To celebrate or not to celebrate

Recently the Premier League hosted a series of 'childish' and 'immature' acts by so called professional multi-millionaire footballers.

First this fella run down the entire length of the pitch to celebrate in front of Arsenal fans. Claims that they were abusing him.

Just look at that fella's face - feel like slapping him

Then this fella started rambling about how United fans have been unkind to him and how United refuse to pay £30m to buy him.

Tevez - needing a pacifier to shut him up

Then comes this fella who is trying to pretend to be Mr. Nice Guy by not celebrating his goal which led to the 1-1 draw with Manchester City. But Mark Hughes said "It'll be nice if he doesn't score against us". Can you do that Mr. Nice Guy?

Richard Dunne - trying to be Mr. Nice Guy

For crying out loud - Time to act like a professional. Some pointers for the millionaires:-

a. It's ok for you to celebrate your goal. After all if you scored, you deserved it - just don't do it in front of the opposition fans!

b. What do you expect if you leave one club to join another fierce rival? That your old club's fans kiss your feet still when you walk into the pitch? Common - grow up. Let's keep it real.

c. Don't burn bridges - ask any juniors in the working world and you would know this general concept. You never know when you will need another person's help.

d. If you want to be Mr. Nice Guy - try to allow others to see your good deed by themselves. That way it look way less fake.

Think I've seen this tit-for-tat behaviour before, wait hang on - I think it was in the kindergarten. Please grow up - 'Professional Footballers'.

Taken for a ride..

Recently the Malaysian Government has outdone themselves again with the announcement of the 1Malaysia F1 team. In a world full of economic and financial turmoil - where giants such as EU, Japan and America are trying to recover, we somehow manage to find RM1.8 billion (USD500m) to join a sport so lavish that even the likes of Honda and BMW have taken prudent steps to withdraw.

The funniest F1 car ever.

Help me, I am trying to be optimistic. I love and want to support my Government badly, but as a concerned citizen, I have to ask - Is this the right time for this sort of venture? Our participation comes at a time, where we are technically in recession - going through 2Qs of negative growth for 1st and 2nd Q of 2009.

You may argue that it is also in part a privately funded team - with AirAsia, Proton, Naza and Petronas coming in. With the exception of AirAsia, please do remember that the money from these companies comes indirectly from the government too. Proton with Government's 20 years tax protection in the car industry, Naza from the thousands of APs gifted to them by Rafidah Aziz and Petronas from the oil rights given by the government.

The funny thing you may ask on the Government's part of the money - where to find the millions needed to fund the F1 team when it's not even allocated in the 2009 budget? One theory could be the reduction of petrol quality in Malaysia. Many Malaysians don't realise it but the usual RON97 that you have been enjoying has been downgraded to RON95 but the RM1.80 per litre price tag still applies! BRILLIANT! That way, no protest, no anti-gov sentiment but still can find the money to pay for the F1 team! On top of that, I see adds on the newspaper brainwashing the public that using RON95 has made their car more powerful - gosh - how stupid and blind can we be.

There's a fine line between being patriotic and supporting the government blindly - lets not cross it.