Saturday was a really busy day for me. Spent the whole day at this training I had to attend. Was up from 7AM and my training ended only around 6PM. So Sunday was a day I decided I was going to do nothing but nua at home.
It turned out to be quite the opposite. I spent Sunday morning working from home.
My friend Melissa came down from SG so I went to Pavilion with her. My other friend Leon ended up joining as well …. and he ended up wearing the same pants as I did. What are the odds of that?
The later part of the evening for me was spent at the Mister Potato Viewing Party for the Manchester United vs Everton match at Sunway. There was a huge crowd of Man Utd supporters there. It’s true when they say sports unite people. Because when I walked in with my Man Utd jersey, all the other fans of all race and ages gave me a smile. It’s like they knew were … together.
There was a long queue getting into the viewing at the Sunway Lagoon amphitheater.
The viewing was well worth it though.
I estimate to be about 1,000 people there so the atmosphere there was the closest thing you could get in KL to the atmosphere at Old Trafford. You could tell they were ALL Man Utd fans. When Everton scored, there wasn’t a hint of cheering but when Man Utd scored, the crowd erupted in loud cheers.
Eventhough Man Utd needed the win badly, the game ended with a 4-4 draw.
It was an awesome game to watch though. I admire the perseverence of Everton.
After the game ended with a draw, the crowd looked disappointed but nobody looked more disappointed than the 2 Man Utd legends (ex-players) who were watching the game with us.Gary Pallister and Ronny Johnsen.
Mister Potato brought them over so Malaysian fans could meet them and watch the game with them. I never expected to really meet them that afternoon. At first Pierre asked me to meet him at Pyramid for dinner before the game. I thought we were going to eat Nandos or something so I just wore my jersey and shorts. Then when I was there he told me “Dude I think we’ll have dinner at the event. We can have dinner with the Man Utd Legends there”.
I was like “Thanks dude… gimme less notice next time!”.
For a minute there I nearly wanted to run into Sunway Pyramid and buy a pair of proper pants or something but Pierre told me it’s okay.
It was awesome meeting these Man Utd legends. That made my Sunday (eventhough we drew).
How was yours?
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space