Haaaaaa! I finally can say that I have watched an English premiership team in live, not very up close and rather impersonal, but it was Chelsea FC vs Malaysia XI live, and I was in the flesh! All thanks to Heineken for sponsoring the tickets via the little contest I ran on this blog(results here).

Audrey, Ringo, Wenqi, and Yours Truly

Well, we reached the stadium just as the game gets started. The atmosphere outside the stadium itself was already very exciting, with loud cheering sound coming from within the huge structure. We had a bit of a delay (an entire half actually) as some of us had to collect tickets from the super patient yee hou who was running around outside the stadium. It took that long mainly thanks to the total collapse of Maxis’ network under the huge load. SMS took over 15-20 minutes to get through, and I had zero luck trying to put a call through after trying for at least 50 times!

Michael Yip was wearing an MU jersey hmph!

But the important thing was we got in eventually. The stadium was pretty packed at the section we were in, sea of blue with almost no one wearing a Malaysian jersey. I put on my one and only national football jersey albeit from a different country (but hey, Vietnam is in ASEAN as well, so..)

The game itself was pretty interesting, and we certainly enjoyed ourselves. Our boys did pretty decent (losing 0-2) and fared better than the other two teams that went up against Chelsea in their Asia Tour. The Star did a much better review of the game which I’m not going to repeat.

Eri, Kenny, Audrey, Cindy, Ringo, Tim, Wenqi, KY, Icq

After the game we proceed to have a post-game gossip at McD in Subang. However, most of the gossips did not revolve around football at all. It was already past midnight when we called it a night.

Tags:  audrey,  cheesie,  chelsea,  cindy,  football,  kennysia,  tim,  wenqi

Posted by KY | 30 Comments »

Ladies and gentlemen, here are the winners for Chelsea vs Malaysia tickets sponsored by Heineken! Since there are five participants altogether, we can just skip the whole voting process and I’ll award each person a ticket to the event. Congratulations!

The contest was previously posted here. I will contact you (the winner) when I found out how to collect the winning tickets. For now, please pray hard for the local players! Must support Malaysia too ok!

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Entry #1: a poem by YngLyn (the only person I know whose name doesn’t have a vowel)

Although I want to watch Chelsea for Free
I actually hope they drown in pee
Thats because I am a big Gunner frenzy
But I am malaysian, hence more greedy than Thee.

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Entry #2: photo by Tocklet

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Entry #3: A post by XimpliXity. Read it here. Very hardworking ok!

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Entry #4: Shiang with this concoction, pak leong kam!

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Entry #5: Yap Thomas with this overly long poem (kinda like his body length)

Nuffnangers are lucky lots..
Because they get to win free tickets..
To go watch the up and coming hottest game in town..
Its Malaysia VS Chelsea at Shah Alam Stadium..

Thank you everyone for reading,
This has to be the lousiest poem ever written,
But, it is all for the pleasure for winning a ticket,
Chelvea Vs Malaysia match ticket it is…

Match time is 8:45pm 29/7/08, see you guys at Shah Alam Stadium, go Malaysia!

Tags:  chelsea,  contest,  heineken,  lunch money

Posted by KY | 35 Comments »

Question: How many football teams has the same name with an ex-US president’s daughter, rhymes with Cheesie, and a theme song that doesn’t bore a 10 year old?

Answer: One. Chelsea Chelsea!

Yes, I am not ashamed to say that I have been secretly wishing them to do well in the footballing world even before the ex manager Murinho propelled the team into a household name (we can just skip the whole Avant Grant era). I mean, this was the team of perpetual underdog among the bigger clubs in the premier league that had been trying so hard to get noticed until just a few years ago.

Lest I bore you with my geekness in football, the important bit is: Chelsea is coming to town to play against an all-star Malaysian team (fingers crossed), and Heineken gives me 5 tickets to be given away for you to attend this event and be a part of the Chelsea Asia Tour 2008.

The event falls on the 29th of July at 8:45pm, Shah Alam Stadium . There will also be an exclusive hospitality tent (Heineken House) where only invited people can hang out and have Heineken on the house. It isn’t very often that you get to watch a ballgame with a cold one in this part of the world.

One of my favorite beers with one of my favorite teams of any sports, I can’t wait.

So, to get your hands on a ticket, I want you to squeeze some creative juice and come submit a piece of your creative work (be it a drawing, photoshopped art, photo, or poem) to me. For graphics, it should be around 400 x 300 pixel, and poem (if anyone is crazy to do that) less than 100 words. The graphics & other creative word must have Chelsea FC and Heineken in it.

Submit it by emailing to ky[at]kyspeaks.com before midnight of 21/7/2008, I will publish your work in the next week and winners will be chosen by votes. You can have more than one submission, and each submission will have a chance to win you a ticket. So get it rolling already!

For graphic entries, you might want to draw your inspiration from the previous competition ran on this blog.

Good luck folks, and I will see you there!

Tags:  chelsea,  contest,  heineken,  lunch money

Posted by KY | 28 Comments »