Man United 1 - Chelsea 2

Today is the Monday after the humbling defeat to Chelsea over the weekend.

The Saturday started off as a normal day, with breakfast at McDonald's at Mutiara Damansara. The girls have been bugging us since Thursday to go to the playground at McD's, so they can't be happier that morning. After a hearty breakfast, we popped over to the Curve, where she made a pit-stop at her favourite Nichii Fashion boutique, while I cleaned up my Inbox.

Since it was lunch time, we went to our favourite Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Hoa, for some much needed noodles. It's been quite a while since we've been there, so the food dissappeared off our bowls without much fanfare!! By this time, the girls are tired but kept their eyes wide open for the Carrefour trip to get our groceries.

As per normal, we got some FOC goodies when we buy certain stuff, so it's a 'short' wait at the Customer Service counter, although I'm not sure why they name this counter such when customer service is far from the minds of the staff on duty!! Anyway, it's back home and by this time, the girls were so tired that they literally fainted as soon as they put their cute little heads on the pillows.

Then at 6pm, I had a quick shower and slipped on my long sleeved Man United shirt with Vodaphone logo, and left the house at 630pm. I arrived at Milennium Building PJ at 7pm and found Picaddilly Cafe without any problems, where Soon, Archi and 2 other friends were sat at the second table from the screen. Service was hopeless, and thank god I only ordered an Iced Lemon Tea, which arrived in 10 minutes.

Both Chelsea and Man United opted for the 4-3-3 formation, which I thought was interesting, but in retrospect, contributed to Chelsea having the upper hand in the first half. United fielded Silvestre, Ferdinand, Vidic and Brown at the back, Fletcher, Carrick and Anderson in midfield, while Giggs, Nani and Rooney played upfront. From the opening whistle, United struggled to contain Chelsea's continuous waves of attacks, with some intuitive passes from Mikel, Chelsea's midfield general and the creativity of Joe Cole and power of Didier Drogba.

In a passing build-up till the United penalty bow, Didier Drogba curled in a beautiful floated ball in the box, which Michael Ballack easily and powerfully headed into ven der Sar's left side for Chelsea to lead 1 - 0.

From a United attack, Rooney picked up a half chance pass and shot past the brilliant Petr Chec to level the score to 1 - 1. I jumped up and screamed at the top of my voice GOOOOAAALLL!!!
which stunned the people on my table, as well as the guys around me!!! 1 - 1.

In a dangerous attack down the right, Carrick conceeded a dodgy penalty with an un-intentional handball, which was put away powerfully by Michael Ballack. The crowd at Picaddilly filled with Chelsea fans and the neutral's screamed with delight!! 1 - 2. And this scoreline didn't change till the final whistle. I was left stunned but still appreciative of a hard fought game, which was never in United's favour.

On the way home, I got an emergency call from Azie to 'rescue' my nieces CT and Jah, where I immediately drove there like the US Calvary. The evening ended with a midnight snack with Jah and Mum, and I dozzed off with the Chelsea supporter screams ringing in my ears!! Aaaarrrghhhh!!! But, I'm gratefull for United's superior goal difference, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy and zzzzzzzzzz.......