youth avenue closing ceremony yesterday and yam and i were the emcees. i felt we handled the minister segment pretty well and we did not disgrace ourselves in front of him. what was really disappointing was that we failed to engage the audience during the bits of the show without tharman around. oh well i guess with the diverse audience, it was always gonna be an uphill task, but i cant help but feel we cud haf done better and maybe repaid cheryl's faith in us a little more.

performances were enjoyable and the closing act west grand boulevard were brilliant. fantastic. daphne khoo is actually quite good, and the rest of the band is quite simply fantastic. they had me bobbing my head thru the night and even jumping up and down like a kangaroo that struck the national lottery nearing the end of their performance. i was THAT excited. and you guys know im not usually that excited about alternative rock, labelling it as "noise". and before some of you get your hopes up, i've not become a rock fan overnight. i'm still very much into pop, the kind of music i usually listen to. but yar i did enjoy myself last night. and to top it all off, the guys from west grand boulevard are really humble. or at least they seem like it, as they do not have any airs about them. spoke with daphne khoo for about 10sec, and another bandmember for about 30 sec and they were both very very nice and polite. and i think thats rather admirable, considering theyre stars, and i'm a nobody.

and so it was a good night and i rushed home in time to catch the second half of arsenal v spurs. i must say the match ended and i was FURIOUS. really really boiling. spurs had opened the scoring with a highly controversial and absolutely disgusting goal. eboue and gilberto had clashed with each other and they were injured but spurs played on, like the assholes they are, and edgar davids (who clearly saw the injured players) passed the ball to robbie keane to score into an empty net. WOW BRILLIANT GOAL A LIKELY CONTENDER FOR GOAL OF THE SEASON I RECKON WELL DONE SPURS!!! GREAT GREAT GOAL. until you remember that sportsmanship totally left the hearts and minds of the spurs players. absolute cunts.

spurs cunt: "we would not want to score a goal like that." YAR RIGHT. if ur seriously remorseful, RETURN THE GOAL! simple enough ain't it? a few months back, some lower league team allowed their opponents to walk the ball into an unguarded net from kickoff because they'd just scored in similar circumstances.

and just to refresh your memory, this is not the first time spurs have been absolute cunts. rmb against newcastle? newcastle were ahead and attacking in spurs third of the pitch when they put the ball out because some spurs player was down "injured". when play finally resumed, some spurs cunt punted the ball into newcastle's half and out for a throwin so that they could pressure newcastle in their own half. TOTAL LACK OF SPORTSMANSHIP. alan shearer was understandably livid.

in conclusion, spurs are cunts. from now on i will refer to them as sp*rs. theyre disgusting and vile. and their manager is fat and ugly and looks like shrek. then again, no. shrek is kind and funny and nice, while martin jol's just DISGUSTING. and ugly. i mean he's probably uglier than me and macy gray COMBINED. now thats ugly.

after waiting freaking long for our lit results to come back, finally all 4 (or is it 4.5?) subject results are back! and this time around, i made good improvements to banish the terrible memories of my promo results from my mind.

Promos:
hist: C
lit: C
econs: D
math: F
gp: a2

CT 1:
hist: B
lit: C
econs: B
math: E
gp: b4

so yup good improvement overall. only lit and gp did not improve. boohoo. especially disappointed with gp cos i know i can do better. lit was well, expected, cos besides the fact that i didnt study much, i think my lit sux so bad that even if i mugged dam hard, the best i cud probably do is a low B.

but really, i think im rather glad with the improvement considering i MUGGED MY ASS OFF during the march hols to make up ground on econs and math, even sacrificing hist and lit cos those are two subjects that really cant be that bad, i mean i dun see myself getting an F for lit or history but math well i SAW myself getting F for it way too many times beginning in sec 1 and its a trend that has never gone away ever since. its so many F's if u tried reading my math grades since 5 years back u'd sound like a sputtering pocket fan. at least that's what i think a sputtering pocket fan would sound like, never ever come across one before. but it would, wouldn't it? wind coming out because of the 'F' sound and because it's repeated quickly in succession. but hey who gives a chelsea?

i just hope im not like peaking now. cos that wud be SAD. to peak now and ultimately bomb at the a levels wud be retarded. so i hope i keep on improving and i hope that if i can't motivate myself, maybe some of u around me can help me and like tell me to work harder if i seem to be slacking.

but hey school isnt all about grades and studies (although in rj it seems like that), at least i've got floorball and it's some kind of release for me. the j2 floorball team finished top of the group with five wins out of five, scoring 4 goals in each and every one of the games. so well done!! whee. and i scored 7 out of those 20, and add to that probably 3 or 4 assists and im rather pleased with my haul. and finishing top of the group doesnt mean we win the tournament, as we still have to play a final match against the second-placed team, which is probably morrison-richardson or moor-tarbet, and both those teams are quality teams which we only managed to beat 4-3 in nail-biting and intense matches. (if u remember i got sent off permanently in the moor-tarbet match) so yar it's far from over and we still have to get out there and show them what we're made of. so come on j2s!!

in the past two days, i've run a total of 11km on the treadmill in a bid to get fit in time for napfa. and btw, just cos u guys might wanna know, i finally got a six-pack!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! but then again, my relatives are coming over this weekend, and as my cousins love root beer, 5 cans might be taken from the fridge, and it'll be a six-pack no more.

(pauses and hears people from computers far away from bukit batok scream "WTF!!! that's retarded!")

i mean, hey were u really expecting me to have a six-pack? i eat so much, and a large chunk of the food i eat is unhealthy. think nissin chilli crab instant noodles, think ruffles/lays/doritos chips, think snickers bars, think whole packets of dried mangoes, think pepper crab, think char kway teow, think nasi lemak, think nasi briyani, think masala chicken, think tonkatsu, etc etc.
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and now that you've wiped that disgusting drool off your table, and proceeded to disgustingly put it back into your mouth, yar that's what i eat very often. VERY VERY often. and so the chances of me getting a six-pack are about as high as takeshi kaneshiro's chances of someday looking better than me. very very low. in fact, it's so low, it's not a duet. (solo solo get it get it?)

i see im not making sense anymore.

(pauses and hears people from computers far away from bukit batok scream "since when have you ever?!??")

fine. shall stop blogging now and go do sourcebasedquestion. and MATH. yuckewwyuckdisgustingfuckedupdetestableshittydespicablerepulsivechelsea-ish MATH. yuck.

till the next time (which is probably not very soon), bye everyone.

this might come as a shock to most of you, but i've decided to drop school after the 'a' levels, and start working. as most of you should know by now, i'm crazy about sports and now that i've been presented with an opportunity to work in espn-starsports, i've decided to take up the offer, even though i'll just be part of the backroom staff trawling the net for news to be reported on sportscenter. but i see this as a stepping stone towards becoming a sports presenter, which is ultimately, my dream job. i've already put pen to paper on a contract which will give me $960 a month (starts next year), which is peanuts, but money doesn't really matter, what matters is the chance to do what i love. and i know it sounds really stupid. my mum has given me a hard time after i decided to do this. she is understandably, quite shocked too, but ever since one of my relatives, who works at espn mentioned that there was a lack of backroom staff to do the dirty work (research and basically verifying information so that the presenters can look all glamorous on the tv screen)

the decision to do this might seem stupid, but i have my reasons:

1) I love sports so so much
2) I COULD become a sports presenter in future
3) I hate school anyway and can't see myself studying for like 4 more years
4) ESPN Starsports is a great place to develop my career
5) My future doesn't look bright in any other career choice i might pursue
6) most importantly.....it's april fools today!! hahaa

happy april fools' guys. this has got to be the first april fools' day i haven't been tricked.

arsenal beating juventus 2-0 has gotta be the highlight of the week. great great play by the lads. cesc fabregas was brilliant (more on him later) and the picture below kinda sums up the anal-ysis of vieira's performance on his return to arsenal's fortress, highbury.


Gilberto took Wenger's instructions to "get stuck in there" a tad too literally.

and still on the subject of arsenal, tohari pajian, a new paper columnist who is a "fan of arsenal", makes a terribly retarded comment, and it is precisely this sort of comments that appear so often on newspapers which makes me feel optimistic about my chances of becoming a sports journalist in future.

when asked about cesc fabregas, arsenal's precocious 18-year-old talent, tohari pajian had this to say.

Tohari Pajian: "Fabregas' strongest point is his vision and ability to play that 30 or 40-metre through-ball to split the defence. The best example was when he opened up a goal for Thierry Henry to score against Real Madrid in the Champions League knockout stage before."

WTF? "best example"? ladies and gentlemen, the pass that fabregas made to henry for him to score against real madrid was all of an amazing, astounding, brilliant, simply outstanding FIVE yards. yes FIVE yards. henry then proceeded to run the ball 40 yards before scoring. surely the "best example" should have been the brilliant daisy-cutter through-pass against liverpool that enabled henry to score?

anyway, common test resutlts. got back econs (B), sea history (C). very satisfied with econs cos i really mugged my ass off and B is probably the least i deserved. then again, i mugged my ass off for math too, and i dun think i have a chance in hell of getting a B for it. sea history, slight disappointment, though im hoping that my international history grades can pull it up. as it stands i need a 31/50 for my ih component, and i think/hope i get at least that.

i have no idea how ill do for lit. it cud be good, it cud be disastrous. im expecting a C, and math im expecting a D or E, anything lower ill be majorly disappointed, cos having studied so hard for math, failing it would be like being screwed in the ass with a 100 year-old tree trunk.

then again, that sounds like a good idea to experiment with roland haha.





Your sense of humor is Banter:

Like a king of pinball, you've made an art of playing off of people because your sense of humor is all about banter. Like many great comedians before you, a roundtable of friends, or a roomful of targets, is the catalyst for what makes you laugh. It brings out the wit — and sometimes the nitwit — in everyone. It's quantity, not quality that matters as you and your friends alternate outbursts like the riffs of a hit single. Here's the bottom line: You're a social creature. Other people's inside jokes even strike you as funny. You manage to gravitate toward people who can appreciate a tall tale and you've probably never hesitated to fire off a zinger — even in a roomful of strangers. So keep it up with your bantering methods. Laughter, after all, keeps the world going 'round.

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