Ah, it’s New Year again and I couldn’t be more upset for not being able to update this piece on January 1st as I visited Kedah for Aidil Adha for a week. Truth be told, I am not big on rejoicing the New Year euphoria since misai and janggut been scattered all over my easily-inflamed a.k.a pimpled face. A year come and goes just like that and I believe that January 1st is the point when we could take a little tiny minute of our time to ponder what the yesteryear shapes us as a human being. And as for me, my yesteryear was horribly unusual. I got my SPM result which needs no further description, and then I applied for scholarship, which again needs no further explanation, followed by my enrolment in so-called most vigorous yet demanding pre-U program, and making new friends in the process, and it all happened in only 12 long months. How’s that for a transitional period of infancy and maturity.

I laughed at how I fumbled on the first day of the eerie period. I was stuck in strange anxiousness, and everything seems new to me and I started to talk like a orang asli trying to speak Japanese, naïve. And that’s the world I’m in after years in the orde-kosmos-like Malay College and the world is actually humongous and it is waiting for me to discover it. And I guess 2006 happened to be the year when I actually having a sense to adjusting my world view and discover new things along with taking a good look in certain things with so many god-damn things circling over my mind with interest to share with others.

And I guess that is growing up – where we would see things we wont ever think of imagining when we were an innocent little kid. It is the time when I could obviously and clearly see that the world we live right now is not as sweet as we dream of. It is the nastiest place ever and it is really sick and seriously in need to be fixed. And it is also the time when I realized that the world we live in can never be a fair place where corruption, discrimination and hatred are in reign. And on a totally non-philosophical thought note, it is the time when I realized that Liverpool is a team that needs a team comprises of 11 Diego Maradona or team consists of 11 Pele to beat. I guess, that was 2006 for me – as I will continually seeks a fine balance between pampering myself in philosophical judgment and leading a normal life as a Malaysian youngster who seek in football and reading for ultimate ecstasy in years to come.

And what’s 2007 that I would very much expecting? Well, I just hope that 2007 will become a year when we can all love each other as human beings and think of love, compassion and peace at every beat of our heart. And my New Year resolution? I never fancy making up one. But I’ve always wanted to have mark schemes of every exam papers I will sit for. Hehe.

Enjoy a happy and prosperous New Year guys, and may be best of this year be the worst of next.

P.S. May Liverpool will be blessed with goals, goals and more goals. May our 27 home-winning streaks wont be broken. May Crouch and Kuyt will continue their scoring touch. May Barcelona will be having a hard time losing to The Kop in UCL Last Sixteen turmoil. May The Kop once again lift the European crown. And you’ve always know it that you’ll never walk alone and I will always love you until there is no movement of the moon and stars.