Those who hate England Team don't know much about football, or sports anyway.

First of all, I pity them. They were humiliated by 1-4 lost.

Last night, my Facebook's News Feed were flooded by status like "England boleh blah!", "Apa Beckham tu buat kat situ???? Jadi maskot England.", "Maybe in their next life.", "Suckkkkk it England!", "What's the difference between England and a tea bag? The tea bag stays in the cup longer.", and more and more of it.

Some compared the England team to the fighting spirit of the Korean team despite their loss.

Some even said that Australia was better than England. Even they lost the same amount, they played 10-men (Tim Cahill was sent off).

What else? Oh, hear this, "Even if that goal counts, England would've still lost anyway." Really?

As if it was some kind of "I'm really happy now we have finally send all the bloody terrorists into the grave. The world is FREE-TERRORIST." kind of joy. Kind of shocking to see the celebration.

You see, first of all, I agree, the defense line was POOR. John Terry should've been shot to death for his off-position and slow reactions throughout the game. Just watch all the four goals and look where he was. Yes you can blame Gareth Barry, Matthew Upson or the rest of the lads, but he is a SENIOR player, was once the Captain, until he couldn't keep his dick in his pants and went for his ex-teammate's ex-girlfriend. That's what happened to him. His reputation is tarnished, so is his playing ability, in football I mean. Yeah same goes to you Ashley Cole!

Wayne Rooney? God, he tried. Lionel Messi tried too. Still no goal.

But just before that, last week, when Germany lost to Serbia, nobody said bad thing about them. What I heard was "Klose was not supposed to be sent off.", or "They played 10-men, should give some credits to Germany.", or anything along the line. When Germany lost, we should excuse them.

At least England didn't lose any group matches.

Last night, Frank Lampard's goal was WRITTEN OFF. It was a clear cut case, not like some kind of 50/50 decision. What would happen IF the goal was allowed? By right it should be 2-2. So there's a fair chance for England to keep their spirit high.

What happened when the goal was not counted? Germany had tremendous moral boost at half time. It gave them the advantage to start the second half with one goal in front. Same goes to the statistic that Barcelona FC never lose a game if they lead at half time. See what I mean? Solid ground to start for second half, a change of tactics, more defensive strategies, delaying game, and lastly, quick opportunity for counter attack.

For those who never played any kind of competitive sports, you have no idea.

Just what happen to good sportsmanship? I didn't know we should cheer-slash-attack the losing team. Shouldn't we just praise the winning team instead?

"Possession is calculated by telling the amount of time a team wins possessions to when a member of the opposition team finally gets to touch the ball."

Source: Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Yeah how could a team who had 55% possession played terribly? That means Germany who had only 45% possession won the game by just doing few counter attacks, didn't they?

Does this mean they played a more defensive strategy? Or they couldn't hold the ball for too long?

Whatever it is, I thought the Germans were effective. They snatched the opportunities laid in front of their feet.

England could've played better. I thought they were okay, they had few good chances, if not for the poor performance by the back lines. But under a few, no, under ONE circumstance which I believe everyone is familiar with, denied their fair chance to fight harder.

"They are world class players, and their league is dubbed 'the best league in the world', they should have bounced back. No excuse." I'm sure many people would say something like this.

I'm not a strong fan of England, but since I watch EPL and the players most of the time, I kinda like the team. I will not pretend that I hate them whatsoever. I think it's not their fault everyone thinks they are the best team in the world. The media made them look that way.

They are at #8 in the rankings. Spain lost to Switzerland. Italy failed to make the last 16 cut, even though they are the defending champion. France were the 2006 runner-up, and they ended last in their group stage!

I seriously think this is just shallow hatred towards the English football. It's like you see ABU (Anything But United) people, they hate for no reason.

It's football. And we always use this phrase "bola itu bulat" but still, we use only when we see fit.

Again, for those who never played any kind of competitive sports at a very high level, you have no idea.

If Malaysia qualify for World Cup

Shit, I'm still thinking.

The Unsung Battle of Pop Producers

Now before I start my attempt to answer Budak Nakal's questions from his post 'pray', I'd like to post this topic on mainstream music.

I've always considered myself a leftist when it comes to music appreciation. During the nu-wave metal age of '96-'00 I have distanced myself away from our local radio due to excessive plays of pointless r&b and siti-ish ballads. Although tiring efforts were put in downloading mp3s using a super-slow tmnet dial-up account and buying cassetes from campbell shopping complex via LRT, I still refused to enjoy mainstream music which in my opinion at that time was diminishing creativity and redundantly ugly. I can easily compare its rate of progression to Malaysia's plan to enter the World Cup.. yikes!

Now my interest in music explored from genre to genre which led to my curious exploration of music production. In this field, the sky is the limit to their achievements. Silver, gold, platinum, and multi-platinum records are the benchmarks for music producers. To get to this stage, they MUST hit the mainstream with many many big hits. Behind the volumes of top charting artists, their fashion sense, and the paparazzi infused tabloids lies creative music producers who plays an instrumental role in bringing these artists to fame.

The likes of Dr. Dre, Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes, Kanye West, will.i.am, Timbaland, and Wyclef Jean dominated the '00-'10 decade with countless contributions of producing innovative hip-hop and r&b tracks. The style of the genre changed and left us with fewer depressing tunes on the radio.

Now the battle is set at center stage. Do you recall debut tracks from Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, 3OH!3, and even Miley Cyrus? Have you ever thought how these tracks sound good enough to compete with other chart-topping hits? Below are list of producers behind those songs repeated heavily on the radio. If you jumble their respective material together you will realize that these guys are good. They're creative individuals unsung from the nature of their profession but are raking in millions from every airplay!

Benny Blanco vs RedOne vs Dr Luke

Dr Luke produced Britney Spears's Circus, Miley Cyrus's Party in the USA, Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment and Ke$ha's Tik Tok to name a few. He started off in the entertainment scene as a guitarist for Saturday Night Live in 1997.

RedOne (real name Nadir Khayat) produced many tracks for Mika, Usher, Enrique Iglesias as well as Lady Gaga's Just Dance, Poker Face, and Bad Romance which was named as one of the biggest hits in the past decade. He was dubbed to be responsible for Lady Gaga's futuristic sounds.

Last but not least is my favourite Mr. Benny Blanco. This dude is only 22 years old and has already produced numerous tracks for Katy Perry, 3OH!3, Taoi Cruz, Ke$ha, Flo Rida and even Justin Beiber! Discovered by Spank Rock and encountered frequent collaborations with Dr Luke, Benny Blanco has a dozen of remixes only available online and also a myspace account with only 8000+ friends. The thing I respect about his work is his ability to cultivate Crunkcore in the mainstream. Check out his interview.

Benny Blanco Interview with Kiwibox.com

It'll be interesting to see how far this kid can go. What I would like to see happen in the future are more attention given to credible, talented producers such as Santogold, Amanda Blank, Jai Pol, M.I.A. I'm glad to see electro music producers like LMFAO, Justice, Steve Aoki, and surfacing and experimenting with different genres.

This fascinating evolution of pop music has now opened doors to deserving, creative, and talented individuals and will continue to do so to entertain the world and not just singers with face value. Major record labels will of course pursue the same producers for the same artists who occupy the same radio stations as an approach to reduce risk. The same goes for their approach in inserting sex in music videos to make sure they hit a certain target. These shallow methods of business can bring doom to new sounds. However with anticipation of newer sounds and more attention towards youthful producers who bring fresh tunes on air, the depletion of charismatic compositions are no longer a worry and will diminish the threats of greedy corporate empires by fine-tuning the market and complying to the demands of every party.

~ k i d k a p i t a l ~

Anti-Israel rally

Last Saturday, a few of us went for something rather interesting. My boss asked us to join him for an Anti-Israel rally at Bukit Jalil. The main highlight is when the Prime Minister of Malaysia arrives and all of us will make noise and shout and whatever act necessary to attract Prime Minister's attention towards this unlawful, arrogant, inhumane acts by the Israel government.

Little did we know, it was actually a programme oraganised by PemudaBN, under its leader MP Khairy Jamaluddin.

Masuk jerat. Damnit.

Anyway, we decided that our objective was to join the Anti-Israel rally regardless of who's in charge or who's organising the whole thing.

Some pictures:

And I managed to record part of the singing of our National Anthem, Negaraku. It was a nice feeling to sing it again, with the rest of the crowds. But, this video comes with a 'bonus track'. Play the video and check it out. He he he.

Did we achieved our objective, our target, our expectation? We don't know for sure. But what do we know is that, we keep on TRYING.

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Pray.

In response to KidKapital's entry a few days ago, I got myself thinking:

1. We saw what happened to the voluntary effort by Free Gaza, that got raided by Israeli Army. I don't think I should report on that, as they're hundreds and thousands of reports on that. Just use a thing called Google.

2. What I want to talk about is that, what is the actual problem? How did the war in Palestine broke out? Why did it happened? What were these Israelis and the Palestinians fight over or fight about?

3. Was it because of the land? Or was it because of contradicting beliefs? Or was it just because of sore pride? Or maybe greed?

4. I thought one of the main reason is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is said to be the holy land to both Muslims and Jewish.

5. We'll discuss #4 in the later entry.

6. Now, what can we, the citizens of the world, do about this? Protesters burn the Zionist flags, spit on it, step, pee, poo, every disgusting and extremely insulting gestures possible. Writers write in newspapers and blogs, politicians condemn on the national televisions, lawyers send memorandums to condemn this inhumane oppression, and those who can't fit in those areas protest on the federal streets in cities around the world.

7. Then what? Nothing's changed. These arrogant Israel armies have no intention to stop anyway. They've been condemned for so long, yet they were never weakened by it. They seemed to be more powerful than ever, it's like they feed themselves on it.

8. But what about the rest, the people who are on the same page as the other civilised people who condemn the Israel occupation, who believe that these Israelis are nothing but to be condemned for as long as they live, BUT, they stay at home, and did nothing in the #6?

9. I confess, I am one of the #8. Where does this confession put me into? An ignorant? An arrogant? A naysayer? A tyrant? A weak?

10. Why do we need faith? Why do we need to have faith in us? What can we do?

"When there's nothing else can be done, we still can PRAY."
- BudakNakal

Haneen Zuabi: World's Most Heroic Individual is a Woman

Play this video while you read this article.

Ok... None of us understand Hebrew, but the commotion must've triggered a lot of questions.

Haneen Zuabi who is an Arab Palestinian woman is a member of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.

She was on board the Gaza aid flotilla (Mavi Marmara) that was raided by the Israeli Defense Force a few days ago. She was released due to her political immunity.

As a member of the parliament she stood up to voice her opinion but was interrupted by other Knesset members. "Go to Gaza you traitor!" was repeatedly thrown at her. She held strongly on to the podium but later withdrew for security reasons.

This is my first discovery of an Arab political party in Israel. They champion to recognize Palestinian Arabs in Israel as a minority. The Arabs make up 20% of the total Israeli population. Haneen was the quiet candidate in the party. She entered the Knesset as Balad's 3rd representative.

A lawmaker who stands firmly against Israel's occupation of Palestine, Haneen joined other activists in the flotilla after disappointing attempts to convince other Knesset members to aid the oppressed state.

It was reported the Haneen shed a tear when exiting the parliament.

Haneen.... the world is behind you.

~ k i d k a p i t a l ~

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Mari Join Ana is where you amplify your thoughts into text. Where experience is shared to unify humankind's journey towards greatness. Here, you witness how mysteries are uncovered with questions people neglect.

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Hail Hayley!

I rather not post it directly, since this is not an adult blog. But just check the link out, it's glorious...

Hail Hayley! Hail Hayley! Hail Hayley!