Sunday, April 25, 2004  

So I was supposed to pick up my surround sound system today, but... didn't. My dad and sister were due to fly out to Bangkok in the early afternoon, but decided to delay at the last minute to the late flight. Therefore, everyone who woke up early (look, 11am is EXTREMELY early for me) then kinda shrugged their shoulders and went to sleep, while the car was kept busy all day for various "critical" tasks like taking Roni for a haircut. So the entire day was totally wasted, and my chance of buying the set goes for another week (since the driver is off on Sundays and nobody has any time during the week).

In much better news, Liverpool went up to Manchester and beat Man United 1-0 on another Danny Murphy goal -- a penalty this time, the first scored at Old Trafford by an opposition team in almost ELEVEN YEARS -- putting us in a rather good position for the Champions League spot. It was a really boring game though. We shaded it in the end, thanks as always to Steven Gerrard (who is pictured below being chopped down by Gary Neville for the penalty), but it wasn't a good game by either team. We did defend rather well though.



This is turning out to be a season of ironies for us. We focused on Chelsea's flashy new signings in the first game of the season, and then let old nemesis Hasselbaink score the winner; we started playing the attractive, attacking football everyone called on us to play, only to lose more than we used to; we've taken more shots than any other team in the league, yet we have a poor goalscoring record; our two most criticised players, Cheyrou and Heskey, combined to give us a win at Chelsea, a ground we NEVER win on; everyone expected us to face a tired Arsenal in the second half at Highbury, but after going in 2-1 up at half time were blown away 3-0 in the second half; and now, winning at Old Trafford via a penalty -- when missed penalties have been our biggest problem all season.



Of course, the ultimate irony would be if we manage to blow our Champions League place not to the team everyone expects us to fight it out with, Newcastle, but to the likes of Aston Villa. Which is entirely possible, seeing as they're two points behind us and on a ridiculously good run.

And last but certainly not least... I bought my first song from the iTunes Music Store. After much deliberation, I decided to go with a sure thing: A live performance of U2's classic Beautiful Day from Slane Castle, Ireland (if you have iTunes, you can go to the song and preview it by clicking that link). The whole experience was quick and painless -- click Buy Song, put your password in again, the song downloads within 10 seconds and is dumped in a new Purchased Music playlist. And that's it. It's now mine to do (almost) whatever I want with it: Transfer it to my iPod, burn it to a CD, or add it to my iMovies/iDVDs. The only restriction I have really is that I can't share the song with whoever I want. Which, er, is not something I'd do anyway. Honest.

Posted at 3:19 AM

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