Taking over & making improvements

One of the thing one should learn bout taking over it is not just taking charge but what you do with it. Something are within your means and some are not. For example the Information Committee of the state hockey association that can on its own take over a notice board and set KPI (see bottom left of the NOW pic) when it was last updated. The target is to updated every month at least. as opposed taking so long to get $$$ to get the web page up and running despite all the approvals and endorsement in place.

Well we do what we can and how we can


THEN

NOW

In the midst of all this - Junior comes 1st

In the midst of all these tournament going the last thing I would ever want to miss is my Juniors Sports day, its always fun and you should always be apart of the Junior's activities, that should come first

So his school sports was on Sat (in the midst fo Sukses) we had tremendous fun together and I was overjoyed watching him and his class mates do games and play like kids do. They had a march past and his team for the sport games got 3rd place.

One of the joys of inter house games is the gangs and cheating accusation and when they kiss and make up it worth watching. I wonder if adults can learn anything from this

Sukses - good bad and ugly

In more ways then one SUKSES was successful, Technically and Organization wise we were a success.


the good
On the field for the 1st time we had a champion from Gombak who beat Klang in the Finals. We had a good crowd there for the games and especially the finals. Now we have round 2 the Champion Schools


The ugly
The closing ceremony which the Majlis Sukan Daerah wanted to run was failure because the people who wanted to take charge of running it did not know what to do but too shy to ask. In the end a lot of red faced and a poor lady MC that was caught in the middle of all of it. On our part we did our best to help her thru and manage the situation. Its the least we could do

The bad
Key word used form time to time "Tiada peruntukan" no wories the show must go on. In the end as long you have a tournament without any hitch and team can play in a healthy environment what else do you need. No fund , we will go and find the funds. We must show if one door closes on us we must find other doors not sit down and wail.

For the record, despite the hiccups form the earlier reps in SHA and MSN, we have manage to step in and built a good rapport with MPK & MSN.

I has the distinct pleasure of sitting down with the top honcho of MSN and we actually had a great conversation in the words of Jerry Maguire: Help me... help you. Help me, help you.

Here we go

Today marks day 1 of the activities

Today at 7.45am was the 1st game for SUKSES and marks the beginning of what will hopefully be a good series of events to help (for the lack of a better word) revive hockey activities in Selangor.

Trust me when I say it was never easy reaching this stage., there was resistance to change and trying to change mindset. Even last night was a crucial meeting clear out bottle necks.

I am happy to say I have a team to work with coz none of this can be done alone.

Promotion of these activities are not easy, both on the web and bloggers like Voice-in-Sports& Malaysian Sports' Loose Cannon have been tremendous help and source of encouragement.

I am still trying to reach mainstream press but it never easy. Lets see how we do.

Today I also have to thank my fellow blogger (must call him 'annai') and Facebook buddy for writing up about our activities.

Thank bro.

Click on the pic for a link

The first step ..

The first step always the hardest, after a while we are trying to start something, if you are around come and support us in the hockey activities.

It was Peter A. Cohen who said - There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

To do what you see below takes effort, takes behind the scenes work and lots of communication. I dun mean the effort take to design the flyer but the effort to take to organize there activities. For some it may be a walk in a park for some it be climbing Everest.

While I may harp time to time on the lack of activities in Selangor in the past and Annual reports that are peppered with so called activities, one only need to talk to the people on the ground to see what activities actualyl have taken place.

Having been apart of the sport of Hockey up to International Level both participating and organizing, trust me when I say it never easy at any level. Even more so when you have to build form scratch.

Well this is what we have manage to set up, now we wait for the response

Bob Marley - redemption song acustic - 30 year old song...

My favorite lines from this song are
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds"
Bob wasn't just a gnarley stoner, he was a prophet.

Stadium Hoki Pandamaran

If we do not make small repairs and maintain infrastructure well.. this how we end up with things

This one of the last remaining, 'working', 'playable' turf on this side of Selangor. If you want another you got to go to Gombak.

We got to work together to make repairs, make improvements to the stadium or it will die a slow death like Stadium Hoki Petaling Jaya ( dont get me started on that)

Time for some Hockey Fun in Selangor

The next 2 tournaments in Selangor

To go out with a bang ---I Don't Love You-My Chemical Romance

Going out with a bang

I am not that scary.....

I am not that scary... I am nice....

The words went like this......

I want you to do what you want to do - take the job ........ I just want you to talk to me about it. I want us to talk about what it will mean and we'll make it work. I want us to talk like we're gonna figure it out together. I want us to talk... because I like the sound of your voice. I just want to talk....

poetic...

Lets listen too

its here its here its HERE!!!!!

Our beloved Stadium

With the progression of hockey from grass to artificial turf the game of hockey has changed. In Selangor we had 2 stadiums Pandamaran & PJ there is also another turf at UIA withign the campus

PJ turf is dead, rumors are it will be converted to a Futsal count, why not an indoor hockey court, if we cant afford to lay a new turf and we can afford to change to a futsal court why not an indoor hockey court, the infrastructure is there, the base is solid.

Nothing against futsal but already have too many mushrooming around us


Below is the state of the Pandamaran stadium. I must say this it is one of the best kept facilities with the annai and uncle there trying to keep it from falling apart.

It recently got some touch up, a little paint and a little sewing of the turf. This is the only venue for Hockey in Selangor left.

We need to upgrade a lot of thing it in but lets start small. Lets tackle the turf cleaning and the Technical Table which is rusted and already broken. Lets strategize slowly to repair the lighting, after all we paid money for it right now the lighting is dead.

Small changes like repair of the notice board and other minor stuff.

Doing OGA

Yeah in the end you see we actually doing it for all the Op-Co, we have transitioned from coordinating to organizing to actually doing.

Well OGA = Oil & Gas Asia is the de-facto biggest O&G show held every two years once, it means actual sleepless night with design and production of A-Z and I actually mean A-Z, but we planned strategically this time to recover bout 60% of the booth is reuseable.

So from sleepless nights to having every kind of fast food every night, practically sleeping in the office, to delivery, ensuring alignment, wat-you-see-is-what-you-get to awesome piece of equipments big and small, meeting old friends to making news ones especially one that drag you to the dance floor to salsa... Point to note it help not to say NO to a director lol

Uphill Task - Hockey

Have you ever tried to start a car after a year? 2 years? 3 years? Its worst then an uphill climb. Same like trying to organize activities for a State Association. While AGM reports can be plastered with so called activities but when you are an affiliate and you do not have activities for affiliates why should you waste money and time being a members of that State Association. I might as well go and be a member of the neighbouring state. Why? Heck I get to play in a league.

So here we are, no league, no knockout over the past few years, affiliates down to a small number, most playing in a neighbouring league how do you start the car? Its not like your coffers are over flowing with cash either.

You bring people who have the drive, people you know can deliver, not yes men, not quiet men but people who can work. It will never going to be easy, you have to peel off layers, you have to encourage affiliates to come back, you got to find funds etc etc etc

Start small, kick off with small activities, dun reach for the sky, nobody is going to believe if this is all just talk. Plan a calendar, even if the participation is less plans it execute it, make it good, run the tournament, promote it, show people something is being done. People will come back, teams will come back.

You cant turn this over night nor can you hit the ground running, like the rusted ball above with a little polishing month after month year after year, if you can hold on you will find a shiny new ball below.

Publish Post

So we start off with the following

Sukses will be Jul 10-12 Press release for Champions Schools - Selangor will be released


Champions Schools Jul 18/19 - Press release for the Selangor Hockey Association K.Ramalingam Cup 8-a-side closed will be released

K.Ramalingam (god bless his soul) Cup 8-a-side will be the August 1st weekend - Press release for the Selangor League ( god willing) will be launched

SHA website --- any sponsors? I got the opportunity lol


“Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened”

Hockey

Well my love and hate relationship with hockey comes again. This time thru no fault of my own i am elected VP of a state association. I did not lobby for it I did not make a sales pitch heck I beat 6 other guys? Go figure

I dont know why back from the days in Malaysian Hockey Federation people are afraid of change. Politics and deadwood rule sport, I would say majority of the sports and hockey is no different, people are afraid to embrace technology (heck some even reluctant to get an email!!!) people are afraid to make a paradigm shift and everyone loves their comfort zone. My battles to change this still continues.

At national level at a meeting I attended, people become yes men to things that are so obvious. For example, in SUKMA if you look at the rules of the tournament the way we need restructure fixtures seem to be bogged down by red tape.

SUKMA Hoki previously was 3 groups of 3 teams means if you play one game you lose you 18 month investment in developing the team at a budget of over RM 50k with allowance for players managers ( who dont attend every training), cost not factored in are all down the drain!!

It takes 3 SUKMA to change it to a 2 group system - go figure.

Sukses - you can just have it coz you wanna have it? You can take 9 districts in Selangor tell them ok make up a team though ur district take part in a 3 day tournament and try to have 17 matches between Fri-Sun and wrap it up. Oh by the way we dun have enough funds we have to slash the budget? Hello!! BTW you only get 1 t-shirt while officials get Batik hehehe

How about doing away with elaborate fireworks or opening ceremonies or grand dinners and hand that amount to each state sports association. Trust me each state association would like nothign better then to provide the avenue for the players to compete in an equal field.

Not cramping 6 games a day at 25 minutes each half, teams playing 2 games a day and dropping dead on the field from exhaustion and getting a poor finals

Lastly people who plan calendar need to consult stae bodies. Imagine if the Sukses (U-22) was schedule wiht the National (U-23) same time.... why> people who go for meeting dun bother to make proper reports and hand over... We cant just makan kuih aje


Anyway past few night of trying to have budget meeting and strategies fixtures

Sukses will be Jul 10-12 whew!!!
Champions Schools Jul 18/19 - worth watching
K.Ramalingam (god bless his soul) Cup 8-a-side will be the August 1st weekend
National U-23 (not my tournament) Jul 16-27

I sure hope this works.

Talking to my blog

Its been about 2 months since I actually had the freedom of the drive to talk to my blog, yeah talk... Since April 1st I have been on over drive mode... new department, old politics, coming face to face with issues, more traveling, weight going yoyo, and really really stressed out both at work and at home...

I did not have the usual channels of release no no not sex but doing the things I used to do... now when work if officially over the quiet murmur from management we got to pull in extra hours and I am like WAT?? Isnt the 10-11 hours we are pulling in enough?

OGA this year was crazy, from an organizational aspect we succeded again but I was not happy, despite planning, QC everythign was vetoed, might as well let them decide on everything.

OGA this year had the quantity but not the quality, like window shopping, but I loved the mee kari there.

Post OGA wrap up I am with this organization 4 years... feeling frisky if I should test the waters, we shall see how the cards layout.

Lakers win!!! Lakers win!!!

Lakers defeat the Magic 99-86 to win 15th NBA title

UPDATED 11.30AM

ORLANDO, June 14 — The Los Angeles Lakers captured their 15th championship and first since 2002 with a 99-86 victory over the Orlando Magic in the NBA Finals yesterday.

Los Angeles won the best-of-seven series 4-1, giving coach Phil Jackson his record 10th title.

Going Dutch on a Date

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Finally....


Going Dutch on a Date

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