Ajax was so close but in the end, it was so far. In the final minutes, while I was watching Manchester United’s dying moment, Tomasson scored a goal and thus ending all Ajax’s dreams.
Nevertheless, I hope this is a beginning of new golden age for Ajax. We lost yes but there is always next year.
You’ve lost Ajax but Hup Ajax hup! A job well done. I stand here saluting you, wishing De Magish van de Arena to be a reality as De Magish van de Meer was.
This is it. Today, in a matter of a few hours, Ajax will be up against its traditional foe in the European arena in San Siro. The match between Ajax and AC Milan has always been a matter of champion. During their first meeting, AC Milan defeated Ajax in order to win the European Cup. In 1995, Ajax beat AC Milan and as a result, Ajax was crowned as the king of European football.
The current Ajax is a mirror of itself in 1995; an underdog, young but impressive players and a mediocre club in term of financial meaning relative to the name of Real Madrid and Manchester United. Van de Vaart and Zlatan remind the Ajacied of Kluivert and Overmars, Chivu of Frank de Boer. Nobody had suspected Ajax to go on and win the European Cup back in 1995 but they defied the odd and went on to steal the spotlight from the Italian giant. Jari Litmanen will certainly remember the night when he lifted the trophy as an Ajacied. I only hope he will relive that night again, this year wearing the same jersey if not the same number.
That was back in 1995, about seven years ago. What was a blessing turned out as a curse. Later after winning the Cup, Ajax went downhill as its players and the then coach, van Gaal, left the team.
Now, in 2003, Ajax will again face AC Milan but this time, it’s not the final but it is the quarterfinal that will lead to the semifinal and eventually the final itself. Between these two rivals, between the teenager idealist and the elite, only one will be allowed to continue on dreaming of conquering the world. And if Ajax manages to dream on further at the expense of the Italian, let us just pray that the dream won’t be turned into another nightmare.
In any case, Ajax main goal is to reach the quarterfinal. The objective is complete and so, losing this particular match is not going to be a disappointment, at least not as disappointing when Ajax lost to Inter Milan twice during the group match. But to win, to win against one of European aristocrat will be sweet indeed. Imagine, seeing Inter Milan again after this in the semifinal, it is going to be a deja vu. In 1995, Ajax met AC Milan during the group stage only to meet AC Milan again in the final. In 2002, Ajax met Inter Milan in the group stage and will meet Inter again if AC is beaten. I hope the deja vu will work its charm.
Ajax, whether you win or lose, I will always be with you. Since when have I left you?
I shed tear with you in 1996. I didn’t leave you when Kluivert left. I stayed with you when the de Boer brothers when said goodbye to de Meer. I stood beside you when we heard van Gaal was heading to Barcelona. I celebrated with you when we were avenged against Feyenoord and PSV. I am still with you here and I will be with you when you fight against the Italian again. I will never leave you.
Hup Ajax Hup!
HAPPY EARTH DAY.
Like what Greenpeace has always said, it’s time to take back the planet.
Right now, I am just less than an hour worth of game time away from my second ship, the admirable Griffin class freighter.
After weeks of playing Eve: The Second Genesis, all those patience, hours of mining the rare omber ore, running from both the authorities and the pirates, and even the patience of waiting for slow docking procedure is finally paying off. All I need now is 20k more credits and then, Griffin will be mine.
Griffin is a good freighter designed by the Caldarian engineers and it cost exactly 320 000 worth of credits. This is roughly a product of 4 200 refined ombers. Once I have the Griffin, all the pirates are going to lick my ass.
If you are unfamiliar with the Caldari and the Griffin, I am currently a beta tester for Eve: The Second Genesis, a game produced by a company from Iceland named CCP. It has been in the beta stage for almost a year and I joined the testing team around the eighth stage of testing and that was back in February.
The game is basically massive online role playing game (a.k.a. morpg, a relatively new genre in the gaming world) cum a real time strategy game and has the same basic concept as Earth and Beyond. You are in control of one ship at first and your main objective is to make money. In the world of Eve, it is all about money. Money motivates almost everything, much as in real life.
Currently, there are four main races which the players can choose from. In the final version however, another race will be added. Each race has its own advantages and disadvantages and it depends what role the players wants to be; a miner, a trader, a pirate, a CEO or anything. The options are simply a lot if not endless.
There many ways to make money. The easiest way is to mine resources and there are a variety of resources that can be mined. The only place where the resources can be found is at the asteroid field, or the roids as the Eve testers are calling it. Nevertheless, the precious ores can only be mined at far away roids and usually, there are pirates that guard the field. Another way is to trade items from one system to the next. Looting is an option but Taking up a bounty hunting or courier mission provide attractive amount of credits. Although the mentioned methods are the major ways to earn credits, each new patch for the beta tester seems to bring more alternatives. The latest addition is the stock market. The market coding has not been implemented by the programming team at CCP but it will be interesting to see how corporations will wage a war through the stock market instead of the conventional means with missiles and stuff.
The choices are endless simply because the Eve universe is simply huge. In a system, there are usual an average of five to ten stations and each offers different items for the players. Not only that, each system is part of a constellation which typically contains up somewhere around seven systems and that constellation itself is part of a region. At the same time, a few constellations build up a region. And the best thing is there is countless number of regions. Of course it is not an infinite count but any sane people certainly wouldn’t count the number of leaf on a tree. To demonstrate the shear size of the universe, once during a test run, there were 4 servers running and each server has the ability to serve more and 2 000 players all at once.
The eye catcher for this game is the game play graphic. In GameSpot, the reviewer was even surprised after knowing that a beautiful graphic was actually game play graphic rather than a CGI for the plot’s film. Another interesting fact about this game is the ability for the player to create a unique face for the player’s character.
This game will be the new Everquest. Instead of calling it Eve: The Second Genesis, it will be Eve: The Second Crack. And of course, the first gaming crack is Evercrack (reads Everquest for the illiterate).
For more information, visit Eve Online.
p/s – Fucking Blogger won’t display the correct format. Go to www.eve-online.com manually instead of following the above link.
p/s 2 – Fucking Blogger’s problem is now solved although the current command I am using is supposedly to be fucking wrong.
p/s 3 – There is too much fucking pressure. One more fucking annoying n00b gonna make me fucking crack. Especially the fucking n00b teammate that threw a fucking nade in front of me. I was fucking mad at that fucking n00b for taking 90% of my fucking hp. I fucking gave him a fucking headshot with a fucking shot gun immediately after my blood shot up to my fucking brain. FUCKING n00b!!! I am so fucking mad that I am gonna fucking hack some fucking ppl with some fucking nick on MSN. Better not do some fucking nick on your fucking IM if you don’t want your fucking C drive to be fucking wiped out. Do you hear me you fucking n00b? DO HEAR ME FUCKING |\|00b?!?!?!?!!?!?
p/s 4 – That feels fucking good. Ah…
p/s 5 – This is way too much profanity. Sigh…
p/s 6 – Screw you guys, I’m going home. Er…wrong phrase.
p/p/s – UNCLE FUCKA!!!
Shut your fucking face uncle fucka
You’re a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucka
You’re an uncle fucka, yes its true
Nobody fucks uncles quite like you
Shut your fucking face uncle fucka
You’re the one that fucked your uncle, uncle fucka
You dont eat or sleep or mow the lawn,
You just fuck your uncle all day long
Hmm!
What’s going on here?
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh
Fucker fucker uncle fucka fucka fucka fucka fucka
Shut your fucking face uncle fucka uncle fucka
You’re a boner biting bastard uncle fucka
You’re an uncle fucka I must say
Well you fucked your uncle yesterday
Uncle fucka… thats
U-N-C-L-E fuck you
Uncle Fuckaaaaaaaaaaaaa
tonight…
I met my economics advisor yesterday and she recommends me to take up Statistics with Economics. This is going to get ugly, really ugly.
Anyway, Michigan failed to prevail over Minnesota for the NCAA Hockey and Red Wings lost to the Mighty Ducks. Now, I must admit that I don’t really follow NHL as much as I would want to but I know losing to the Mighty Duck is embarrassing.
Well, at least Ajax still has a chance against AC Milan next week. After reading and seeing match highlights and reports, Ajax surprising dominated up to 60% of the game. I was expecting Milan to show Ajax who is he boss but apparently, Ajax is not a whipping boy. I won’t be expecting Ajax to advance to the semifinals but with Ajax current form, I am willing to raise my bet on them.
In the Eresdivisie, Koeman is optimistic that Ajax still can overrun PSV but personally, I say Koeman is too optimistic. If I were Ajax’s chairman, I would advice Koeman to concentrate on the second place and on the Champions League.
Onward to the British Isles, the match of the season, Arsenal – Manchester United ended in a draw. In any case, Arsenal has the upper hand right now. However, the advantage will quickly evaporate if Arsenal loses any one of its final game. Manchester United on the other hand needs to win all its last games if they want to keep up the pressure on the Gunners.