Manchester United 3 - 2 Aston Villa

[Ronaldo 14, 80. Macheda 90 ] [ Carew 30. Agbonlahor 58]



Phew! That was quite a performance, to take the lead and give away two soft goals and then turn on the style to win it. Only a team of United's stature can pull off a stunt like that. Poor, poor performance for most part of the match, Villa must be kicking themselves for not making the most of it while they could. Neville and O Shea were shocking to watch, Nani was never really there and Fletcher was disappointing. At times, Ronaldo seemed uninterested. And the passing overall was painful to watch. And during the build-up towards Villa's second, there was a lot ball watching by the Red Devils. Really thought they were throwing this one away.

Looking at the bench, strongly felt Gibson should have been the one to be subbed-in to steady the midfield perhaps followed by Park for extra pace. But then Fergie goes with Macheda first, never even heard of him, then Welbeck. Welbeck almost got the winner but Macheda did it with style at the 93rd minute. A clinical poacher in the making, hopefully we will not let this Italian get away. And the Champions showed a glimpse of the free flowing footbal that they are famous for during the closing stages despite the depleted squad. Glory glory Man United!!

One thing bothers me though: the over reliance on Ronaldo. Hopefully with the other usual suspects back in the fold on Tuesday, it will not be the case. For now the Red Devils are back in business but the Scousers are still breathing down their neck.

Well Done to Ireland!

15 - 17

Sat 21st Mar 2009, 17:30

Venue: Millennium Stadium

"Ireland ended a 61-year wait for Grand Slam glory and landed their first RBS 6 Nations title after dethroning Wales 17-15 at the Millennium Stadium in dramatic fashion."

"The Grand Slam famine is over 61 years after Ireland’s only previous triumph, as Ireland produced a remarkable performance underpinned by high tensile mental steel to win a truly heart-stopping encounter that wasn’t decided until the final kick of the game..."

99 Luft Balon and Safety Dance

Came across these two music videos recently on Youtube. Both are from the 80's, I think they are both cool songs and they've been stuck in my head for the past few days. 99 Luft Balon (by Nena) is in German btw, have not a clue what the lady is saying. There are two versions of Safety Dance (by Men Without Hats) apparently, once has a strange/cool music video while the other sounds better.


99 Luft Balon




Safety Dance (strange/cool video version)




Safety Dance (better sounding version)




My fav line from the song: we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine.


Wishing you a belated Happy St. Paddy's Day btw. ;)

Hilarious!

One of Chelsea's defenders reacts aggresively to Liverpool's time wasting tactics. This happened over last weekend, when Liverpool beat 10 man Chelsea with two late goals. Bosingwa (No. 17) does the unthinkable by sticking his foot on another player's back in front of the assistant referee and gets away with it.

Initially he was standing and watching, then perhaps he decided he had seen enough and kicked the player off the ball before jogging away as if nothing ever happened. The commentator's reaction to it is class. Hahaha...

First proper post in 2009

Currently just started my second rotation in the new year, psychiatry. Kicked-off 2009 with four weeks of paeds, which was a very organised rotation. It was a pleasant attachment but personally I would have liked more patient contact which was limited by the size of the wards and the number of students placed there at any one time.


Prior to that had about two weeks plus of winter break. Spent 5 days in London just over Christmas. Met up with Rashid and did a small bit of shopping. The sales started quite early this year as people weren't spending as much as they used to in previous years. Plus the Euro was worth almost the same as the Pound after the Sterling hit a record low, so things were much cheaper than ever before. So a great big yeay for the recession.

Travelled around London quite a bit on the tube, notably for some Tamil cuisine at Chennai Dosa in East Ham. The following day, spent a good few hours at the Body Worlds exhibition, where many beautifully plastinated cadavers were on display. After revising anatomy, rushed off to a korean restaurant for lunch before catching Spamalot the musical at the Palace Theatre on the very same day. It was brilliantly funny and I enjoyed my first theatre experience in London thoroughly. Other days, we just stayed indoors and binged on all sorts of food courtesy of the host while watching illegally downloaded movies.



Was back in Cork on St. Stephen's Day/Boxing Day. More shopping the next day in Mahon Point. A few days elapsed and it was New Year's eve already. A big steamboat ensured with whoever that was still around. Then it was adios 2008 and hola 2009.

January came and went. And now I have been posted to St. Stephen's Hospital in Glanmire for my psych rotation. I'm not very pleased with having to travel to infinity and beyond, but we'll see. Maybe it won't be that bad after all. Hmmm...

On a more positive note, I made 'lap cheong flied lice' for lunch which tasted quite yummy. And I fried the rice without having to add a single drop of oil. There was enough fat in the sausage to make fried rice and more. Shocking but true.

HAPPY CNY 2009

Man Utd 1-0 Middlesbrough

Berbatov 69'



One word to sum up United's performance: wasteful.