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Live your dreams

Live your dreams,
live your Future,
the Future that you had planned,
had foreseened,
Enjoy it, keep working hard,
push yourself,
in moving forward,
and becoming Happy

Johnny Evan's season debut

This guy seems to really impress a lot of pundits out there after putting a 'matured' performance last night, as Sir Fergie put it. To be honest I didn't realise that it wasn't the usual Vidic who did all those tacklings and ball distributions around alongside Ferdinand since I didn't saw the starting line up. I was in fact surprised as the commentator mentioned his name. The fact that he played so similarly to the style of Vidic, even the way he commanded the air and his superior jumping and heading power compared to the weak Villareal's attack, looks so similar to Vidic. Finally we got a decent if not great cover for the injury-prone Vidic.

Vettel's maiden GP win

Today I saw a really huge headline in germany's most famous (or infamous) tabloid paper Das Bild that got me shaking my head. Now they're starting to compare the extremely young Vettel to Michael Schumacher! It seems like under all of this excitement they have somehow clouded their judgement and didn't take into consideration HOW he won the race in the first place?
Of course just like what Niki Lauda said after the race on Sunday, it wasn't just luck that Vettel won this race. But isn't it just so convenient to say that in the end after that all that Vettel is as great as good ol' Schumi?
We all know from the last 2 Grand Prixs that Ferrari aren't that great during wet conditions, and as Mclaren is indeed faster, they do have 2 of the most inexperienced drivers for such fast cars. And as far as Hamilton goes, it looks like he's getting that irritating itch towards success that he's willing to bulldose everyone that's in front of him who's not fast enough. But more on that later.
As for Toro Rosso, it looked to me as if somehow somewhere someone inside the team knew that the major teams are going to suffer in rain, and that it WAS going to rain that weekend, and they did all they could in getting an optimum set up for rain and boy did it pay off big time.
Everyone knows, especially avid F1 fans, that there is absolutely no way a team in Toro Rosso's standards, once the laughing stock of F1 under the name Minardi, could be leading an F1 Grand Prix with such distance while all other teams were basically tip-toeing their way towards the chequered flag.
And honestly saying only Vettel did look the most comfortable out there under all those wetness, with Hamilton the fastest and most aggressive through out the race, though he did lost a bit of pace towards the end when the track began to dry up, and Raikkonen showed a glimpse of the greatness of his red Scuderia, given the track is dry enough that is. He did 3 consecutive fastest laps in the last 10 laps of the drying up period towards the end.

Of course I have nothing against Vettel, he looks like a great and honest boy and definitely an interesting future prospect. But for the media to bombard the headlines with such praises seems to be exaggarated in my opinion. They need to see behind all of the hype exactly HOW and WHY he won in the first place.
But if one thing that Vettel gave after all these drama, that is hope. Hope for the german public to look forward to in Formula 1, instead of having to see a dark skin British guy being praised by the world to be THE next F1 champion, instead of one of their own. It is certainly interesting to see how it all unrolls in the future.

did sthg foolish again today... it's just all of these chaos and, well it's not really stress in a tensioned way, but more of a too-many-things-to-do kinda way. this is just so typical of me when i'm doing things and planning them and sometimes i'm not flexible enough or i don't think sthg through enough.. my operating modus has always been plan and execute..

tonight i'm going off to Hamburg to get the keys to my new appartment and maybe spend some time looking around the city and my new school. Today I was supposed to send back the acceptation form for the new course etc and it's due to arrive back to HAW Hamburg on 21st August. So I went to the post-office counter, ask some questions, and bought the stamp. Then suddenly it hit me, since I'm going there tonight why don't I just hand it myself at the school?? But by then it was already too late. And besides I trust the Deutsche Post coz they always send mails on time. So I shouldnt have anything to worry about.. should be okay.

Today is also my last day in Offenburg except for short visits later probably. I decided to spend it alone, well also coz I know no one would answer their phones coz most ppl are either away or working. And I also had some things to settle before I leave. I definitely feel sad about leaving, here it is the small 'kampung' that I've grown to liked eventho I hated it the first time i came. And the friends that I have to leave, some really old ones and some really new ones. Those are whom I most sad to leave since I will always have that thought 'what would've been if I've stayed'. I definitely have a feeling that we would be really good friends, and most of the time my feelings are right. But oh well I can't do anything bout it. Maybe when I come visit again nothing much would change. The only cure I have for this is listening to 'Almost Lover' from A Fine Frenzy. Well not that I would hook up with one of them or anything I mean there are guys too among those friends.. but I could interpret it as friendly love. A friend that you've grown close too that you can practically say you love them as friends and as human being. Anyway I know I'm going to miss them, and as far as what would've and what could've... let's just put them in them Would,Should and Could book :)

currently crazy about this music. I have to say I love the new album from Coldplay.. eventho I had it illegally, but definitely going to buy the original once it's out. Too bad the guy's voice sucks live *lol*, but can't find any other videos on youtube except for the itunes commercial but have to say that one's not bad too.
I'm so happy that Coldplay changed their style for the new album, not the same über melodramatic like they did before. It was okay once you hear it, but after awhile you get sick of it and just can't stand it anymore. This time they mix it around a bit, one or two melodramatic songs, a few upbeat like viva la vida, with good lyrics etc. I listened to the whole album before my tennis match on sunday and it helped me a lot on my concentration. I played it over and over in my head and i never lost concentration even a bit.