christmas

monday christmas mass was great. got to meet up with some old friends from primary and secondary school in st francis xavier. went over to marcus tan's place after that with julian. again, another primary school friend. haven't seen him since secondary school days. stayed over till around 6am watching stephen king's dreamcatcher. what a pathetic movie. haha!
so anyhows, rest of the day was pretty much with my family until the evening. went out with yeni. had loads of fun that's for sure. haha. all things being equal, she makes a damn good friend to have. but anything more than that i fear to speculate.

christmas eve

sunday evening looks like i'm getting a temporary C2L2 for at least a year. maybe then after that i can look forward to combat training. and of course the extra allowance. hah. wallet's empty because of the heavy spending the past few days thanks to Christmas shopping and the whole lot of food and taxi fares. but it's always like this in december so i'm quite used to it.

spent the latter part of friday doing shopping at vivo city with julian before we headed out to bukit timah for some church dinner at Church of Singapore. it being a Christian church, i guess it was only a matter of time before julian or myself got offended by people with regards to their skewed views of Roman Catholicism and questioning why we do what we do. perhaps the only politically correct response we can give is that in the end we're all praying to the same God. whatever it is, that incident did not overshadow what was to be quite an interesting evening. company was great.. the 3 sisters of yeni, lini and yewi. headed off to boon tong kee for late dinner before catching Night at the Museum at 0220. weird timing yes i know. sadly i missed about 30 minutes of the show when i dozed off. shit!

saturady was a bit more relaxed. didn't do much till the afternoon when i headed down to referee the promotion play-off game between RP and Tampines East Knights. played RP after that. mr amir wants me to play as a defender so i guess i have to get used to it. did a pretty shit job in the first period with lots of miscued passes. 2nd and 3rd periods were much better. got my act together and even though i only had one pathetic shot on goal, i'm looking forward to the challenge of playing as a defender. not my natural position but i'll play where i'm needed. somehow i think next season might be my last before i head off to study in sydney. am pretty sure that's where i want to go but it's only a matter of what course is it i want to take.

met up with shuren wenru zhixiong tianci and ivan later at night for some drinks at coffee bean. man. the crowd in orchard was crazy. had to barge my way through just to get to paragon from wheelock place. was pretty irritated with people stopping in the middle of the place to take photos. and honestly, the lightings this year aren't as fantastic as previous years. the hitachi sign looks grossly out of place, looking more like a 'no-entry' sign then anything else. what a bummer. went to muddy murphy's after that to catch the man utd-aston villa and liverpool-watford game, or at least the last 40 minutes of it.. that pretty much wraps up saturday. got midnight mass to look forward to. dad's making Christmas dinner so i shall just wait. hehs.

steps.

friday morning step 1: normalization on relations. step 2: include apology. step 3: try all over again. step 4: hope for the best, prepare for the worse.

am dreading what is to come over the next few weeks with regards with my medical status. shan't say anymore about it because there's really nothing left to say or talk about.

office is on unofficial half-day i think. so will be going through my stuff as quickly as possible tomorrow to maximize time. got some Christmas shopping left to do before i'm all set. looking forward to sunday though. meeting her for lunch, first time we're meeting in ermm.. well.. a year plus? wonder what's it going to be like. then again, i'm just hoping we don't scrap our lunch (date? appointment?). that would be a real sucky way to start Christmas Eve. should be heading on down to St Francis Xavier in s'goon gardens for midnight mass before heading out to meet up with people. what a rush..

new year, new things to look forward to. new lease of life.

pre-christmas...

thursday morning well.. am at The Gallery Hotel now. guess the pre-christmas party was good though we kinda expected more people but heck. it was still good all the same. partied with julian terrence serene peiwen and annie. met up with richard at velvet so it was all cool.

was doing following the despatch bus for the hell of it yesterday. went to cpc to "deliver" a present to my dad's former PA, angeline. spent close to 30 minutes talking to her when i saw her. haha!

tomorrow's the day where all will be decided. PES A or C. it's all up to dr. chin now. frankly, i'm still not sure what is it i want. i would love to go back to combat but as it is, i don't think i'm physically ready yet at the same time, i miss the comaraderie of combat training. it's the little things that you remember in times of hardship and at those times, its where the bonds are formed. so as it is, i'm in a way still undecided but well, it's all not in my hands.

been almost 1 year. somehow i still miss her. doesn't help that some songs that are played on radio somehow remind me of her. at the same time, i'm starting to recall all the times we had, good and bad. guess that's what happens eh? time to time i look back and wonder what went wrong. hmm..

christmas spirit

friday Christmas! it's round the corner and then comes new year. am a bit disappointed with the Christmas decorations in town this year. not as impressive as previous years and well, it doesn't draw as much attention as last time. i hate the feeling that Christmas is so commercialized and that charities are playing the "sharing, giving and loving spirit" card on people. it's emotional blackmail..

got much to look forward to this coming 2 or 3 weeks. think i'll be off to bangkok for a short holiday. the plan to head to KL with bertrand, tim and david got scrapped because we couldn't find buses to take us there.

not much to blog about these days so guess that's all. hah! happy holidays!

choice matches for champions league:

manchester united v lille (like duh! i'm a man utd fan!)
real madrid v bayern munich
liverpool v barcelona

what a thrashing.

thursday had a game just now against the australian national team. was mainly the ngee ann boys (3 lines) and my line. played with edmund aqil (defense) kristian olsson (center) yuxun (forward partner) emily and arizal (2nd forward pair). played pretty well. we had the most attacking impetus but still conceded 2 goals. didn't score any but not that it really mattered. was a work out and a fun game for us (my line at least). think the team did pretty well for the first 2 periods. was tied 2-2. somehow in the fourth and fifth periods, the rest of the lines just collapsed. lost 7-2 (was 4-2 after the 3rd though..) hah.. and i missed a freaking penalty shot. annoying.

anyway, like i said, it was a fun and memorable game. had a wrist shot cleared off the line. miscued my slapshot and had 2 others on target. so it was a pretty good outing. think it was also one of those games where i dared to try different things.

man utd won! hah. was expecting them to lose (somehow) but they came up 3-1 winners. so it's all good. was also surprised that barcelona made it through. everything seemed to be against them but like all good or great teams, they came through adversity and prevailed. speaks volumes about their mental strength. something that singapore players need to have.. that's just my opinion anyway.

anointed - things i wish

When the night is long
And the dreams you've been holdin' seem all but gone
When you're tired, cold and weak
And you can't stop your mind, no you can't even sleep..

I know that you're worried
And you're in such a hurry
But you know you're never alone
you're never alone..

So wherever you go let my love shine a light
Down every road be it left or right
May it always get you through
These are the things, all the things I wish for you..

In my eyes, in my heart
Oh, you shine like a diamond brighter than the stars
The whole world waits for you
Just be sure to find joy in whatever you choose..

And don't look so worried, darlin'
There's no need to hurry
Always know, I believe in you
I believe in you..

And wherever you go let my love shine a light
Down every road be it left or right
May it always get you through
These are the things, I wish, I wish that
Music and laughter would fill your days..

And whatever you're after is on its way
To make all your dreams come true
These are the things, all the things I wish for you..

Just wanna see you happy, little one
I wanna see you smile that smile..

Go on and spread your little wings-fly, fly, fly..

And wherever you go let my love shine a light
Down every road be it left or right
May it always get you through
These are the things, I wish, I wish that..

Music and laughter would fill your days
And whatever you're after is on its way
To make all your dreams come true
These are the things, all the things I wish for you..

Oh, and may all your dreams come true
These are the things, all the things I wish for you..