Kenapa Saya Suka Futsal...

I've started playing futsal back in 2005. I've so called 'accidentally' joined a group of people who was regularly playing futsal every Monday without fail from 10-11 pm @ Sport Planet Ampang. Kat sekolah & uni dulu pun aktif netball je. Tak pernah being exposed to Futsal pun, it was never existed among ladies I supposed.From playing for fun, then seriously we've formed our own futsal team called Blazing Rose. Started to joined public Futsal Tournaments one of them was organized by 3R. Of course la tak menang but seriously it was fun. But my best & unforgettable moment was when I got the opportunity to play with Sheila On 7!! And to my surprise, they were very skillful player. Especially when Duta merembat, rase nak biar je la bola tu. hahaha...
What's my position in my team? Of course la goal keeper. Tengok badan la! Tapi dari zaman sekolah mase main netball pun, I was the goalkeeper. Yeah, I was meant to be a protector and defender, not just to my team but also to people around me. heheh..

Futsal with So7 & Myself with Blazing Rose

Besides Blazing Rose, I played futsal for my office. Back then, it was so difficult to gather ladies player. Therefore, I've decided to join the gents. Imagine I was the only lady to play with them. Memang la seronok tengok their skills but when it comes to kena rembat, boley berdesing telinga woo. Dah penah kena. Thank you Didi, I will remember forever!. Since am the only lady in the team, maka mereka pun mengambil kesempatan to elect me as their unofficial 'Manager' so that it would be easier for them to have a person to handle booking, money collecting, sending out emails on confirming players. Selama beberapa tahun la jugak menjadi their loyal Manager. Tapi sekarang mereka dah ade Manager lain and I no longer join their team anymore.Back to Blazing Rose, the best part when we have our own jersey, with our own name & number being printed on it. Walaupun main tak seberapa, tapi janji baju lawa. hehe.My futsal with Blazing Rose remain quite active until last year. Sorang dah kawin, sorang gantung boot, sorang busy, sorang study, so and so one thing leads to another and our player started to shrink. Kak Ju pun sakit otak nak arrange. Lama kelamaan, Pitch 8, 10-11pm semakin suram dan tak mendapat sambutan. Finally, there's no longer Futsal session.

That was when, I've decided, I must take the initiative to organize my own futsal. I did. I planned and arranged with my colleague after office hour, to organize futsal 8-9 pm. First attempt, not so bad, I guess those girls been longing to play futsal. We played in U-One, next to Summit USJ. However, lama-lama participation semakin merosot. Susah betul nak buat aktiviti ngn career lady ni. Tetapi one fine night, since U-One pitch dah full house, ditakdirkan untuk bermain di HTO, another futsal center in USJ. Ditakdirkan jugak tak cukup player padahal dah dekat nak 8.30 pm dah ni. Nak menyampaikan diri ke USJ after office hour, memang azab. Jam Nauzubillah! Dengan tanpa segan silunya I invited few girls who were watching us playing half court outside the pitch. What a coincidence, one of the girl was actually hoping that I would call them to join us. Khairin, that time when you said you've been praying, 'Tolonglah bagi goalkeeper ni pandang belakang and ajak kitaorg bermain', seriously, Allah really heard us, babe. And I named our team as "Lady Gagah." Since that day onwards, it's like our routine already. Every Wednesday night at HTO, USJ, 8-9 pm. Lama kelamaan, our group become bigger. Dengan senang hatinya mereka melantik myself as their so called 'Manager'- from booking the pitch to collecting the money as well as arranging friendly match with other team.

Lady Gagah - Tak la gagah mane pun ;p

Along the way, I met the Ice Age team and we got the opportunity to have friendly match with them. To my surprise, they've invited me to join the Futsal Tournament in Cheras. Cuak Seh! Lama dah tak main, I was their goalkeeper dan banyak jugak la bola yg terbolos. Aiyo.. Nevertheless, it was a very good experience.

Futsal with Ice Age Team

Sebab itulah saya suka Futsal! Chaiyok!

(p/s: Futsal, Futsal, Futsal...Makan Futsal, Tidur Futsal... ;p)

Deepest Condolence...

My deepest condolence to my dearest Miss Madi & her hubby Atif for the lost of their little angle.

Now a little bit of background on Miss Madi. She is so dear to me. She was my former uni lecturer. Moreover, we shared same name, as well as the spelling - but her nickname is Madi & mine is Mudd. We shared almost the same size. The most obvious thing that can differentiate us, she's a 'white chocolate' and am the 'dark chocolate'. I was born in 1982 and she was born in 1972. We shared everything from our feelings to our secrets to our clothes! I always hang out at her house and we will cook dinner together, gossiping and a heart-to-heart session. We've been together since she was single and now married to a Pakistani, Atif Rafique Mughal. In November 2009 - she broke the great news that she's few weeks pregnant and I broke down while hearing the news. One of the happiest day of my life.

Until yesterday evening, while I was still in the office, I received her phone call. Her voice was so unbearable, devastated and she told me that she lost her baby. Their little angel. Our little angel. It seems that she no longer feel the baby kicking since last Monday and she felt her stomach turned hard. So they went for a regular check up last Friday and that was when the Doctor declared that there was no longer a heartbeat and she must deliver 'the baby' the soonest possible. I was speechless and could not find any words to comfort her at that point of time. This was my second time, experiencing this kind of situation. I pray for Miss Madi & Atif to be strong and able to move on with their life. I pray for Miss Madi's health and may Allah give her strength to pull herself together to go through this painful experience.

Al-Fatihah to the little angel who don't even got chance to see the world. May you will await for your Mommy & Daddy in heaven. Amin.

Miss Madi & Atif, it is indeed a hard time for both of you.
This is the Qada' & Qadar by Allah & it was already stated in Lauh Mahfuz.

(p/s: I know how much she wanted this baby...)

It's All Because of 'Lisa'......

Lo & behold.

Finally, I've 'launched' my own blog. And for a newbies like me, am still struggling to familiarize myself with all 'blogging-systems' here. I had difficulties to even update my 'Profile.' Haiya..
Later I will properly update it ;p Am so new to all this but I'm willing to learn...
So, bear with me.

Well, well...I've been longing to have my own blog. But previously, I kept on giving excuses to myself, add a bit of laziness, seriously could find right time to 'construct' it, too many stories to tell - where to start? Woo.. enough said...

Anyways, if not because of Lisa, I will still 'extend' my excuses and "Dark Mudd" will only be stored in the dark. Well, this involved two Lisa. One is my dearest Faralisa who is very experienced in blogging and another one is futsal teammate, Khalisa who is responsible to encourage me to have one. Normally, I was the one who give comments in Faralisa's blog and expecting to be the 1st person to do so...it depends on her entry also.She always said that blogging is good to express your feelings and the journey will be more interesting as we mix with interesting blogger. (Guess you might be right, Babe).
As for Khalisa, her blog is private but am honored to be able to view it. And she's very straight to the point , gave some advise here and there and ask me to just go for it.

Yay, it worked. For that, both of you are honored to be in my first entry.
Thank you to both of you and..."Tunjuk Ajarku Sifu."

And now let my journey begins......

The moment I saw this stairs..

There's a voice, inside my head saying, "You'll never reach it.."

It ain't about how fast I get there,
It ain't about what's waiting on the other side....
It's THE CLIMB..
(My Skytrex Adventure, Bukit Cerakah - Feb 2009)

(p/s: Theme song for this post - The Climb by Miley Cyrus)