New Radiant Makes History Again

Ashfaq celebrates his goal(second goal of the match), but he was sent off later for pulling off his shirt.



ANOTHER glorious night for the Blues as they thrashed Valencia by 2-0 to win FA Cup three in a row for a second time. This clearly is another record that no other team was able to grab so far in the history of Maldives footbball. The win also ensures that New Radiant will be playing in the AFC 2008.

Surprisingly it was Valencia in the last three years that tasted the defeat against New Radiant in the final and it was 2 – 0 in all the occasions. I love New Radiant!!!

Cradle of Filth in Bristol

Nymphetamine...Nymphetamine...Nymphetamine.......

Guess what??? I was there at Bristol Carling Acedemy on this monday night, head-banging while the great Cradle of Filth was playing there favrte death metal songs.

The night started with a local death metal band, followed by a german death metal band. They spent about 1 hr and handed over to the Cradle of Filth. And then.....
Back of the looongy QQQ...

"Sick Of Life"

Paralyzed. Nothing's getting through to me.

Hypnotized from all my surroundings.

I wanna be something I could never be.

I wanna say things that I could never say.

Yeah, I'm gonna do it again!

Sick of my life. I'm tired of everything in my life.

Dragged down. Rubbing my face in the ground.

No time for the undecided.

I wanna know why I've always felt alone,

And I wanna love. Why am I untouchable?

Yeah, I'm gonna do it again!

Sick of my life. I'm tired of everything in my life.

I never wanted to be sick of my life.

I'm tired of everything in my life.

Did you flush properly?

How come the public toilets are so dirty? Maybe because people use it too much, may be because nobody clean them and may be because people don’t know how to ‘poopoo’ properly!

Then all sort of stories come out. Bigger people may have bigger poopoos and so on. Some public toilets are filthy and smelly. I don’t even want to describe them here. Public toilets are dirty because too many people use them (i.e. not enough public toilets around so the existing ones are ‘overused’), they are not cleaned properly. Some of us don’t even know how to use the toilets properly.

Be honest, the last time you used the toilet, did you flush properly? Did you even dare hold the flush handle let alone use it? When you pee, did you ‘aim’ at the bowl or sprayed all over? When you did the heavy stuff, did you actually err.. sit on the toilet seat or did you squat on the toilet seat?

The funny thing is, we all expect clean toilets. All of us. We don’t want to use dirty smelly toilets. Our toilets at home are clean. So how can we tolerate the dirty state of our public toilets? Can’t we do something about it? Can we urge the people in charge to put in extra effort to maintain the toilets? Can we get them to provide us with clean toilets? Can the authorities pump in more money to provide clean toilets?

Well! This all applies when you are in a shared house. Will you be happy to flush your housemate’s shit floating in the toilet? Will you even want to see lumps of shit floating and spreading the ‘nice’ smell throughout the house?

Yes! if we all can flush and clean the toilet after use, the problem is almost solved. Innit!!

Fake Moon Landing!

The world was shaken to the very core as it was once and for all proven that the Moon Landings were faked.

Here follows some points to keep in mind...

~If Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon, then who filmed him walking down the ladder?

~It's really hot on the moon, so everyone should have died of thirst.

~The deadly radiation belts around the Earth turn everyone radioactive and make your eyes boil in your skull unless you are wearing 18 inches of lead. So how did they get through it?

~The rocks supposedly taken from the moon are just like those in his back yard, they've just been baked real hard.

Well! we are been fooled by the Americans heh!

so spare some time and have a look and do lil bit of research..

http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html

http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/index.html

Beautiful Wales

Wales(Cymru) is a destination i have dreamed of, and there had never been a better time than this to make the dream a part of my life. Exploring Wales is an adventure, coz this country is very rich in history and culture. There are somany casltes and some really fantastic scenery, too. Unfortunately i couldn't visit all the places i wanted, but i really enjoyed the time i spent in Wales.

Bristol? O Brizzle??

Not only is Brizzle a unique city to visit, they also have their own distinct local dialect! For those new to the city here's a quick guide to how to speak Bristolian!

'Awwright me babber' or 'Awwright me luvver' (Alright my friend?) are Bristolian greetings, and you may wish to add 'Ow biss?' (How are you?)

Bristolians are warm and welcoming, they pride themselves on doing a 'proper job', if you're lost just ask 'Where's it to?' (Where is it?) and if you like something, it's 'gert lush'.

Yer tiz (Here it is) Innit (Isn't it) Wern it (Wasn't it) ant (hasn't) are just a few of many words unique to the West Country dialect. L's are frequently added to sentences, so 'Idea' becomes 'ideal', and 'mind' is added to the end of sentences to emphasise 'You know what I mean'.
Around the city you may find yourself in 'Bemmy' (Bedminster), 'Embray' (Henbury) or 'Taardown' (Totterdown) or you may venture further afield to 'Baff' (Bath)

And if you're travelling by bus, then don't forget the obligatory 'Churz drive' (Cheers/Thank you driver) as you disembark!

another dayout - at the heart of brizzle

a dayout - at cribbscauseway

Are we engineers!

One of the most controversial topics running in my mind is what we should call ourselves. If I use the term mechanic, some say the term is degrading. They would say “technician” is a more professional title.
But not everybody agrees with that. To many, “technician” is a demeaning title. To them a technician refers to someone with a very specific skill – a lab technician (once i was, heh) for example. Technicians go through very specialized training on a very limited scale to do a very specific job. According to the FAA, we are called mechanics. Under EASA, we are mechanics before we get license and become engineers when we get license. Well, technically speaking that is correct.
Then you have those wanting to be called engineers. But are we really engineers? Does two years of school mean we can call ourselves engineers?
In the end, we will get the respect that we earn. If we call ourselves engineers, it won’t mean squat if we show up to work unshaven, with stained blue jeans and an un-tucked t-shirt with holes. It doesn’t matter how much training we have had or how many degrees are hanging on the wall, if we act un-professionally we are practically guaranteeing professional suicide.
What do you think? What title you prefer? Technician? AMT? A&P? Engineer? Does it even matter to you?

You may be wrong...

It’s not what you don’t know that will get you in trouble, it’s what you think you know that isn’t so.
It’s what you think you know that isn’t so. How true that statement is. Put it this way; You don’t know what you don’t know.
I tried to think of an example where this is true. How about memorizing torques or writing them down on cheat sheets in our toolbox instead of referring to the manual each time? We may not think it is that big a deal, but in reality we can be setting ourselves up for failure. Here’s an example from personal experience. Me and my partner were installing a fire extinguisher bottle in the avoinics bay of the Learjet in our college hanger at Gloucestershire airport. My partner has previous experience. Whne it comes to torque load the mounting bolts, he told that the bolts shud be torque loaded to 30-inch pounds by refering the size of the bolts. We did try but the bolts were lose at the end. In disbelief, he walked over to the maintenance manual to check for himself. He was surprised to see it. Yes its mentioned in the manual that those bolts shud be torque loaded to 60-70 inch pounds. He meant well, but he could have easily gotten in trouble by what he thought he knew that wasn’t so.
I agree that what we think we know that isn’t so can be just as dangerous if not more than just not knowing. At least if we don’t know, we tend to go to the appropriate manual to double-check. What do you think?

Anti-Skid Troubleshootingggg

exess to avionics bay..

the avionics bay - the white box is the anti-skid control computer

checkingggg.....

cockpit lighted up-final inspection carried out.

at work...

This is my second week at Gloucestershire airport, but first day getting my hand on real-world work. Yeh it was intersting to work on this sweet learjet. My first job is to remove, inspect and reinstall the fuel pressurizin check valve in the Learjet aircraft.
between i got some spare time to take these pictures..... a small piston engine aircraft...

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The luvly LearJet..

Huuuge heh... imagine four of these (4 tonne) engines hanging down the wings of Boeing 747 ...

Good team work... to go home...but... bloodyyy mini bus...

Portuu Gaal..

Portuu Gaal! Portuu Gaaaal!!! Yah they did it again. Crushed Bra-Zeel 2-0 this time by late goooools from substitute simao (benfica) and Cahvalo(chelsea). Here follows some picz we took on that glorious night.

packed stadiumlined up

bra-zeel free kick
portuu gaal scored...

N joying the early morning snow fall...

walking over the snow..
trying to escape...
too cold to complete..
had cuppacino...
walked away...

In 'Emirates'.....

Well not in United Arab emirates, but i was at the Emirates stadium of Arsenal Football Club to see the world class players showing off their magics in the world class stadium.

The Portugal team.

Luiz Felipe Scolari sprung few surprises in naming his Portugal squad for next Tuesday's friendly with Brazil in London at the Emirates Stadium.

Atletico Madrid midfielders Maniche and Costinha remain out of favour with Scolari whose reign as Portugal boss started with a 2-1 win over Brazil in 2003 at the Estadio das Antas, the former home of Porto.

Scolari, who led his homeland Brazil to victory in the 2002 World Cup, also continued to omit Everton defender Nuno Valente.

Here is the list of players that i am gonna see on tuesday at Arsenal's Stadium.

Ricardo (Sporting Lisbon), Quim (Benfica); Jorge Andrade (Deportivo La Coruna), Miguel (Valencia), Paulo Ferreira (Chelsea), Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea), Marco Caneira (Sporting Lisbon), Manuel da Costa, Fernando Meira (Stuttgart); Deco (Barcelona), Hugo Viana (Valencia), Joao Moutinho (Sporting Lisbon), Tiago (Lyon), Petit (Benfica), Raul Meireles (Porto); Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Ricardo Quaresma (Porto), Helder Postiga (Porto), Simao (Benfica), Nuno Gomes (Benfica).

Grounded for life..

Skins.....

I set on the sofa in my living room with a tea after the dinner and switched on the TV. As usual I started shuffling the more than 200 channels aimlessly, and this brought me to a hault,.....a new E4 drama set in Bristol about sex-crazed, dirty-mouthed feral teens staying up all night and getting stupefied on pills...


...young Tony sets the plotlines running as he tries to sort out a debut shag for speccy Sid before his forthcoming 17th birthday (failing which he will become an instant pariah), meanwhile sending him off to buy a bag of skunk on credit from a local psychopath ahead of that evening's party at a posh girl's house. The rest of the suitably variegated group are rounded up - beautiful Michelle, nutter Chris, dreamy Cassie with her eating disorders, and Anwar(ofcoz not me), interrupted on his mobile during prayers at the mosque ('Cheers, Tone - now my uncle wants to stone me to death'). They are easy to like as long as you're not the mum and dad arriving home from from the Maldives to find your living room remodelled by Moravian swineherds and your Range Rover in the river.( Bristol, Anwar, Maldives...!!!)

But it's is not all wild partying. One plot strand focuses on a girl struggling with an eating disorder in the face of useless adults, not to mention an overfriendly taxi driver old enough to be her dad...

Anyway. This is supposed to be a review of Skins, right? Except, when it comes to cultural reviews, the best time to write them is straight afterwards so you remember most of it; but I’ve procratinated on this review in the hope that I delete the entire memory from my mind, and because I didn’t take notes (who does?) I’ve forgotten half of what actually happened. Thankfully!

In any case, there is very little to recommend of Skins. I know most drama is supposed to be a flight of fancy, and that it’s just a story, but Skins claims that this is somewhat based upon real life, as if all teenagers handle unpaid for drugs and have the mafia on their backs, and it all ends in hilarious consequences. No, no it bloody well doesn’t. Don’t pay for drugs? You get shot, that’s what happens. As if white middle class teenagers would go near Mr Big; they’d probably just get on the phone to their deelah and would go nowhere near guns.



It was too much...

Look, if you don’t believe me (and I have a feeling that there will be many of my peers who will no doubt virulently disagree with me) check it out on Thursday nights, at 2200 on E4.

Salaam-e-Ishq...

Well another day-out in Bristol. We( the bristol badboys) gave a big farewell to our beloved friend Firu, n then headed to cineworld( the cinema for hindi movies) here in bristol.
I am not a very bollywoodyyy fan but i do join the joy of my frends n enjoy the love movies..
we entered to the hall 5 mins to the showtime. and then...

This 3-hour-45 minute ‘Tribute To Love’ starts off quite grippingly. One after the other, the twelve characters are introduced. And the characters are colourful. There is a young married couple( John Abraham and Vidya Balan ) deeply in love with each other. There is a taxi driver who waits everyday for his dreamgirl ( Govinda and Shannon Esrechowitz ), an gori mem, at the airport. There are two lovers with broken engagement (Akshaye Khanna and Ayesha Takia ). There is an item girl who would do anything to get a role into a Karan Johar film( Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan ). There is a middle-aged man with unfulfilled desires( Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla ). And there is a newly wed couple( Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar ) unable to consummate their marriage.

In this huge ensemble, ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’ gets tangled in the second half( yah, there was this unusual 10 mins interval). Of the six love stories only three manage to make an impact. The others more-or-less remain bland.

Out of these six tracks, the stories featuring Akshaye Khanna and Govinda are the most entertaining. While Akshaye is simply superb in playing an eccentric, commitment phobic lover, Govinda brings the house down with his trademark humour. Sohail Khan, too, is very funny. But his track with Isha Koppikar is relegated to the background for most part of the film.The Salman-Priyanka track is bland and boring. It is a story without any head or toe. And to make things worse, both Salman and Priyanka have acted poorly.

The Anil Kapoor-Juhi Chawla track works solely because of performances( we all voted them the best). On the other hand, the track featuring John and Vidya lacks any depth. It merely ends up as the story of a man trying to revive the lost memory of his wife. Vidya is natural in her performance while John leaves much to be desired.

Despite too many tear-jerking moments, there are hardly one or two scenes that genuinely stir your emotions.

Of the six stories, four meet together at a big fat Indian wedding in the end. Thankfully, there is some humour in the climax to send the us back home with a smile on our faces.

Watch the longy longy movie when u get time, u will worth it....