Madrid Lost Again

Madrid lost again 3-4. This time against Sevilla. I don't know what the hell is going on with the club. But a club with a stature of Real Madrid should be feared by other clubs, but this has not been quite the case since the Galacticos era.

Real Madrid's form, however, is hardly surprising because they have lost so many key players to injuries: Robben, Cannavaro, Sneijder, Ruben de la Red, Higuain, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Pepe, Diarra. That is one off of the full team minus a keeper. Nonetheless, the injury should not be a justification, excusing the loss of form of Real Madrid because Los Merengues, however crippled they may be, is still Los Merengues.

One of the root of the problem is the horrid summer transfer window Real Madrid had. Too much attention had been paid to the ungrateful, c*cks*cking, mo-fo (sorry for the obscenity)  Cristiano Ronaldo who could not make up his effing mind where he wanted to play come 2008/09 season. It is true that Real Madrid needed a right winger but Calderon had diverted far too much energy during the summer transfer window to come inches away from making Ronaldo a Madridismo only for that c*nt to get a p*ssy and blow the deal mere days away from the end of the transfer period.

This whole saga, pissed Robinho off because allegedly, or so he believed, that he was part of an exchange deal to get Ronaldo's ass down to the capital of Spain. Not so  long after that, Robinho left for Manchester City in one of the biggest transfer shocker in the history. And even breaking Premier's League transfer record! The bad news is he was one of, if not, the best Real Madrid player last season. Now, he is thriving in Manchester City and getting paid petrodollars by the Sheikh. And, although difficult to admit, Real Madrid dearly miss him.

So, who did RM signed instead? Rafael van der Vaart. The Dutch's Beckham. I actually loved that he signed for Real Madrid, and at a bargain too! He was one of the best talent in the Dutch squad, but, aside from the first few matches of La Liga, he has not performed up to his hype. He could not do a single thing right during  the match against Getafe in which RM ended up losing 1-3. The only time Van der Vaart did not make a mistake was when he went missing for most of the game. Realistically, he shouldn't be blamed for playing badly because the whole team is not functioning well.

I actually wanted to avoid blaming the management in the form of Calderon, Mijatovic, and maybe Schuster for RM's problems; but after hearing the resignation of Michel, RM Castilla's coach, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't blame them. We know that Calderon and Mijatovic is the main cause of the whole summer gone bad. The extreme fanboyism of Cristiano Ronaldo is wholly unnecessary, and the whole idea of throwing Robinho as part of the deal is nothing but plain stupidity. The list of comical acts performed by these two clowns are long and ever growing.

And why the blame on Schuster? It is mind-blowing how a club as well-known and professional as Real Madrid, with the state-of-the-art facilities and staffs that they have, manage to have a full team of first team players in the infirmaries. Is it a question of unprofessional coaching, mishandled diet, or pure coincidence? Only the insiders knows.

But one thing we all know for sure is that Real Madrid is tumbling this season and something is needed to be done. Nobody knows what that is and how to do it. But a change is needed fast. Especially as el Clasico is next week and in a really bad time. The venue is at Camp Nou. And aside from the injury list, we would be missing two players in Marcelo and Robben as a result of bookings. Schuster has already threw in the towel, but I am hopeful that it is just a mind game and the team is not giving up the title so quickly.

The only positive news this season is the revelation of Higuain as a world-class striker. He has developed into a match-winning goal scorer as he changed his hairstyle from the wavy uptown boy to a straight silky haired confident man look. He has already bagged 10 goals in 13 La Liga matches.

In the meantime, solution is being sought and one of them is the capture of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar for the winter transfer. His statistics are amazing for a goal scorer albeit playing in eredivisie. Hopefully, he could be the solution of our thinning forward. And one of the other solution is the promised winger. Who could it be? We should wait and see. Don't disappoint us, Madridistas, Calderon.

The end of a studio class

Finally, the day that I have been longing for this quarter came. Its the end of my studio class. Its been a heck of a ride. Up until the last day of class, I spent 4 days straight in the studio doing my model (there goes my Thanksgiving). The end result was pretty satisfying. I just hope I get what I deserve from the effort I put in this class.

For our last day of class, we were to present our final model to a panel of critics (faculty members). Unfortunately, our group had the toughest guy in the panel (damn!). He is literally the Simon Cowell of KSA. His name is Douglas E. Graf. Apparently, he is the teacher of Jeffrey Kipnis (also a faculty in OSU) a world-renowned architecture critics. Mr. Graf called everyone's project crap and compared them to the buildings in OSU and Columbus which he also regarded as crap. I was pretty satisfied though on having Mr. Graf on the panel because he gave out constructive criticism which is IMO better than a praise. However, he said that he liked my Perfect Cube frame in the middle of my final model (which made my day :p). After the review was done one of the panel members went up to me and said that my model was actually good which restored my self esteem. :)

Its been a fun class. I had the chance to know some cool people like Bobby, Tina, Alex, Dustin, Brian, Robin, Spencer, Katie and the list goes on. I hope they get into the program because I really like them and I can't wait for us to be studio mates again.

These are a few of my projects for the whole quarter:

Where are thou, cool layout?!

I need a cool layout for my blog! This pre-made template is soo mundane, and its just one day since I used it. Which explains a lot, right?

Anyway, as I'm writing this post, I am using Windows Live Writer. I don't know how I ended up knowing this program, but it just popped up from the air just like that. Looks cool, practical, and so worth trying.

I don't know what is up with me. But for these past fivedays I have been saying "waduh, bolo-bolo" a lot. It embarrasses me, yet it feels very soothing just blurting it. I'm in a dilemma, in a very strange one indeed.