"Football: Liverpool fume as Suarez says sorry for Evra snub - AFP 13 February 2012
LONDON: Liverpool chiefs have accused Luis Suarez of misleading them after claiming the Uruguay striker had guaranteed he would shake hands with Manchester United defender Patrice Evra before Saturday's clash at Old Trafford.
Suarez on Sunday apologised for his failure to acknowledge Evra's hand during the traditional pre-match greeting as he came face to face with United's captain for the first time since being given an eight-match ban for racially abusing the Frenchman at Anfield in October.
But Suarez's actions clearly infuriated Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre after Reds manager Kenny Dalglish and club officials were widely criticised for refusing to publicly condemn their player's behaviour.
Ayre insists Suarez had told them he would shake hands with Evra, only to change his mind on the pitch, and he revealed the club have given the forward a strong reminder of his responsibility not to damage Liverpool's reputation.
"We are extremely disappointed Luis Suarez did not shake hands with Patrice Evra before yesterday's game. The player had told us beforehand that he would, but then chose not to do so," Ayre said on Liverpool's official website.
"He was wrong to mislead us and wrong not to offer his hand to Patrice Evra.
"He has not only let himself down, but also Kenny Dalglish, his team-mates and the club.
"It has been made absolutely clear to Luis Suarez that his behaviour was not acceptable.""
Why do I comment on this sporting headline? Well. It is a big deal as the PM of UK is talking about the need to talk about football racism too!
Lessons for me are:
1. sporting heroes are not really the place to look for moral role model. Yet, there are many in the history of Liverpool Football Club that exhibited that exemplary Gentleman behaviours on and off the playing field. So, I agreed Suarez has let down his club! No doubt about that!!;
2. racism is an emotional thing. Just as football or soccer are. When emotion is allowed to be abused, rationality takes a back seat and things can get out of control pretty easily. The Man United Manager, Sir Ferguson was right to say that a riot and violence between the 2 bitter footballing giants in England could have broken up with such farcical behaviors by Suarez, and then Evra. Just glad that no stupid tragedy happened in this instance;
3. in Singapore, racism is tightly controlled. We recognize that it is an emotive issue and NO ONE is allowed to attack another race, language and religion without facing the full force of the laws coming down HARD swiftly and mercilessly. It does not mean there CANNOT be discussion, civil one, about race, language and religion. It simply meant there is NO room to put other down to show that your own is superior.
May Suarez, a gifted footballer for sure, regain his composure and check-in his self-centeredness and start thinking about Liverpool Football Club 1st. Otherwise, he should just got out of this beloved football club of mine!
About Me
- LU Keehong Mr
- I am a Practitioner of 'The 7e Way of Leaders' where a Leader will Envision, Enable (ASK for TOP D), Empower, Execute, Energize, and Evolve grounded on ETHICS!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Daily Lessons from Life 12 February 2012 - Whitney Houston dies at 48!
"Whitney Houston dies - The Korea Herald/Asia News Network Feb 12, 2012
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.
At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.
Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard'' and "Waiting to Exhale.''
She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.
But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy,'' Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.
It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone."
Celebrities are just normal human being, they come and go. However, every once in a while, the death of these celebrities does trigger some reflection on who they are, where did they come from and how did arrive at their celebreties status.
Lessons for me are:
1. the purpose of life decides if one lives a longer and more fulfilling life or not. For a successful superstar with so much going for her and she can literally has any man she wants she picked the 'bad boy' as her hubby. It was not pretty with alleged physical abuses and drinking and drug problems that developed probably as a coping or escaping the 'reality'. Love is blind and in this case her marriage is an Institute of the Blinds for her. She never did recover from this episode it seems;
2. when talented people with so much promises die young. Yes 48 is young. Even 50, the age when Michael Jackson died due to medical neglect by his personal physician, is young. It leaves with with lots of "what if's" and 'what could have been'! What if she is well and serving the charities that benefits millions? what if she grows into the evergreen presence and serenity of her aunt, Ms Dionne Warwick, or her God-Mum Aretha Franklin? etc. Well, we will never know now!;
3. life is short. At least for her she did have her moments. As I was listening to the BBC on the way back this morning, goose pimples popped on me when her songs were sang in the news tribute. Strange as it may be. I was truly sad that she has passed on. And in such a tragically young age.
May she rest in peace. May more talented artistes after her can think about the great things she had done/achieved, and after the lessons learned from her life experiences what to do right. Forget about the 'don't do' list!!
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.
At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.
Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard'' and "Waiting to Exhale.''
She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.
But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy,'' Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.
It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone."
Celebrities are just normal human being, they come and go. However, every once in a while, the death of these celebrities does trigger some reflection on who they are, where did they come from and how did arrive at their celebreties status.
Lessons for me are:
1. the purpose of life decides if one lives a longer and more fulfilling life or not. For a successful superstar with so much going for her and she can literally has any man she wants she picked the 'bad boy' as her hubby. It was not pretty with alleged physical abuses and drinking and drug problems that developed probably as a coping or escaping the 'reality'. Love is blind and in this case her marriage is an Institute of the Blinds for her. She never did recover from this episode it seems;
2. when talented people with so much promises die young. Yes 48 is young. Even 50, the age when Michael Jackson died due to medical neglect by his personal physician, is young. It leaves with with lots of "what if's" and 'what could have been'! What if she is well and serving the charities that benefits millions? what if she grows into the evergreen presence and serenity of her aunt, Ms Dionne Warwick, or her God-Mum Aretha Franklin? etc. Well, we will never know now!;
3. life is short. At least for her she did have her moments. As I was listening to the BBC on the way back this morning, goose pimples popped on me when her songs were sang in the news tribute. Strange as it may be. I was truly sad that she has passed on. And in such a tragically young age.
May she rest in peace. May more talented artistes after her can think about the great things she had done/achieved, and after the lessons learned from her life experiences what to do right. Forget about the 'don't do' list!!
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Daily Lessons from Life 11 February 2012 - 8 arrested in UK tabloid bribery probe
"8 arrested in UK tabloid bribery probe - AFP 11 February 2012
LONDON: British police on Saturday arrested five employees of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a defence ministry employee in a bribery probe.
The arrests represented a dramatic widening of police investigations into Murdoch's British newspaper empire, following the phone hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World in July.
"The remit of Operation Elveden has widened to include the investigation of evidence uncovered in relation to suspected corruption involving public officials who are not police officers," a Scotland Yard statement said.
Operation Elveden was set up last year in tandem with Operation Weeting, which is investigating the illegal hacking of mobile phone voicemails.
Police said five men aged 45, 47, 50, 52 and 68 were arrested in dawn raids at their homes in London and nearby areas on suspicion of corruption and of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.
The arrests were made following information provided to police by the Management and Standards Committee set up by Murdoch's US-based News Corporation, Scotland Yard said."
How persistence and belief in the uncovering of the truth make a difference when conspiracies and well crafted deception, misconducts and corruption are investigated.
Lessons for me are:
1. these type of activities must have been going on for a while. Despite careful and strenuous efforts to 'confuse and disorient' the public and the investigators, somehow someone somewhere will spill the beans! Sometimes from within the group that perpetuated the crimes!;
2. jealousy, envy, distrust or simple uneven distribution of the loots are enough to turn some of the perpetrators against each other! Such is the nature of such operation;
3. with the net cast wider, with more people in sensitive sectors of UK society being implicated, it can show one and for all, or at least to a large extent, the deep rootedness of such behaviors nurtured by self-centered people and behaviours. Some quite obviously turned not one but two blind eyes, cupped their ears and stuffed their noses, blacken their hearts and sold their souls! Yet, despite all the elaborate cover up, covert operations and what not, the truth will always be found when the deeds or misdeeds caused great public pains and are unethical.
May the Sun be brought down as well. May Rupert Murdoch and his greedy news media company be sanctioned severely. And may the Murdoch empire collapse unceremonially. Alright, this is too vindictive and one DOES NOT want to be as evil as the Murdoch Empire. So, let it die of natural death as decided by the readers and subscribers and the public!
God saves the Queen! (from an anarchist!)
LONDON: British police on Saturday arrested five employees of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a defence ministry employee in a bribery probe.
The arrests represented a dramatic widening of police investigations into Murdoch's British newspaper empire, following the phone hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World in July.
"The remit of Operation Elveden has widened to include the investigation of evidence uncovered in relation to suspected corruption involving public officials who are not police officers," a Scotland Yard statement said.
Operation Elveden was set up last year in tandem with Operation Weeting, which is investigating the illegal hacking of mobile phone voicemails.
Police said five men aged 45, 47, 50, 52 and 68 were arrested in dawn raids at their homes in London and nearby areas on suspicion of corruption and of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.
The arrests were made following information provided to police by the Management and Standards Committee set up by Murdoch's US-based News Corporation, Scotland Yard said."
How persistence and belief in the uncovering of the truth make a difference when conspiracies and well crafted deception, misconducts and corruption are investigated.
Lessons for me are:
1. these type of activities must have been going on for a while. Despite careful and strenuous efforts to 'confuse and disorient' the public and the investigators, somehow someone somewhere will spill the beans! Sometimes from within the group that perpetuated the crimes!;
2. jealousy, envy, distrust or simple uneven distribution of the loots are enough to turn some of the perpetrators against each other! Such is the nature of such operation;
3. with the net cast wider, with more people in sensitive sectors of UK society being implicated, it can show one and for all, or at least to a large extent, the deep rootedness of such behaviors nurtured by self-centered people and behaviours. Some quite obviously turned not one but two blind eyes, cupped their ears and stuffed their noses, blacken their hearts and sold their souls! Yet, despite all the elaborate cover up, covert operations and what not, the truth will always be found when the deeds or misdeeds caused great public pains and are unethical.
May the Sun be brought down as well. May Rupert Murdoch and his greedy news media company be sanctioned severely. And may the Murdoch empire collapse unceremonially. Alright, this is too vindictive and one DOES NOT want to be as evil as the Murdoch Empire. So, let it die of natural death as decided by the readers and subscribers and the public!
God saves the Queen! (from an anarchist!)
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