow now! i really dont know who to support, part of me want chelsea to win because of avram, and my hatred for manchester u, but part of me wants to continue singing tht song, chelsea f c, you aint got no history!

distraught, well boys, we will be there again! Youll never walk alone!

the future looks bright for liverpool! torres gerrard partnership! reina, looking so much better, 3rd year in the row golden gloves winner,,, then theres babel supersub, lucas and skrtel. not forgetting the rest, we prob need a few additions. crouch should stay,but kewell is leaving.... however one definate stay has to be our RAFA!

my home

as i have another few weeks in my hse which is 40 MINS WALK AWAY FROM UNI!!! i thought tht i might actually put up some pictures of it, as i think i am actually gonna miss it! besides the distance,it was a great stay, as i had the biggest room! hahahahah, ok let me take u guys for a tour!!!

our messy hallway, i took these pics before we did a collective effort clean!

our chilled out living room, with a mini bar, a ps2 and an ironing board.

kitchen,, dun get me started on all the problems with the kitchen. washing machine, heater, toaster, fuse, rats... yes rats.... problem after problem!!!

my poor hse mate cant believe his luck,james sinclair who take spanish and politics,,, cant understand why in the world he has to study ARABIC as a subject!!! his course has many mor efunny subjects!!!

no idea how to read them... 

our dining room if u recall the pictures in my earlier posts where we had good meals!now called the laundry room, and we eat dinner in the living room

random pic of our cupboard....

collection for the weekly recycling man!

desk during study mode! 

closet

room. well i actually will be missing my room,

by the way this was the video i made, with the help of daniel the webmaster. i used kek yee inspirational music choice!!! its about this year in MASSOC!!! alot of people actually quite afraid of tht word, cuz they know i will look for them to sign up for massoc activities, and being the good friends they are they would sign up, so this was a thank you video during the massoc annual ball 2008. we hope it was worthwhile... and you enjoyed urselves...

What MASSOC is all about! Please pause the background music at the bottom before watching this video!

Thts all for now peeps!! peace_out!!!