JOHN DYKES!

Went n have dimsum in Chinese Experience in Chinatown with dave, jason, ming, tieng, izzy, mala n alvina for lunch.. we were suppose to meet there at 12:30pm, but the rest of the group was late.. leaving jason, dave n i waiting for something like 20 minutes.. they finally came n we had a wonderful lunch! not that expensive.. total bill was 68+ pounds.

We decided to walk around leicester square after lunch.. but the group got seperated. Jas, dave n i were walking behind the rest n soon they disappeared.. but anyways, we had fun walking around.. walked from leicester square all the way to oxford street, going into random shops like ANF, YSL n River Island. Lingered around that area until around 5ish.

Made my way back to my hall.. then met nigel who asked me whether i wanted to go to gloucester arms (a bar in gloucester road) to watch the manu barca match at night..
Grabbed a quick dinner.. then off we went to Gloucester Arms at 6pm by tube. Reached the place at around 6:45pm.. it was lucky that we went there early or we wouldn't have gotten any seats. Met up with Amresh n the malaysian seniors, ZhernYong, Kok Ding n XL who saved seats for us..

It was night time n after the match..

More malaysian 1st years came n soon the match started.. Chester, JJ, KL were there as well.. There wasn't much noise in the bar by this time.. everyone was watching the match n eating their food...

Until...3 minutes into the game when Manu got a penalty awarded.. n it was Ronaldo taking it.. everyone in the bar was shouting n celebrating by this.. except for a couple of people sitting behind. (they supported barca!)

Snapshot of the malaysians celebrating when the penalty was awarded. Look at Chester, he was doing a real celebration.. dam loud n proper. THATS THE REAL MANU SPIRIT! he was wearing a manu shirt as well!

Ronaldo to take the penalty.. this was the TV in the bar.

Ronaldo shot n it was a pretty bad miss.. he shot wide n it hit the post.. DESPAIR! the score was held at 0-0.. manu could have taken the lead at such an early moment of the game.. the game was dominated mainly by barca with possesion of around 65% to barca n 35% to manu.. Messi was incredible with his footwork.. i loved the way he dribbles n controls the ball.. just immaculate! Ronaldo didn't have such a good game today but thanks to Rio who did amazing defending n Van der Sar for saving those wonderful shots, the score ended as 0-0. Manu had a terrible match n Barca could have got the lead several times! i was quite surprised when Messi was substituted for Bojan though.. he was having such a good game..

Anyways, the highlight of today wasn't the dimsum or the match i watched in gloucester arms.. it was this... i saw two commentators in the bar i was in.. someone from ESPN (i watch that back in brunei!).. n to meet them in real life!!

i can't actually believe nigel n i actually went n talked to john dykes n steve mcmahon n asked them for a photo! they even told us that they will be there for the chelsea manu epl match this saturday!

Macca, Nigel, I n John Dykes in Gloucester Arms!

Went Sainsbury to do some shopping then we are back to the hall.. a truly amazing day! didn't do any work.. i m dam worried now!

*stoned*