Tym razem bez wstępu.

Zadzwonił do mnie wczoraj znajomy architekt z prośbą o pomoc w wyborze mebli wyplatanych do dużego sieciowego hotelu. Przeznaczenie typowe dla miejsc użyteczności publicznej – trwałość, trwałość, trwałość, elegancja, praktyczność, niska cena i trwałość. Czy napisałem o tym, że mają być trwałe? I najlepiej za pół darmo. Innymi słowy meble z Ery przeznaczone dla Turbodymomena…

I to następuje zwrot akcji.

Nie ma takich mebli… Tzn. są i eleganckie i praktyczne i trwałe. Ale jednocześnie drogie.

Szczęśliwie się złożyło, że aspekt finansowy, choć ważny, nie był dla inwestora kluczowym. To lepiej.

Przejrzeliśmy próbki najnowszych plecionek syntetycznych, ponieważ tylko takie wchodzą w grę w przypadku hoteli (i restauracji i pubów etc.). Wszystkie genialne – Hularo (drogie), SunLux (bardzo drogie), Raucord i Viro. Oprócz tego obejrzeliśmy (i odrzuciliśmy) szereg włókien z niezbyt szlachetnych materiałów aż dotarliśmy do Mirotexu.

Do tej pory zastanawiam się jakim cudem elegancki Mirotex trafił do “pośledniej” kategorii włókien w naszych zbiorach próbek… Chyba osoba, która zajmuje się ich sortowaniem zbyt duży nacisk położyła na niefortunną nazwę włókna. W sumie miała rację – nazwa Mirotex została prawdopodobnie wymyślona przez osobę traktującą PR i marketing jak egipską klątwę. Fajnie się o tym słucha, ale najlepiej, gdy Nil jest parę tysięcy kilometrów od nas.

Gdy przestanie się zwracać uwagę na nazwę zostaje bardzo ciekawe włókno idealnie nadające się do hoteli. Jest praktycznie nie do zdarcia – elegancka (mimo wszystko) plecionka jest stworzona z bardzo (naprawdę bardzo) grubego włókna. Jest przez to odporna na otarcia, zadrapania, obcasy, widelce, sprzączki pasków, paski zegarków i wiele innych rzeczy, którymi klienci różnych instytucji nieumyślnie niszczą meble. Nie jest przy tym tak droga jak wspominane przeze mnie Hularo czy SunLux.

I jest elegancka. Wybrany przez nas zestaw mebli – Madrigal firmy MBM – jest… jest majestatyczny. To chyba najlepsze słowo. Idealnie wpasuje się do potężnego hotelowego holu.

Zobaczcie zresztą sami.

Madrigal - MBM

Oczywiście nie będzie pasował do klasycznych wnętrz Ritza, Bristolu czy Vier Jahreszaiten, ale te hotele stać na SunLux. Przetykany brylantami.

Grzegorz Maląg

The Coastal Bend College Community Performing Arts Project and the Beeville Community Chorus will present its second Madrigal Feast and play on Thursday, Nov. 19; Friday, Nov. 20; and Saturday, Nov. 21 at the James R. Dougherty Student Center [SUB] beginning at 6 p.m. each evening. General seating starts at 5:30 p.m. Reservations for tables of six may be made in advance. A four-course meal will be served.

 There are 135 tickets available for each performance. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students with a current school ID card and children and may be purchased through the CBC ticket box office at (361) 354-2545 or www.coastalbend.edu. The last day to make a reservation is Tuesday, Nov. 17.  There will be no tickets sold at the door. 

 The Madrigal Dinner draws its influence from the Middle Ages with a focus on choral music.  The meal is divided into courses, each of which is heralded with a traditional song. A play is performed between the courses and a concert of choral music concludes the festivities. Renaissance costumes are encouraged but not required. 

 The stage director for the Madrigal play, entitled A Fool For Love, is Mary Joy. Musical director is Dr. James Lee. Members of the cast are: Towncrier – Jose Arredondo; Page – Cheryl Clarke; Jester – Thomas Brewer; Lord Boris – Matthew Wagner; Lady Abigail – Stacy Stevenson; King – Philip Brewer; Queen – Sally Friedlander; and Jestress – Donna Davis. Courtiers are Rose Stafford, Cindy Hilliard, Rose Skaife and Kris Montoya.  Roy Bryan will be the juggler. Benjamin and Leah Brewer will be beggars. 

For more information, contact Dr. James Lee at (361) 354-2545 or jlee@coastalbend.edu.

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Sonnet decided that day 340 was not going to be delivery, so I have no cria news for you today. Yesterday she was up and down, keeping herself a bit away from the others, going through all of the preliminaries and we figured today was it. No baby, no sign of a baby. Come on Sonnet, stop teasing. At this point, we will look at a picture of

Madrigal and Little Sister Cavatina

Madrigal is due in April and seems to love to mug for the camera. Note the smile. She’ll get right up to the camera and show that grin whereas Cavatina frequently has those bedroom eyes. So here we are, the entire family waiting.

For good measure, I’m going to throw in a photo today of Martillo. We haven’t decided if Marti is herdsire material yet. He and Fantine (her photo is elsewhere in my blogs) were born on the same day. Marti is friendly, Marti has Grade One fleece, but Marti has one brown spot on his back so he could never be shown.

He is quite the young man now–pure white, ultra-fine fleece, about 15 months and an excellent pedigree. (His sire is Torbio.) But there’s that  spot. Does it mean he can produce color and, if so should he? Stay tuned and see how things develop.

Marti at 3 months

We are traveling tomorrow, so I don’t know if there is time to blog. If not, I’ll be back shortly.

Astăzi s-a terminat minunatul Festival Internațional „George Enescu”. Ediția a XIX-a.

Ieri am avut o zi full, începând cu munca pe la radio, dup-aia latină, dup-aia nu m-au lăsat să intru la Loussier. De la 22,30 am fost la seara Mozart cu Orchestra de cameră din Bremen, corul Madrigal (dirijor – Marin Constantin), dirijorul Louis Langree, etc.

Etc. = în prima parte a cântat minunatul Peter Jablonski un concert pt pian (de Mozart, doar am zis că a fost seară Mozart). Nu m-a impresionat. Și în partea a doua (Missa în do minor) soliști au fost Natalie Dessay, Lisa Larsson, Emanuel-Cristian Carman și Simon Kirkbride.

Multă lume venise special pt Natalie Dessay, care a fost extrem de bună, dar nu genială. Probabil și pentru că a avut un acces de tuse înainte să intre pe scenă, am auzit.  Mi-a plăcut în schimb extrem de mult Lisa Larsson. Tenorul nu m-a dat pe spate. Și îmi pare rău să zic că românul a fost cel mai slab. Dar n-avea volum. Ca tehnică era ok. Și pe bas l-am auzit f puțin, na.

Oricum, au fost f buni soliștii, cu toate ornamentele alea mozartiene and stuff. Adică Missa chiar a sunat f f bine.

E, after all that m-am dus la Parov Stelar. În Krystal. Da, știu, nici eu nu m-aș duce acolo. Mai ales când e deschiderea. DAR. A fost Parov Stelar. + Band.

Am ajuns pe la 1 și ceva. Concertul începuse în jur de 1 am înțeles. Dar chiar dacă am ajuns la jumătatea lui tot a meritat. Serios a meritat. Era atât de multă lume și era atâta energie și era totul… Da, era viu. Era nice. Și erau unii care clar veniseră la deschiderea Krystal, nu la concert, niște cocalari mai exact. Dar nu mulți. Sau nu i-am văzut eu. Am văzut însă mulți indie-people. Fetițe în rochițe și cu fundițe în păr and stuff.

Și, pe scurt, azi s-a terminat festivalul. Cu Suisse Romande și al lor Marek Janowski.N-am fost prea atentă la concert, to be honest with you, dar la bis au cântat partea a 3a din simfonia a 3a de brahms which was brilliant. i love that one.

a, și azi am primit cadou un vinil cu kate bush. yay! mai mult decat yay! de fapt: wow!

superb.

per Kakà primo gol ufficiale col Madrid

Kakà, Cristiano Ronaldo e Albiol: “Vincere è sempre positivo, soprattutto su un campo così difficile”

Kakà, Cristiano Ronaldo e Albiol sono rimasti soddisfatti dell’andamento generale della partita al Madrigal (vinta per 2-0, NdT) ma sono anche tutti d’accordo nell’ammettere che la squadra ha ancora margini di miglioramento.

Kakà
“Sono contento che abbiamo vinto, anche se possiamo migliorare. Per giocare come desideriamo c’è bisogno di tempo, ma credo che siamo sulla strada giusta. Sono contento di aver segnato il mio primo gol (su rigore, NdT). Penso di poter segnare di più, ma quel che conta davvero è che la squadra ha vinto.”

“Tutti i miei compagni di squadra si sono congratulati con me quando ho fatto gol e questo dimostra quanto siamo uniti.”

Cristiano Ronaldo
“E’ stata una partita dura contro un avversario che ci ha dato molti problemi. Siamo riusciti a segnare presto (gol dello stesso Cristiano Ronaldo al 2’, NdT) e portar via i tre punti.”

“C’abbiamo messo un po’ a entrare in partita perché ci hanno pressati fin dall’inizio, ma poco alla volta abbiamo carburato e siamo riusciti a giocare come vogliamo.”

Albiol
“Siamo molto contenti. Vincere è sempre positivo, soprattutto su un campo così difficile. Quando segni subito le cose sono molto più semplici. Loro sono anche rimasti in dieci. Penso che abbiamo dettato il ritmo, ma non siamo mai riusciti a chiudere i conti.”

“Il gruppo si sta impegnando tantissimo e siamo caricatissimi. Dobbiamo continuare in questo modo e iniziare a pensare al prossimo impegno.”

servizio di Carlos Cristobal per il sito ufficiale del Real Madrid

http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202797575982/noticia/Noticia/Players_satisfied_with_the_outcome.htm

16 goals for and 2 goals against in 4 games. Yet, it is not good enough. Real Madrid has always been a club with tremendous pressure on their backs. It’s a club where results are not good enough. Games have to be won with absolute style. Following Real Madrid’s 5-0 win over Xerez yesterday coach Pellegrini had this to say about the team’s performance:

“We didn’t play well as a team, especially in the first 20 minutes. Perhaps we were too confident after the first goal”

“I am happy because we won 5-0 but leaving aside the result we did not play well,” he told Marca.

“We must keep improving. Every game is different. We had a good end to the first half but maybe we were too confident after the first goal.

“We improved in the second half and got the goals but we should have been better in possession,” Pellegrini added.

Pellegrini gets to play against his former club on Wednesday when ‘Los Merengues’ travel to El Madrigal to play against Villareal. For the rest of this post I have collected some nice stuff for you from the weekend. Highlights of the Real Madrid game, highlights of Atletico Madrid getting their annual ass-whopping from Barca, and highlights from the crazy Manchester derby:

Barcelona 5-2 Atletico Madrid

And this is the incredible finish in the Manchester derby on the weekend. From the 89th minute on. Sorry about the poor quality, but it’s about as much as youtube has on right now. It’s a must watch:

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I typically avoid flaming people on my blog. I just feel that most of the time, it is not a responsible thing to do.

Not so this time. Apparently, Senator Jamby Madrigal had the audacity to use the late President Cory Aquino’s funeral as a campaign platform. Way to turn a celebration of the true essence of democracy into a shameless, self-aggrandizing mockery of the same.

I heard one of my students compare Pres. Aquino to Aragorn—an unlikely figure of hope rising up against a seemingly invincible force of tyranny. Aragorn was succesful, although there were many other evils that he was not able to address. The same could be said for Pres. Aquino. However, I still think she was an outstanding beacon of hope in a time of great darkness, and her legacy is one that can never be matched this side of Eternity.

But Jamby Madrigal had to pass around bracelets with her picture on them. Yellow bracelets.

Read more here.

Like the typical rag man politician (Trapo in the vernacular), Ms. Madrigal decided to cash in on the power of democracy. It was only the sensible thing to do, of course. There are lots of people. Surely the exposure would help her win.

Well, Ms. Madrigal, HERE is a taste of democracy for you.

This was shameful. Inexcusable. Disgraceful. I wish I could say it as eloquently as Tolkien did, so I’ll quote Eomer and his fantastic battlecry:

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!”

–J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King

This woman does not deserve the presidency. She does not deserve any political post. And she’s not the only one.

Earlier this month, I bought some printer ink and got a free iTunes gift card.  I’ve checked out some cd’s from my local library to explore Renaissance music for a project I’m thinking of starting.  Wow.  Some of it is just breathtaking!  I am probably going to get this album just because a) it’s like, 30-40 songs for $11.99, and b) it’s gorgeous!!

So, on a side note, Sid Meier’s Pirates is also set in the 17th c., although it’s in the Caribbean while Monteverdi (I believe), was an Italian.  Please call me on this if I’m wrong here.  End of off day blues, maybe.  I beat the game.  Now what?  It’s odd how addictive songs can be.  The Sprint commercial with the Joanna Gikas song, “Doorway”, is actually by the band IO Echo.  I considered downloading it just to hear the whole song.  It’s really quite simple lyrics.  Not sure that I like it any.  I’m also contemplating “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire.  For those of you who DON’T recognize the song title/band, you might be familiar with it if you’ve seen the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are.

I really need to work on tagging my blog entries.  I wish I could send my fondest greetings from my cat who is currently sitting almost on top of my keyboard here but eh, he couldn’t care less about what I’m writing or to whom.  Cats are like that.  Are you a cat person?  People shouldn’t be restricted by canine vs. feline.  I’m a cat AND a dog person.  I also like chipmunks, wild turkeys, deer, bunny rabbits, squirrels, doves, beavers and what-whats.

Wolves I don’t like.  Prokofiev’s take on them though, that’s a story of its own.  Check out “Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium” from Peter and the Wolf.  It’s a sickening-cool sort of broken sound like it belongs in some kind of Tim Burton/Danny Elfman film.  Maybe.  Or it could just be me.  See ya later!

Currently listening to:

• Doorway (IO Echo)
• Funeral (Arcade Fire)
• Monteverdi: Fourth and Fifth Books of Madrigals (Anthony Rooley & the Consort of Musicke).
• Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev).

- canción basada en el poema “madrigal” de federico garcía lorca -

mi beso era una granada,

profunda y abierta;

tu boca era rosa

de papel.

el fondo un campo de nieve

mis manos eran hierros

para los yunques;

tu cuerpo era el ocaso

de una campanada.

el fondo un campo de nieve.

en la agujereada

calavera azul

hicieron estalacticas

mis te quiero.

el fondo un campo de nieve.

llenáronse de moho

mis sueños infantiles,

y taladró a la luna

mi dolor salomónico.

el fondo un campo de nieve.

ahora maestro grave

a la alta escuela,

a mi amor y a mis sueños

(caballitos sin ojos).

y el fondo es un campo de nieve.

Man was this guy born 40 years too late.

DATE: July 21, 2009

ARTIST:  Jamie Lidell

TITLE: “Hurricane”

http://www.myspace.com/jamielidell

Elected May 10, 2004; July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2010

BIAZON (to retire), P. CAYETANO (1st term), ENRILE (1st term), SANTIAGO (1st term), ESTRADA (1st term), GORDON (1st term), LAPID (1st term), MADRIGAL (1st term), PIMENTEL (to retire), ROXAS (1st term), REVILLA (1st term)

Elected May 14, 2007; July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2013

VILLAR (2nd term), PANGILINAN (2nd term), ANGARA (2nd term), AQUINO (1st term), ARROYO (2nd term), A. CAYETANO (1st term), ESCUDERO (1st term), HONASAN (1st term), LACSON (2nd term), LEGARDA (1st term), TRILLANES (1st term), ZUBIRI (1st term)

1. No one was surprised when Susan, who had a reputation of being overly credulous, was mulcted out of her life savings by the unscrupulous traveling salesman.
2. To his mates, Bob seemed uxorious when he begged off going fishing that weekend, but instead of cleaning the garage like his wife had requested, he spent the entire weekend camped out in front of the new flat-screen TV.
3. The farmer was a phlegmatic sort of man; he was neither jubilant when his fields yielded a bumper crop, nor visibly distraught that summer the locusts stripped his crops bare.
4. The venal policeman, who had been on the take for many years now, protected the mafia’s interests just as much as he did those of the general public.
5. The poet composed a madrigal about his love for his lady patron.  Unfortunately, when it came time to perform it for her, he was encumbered by his inability to hold a tune.

Rosemoor (By Kewlottie on Flickr - Click Image)

We are now well into the Month of May, Spring is at it’s height and England never looks better than at this time of year. This Madrigal which celebrates May was written by Thomas Morley  in 1595, the year that Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet was first performed and Robert Southwell was executed at Tyburn.

Now is the month of maying,

When merry lads are playing

Each with his bonny lass

Upon the greeny grass.

Spring (Wanderlust676 on Flickr : Click image)

The Spring, clad all in gladness,

Doth laugh at Winters sadness,

And to the bagpipes sound

The nymphs tread out their ground.

Fie then! why sit we musing,

Youth’s sweet delight refusing?

Say, dainty nymphs, and speak,

Shall we play barley- break?

Thomas Morley 1595

So that you can also hear the tune I have added this video fromYouTube.  I considered leaving it out because it is seriously naff. I eventually decided it was too funny to leave out. Someone on YouTube likened it to Monty Python and they do have a point! See if you can watch this without thinking of Terry Jones/Eric Idle & co.

Después del partidazo que abrió la jornada, viésemos lo que viésemos en el Madrigal nos iba a saber a poco. Las predicciones se cumplieron con creces, pero al menos volvimos a saborear el triunfo un mes después. Éste se fraguó después de una primera parte en forma de somnífero que dejó paso a una segunda más o menos igual, pero con dos arreones de los de arriba. Era clave romper la hemorragia de derrotas y se consiguió.

Jiménez apostó por incluir su sorpresa de cada jornada con la retirada de Navas y Capel del once inicial. En sus puestos, Perotti y Adriano comenzaron rotándose, pero aunque un recurso se repita hasta la saciedad, no tiene porqué funcionar algún día. De hecho, nada funcionó ni en el Sevilla ni en el Villarreal. Aunque los amarillos mostraban al menos algo de intención con el nervioso Nihat, en los nuestros Kanouté parecía peligrosamente desconectado del partido. Podríamos seguir hablando párrafos y párrafos sobre la primera parte, pero fue tan poquísimo lo que esta nos ofreció que será mejor pasar página. Ni un tiro a puerta, ya sea entre los tres palos o directamente a la grada. Ni Diego López ni Palop tuvieron trabajo y los equipos se fueron al descanso con las espadas en todo lo alto ;o mejor dicho, en todo lo bajo.

Por lo menos, llegada la reanudación las levantaron un poquito, para intentar demostrar que querían quitarse los puntos mutuamente. Nada más empezar, Squillaci con un cabezazo alto ponía en marcha la estadística ofensiva del equipo, aunque Godín no tardó en dar la réplica para que se estirase Palop. Los de arriba apenas habían aparecido, pero cuando lo hicieron fue de verdad. Corría el trece de la segunda cuando Luisfa mandaba a las mallas un centro de Kanouté, previo paso entre las piernas de Diego López. Vital bocanada de aire para un equipo que no había merecido tal premio, pero que no estaba dispuesto a dejarlo escapar.

Como era de esperar el partido se abrió, dejando atrás el pacto de no agresión planteado hasta entonces. Haciendo honor a su forma de ver el fútbol, Pellegrini alentó a los suyos para que tocaran y tocaran en busca de Palop, pero el valenciano estuvo bien y no se dejó batir. Ocasiones no le faltaron para ello, porque como era de esperar el equipo se echó atrás y se encomendó una vez mas a la Macarena. Mientras tanto, Perotti, una vez vaciado su depósito, dejó sitio a Jesús Navas.

Entramos ahora en el capítulo Iturralde, que hasta entonces había estado sospechosamente tranquilo y huérfano de protagonismo. Llegaba ya la media hora de la segunda parte cuando mostró a Konko la segunda amarilla por desplazar un balón con el juego detenido. Antes, en la primera parte, había visto otra por protestar. Aunque con el reglamento en la mano, el desplazamiento pueda ser considerado como tarjeta, los buenos árbitros saben contemporizar y se limitan a advertir verbalmente. Pero lo de buen árbitro no va con el vasco Iturralde que se empeña en convertirse en protagonista y siempre en forma negativa cada vez que por medio anda el Sevilla. En la recta final sacó inexplicablemente varias tarjetas mas que harán que ni Navarro ni Konko puedan jugar contra el Mallorca.  Parece cosa de la alineación de varios planetas que el francés pueda jugar dos partidos consecutivos. El del sábado próximo, comités mediante, tampoco lo será.

Ahora sí que la cosa tenía mala pinta y se esperaba el empate amarillo. Para nuestro temor, Luis Fabiano abandonaba el campo y Maresca le sustituía (lo de sustituir es una forma de hablar porque al italiano no se le vió aparecer), por lo que los temblores empezaban a aparecer. Menos mal que Kanouté siempre es Kanouté, incluso cuando parece que el león está dormido. Freddy, no contento con su asistencia, agarró un balón cerca de la medular, avanzó y tiró un latigazo imposible para Diego López, que sólo pudo verla entrar junto a su palo izquierdo. Colorín colorado para un choque que pudo acabar mucho peor de lo que lo hizo.

Más allá de pensar en que el juego sigue siendo indigno del tercero de la Liga, lo importante hoy es pensar que volvemos a sumar un mes después, que el Tourmalet se ha terminado y que lo que queda es bajar el puerto. Será mejor no pedalear en las curvas porque una caída puede ser fatal. De momento, dormimos con una renta de cuatro puntos que se podría volver a estrechar y mucho. Nosotros, que siempre hemos sido amantes de los periquitos, nos reafirmamos para mañana por la tarde.

Por el Sevilla FC jugaron: Palop (2), Konko (1), Squillaci (2), Escudé (2), Fernando Navarro (2), Duscher (2), Renato (2), Adriano (2), Perotti (2), Luis Fabiano (2) y Kanouté (2). También jugaron Jesús Navas (1), Maresca (s.c) y Drago (s.c)

Here are a few new videos of Halo music I made:

• Halo 3 ODST Song
• Halo Bonus Theme (Siege of Madrigal)

Not much else is new. Marlin the Elite Ep. 35 will be out soon. That’s about it.

Microsoft cierra el espacio de Marcelino Madrigal, tras denunciar presuntos casos de pedofilia en dicha red.

Más información aquí.

Ciudadano Iesu

Thomas Lupo, Two madigral-fantasies (no.19): “Ardo, si” and “Ardi et gela”. Ed David Pinto for five part choir or five instruments with editorial keyboard part (organ). Golden Phoenix Publications.

Thomas Lupo: Consort music. The English Fantasy. Gaudeamus CD GAU 149. 1996, ASV Ltd.

This is up there with Christopher Tye’s Crye for exuberance and driving rythms and a world apart from run-of-the-mill fantasy consort music. 

To quote Peter Holman’s liner notes for the CD:

“…Ardo, si is a parody of Vecchi’s Ardo si, ma non t’amo, also from the Madrigali a sei voci…libro primo (Venice 1583). Lupo may originally have written his versions as proper madrigals, with words, for the parts keep within voice ranges, though they only exist in wordless versions today, apparently intended for viols.” 

Confident off-beats for the trebles will get the thing off to a good start if alto and tenor synchronise with all around them and with each other. The music only makes sense when played at a fair clip; once everyone has found their nerve, it will shimmer and sparkle. The contempt and spite of the lyrics have to be supported with stinging attack in the viols, so there’s no room for wishy-washy starts and finishes in notes. This is especially the case in the opening line of the bass which has to direct quite forcefully the required rythmic pulse. Even the short flowing passages are edgy, so your ordinary consort player will feel deprived.

The English Fantasy play this at a good romp (sans organ) - duration is around 2mins for each of the two parts. Their tempo and golden sound is what to aim for. Of course all the repeated notes have to sound unique and different from each other.

 It’s tough, it’s exhausting, it’s brilliant!

 Manu-Porto/Villareal-Arsenal. It was an easy choice for me today to decide which game I wanted to watch. I mean, Manu was clearly going to destroy Porto in a painful fashion (who wants to see that?). Being a Spanish/La Liga supporter and all, it was a nobrain-er. What a game at the Madrigal! Two of the underdogs left in the Champions league, but both of them playing attractive, fast paced, short passing and fluid football.

I rushed home from school and turned on the TV just in time to see Marcos Senna launch a missile past Almunia. What a fantastic goal. Villareal dominated the entire first half. As soon as the first half ended, I checked livescore to see this:

 Manchester U. 1 – 1 FC Porto

That moment was probably the highlight of my day. I still figured that Manu were going to eat them in the second half though, so back I went to the second half at the Madrigal.

In the second half, Arsenal finally decided to play some football. They started to build pressure, and with a great ball from Cesc, Adebayor scored a scissor kick of epic proportions. It was a beautiful goal. For the next few minutes, the yellow submarine was clearly rattled. The passes they so easily stringed together in the first half, seemed a thing of the past. Fortunately they got back into the game though. And my final assessment is that Arsenal are pretty lucky to escape with a draw; Villareal are down, but not out.

You know what’s awesome though? I switched to the Manu-Porto game just in time to see Mariano Gonzalez break Old Trafford’s hearts.

 90 minutes left to play in both legs. Let’s hope the good guys will prevail.