Fairy Tale

I first saw the music video Michael Wong's "Fairy Tale" on the tour bus during our trip to Guilin, China. During that time I have no idea who's the singer, nor do I know the song title. I just know that the music and the lyrics are very good and the music video is a tear-jerker.

The song and video's plot is basically a boy meets girl, girl helps boy to write a song, girl diagnosed with terminal illness, boy performs this song at a concert while girl lay dying in hospital, girl listens to song live through a cellphone, girl dies. Corny, but I like it just the same.

Somehow this month I heard a snippet of this song on satellite TV and I asked my daughter who sang that and she looked at me with the expression that I must be the last person on planet Earth not to know.

Anyway, here's the music video and its translated lyrics in English. Even if you do not understand Mandarin, it's worth a listen.

"Fairy Tale" - Michael Wong

I’ve forgotten how long it has been
since I’ve never again…
listened to you telling your beloved fairytale
I’ve thought for a long time
I start to panic
have I done something wrong?

You said to me full of tears
Inside the fairytale are all lies
I can’t possibly be your prince
Maybe you can ever understand
ever after you said “I love you”
The stars in my sky has lightened up

I’m willing to be
that angel you love inside the fairytale
Spread up my hands
become the wings to protect you
You must believe…
believe that we can be like that in the fairytale
prosperity and happiness is the ending

You said to me full of tears
Inside the fairytale are all lies
I can’t possibly be your prince
Maybe you can ever understand
ever after you said “I love you”
The stars in my sky has lightened up

I’m willing to be
that angel you love inside the fairytale
Spread up my hands
become the wings to protect you
You must believe…
believe that we can be like that in the fairytale
prosperity and happiness is the ending

I want to be
that angel you love inside the fairytale
Spread up my hands
become the wings to protect you
You must believe…
believe that we can be like that in the fairytale
prosperity and happiness is the ending

I will be
that angel you love inside the fairytale
Spread up my hands
become the wings to protect you
You must believe…
believe that we can be like that in the fairytale
prosperity and happiness is the ending

Let’s write our ending together

Sheer heart attack

It was the English FA Cup Fourth Round tie.

In the red corner is Liverpool, currently at fifth place in the English Premier League. In the blue corner is Havant & Waterlooville, a non-league team consisting of part-time players such as school caretakers, plumbers and gas engineers, 122 places and six divisions beneath Liverpool in the world of English soccer.

The match will be played at Liverpool's home ground Anfield. Everyone predicted a whitewash/bloodbath/nuclear-annihilation. What can go wrong?

None, unless Liverpool's manager Mr. Rafa "I have a case of the clevers again" Benetez then proceed to take out the back bone of the Liverpool team by leaving Torres-Gerrard-Carragher on the substitutes bench. When I saw the team list before the match I already have a bad case of the jitters. This is baddddddd karma, I told my pal Rkaru by text message, and I even said that if Liverpool ever loses this match because Rafa fielded a badly selected team, I swear I will support Manchester United from now on.



True enough, Havant scored in the 9th minute and I was busy picking up my jaw off the floor. An incomprehensible clearance by Liverpool's newly signed center back Skrtel resulted in a Havant corner and that resulted in a goal. Havant's 6000 supporters went wild.

Lucas equalized for Liverpool later and I breathed a sigh of relief, but not for long. Again Reds defenses sprung a leak and Havant scored again to lead 2-1 from a deflection off Skrtel. By now I was yelling for this guy to be taken off the field!

By the end of the first half the score is tied 2-2 after Benayoun realised that he has to start earning his salary by playing proper football for once.


In the second half, Liverpool started playing like proper footballers and not a bunch of school kids. I guess Rafa really gave their butts a real chewing during the half time talk. The match ended 5-2 in Reds' favour. The introduction of Gerrard in the 85th minute resulted in the fifth goal scored by Crouch. Gerrard should have came on much earlier.

A 5-2 scoreline is no big deal. In fact it was an embarrassment. I expected 12-0. It was fortunate that H&W has not mastered the art of parking the bus (i.e. defend your goal with 11 men after leading the match) otherwise Liverpool would have been out of the FA Cup.

Look, if you are H&W, you know you are going to lose the match anyway, so your game plan would be to attack, attack, attack. Get one or two goals in so that at least the H&W player can someday tell his grandchildren that he once scored a goal at Fortress Anfield. That's all they want to do. Score against Liverpool. It was supposed to be Liverpool's job not to let this happen because every H&W goal will be an embarrassment. Somehow Rafa missed the plot, and caused me a lot of grief for more than 50 minutes.


Havant & Waterlooville, I salute you for daring to dream.

'It looks like me, and the voice sounds like me..."

A certain prominent person who answered that way recently when questioned during a certain governmental inquiry into a certain video clip of a certain telephone call reminded me of what Eminem once rapped:

And there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a f**k like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing but not quite me!

'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

The thing is, this prominent person made Slim Shady believable!

Liverpool, you are a pain to watch.

EPL : Middlesbrough 1 - Liverpool 1.


I think this is the moment of this EPL season that I am quite sure that the championship title dream for Liverpool finally went up in smoke, unless three meteors strike the stadiums of Arsenal, MU and Chelsea simultaneously. This is also the first time in my history of watching EPL matches that I really wanted to throw the TV remote against the TV screen. This is also the first time that I wish Rafael Benetez will get sacked.

Why oh why oh why did he persisted in fielding Voronin in his starting eleven? This sack of potato was losing possession of the ball all night that he made Momo Sisoko look classy. It was that bad. And he was the reason I wanted to throw the remote at the TV. Steven Gerrard shaking his head while walking off the pitch at half time summed up my disgust at the team's pathetic performance.

I won't even go into Rafa rotation policy anymore. He is treating his players like poofs that cannot play 2 matches in a week lest they drop dead.

Gone were the days when Liverpool plays a match and I will enjoy watching them, win or lose. Now they have degenerated into a team that is painful to watch, through no fault of the players but because of a manager that's having an extreme case of the clevers. Having my teeth drilled without anesthetic is more fun.

I will even settle for Jose Le Mouth nowadays.