BVB Asiatour

It has been one month plus 2 days since Borussia Dortmund came to Malaysia for one of the stop of Asiatour. It has been real fun and lots of picture to share.

As stupid as me, I forgot that I brought along my DSLR which can zoom closer. So if you manage to spot the blond handsome guy, that's Marco Reus. He was here for an event at Puma Store JBCC, very lucky to get a big help from store manager to be able to meet up with him for like 5 seconds and took a photo. :-)

Sorry for the blurry photos, he walked really fast and I was shooting from my phone. 

Nothing much to share from the game, it was a friendly game and obviously BVB is not very serious about it.

That's Sven Bender, Aubameyang and Stankovic. 

World cup winner Erik Durm in action.  

Marco was doing his model posing. 

And of course his true love, water bottle. 

New coach, Tomas Tuchel. 

The players show some loves and appreciation to the fans. 

The next day though is more fun, went to Meet n Greet with Jonas Hofman and Lukasz Piszczek. Met some Lukasz's fans from the Philippines. 

 Somewhere in there are the signature of Aki (BVB CEO), Tomas Tuchel (BVB Manager), Marco Reus (BVB most beloved player), Roman Weidenfellen, Jonas Hofmann, Lukasz Piszczek, Pascal Stenzel, Marouka and Julian Weigl (BVB next big thing aka Michael Carrick in the making). 

So with some fond memories, few selfies and couple of hundred poorer, we bit farewell to Asiatour. It was really fun and hope to see you guys again in 2017. Come back to Malaysia and Singapore.   

So it is not Lucian Favre....... yet.

So the worst kept secret in Bundesliga is out, Thomas Tuchel had been confirmed as new guy to take over BVB09 from 1st July onward. Generally the consensus is this is the right guy for Dortmund. Dortmund has develop habit of getting Mainz coach by the look of it.

A very highly rated young German coach, who "destined to lead Bayern one day". He had been branded as very details and demanding in training, flexible with tactic and able to develop young players; not as good at entertaining the media but that's ok, he is not employed to do that anyway. He reacts to opponents in game and generally he works the defense better. He will teaches BVB players what to do with the ball, hopefully. Just as well, he has better point per game as compare to Klopp at Mainz.

So, Thomas Tuchel had been asked to revive Dortmund and he may be able to bring few things to the BVB game even though there is no Echte Liebe.

As for Mainz, this is the response from official Twitter account. Might as well....

可惜不是你，陪我到最后。

离开，不是不爱；而是爱的太深。 

放手转身离开的人，有时候需要更大的勇气和宽容。

不离不弃，留下来坚守的人，用行动诠释了忠义，爱和信仰。

没有荣誉加身，可却让人惊叹，仰望。

Income tax rate 2015

Now that we are officially on GST era, the gov has kindly reduce the personal income tax by 1-3%. The rate are as below effective from 2015 onwards.

The above top rate is peanut as compare to some European countries. Not that we are complaining since we are not really sure if the gov will do anything good with the additional income. 

So, good luck. Even though it sucks...  

Dortmunder Jung

Lives your dream, Marco. 

Wish you all the best, success and most importantly health.  May your heart make the best decision.

Marco Reus: "I grew up here, I was born here, I played here in my youth. I just feel comfortable. #BVB.  My heart has decided. I stand by my decision, you lose and you win together. It's also a decision for life, that's why I thought about it for so long. When I arrived here I said I wanted to achieve a lot with the club and I feel like it's not over, even in this situation."

Lives Your Dream, Marco.

What will your choose? To stay at the beloved team with enough money but slim chance of winning title or go to a team that offer you twice the salary, chances of win it all but far from your heart?

According to reports, there are likely chance that Marco Reus will extend his contract at BVB, a team that linger at the bottom of Bundesliga. He should be playing for a team fighting for title not for relegation. But, sometimes people makes stupid decision.

Decision that based on heart rather than head. Decision that makes blood boil, heart pump and tears roll. Decision that made dream comes true and people believe in LOVE again.

This is football, Echte Liebe. 

The last farewell .... to 2014

It has been such an eventful year and that is including 3 aviation disaster for Malaysian, a disappointing balloting result, a very successful world cup for Germany except for one particular player, a flood that is worst in the history .........

For all the good and bad, let's bit the last farewell to 2014. May 2015 bring us happy moments and blessings.

Only the hair that matters

If only the hair that matters, BVB would have won it by miles...

We have no doubt that Kevin Kampl will blend in well with this team. Instant bromance established.

The Beautiful Snowflakes

I am amazed. I had not seen a snowflakes before but WOW......
Micro-photography of individual snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov

If you fall, I'm with you...

BVB is bottom at the table after a complete match day, something that doesn't happen for a long long time. They still show up. The most passionate fans in the world.  

If you fall, I'm with you...

They miss him a lot.

Mats Hummels playes Twitter better than his game at the moment

So Mats decided to answer Twitter questions since he isn't playing and training, may be too bored. And this came out. Brilliant!

  

Love will destroy you ?

Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever. 

And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you.

They become part of who you are... 



Or they destroy you.

          -- quote from Kill Your Darlings 

         

Emoji Celebration

It has been a difficult season for Borussia Dortmund so far in Bundesliga, bottom at the table and had lost 5 games in a row. The pressure must be mountain high for the coach and players. The championship is a forego thing now, hopefully BVB can still manage to quality for the CL next season. It will be such a shame if they didn't, imagine the bottom team in Bundesliga is actually at the top of group D and who said EPL is better than Bundesliga? :-)

Certain Marco Reus still managed to celebrate his goals with some creativity that buzzed the net.

He said it has got nothing to do with the excessive rumours and the overly discussed topic by others about his future. But we kind of like related to it, he is not going to read and listen to any of those rumours; and definitely he won't tell us about his decision until the time is right. So all those Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man City and Uniteds' fan please hold your peace until than.

The one who missed the big prize

He is the one who missed the flight, injured a day before the team departed to Brazil. Most of the general public may have known him for THAT jersey, for the bromance between these two talented players but for football fans he is still recognized as a very good player, with or without World Cup.

His name is Marco Reus....
Here is a little story about the boy who just loves play football.

Who wants to visit Mumbai? or it is Bombay?

So here I was in Mumbai for a short trip. Despite not been my dream holidays destination, I still managed to visit part of Mumbai or Bombay? The tour guide told me the local still prefer to called it Bombay, as it represent the essence of real Bombay. The birth place of bollywood, the place where the dream does come true...................sometime.

The infamous Mumbai's traffic. Chaotic but managed to maintain its own unique unspoken rules that still smooth moving. 

 The open laundry of Mumbai, world largest open laundry that exist for generations.  

The house of Gandhi. 

 The floating garden of Mumbai, apparently because it was build on a water tank. 

The colour and flavour of Mumbai. 

The sunset over Arabian Sea. 

The gate of India under the spotlights. 

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. 

 The Victoria Station (Train Station, where the J-hou song was filmed) 

Mumbai is really a mixture of rich and poor. I had seen a family's own building that consist of 27 floor, housed 4 in a family with 200 servants; I also seen those homeless by the road side where the children is half naked and just wander around on a hot day of 31C. You can be a wealthy king here and vise versa; you can be in heaven or otherwise.