hello blog!
i haven blogged for a few months i think! haha. sorry man, just had no mood to blog at all. then when i wanted to the exams came and passed and i didn;t have the patience to just sit down and blog for a while.
so what has been happening? nothing much i guess. i thought the exams that just passed were okay, except for one paper. at least the general feeling is better than last semester. but add to that i have a new group of people and friends who were willing to also just spend long hours at the school library, even on saturdays and sundays. for weeks we led a sad life but i hope all the effort would pay off eventually.
arsenal has gone through a somewhat inconsistent patch lately. probably the most annoying was the loss to villa following the win over manchester united. their season has been largely inconsistent, and i think its due to a lot of factors. an ineffective captain, a few underperforming players and several players who are really not good enough to make the cut. alot of people are really not the best of managers but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that players like bendtner and eboue are never going to be good enough. seriously. after eboue's horror show against wigan it just confirmed what i think of him - a player who's strength is just plain speed and that's all. for wenger to expect him to play as a right winger, his finishing is really atrocious. i don't recall him scoring and i don't expect him to do so. as for bendtner, the guy is big but looks clumsy all the time. even adebayor might be big but at least he scores and is more consistent. although i'm still tearing my hair out at how the team doesn't want to score from long range, although nasri has done so and denilson has shown he does try once in a while. i really think a few old heads should be brought in and some of those youngsters should really be sold off.
last saturday i went book-crazy at the borders sale. me and fabian went there at 12+ and left only at around 3+. i thought it was worth going there. novels went at $5, and alot of non-fiction books went for the same price too. although strictly speaking i bought more of those kiddy-books haha. as in those kind that are more interactive and with more graphics and makes for simpler reading. in total i spent $96.12 and fabian spent around $71. haha. for books i think it's no issue that i spend such an amount. after raiding borders i met up with the guys at dhoby ghaut and spent the whole day just slacking around and playing games with them. quite fun. this was somewhat like a follow-up to the post-exam party the previous night.
the other day i watched bolt with nana. it's quite funny and cute. i'm the kind that don't really laugh out even when i watch something funny or comedies, but bolt made me laugh out a few times so i think it says alot. but maybe you might want to download it online and watch on your computer though. nevertheless i think it's worth catching! haha.
yesterday i spent most of the day at tentera mosque helping out with the qurban. my 1st time ever! i went with hanan who was also making his debut! haha. there were other people like hasan, harun, hakim etc etc. i was quite an eye-opener. all 174 sheeps were slaughtered. i've never seen a live slaughter before actually. i actually felt abit pitiful initially (although one is not supposed to) but after a very short while everything felt very routine. i just got numb seeing all the faeces and blood spilling all over and there were alot of sheep to be slaughtered! haha. we didn't slaughter any but most of us just help to hold the sheep in place so that it would be easier to slaughter them.
some were fighters to the end, struggling and kicking about (i got kicked at my heels 5 or 6 times!). some had horns already. but most were submissive. they just lay still, only occasionally moving about. i think they know salvation is what they will achieve for all this. at least they know they are guaranteed paradise - but what of us? one thing is that yesterday's session made me feel closer to the Almighty.
and after the whole thing was over the smell was unmistakeable - we all smelt like sheep/goats. me hanan and hasan walked all the way to the MPSH in school so that we could take our time and bathe. along the way people could jsut see how dirty and smelly we were. haha. the smell was hard to get rid off. after bathing the smell still stuck to our palms and feet. haha. but i think it was worth the experience really. though i've got a cut on my left sole and my arms are aching now.
okay that's all for now i suppose. training resumes back later although i am going to be hampered by the cuts and bruises here and there i suppose. see you all later!
