Good bye, Holland :(

Monday, June 18, 2012

First of all... Edwin Van Der Sar is in Indonesia...!!! Woowwww....!!
He was on RCTI, watching Netherlands vs Portugal with those creepy Indonesian commentators.

So here is the final results of the last matches of group B:

Portugal 2 - 1 Netherlands (Cristiano Ronaldo '28, '74 - Raphael Van Der Vaart '11)
Germany 2 - 1 Denmark (Podolski '19, Bender - Krohn-Dehli '24)


Germany        9     3/0/0     5 - 2

Portugal         6     2/0/1     5 - 4
Denmark       3      1/0/2    4 - 5
Netherlands   0      0/0/3    2 - 5

You know, watching this group, is like watching American Idol, or some sort of things. You like both contestants. You'd be sad no matter whoever got thrown out from the competition. I mean... OMG, the teams in this group... Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Denmark... Both are great teams. Both are legends. Both have got their own history.

Germany was the finalist of Euro 2008 and semi-finalist of World Cup 2010. Netherlands was World Cup 2010 finalist. Denmark has good record in Euro history. And Portugal... they've got one of the most promising soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, and other soccer stars. We can't really chose any team, can we?

But this group happened to be the perfect hierarchy-ed group, in which one team won over 3 other teams, the second team won over the other 2, the third only won over the one who lost all games. Look at the table above! There are no tied results in this group. Wow! Fantastic!

* 39 players have made 54 goals in 20 matches.

Russia, oh Russia

Sunday, June 17, 2012

What a surprise!
Russia started this tournament convincingly, beating a team as good as Czech Rep. 4 - 1. But then they got tied with Poland 1 - 1 on the second match..., and now..., they lost against Greece!
Greece, who was the bottom after failed to win on their first two games, finally make their way to the quarter final, by beating Russia 1 - 0. Theofanis Gekas was the hero.
...

Czech Rep. 1 - 0 Poland (Petr Jiracek '72) Greece 1 - 0 Russia (Giorgios Karagounis '45)

Czech Rep  6       1/0/2   2 - 3
Greece        4       1/1/1   3 - 3
Russia         4       1/1/1   5 - 3
Poland        2       0/2/1   4 - 5

Alan Dzagoev was the top scorer candidate. He was the first player to make 3 goals in this tournament. Now he's no longer got any chance to make more goals. He could only wish no one would make more than 3 goals.

Ah, football... nothing is predictable. Football is never predictable.

* 35 players have made 48 goals in 18 matches.

Another Great Goals from Another Games

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Italy 1 - 1 Croatia (Andrea Pirlo '39 - Mandzukic '72)

Spain 4 - 0 Ireland (Torres '4, '70, Silva '48, Fabregas '83)

France 2 - 0 Ukraine (Menez '53, Cabaye '56)

England 3 - 2 Sweden (Carroll '23, Walcott '64, Welbeck '78 - Johnson '49-og, Mellberg '59)
Damn! Johnson made the own goal! Lucky that Walcott and Welbeck made another two goals for England.

Euro 2012 is getting HOT!!!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Euro 2012 is getting hot! Each team from Group A and B had played for their second matches.

Group A
Greece 1 - 2 Czech Rep. (Theofanis Gekas '53 - Petr Jiracek '3, Vaclav Pilar '6)
Poland 1 - 1 Russia (Jakub Błaszczykowski '57 - Alan Dzagoev '37)

From group A, Russia is now leading with 4 points, after they beat Czech Rep. 4 – 1 at the first match, and then tied with Poland 1 -1 in the second match. And Czech Rep., who was the bottom of the group after losing the first game from Russia, now is in the second place after winning the game against Greece 2 – 1. So now Poland and Greece are the 2 in the bottom. Poland has failed to reach the 3 points.

Russia                   4             1/1/0     5 – 2

Czech Rep.          3             1/0/1     3 – 5

Poland                  2             0/2/0     2 – 2

Greece                 1             0/1/1     2 – 3

I love to see the points: 1, 2, 3, 4. That is just perfect!

Russia is still undefeated, they got 3 points on the first match and 1 point from the second match. Czech Rep. lost once and won once, so they got 3 points. Poland is always tied, so they got 2 points. And Greece, lost one match and only got tied in the other match, making them only got 1 point until now. But anyway, the chances are still wide open. Each team still can fail or make it through the quarter final.

Even the leading team Russia is not save yet. And the chance for Greece is still big. The last matches for this group would be Greece vs Russia and Poland vs Czech Rep. If Greece won against Russia, and Czech Rep. won against Poland, Czech Rep. and Greece would go to the quarter final.

Group B
Portugal 3 - 2 Denmark (Pepe '25, Postiga '36, Varella '87 - Bendtner '41, '80)
Germany 2 - 1 Netherlands (Mario Gomez '24, '38 - Van Persie '73)

From the group B, Germany just made their chance to go to the quarter final bigger. They've reached 6 points after winning 2 games in a row. After beating Portugal 1 - 0 on the first match, now they beat Netherlands 2 - 1. It made it harder for Netherlands to go to quarter final. Meanwhile, Portugal beat Denmark 3 - 2, making them have the same 3 points, with the same goals aggregate 3 - 3.

Germany              6             2/0/0     3 – 1

Portugal               3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Denmark             3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Netherlands         0             0/0/2     1 – 3

Germany got happy and celebrate their success to win 2 games. They celebrate as if they already go to the quarter final. But in fact, they're not save yet. The next matches would be Germany against Denmark and Portugal against Netherlands.

Madagascar 3

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I went to Lippo Karawaci with Adrian and Nadia. Wow! That town is always surprising me. It's always very nice, and I wish I could live there again someday.

We had some snacks and drinks at Law's Kopithiam, while Nadia did her thesis revision and I helped Adrian do his log book report. What is a log book? That's a pilot's book to record their flying hours. Flying hours? Is that the right words? Yeah whatsoever.

At 2 or something we went to ice cream Oom at Taman Diponegoro. Oh, I was there some couple of years ago. That was my favorite place. I saw so many wonderful house, the environment is very quite and peaceful.  So many trees, so many beautiful house, children playing around, the wind blows... ah, perfect!

You've got to try ice cream Oom. The taste is very unique. They've got unique flavors, such as 'Olive and Parmessan' and 'Peanut Butter'...nyummy!!

Then we went to have some late lunch at Tegal Rotan, near Bintaro. I called Deany and asked her to join us. But Deany asked us to watch 'Madagascar 3' at night.

So, at night, I went to PIM 1 to watch 'Madagascar 3' with Deany, Adrian, and Nadia. And it was such a great idea to spend your time with. ;-)

Just like the first and second, 'Madagascar 3' was such a mood booster. I looooovvvee it!! What a great movie! It was funny, smart, entertaining, the visual was great, the music was great, perfect! the movie!

As you know--if you watched it since the first movie--Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippopotamus, and Melman the giraffe are stranded in Madagascar. From 'Madagascar 1' and 'Madagascar 2', they've been trying to go back to New York, to the zoo where they believe they belong to.

In the end of 'Madagascar 2', they were still in Africa, waiting for the penguins. In 'Madagascar 3', they decided to catch up with the penguin, that happened to be in Montecarlo, Monaco. So, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, and the lemurs (that they met back in 'Madagascar 1') went to Europe! They traveled through Europe, chased by the slick animal hunter Chantal Dubois, joined the circus with Vitaly the Russian tiger, Gia the Spanish jaguar, and Stefano the Italian seal.

Oh they're so cute! Chantal is slick, ambitious, fast, and crazy. Vitaly is cold and sad, Gia the sexy and passionate one, and Stefano is the funniest, and so dumb. My favorite is the circus scenes, and the Rome scene. Oh it was very funny!

You've got to watch it!

Title: 'Madagascar 3'

Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer, Sascha Baron Cohen, Jessica Chastain

Vorrei provare a cominciare scrivere qui in italiano

martedi, 12 giugno 2012

Studio l'italiano da 3 o 4 anni. Uso i libri, le programme, il dizionario, e ho qualche amici italiani che mi aiutano studiare.
Adesso vorrei cominciare a scrivere in italiano. Ma, mia lingua non è bene ancora. Parlo solo rudimentale. Non capisco sulla grammatica per il passato e futuro.

Va bene.
Mi chiamo Astari Pahlevi. Ho 26 anni. Sono nato il 11 giugno 1986. Si, ieri era mio compleanno. Due giorni fa ero 25 anni. Ah, che cosa questo è? Che cosa sto parlando?
Comunque, ho molte cose per dire sulla mia vita. Ma lo devo scrivere nel altro blog.
Vorrei imparare l'italiano.

Perchè? Perchè mi piace molto Italia. Mi piace il paese, mi piace il calcio, mi piace la cultura, i cibi, la storia, gli edifici vecchi, l'architettura, le macchine, le motociclette... ah mi piace tutti sull'Italia!
Posso cantare 'Inno di mameli'.
Sono andato a Milano e Verona per vacanza. Quelle città sono bellissime!

Dopo parlo l'italiano bene, voglio anche studiare il portoghese e lo spagnolo. Perchè mi piace molto le lingue e i paesi.

Voglio andare in qualche paesi e studiare le lingue. I paesi sono Brazile, Spagna, Portogallo, Grecia, Francia, Russia, Polandia, Romania, Messico, Kenya, Sud-Africa, Argentina, Cuba, Giappone, Sud-Corea, India, Nepal, Thailand, etc.

Voglio anche andare in Olanda, ma solo perchè mia cugina vive lì. E mi piace Amsterdam perchè la città è molto vecchia e classica.

Birthday Party, Football Party

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

My birthday is yesterday, June 11. But I'm kinda tired of writing diary everyday. So, I just wrote it now.

As you know, European Cup and World Cup are always on my birthday. Well, birth month. It's always on June. So every 2 years I always celebrate my birthday by Euro or World Cup. And the results of World Cup 2002, 2006, 2010, and Euro 2008 were my best gift (On 1994 I didn't watch football yet).

So, how would this Euro 2012 be?

Euro 2012 started on June 8, 2012. The hosts are Poland and Ukraine. There are 4 groups, each group contains 4 teams:

Group A: The host Poland, Greece, Russia, and Czech Rep.
Group B: Portugal, German, Denmark, and Netherlands
Group C: Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Croatia
Group D: France, England, Sweden, and the other host Ukraine

The result so far:
June 8, 2012
Poland 1 - 1 Greece (Robert Lewandowski '17 - Dimitrios Salpingidis '51)
Russia 4 - 1 Czech Rep. (Dzagoev '15, '79, Shirokov '24, Pavlyuchenko '82 - Pilar '52)

June 9, 2012
Denmark 1 - 0 Netherlands (Michael Krohn-Dehli '24)
Germany 1 - 0 Portugal (Mario Gomez '73)

June 10, 2012
Italy 1 - 1 Spain (Antonio DiNatale '61 - Cesc Fabregas '64)
Croatia 3 - 1 Ireland (Mandzukic '3, '48, Jelavic '43 - St. Ledger '19)

June 11, 2012
France 1 - 1 England (Samir Nasri '39 - Joleon Lescott '31)
Ukraine 2 - 1 Sweden (Andriij Shevchenko '55, '62 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic '52)

So far, there are already 20 goals in 8 matches: means 2.5 goals per match.
The top scorers so far are Andriij Shevchenko from Ukraine, Alan Dzagoev from Russia, and Mario Mandzukic from Croatia, each with 2 goals.
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crazy goal of Samir Nasri made me goes "Holly s***!"

Personal favorites
My favorite team, as always, is Italy. I support Italy because I love cattenaccio and personally love the country.
But, my favorite players are all in Spain: Iker Casillas, Cesc Fabregas, Pique, etc. And I really, really love the way they play.
And so far, I think the best team I've seen is France. They play very beautiful. That amazing player Samir Nasri... OMG!

So, I think I'll go with Italy, Spain, and France. But so far they haven't win. Well, there are still 2 more matches for each team. Oh...why should my 2 favorite teams be in the same group?