Chaos time (so to speak)...

Song of the day:

Corrinne May
"Safe In A Crazy World"

Is it the downfall of another giant?

Is it the beginning of the end...

of Arsenal football club?

BULLCRAP!

More like it's the new dawn of Arsenal FC.

In the last blog entry, I mentioned about Thierry Henry leaving the club for F**kelona.

No special tribute to him in this one though as we, Arsenal FC, look to the future.

So today's blog entry would be mainly about Arsenal's moves towards the future.

Let's look at certain aspects for simplicity.

a. Arsene Wenger

The master, Arsene Wenger

Basically Arsene Wenger is the main mastermind of the rise of Arsenal FC in the English Premier League.

But lately his future has been talked about a lot.

Henry to F**kelona

The French maestro hasn't signed a new contract and Henry's departure didn't even help at all.

The media circus DO NOT simply let go such a GOLDEN opportunity to slate Arsenal and harm Arsenal. That's what the media do best.

So what Wenger can do now is to calmly consider his future, think about it and make a decision.

A lot of people are saying that he's sure to leave because Henry left.

But I am on the other side of the Henry departure story, where Wenger might stay because Henry left.

Wenger's job isn't done yet since he started it 2 years ago when he sold Vieira to Juventus.

His rebuilding job hasn't ended yet and now with Henry (the so-called "Egoistic" bastard) departed, he can finally put a team which can truly understand each other, which can work with no "egoistic super star bastard" in the team.

b. The Arsenal boardroom

The Arsenal boardroom now is known to be divided into two main camps: pro-Kroenke and old school heads.

I don't know who supports which side but this is definitely not a healthy sign to maintain a club.

If the Arsenal board thinks that Kroenke's take over is bad for the club, then make him a good friend of Arsenal and make plans with him involving.

If the current Arsenal board is unable to take the club towards a better future, Kroenke won't hesitate to launch a take over of Arsenal FC. That's a very obvious fact.

c. Signings

Since July is around the corner, signings are set to pour into the EPL.

But as June barely ends, Arsenal are already linked with all sorts of players. Here and there.

Hmm...

But on this side, the player whom I can confirm coming is a French defender named Bakary Sagna.

Bakary Sagna (I call him "La-Sagna")

Bakary Sagna was voted the best right full back in the French Ligue 1 by his fellow players in that league.

He's a versatile defender who can play across the back 4 and of course 2 of his main positions are left back and right back.

He'll be a great addition as he's likened to Lauren, who left Arsenal 6 months ago.

He can make crunch tackles, he can attack well.

And unfortunately, many Arsenal fans are loathing about him. I don't know what's the fuss.

Since Henry's departure, Arsenal are also linked with damn lots of strikers.

And I can tell you the media loves to make Anelka the Arsenal's "most possible" signing as he's Wenger's protege and he played for Arsenal before.

Anelka returning to Arsenal IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE in my opinion.

But the player I would like to have at Arsenal the most is Klaas Jan Huntelaar.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, the Dutch finisher

From a reliable source, I was told that Huntelaar is having talks with Arsenal FC and this Dutch player is VERY INTERESTED to join Arsenal.

Firstly, he's a great finisher. He can score from free kicks, and keeps the ball well.

He has the killer instinct (goalscoring that is) which impresses me the most.

And he loves to score "bicycle" kicks.

Lol.

But his main weakness is his pace.

However, this might make him suitable for the new generation of Arsenal because this new Arsenal team doesn't rely much on pacy counter attack.

So a damn super finisher would be a GREAT asset to the team.

Other strikers mentioned are Obafemi Martins, Carlos Tevez and Ryan Babel.

Tevez is too expensive, Martins is XXXXXX (don't know what to say) and Babel might join Arsenal a little later.

And as I mentioned earlier, June barely ends and patience is needed from all Arsenal fans.

Wait for a while for Wenger to calm his nerves and continue his job, bringing Arsenal towards the next level.

Till then, it has been Kelvin who's been waiting for Arsenal news all month long. Tata.

The end of an era...

Song of the day:

Starsailor
"Get Out While You Can"

It's a sad day for us Gooners.

A day when surprises and shocks rushed into our minds.

Not many Gooners expected this to happen, me included.

I've been without broadband connection at home for days so I've to return to the office to online.

On a sunny Saturday, I was having a pretty good mood and brought my laptop together with me to the office to online.

After connecting my computer to broadband (in my office), MSN launched automatically and a window popped up on my screen.

I wondered what it was as it took a few seconds to load it.

"A MSN chat window... who could it be?"

It was Sanderson, my Arsenal pal in England whom I chat a lot.

As I read the message, I felt a rush of anger, frustration and confuse running through my veins.

It's weird.

"Henry leaving Arsenal for Barca..."

Oh God. Is it for real? I asked myself.

I switched on Mozilla firefox and click on "newsnow.co.uk", the live feed site which is my daily "necessity".

To my horror, the whole page consisted of news about Henry leaving.

Tears began to fall down... Such is an evidence of how vital Henry is to Arsenal and the fans.

It was a sad day that even before that, I was convinced by Sanderson that he'll not leave but it wasn't meant to be like that.

Thierry Henry...

My memory started to accomodate him after I start watching Arsenal in season 2003/04.

What a great season to start watching the Gunners. Or maybe not because of the high expectations for the following seasons.

Thierry Henry wasn't the guy who pulled me to watch Arsenal.

It was always Dennis Bergkamp (whose name is similar to Beckham of the then Man Untied midfielder) who acted as the pulling factor for me.

So, my first game was at City of Manchester Stadium, against Man City.

Anyway, in the first few Arsenal games I watched, Henry didn't impress me much. Maybe I was ignorant of the fact that I'm still a rookie fan who knew little football.

But as time goes by, I learned a lot about attacking football.

The one-twos, the through ball, the crossing, the volley, the passing... Many.

Henry began to fill my life.

So as football controlled part of my life, I began to watch more Arsenal games and luckily for me, I witnessed a lot of Henry's brilliant moments.

The most memorable one was against Liverpool at Highbury.

Never a doubt of the quality of Thierry Henry. Hattrick against Liverpool after much disappointment.

And he was an absolute integral part of the Invincibles squad of 2003/04.

After the departure of Vieira, Henry was announced as the new Arsenal captain.

However, things didn't seem to go Henry's way and even prompted him to reconsider his future at Arsenal.

With his contract not solved, Barcelona were sniffing around him and were always gonna pounce on the French international.

What shocked Henry was that Arsenal were cruising towards the final of the Champions League 2004/05.

Arsenal opponents?

Barcelona.

How ironic can that be??!

Arsenal played them but lost 2-1 with 10 men. It wasn't a shame for Arsenal. It was in fact an over-achievement for a young squad.

Henry thought like wise too. Due to that, Henry signed an 4 year extension at Arsenal, and said "I saw nothing special that night" about Barcelona.

Ya, it was true Barca won because of a one man advantage. Nothing more.

Nevertheless, Henry's stay wasn't gonna be that smooth anymore.

The World Cup damaged Henry's body, thus decreasing Henry's involvment at the Emirates Stadium.

His injury in the first half of the season was frustrating him a great deal. Why?

He has slowly becoming big-headed and thought he's the superstar of the team. He began to gain media attention so that he won't disappear in the eyes of the world.

The Ade-Henry dance was one significant proof.

I don't know much about the dressing room situation but Wenger seems to think that Henry's ego is starting to affect the team in a negative way.

I read on tribalfootball (I know it's an unreliable source) that Real Madrid were offered Henry in the January transfer windows of 2006/07 and this further proves my point.

It doesn't take tonnes of genius to figure the situation out and maybe Henry was preparing to leave Arsenal earlier than we thought.

And only last few weeks, Henry kept saying "At the moment I'm an Arsenal player" and this doesn't diffuse the situation.

A footballing genius like Henry is not that stupid to know it.

It seems inevitable that a football legend like him wants to move.

So, Arsenal.com interviewed him for the last time and the usual excuse of him leaving was "Dein left, Wenger might leave, so I leave".

It's a very bad reason to be honest, trying to act as the good person.

Nevertheless, he has been a great servant to the Arsenal.

He has won many matches for us. He has brought us tonnes of joy. He's a real modern day legend after Dennis Bergkamp.

I would love to give a 100% dedication to him but I still think he doesn't deserve it like Dennis Bergkamp had.

Anyway, I won't mourn the loss of Thierry Henry knowing the fact that his departure will do good in the dressing room.

I will look forward to seeing good youngsters who're willing to work for Arsenal.

Till then, enjoy Henry's top 50 goals in the clip below.

Henry = The Arsenal Legend!

Am I a kid-adult?

Song of the day:
Electrico
"Hello"

Ok.

I admit "laziness kills Kelvin online". LOL.

Ya. Part of the reason is laziness.

But I usually blame that on "the lack of ideas or inspiration or whatever you wanna call it".

Updates about me:

• I've been undergoing practical training for 6 weeks already (excluding this week)
• I've been playing FM 2005 since don't know when till now...
• My life has been a mess since the BBQ and steamboat during the previous week
• I've been eating fruits daily just to improve my digestive system
• And walaa I've started chewing my food a lot more than before...

Anyway, it's been a nice weekend since I've an additional off day due to the Agong's Birthday holiday replacement..

Returning to the title today, kid-adult, what is it?

Interestingly enough, I gotta know a lot about this term through a Chinese newspaper (Sinchew Daily, Malaysian Chinese newspaper).

Ironic.

A kid-adult basically is an adult who wants to be in a fantasy world, a childish world.

In other words, he/she wants to do childish things, want to live the way he/she lives when he/she was young.

The possible actions of a kid-adult are possibly as listed below:

• Loves to collect toys and figurines
• Chats on MSN using tonnes and tonnes of emoticons
• Addicted to computer games (everyone is nowadays, but well...)

I don't know why they list these activities to show that an adult is a kid-adult.

But you get the meaning, don't you?

Anyway, a kid-adult is also known to always avoid him/herself from the reality of life and therefore, he/she loves to change his/her living environment. Some even always change their working environment in order to achieve such purpose.

Another important note from the article is that these so-called kid-adults would always spend their money on holidays or always reward themselves after a month long work.

Hmm... I wonder what that means but hey, basically they want to remain as a kid, living as a kid, enjoy life as a kid.

As I read on, a question strucked me: "Am I a kid-adult?".

There are some characteristics pointed out in the article which are similar to mine.

I don't know how to explain but...

Since I entered UTM, I never really wanna indulge myself in engineering.

So I sorta like escape from reality and use certain things/do certain activities to keep myself OUT of the way of life in UTM.

It's pretty obvious that I don't really wanna commit myself to a lot of things happening in UTM and in my course.

Sigh.

And maybe a way of escaping was by watching more football.. :)

I fear sometimes that I might do that (escaping from reality) more when I start working.

Most of the people know that I don't really like engineering.

It's hard for me to do something which I don't really have interest to do.

Just ask Reyes. If you force him to stay at Arsenal, he might commit suicide. :)

But the fact is that one can't force another person to do what he/she doesn't want to.

I know for a matter of fact that a lot of people around me who really ain't studying/doing what they really want/prefer.

Somebody would say, "C'mon, face facts...".

I'm still seriously thinking about the "face facts" part in life though.

Tough...

Crossroads of life....

Maybe for now I'm a kid-adult but let's see... Hmm...

Btw, it's already June and it's very quiet in all fronts (music-wise, Arsenal-wise) and it's boring at this point of time.

Patience is the key to success.. That's how I deceive myself.. Haha