Monday 12 August 2013

Lawatan Stadium di England

Memandangkan hari ini saya mempunyai sedikit masa terluang, ingin saya berkongsi pengalaman dengan semua sahabat-sahabat yang membaca blog ini berkenaan dengan stadium-stadium yang sempat saya lawati sepanjang 4 tahun berada di England (2006-2010). Sememangnya pengalaman manis ini akan terus mekar dalam benak fikiran saya. Disebabkan minat yang mendalam dalam sukan bola sepak, semasa mula-mula menjejakkan kaki ke England saya bertekad untuk melawat ke semua stadium di England (untuk 5 divisyen teratas) yang merangkumi 116 stadium. Walaupun saya tak berjaya untuk melawat ke semua 116 stadium, namun alhamdulillah kerana saya berkesempatan untuk membuat lawatan ke 78 buah stadium di seluruh pelusuk England. Selain daripada stadium di England, saya juga berkesempatan untuk pergi ke stadium pasukan yang saya sanjungi iaitu Santiago Bernebau (Real Madrid) dan Nou Camp (Barcelona) semasa bercuti di Sepanyol. Dan semasa berada di Jerman, saya juga sempat melawat Allianz Arena (Bayern Munich) dan Mercedes Benz Arena (Stuttgart). Berikut adalah senarai stadium yang sempat saya lawati di seluruh pelusuk England:

No Stadium Capacity  Club
1 Wembley Stadium 90,000 England national 
2 Old Trafford 75,811 Manchester United
3 Emirates Stadium 60,361 Arsenal
4 St James' Park 52,409 Newcastle United
5 Stadium of Light 48,707 Sunderland
6 City of Manchester  47,405 Manchester City
7 Anfield 45,276 Liverpool
8 Villa Park 42,786 Aston Villa
9 Stamford Bridge 42,449 Chelsea
10 Goodison Park 40,157 Everton
11 Hillsborough Stadium 39,812 Sheffield Wednesday
12 Elland Road 37,697 Leeds United
13 White Hart Lane 36,230 Tottenham Hotspur
14 The Boleyn Ground 35,303 West Ham United
15 Riverside Stadium 34,998 Middlesbrough
16 Pride Park Stadium 33,502 Derby County
17 St Mary's Stadium 32,689 Southampton
18 Bramall Lane 32,609 Sheffield United
19 Ricoh Arena 32,604 Coventry City
20 King Power Stadium 32,312 Leicester City
21 Ewood Park 31,154 Blackburn Rovers
22 City Ground 30,576 Nottingham Forest
23 Portman Road 30,311 Ipswich Town
24 St Andrew's 29,409 Birmingham City
25 Reebok Stadium 28,100 Bolton Wanderers
26 Molineux 27,828 Wolverhampton 
27 Britannia Stadium 27,740 Stoke City
28 The Valley 27,111 Charlton Athletic
29 Carrow Road 27,010 Norwich City
30 The Hawthorns 26,360 West Bromwich Albion
31 Selhurst Park 26,225 Crystal Palace
32 KC Stadium 25,404 Hull City
33 Valley Parade 25,136 Bradford City
34 DW Stadium 25,133 Wigan Athletic
35 Craven Cottage 25,700 Fulham
36 Galpharm Stadium 24,554 Huddersfield Town
37 Madejski Stadium 24,169 Reading
38 Deepdale 23,408 Preston North End
39 Oakwell 23,287 Barnsley
40 Turf Moor 21,940 Burnley
41 Ashton Gate 21,804 Bristol City
42 Fratton Park 21,178 Portsmouth
43 Meadow Lane 20,280 Notts County
44 The Den 19,734 Millwall
45 Loftus Road 18,439 Queens Park Rangers
46 Vicarage Road 17,477 Watford
47 Prenton Park 16,151 Tranmere Rovers
48 Bloomfield Road 16,007 Blackpool
49 Keepmoat Stadium 15,231 Doncaster Rovers
50 County Ground 14,983 Swindon Town
51 London Road 14,793 Peterborough United
52 Memorial Stadium 11,626 Bristol Rovers
53 Priestfield Stadium 11,440 Gillingham
54 Gigg Lane 11,313 Bury
55 Bescot Stadium 10,989 Walsall
56 Boundary Park 10,850 Oldham Athletic
57 Edgeley Park 10,832 Stockport County
58 Kenilworth Road 10,226 Luton Town
59 Alexandra Stadium 10,109 Crewe Alexandra
60 Huish Park 9,665 Yeovil Town
61 Abbey Stadium 9,617 Cambridge United
62 Blundell Park 9,546 Grimsby Town
63 Brisbane Road 9,311 Leyton Orient
64 Field Mill 9,295 Mansfield Town
65 Glanford Park 9,144 Scunthorpe United
66 Bootham Crescent 7,872 York City
67 Victoria Park 7,749 Hartlepool United
68 Sixfields Stadium 7,300 Northampton Town
69 Whaddon Road 7,133 Cheltenham Town
70 Pirelli Stadium 6,912 Burton Albion
71 York Street 6,643 Boston United
72 Bob Lucas Stadium 6,600 Weymouth
73 The Shay 6,561 Halifax Town
74 Nene Park 6,441 Kettering Town
75 Globe Arena 6,400 Morecambe
76 Haig Avenue 6,008 Southport
77 Moss Rose 5,988 Macclesfield Town
78 Plainmoor 5,796 Torquay United


Berikut saya kongsi sebahagian daripada gambar koleksi lawatan stadium saya untuk tatapan sahabat-sahabat

Nou Camp (Barcelona)



Old Trafford (Manchester United)





Emirates (Arsenal)



Stamford Bridge (Chelsea)



 Kenangan indah ini akan terus bersemadi dalam diri saya sampai bila-bila. 

Wednesday 6 February 2013

The Differences Between Men and Women


If you can list the top ten things that bug you the most about men or women, what would they be? Did you know that men and women speak in entirely dissimilar languages, so much so that we may feel we are speaking to someone from another planet? To start, men and women are thoroughly different. The differences in terms of emotional, physical and mental are so tremendous that without a concentrated effort to recognize them, it is almost unworkable to have a happy relationship. So the next time your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband or parent starts telling you how you must have done somewhat in a different way, please refer back to these big differences between men’s and women’s brains.

1. Human interactions
Women tend to converse more efficiently than men, focusing on how to generate a solution that works for the group, talking through issues, and utilizes non-verbal cues such as tone, emotion, and empathy whereas men tend to be more task-oriented, less talkative, and more isolated.

2. Left brain vs both hemispheres
Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men are generally stronger with left-brain activities and approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating.

3. Reaction to stress
Men tend to have a "fight or flight" response to stress situations while women seem to approach these situations with a "tend and befriend" strategy.

4. Mathematical abilities.
An area of the brain called the inferior-parietal lobule is naturally extensively larger in men, particularly on the left side, than in women. This section of the brain is thought to control mental mathematical ability, and probably explains why men regularly perform higher in mathematical tasks than do women.

5. Language
Two sections of the brain responsible for language were found to be larger in women than in men, indicating one reason that women typically excel in language-based subjects and in language-associated thinking.

6. Emotions
Women typically have a larger deep limbic system than men, which allows them to be more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them, which promotes bonding with others. Because of this ability to connect, more women serve as caregivers for children.

7. Brain size
Normally, men’s brains are 11-12% bigger than women’s brains. This size difference has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, but is explained by the difference in physical size between men and women. Men need more neurons to control their greater muscle mass and larger body size, thus generally have a larger brain.

8. Spatial ability
Men typically have stronger spatial abilities, or being able to mentally represent a shape and its dynamics, whereas women typically struggle in this area. Medical experts have discovered that women have a thicker parietal region of the brain, which hinders the ability to mentally rotate objects–an aspect of spatial ability.

9. Pain
Men and women perceive pain differently. Women are also more likely to vocalize their pain and to seek treatment for their pain than are men.