Just another day

Went to the adidas sale at expo today. It was dumb, had to queue just to get in. And the queue is just to get the dumb plastic bag. Anyways, mother was there so everything above 20 bucks was expensive and in the end didnt buy a single thing. So went to the next hall for popular sale. Didnt buy anything as well. Elder sister had to go to KK hospital for some talk about nutrition i think. So dropped her off then went to visit some secondary schools. Younger sis wanna see look so no choice had to follow. Went to see Cedar, TKGS, Chung Cheng etc. Waste of time. Anyway went to parkway next to shop. Tml is aunt's bd, wanted to find bd present but didnt buy either.

Oh ya finally found the ankle tape. Damn difficult to find. Went to some sports shop, same level as Giant then found the tape. About 5 bucks. Bought it and went around to adidas, nike and royal sporting house to look at bags, or away kit for slayers. Nothing much interesting. Then met up with family and went to eat at food court. Damn suay, kena burn by boiling soup. Some guy bump into me then the soup splashed on my left arm. Wa lao, every week kena injury. Hip, elbow, knee, arm, calf, thigh, foot, head etc. Damn damn suay. Head injury was kayaking. Some idiot whacked the paddle vertically on my head when raftup. Anyways, now mostly recovered except for knee. Shld be ready for the match coming on Sat.

Busy

Sorry blog... havent blogged for ages. Damn busy this few days. had camps, courses, trainings, etc. Just returned from specs retreat, which is planning what to do for next year. Quite slack, just use brain to think and contribute ideas. But also had a few chances to play soccer. We had some free time so we played soccer at hockey pitch. Played horribly. Dunno why play with NCC people always screwed up. Scarly they dun choose me for inter unit.

Damn suay, everytime my team always got those cmi in soccer one. Everybody wanna attack, but cant attack. If i defend, they will never score goals. If i attack, no one defend counters. Sian man. Aiya who cares, as long as i play well with slayers good enuff.

Had this kayaking course for 2 days. Went to lower seletar reservoir to kayak. Of course tired la. now become chao ta ald. Damn boring lor, all the strokes and stuff all learn before ald. Too basic. Finally back in the comfort of home. Got injured at the course, some scratch or abrasion or cut or whatever you wanna call it. It s at the left knee (damn weird, always injured left knee only.) Now, have to hope for speedy recovery in time for the cashew match. or else i have to sit out at least for first half (which is ald planned).

Wa my fitness now is so screwed. Too lazy and too busy to run. Maybe i might go running tml. Gotta do chem hw, gotta return library book, got match and aunt's bd on sunday, wa i m still so busy and have so many things to remember and do. Better start soon.

Mount Ophir

Just realised i havent blogged for more than a week. Have been really busy for the past week. Visited Mount Ophir in Malaysia together with NCC. I think i should just briefly state what happened.

Wednesday

Went to NCC HQ in Yio Chu Kang. Stayed there overnight with all the things required for camping. Damn dumb, went there at around 8 just for a briefing, take attendance, bag check etc. Total waste of time.

Thursday

Set off for Malaysia. Took a bus all the way to Gunung Ledang Resort. Ok la, not too bad, afterall it s a resort. Suppose to stay there for a night in the room. Not bad, got TV, air con, proper beds. But standard not high. Good enuff since I m gonna suffer much worse fate later the next few days. Lots of briefing, collected food items etc. Meals were great. Held in an indoor banquet room with food pretty decent.

Did some dumb 'warm up' practices for the climb. Rock wall, team building games, flying fox, obstacle course. Waste time la. At the end of the day, sorted out everything what i m suppose to bring up the mountain and what can be left behind. Then went to oink.

Friday

Woke up freezing thanks to the air con set full blast at around 15 degrees Celsius. Nightfall made it worse. Got ready for the climb after breakfast. Did warmups and some silent prayer (a tradition) then walked up the mountain with a bag weighing about 8kg. I m super kiasu, brought two 1.5 litre bottles plus two 500ml bottles. They gave us another 2 litres of water. In the end i brought up 4.5 litres!!! Haha, i m nuts. Others brought around 2 litres but i brought more than twice of it. Reason being, i scared of contaminated water, dun wanna waste my time squating beside a tree to sh*t. Dun wanna fall sick.

Yep, the water made life difficult for me. It was so damn heavy. but i still managed to carry it up 621 metres above ground to checkpoint 4 where we would stay overnight in tents. Had meals there simply by adding hot water to cup noodles. Took water from the stream and made it 'pure' by adding 2 tablets of puri tab or sth. Cant trust the 2 tablets rite. Anyway just ate and bathe in the stream (it was freezing) and went to sleep in the bloody hot tent. only managed 4 hours or sth. So damn uncomfortable.

Saturday

Woke up and got ready to continue climbing to the summit. Checkpoint 4 was only halfway up. Brought only food and water up there. It was more challenging but more fun. The first part was all walking, so sian, but later part had ropes, ladders, bridges. more adventure. Reached the summit at around noon then ate lunch there. After some prize presentation, gave out the badges, then we left the summit and trekked back to CP 4. Damn dumb, it took a longer time to go down. Thanks to some people some scared to walk down 'stairs'. In the end reached CP4 then cooked noodles again and then went to bathe in the the stream. Got back up, ate another round of noodles then it started to rain. So ran into the tent for cover and slacked for 3 hours or more waiting for the rain to stop. Slept at around 11 after another briefing. The place was still raining and the tent started to flood. Lucky i was wise to layout the garbage bags in the tent to sleep on or else it would have been a water bed.

Sunday

Woke up after another bad night, couldnt sleep well, floor so cold, place so damp, no space. Anyway, packed up and went down to the resort again. So much easier this time. Then had a bag check, made sure did not leave rubbish up there or else have to pay 20 ringget as fine. Aiya it s just a scare. Washed up, packed, ate lunch, received cert then went on to the bus and headed home. Slept all the way until customs. Reached Yio Chi Kang Mrt around 4.40. Waited for family, went out to eat. Went to Junction 8, Cafe Cartel. First time there, a bit noob. Ate some maccaroni thingy and found out about the match going on.

Damn sian, missed a match, a screwed up match haha. Nvm, too tired now, gtg to sleep ald cant tahan anymore. Blog another time.

FIFA 07

Hiya another day gone. Feel bored at home. But its only the first day after the last day of the official school day that I’m at home for the whole day. Sounds a bit confusing? Anyways just real bored and played 07 the whole day. So sian. Almost finish the second season in manager mode ald. This week is gonna be a busy week, of course besides today. Actually today supposed to go watch movie with Jeremy and co. but in the end postponed to another day. Erm… what are the reasons? Forgot ald. I think is not enough people going. Oh ya, kovan say he got friend going to his house for dunno what reason, so cant go. Then a few other people also cant go so postponed to Friday. It s also good as I need a break, need more sleep.

Tomorrow, have some NCC meeting in school in the morning. Dunno why cant just discuss after Friday’s training. Purposely must put tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon most likely going out with family. Need to build some bonds la. Covalent, ionic whatever bond all break so easily. Hope the session tomorrow can strengthen the ties.

Friday have training in morning and going for movie later in the afternoon as mentioned above. And finally, Saturday, the day. Waited for it for ages. Yep, the match. Just love attending matches. Hopefully we can get our first win and boost some morale for people going overseas etc. Make it a happy holiday! Shiaks, thinking of overseas, mount ophir comes to my mind. Going to climb the damn mountain in Malaysia next week, 9 Nov to 12 Nov. I m too lazy to get out of the house and they still want me to climb mountain.

November seems like a scary month to me. So many dates to remember. Must go and mark out later. There’s even home work deadlines in November. Chemistry especially, damn suay kena 4 pieces. Must go and study first then do the papers or else in the end I learn nothing. Oh chem. Oh chem.. Why must I fail chem… of all subjects. And there s also the English homework. Some stupid commonwealth essay again. Every year we enter but never win. What s the use. This time, tracy goh still want it submitted way way way before the official deadline. Whatever.

I think this post’s English is one of the worse I ever published. I just cant seem to make out proper sentences now. Maybe because father just scolded me for playing FIFA again. Always kena scolding, pull my morale even further down. Nvm, tml will be a new day and hopefully it will be a better one.

Pissed

I m pissed. No commitment. No passion. Not sacrificial.

If you are in the team you should know what i m talking. I dun think i shld name people, but just a reminder to those who are not commited. We are all trying to get our first win. To gel together. To have the chemistry. To get used to the people we are playing with. To know what the person next to you next move will be. So that you can anticipate and do wonders. For that to happen, you cant just wait for matchday and say i have the chemistry. We MUST train together and spend time together.

I admit if i havent been playing soccer regularly, my standard will be far worse than what i am now. And i must admit i m far from good. Training is required! Play more. That s a solution. Sacrificing your com games or whatever you are busy with to go for training so that time is made for training is essential. In a squad of 16, only half i can safely say is commited. The other i dunno. If you wanna break into first team, there is no place to bootlick or do some skills to pull it off. Sometimes it s really easy to just pick a team and decide the starting 11 because base on commitment and the number of players going for matches, I can ald close one eye and choose.

i think i m not gonna talk abt it here. It s quite useless. Just venting my frustrations for nothing.

Boring

It s a boring day for me today. Woke up late and had hardly anything to do. No FIFA 07, no soccer, no outings. So just stayed at home to use the com. After doing the basic things like checking e mail, reading soccer news, browsed through my favourites and found Youtube. But then i realised that there was no match INTERESTING enough to watch on youtube. (liverpool lost to man u so no match nice la.) I was so bored that i just typed Steven Gerrard. Saw almost all his goals. Mostly wonder strikes and long range ones. After scrolling down, I saw the FA Cup Final 06 highlights. Just clicked and rewatch the goals. That video really justified Steven Gerrard as my favourite player. He's the best in the world. He can carry the whole team on his shoulders and lead to victory. There were 6 goals in total during normal time.

Just to refresh your memory or if you didnt know. The first was an own goal by Carragher, he tried to back heel a low cross but it was too fast and went in off the left foot. 0-1.

The second was a goal line scramble and Aston managed to squeeze in the goal. 0-2.

I remembered when it was 0-2 when i heard it live on BBC, i tot it was all over. But then Gerrard made a pin point cross from deep for an on rushing Cisse to meet and the French made a first time volley pass Hislop. 1-2.

Then a cross by Alonso into the box forced West Ham to clear but only to Gerrard who was in mid penalty area. He drove it in high in the net with so much force Hislop had no chance. 2-2.

Hope was coming back for Liverpool until Konchesky anyhow whack a cross cum shot into the box. Lucky for West Ham, it looped between Reina and the crossbar and went in. 2-3.

Even Konchesky thought he scored the winner. But then when the announcer anounced there was 4 minutes of extra time at the 90 minute mark, a loose ball bouncing outside the West Ham box was too tempting for Gerrard. A few strides, a swing of the valuable right leg and the driving force from the foot, it drove the ball low into the left bottom corner of Hislop's goal. 3-3.

It was like a fairytale story so perfect. The comeback by Liverpool was unbelievable.

The draw made the game to a stale extra time except for some close chance for West Ham but Reina saved it. In the end it all went down to penalties. Hamann took the first one and it went in. 1-0. Etherington took the second one but Reina saved. 1-0. Hyypia took the thrid one but Hislop saved. 1-0. Sheringham stepped up and scored for West Ham. 1-1. Back to square one, Gerrard rammed it to make it 2-1. Konchesky took the next one but Reina saved! 2-1. Riise drove the next one in. 3-1. Ferdinand took the decisive penalty. If it went in, there was still chance for the London club. But it was a poor penalty and Reina, the best penalty stopper in Spain saved it! Liverpool win the FA Cup!

Gerrard was the man of the match but give credit to Cisse who scored the first goal for Liverpool. The skipper, assisted one and scored two himself. That showed how good he is and deservingly be the best player to me.

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What a day!

Today is one of the more interesting days. Yea today normal, went to school, listen people talk and talk and talk. First was Sydney Tan in the hall. Then it was the Neighbourhood Police in PAC then it was Tracy Goh in class then it was Bro Mike and Bernard Teo in the PAC again. Sian leh whole day talk but not bad get to enjoy air con whole day.

Then bell rang at 1.20pm. Teo held us back to talk about NYAA which i ald done. Half an hour gone. Suppose to meet at NCC HQ to hand in some donation card, mount ophir form and consent form for holiday trainings right after school. Then during assembly, they announce what Marcian house people go foyer after school. What was i gonna do leh? Split myself into 3 is it? One third stay in PAC listen NYAA. One third go hand in the stuff. One third go house meeting. Siao ah. In the end i ended up handing in the donation card only. Heck the house meeting while ying lun, chien ming, zx and gang were fooling around in class and the corridors.

Suppose to have a training at CCAB. Lucas suppose to go but ended up saying CMI, gotta stay back. Ok whatever. Then suddenly the gang went to eat ice cream without telling me they left. So i quickly went to see whether can catch em but thought they left ald. In the end i took the bus there myself just to find out they were at ESSO. Wa lao. Nvm. Then we met and just played soccer at the court.

Now the exciting part. We were playing 3 vs 3. Me, ying lun and shawn one team. the other was ming, jun jie and zi xiang. Play play play. Until some misinderstanding between me and shawn that allowed zi xiang to rob the ball of us. As a specialised defender, i chased him to knock the ball off him. he was running to an open goal so i had to stop him. After a few strides, i was in pace with him and used my right foot to kick the ball away from him. But the momentum zi xiang was in was too great that he ended up pushing me down onto the ground and landed on me. From that moment i was already thinking," shit, i think i screwed myself up." My limbs were exposed so they went in contact with the ground. As expected, abrasions on knee and elbow. But what was surprising was abrasion at my hip. Ouch. I think when i fell, my shirt lifted up and went in contact with the ground. But what was the most painful was the 'fracture'. Jj told me he saw me landing on my left palm. That explains why there was pain at the wrist. The pain was unbearable. I almost cried sia. Almost.

As usual, i jumped about, trying to shake off the pain. the abrasion was nothing compared to the 'fracture'. Chien ming and JJ was debating whether it was a fracture, a muscle strain or dunno what. We feared for the worse and even talked about going to the hospital. i was thinking if we went, i would be dead. My parents will kill me. Thx to the haze and my results. Anyways, i just rested and endured the extreme pain for more than half an hour and it became better.

Then jeremy and terence came to play. Usual just play, then the 2 french came again. They like stay at CCAB or sth. Everyday there. I wonder god was helping us or bringing us down. coz it started to rain. It was good because it got rid of some haze. it was bad because it meant we would have to play in the rain. I was slightly sick and did not take the risk when the rain was cats and dogs. Only when drizzling then i went to play. Whatever it is, the injury killed my form. I was playing so well before the fall and then suddenly everything i did is restricted by the injury. Even miskicked horribly. all thx to the injury.

Soon, ying lun wanted to leave, all started to follow. I actually wanted to go coz i was so tired. but i promised reuben to stay there until he comes so i waited and tried to persuade them not to leave but in the end all except me and shawn stayed. Reuben came and we just rammed here and there then some kiddo no, 2 kiddos came. They wanted to play. I thought they should be nice and friendly kids. In the end they were so noisy and soloist. Worse than zx, even shawn was complaining. (shawn you also solo so much huh.) The small kid was so tiny, i think just maybe 1.2m? Around there la. So ambitious. His shot not even powerful, still wanna take halfway line penalty. Wa lao. Know your limits man. The bigger guy was more irritating. Keep blaming his brother. Aiya to conclude, they both suck la. Super duper irritating.

Wa this post so long??? Ooops. Who cares just continue. Waited for father and went home together. I talked to him for the first time in 9 days. Omg. Cant belive it. Anywayz i was quite quiet anyway didnt feel like talking at all. Just sat there quiet, until ask abt exam etc la. Just gave short and sweet answers. Anywayz, went home ate dinner then he offered to bring me to see doctor. (Not for the 'fractured' wrist) the wrist recovered ald. Just impact maybe. See doc to fill in mount ophir form. Have to do some medical crap. Go peed in the cup. Ask some questions then he just said fit. So good lor can go.

After that went home, father fixed the air con. Coz mine is the window type one, we suspected brids living in it. LOL. Got some chirping sound for more than 5 days ald. It sounded really like birds la. in the end i think no birds, Just air con spoil. Ooooo. Sad. Heck it just use until no air can come out. Haha.

Sad

I didnt expect this result. 2-0. Maybe 1-0 but no 2-0. From the start, i knew Liverpool would have problems. Man U was too good for them. Frankly. The passing, the one-twos. Even the defending. Ferdinand was exceptionally good. The defence was never complacent. That was the main point.

Their midfield held the ball well. Whenever they lost the ball, almost all of them would run back to retrieve it. Liverpool was playing defensive most of the time. And tried to lauch counter attacks but really, Man U was too good. They did not let Liverpool any space at all. Alonso and Gerrard cant shoot in peace from long range. There was no space!

I praise Giggs and Scholes. They were the sparks on the field. Even though the Scholes goal was crap, he did well overall. Honestly, each time Utd attacked, i just wondered was it going end up as a goal? Whenever Liverpool attack (did they?), i knew it would not end up as a goal. Why? Because Utd was too good.

Sissoko did well.
Alonso not too good.
Carragher was outstanding.
Gerrard average.
Reina was pretty good.
Kuyt was isolated with the lack of service as lone striker.
Garcia was crap.

Liverpool need someone to dribble, someone to be more creative, someone to hold the ball. Just like what slayers need...

Big Big Match

Here it comes! The biggest match in the world! Manchester United vs Liverpool. Just cant wait for Sunday. I think no matter what, i will catch a part of the match. Frankly, I dun have the confidence in Liverpool to beat Man Utd flat. Playing away and with a few key players injured makes it difficult.

But, if Rafa plays the usual back 4 (from right) Finnan, Carra, Hyypia and Riise, it should be good as these 4 kept so many clean sheets last season. Keeping (from right) Alonso and Sissoko in front of the defence can help neutralise Man U's attack. Putting Sissoko as LDM can help cover for Riise who loves to run down the flank to help attack.

And if you ask me whether i would play out and out wingers for this match, i would say no. I would instead place Gerrard and Luis Garcia as attacking midfielders. They can play Total football and switch flanks often, doing cutting ins to get the ball on their preferred foot to shoot or running down the touchline and whip in a cross.

Yes, this is the match. This the match for Bellamy and Kuyt. They have the speed to trouble Ferdinand and maybe Vidic or Brown. Ferdinand is good enough to take out Crouch, but even then, putting Crouch of the bench might prove useful. Other subs are tricky Pennant and speedy Gonzalez. Backup keeper Dudek and defender Aurelio. As the game progresses, changes and tactics need to be changed and these subs can make the difference. Hopefully Rafa come across my blog and kope my idea and we will surely win. heehee.

Yep, another big match. Real Madrid vs Barcelona. The rivalry is super intense, making it erm lets see, the 2nd biggest match in the world to me. Star-studded Real is good enough to match up to the talented Barca. But this should be a close one, with Rijkard (is it spelled like that?) wanting a win to make up for the loss in midweek to Chelski. Capello knows his stuff and should play Reyes instead of Beckham. Beckham is injured and shouldnt be playing. But if i were him, i would play Beckham for about 60 plus minutes (if he recovered) then bring on Reyes later for some speed.

Anyways, this match dun really concern me. But it concerns no. 11 and no. 10. Haha fight fight fight! Meanwhile, i got a fierce fight between no.7 especially, he is on FIRE for the England regional rivalry!

First Real Post

Haiz. Screwed up. My life is screwed up.

Firstly, the haze killed my life. My mother is so particular and kan jiong, dun even let me play soccer outdoor. Aiya, she dun even let me walk outside for a long time, let alone let me play soccer. Thanks Indonesia...

Secondly, my virtual world. I was so unfairly treated by my father. He's so bias, allowing my younger sis to play Maple for hours and my elder sis to chat and read blogs for hours but not me. I m banned from FIFA, banned from using the com for more than 2hours. So unfair. The biasness pissed me off that i hardly uttered a word to him for one week, yes, 7 days. A new record.

Lastly, my exam. I got it all screwed upside down inside out. 4 subjects improved from term 1, 4 subjects 'deproved' from term 1. Clearly, my weakest subject is bloody chem. I spend quite a long time memorising the basics, mugging the textbook. but i realise now, what i need most is practise more difficult exam questions. I passed chem for term 1 but failed the next 3. Pathetic. Really need to study the right way now.

Ya, and need to sleep early coz it almost killed my maths. I m suppose to score in maths but end up on chalking up 50s and 60s. I think i m too slow, either due to lack of sleep or lack of practise. At least i know my concept is there.

haha, and humanities. I feel sad for my geog elect. I think i prepared well for it. I put in a lot of effort for it, knowing the facts but in the end failed by 2 marks. I must analyse what went wrong. And SS. you should have heard of it if you are in 335. Yea i m the legend. I make stupid mistakes like misuderstanding the question or instructions. This time, for essay, they write there answer one question only. As the page had 4 essays questions, i thought just do 1 of the 4. but in fact, suppose to do 2 coz 1 question have 2 questions. Wa I m so dumb. This is not the first time lor.

Remembering in NCC, in sec 1, i went for IMT, go shooting the M16 in a room. I m suppose to put the gun to 'semi' mode. Put i stupidly put it to 'auto'. Semi is for one bullet at a shot. But, auto, is blasting the gun, like a machine gun. So, in the end, i pressed the trigger once, and 'da, da, da, da'. The End. no more bullets. Of course i failed la. They testing our aiming, so cant just blast the gun right?

Thinking positively, i aced my live firing this year. Getting a marksman. 20/20. ALL shots on target and yes, it was in 'semi' mode not 'auto'. Also, my studies. I still have a year to 'o' levels. That is my last chance. No more oppotunities to fumble any more. At least i have this holidays to mug. I'm banned from games, banned from soccer. Nothing much i can do. So study lor. Practise more and that will help.

I hope so...

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