Eden Hazard's freekick goal

Liverpool suffered a setback when they lost 0-1 to Lille in the first leg of the round of 16 today. Benitez is hoping for a comeback when Liverpool hosted Lille at home next week.

BOLEH PERCAYA KE BERITA NI? MACAM TAK PERCAYA PLAK BILA BACA…..(daripada thestar.com.my portal):

KUALA LUMPUR (11 Mac 2010): Fewer Malaysian men and women want to tie the knot now compared with 10 years ago.

A recent survey by the National Population and Family Development Board on trends between 2000 and 2007 indicated that the average marriage age of marrying Malaysians would increase to 33 years by 2015 or they may choose not to get married at all.

Universiti Malaya’s Associate Professor Tey Nai Peng said the average age at first marriage for men and women had increased from 25.5 and 22.0 years respectively in 1970 to 28.6 and 25.1 years in 2000.

Also, the number of those who had never been married between the ages of 25 and 29 years had more than doubled for women from 13% to 29%, and rose from 32% to 54% among men, he added.

“Although marriage behaviour varies widely across the various ethnic groups and regions, the general trend is one of rising age at marriage and non-marriage at all,” he said during the consultative forum on population strategic plan research conducted by the board here yesterday.

Tey noted that education and career considerations had expanded women’s horizons, giving them opportunities which competed with marriage.

“Traditionally, women tended to marry men with at least the same level of education. But with higher educational levels, more and more women are now having difficulty finding compatible partners,” he said.

Issues like migration, urbanisation and modernisation had also resulted in women having more autonomy in making decisions, including in those relating to marriage, he pointed out.

Tey said the younger generation was becoming more self-centred, with modern women having high expectations and becoming choosy when it came to finding mates.

Board director-general Datuk Aminah Abdul Rahman said current marriage trends were contributing to the rapid decrease in fertility rates for Malaysians.

“The changing role of women is the main reason for their infertility. They are getting married later now or not at all as they build a career alongside men to become equal breadwinners,” she said on recent data showing that Malaysians were now having fewer babies.

She said more focus should be placed on ways to increase the percentage of marriages instead of blaming any gender.

The Reds played a pathetic game against Wigan last night and not a single shot on target for Liverpool. Hope for a fourth place this season is as good as dreaming about it as Liverpool played more games than Man City, Tottenham and Aston Villa, plus the three teams are winning most of their matches.

A mistake by Kuyt costs Liverpool the goal. Torres too missed some chances which are crucial to the match. Johnson is back on the team after suffering from hamstring injury.

Do check out the various backpacks for your precious laptop computers available in my online store. Discounts available for bulk purchases.

Click on the tab on top of the blog page or click here.

Logitech V470 Cordless Mouse for Bluetooth

I went to LowYat Plaza (where are the shops selling pirated software gone to?) today and bought a new mouse to go with my new laptop. I’ve chosen Logitech’s Cordless Laser Mouse for Bluetooth due to the fact that the mouse was specifically designed for MacBook (it’s written on the box) and comes with matching color.

But the thing I would like to discuss here in not about the newly purchased mouse, but the way the mouse was priced. I recced a lot of shops in LowYat, and funny enough, all the shops that I went to, sell the mouse at different prices. The most expensive is RM199 (the shop is not even a hypermarket) and the cheapest being RM129 (I bought at this shop).

The question is, why the fluctuation in price? And how did this one shop can sell one for RM129 while the other for RM199?

Is this situation only happens to mice in the market, or every single IT product in KL? If this is normal to consumers, I simply can’t accept the facts that a single item with a sole distributor can have different prices, depending where you actually looked.

BTW, don’t buy anything at Sunway Pyramid’s IT Centre. Everything is damn expensive!

Gerrard scoring the first goal

Not much I want to say, just “WELCOME BACK GERRARD AND TORRES! KEEP THE GOALS COMING!” and “GREAT SAVE, REINA!”.

One of my hobby is collection Oakley sunglasses. There’re already 30 different Oakley sunglasses in my collection. And one day, one of my buddy said, “Look, since you’re actively collecting Oakleys, why not making some money out of it?”. Therefore people, I present to you, my first Oakley store. You can check ‘em out by clicking on the Oakley tab on top of the blog, or click HERE.

Do check ‘em out.

Ku tanamkan hatiku tumbuh bersamamu
Tak ‘kan ku petik hingga akhir masa hidupku

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Dengarlah kau dengar
Selama bumi berputar
Ku tetap milikmu

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Dewi bukalah ke dua matamu
Pandanglah ruang di hatiku
Dewi berikan nafasmu untukku
Agar ku hidup bersamamu.. bersamamu terus bersamamu

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Bersamamu terus bersamamu 2x

I have wanted to do all these things, but it seems that I have been delaying it for some years now. Not that I don’t want to do it, but something else is always in the way (yeah, right!). Things like:

• Converting all my old cassette tapes (still remember that?) into digital format (if possible, lossless MP3). And also converting all my movies in video tapes (VHS) into DVDs;
• Converting all the music in my MiniDiscs to MP3s;
• Changing my trusty CRT-based 29″ TV to the latest 42″ LED LCD TV (this will cost me a lot of money!);
• Using all the functions in my BlackBerry;
• Backing up all my digital photos (they’re everywhere!);
• Scanning all my paper-based photographs (some of ‘em are very old and reddish) into JPEG and so some photo cleaning;
• Thinking of installing a digital doorbell (with the one-way camera) at my front door (so that I don’t have to open the door to see who’s coming);
• Installing a DVD player in my car (long journeys are sooooo boring nowadays);
• Getting a higher capacity removable drive, so that I can put all my MP3s and MP4 movies in one place.

Well, I might do the ones that require the least amount of money, as I’m terribly skint now.

Wright-Phillips and Mascherano

Liverpool played a very uninspiring game today at Eastlands. Six yellow cards were given to Liverpool and was lucky to get away with a point, as Man City played an attacking game. If not for Liverpool’s defenders, the score would be different now.

Liverpool players are at fault today. They are slow in chasing loose balls (passing is almost a lost art) and quite a high number of lost possessions.

• Torres is fielded in the 75th minutes, but can barely make any difference. He looks slow and probably only 80% fit;
• Lucas is not himself today;
• Gerrard is slow;
• Babel is Babel (time to sell him);
• Skrtel is at his best;
• Benayoun is not fully fit yet.

It looks difficult to get to the 4th spot, let alone maintaining it.

Highlights of the game here.