Soccer and Bangkok

Ok, soccer yesterday was horredous. Shouldnt say more about it, if not will be blamed even more and get scolded even more. whatever. Seems like my performance is 'deproving'. Last time i said my headers were improving, and yes it seems better but suddenly i m not as good on the ground. Ying Lun was right, in school i was so much better, but i think i know why. It s the opponents and the court.

At CCAB, we play all kinds of people. Short, tall, thin, fat, dark, fair, noob, pro, in between etc. but seems like we are playing older people more often when we go there. It s either JC or Army who frequent ccab more often. In school, we play only against school mates. and we always play against the same old people. After a while, you will know how to play most effectively against them. And then, the O level period drove most of the sec 4s away from the court. In the end, i played against sec 1s more often than people of similar standards. The location matters a lot too. 4 years in the SJI court, visit it almost every school day during lower sec, and slightly less often in upper sec. I m already familiarized with the walls of the court, how not to whack the ball onto the roof or onto the road and evade the ANG MOH. Bleddy German.

CCAB is much more different. It presents different situations with every kick and shows us new and better play when the bigger boys strut their stuff. We go there and learn many new ways of playing and criticise some lousier ways. And more recently, criticising our own mates. Last week, Lucas was the main man. He hardly had any chance to play and when he had, some will start scolding him for small little things. I was a minor vicim last week. This week i m prime.

Yea i know you reading out there would have lots of thoughts that is opposing what i think, but, this is my blog and i have the right to post my genuine thoughts and not be just a head nodder.

Honestly, sometimes when others start blabbering about stuff they think is right and want me to agree, i might just say yes yes yes just to avoid further debate. But there are also times when i think i should stand up for my self and not be a pushover even though i dun like to debate. Since young i know i havent been much of an intimidating figure or someone with lots of authourity and power. I never saw myself as a leader who someone can look up to. But NCC and SJI gave me that chance and showed me that it s time i grow up and have my own thinking.

Moving back to the soccer yesterday, i appreciate the scolding and blaming as it shows that my team mates care about the game and that they know i could do something better at that time, something that can salvage the situation which means i should have at least some quality, isnt it?

Yep, quality. I know many people who has quality. But sometimes, that s the max. It cant get any higher. Everyone s different. So if you are good, you are good. If you are playing with people who arent that good, dun push them too hard to be as good as you. In my case, i m not sure if i can improve further. I m so injury prone and just picked up another injury from yesterday. This time left ankle gone. Went home swollen yesterday. I m just trying to prove to you people that i m not making up excuses. If i m in the wrong, i WILL admit it. I WILL blame myself. Because i want to improve. Yesterday's injury isnt fake fyi. From now on i have to wear 2 ankle guards on both legs.

Words can be very powerful. I m not good at saying but i can express myself better when i have a bit more time to process my thoughts for that few seconds. I know i m a lot slower than many people in terms of intellectual ability. i dun deny that. That s why i hope you wont blame me for typing my thoughts out here instead of saying face to face. And i hope you wont mistake my tone (again) and think i m pissed and angry with you people. And i hope this post wont inject those emotions into you too.

I m actually a very simple person. I just hope that people respect each other and not carry out their actions too far. Sometimes joking and making fun of one another is good laughing exercise but what matters most is that you dun really mean what you joke. Being a 'fake racist' for a second or two is acceptable. But i will still respect people from other races deep in my heart. Especially those from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia etc. We sometimes call them Banglas, IT savvy, muds or matts (they called it themselves) but these are all inside jokes and should not be carried onto our later lives. Even these immigrants leave their homes and work under the sun as construction workers, cleaners or even someone who sell drinks, they didnt offend you, so dun curse them and hate their race or religion. In future, we might just work under one of them, so learn their culture and respect that, respect everyone even Terence or Elian or whoever. Everyone's unique, if you dun like, then just dun mention too much about that person and live your life. simple as that.

If you have read till here, thanks for your respect. Before you start cursing and swearing, try to kick that habit. It s not healthy, like smoking and drinking.

Ahh... feel so much better after getting those words off my mind. To conclude, EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS UNIQUE, RESPECT THAT. You either like it or hate it but if you dun do it, others wont like you either.

OK my blog, my genuine thoughts. Dun take it to heart if my unpolished words offended you in any way. I dun mean to target anyone, just summarizing my feelings.


:D ok finally i m updating about the trip to Bangkok. I ll beat Reuben's number of pictures! I hope...

Actually the aim of the Bangkok trip is to do shopping! But didnt buy much, just had a day of sight seeing.





>>> Somerset Apartments






>>>Traffic as usual








>>> One of the newest malls, Central World, quite grand







>>>Forced to be lame







>>> Thai food at the quite famous highend foodcourt franchise, Food Loft















>>>Nightscene outside Central World




>>>Tourist attraction: Four faced Buddha















>>>BTS track



>>>Taxi we booked for a day for sightseeing






>>>In the Grand Palace





























>>>Dun be mistaken, the Buddha isnt doing a handstand, camera tilted





>>>The famous reclining Buddha







>>> One of the many artistic photos








>>> Thailand the Buddhist country



>>>Buddha's head




>>>Toeprint



>>>One of my fav photos. There s a whole line of pots around the Buddha for people to put coins in one by one for good luck or something like that




>>>Marble temple, the walls are made of marble

>>>Boats for show






>>> The one on the right is the King's boat, it is usually surrounded by army boats at sea




>>>The Shrine





>>>View up the Shrine (great lighting)

>>>Steep steps



>>>Sun set in Bangkok



>>>BTS Station

>>>Mah Boon Krong Shopping Centre

>>>Bangkok Airport, going home

>>>Balek Kampung

The trip wasnt too bad. But jeremy's inaccurate information got me walking all over the place just to find the jersey shop. In the end also didnt buy. Waste time.

Anyway the holiday's ending and the year's ending. This year is eventful but not eventful enough. Looking forward to 2008!!! Happy New Year!

long time no blog

ok, first of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

too busy these days ever since i came back from bangkok. oops and sry no pics. pics in the other com, load another day when have time. bangkok was ok, but quite a waste of time since i was hunting for the wrong products at the wrong place. should not have even visited the new shopping malls, coz the price of the products there are similar to singapore's. if next time i go again, i will just go straight to Chatuchak Weekend Market and maybe Suan Lum Night Market. can shop for outing clothes at good prices. but thailand is not the place to buy jerseys. should go vietnam instead.

came back the next day, there was liverpool vs man u. lost it undeservingly. credit to man u though, for scoring when they had the chance to. 0-1.

then went out almost everyday from then on. which wasnt that bad, but i m dead beat. had a CCAB session last sat. didnt play that badly. all i noted was my headers improved a lot, but still havent reached the standard i want.

yesterday had a christmas party at my aunt's house. average party, just dinner and presents. that s about it.

ok got to fifa when i still can, father gonna delete soon. byez.

Ramozians match

I m sick of typing the word 'Ramozians'. How many times have i typed it in the past 2 hours? Seems like i m updating the team blog more than my own blog. Nevermind, SJI teaches us to be 'MEN FOR OTHERS' isnt it? Providing a free service should be an honour. ok whatever, cut the crap.

Match against Ramozians yesterday. 9-1. Damn the 1. damn the puddle. the only consolation i have is that we might not have scored 9 if i didnt cost the 1. Jeremy said it s a sequence of events, make sense. if something doesnt happen, something might not happen after that.

Yea anyway, played quite well apart from the first part. i think many people thought i played like shit. but i know how i played and i think i did very well in the 2nd half. one man defence, they hardly had a sniff at goal with all the runs down the flanks. one thing good about muddy pitch is easier to slide. i just went for the both the player and ball. learnt to be aggressive. quite effective but must get timing right. knee scraped clean but worth it with the win. stupid puddle spoilt my day.

great win anyway. shld have a match next week after coming back from bangkok with loads of jerseys. Another service for friends huh. eh why am i such a kind soul? ok ok jk jk. gonna enjoy my shopping! cya after sat, LIVERPOOL VS MAN U on SUN!

Packed Holiday

Ok, where do i start? It has been an extremely packed holiday for me. Thousands of things happened in the past 2 weeks.

16th Nov was JAE. went to sch for a few minutes and then to JJ house to watch Hills Have Eyes which was quite nice considering the unexpected twists and gore. Reuben, ying and jj played pool while me, shawn and ting soon stayed in his room to slack, playing FIFA and watching movie while waiting for lunch. Splendid spagghetti considering it was home made. After that,took a bus to city hall, met jer but split up to 2 groups. JJ, jer, and yl went to peninsula plaza to look for something while me, shawn and reuben took a train. And we broke up even further, shawn and me watched the pathetic movie Beuwolf at Bugis Junction while reuben went to Lavender for his passport thing. was darn tired but gave shawn some face to watch the movie with him and intended to go home straight after that. But the other gang came up to meet up with us and surveyed for some BBQ stuff at Cold Storage for the team chalet. Had some misunderstanding with ying lun but was solved eventually. Come on peeps, just live happpily together, no more quarrelling and grudges, kay? Went home to finally hit the sacks. damn damn tired.

Went to ying lun's house to stay for 2 days from the 19th to 20th. went there for FIFA 06 and 08. jeremy and ming were also there for some time wasting which was actually quite fun. played FIFA for the whole afternoon, then had pizza for dinner which was a kind treat by ying lun's mother. Thanks ying and your mother.

Then went out to Lot 1 to watch a movie, no choice but to watch Bee Movie. Jer went home, while ming went to watch Beuwolf the screwed up no.1 box office. he came back at about 1 plus am and we continued playing FIFA 08, 2 player was fun. Slept at 3am beside a giant but managed to listen to some lullaby and fell asleep eventually.

Next day CCAB, 8am. Played ok and went home to bathe and prepare to send my sis off who s going to cambodia for some child trafficking project thing. Went to airport, had a nice dinner at Soup Restaurant (the ginger chicken is good as always) and went home to have a nicer sleep on my own bed. It s always good to sleep in your own nest.

22nd nov was my first ever job at yew tong's mother's childcare centre. went there to do some repainting. didnt really enjoy it as it was damn tedious. did all the dirty work as many were afraid to get their clothes painted. at least i was wise enough to wear old pe clothes that was torn. 50 bucks earned. got a call from parents saying they were at Orchard Hotel for dinner (dad got some voucher) and so i chionged all the way to Orchard to stuff myself with good food esp steak. then went home for another well deserve rest.

missed training on the 23rd nov as went to see doc. then went palm gardens to meet shawn and went to class BBQ at yew tong s house together. it was quite good. played some cards first then started to work. intended to slack off but looking at the situation, everyone was slacking and the food wasnt coming fast enough. so decided to get hands dirty and skewered almost all the chicken wing, bbqed some food, fanned the charcoal blah blah blah. Did that all the way until 11pm then i started to have my dinner properly. by the time, almost all the party goers were zhaoing and only left the standard few slayers eating and watching repeated soccer matches. Left at around 11.30pm, caught a bus to CCK mrt, and to jurong east but missed the last train to pasir ris. damn. wasted time trying to find a suitable bus to somewhere near tampines at the interchange but gave up and took a cab all the way home which cost me half of my painting salary. DAMN IT. there goes my 24 bucks. just like that. forget it.

next day, suppose to go 203 class gathering but woke up late and realised that it was a failure. only 8 people went, organiser didnt go, so i also decided to rest at home for once.

26th November was my aunt's birthday. Just went to Trader's Hotel for dinner, went to her house to cut cake then done. Nothing much.

27th is when all the fun starts. Team chalet at pasir ris costa sands. suppose to meet up with the slayers at pasir ris mrt at 1.30 but was late coz i spent more than an hour trying to get all the suitable timings for late night movies at all possible cinemas. in the end realised plan changed and wasnt watching movie the 2nd nite, but on the first. effort wasted. anyway, met up by 2pm and caught the shuttle bus to the chalet.

people who went were: Me, ming, shawn, christopher, zi xiang, ying lun, jun jie, ting soon, reuben and jeremy.

went there, checked in, threw bags down, took a bus and train and bus to tanah merah street soccer court, had fun for hours until 7 and split up again.





i broke off from the group to go home and bathe, get some stuff they need and then took a straight bus to the chalet, dropped the stuff outside the chalet, met up at White Sands for dinner and trained down to Orchard cine for Enchanted movie. survivors include me, ming, shawn, christ, zi xiang, ying lun, jun jie, reuben and jeremy. caught the 12.30 show. it wasnt very good but wasnt that bad for me. good to watch some lame show some time. after that cabbed to jj house to watch champs league. sevilla vs arsenal ended 3-1, man u vs sporting ended 2-1, cristty scored last minute freekick. blah, played 08 on JJ com for a while, till 6 plus, took a bus to orchard mrt, caught a train back to pasir ris and ate Macs the scammer for breakfast. took first shuttle bus to chalet, played dai di for hours, then left chalet for tampines mall for lunch. in the end ate yoshinoya after some debate.

went to UNFAIRPRICE to shop for BBQ stuff and i broke off once again. went home bathe and napped. ming went for drums while the rest went back to chalet. had a fantastic nap for about 2 hours and woke up, grabbed the stuff they need again, waited for 17 for more than half hour which drove at 10km/h and reached chalet facing faces who looked pissed. ah nvm, any way had a nice BBQ dinner. Beef was fantastic. loved it. satay not bad as well. at least my recommendation of BBQ wholesale wasnt that bad. yay. next time peeps, just order BBQ wholesale, save all the trouble.

ting soon and zi xiang went home while the rest stayed to discuss about kumz match and then played cards, xbox until 2 plus. most slept by then. supposed to go out to watch liverpool match but christ and gang didnt wanna wake up so, too bad. tried to sleep but jer was causing too much noise and using me as bolster so couldnt sleep. in the end caught about an hour of rest, woke up at 5 plus with ying, washed up, played fifa, shawn woke up, then 3 of us went out to downtown east first for another macs breakfast. went back, all still sleeping. woke them up, and then me and yl went back to sleep until 10 plus, checked out and took shuttle bus to pasir ris, played DAI DI again while waiting. Prostitute, mamasan, beggar, prince, queen , king damn fun. laughed like mad.



>>> What nice feet you have, ming.



>>>Reuben living up to his reputation of being an ex-gymnast.

they couldnt decide where to eat, in the end i went home first, while they went east point for more DAI DI and lunch at food court. bought match ball for KUMZ match and then took train. i followed ming to kallang, took 12 to parkway to buy ankle tape. the rest went home. after that, waited for parents at roxy hotel, fell asleep when ever i can. sis went audio house to find what media player while i slept in the car. met up with aunt again for dinner at great world, some Jap restaurent at the basement. After that went home, sleep.




Next day woke up, feeling damn tired. packed stuff for Kumz match, was late, so after a long story, took a cab to bukit timah field. ref was late. my freekick was on form, but played like shit in the match. nvm, we won 5-0, for details go team blog to see.









after that, went home spent more than an hour typing the freaking long match report and then the next day, i m here typing this bloody long post of my pathetic 2 week story. if blogger shut down now, i swear i ll slam my com if this post doesnt go up. anyway, more matches to come, more fun to come. enjoyed chalet, got to know christ even better (he s a nice guy), got to know jeremy even better (right ying lun?) had countless BBQs, and most importantly, had revenge against kumz.

Post O Levels

Finally! Freedom!

O levels ended yesterday but it has been so eventful for me that i feel that it ended weeks ago. Right after the last paper, bio 1, we choionged to CCAB for some soccer action. And the usual for me, injury to right ankle. Even with the injury i think i played average with a lot of room of improvement.

After playing for 4 hours we migrated to Beauty World, not all, but some while the others collect jerseys from Queensway. After that, Shawn, Ming and me were discovered at JJ's house to bathe before meeting up at Cine to buy tics and then to Taka for dinner at Pepperlunch. Movie was great. Stardust deserves at least 4 stars while i personally give 5 stars. I was thinking about it even after the movie ended and i was totally engrossed in the movie. It had action, romance, lessons and most importantly, a path that leads us away from the real world. I totally enjoyed it.
Missed the last train and walked all Orchard while waiting for father to pick me up at Meridien. The day ended finally.

But today was something that was just as enjoyable. Played FIFA 08 for a while and then cabbed to East Coast Park for NCC BBQ. It was Specs vs Cadets during the soccer session and i played pretty well against those front footers. But was thoroughly disappointed with my failed tricks. Some tricks are meant for real defenders and not for those who any how kick to get the ball away. Anyway, I dun look down on sec 1s since i know my standard was far worse at their age. Erm, maybe not that bad, but still not good. At least my headers improved way lot and even head out for goal kick, distance is there now for accuracy.

Didnt do any cooking and was slacking on the bench at the sea enjoying the sea breeze, the peace and tranquility that i missed for months. It was such a refreshing experience. Then, the juniors wanted to say GOODBYE to us and started doing some lame skit. Ok, effort appreciated. What was more meaningful was the letters they compiled and gave me as a very valuable souvenior. At least now i leave NCC with something to reminisce. At least i felt i did something that helped someone, that my actions had some good influence on others. Thanks kiddos, your cheerfulness brought youth back to my ever foward changing life.

Ok, after 2 days of madness, i m gonna have a day of rest tomorrow, just playing FIFA and settle the referee booking thing. After that, i going back to my plan of learning new stuff during this hols. What a busy holiday!!!But i m enjoying it, aren't you? ;)

Liverpool vs Arsenal

Liverpool vs Arsenal.

This is my lineup for Liverpool.

. . . . . . . Torres. . . Crouch
Riise. . .Gerrard. .Mascherano. ..Alonso. . .Babel
. . . . .Carragher. . .Hyypia. . .Finnan
.. .. .. .. . . ... ..Reina

Subs:
Itandje
Sissoko
Benayoun
Voronin
Kuyt


3-5-2 may seem very attacking but it isnt. By jamming the midfield, it would ensure Arsenal wont be able to find the space to play their flowing attacking football. Crouch plays if Toure and Gallas are CBs. If Wenger decides to play Senderos instead, Crouch would most likely be useless. So Voronin should take his place. By right, Hyypia isnt suited for this game at all. He s honestly too slow. If i had a choice i would put Sissoko in his place, while Carragher moves to the centre. But this isnt the match to experiment so it s actually still safer to stick to Hyypia.

Arsenal make use of the flanks to make ground. And the trend is for the winger or full back to short pass to the edge of the box where Fabregas is usually found. The Helb-Fabregas, Clichy-Hleb, Sagna-Fabregas is indeed frightening, so Mascherano is there to neutralise the Fabregas threat and Alonso and Gerrard is suppose to come back on their counter to prevent to pass inwards while Babel and Riise try to cut out the cross. The 3 specialised defenders just have to wait in the box to cramp them out again. It s that simple, just cramp the field. Liverpool is currently short of defenders and by utlising more of the midfielders, it would conserve the energies of the defenders and make sure they dun lose concentration for the entire match so as to prevent stupid last minute goals from being conceded.

The main aim of the match is prevent Arsenal from having time on the ball and let them have as little possesion as possible. The entire defence should be intact at all times, meaning Hyypia and Finnan cannot advance forward for corners or freekicks etc, to neutralise the threat of Arsenal's potent counter. The attack of Liverpool goes directly to Crouch or the Torres-Gerrard combo. Babel-Alonso should be just as potent as they would punish Clichy or Sagna if they go forward.

All in all, this would clearly be a battle of tactics and the game would remain goaless for at least 60, 70 minutes. So dun bother to tune in until the final quarter of the match. For the last 20 minutes, fresh legs would be added and people like Benayoun or Voronin can add tricks and runnning to speed up the tempo for an exciting finish. My prediction - 1-0 to Liverpool.

Helium

Countdown

I have been feeling exceptionally sentimental the past days. All good things have to come to an end isnt it? Memories is what we bring along with us as we advance forward. Dempsey is going, we are leaving SJI. 2006 and 2007 have been the best years in my entire 16 years. These years are my growing years and it s when i experience all kinds of emotions, incidents that help my maturity. Prelims were bad, but i ve learnt a lot from this experience. It helped me to be stronger and not collapse under pressure and depression. I learnt to accept challenges and failures as they are part and parcel of life. Just accept reality and move on. I would like to thank a few people who have helped me through this difficult period of post prelims. I was genuinely sad but these people really pushed me on and look forward.

Special thanks to friends especially reuben and ying lun. Reuben has been my closest friend and my truest one even though he failed the test! haha. The jokes we cracked, lamed and crapped around was really fun. He never failed to reply to all my crappy messages and sometimes the few messages of encouragement really picked me up. thanks brudder! And to ying lun who i believe will be a very successful person in future. He works hard and strives to excel in every aspect which is worth looking up to. And i admire the way he recovered from his PSLE and improved tremendously in his academic work. Some how there s a magnet pulling him down to earth and even recent results never made him complacent. Thanks ying lun, you ve been an inspiration.

Also, thanks to my father who did not blame me and screw me for my prelims. Instead, he encouraged me and told me the first 5 weeks doesnt matter, it s the 2 years that s important. If not for his words, i would have really broken down. Lastly, to Mr Lim Meng Chye. I have regarded him as the best teacher i ever come across. He teaches in layman tone to make us understand better, and his wicked sense of humour spices up lessons at the same time make us interested in the topic. He gave me a pat on the back that acknowledge my efforts. The amount of effort i put in wasnt affirmed until this man came and give me that glimpse of hope. Human relations is that important, up and downs in life are normal, i hope this exam wouldnt be a down...

Speech and Graduation Day

Yesterday was SJI's 155th Speech and Graduation Day. It s the time when the graduating class come together and sing songs, receive prizes and feel sad one last time. It s pretty meaningful.

We sang songs like Pow'r of Love, St Joseph's Call, You Make Me Proud, You Raise Me Up etc, mostly to make people emotional. The best part is i think the letter opening by the parents. We wrote them a letter a few days ago to save ourselves. Save our souls when we receive the prelim results on monday. It seems effective actually. My mother actually cried when she read it and my father soften up. Awwwww....

I feel so much better after the ceremony that i actually let them know my genuine thoughts and confessions of all the sins i committed. (the soccer peeps know what sins) At least now they know not to expect too much from me academically, i m not the out and out mugger interested in studies but know when to mug and when to slack big time. Yep, and it s back to mugging after this post. Must remember to kope photos from reuben's blog when he post them.

I was shocked to see my list of important dates getting shorter and shorter. Is it good? or bad? i think it s good. It means a shorter time to freedom! Yay! I may take up a part time job after Os so i can buy more soccer merchandise and maybe more casual clothes to boost my wardrobe, havent bought clothes for months.

Next up on the important dates list is FIFA 08 Release!!!! It s on Friday! Ahh!! I wanna buy but i think i should wait until after Os, if not i wont be able to concentrate fully. Even the Pokemon Yellow on my phone is distracting me. Damn. I ll be patient.

Prelim English was out and i got an average B3. I think they wont be hope of getting an A2 even though i could add maybe a couple of marks. Anyway they decided to moderate down after moderating up. Aiyaa see how first. It isnt that bad considering most of the class got a B3. Now aiming for SAJC first few months next year mainly because ying lun and reuben wanna go there as well. Think jer and jj too. Might be able to make it as the cut off is at 11 or 12 points. Wish me luck!

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Things to do after O levels

I have decided. After browsing through so many wonderful pieces of piano music, i will pick up piano from my sis. As long as i learn to read the notes aka the tau gays then i ll be able to play the song. But all of this will be as what every sec 4 taking O level will say "After O level".

And as expected, soccer soccer soccer. Every day. Virtual soccer when resting leg muscles and real matches and trainings every other day. Yay. For now i have to rest and recover that right ankle, it s giving me so much trouble.

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Things to do:

1) Soccer Section
----------- Matches
-----------Trainings
-----------Jersey
----------- Overseas?
-----------Virtual

2) Piano Section
-----------Just learn to read the bloody symbols!

3) Get starhub Football Channel

4) Go gym

5) Run alternate days (apart from trainings and matches)

In love

I just realized yesterday that i have been in love for the past 3 years. I was lying in bed thinking about everything and anything and suddenly i felt so sad.

You have been with me for 3 years, maybe more. All along by my side but i took you for granted. i remember the first time when i saw you, i knew i was attracted immediately to your features. You were regarded as one of the best and finest by everyone then. They sang praises of you and i was pretty proud to have you. The times that we spent together were usually happy but there are moments of anguish, despair, sadness, anxiousness and many more. i was ashamed to show you to others even though you arent that bad looking. In my eyes, you have always been my ideal partner but times change and even though now you are gone, i will always remember you. with you by my side i felt good and everytime you call, i will definitely go for you even when at times when i m very busy. Sometimes your calls are so soft that even i didnt know you were alarming me of something important, for that, i apologise. at times of emergency you were mostly there for me, even though there were indeed times when you were unavaliable and i had to think of ways to solve my own problem. The times when you lay beside me on my bed, singing to my ears are the most touching and memorable moments. For now, i would like to say thank you for all that you have given me and wish you luck with whoever you find as your next partner. I hope that he or she will take good care of you unlike how i treated you that you even rebelled and showed signs of anger by turning your back against me. I dun blame you for all that as i know it was indeed my fault for not handling you with care. I will miss the times when i held you in my hands and smiling to your face when you tease me with something unoriginal taken from others.

Even though i found a replacement for you, it can never replace the affection i had for you, you are one and only, unique in your own ways and styles. thank you once more for everything, my dearest 6230. Your games were better than others, with beach rally, classic snake and many others that i ll never admit in front of others that they were fun. You held all my personal information from birthdays to messages from friends and family. the convenience you provide like being a mobile calculator satisfy my laziness to look for the scientific one. and the variety you have like the world clock helped me to determine my epl match times. Your bluetooth feature was one of the first to be installed in a mobile phone and i received countless of interesting yet important files from friends thanks to you. A billion thanks my old lover, for you brought spice and happiness to my life.

This post is dedicated to my former phone, 6230, who spent 3 whole years with me sending and receiving thousands of messages, holding days of calls and talktime with you friends. My feelings for this phone is entirely real as i felt the pain when it was traded in for $60 to subsidy the fee of my new 5700. The departure of this durable and trustee friend really hurt me when i thought of it being sent for reprocessing, cleaning and to serve in probably malaysia or indonesia. 6230 has been my true friend these past 3 years. I really appreciated its service for me, being so user friendly and lifelike. Its last few days with me was as if its dying, refusing to process anything i type on the keypad, like a stubborn old man dying in bed refusing to take his medicine or talk to others. It s really amazing how a non-living thing can cause someone to have so much feelings and affection for it. If i keep thinking of it for another few hours, i think i m really gonna cry. People only cherish and appreciate what's around them when it's been taken away. that s what makes the whole issue so sad.

Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend.

New Handphone

Please! Can some kind soul help me make a decision for my new phone? i'm having a dilemma of choosing between nokia 5300 and 5700. Here are the details for these 2 phones.

................. ................... VS..........
................. ............................ 5300........... vs............ 5700

................. ..................What's in the Box? vs What's in the Box?
................. ............Nokia 5300 Main Unit vs Nokia 5700 with MicroSD MU-28 (512MB)
................ ......Standard Battery (BL-5B) vs Battery BP-5M Li-Polymer 900 mAh
................... ....................Charger (AC-3X) vs Travel Charger AC-5X
.............................. .........Headset (HS-47) vs Stereo Headset 3.5mm HS-44
......2.5mm – 3.5mm Universal Adapter AD-50 vs Music Control Unit AD-44

http://www.nokia.com.sg/nokia/0,,84986,00.html?model=5200,5700xpressmusic&feature=41,15,26,17&status=new

just realised i couldnt copy and paste, so please go to this nokia site and see the comparisons. I like the design of 5300 (similar to 5200) but i like the features of 5700. the difference in price is only about $20.

The twisting part of the 5700 isnt very appealling, it s an either a very IN thing or a very OUT thing. so if people thinks it s a IN thing now, then maybe just a few months later, it will be super OUT. 5700 is considered bulky when compared to 5300.

ok anyway, please help me decide!

Fantastic day

Had a fantastic day on 31 August. No i didnt go for malaysia's National Day. I had better things to do like doing what i love to - soccer!!

Went to school at 7.40 and met Ting Soon there to pay the Chinese O Level paper fees. Then both of us took a bus to CCAB to meet up with Yew Tong and Alwyn. Soon, Ming, Shawn and Ryan joined us. There was some sports day at CCAB for Sengkang Secondary and they were using both courts so we decided to go to CCK street soccer court. Took a cab to Blk 435 CCK Ave 4 (haha i can still remember the address) to meet up with ying lun and he brought us to the small court along the expressway. Wesley, Jonathan and Wei Jin joined us as well. In the end, we had about 13 people in total eager to kick some balls.

After some fun at the small court (3 on 3 or 4 on 4) we took a bus to another soccer court near Yew Tee MRT station. Played there before so it wasnt so alien to me. Soon all the pros started to come. USS people, SAJC people, gangsters people etc la. Whole lot of hot blooded males were surrounding the court and then some attention seeking sluts also came along. (i think from SAJC) so we played, sweated, cramped, had fun and zhaoed. I had pretty bad games mainly because of the 2 injuries, the old right ankle injury and the new left knee injury. That s simply both legs. And felt very sad that i was blamed for some goals conceded. Was really downright sad when even after i threw in my body to block shot after shot, and got kicked full force by opponents, i still get blamed for not defending the goal. And i was angry as well, furious that i was the only one defending while the bloody joker ming was standing around shouting at people. ok nvm that was simply a bad game and so i went off for quite a while to cool down. After that, i m fine!

Left the court for Yew Tee central food court and had chicken rice. 2 plates. Was famished and the chicken rice was good as usual. (just realised i ate there at least 4 times!) haha what a traveller i am! slacked around for a while and then went to Ying Lun's house to bathe and have more fun. Played pool and enjoyed the air con blowing. Jeremy came and we had FIFA 06! yay. played twice or thrice and got chased out. so went back to ying lun's house to do up the team blog.

Absolutely thrilled to see tremendous progress for the team. New signings, forward planning of events, and improving chemistry is only good for us. Extremely happy to have signed Ibrahim as CB and Ryan as youth talent, fantastic!

Prelims was ok, but i think i screwed up bio. hardly even studied for it. only mugged geog but i missed out around 7 marks coz i over wrote for the other questions. nvm, just hoping i will get A1 for Humanities and another distiction for English, A1 for E Maths probably A1 for Chem. So this hols i will mug harder for A Maths and Physics to get as many As as possible.

Liverpool was on fire just now, scoring 6 against Derby. this team looks like a title winning team and i hope my wish comes true. Spurs was damn careless to waste another 2 points by letting in a 90th minute goal to draw with Fulham. I wont be surprised Martin Jol be sacked even though i hope he wouldnt. He s darn unlucky.

Prelims begin

English prelim today. ok, but rushed a little towards the end for both papers. paper 1 i expect to get average mark for the free essay and a little higher for situational. paper 2 cant tell, dunno the answers. the summary wasnt too good as i didnt even know what the hell was congitive (not even sure spelling is right). so like that lor. same as ytd's oral, hoping for the best.

was quite moved (not to tears),but basically it was heartwarming when jer called my hp at about 7am to say good luck for prelims. awww.... i guess he learnt to be more of a glib tongue after getting into a relationship. btw, thanks pal!

after the papers suppose to have physics remedial but lam cancelled it (show attitude) coz a lot of people never do or bring. so i chiong my bao zhang bao dao but ended up talking cock with matthew and the 2 retards shawn and yong jie (had english oral today) were tying up all the exam paper strings together and join one fan to another with it. use it as skipping rope and Patrick's hanging cable. lame la. after finishing, the essay, hand in to qiu and went home.

this weekend is intensive intensive mugging. dun think will come online at all. so long!

English O Oral

Had english O level oral today. i thought i could have done better. reading was ok, but could have made no mistake. i fumbled at one line and read an extra 'the' somewhere. picture was dangerous. i m not even sure how i did. i said dumb stuff and wasnt elaborate enough. at the end, i could have added in more details of what s gonna happen next but didnt. conversation was a real question mark. i thought it was an easy topic "conservation" but fumbled again. the most obvious one was the Live Earth, which i said it as Green Day. joke la. was thinking about the simpsons movie at that time. really, i had the image pictured right in my head, the sinking stage! damn. also what i think is screwed up is the first question on example of field trip. said about the latest mosque trip. couldnt think of any field trips at that time. so talk about racial, religious harmony, understanding etc. i wasnt even impressed with myself as i was bleh, and the examiners didnt even nod their heads.

but the next 2 questions wasnt that bad as i managed to talk some sense, using fossil fuel as example. no electricity, then the future generations suffer. shld not be selfish etc. scored a point with maturity thingy and global crap. and the good thing was they nodded their head continuously, which means good. hoping for the best now.

now my right ankle is slightly screwed. went for some 'exercise' to destress ytd after finishing ying yong wen (retaking chinese is such a big deal, so much work) then made an acrobatic block and landed awkwardly and now my ankle is twisted or sprained or whatever. can walk but sometimes turn a bit, damn painful.

kumz came and we thrashed them. only 4 of them, nani, tevez, and the other 2. aka kum, suren, k7 and ami. i scored around 10 goals, yea quite a good performance. actually dribbled PAST them. the skills just came out. i also didnt know where it came from. but honestly they were bloody slow. can easily out run them. loved the long shot i made even with the screwed up ankle. it was curling and was powerful at the same time. ami was utterly stunned. anyway gtg. mug for prelims.

Random

ENDURE!!! ENDURE!!! ENDURE!!!

MUG!!! MUG!!! MUG!!!

NCC Land Hangouts

Was feeling kinda bored and wanted add some new songs to my phone. havent changed the songs that were in there for ages. so i wasted some time trying to 'infra red' over some songs from the laptop. in the end cmi and the phone say not enough memory. sucks la. so i decided to send some of the 'memory' over and there it is, some pics of the NCC land hangouts. Aww... 'memories'.



>>> Sandpit. Part A s' homeground

>>> In front of Part A bench and the 3 pull up bars is the Part B area.

>>> And the far end is the Part C area.

>>> Parade Square. Spent hours of drills on it, push ups, parades and even cooked on it.

haha cant believe i spent 4 years in this area. donated quite some blood to the mosquitoes that breed there and will always remember the stares from Kwang and Gregory at the scouts den when they are having parade and we are making a fool of ourselves nearby. All good and bad things have to come to an end, isnt it?

National Day

Havent blogged for 2 weeks or more. Too lazy to even sign in and type some words but i managed to use all my strength to place my hand on the mouse, position my index finger on the left click button, go to blogger.com, and muster 1000kJ of energy to type in my email add and password. Finally i managed to log in and type some crap here.

Ok more crap to come.

Past 2 weeks were more interesting. Loved the prelim practicals. Was quite easy, and best was go school late. yay! so fun. can sleep 1, 2 hours more and do a 1.5hr pract and finally slack in the LT playing chinese chess, talking cock etc before going home. Kicked some bolas recently and most recent was after national day celeb. was quite fun but freaking hot. came home chao ta.

Something even more fun was Tue, after physics pract. Went out with 9,10,11. aka reuben, jeremy and ying lun. First, went to Ngee Ann City to eat some food while waiting for reuben to meet us from paradiz and jeremy to meet us after his lessons end. After that, met reuben at cine to buy tics for simpsons the movie. Thought could use the free tics by Marigold but then in the end only could discount 2 bucks and only the next visit will be free. good anyway coz i plan to watch Bourne Ultimatum. ok and this is a REMINDER TO ALL MOVIE GOERS who are CHEAPO like me. to save $$$$$$ on tics, quickly go and buy all the Marigold cartons of fruit juice and pour out the drink into bottles, then cut out the coupon or whatever you call it on the side of the carton saying '$1 discount off movie tickets'. Collect as many as possible and go watch a movie BEFORE 15 August presenting the coupon and then receive complimentary tics that is valid until the end of the year. GO GO GO! quick buy Marigold drinks now! after cutting out, you can slowly finish the drinks you poured out.

Anyway back to where i stopped, then the 3 of us went to Orchard Library to read books for 2 hours then back to cine for the movie. Simpsons was damn funny. Everything about it is funny, and i can say it s worth my $7 ( or rather $5 after discount). ok, then 4 of us walked to PS to eat Carls Junior. At first couldnt decide what to eat and strolled around the mall for almost half hour. haha and then the funny thing came. i went to order food and i dunno a shit what the hell the guy behind the counter was saying (coz it s my first time there) and he asked me upsize? and i say 'ya', then look into my wallet for money. As the place was so damn noisy, he suddenly raised his voice and i looked up. I couldnt figure out what he was saying at first but then i sort of heard and lipread "UPSIZE?" and so i said 'ya'. then i was wondering why he asked twice... (maybe he didnt hear me or he STML (short term memory loss) ) so i just paid and he gave me a cup the size of SUPER BIG GULP. filled it up and went back to the table then i realised then i uped-uped size twice!!!!! sia la waste money. coz the upsize is just the bloody fries , the drink can refill. shit man, kena robbed.

National Day was pretty boring. Woke up, mugged a little, watched Die Hard 4.0 (downloaded) then mugged again, then go grandma house to watch NDP then go home watch Troy (3rd time but still find it nice) and sleep. Love the war shows. Die Hard was quite good too. but it would have been better if i watched it in a theatre. the downloaded quality wasnt too good.

anyway, wasted another day today talking rubbish online and also updating friendster. and my sister was spamming the com speakers with national day songs until i have headache ald. argh...

Study!

Mug mug mug! Yes it s the time. started to mug ald. gonna continue the mugging. started with maths after i woke up from my dreams. been slacking so much that i failed the revision tests. 2 or 3 of them. didnt even look through the topics before the test, so expected sure fail. Anyway i managed to start something and that s an achievement. suddenly have the motivation to do work. maybe it s really that i have nothing else to do at home. no games, no soccer (season break), no prison break, no ncc. nothing else to do but mug.

last sat went for renaissance at UCC NUS. average. but the standard is way too low for a proper concert. plus the horrible audience making so much noise. SJI made a big mistake to force the lower sec to go. dumb dumb

damn sian this week. everyday study maths, coz got so many maths test. everyday. so gonna change mugging subject to chem. saturday and sunday will be totally chem plus a bit of bio and ss.

mon gonna have shatec! yay can go eat something decent. hope it s enriching, these things are important as dining etiquette is something that can be brought into use everyday and later in life, hmmm , especially on dates! haha

wed and fri prelim practicals. shit. hate pracs but dun seem difficult actually. just have to do fast and accurate, be careful. that s all. dun even need to mug, just look through. and the best thing about prac is... no lessons!!! yay! looking forward to next week. even though this period is the most boring period of my life.

Reuben and Ming BD

Yay! I finally broke the 11min 2.4km run barrier. Should have done better but i m ok with 10min 50sec. I couldnt believe myself when i was still jogging at the last 100 metres. Usually i will be sprinting but couldnt muster any more energy and wasnt used to the new starting and finishing line. Expected to end further. If not, could have easily gotten a 10.40 or 30 plus. then shawn wont laugh at me. Argg. But not bad ald i think. As what the bloody shawn always say i m a defender this cannot that cannot dun expect too much but at least the timing was better than some other slayers. Namely strikers who are in sport CCAs *ahem* *RUGBY and JUDO* *ahem* got 11 min plus. And no one can beat ying lun in stamina la. Hockey still best in training stamina or maybe he did some personal trainings. It s good to have a gym in your condo downstairs so you can make use of the facilities and improve fitness. Aiya nothing to say about ming la, i will thank god if he passes 2.4.

Soccer

Anyway s he s a CB so there s hardly any running to do. But honestly speaking the wingers and fullbacks are the ones who needs the most stamina. Especially fullbacks, coz they will not be forgiven if they venture up but never come back to defend. wingers can still camp up there to catch their breath and may not receive cricticism. Centre back, centre mid, centre forward can depend on the flankers to do the running while they just make small movements.

Was talking to ryan just now. He was impressed with a field soccer team. Excited sec 1 wanting to play a decent match on the field. considered him but he s too short and weak. talent is there. similar playing style as shawn. in short, he s the successor for shawn at the street soccer court. What a waste, still 153cm. i told him to grow taller and stronger then maybe can have trial. Not bad for a winger, super sub maybe. There s also binn binn who is definitely a striker. out and our striker. potential. Will take note of these 2. and their friend from squash. leftie. Good enough for sec 1 standard, will also take note of his progress.

Sounds like i m starting a youth academy or something. But we really need new players. And young peeps are the best. coz they dun mind warming the bench and come on late late in the game to give their 150% to prove their worth. See how everything goes after O level in November.

End of soccer

Saturday was a day for 2 people. Reuben and Chien Ming. The former born on 11/7/91 while the latter born on 15/7/91. shit i might have gotten the latter's birthdate wrongly. his brain was born in the year 2004. body 1991. Chien Ming the freak with a pea brain of a 3 year old. I dun have to elaborate further if you know this guy. Master of all stupid things.

Anyway it was their celebration so met up at 12 at cine to buy tics and eat quick lunch then went down to meridien to play LAN and pool. people present were 8,9,11,12,14,22. 3 on 3 CZ. had a pretty good game, found a new gun that s good for head shots. can scope to be more accurate but can also shoot without scoping. Pool was ok as well. Had many good shots. Mostly tyco but some really had that intention. Hmm.. afterall i have some skill in pool.

Met 6 ZX the slut and chionged to cine again to watch transformers. Good show. 4.5/5 stars. action, eye candies present, all emotions tested, good sound etc. overall it s good. the 0.5 stars went to the lousy seat we got. i sat first row alone coz i could see a shit sitting all the way to the side on the 2 nd row.

Then walked to Somerset where we parted with Duracell Bunny. Stupid ming managed to squeeze his way into a fully packed train to City Hall while the rest of us waited for the next train. And ming messaged back to call us noobs. Wth. the next train came in a few seconds and we had all the fresh air we wanted. Met up with the pea brain at City Hall the chiong through City Link to Marina Square. Slut dispersed and went home. Met Hawn there at Yuki Yaki. Booked a table ald so wasnt a problem with seating. Ate until siao, mainly beef. We killed maybe 2 cows. Food was ok but some beef was too hard. Bloody hell, these peeps cant cook for nuts. I rather eat rare than fully cooked. Anyway it was quite ok la. As usual pea brain started to play with food, cooking a piece of beef over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. So beef become BAK QUA. Then the rest started to follow and play with fish balls, chicken wing, pour soup and drink into the cooking area. Best is still the ping pong. Refer to reuben s blog for pics. didnt take a single pic that day. too lazy.

After that walked all the way to paradiz to play LAN for a while. CZ got owned and then played fifa 07. beat shawn 4-2. couldnt finish the second match then zhao. was so damn lonely on the train. listened to music and stare and people. some mud group in front of me with piercings all over. sick. maybe they are JJ's gore friends.

Anyway reached home at 12.15. got screwed the next day for not studying but going out the whole day. damn. but i think it s quite worth it. Although my birthday was much more fun than this celebration, it was a non-stop action day. which was good as it meant good planning.

Boring school week

Boring school week.

Monday exercised after school by kicking about for a while. realised it s stupid to mug all day and not exercise. immunity level will drop like hell and will fall sick easily. i hate falling sick. so will still be jogging regularly.

Tuesday did nothing actually. Was bored to tears. Mugging here and there. bits and pieces. cant concentrate. either too tired or just cant concentrate when at the table with books. especially with things i dun understand.

Wednesday went to coronation after physics test. the test wasnt too good for me. started late and wasted a lot of time on MCQ. shit i havent mastered the skill of skipping questions. it s too tempting to try and complete the question not caring about the time. Went coronation to meet cedric, the t shirt making guy. gave design and told him everything that we wanted.

Thursday, that s today. bored again. going to mug for chem and maths later. chatted with ying lun just now. life is so complicated. and life is boring without talking to your old mates. hope things turn for the better soon...