Oh well, it's just a figure. Just hoping for a peaceful and healthy year ahead. Huat a!
Friday, February 17, 2012
I am old(Er)!
Happy birthday to...., ME! Shit, time flies. I'm already this old:
Oh well, it's just a figure. Just hoping for a peaceful and healthy year ahead. Huat a!
Oh well, it's just a figure. Just hoping for a peaceful and healthy year ahead. Huat a!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Photos of my Precious
Oh forgot to add my flikr link here. Can check out latest pics of my jerseys here. I will update the photos even if I do not have time to blog them:)
Cheers!
Cheers!
MyBeloved Malaysia
Wow, its been really a long time since my last post. Guess what, its been almost half a year since I joined the LYN forum, and boy oh boy it has really been a revelation and eye opener. I have since reignited my passion for collecting jerseys and will try as best as I can to update this blog more often, sharing stories and hauls and I will also link as many information as I can obtain from the LowYat Net taikors.
For this entry, just wanna share a few of my Malaysia kits. Yes I do support my country (contrary to what others may think). I am by them through good and bad times. Of course I would not hesitate to critisize them if they perform badly, but that is also done with the genuine intention that they learn from their mistake. I wont say I am a passionate fan, but at least I care for my country.
I cant recall exactly when I bought my first Malaysia kit. But it must have been a very long time ago. Malaysia had been sponsored by Adidas for like eternity before finally switching to Nike last year when Nike sponsored the four host nations of the 2007 Asian Cup (the others being Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam). The few kits I have are:-
For this entry, just wanna share a few of my Malaysia kits. Yes I do support my country (contrary to what others may think). I am by them through good and bad times. Of course I would not hesitate to critisize them if they perform badly, but that is also done with the genuine intention that they learn from their mistake. I wont say I am a passionate fan, but at least I care for my country.
I cant recall exactly when I bought my first Malaysia kit. But it must have been a very long time ago. Malaysia had been sponsored by Adidas for like eternity before finally switching to Nike last year when Nike sponsored the four host nations of the 2007 Asian Cup (the others being Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam). The few kits I have are:-
Malaysia Supporters kit 2007 to commemorate 50 years of Merdeka (Independance)
Am looking to enchance my kits. Oh, I have a cap too :) Will post pics of it later.
I prefer the Adidas kits as I think their simple design captures the colours of the Malaysian team very nicely indeed. The cutting is generous as well, suitable for big sized guys like me. I bought the Nike XL, and cant really fit into it. It has been loaned out to my brother since.
Since I am on the topic of the Malaysian team, I should also share few of my local team jerseys. These are hard to get. I think Perak and Selangor kits are more accessible as Joma has opened a boutique at Pertama Complex (and Ipoh I heard) and Selangor kits ever since they were sponsored by Adidas has been sold at Adidas outlets nationwide. But these kits are normally sold without the sponsor tags (the Old DUNHILL or the latest TM tags) and patches, and it wasnt until very recently that I found out that Q-Line has them, and at really cheap prices. So thats a good spot to get local kits if you are interested.
Anyway, the pics:-
Negeri Sembilan
Pahang
Perlis
Perak
Terengganu
Those interested to learn more about the Malaysian Super League can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Super_League and read up.
Stay tuned - I will definitely be adding to my collection of local kits!
Monday, September 10, 2007
My Favourite National Team - Argentina!
Thought I'd share some of the collections from my favourite national team. Nope, sad to say its not Malaysia - they come a close second. Not that I am not patriotic or anything - I was a keen follower of Malaysian football before ASTRO invaded our homes and introduced us to the new religion of EPL. Its just that the impact that the Football God had on me was so great that His country had to come first.
I remember my first Argie jersey was the Reebok Home shirt - 1997 if I am not mistaken. I remember getting it from ALI at BB. There is a sad twist to this. I asked ALI to fixe NN for MARADONA 10 and when I came back to collect it, to my horror only MARADONA was printed...I was told that they ran out of the number "1"!! Sigh I didnt want to make a fuss out of it, so just took it off without thinking much...after almost 10 years, the jersey is still the way it looks...haha....i don think they have the same font anymore. The back of the shirt is not shown here..too painful a memory...
Besides that, I have bought another few others. I am surprised at myself that I didnt buy more of their other jerseys. The other few I have include the Reebok Away with MARADONA 10 and the 2006 Home with MESSI 19. Yes, the "A" in the Maradona dropped...gonna get it fixed soon.
Since I am on the topic of Argentina, might as well share my other related jerseys which includes (yes another) MRADONA 10 Boca Juniors Centennary jersey and MARADONA 10 testimonial replica jersey. These were my first purchase from Subside and I wasn really impressed with the speed of delivery. Less then the promised 10 days. But delivery costs was real high I remember. So uless you buy in bulk, this may not be a good site to buy (cos Malaysia is not one of the priority delivery coun tries, the price is not fixed - can go as high as GBP30!).
Finally, thought should share this as well. This was my first fake:) Bought it in Wangsa Maju. Looks nice but not nice to wear at all. It was an easy decision to stick with Oris after that. :)
If you are interested to read more on Argentinian football, please visit here and here. And do check out God's website as well :)
I may dedicate a post to him later. Will dig through to see if I can find some clips to share.
I remember my first Argie jersey was the Reebok Home shirt - 1997 if I am not mistaken. I remember getting it from ALI at BB. There is a sad twist to this. I asked ALI to fixe NN for MARADONA 10 and when I came back to collect it, to my horror only MARADONA was printed...I was told that they ran out of the number "1"!! Sigh I didnt want to make a fuss out of it, so just took it off without thinking much...after almost 10 years, the jersey is still the way it looks...haha....i don think they have the same font anymore. The back of the shirt is not shown here..too painful a memory...
Besides that, I have bought another few others. I am surprised at myself that I didnt buy more of their other jerseys. The other few I have include the Reebok Away with MARADONA 10 and the 2006 Home with MESSI 19. Yes, the "A" in the Maradona dropped...gonna get it fixed soon.
Since I am on the topic of Argentina, might as well share my other related jerseys which includes (yes another) MRADONA 10 Boca Juniors Centennary jersey and MARADONA 10 testimonial replica jersey. These were my first purchase from Subside and I wasn really impressed with the speed of delivery. Less then the promised 10 days. But delivery costs was real high I remember. So uless you buy in bulk, this may not be a good site to buy (cos Malaysia is not one of the priority delivery coun tries, the price is not fixed - can go as high as GBP30!).
Finally, thought should share this as well. This was my first fake:) Bought it in Wangsa Maju. Looks nice but not nice to wear at all. It was an easy decision to stick with Oris after that. :)
If you are interested to read more on Argentinian football, please visit here and here. And do check out God's website as well :)
I may dedicate a post to him later. Will dig through to see if I can find some clips to share.
Friday, September 7, 2007
How it all started...
Maybe I should start at the very beginning.
If my memory serves me right (some people claim I have a tendency to imagine stuffs hmm) I was exposed to the Beutiful Game at a tender age of 7. The time was 1986. The whole world was watching this little Argentine wizard single-handedly destroy every challenger that stands between him and ultimate glory - the World Cup 1986. I remember being in Kelantan (Pasir Mas to be precise) in the living room of my grandma's place. All the relatives were crowded in front of the small tv shouting and screaming at it. No one would tell me anything as they were all obsessed with that "thing" they were watching. Out of curiosity (and boredom) I decided to just sit down and watch and find out what the hell is it that is keeping dad away from his Chinese Wu Xia novels, cousin Ah Yao from his football practice and 2nd Uncle away from his favourite mamak stall nearby.
Although I didnt understand the game then, but I remember clearly the vision of this stout stocky fella in dark blue strips and black shorts with a funny hairstyle (I didnt know of the Alleycats back then) running around other white fellas. I could have been forgiven to think that that was a game of catch-me-if-you-can. But even though i didnt really understand the game, I was somehow glued to this fella. Watching him made me feel good.
Later the next day, cousin Ah Yao brought me to the filed near his place and I was taught how to play this football game. Wow and I never looked back.
Though I never manage to emulate Soh Chin Aun and played for the country, I was hoever forever hooked to this beautiful game. Being in a chinese school, it wasnt easy to get a game back when I was in primary. Everyone else was playing basketball. But that didnt stop me. I used to play by myself, kicking the ball onto an empty wall and testing my reflexes in controlling the rebounding ball. This was a very good excercise. My touch improved and of cos my reflexes and football instincts as well. I would be able to gauge where the ball would end up if it was hit with a certain speed from a certain angle.
During secondary school, it was pretty much the same problem for the first 2 years. It was only in Form 3 ie during Euro 96 that I managed to pursuade some friends into playing. Hard time converting them from basketball:P But partly due to the Euro96 fever they got hooked as well very quickly. By the end of Form 4 we had our very own team (Taman MEgah FC we call it..thats where we played). Eventually we decided to get our own jerseys so that we would be able to distinguish teammates when playing others (our main rival then was the SM Tmn SEA team). So off we went to Asia Jaya one fine day. Yes there was this sports shop in Asia Jaya back then on the 3rd Floor. Cant remember the name. All I know is that it shifted to Amcorp Mall in 1998 and closed down sometime in 2002.
Anyway after browsing through the available selections at the shop, we all made our choice based on what all schoolgoers' main concerns were back then (and even now i should say) - $$$$. The branded ones were way off our league then. So we got this Line7 jersey instead:-
How much u asked? RM28.00 per piece. Including the numbering (stitched). I must say it was quite a good buy. I actually liked the stringed collar. Not common on jerseys nowadays. But back then I recall MU had one away jersey (green and yellow) with a similar collar.
And of cos you guys may have guessed why I took No. 10 la. :) Lets see if I can recall the players and their respective numbers in the "original" Taman Megah team:P
4. Hang Wu
6. Wye Luon
7. Ng Boon Yeaw
8. Ang Boon Yaw
9. Yee Siang
10. Mua
11. Onn Wei
12. Wen Feng
15. Jason
17. Michael
18. Buy Siang Pin
19. Jia Wan
23. Chin Weng Hong
Hope I didnt left anyone out...
This jersey served us faithfully for bout 2 years. Oh btw the "original" team was made up of mostly classmates and schoolmates from secondary school. After graduation, there was some changes in membership of the players..some went overseas, some shifted etc.. but those who stayed behind kept playing. We thought that we deserved a 2nd jersey and so we went to the same shop again. This time it had shifted. Again most of us were $$$-concious so we again opted for the cheaper Line7 jersey. This time we thought we will just stick to a conventional jersey. Picked red and black mainly cos I like striped jerseys:P
I thought it looked nice. I looked like Van Basten in Milan's jersey muahahah....
Anyway after that we didnt get any new jerseys.....our team has shrunk to a meager 12 members now..we struglle to get enough players for our weekly Sunday futsal games now. Anyone interested to join do let me know k? haha...
Ok thats wnough for the day...gonna share this jersey I wore for my School Prefect Team as well since it was from the "same era"...
cheers!
If my memory serves me right (some people claim I have a tendency to imagine stuffs hmm) I was exposed to the Beutiful Game at a tender age of 7. The time was 1986. The whole world was watching this little Argentine wizard single-handedly destroy every challenger that stands between him and ultimate glory - the World Cup 1986. I remember being in Kelantan (Pasir Mas to be precise) in the living room of my grandma's place. All the relatives were crowded in front of the small tv shouting and screaming at it. No one would tell me anything as they were all obsessed with that "thing" they were watching. Out of curiosity (and boredom) I decided to just sit down and watch and find out what the hell is it that is keeping dad away from his Chinese Wu Xia novels, cousin Ah Yao from his football practice and 2nd Uncle away from his favourite mamak stall nearby.
Although I didnt understand the game then, but I remember clearly the vision of this stout stocky fella in dark blue strips and black shorts with a funny hairstyle (I didnt know of the Alleycats back then) running around other white fellas. I could have been forgiven to think that that was a game of catch-me-if-you-can. But even though i didnt really understand the game, I was somehow glued to this fella. Watching him made me feel good.
Later the next day, cousin Ah Yao brought me to the filed near his place and I was taught how to play this football game. Wow and I never looked back.
Though I never manage to emulate Soh Chin Aun and played for the country, I was hoever forever hooked to this beautiful game. Being in a chinese school, it wasnt easy to get a game back when I was in primary. Everyone else was playing basketball. But that didnt stop me. I used to play by myself, kicking the ball onto an empty wall and testing my reflexes in controlling the rebounding ball. This was a very good excercise. My touch improved and of cos my reflexes and football instincts as well. I would be able to gauge where the ball would end up if it was hit with a certain speed from a certain angle.
During secondary school, it was pretty much the same problem for the first 2 years. It was only in Form 3 ie during Euro 96 that I managed to pursuade some friends into playing. Hard time converting them from basketball:P But partly due to the Euro96 fever they got hooked as well very quickly. By the end of Form 4 we had our very own team (Taman MEgah FC we call it..thats where we played). Eventually we decided to get our own jerseys so that we would be able to distinguish teammates when playing others (our main rival then was the SM Tmn SEA team). So off we went to Asia Jaya one fine day. Yes there was this sports shop in Asia Jaya back then on the 3rd Floor. Cant remember the name. All I know is that it shifted to Amcorp Mall in 1998 and closed down sometime in 2002.
Anyway after browsing through the available selections at the shop, we all made our choice based on what all schoolgoers' main concerns were back then (and even now i should say) - $$$$. The branded ones were way off our league then. So we got this Line7 jersey instead:-
How much u asked? RM28.00 per piece. Including the numbering (stitched). I must say it was quite a good buy. I actually liked the stringed collar. Not common on jerseys nowadays. But back then I recall MU had one away jersey (green and yellow) with a similar collar.
And of cos you guys may have guessed why I took No. 10 la. :) Lets see if I can recall the players and their respective numbers in the "original" Taman Megah team:P
4. Hang Wu
6. Wye Luon
7. Ng Boon Yeaw
8. Ang Boon Yaw
9. Yee Siang
10. Mua
11. Onn Wei
12. Wen Feng
15. Jason
17. Michael
18. Buy Siang Pin
19. Jia Wan
23. Chin Weng Hong
Hope I didnt left anyone out...
This jersey served us faithfully for bout 2 years. Oh btw the "original" team was made up of mostly classmates and schoolmates from secondary school. After graduation, there was some changes in membership of the players..some went overseas, some shifted etc.. but those who stayed behind kept playing. We thought that we deserved a 2nd jersey and so we went to the same shop again. This time it had shifted. Again most of us were $$$-concious so we again opted for the cheaper Line7 jersey. This time we thought we will just stick to a conventional jersey. Picked red and black mainly cos I like striped jerseys:P
I thought it looked nice. I looked like Van Basten in Milan's jersey muahahah....
Anyway after that we didnt get any new jerseys.....our team has shrunk to a meager 12 members now..we struglle to get enough players for our weekly Sunday futsal games now. Anyone interested to join do let me know k? haha...
Ok thats wnough for the day...gonna share this jersey I wore for my School Prefect Team as well since it was from the "same era"...
cheers!
First Post!
Inspired by AW13 and Schmeichel17 from the Lowyat.net forum jersey thread, I now wanna start my own football jersey blog to display my precious babies and share them with all. I will try to put in some brief description and explanation if I can still recall them.
Pelase stay tuned k! haha...
Hm how should I categorize the jerseys...by countries? by date of purchase? by price? hmmm
Suggestions are welcome :)
Pelase stay tuned k! haha...
Hm how should I categorize the jerseys...by countries? by date of purchase? by price? hmmm
Suggestions are welcome :)
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