Working with the gurus
2010 started with a "bang" for me. First, I got to work on Winter Olympics, held in Vancouver, in February with Alan Wilkinson. I used to watch him on TV during Australian Open, and now, being able to get to know him a little bit, well, he's the typical British gentlemen you get and he gets frustrated with the American commentators who "murdered" the Korean names.
Next was plenty of understudying with English Premier League, Formula 1 and Champions League. My first EPL game was with John Dykes. He really blew me off. First, he turned up in jeans, shirt, tie and shoes. Then he didn't need a script from the producer. After that, he decided that the formation formulated by the CG machine shouldn't be the one used by the club, so he changed the formation and just add lib over them. Others would have turned up in shorts and slippers during this unearthly hours of the day/night.
Next was Champions League. Andrew Leci was cool, depending if he was tired or not. When he's not, he acted as if he's sugar high. Then came the special guest Abbas Saad. Being my childhood idol from the Malaysian Cup days, we sort of drove together into the building. Later, while the producer was looking for him, Abbas told the producer he was still in Yishun. The producer said he should just park his car, and get a cab. I was thinking, wasn't Abbas driving in front of me just now, and then he turned up, saying "I was here already, though I must admit I did get lost when I turned out of the carpark!"
My next encounter with Abbas Saad was pretty silly. I was doing my work at a work station, and suddenly there was this nice smell. I turned around and saw him. My first thought was, hmmm Abbas smells nice!" And he was wearing a suit, shirt, jacket, tie and all. Then when he walked, I heard this sound that doesn't seems to belong to shoes. I looked down, oh...discount!! He was wearing flip-flops!!
Jamie Reeves is good. He could give Andy Penders the name of a player when Andy just reads off clubs that this particular player played for. And, he's never late and he goes to yoga class!!
Shebby Singh...his famous line was "these days a lot of teams can out play Liverpool, even the Liverpool reserves can out play Liverpool!"
Next was plenty of understudying with English Premier League, Formula 1 and Champions League. My first EPL game was with John Dykes. He really blew me off. First, he turned up in jeans, shirt, tie and shoes. Then he didn't need a script from the producer. After that, he decided that the formation formulated by the CG machine shouldn't be the one used by the club, so he changed the formation and just add lib over them. Others would have turned up in shorts and slippers during this unearthly hours of the day/night.
Next was Champions League. Andrew Leci was cool, depending if he was tired or not. When he's not, he acted as if he's sugar high. Then came the special guest Abbas Saad. Being my childhood idol from the Malaysian Cup days, we sort of drove together into the building. Later, while the producer was looking for him, Abbas told the producer he was still in Yishun. The producer said he should just park his car, and get a cab. I was thinking, wasn't Abbas driving in front of me just now, and then he turned up, saying "I was here already, though I must admit I did get lost when I turned out of the carpark!"
My next encounter with Abbas Saad was pretty silly. I was doing my work at a work station, and suddenly there was this nice smell. I turned around and saw him. My first thought was, hmmm Abbas smells nice!" And he was wearing a suit, shirt, jacket, tie and all. Then when he walked, I heard this sound that doesn't seems to belong to shoes. I looked down, oh...discount!! He was wearing flip-flops!!
Jamie Reeves is good. He could give Andy Penders the name of a player when Andy just reads off clubs that this particular player played for. And, he's never late and he goes to yoga class!!
Shebby Singh...his famous line was "these days a lot of teams can out play Liverpool, even the Liverpool reserves can out play Liverpool!"
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
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