sunday day was pretty alright i guess. went to funan to buy printer and for breakfast. went to see the new house too. new room's gonna be bigger which is good. but not big enough still for my drum set. anyway. had a game just now against SIM. went pretty good. my line scored quite a bit. and again. assisted Weiren on his goal. had a chance to score too but it hit the defender's stick and went high. oh. as promised to zhaoster. heh. made that solo run =P
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Saturday, July 30, 2005
saturday morning friday was a bad day too. wisp presentation didnt go as planned. firstly. i found out that i forgot to bring the docking station for my laptop. secondly. the laptop we wanted to work on was lagging because we were running the video from a dvd instead of the harddisk. if that wasnt enough. the bloody projector refused to work. so fcuk it. the only upside of the day's perhaps the fact that i did SLIGHTLY better than expected for Acad. Skills Challenge.finished in the top 15.chee yuan 1st shuren 3rd shank 6th myself 14th. HAH. oh what the heck.
damngirl.ifonlyyouknew
damngirl.ifonlyyouknew
Friday, July 29, 2005
friday morning training was good. shant say much about the academic skills challenge. didnt exactly go very well. but anyway. doesnt matter anymore. cant really be bothered. am now just irritated with one or two people. don't know who's lying and who isnt. maybe i'm being sensitive. but i'm not going to let it bother me, at least for now.
oneestar.fivepoints.you.
oneestar.fivepoints.you.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
sunday spent the weekend at a golf resort in JB (Sofitel. think that's how you spell it) with all the student leaders of NP. the student leaders seminar was pretty fun.though my secretary didnt go a the last minute, having lionel yiwen yongjia jonathan rebecca angeline woan yi and a couple of others that i knew, more than made up for it. so anyways. met a couple of great people. irwin daniel joyce henry michelle (!) jenny to name a few. oh. we went to the bar to drink too. haha. cheap.
went straight to hougang for the game against Tampines East Knights. was a hotly-contested game but we won 3-2. weiren. the one and only. scored 2. am damn happy for him cos he's deserved it for all the effort he's been putting in since last year. and oh. i assisted on one of his goals too. HAH! had stupid dumb luck too. hit the post twice.got called for standing in the crease and my left ankle and shin is injured. frigging TEK. violent bunch but hey, not as bad as another team
so yup.weekend was fantastic.absolute fun.parents and sister will be back on tuesday.looking forward to that. and yes. wish me luck for thursday. having the Microsoft Academic Skills Challenge. MS Word. =D
went straight to hougang for the game against Tampines East Knights. was a hotly-contested game but we won 3-2. weiren. the one and only. scored 2. am damn happy for him cos he's deserved it for all the effort he's been putting in since last year. and oh. i assisted on one of his goals too. HAH! had stupid dumb luck too. hit the post twice.got called for standing in the crease and my left ankle and shin is injured. frigging TEK. violent bunch but hey, not as bad as another team
so yup.weekend was fantastic.absolute fun.parents and sister will be back on tuesday.looking forward to that. and yes. wish me luck for thursday. having the Microsoft Academic Skills Challenge. MS Word. =D
Sunday, July 17, 2005
sunday morning ushered the ict graduation the other day. was pretty tiring as usual but was an experience all the same. so anyway. back to the present. saturday. family left for las vegas for a 10 day holiday so i'm all alone at home with my grandmother. seems so empty and quiet. oh well. NP Squirrels had their first game today.was abit disappointed that they drew 4-4 with Cornvix.should have won.but oh well.later today's FC Squirrels' first game against Merahans.scary but i'll do what i can.hope i can get on the scoresheet since i've got some momentum going for me
Friday, July 08, 2005
2 interesting articles about Manchester United. the one of 1999 and 2001 respectively.
Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich, Champions league final, May 26 1999, Nou Camp
English football fans brought up in an age when the German national team was, if not all conquering, then certainly one of the dominant international sides, could be forgiven for raising a smile at the site of Carsten Jancker, Lothar Matthaus et al slumped on the Nou Camp turf crying like 10 year-old-girls on hearing the news of the disbanding of Take That.
All the portents were right for United. The game fell on what would have been Sir Matt Busby's 90th birthday, it was Peter Schmeichel's final match for the club and the opponents were a team from Munich, a city etched painfully into the history of the club.
Yet Bayern Munich had held a one goal advantage from as early as the sixth minute after Mario Basler had put them ahead. Defending adroitly and looking the more likely of the two sides to score again, they appeared to be on the way to a fourth, and deserved, Champions Cup as the clock ticked past the regulation 90 minutes. Bayern had struck woodwork through Mehmet Scholl and Jancker in the 78th and 83rd minute. Either would have settled it; but United lived to fight on.
With United having failed to bring their swashbuckling style of the earlier rounds to the final - there was no Paul Scholes or Roy Keane on the pitch to arrest the malaise - it looked all over for them. Bayern colours were on the cup - literally.
But then the intervention of substitutes turned the game decisively on its head. Teddy Sheringham had already been thrown on; he was joined by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer; then off went Matthaus and Basler as Bayern decided to shut up shop. Big mistake.
The fourth official's board showed three minutes of stoppage time as United summoned a desperate, late push. A corner from Beckham wasn't properly cleared, Giggs miss-hit his shot from outside the box but Sheringham, from six yards, directed it goalwards. So, extra-time? Golden goals? Penalties? Not a bit of it.
Moments later, another corner was swung over, Sheringham rose highest and flicked it on to where Solskjaer, un-marked, stuck out a leg and scored one of the most famous goals in United's history.
An emotional Alex Ferguson summed it up best: 'The most important factor was the spirit of the team, they just never give in, they don't know how to. A manager can talk about tactics, but if the players can't bring that inner beast out of them then he's wasting his time. Well, they've got that beast inside them and found it when it mattered.'
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Spurs 3 - Manchester United 5, FA Premier League, White Heart Lane, 29 September 2001
Sir Alex Ferguson's famous hairdryer was possibly upgraded to a blow-torch when he delivered his half-time team-talk to his troops in the White Heart Lane dressing room. The Premiership champions had been comprehensively outplayed and outmuscled by Glen Hoddle's Spurs who were good value for a 3-0 half-time lead.
Dean Richards, a now laughable £8.1 million acquisition from Southampton, scored with a near post header 15 minutes into his Tottenham career before Les Ferdinand benefited from a botched offside trap to lash a fine finish past the hopelessly unprotected Fabian Barthez.
With United falling apart even best buddies David Beckham and Gary Neville could be seen pointing accusatory fingers in each other's direction, not to mention some barely disguised invective hurled the same way, after Christian Ziege became the latest beneficiary of United's largesse; Gus Poyet given time and space to measure a deep cross to the German.
What Ferguson told to - or, more likely, spat at - his players we do not know. What we do know is it worked.
Mikael Silvestre replaced Dennis Irwin on the left, Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer came on for Nicky Butt and greater attacking impetus was given to the visitors.
United needed a quick response and they got one less than a minute after the restart when Andy Cole headed home from a Neville cross. On the hour it was 3-2. Laurent Blanc headed in a David Beckham corner and, though the home team still held a lead, there was only going to be one winner from here on in. The equaliser duly arrived after 72 minutes, when Cole supplied Silvestre, whose cross from the left presented Ruud van Nistelrooy with the simple task of putting away United's third headed goal of the afternoon.
Juan Sebastian Veron gave United the lead for the first time with a sweetly struck left-footed strike from the edge of the box four minutes later before a bedazzled and shell-shocked Neil Sullivan was required to fetch the ball from his net for a fifth and final time thanks to a wonderful, blistering shot from Beckham.
The very epitome of a game of two halves, the breathless glory of United's play after the interval was in stark contrast to their haphazard and slipshod opening period. 'Remarkable, absolutely remarkable,' enthused Sir Alex Ferguson, who described the victory as the best his team had achieved outside Old Trafford. 'It might not have been too good for the blood pressure but I'll be able to look back on this day and remember it vividly for the rest of my life.'
Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich, Champions league final, May 26 1999, Nou Camp
English football fans brought up in an age when the German national team was, if not all conquering, then certainly one of the dominant international sides, could be forgiven for raising a smile at the site of Carsten Jancker, Lothar Matthaus et al slumped on the Nou Camp turf crying like 10 year-old-girls on hearing the news of the disbanding of Take That.
All the portents were right for United. The game fell on what would have been Sir Matt Busby's 90th birthday, it was Peter Schmeichel's final match for the club and the opponents were a team from Munich, a city etched painfully into the history of the club.
Yet Bayern Munich had held a one goal advantage from as early as the sixth minute after Mario Basler had put them ahead. Defending adroitly and looking the more likely of the two sides to score again, they appeared to be on the way to a fourth, and deserved, Champions Cup as the clock ticked past the regulation 90 minutes. Bayern had struck woodwork through Mehmet Scholl and Jancker in the 78th and 83rd minute. Either would have settled it; but United lived to fight on.
With United having failed to bring their swashbuckling style of the earlier rounds to the final - there was no Paul Scholes or Roy Keane on the pitch to arrest the malaise - it looked all over for them. Bayern colours were on the cup - literally.
But then the intervention of substitutes turned the game decisively on its head. Teddy Sheringham had already been thrown on; he was joined by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer; then off went Matthaus and Basler as Bayern decided to shut up shop. Big mistake.
The fourth official's board showed three minutes of stoppage time as United summoned a desperate, late push. A corner from Beckham wasn't properly cleared, Giggs miss-hit his shot from outside the box but Sheringham, from six yards, directed it goalwards. So, extra-time? Golden goals? Penalties? Not a bit of it.
Moments later, another corner was swung over, Sheringham rose highest and flicked it on to where Solskjaer, un-marked, stuck out a leg and scored one of the most famous goals in United's history.
An emotional Alex Ferguson summed it up best: 'The most important factor was the spirit of the team, they just never give in, they don't know how to. A manager can talk about tactics, but if the players can't bring that inner beast out of them then he's wasting his time. Well, they've got that beast inside them and found it when it mattered.'
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Spurs 3 - Manchester United 5, FA Premier League, White Heart Lane, 29 September 2001
Sir Alex Ferguson's famous hairdryer was possibly upgraded to a blow-torch when he delivered his half-time team-talk to his troops in the White Heart Lane dressing room. The Premiership champions had been comprehensively outplayed and outmuscled by Glen Hoddle's Spurs who were good value for a 3-0 half-time lead.
Dean Richards, a now laughable £8.1 million acquisition from Southampton, scored with a near post header 15 minutes into his Tottenham career before Les Ferdinand benefited from a botched offside trap to lash a fine finish past the hopelessly unprotected Fabian Barthez.
With United falling apart even best buddies David Beckham and Gary Neville could be seen pointing accusatory fingers in each other's direction, not to mention some barely disguised invective hurled the same way, after Christian Ziege became the latest beneficiary of United's largesse; Gus Poyet given time and space to measure a deep cross to the German.
What Ferguson told to - or, more likely, spat at - his players we do not know. What we do know is it worked.
Mikael Silvestre replaced Dennis Irwin on the left, Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer came on for Nicky Butt and greater attacking impetus was given to the visitors.
United needed a quick response and they got one less than a minute after the restart when Andy Cole headed home from a Neville cross. On the hour it was 3-2. Laurent Blanc headed in a David Beckham corner and, though the home team still held a lead, there was only going to be one winner from here on in. The equaliser duly arrived after 72 minutes, when Cole supplied Silvestre, whose cross from the left presented Ruud van Nistelrooy with the simple task of putting away United's third headed goal of the afternoon.
Juan Sebastian Veron gave United the lead for the first time with a sweetly struck left-footed strike from the edge of the box four minutes later before a bedazzled and shell-shocked Neil Sullivan was required to fetch the ball from his net for a fifth and final time thanks to a wonderful, blistering shot from Beckham.
The very epitome of a game of two halves, the breathless glory of United's play after the interval was in stark contrast to their haphazard and slipshod opening period. 'Remarkable, absolutely remarkable,' enthused Sir Alex Ferguson, who described the victory as the best his team had achieved outside Old Trafford. 'It might not have been too good for the blood pressure but I'll be able to look back on this day and remember it vividly for the rest of my life.'
friday morning 1st round of selections were good. got shortlisted. and here's where i say: even though i was part of the selection committee, i too had to go through the selections, both the physical and the "standard obstacle course". on the night we sat down to make our decisions, i was criticized as well. so all's well and fair. nothing about pulling strings or putting myself in just because i'm in the comm.
so anyway. today we had a game. FC Squirrels v NP Squirrels. won 4-3 even though it was supposed to be 5-3.i had a legitimate goal disallowed because the refs couldnt decide if my shot hit the net and came out or not. so anyway. i love my line. kokliang weiren jason vasan myself.so today's performance was ok.should be better.weiren scored 1 assisted 1 and i scored 1 assisted 1.well.scored 2 assist 1.hah!
other stuff: laptop's 95% dead.toshiba wants to charge me $896 to change my motherboard's memory module. so screw it. will buy a new one hopefully this weekend.thinking of a HP one or Fujitsu. hmms..
so anyway. today we had a game. FC Squirrels v NP Squirrels. won 4-3 even though it was supposed to be 5-3.i had a legitimate goal disallowed because the refs couldnt decide if my shot hit the net and came out or not. so anyway. i love my line. kokliang weiren jason vasan myself.so today's performance was ok.should be better.weiren scored 1 assisted 1 and i scored 1 assisted 1.well.scored 2 assist 1.hah!
other stuff: laptop's 95% dead.toshiba wants to charge me $896 to change my motherboard's memory module. so screw it. will buy a new one hopefully this weekend.thinking of a HP one or Fujitsu. hmms..
