Proton and Lotus Dispute

Recently Proton has been barking about the use of Lotus brand name in the Formula 1. After invested some stakes in the Renault F1 team, it will be Lotus Renault F1 team next year, and there will be another similar F1 team branding the same - Lotus F1 Team. Proton is claiming they are the true and only Lotus team on the circuit because they own Lotus.

I am wondering is it really matter if Proton owns Lotus so the name can't be use on other team? What has Proton contributed in Lotus F1 team all these while, when everyone in the factory is working day and night just to keep the team running on the circuit.

To me this is something when someone is claiming for the fame and credit while doing nothing at all. All this while Proton only know how to put on a Lotus sticker on their car so public will have a wrong concept of Proton cars, which unfortunately didn't materialise because those with little brain will know Proton is nothing good except just pick up some small little untested gadget installing into their cars, then claiming they found new technology.

If not mistaken Proton has nothing to do with Lotus F1 team at all, except they owned up Lotus. So in order to barking around, why don't just put their effort into how and where to korek more money from their parent company - Malaysia Government

Proton Inspira

Has anyone seen the new Proton Inspira? When I first see it, it makes me laugh, and then comes to my mind that: What the heck?

Proton has been widely published their new "Product" - Proton Inspira, which at first look, make me think "Have I seen it somewhere?" Then straight I think of Mitsubishi Lancer, the latest model.

Proton keep claiming they have new product, and have their own research team to develop new cars, but by the look at this, and also the previous claimed of Lotus technology so and so off, I think Proton is still the same old Proton. They will never make forward move nor will they have their own research team.

Oh ya, their so call research team is to research where have the best fierce looking car, and where they can get the cheapest unwanted engines, and then making use of the Lotus name, combine everything into one, and that's how their "new product" comes out as a whole.

Looking at the accidents happened on the road nowadays, I dare to say that majority of the accidents involving Protons. Not to say they are poor, but relatively whenever accident happened, more than half involved protons because simply they do not have enough expertise in this field, and they do not know where and how to make a safer cars. Their new products are always those already outdated or unwanted by others, and they took over and joint then into one and put it onto the road. With this do you expect them to increase their publicity and improve their safety?

Proton has been in car industries for 25 yrs, but their attitude and management still remains the same as 25 yrs ago, and there isn't any improvement, but is lagging behind all its competitors day by day. Let alone those giant car makers like Honda, Toyota, Merc, BMW, AUDI etc, I believe Proton nowadays can't even competing with Cherry and Tata. These two "minor" car makers already overtook Proton and lead them by miles, eventhough they've been in the car market for a reletively short time as compare to Proton.

Why? It's because the attitude, not competent enough. Proton until today still rely on the government's policy protection and other R&R imposed on foreign cars, but for how long the stupid government can save proton from its extinction?

To be honest, whenever I go overseas, when people asked me about Proton, I will just smile at them and shrugg my shoulders and walk off, simply because Proton is the Malaysia Hall of Shames!

100-Story Landmark in KL

During the recent Budget 2011 Announcement by Najib Razak, he mentioned there will be a fund of RM5bil for a skyscrapper next to Merdeka Stadium. When heard about this, first thought is why would we need another skyscrapper? Isn't there enough buildings and offices around KL centre already? Who will fund this project? Where will the money comes from?

Afterall, it looks like they are trying to build a new landmark for the sake of the name. I can't think of anything better than this because there are already overleft office space in KL, and moreover building such tall building will only add burden to the people, not government because it comes from our tax paying money.

Recently Tun Dr Mahathir always having a dig at Najib's policies, and suddenly he apraise him with this proposal, simply because this at least continue his trend of making something "extraordinary" to let the world remember "Malaysia". When Petronas Twin Tower and KL Tower being built, it's one of the world tallest building, and with this 100-Story building, surely it will goes into another record of few 100+ story building in the world.

Maybe Najib is trying to pleased TDM not to criticising him further, and make peace with this old man, and also to satisfy his predecesor's wish to build the tallest building in the world bar Burj Khalifah. With this building it will be No.2 in the world because it's simply impossible to surpass Burj Khalifah.

When said this building will create more job opportunity is a lie, and everyone knows jobs will be created when you have foreign investors coming, or international company setting up their base here. With such building without tenants is useless, and jobs will not be created without tenants. Maybe what Najib meant job created are those cleaners for the empty building.

Foreign investors already left our country more than 80%, and who else will come back in when the government policy is at such unfair and non-transparent state? There has not been any effort to try to limit this damage, whereas it's getting worse. I believe most of local businessmen will not spend such huge amount of money in moving into such expensive place, and only the few listed company would, and that no new company will wanted to move into this new skyscrapper, so I don't see any job opportunity created here.

Afterall, it's just a plan, and I sincerely hope this plan will just be a plan without action. Otherwise I will reconsider how much tax I need to pay for the next 5 yrs to "fund" this project.

Wayne Rooney Saga

What's going on with Manchester United recently? They seems can't win on the road, and last week they only drew at home with West Bromwich Albion at home after howler from Edwin Van Der Saar. This week headlines all focused on Wayne Rooney wanting to move away from Man Utd because of their lack of ambitions...

First I would like to say is Man Utd isn't a club of investing big every season to win silverwares, and they only invest on big players on and off, and when it's needed. Sir Alex Ferguson has been in this position for 24 yrs and he knows what he's doing right now. For Wayne Rooney to publicly voiced his opinion and openly stated he wants away, I don't think there will be any way back for him now. "Sortie" awaits him.

After several times in the past SAF proven to us that Man Utd isn't a One Man Team, and they more emphasising on team works. I wonder how many of you still remember what's been said when Becks, Keano and Ruud Van Nistelrooy left the club? Almost everyone saying Man Utd are in the decline, and they'll crumble etc. But it turns out to be 3 seccessive titles, 1 European Cup AKA Champions' League title.

For me as a Man Utd fan, I rather believe in Sir Alex Ferguson than the want-away player. Don't forget that Rooney is just one of the many players at Utd and there still all other players bar Rooney to work for Man Utd week in week out. From the moment Rooney spoke out publicly about Man Utd, he's lost all his teammates' respect regardless of who he is. In Man Utd SAF is the only person with such power to control the operation and team.

Wayne Rooney must has forgotten who's the one stood by him when things went wrong for him, and who's the one guided him all these while to made him who he is today. All in all, if Wayne Rooney feels he's better off somewhere else, then just let him go, and we will just wait to see if he plays better elsewhere and wins more than what he had at Man Utd.

Man Utd will march on forever, with or without Wayne Rooney!

Digging at Lee CW again

It's been quite some times that I'm so busy to write in this blog again, and since I find some free time here, I would like to have a dig at our much published Datuk - Lee Chong Wei

2 weeks ago Lee CW finally beaten Lin Dan to win the super series, and it's his first times in more than a year he beat Lin Dan in a match. However, what happen to Lee Chong Wei when it matter most? Why Lee Chong Wei only can win in those irrelevant tournaments, and yet he can never win in tournaments like World Championship and Olympics?

Yes he may have won All England this year, but that's when his opponent is just a minnow Japanese Kenichi T****. Question now is can ever Lee Chong Wei beat Lin Dan in major tournaments to rectify his claim for WORLD NO. 1?

Many of you out there will not agree with me because a win is a win, and Lee Chong Wei proved he wins more tournaments than Lin Dan, but the reality is Lee Chong Wei stayed World No. 1 because he participated in virtually all tournaments, whereas Lin Dan only play in selected tournaments.

With Lee Chong Wei kind of attitude, I doubt he will ever become legendary like Lin Dan and Taufik. I'm sure people will never remember Lee Chong Wei upon his retirement, whereas people will always mentioning about Taufik Hidayat as the genius player and Lin Dan is the most gifted player in Badminton history.

Lee Chong Wei? He will be best remembered as World No. 1 for whatever reason! That's all

Full of Excuses from Lee CW and Misbun

As expected, Lee Chong Wei cannot progress beyond Q-Finals yet again, and now his excuse for the lost is due to his back spasm.

What the heck! Lost is a lost and if you got injured back, why don't you concede the walkover to Taufik Hidayat? Why put yourself to shame on court to let an Old Man beat you like that?

From the very beginning I already said Lee Chong Wei will never win the World Championship regardless Lin Dan playing or not, and this prove me right again, and there will be more to come I guess.

Why Lee Chong Wei / Misbun Sidek / BAM never learn from their lesson? Why Lee / Misbun only champion in finding excuses when lost? If Malaysia continue to depend on this 2 DATUKs to end Malaysia hope of getting a World Champion, they are bound to get more dissapointment.

I now sincerely hope Koo Kean Kiat / Tan Boon Heong can win the world title for Malaysia and in order to show that overseas coaches are much better than locals when given the free hand to their job.

Rexy Mainarky already expecting his contract not to be renew when the current expires in few months time, and this will be a good opportunity for BAM to see what they will be missing. Malaysia already hired lots of foreign coaches in the past and ALL due to political intervention and some unfair stupid ruling they cannot perform, and since Rexy voiced his anger when not respected, BAM should really think of what they done wrong in the past, or else they will never progress...

Netherland Team Performance In Finals

How would you rate Netherland team performance during the World Cup finals against Spain? Are they playing it fair and square or they are trying a dirty tactics to try out-muscle opponents?

My personal view in this is that Netherland deeply know Spain will use their usual tactic of keeping possession and moving the ball around with fast speed so opponent do not get the ball long enough. Hence the tactic set out is to muscle their way through, and playing it rough with all they could to scare off opponents, and holding off them with whatever way they could to dislodge Spain players from keeping the ball.

From the whistle off, we can see Netherland players is flying in with all sort of tackles, and they will kick anything moving on the pitch except their coach. When they do not get the ball, they will ensure that opponents is sent flying so ball will not be flowing from one to another.

This is that sort of tactics used by Netherland, and they deserved to receive the number of booking they got. Indeed they sould have 3 players sent off during normal time, and they are lucky to remain with 10 players at the end of the game.

Then come the crying baby of Arjen Robben. He's such a wanker around, and he's been trying to get opponent sent off from the very start of the tournament because he's so weak any slight touch on his body will sent him crumbling onto the ground like being shot in the head.

I don't care how people rate him, but to me Arjen Robben is just like Cristiano Ronaldo, a play acting players on the pitch. No doubt they both have good skill under their feet, but they are too often too easily beaten to the ground, and I think Robben should be banned from participating in soccer game for life.

If new technology is introduce into the game, I think players like Robben will be sent off in all games they played for because play-acting should be a red-card offence. I think there's only one respectable player from the Netherland's final squad - Wesley Sneidler

Overall Spain is a worthy winner and more so than Netherland.

Post-World Cup 2010

World Cup 2010 is over, and maybe it's time to analyse a thing or two about it. How do you rate this year's world cup organiser and how's the overall performance of all teams in the tournament? Generally I think world cup is still a world cup. No one can take away its prestige status, but I am a little dissapointed with some performance from teams, players, organiser and FIFA.

First teams are not as strong as we expected them in a tournament of World Cup. There are some team perform well below par, and their sub-standard performance has effectively reduce the excitement of the games itself. Then organiser didn'tput in enough effortin advertising and promoting the tournament as we can see there are lots of empty seats in all the matches. Probably this is due to its country's economic reason.

Then most of the star players performing well below par, and I think this can't be blamed because after a long season in the domestic leagues, they are finally human too. Tiredness has hampered their performance during the tournament since they don't get enough rest in between domestic league and WC. Therefore World Cup tournament is always a place to discover new stars.

Overall I think the world cup really starts from the 2nd round onwards. Teams started to perform to their true strength and unfortunately it's been too late to create the usual havoc from a world cup tournament I think, but still it's a good tournament.

Last but not least, is the performance of referees and officials. There are too many discripancies during the games, and I think FIFA should seriously thinking of introducing new technologies into the games to cut down unnecessary mistake by referees. Afterall referees and officials are human too, and they tends to make more mistake nowadays because of the advance technologies around.

Players nowadays are smarter in using dirty tactics because they deeply know there's no harm in doing so since TV replay will not get them punish during the game. So to win the game they will try whatever tactics to win the match first. If there's any aftermath action, so be it because the game already won and result are not changeable. Referee are under more pressure these days than before too because they only have a pair of eyes, and they can only see one particular spot at a time.

So in order to make football more exciting, and fair, new technology is a must for the game. Just look at other sports like Tennis, Cricket etc, new technologies means to cut down human error. It's time football or soccer game to start using it as well.

Snap Poll Around The Corner

Is it true a snap poll is just aronud the corner? I've been hearing rumous that BN is getting ready for a snap poll and from all actions and activities it's true to some extend. Najib and Muhyiddin and other big shots from government is paying visits around the country, as if there's general election around.

If this is true, what would you think of it? Is it good for the country or BN is again playing it dirty to try gaining the 2/3 majority back from Pakatan Rakyat?

Malaysia-Indonesia Jointly Hosting World Cup 2024

Today's biggest joke I read on newspaper in the morning is that Malaysia has the intention to host the World Cup 2024 jointly with our neighbour, Indonesia. After reading it I can't stop but laugh my ass out because since when Malaysia can call themselve a world class soccer team, and when have they perform to the level of thinking of hosting the world most prestige tournament.

Just look at our ranking in the world. We ranked no 140++ at the moment, and do we expect them to jump all the way up to somewhere in the top 60 or 70 in the world, and can Malaysia Tiger ever perform consistantly throughout the years in order for FIFA to consider Malaysia as the contenders for World Cup competition.

Come on you bunch of day dreamers, hosting a World Youth tournament doesn't mean you are world class, and entitle you to apply for hosting the WC tournament. Youth competition is by far much harder than youth because this is a man's game, not child game. South Africa can stage the World Cup because they do possess some good quality players and they ranked not too bad in the world.

If by 2024, an Asian country is to host the World Cup, I think there are much better and more qualified countries waiting to host the tournament, and I think Malaysia should just forget the idea of staging this tournament at all, first because it's a waste of time and money and secondly Malaysia will be the laughing stock of the world if they are to apply for hosting the tournament.

Malaysia who? Oh... that blardy ONE MALAYSIA thingy ar!