A close to perfect weekend for Arsenal

great weekend for the gunners

chelsea - drew
manu - lost
liverpool - lost (cough cough*)
man city - drew (again?)
spurs - lost
villa - won (with the expense of manu)
ARSENAL - WON (wooohoooo)


Pos Team P W D L F A +/- Pts
1 Chelsea 16 12 1 3 40 13 27 37
2 Manchester United 16 11 1 4 34 14 20 34
3 Arsenal 15 10 1 4 40 19 21 31
4 Aston Villa 16 8 5 3 26 14 12 29
5 Tottenham Hotspur 16 8 3 5 35 22 13 27
6 Manchester City 15 6 8 1 29 21 8 26
7 Liverpool 16 7 3 6 32 22 10 24

Arshavin~ the anfield hero again...

13/12/2009 khatib team tournament

it has been awhile since i last update a tournament, maybe because i scrubbed too much? lol.
played ww bf as well on sat and lost to baha with holy wyvern banged twice. can't do anything, died in top 6.

team up with akira and sam, and the worming day starts with lunch in yew tee (the root of trouble).

sam: vayu bf splash lightlord
me: ww bf
akira: eatos anti-meta

-----

swiss match 1: team forfeited
(LATE~~)


swiss match 2: team victory
vs anti-meta gadget (OXO)
game 1: didn't know it's gadget but a twilight anti-meta.
game 2: farmed by gadget loop, and then all the 1 for 1.
game 3: ww vs gadget farm~

swiss match 3: team victory
vs ww bf (OO)
game 1: draw all monsters, and he has armor master with oppression and ww. so i can't do anything to it. just thin my own deck with 2x ww until i've no monster except a gorz in deck. at last draw a none monster card (cyclone on oppression), summon sirocco and s.summon 2x bora, focus and hit on his sirocco then throw 3x kalut. violent*
game 2: nothing special

top 12: team victory
vs ww bf (OXO)
game 1: Nx mistakes, vomit after it... zzz
game 2: he brain controlled after i used solemn to protect my armor master
game 3: nothing special

top 6: team victory
vs ww bf (XOX)
game 1: he starts 1st, with ww farm + trap dust shoot
game 2: i start 1st, with ww farm + starlight road
game 3: he starts 1st with ww farm + icarus

top 3 one: team defeat
vs dd gb (XOO)
game 1: gb with trap dust follow with right cards.
game 2: i think he 'missed' a turn
game 3: worm from beginning to the end, and win with mist wyrm.

top 3 two: team defeat
vs LL (XOX)
game 1: typical LL
game 2: light mirror ownage
game 3: trying to set up for decisive arm but get owned by celestial with 2x wulf milled plus s.summon a judgement dragon.


my number one fan...

AE86的故事

lyn: “如果暴雪不加强兽族，就由我来加强。”
max: “如果konami不加强猫，就由我来加强。”

reality of the metagame

recently the tournament result is getting from bad to worse.
slowly dropping out of constant minimum top 5-6 position in every tournament to being KO in early elimination stage, and ytd is scrubbed with 2 defeats in 1st 2 matches.

metagame is dominated by lightlord variates and cosmo variates (mainly eatos).
one is self-touch, and the other is preventing opponent from self-touch.

and i think this the main reason why i'm struggling in this meta, being too reactive in my gameplay nature. still i'm playing my akb, though it's struggling in this meta. i feel that my built is not weaker than any of the akb that i see on others' websites, or even probably mine is better. in reality, not everything can be like AE86 in initial D. or is it that i'm not as god as takumi?

sam was saying he has no worries for akira for team tourney but me, well, given the result in november and december, i'm indeed the weak link. "i rather you play the deck you play in world tournament." is his comment. and i just replied "i don't feel it's that strong." clearly, WW BF is not as dominating as it was in last ban. it's dependent on farming advantage with WW now, and creating a chance for you to place WW and flow the advantage from there is the key. but i simply feel there're clearly better decks out there, but i get another slap from reality. akira is saying it's strong and he can top 8 with it in asia tournament, and it's me playing too many defensive cards in WW BF. but when i look at the deck list, almost every card is staple or at least things that you'll play with this deck. he pointed out i didn't play hurricane, i agreed that i forgot about it when i wrote out the list. to me, they just wanna be nice and didn't say out that i'm not on par with them.

when there's no result, i suck, even if i'm playing well.
when i've been winning, i'm god, even if there're mistakes.

welcome to reality.

imba fan club

just to add on to the 'max fan club'.

mango found this on facebook.
LOL owned~

chelski down gunner in emirate

arsenal 0-3 chelsea

i'm not surprised by the result, i expected chelsea to win 2-0 though.
arsenal jus seems so lost, without van persie.
chelsea did well to limit arsenal's options, force them to go wide and cross, which will not be a treat.
arsenal has a goal disallowed, which may change the flow of the game.

but in the end, totally outplayed...

"The Emirates wasn't built to watch the likes of Bendtner, Walcott, Vela, Eboue and Diaby running around in circles, or into crowds of players and falling over. We might get some false optimisim from the better moments against weak teams this season, but they won't ever beat a team like the one Chelsea put out today."

the missing link

22

from may'n & megumi

women are imbalance

i've experienced this before.

ygo asian qualifier

2 words: 悲剧

died in swiss.

match 1: OXX
vs lightlord

match 2: OO
vs gladiator beast

match 3: OXO
vs burn

match 4: XOX (time out)
vs lightlord

-----

so much talk about the organisers and judges, i should start with myself.
if i win all my matches, there's nothing organisers or judges can do to stop me from claiming the championship. unless by finding faults to DQ me, or do what they did yesterday by conducting less than required swiss rounds.

but well, i feel i don't deserve to win. although i can push it to lucklords, but the 2 that i met in swiss are no better than those lightlords i meet every week.

-----
lets go to the things that should not happen yesterday:

1. deck check
when i submit my deck list for deck check, it's only done by scanning if i've illegal cards in deck. but not comparing if it matches what i write on the list. although this 'shortcut' method is practiced in other countries. remember charles easton's world qualifier this year?

2. format
with 150+ players, a 5 round swiss before a top 16 single elimination format. the number of swiss round should be decided on number of players, hence only 1 player will have a full score. but this is not followed everytime, and the best excuse i can think for them is restriction of venue. basically it's the organiser booked a place in smu to host this tournament but it's not huge enough to hold 150+ players to play a swiss round in a single wave. so the time used will be doubled as there're 2 waves for 1 swiss round. and the time is also restricted, lights will be off in smu after a certain timing. this can be improved by getting a bigger venue (money problem) or make it a 2 days event (money problem) so the best way is make it a single elimination from the start, but probably some people will feel they pay $10 entry fee to lose 1st round and go home. which discourage some players, hence less income for organisers.
P.S. there's more to format in later of the day which will be mention at the bottom

3. judges
the judges are not capable to solve basic ruling problems during gameplay, and of course more problem with metagame deck cards' ruling. and worse, 'house rule' is being posted online. when a judge has came to a decision on a ruling conflict between players, it's not final. as the player who is in disadvantage just carries on arguing with the judge, the decison is changed then again. i also see judges play in the tournament as player, unacceptable.

4. specific cards being 'unbanned' in format
raiou, gorz and sarcophagus are specifically named weeks before the tournament that they can be used. when qualifier within the country is concerned, the format is played according to the country respectively. e.g. japan allows duel terminal exclusives. USA allows TCG exclusives. so singapore should be played under asian format, which means that 3 cards can't be used. and if cards are to be unbanned, it should be named by the source. e.g. valuable book exclusives. and not just unbanned because the judges/organisers just like it. and the news is not being spread officially but just within the small community, and i'm sure there're players who didn't know about it.

5. pairing in swiss rounds
a computer program (mantis) is used for pairing in swiss, however clear manual conspiracy is being done.
- players should never meet the same opponent within swiss, jeryl and sam were paired up again.
- more than 1 player is paired down. just swiss round 2 alone, there're 3 pair down matches.
- in swiss round 2, someone with 1 win from round 1 is given a bye.
- akira is recorded as 1 win, when he had 2. but organisers proceed with pairings, which means he's paired down.

6. crowd control and time control
when basic tournament management i mentioned above can't be meant, i doubt crowd and time control will be in radar. spectators were too closed to players, this can still be accepted. but time for each match is not kept constant for all rounds, 1 round has 30min and the other has 40min. and when time is called, it's not announced to all players.

7. change of format during tournament
when it's supposed to be 5 round swiss with top 16 single elimination, it's last minute changed to 4 round swiss with top 8 single elimination. when i mention above that there will be more than 1 player with all wins if the number of swiss round is not sufficient, which is unfair. now with 4 round swiss and top 8 cut point, there're players with all wins don't make it to top 8 still. bravo~

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3 (before final)

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3
fly100% vs infi

both chinese players, orc vs human.
fly's form is crazy, win almost everything recently.
infi's wcg form is good too, he knocked out moon and happy.

i'm disappointed that sky lost his opening game against yaws, but yaws played well and deserved to win. BO1 in group stage has more luck factors, due to 1 map 1 game. and clearly sky's form is not there, plus the pressure he withstand before and throughout the tournament is inhuman.

in the end, he qualified to knock out as group second and lost to happy 0-2 in top 16.



现在可以真正的为你们喝彩了，希望你们在下面的8进4，4进2，2争冠的比赛中的完全发挥出自己的百分之二百的实力来！

　　加油，也请你们一定要自信，相信自己！没有什么不可能的。

　　同时也真的很对不起那些支持我的爱好者们，，，让你们失望了，，在这里我只能对你们说上一句真诚的对不起。。。

　　对不起你们了。

　　但是我还是会依然加油的努力下去的，就向有些FANS说的那样，“SKY，不要怕，百败百战，不要害怕”。

　　是的，我觉得我已经没有什么害怕的理由了，我会更加努力的百倍努力的自信的奋斗下去。

　　因为我知道我不能再对不起你们了。

　　放好心态，在这个我依然在的舞台上，继续燃烧起我的生命之火！

　　自信，加油，努力，坚持，拼搏

"SKY.....

什么都别说了，我们心里都明白。

我是看你REP成长的..

加油。"

---------------------

as for myself, hope i do well for my asian championship qualifier which is just hours away.

imba banner

photo taken in wcg grand final



星际选手 黄慧明 （Toodming）
starcraft player

ring of gundam

puppet no more (soon)

just in case you don't know, i never like my father.
always trying to shape me to what he wants me to be, control and plan my stuff.

last night, he talked to me. saying that i treat my mother as maid, because she cooks for me and wash my clothes. and also other housework. and i just play games and do nothing constructive. and contribute nothing to the family.

i'm waiting for uni, and so he expects me to be studying right now. and i do revise for your info, just that i won't be doing like what most people doing in school. because they've a proper syllabus but not me. so am i suppose to open my textbook and act as if i'm studying when it's ineffective. and i actually read up online and ask friends. but all he thinks he see is i play games 24/7. he only believes what he wants to believes.

alittle history on how he always think he's right and shape me. in 2001, that is my sec 2 year, i'm supposed to choose what i wanna study for higher sec for o lvl. and i have chose mine, (EL, CL, E.math, A. math, p.chem, p.physic, a/c and comb hum) but he insisted that i must take p.bio and not a/c. and the final line he said is "i've more exp than u in this world, i know what is good for u. jus listen." what can i say? he feeds me. fine, i took bio. and i got a A1 for 1st exam, then i fail on purpose all the way til o lvl. i just don't wanna be forced. i scored in my 1st exam to prove that i'm capable not because i can't. in 2003, after my o lvl, he wanted me to study biz mgt, because he wanted it. his reason is that i've little knowledge of everything. but i've told him which also leads to no where. but yeah again, he's paying my school fee. so suck thumb.

regarding my mother being a maid, my mother always complains to me it's him who makes her become a maid. and she told me doing housework is all she can do for me as a mother, and feel being needed. sometimes why not just appreciate it and not do what you think it should be. so what will my mother do everyday? like him, staring at the com looking at the stocks? he thinks that i can't manage to do it myself, when i'm so often being left alone at home. not being to do my own housework? and now he's saying i can't manage in aust.

he talks about give and take, my mother does the housework and i should. ok, i agree with that. but that line only comes to me because he did some housework. how about when he had not retired? my mother complain so much about her serving him. from now on, i'll not dine at home, if he thinks that she cooks for me make her the maid. and i'll wash my own clothes separately. i think within 2 days, my mother will complain to him that i'm not eating with her. also mention that i leave my clothes on the bed after i took them off, simply because my mother told me don't have to wash them everytime i use them. (those that i wear to sleep.) he just lives in his own world.

also not happy that i wake up past 12pm. ok fine, i just wake up early today and leave home to library to sleep there. i will still watch my champions league match in mid night, that won't change.

not long ago, when i rejected to work for iras, he jus scolded me, without knowing anything at all. "how can a person be like u" i still remember.

2 months ago, when i'm applying for the school. he also wants to take charge of it, but clearly without any sort of info and just what he thinks is right again. he just scolded me for delaying and wanted to charge down to the agency to settle it. have he ever thinks that i need to oath for my citizenship? change my passport? and my particulars may have changed. and after i'm done with it, i told him about preparing a cheque (which i've reminded him long ago, and he said the rate is not good. which i think it's ok to wait.) and suddenly he said i don't care about my future, the money is not my concern, but his. and next thing he said all i know is spending his money. back to the story of charging down to the agency, i told him he needs to prepare a bank draft 1st. i've filled up everything, called the agency to ask. i even call the uni in aust about my new offer (because i change to start in another sem) after i get the bank draft, i settle the rest by myself, smooth~

even the accommodation in aust, the booking of flight. he just wants them his way, i've said before that i will be sharing with someone there and i'm looking for one (looking it out online) and my friends there are helping too. as for air tix, i wait to confirm with 1 friend because she's flying to sg then back to aust with me.

it's just always he, him and himself.
he's not seeing the big picture, i don't need him but his money to pull me through school. i'm not his puppet. one day i'll not need his money anymore, and i'm gonna pay back every cents. that day isn't far.

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3 prediction

above is the group draw, the top player of each group is the seed player.
from what i see, the seeded player will top their respective group. probably the only one which may not be so sure is group c, depends on the result between grubby vs who.
assuming none of the players lose on purpose in order to avoid a certain player(s), the below table is the most possible result.

WCG2009 grand final warcraft 3 coming soon

following maps will be used in grand final in cheng du.

　　Round 1: Twisted Meadows
　　Round 2: Terenas Stand
　　Round 3: Echo Isle
　　Round 4: Ancient Isles
　　Round 5: Turtle Rock

-----

compare to last year, gnoll wood and secret valley changed to echo isle and ancient isles.

secret valley should be included, as most tournaments used them now, quite surprised it's being removed.
as for echo isle being back to the list, i feel it shouldn't be removed to begin with. it's considered 'must-have' maps along with twisted meadows and turtle rock.
terenas stand should be removed, because it's too advantage to human and also night elf. (yes, i play humam >.<) furthermore, it's not commonly used in tournaments now, melting valley is a good replacement. almost every match has melting valley after draft/reverse-draft.
as for ancient isles, it's getting more common. so nothing much to say. except, it's not on Bnet's map!

-----

overall, human has quite a good map choice.
terenas stand considers as human map, while echo isle is not bad for human.


if reverse draft, (from human player's view):

vs orc:
orc player removes- terenas stand
human player removes- twisted meadow/turtle rock

vs undead:
undead- terenas stand
human- turtle rock

vs night elf:
night elf- unpredictable (depends on player)
human- twisted meadow

-----

full players list is not confirmed yet, but here is the participating list.

from china: fly, sky and infi. nothing much to argue about these 3. personally, sky, infi, th000, fly and ted are the top 5 players in china now.
fly,小飞飞, his form this year is crazy, won many tournaments, will he propose to his gf if he win wcg lol? (he won 1st in china's final qualifier).
sky, 人皇, my favourite player, hope he can make it his 3rd WCG title.
infi, 塔魔, very patient, one of the top 3 human in the world. switches race to gain map advantage
th000, 混血人族 - 蛋神,i enjoy watching his match most, although he switches to other races to gain map advantage like infi, they're best friends anyway. i really hope to see him in the final T_T
ted, 中国鬼王 世界鬼王, he's supposed to be undead's biggest chance to win the title, with all korean legendary undead players retired, he's undead's hope. sadly space's condition doesn't allow him to travel.

from korea: moon, lyn and who.
moon, the 5th race, arguably the best and most successful player ever. sadly he still has not claimed a single wcg title, with a silver last year.
lyn, asia's best orc, my favourite orc player. a wcg title will be a good prove to the world that he's in the same tier with moon, sky and grubby.
who, the above 2 are korea's best 2 players, and who is probably top 5.

other star players:
grubby, defending champion, looking to claim his 3rd title as well. but always lose to sky in wcg.
happy, a very good undead player, along with space and ted, the top 3 undead players now.
tod, retired but appear for wcg, watched some of his replays recently, he still has the cut.

some other notable players:
sokol, ciara, dowaq, yaws, sonkie.

notable players who didn't make it to the final:
ted, th000, sai, focus, remind, check, lucifron, demuslim


sky in tears after final's defeat against creo in 2007

impression of iras

i shall refer the person who contacts me about the job as person A.

around 1 month ago,
i've consulted person A regarding the temperary job in iras, and we've agreed on the stuff like duration and pay. which starts from 15 oct btw.

1-2 weeks after that, HR from iras called me and asked if i can start work that following week. of course i told them that i am supposed to start on 15 oct, and then HR told me that there's no such thing and asked if i wanna give a pass on the job. i can't start work in sep apparently due to my europe trip.

next day, i was contacted by person A that there's miscommunication and i start on 15 oct still.

not long after that, i receive another call from HR, which kinda same content as the earlier call. and of course i will still give the same answer.

well, person A contacted me after that again and told me it had been settled and start work on 15 oct.

shortly after i return from europe, i saw a sms that inform me to start on 16 oct from person A. so i confirmed and agreed.

this morning, i got another call from HR. and now this starts to piss me off, as i am now told that my work starts on 20 oct. not for the first time, i told them about the earlier agreement! so i told the HR to sort it out with person A before calling me again. HR then told me it will stick to 16 oct AGAIN. as we go into the details, the dress code and pay are different from what i was told earlier on. i phoned person A to know what is wrong with it, and she insisted it's what we agreed on earlier on and it's HR that screw up.

now i told person A to confirm the details with HR and update me.
seems like it's gonna be fun to work with them...

------------------------

updated at 3.34pm

another call from them, and changes again. the major change is the pay, alot less.
so "NO!" to iras!

which means time to look for another part time.

back in sg

yes, in the hot and humid singapore now.
gonna put up some photos soon, meanwhile gonna wait for the job which starts on 16 oct.

-----

this is shit news!!!

good time to go aust to study -_-
just this season, the champions league is on mio and soon EPL and some other sports.
time to just watch it on the com, and i'll not get mio tv! not because i don't like it or i'm in love with starhub. but just wanna go on strike!

flying to scandinavia

flying tonight, so please don't sms or call me unless necessary until 9th oct.

take a flight to Amsterdam and transfer to copenhagen (denmark) for the 1st day.
along the way, i'll be visiting denmark, sweden, norway and finland. 2x cruise ride included.

the plan is to spend another 2-3 days in russia but it was cancelled.
-----

countries i've been to:

- hong kong**
- singapore
- china
- south korea
- japan
- malaysia
- thailand
- italy
- vatican
- netherland
- france
- belgium
- england
- egypt
(maybe i miss out 1 or 2)

- sweden*
- norway*
- finland*
- denmark*

yugioh update

i've been using undead synchro since september 2009 ban list, and i'm quite satisfied with the deck. one of the best deck available so far.

tested and tuned for 3 weeks, now my built has fixed and just minor adjustment to suit the metagame accordingly every week. i wanted to play vayu bf but undead is more of my style in the normal singapore format (japan format).

6 common decks:
- undead synchro
- gladiator beast
- vayu black feather
- lightlord
- metabeat
- twilight

recent result:
30/08 - 3rd
05/09 - 2nd
12/09 - scrubbed
19/09 - 5th
21/09 - 3rd
26/09 - 3rd

as you can see, it's very disappointing. i just failed to make it at the top T_T
and akira is on hot form with his twilight beat, though he scrubbed more than me >.<

plotted a graph to compare my result with his. (i didn't join on 29/08 and 13/09.)
(click on the graph for a clear view)

formula one practice session 25/06/09

thanks to xin xin aunty jie jie, that i can watch live F1.
she happened to win the lucky draw for 2 tix to friday's event, it'll be better if she was more lucky and had the sunday's!
but well, how often do you get to watch it for free?

(need ear plugs~)

travelling again

after some changes, i'll be going to scandinavia for around 2 weeks.
fly off on 28/09/09.
the trip to russia is cancelled...

gaming

yugioh:

joined 3 tournaments since the new ban list.
- 3rd
- 2nd
- died in swiss

used undead synchro for all 3, still haven't found a built that i feel comfortable with. may change deck.

-----

warcraft III:

recently i started playing war3 again (not dota), not as good as before (expected).
but kinda disgusted by the quantity of the orc on bnet, out of 10, 6 are orc, 3 random --> 2 orc. blademaster is very irritating. the critical is game breaking.

dental shit

i know there's something wrong with my wisdom teeth for quite sometime, painful and disturbing. spoils mood, and lost temper easily. pms huh?

since my parents are going to see a dentist, i just follow and to fix my problem. i'm mentally prepared to remove the teeth. get it done before i fly to aust. and yes, it's teeth not tooth.

and so yesterday morning, visit DR wong who happens to graduate from uni of queensland in 1985. my senior lol.

he checked on my problem and recommend to remove the wisdom teeth on my right both bottom and top. the bottom is the one that is giving me all the pain. did a 2D x-ray scan and realised that it seems to be touching the nerve which is dangerous. did another 3D x-ray scan for $250 !@#$%. the distance between the tooth and the nerve is 0.06mm ~_~"

i still carry on with it, so he applied some med in my mouth then inject 3x on the right. told to go out and wait to be called again while he attended to others, while i get the numb feeling. i fell asleep and saliva flows to my chin. lol and i can't feel anything. my parents went for lunch, while i went in for the surgery. he placed some tubs in my mouth and started working on it while the nurse assisted. i still can feel the pain, so more injections. as the surgery carries on, i think i've more around 14 injections if i miscount.

during the process, i open my eyes and look at both the doctor and the nurse (this jie jie is not that pretty, maybe should have listened to my friend to visit those whereby uni students are interns.) 6 equipments in my mouth at a time. i can see their gloves turn bloody and the drills are crazy. i can still feel the pressure and things fly out from my mouth as he drilled. after removing the bottom tooth, the doc sewed up with disolvable treads, and i felt like in the movie "saw". -_- as he was still sewing which took quite long, i reached to my pocket for my phone and wanted to take a pic. but i forgot i left it on the table so that i can be as comfortable as possible. so yeah, no epic photo taken.

this is what happened after the visit.


after the bottom is done, the top jus took less than 3 min? lol. he forcefully pulled it out. T_T
the doc was complaining that i didn't open my mouth wide enough, which i can't control my jaw properly after so many injections.

went home with medicine, spit blood out every min. nothing new to me as i always experience this from nose bleeding. right side of the face is swollen, and i used something to attach an ice pack to my face.

like this: (retarded right!?)



and here is my teeth, doc was saying i've big teeth.


trying to take a pic of the inside




something for me to spit into placed beside my com

hired

applied for IRAS's temperary clerical officer (frontline) last week, and i just received a call that i'm hired.

this should occupy me from 15/16 oct to 1st week of jan.
office hour~

i'm angry

joined so many tournaments, and how often do you have one that starts on time?
who should you blame?
the organiser? for not following the time it will start which he stated. but he earns more money when he waits for more participants.
the players? how many actually reached before the registration time and start time? everyone just abuses that the organisers will wait for their entry fee.

just for today, i planned to join the tournament in khatib which states that it'll begin at 1430. and by 1445, i asked the organiser when is it gonna start, and the reply is nothing new "there's someone who is still on his way, 5 more min." i didn't want to put his name here.
so 5 min after 5 min... and i went up to the organiser again, and the reply is "5 more min, maybe u can call him."
i waited another 5 min, apparently the organiser didn't even know what time is this "king" gonna reach. i've enough, so i just collect back my entry fee from him, and walked off. before i did, i can tell from the list that, many had not paid the entry fee yet. this is another problem, it's so common that players love to drag the timing and unwilling to part with their money when they've already written their name on the list.

to this dear organiser, if you think you wanna please that 1 friend of yours and let everyone waits, you just pissed another friend of yours. and if you think you can earn that extra $5 from that person who is not sure what time is he gonna show up, you loss that $5 from me who is already there waiting for the tournament to be started.

-----

now go on to those who just love to fly kites...
every time i go to elizabeth to catch arsenal's game, you people said you'll be there. and not a single time that everyone who promised to be there will all show up, there'll always be one or two who just said they don't feel like coming. just yesterday, i walked up to elizabeth alone because one by one sms me that you don't feel like going. (and i know one of you had said that you mostly won't make it because of other committment, i don't blame you.) every week, i'll receive sms just an hour before we're supposed to meet that someone is not coming.

not just watching football, just last friday when i supposed to meet 3 people for movies. someone sms me just 2 hours in advance that she didn't feel like going.

now it brought back memory that there was this once, i was suppose meeting 3 people for movie.
i took a train from cck to bugis via jurong east, and when i reached tanjong pagar, one smsed me that she didn't feel like going out and told me to inform the rest because she was afraid the rest will be mad at her. i told the other 2, and one got mad and didn't wanna come. the other was disappointed too, so it was cancelled. so i changed train from raffle's place to marina bay and then all the way to cck again.

give me a reason why i shouldn't be angry at such people!

adebayor hate club

i've created a thread on arsenal singapore forum, adebayor hate club.
sold to manchester city before the start of the season, for $25 millions.
quote from arsene "they've bought a great striker, and we've got a reasonable price."
i agree...

he's a good striker, but what he did last night is totally disgusting.
1st, he stepped on fabregas's ankle when the ball is already not there. i will give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't do it on purpose, sometimes just late tackles.

and then... he stepped on robin van persie's face?


and i STILL convince myself that it's another accident. but of course the whole elizabeth was crazy by then, P.S. the jie jie and mei mei were very vulgur.
after i watched the replay for 3 times, i can't believe he did it on purpose. the way he turned his body, and he lifted his foot to the height whereby it's clearly with intention.
it left robin with a bloody face, and it's so close to his eye.

and the night got worse when adebayor scored a goal as well. -_-
he ran 90 yards to the other side of the field, and slide in front of the arsenal supporters. he received a yellow card for that. i regret to speak up for him when arsenal fans are talking bad about him, wasteful in front of goal, loss the ball too easily, leaving for money etc.
even fans of other clubs feel disgusted by him, click the link, and look at the comments as well.

one of the chant:

~~ we've arshavin....
~~~~~fuck adebayor~!

----------

adebayor aside, manchester city 4-2 arsenal.

arsenal is really bad last night, there's no momentum, and lack of the spark which usually provided by arshavin, walcott, nasri, and rosicky, who were all injured except rosicky came off the bench after sidelined for 16 months. and take nothing away from the home side, they played really well. solid in their defence, close down fast and well.

and again, almunia made a mistake which led to a goal. he's good, but not good enough.
van persie's goal is a real class, not to forget he finished by his weaker right foot.
diaby was having his routine off day, just simply inconsistent.
and bendtner looked as if he didn't deserve to play in the EPL, he's a centre forward who is good in the air. but arsene is always playing him on the right (this season). when he has no pace on the flank, not skillful enough to beat the side back, doesn't have good crossing ability. even he himself admits his best position is centre foward. the only reason i can think of for placing him on the right is that, you want to play the ball to him from far whereby he's good in the air. when you're playing at the side, u usually will go 1 on 1 with the sideback and i'm sure he can win the ball most of the time. but what's next? he dribbles and losses the ball, or just ends with a poor cross. probably someone should just claims the ball from him after he received it and bendtner himself moves into the box. i just miss walcott on the right~

Standard Liege's Axel Witsel breaks leg of Wasilewski

this is just crazy. ouch~

feeling

quote from ted's blog:
"有时真的感觉到某个比赛输了以后会怀疑自己，甚至怀疑以前拥有的一切。"

quote from sky's blog:
"相信自己，继续努力！"


要化无奈为推动力!

Beyond The Game

Beyond The Game, a documentary on grubby and sky.
alot of interesting scenes.
both of them have girlfriends who are behind them all the time, and of course ppg who travelled around the world with grubby for his tournaments.

grubby & ppg

it's not easy for their girlfriends to accept and support their occupation. not to mention parents, probably they'll only 'understand' when they win their prize money and getting famous like some movie stars. but how many people are there to reach that standard, and there're so many people waste their youth on such dream, even drop out of school just to play it.

when i saw sky's tears after he lost to creo in wcg2007 final, i also felt like crying. although i've seen this scene Nx, i still can feel the heartache. a dream to 3 consecutive wcg gold medals...

i remembered when my friend phoned me about the match after creo won it, i just didn't wanna believe it. "u're bluffing me..." i didn't wanna believe sky lost, until i saw it online with my own eyes after i booked out.

Ashin's epic quote

during the concert,

"怪兽，10年了。看来大家都变心了。连喊L.O.V.E的声音，都那么弱。我听说有些人跑去挺5566，飞轮海。有的跟F4跑了。还有些，去听苏打绿。"

29/08/2009

finally it's the mayday DNA concert in singapore.
actually another performance was added on 28th, and li xin phoned me on that very morning (i was still slping) that she had tickets. but i didn't go after all. $60, didn't expect good seat. she told me on the next day that they shifted seat to lower row right in the middle. omg! chin teck and i were full of regret. but i was told later that both were almost the same.

anyway on 29th, met up with li xin in douby ghout for dinner then took a bus to indoor stadium. happen to see weilin and.... i can't remember the other guys's name >_< (forgive me!) i know some of my friends will be going to the concert too. saw chin fong there before i went in, and took a pic with her. she had tickets 5 row from the front. OMG! "i'm not selling it to you even for a 1 million dollar." the entrance is good, a video is shown about them trying to escape from their daily life and steal john lennon's DNA. while escaping with a taxi, later on a real taxi was rushing out from the top and the concert started. the stage is nice too. 10th anniversary for their 1st concert.

entrance video:


follow up video:


chin teck went high right from the beginning of the concert. lol...







i like the part when 恋爱ing was sang in jazz. they sang many other old songs too.
concert ended at 12:20am, time for me to rush down to elizabeth hotel to watch manchester united vs arsenal which kicked off at 12:15am, was suppose to meet up with ji sheng and gong, but i didn't expect the concert to end that late. i jogged for around 2km in order to get away from the crowd to get a taxi, really don't want to miss the match.

end up the result is disappointing, arsenal lost 2-1. arsenal was the better team that night even ji sheng admitted (he's a manu fan who wore a manu jersey in an arsenal fan club) diaby's own goal is unexpected, he headed into his own goal from giggs's cross under no pressure from anyone. as for almunia's foil, yes that was a penalty. and i shall not go into referee's performance. the match ended with an epic scene off the pitch when wenger was told to walk off. he had no where to go but to walk up in front of the manu fans and stand, which later i read online that the chief of ref sent in an apology to wenger.



renew and collected my new membership card.
had a drink with stella before taking a night rider home.

27/08/2009

melvin sms me a day earlier about the platoon cohesion in east coast park.
at 1st i thought is a scam, because he didn't get back to me after i sms him.

but anyway, it's nice to catch up with some of them.

Arsenal's champions league group stage draw

Arsenal will face Dutch champions AZ Alkmaar, Greek champions Olympiacos and Champions League newcomers Standard Liege in Group H.

consider a easy group compared to the rest.
arsenal is on good form since the start of the season even though missing out on key players, walcott, nasri, rosicky... scoring 15 goals in 4 games.
most importantly the team played with lots of confidence and self-belief which is leaking for past few years. could this be the year?

looking forward to watch manchester united vs arsenal this weekend, i'll be watching it in elizabeth hotel.

grubby's proposal

grubby proposed to ppg in blizzcon, it'll be perfect if he won the tournament as well.
(lyn 2:1 grubby in final)

random pics in my iphone for hk and macau trip