Keeping the faith

God never gives us more than what we can handle.
So if you think you can't handle, you just need some help and dun tryta be superman or superwoman.. Sometimes you can't make it on your own.. Bono told me that :)

it'll be over on tuesday.. at least temporarily..
but an optimist i am!

Shalu just wants to see her picture here :)

okay i'm blogging. happy now shalu? anyway, there seems to be lots to blog at the same time i'm getting constant writers' block while blogging. so i've resolved to not blogging. oh well, and its not as though shalu doesnt know whats going on in my life. still, i shall grant her request.

above are pictures taken on tuesday, thomson plaza BK with shalu. sotong girl was wearing england jersey if you notice. sure takes courage to wear anything related to england, cause of their performance during da world cup. but shalzinie is a true blue england fan. so she doesnt care if people mock and spit at her jersey (no one has done the spitting, yet!)
RHS having some clearance sale i guess. saw man utd's vodafone jersey selling at 58 dollars and england's jersey at 60 dollars. where are the other jerseys?!

anyway yday was khorkiee's bday.. terry fid uzair and i wenta get her gift. so much of laughter and lunch at cartel was terryble coz terry kept making us laugh. the waitress seemed to be hitting on terry although he denies it. comical man.. i almost choked on my food. thank goodness for uzair keeping the sanity. well we got the cake and brought it up to tutorial class. got stuff ready and asked min to come up with kk and company. khorkiee's expression was priceless. i dunno if she was stunned or she was sorta awkward, being put in a spot. but she teared while she stood in front of the cake. okay i'm very touched that she's very touched :) it was worth it.
entre class ended with ice lemon tea being spilt and eileen and i running and searching for janitors and resorting to ask ms prema to solve our problem but ms prema wasnt in da office so we asked mr fuan who really gave us a creative solution, so much for being the innovative poly. haha.. went off with min and eileen.. met benny on our way out and shortly, criz joined benny and i in 162. gossiped with criz.. what else do we do man.. sorry!

today was crm-ing with criz. had to do our mystery shopping thingy. we called khorkiee and min along too. lets not name where we went lah. but service was rather bad. we all had a good time though.. and it was retail therapy after that.. didnt buy anything though.. met sajeetha at orchard train station.. talked.. trained down.. criz, sajeetha and i..
yeapp.. caught up with sizta.. aye, guess there are problems in every house man.. but last night, i was really furious.. poor min, calling to talk to me.. and me sounding damn pissed off.. aye.. but i really do appreciate it..

well.. watched "The Wedding Date" with sajeetha for the 2nd time! haha.. i like the movie. though its predictable and sappy and what not. lets have a little happy ending at least in movies, if not in our lives, yes? so here i am, typing away at the request of shalzinie, the cock-eye girl who doesnt acknowledge friends and cousins cause she's far sighted but too vain to put on a pair of specs.. haha..

saw shan today! that was nice.. =) aye, i better get back to my work..
and i'm really contemplating getting the old trafford jacket or the new man utd jersey from man utd's online store.. hmm.. 

This thing called ...

this thing called soccer, is addictive, like nicotine.. pick up soccer, not a cigarette!
and ferguson, as usual being difficult.. ruud wants to leave, let him leave!
another episode of beckham and ferguson.. the only thing worth supporting man utd is
giggs, scholes, solksjaer and neville.

shalu has asked me to support liverpool. i'd boycott the whole EPL than to do that.
and yes, i wanna get a soccer ball. adidas! there's a Gillette David Beckham soccer ball on yahoo auctions. seems nice, but as shalu said, i wldnt have the heart to kick it.
crazily enough, there's a LV soccer ball, from 2002 Japan/Korea world cup. perhaps Min would like it, cause its LV? haha..

there seems to be much work to be done but i dunno where to start cause they are mostly projects. well sorta started on coaching ica2. just emailed coach the questions. sw0401-ers, hope coaching is on da way! dateline on friday :)


sometimes letting go seems to solve part of your problem
but what if letting go is the problem?
some things are Never meant to be..

routine

listening to a bus driver's conversation, walking to school with Min, Hanson and Benny, meeting Criz in school, listening to Mr C K's lecture, laughing at Hafid's "Hips don't lie" jokes, eavesdropping on Terry's and Fid's conversation, viewing pics of Jolin Tsai in my cam (courtesy of Min!), talking abt Cisse's injury with Terry, laughing at Fid's softball stances, discussing netball with Criz, laughing over Fid's "Omar Don Omar" song, being sung to Zul Helmi Bin Omar, leaving class earlier, catching a train to sgh, waiting and waiting, leaving, dozing off in 166, walking back home, playing with baby Joey under the block, reaching home, cooking (a bit of it), eating, talking to divya and aunty nava, taking a nap!

god this is how my day went. kinda no life. well.. yeap. finished HRM and NSA projs this week. a burden off. but well, a few more to go. the weekends are here.
hmm, talked to Neshie.. Oi! Enjoy urself back in school. Go "wash eyes" off white chicks! haha..
and i'll continue my story some other time okay. dun be so MIA. =)"

Pain

It hurts!! remind me not to get into any more fights! and risk losing my teeth and the terrible pain after that. arghh.. well, kaizhuan believes that i got into a fight.. can't rmbr who else believes that.. yes yes, i got punched by this person cause i smashed a beer jug on her head. violent huh.. haha..
anyway i can't talk much now, and i can't eat. mum is being mean and cooked chicken today.. but thankfully i had chicken soup, for my poor broken soul.

divya and kavitha are empathising with me.. and nice eileen has been nicer than ever.. and jinghui and uzair too.. aye.. i can't wait for this to end man.. the pain is unbearable..

This was the nicest thing i saw on Man Utd online store. And it cost 25 pounds.
Which is about 75 SGD. Hmm..
at least Man Utd's sweater is nicer than the one in Liverpool's online store. HAHA! Opps..

 

Say my name

suddenly i have changed my occupation to thinking up names for babies.. all thanks to shalu lah! so yes, the 2 soccer-crazy-fans have come up with interesting names, that you might wanna name your kid, or even dog! haha..

• Xabi Xavinesh (Shalu's absolute FAV!)
• Haresh Hargreaves
• Winesh Walcott
• Dinesh Davids (after Edgar Davids)
• Kluivert Kumar
• Gerrard Ganesh
• Zinesh Zidane (haha)
• Pravin Pirlo
• Jeevan Jenas
• Bergkamp Bala (abit old-skool lah!)
• Ilaiya Inzaghi (hmm..?!)
• Gennaro Geeven
• Renesh Ronaldinho
  
• Shearer Siva (how cld i forget Alan Shearer?!)
• Jurgen Jegan
• Jermaine Jega (quite typical lah)
• Davor Dinesh (after Davor Sukor)
• Denesh Del Piero (haha!)
• Lukesh Ljungberg
  
• Wayne Winesh

Okay lah, can't think anymore!!!! if you have any good names, lemme know! haha..
wait, one more;

• Ranjan Rooney!!!! hahahaha
  

Familiarity is comforting, at times

Met up with some friends last tuesday. It was initially Shibani meeting up Ms Oehlers (who happens to be Mdm Oehlers now, and was my wonderful Lit teacher back in sec1 and 2) and so, to add more fun (i guess!) i got called along. So yes, i in turn, called Cynthia, who came after her hockey training and Renuka, who came after teaching tuition! So it was the 5 of us at Hard Rock Cafe. Which is a tad too noisy for a place if u really wanna do some catching up, but well we managed.

Ms Oehlers is looks as young as i last saw her. Of course by now most of us would know that she isnt teaching in Deyi anymore. So, we were just catching up, and asking Shibani on life in Auckland. It was basically a very nice feeling, comfortable if i can say so. I never had a major problem catching up with my past and people who belonged in it (maybe this isnt applicable for every1 i guess). The fact that Renuka came was even better. Been a good 4 months since i saw her, which isnt very long actually, but it was just nice to see her, so was seeing Cynthia, though i had just met her 2 weeks before and i cldnt even rmbr it. Memory fails at times.

It was a sit-and-reminisce night. I guess i had a good past which i feel comfortable to talk about. Not everyone can open up easily though. There are people with troubled pasts and have gone through rough terrains. I dun really know why i'm talkin abt this, perhaps the word "reminisce" has a strong effect on me, for some reasons or another.

There's a friend, whose life seems to be on track and moving; contented with how things are.
Well, i'm glad for the friend. Glad that things seem to be going the way it should be. I realise even if you have a fall out with someone, you can't be thinkin of the person and cursing him/her and wishing the person would have bad luck or whatever nonsense (this imagination is prolly derived from all those terrible tamil movies i watch when i'm bored).
But whenever i think of this friend, i'm happy in the sense that although we are not really in contact anymore, she's doing good. That's what matters, really.

Reflections huh. Neshie said that before he went out for lunch. I dun really wanna do some thinking, cause too much thinkin leads to too much complications. I'll leave things as it is.
anywayyy, turning in fo da night.. school was cool, as i told min.. why was it cool anyway? oh, hrm discussion and script writing. which was fun anyway. haha.. and disturbin neelie and calling helmi a "pokok hijau" (green tree)! madness lah. can't write no more. nights..

We are da champions!

After a month of competitions, Italy has emerged the World Cup Champions. And they truly deserve it, well according to me at least. It was a good game between the Italians and the French. But yes, the match did turn ugly and we did see instances of the Italian "actors". Diving and all. However, it was the French, who displayed more of their ugly side. I was smsing Shalu when we both caught Zidane head butting Materazzi right into his chest. I didnt know which was more shocking; the act being done by Zidane, or the fact that the refree did not notice it until Buffon alerted him. Yeap i'm delighted that Italy won the trophy but i feel extremely sad for Zidane, to put an end to his international career in this manner. He will forever be remembered for one of the cause of France's loss in the world cup.
Disappointing. But well, players like Ribery, Sagnol, Malouda played a wonderful game, with the passes and interceptions.
Of course Italy's defence was solid. Cannavaro and Gattuso, not forgetting Zambrotta who was everywhere on da pitch. And Luca Toni, Grosso, Camoranesi, who brought the ball to the French side. And Pirlo, who could forget his wonderful and accurate passes. Yes, Materazzi! Menacing Marco as the english commentator put it!

Wonderful game. It was a tight game actually. Buffon didnt have much job to do during the penalties. In fact, he dived the wrong side for almost all the kicks from the French. It was pure bad luck that Trezeguet missed it. It wasnt even saved. Sad..

Whatever it is, World Cup 2006 was great. And Big Thanks to Shalzinie for waking me up before the 3am matches, updating me with da score when i fall asleep or cldnt catch a match, smsing throughout the matches, sharing the sorrow and happiness of it all. Haha.. Next will be Euro 2008. We all do speak ONE language: FOOTBALL! :)

 

Shin splints : thats what's bothering Beckham and me!

Mmm for those who already know abt my injury; Hi i'm doing better!
For those who are wondering what on earth happened; i injured my shin, yet AGAIN! same trouble spot, so its sorta an old injury. well, after i got hit, my tibia gave way to the pressure and cracked, causing the broken bone to protrude out, tearing my skin, and causing massive bleeding.
NO I'M JUST KIDDING about the horrific gory details! but its true, i injured my shin lah!

played soccer with the guys + my fav soccer gal Criz, after coaching prac on friday. Clare came ta join us after a while. anyway, Criz and i were captains of our team! duh, we were da only girls playing! haha.. so terry, fid, firhan and uzair were in my team and benny, zul, yuanzhi and imran were in Criz' team. it was a good game really. terry was doing his great skills and tricks during da match that i asked him not to be like christiano ronaldo! haha.. and zul is great! actually everyone was very good. tried to tackle imran for the ball but he got away.. haha.. and criz and i were marking each other! she is good! both of us were playin defensive lah. we dun attack. cause usually, the moment the ball is in our possession, it gets snatched straight away! haha..
so ya, at one point, clare was tryna get possession of da ball and both of us ran towards it. i made a bad judgement and did a slide-tackle on her. WHICH ACTUALLY SHOULD BE DONE ON THE SOCCER BALL AND NOT THE PERSON!!! haha.. my shin made contact with her shoe. and OUCH, that hurt! was alright after a while lah.. resumed playing and criz left at 1pm.. after that i noticed my shin was swollen so yeap, i did the first procedure of the R.I.C.E technique! REST! haha.. went over to da bench lah.. clare got me ice and Leen and Anna (my medic) came to my aid.

anyway, i gotta tell ya that ice really works.. after 2 days, my swell has gone down good. now, traditionally, indian mothers like to use hot water to treat the swell. but hot water increases blood flow to the affected area, which makes the swelling and pain worse. heat should be applied after the swelling has gone down, prolly 48 or 72 hours later. yeap. but well, mum is arguing with me that heat works better than ice! because whenever i sprained my ankles (abt 4 or 5 times in da past 4 years) mum always uses hot water to bring down the swelling. hmm.. but when i had the serious shin injury aft taekwondo on Nov 2004, mum used hot water as usual but after that it was horrendously painful and i didnt rest my leg, so the next day, my foot turned purple! hahaha.. how scary was that. after that, aunty brought me to da doctor lah. yeap. that was long ago.. some learning experience that was. hmm..

anyway, im doing better. 3 cheers to Mr Kelvin Ng and Ice! and Clare for getting me ice immediately after my injury, and Terry for telling me "no no dun do this kinda tackle!" in a kind way! haha.. and also Eileen and Anna for being so caring and accompanyin me to da interchange. i've always had wonderful friends. and also Min for scolding me after i told her abt my injury.

so well.. planned to meet gaya and shalu today. but cldnt. they miss me too much. haha.. working on da many ICAs that are soon to be dued. mug away.. oh yes, 3rd placing match tmr morning at 3am. please support the Germans! :)

the nice and the naive

things seem to be piling up.. yet i am not really doing much abt it..
malas lah. what else. horrendous.. oh, i been using horrendous too much these days.
eileen noticed. been using it ever since i told shalini that rooney is horrendous.
kinda got stuck.

anyway, zidane did be a great help by scoring against portugal. thanks uncle zidane! :)
so its italy against france, on monday morning 2am. god, its a school day!! thought of catching it at sajeetha's place. guess i could catch the 3rd place match there. hmm..

well. school was rather productive to a certain extent. cause i got my nsa tutorial done, thanks to eileen. uzair and firhan also did parts of it. so thats good. submitted crm ica2 script.. collected coaching notes and passed it to da "group leaders", disseminated my group's notes to my team mates. overall, sch was okay lah.. uzair and i were fascinated by SAA's, some book lah. damn i cant rmbr what is it! ms prema is a wonder woman. all those records. haha.. saw darshanan's name too. not bad huh. i hear he's a pretty good runner. good good.

bulk of nsa tutorial was talkin to uzair and criz, thereafter scribbling on eileen's paper, hiding her sandals and singing songs lah. what else. cldnt wait for class to be over cause i was starving.
so it was the kind old soul neelie nat who accompanied me for lunch. she is a genuinely nice person lah. and bunny was there too. cause we had car prac at 4:40.. so it was da 3 of us. bunny is still kinda sick. yeap. so yes, NEELIE, thanks for being so nice to me. but u shd be, cause i am also nice to you! :) hahaha..

thats about it. got lotsa stuff in ma mind. but i dunno how to sort it out.
there's nv a day i dun think about you and wonder why has it turned out this way.
but well... what can i say.

what's love? its about us, its about trust yeah!

love? love makes u smile anytime anywhere like an idiot.. its when u feel ur face suddenly brightening up when u think of that person, u think of da person constantly, when the person is happy, u r happy too. and when the person is unhappy, u wld think u cld do anything to make it all right. love is seeing someone happy, being with the person who makes u be urself.
love is lookin at ur phone and wishing it wld ring, hoping its that person. love is looking at da mirror to make sure u look extra nice before meeting that person. love is crying at silliest things that someone does for u. love is when u r willing to go that extra mile for someone. love is when u can forgive the person easily and love is when u cant bear to stay angry with the person for long. love is about making the impossible seem possible. love is when you wanna make things work.

i was just sharing something with shalu.. hahaa.. anyway, shalu, denesh and i had an interesting conversation.. i will sum it up saying, neshie is sweet, nice and caring :)
Hello! i appreciate it okay! :)))

oh yes! ITALY is through to the finals!!!!!! Yes!!! i love pasta, pizza, and anything italian!

im supposed to be doing my crm ica2 script. i started on it, but i'm stuck and i cant move forward with it. drats. i am so easily distracted. anyway, i'm feeling bloody tired.
think i can catch 2 hrs of sleep before the start of germany-italy match? not even 2 hours lah!

yeapp.. i think i'll go sleep first.. and catch the match later.
msg ya during da match, Shalzinie :)

Do it for da people

Crap title. Ignore it. Ha..
anyway, was at SGH this morning. I'm in pain! :( still, wenta sch after appointment.
parents had lunch at little india, and i cldnt even eat food! blah. talk abt temptations..
nvm, at da end of class, went for prata with Leen, Criz, Clare and Khorkiee..
Khorkiee sent me home.. we sat in her car, at da parking lot, talking. it was a good chat.. yeapp..
dun seem to have this kinda chats anymore.. i mean, generally speaking. i wonder why.
is it cause everyone seems to be caught up in their own web? too much on their plate?

anyway, david made a surprising call.. he was shocked dat i cld recognise his voice. blah!
whats so mysterious abt it?! so yeapp.. had a nice chat.. nice as in really nice. and this was one thing i missed abt talkin to david when we were still in sec sch. we could talk daily over da phone and still have tons to talk abt. that was/is one good point abt Mr.David.
yeapp.. made some plans with him. dinner it was. ages since we caught up. for someone who went totally Missing In Action from my life, he's back now... some sort. life is baffling lah.
but i'm not complaining. =)
if only it applies to some other people, who were once part of my life.. hmmmm...

its been long since i caught up with raquel and anthony.. brother's always complaining that i dun haf da time to go over to uma siz' house. i shd prolly find a day soon. maybe not that soon lah.. when my plate's not THAT full. haha.. i miss the kids. even subash, suthev, satheeshh, prakash and bestfriend Divya!! there is some light-heartedness when i am with them. they bully me, they let me bully them, they tell me jokes which makes me laugh, they sing a bad version of "Tempted to Touch", "Hips dont lie" and "Catch your wave"! and not forgetting Divya's rendition of "Cuppy Cake" and "We are best friends"! haha.. =) talking abt them just makes me miss them.. one day soon.. i'm being dubbed the MIA Queen man.. after Sajeetha i guess! haha..

anyways.. thats about it for now.. still kinda sore over england's loss. dun talk to me about christiano ronaldo.. tattletale, selfish show off.


stains that can't be wiped clean..

Read !!!!

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/worldcup/2006/sport_sto918316.shtml

we got robbed

England got robbed.. where was the penalty for the handball in the penalty box?
Where was the penalty for the tackle on Aaron Lennon?
Christiano Ronaldo deserves the Oscar. Now that he has started some controversy btw Rooney and him, things are gonna suck at Old Trafford.
Gerrard's miss at penalty was shocking.
Lampard? Someone put a lamp over him please.

Neville, Ferdinand, Terry, Lennon, Beckham, all played a great game.
Hargreaves deserved being the Man of the Match.
Best game they played throughout the tournament.

Zidane, please kick C.Ronaldo's ass on Thursday. Thanks. 

alone here

now i'm back at home, as usual, watching the start of england portugal match.
sigh.. with sajeetha accompanying me via cyberspace.. -WAVES TO SAJEE :)
Finals at your place alright?

Sometimes you can't find the right words

Yesterday was a hectic day. Coaching ica, where min, hanson and i thought we were late. but Mr Kunalan began class earlier. (anyway Hanson, THANKS SO MUCH for helpin me with the coaching ica! and thanks for calling me at 1:45 in da morn to explain the Kreb (Crap) cycle and the 4 enzyme; citrate synthase, succinate dehydrogenase, coenzyme q and citochrome oxidase!)

yes, after that was completing HRM e-cases. which we HAVE to submit. haha.. so Leen and i stayed over to complete that. min joined us before she rushed for car prac :)
anyway, e-case was alright lah. most if not all qns were directly lifted from da book! ahaha.. but i had fun anyway; disturbing eileen and all. what else man! had lunch after that.. and Leen and i were playing "guess the singer" game. muahaha.. she sang songs that i have nv heard before! that wasnt fair anyway. haha.. and i went for my prac. but my mind wasnt really in it. i drove badly. even my instructor commented on it. aye.. was kinda affected by the news abt dylan, that sajeetha called and told me.. sigh..

rushed home.. washed up and ran out to meet 3 hungry ghosts, namely Shan, Juan and Dawn! met Shibani too. it was great meeting every1. cynthia and sherri joined us too. had tons of fun, as always, though juan and i seemed to be fighting and quarrelling and irritating each other, but thats how we show that we missed each other! haha.. overall, tons of fun, laughter and all. good.

reached home, just in time for germany against argentina. although robert ayala scored the first goal, it was a real pity for the argentinians to exit from the world cup. lehmann was good. anyway germans have the host country advantage.. rmbr japan/south korea 2002?

well, a good part of the game went to talking to khorkiee who called me up. was chatting with her. hoi khorkiee! cheer up alr?! :) haha..

visited dylan darling today.. he has grown! poor boy.. his eye was bandaged. the horrible muru was disturbing dylan even when he was sleeping! bro was scolding him.. tsk tsk.. spoke to ayla anni (sis-in-law) and her god-sister who was there lah.. yeapp.. had lunch with mummy dearest. and back home..

home alone now. spoke to hemma and divya earlier on.. and later on, catching england's match with shalu! and hopefully her cousin, gaya and ranjan.. i literally begged mum to let me watch it with shalu.. surprise surprise.. pray that dad doesnt make noise. blah..

enough said! there's nothing nice on tv!!