Of Bolton 2-3 Arsenal

Saturday night was once of those few days were i knew i would just finish an entire arsenal game in front of the tv.. it has been awhile since i had the concentrate, the time or the energy to last one whole match.. there has been little to cheer on the preimership front.. games or draws, coming back and lack of creativity

First half

It was good to see van persie back again and hope is the best word to describe the feeling of thousands, maybe millions of arsenal fans around the world tuning in.. we got off to a plenty decent start but it just didn't seem good enough, van persie came close when he received a through ball at the edge of the area but his low shot looked easy for the Bolton keeper.. shots like this would not be good enough tonight

And just i had my back to the tv, but i heard just changed the mood of the night, i turned around in time to see Bolton head the ball into the net.. toure and almunia beaten to the ball and Bolton gets one goal out of one shot.. damn

hang on hang on, we can still do it.. the rain was pouring down and it made me wonder if its just going to be another day of disappointment, the end of the title chase.. just some minutes later, the tackling started to look uglier and Diaby launched a shin-level tackle into the Bolton dude and a straight red was the correct reaction from the referee..

10men arsenal a goal down, away from home.. hell.. what are we always in such situations? eboue was also sent off earlier in the year after returning from African Nations Cup..
And bad turned to worse when Taylor got his brace when he's shot deflected through gallas and into net

Half-time: Bolton 2-0 Arsenal

I took a minute to log into my computer and changed my MSN message to "Q support Arsenal" as disappointed as i was, i wanted to show my support for the team.. deep down i was beginning to dislike football and watching helplessly as the team struggle.. but still i perserved and so did the team

On 63th minute, we did.. campos flicked his header from one post to the next and gallas was there to show the strikers how to finish.. 2-1

6mins later, helb was dancing in the box when the bolton players panicked and bolton gave away a penalty.. up step van persie.. i was holding my breath and within the minute, 2-1 was 2-2

we have done it, we have came back and rescued a point

Still, we knew that 2-2 wasn't good enough, you don't stop dreaming and you don't stop fighting when you come back from 2 goals down and 1 man out.. you fight all the way to get that 3 points

i'll admit we were lucky with fabregas' shot somehow hit some bolton guys before sneaking into the goal.. 2-3! we have won the game.. lucky? yes.. sure.. so were bolton when they got their second..

A great comeback, a great match for an arsenal fan and football feels good again
now for Champions league match against Liverfools.. and the league match liverfools and CL 2nd leg against liverfools

Strength and Honour

Of klayhead Journey

25 March

As the clock moved one more minute in, klayhead knew well then that this was it, he's time was up, the show must start and the show will go on, this, was a moment of truth.

Few people who have realise that he had gone through 2 sets of presentation less than 48 hours ago with the General Manager(GM) and Deputy GM.. this was in fact their show, but they seem happy enough to let klayhead hope the responsibility, they seem happy to let klayhead present to the Big Guy.

Afterall, this Guy is only some MP right? Well, he's official purpose for this meeting is as Chairman C** , so the fact that he is an MP and also Chairman of C**E did not mean that someone of higher stature should be doing the presentation.. in fact, the burden fell solely on the shoulders of the newbie, the guy that just into his 2nd month of the job, the guy called klayhead..

Klayhead had spent the bulk of his nights, and weekend hours, to fulfill his end of the bargain.. no talk of OT claims, no wish to pass off with shoddy work.. the reviews have been done so many times by klayhead that perhaps he should not be faulted for failing to sport some mistakes

And so the meeting went on and klayhead the newbie presented his slides bravely in front of the "Big Guy".. now this meeting is just a side show, the "Big Guy" is here to make sure that people from klayhead's side don't go on to show crap to the "Bigger Guy"

klayhead went on and on, for that moment in time, it just didn't occur to him who he was speaking to, he didn't have the energy nor to resources to mind anymore, he just wanted people to look at what he's done and then give their comments, klayhead of open to suggest and quietly confident of what he has done

At the end of it all, it was a sense of relief and also one of expectancy. klayhead knew that his hurdle was just the beginning for the BIG SHOW that happening in less than 30days' time.. but for that moment, despite the minor negative comments and all.. klayhead was satisfied with what he had done.. klayhead regain some of those confidence lost at his previous workplace.. and klayhead live to fight another day




Just another day, more to come and that's for sure

Of Been

Been busy at work, perhaps busy is an understatement.

Been preparing slides, perhaps been modifying and improving slides is a better way to put it

Been working concurrently with 2 organisations, perhaps its working with and working for the 2

Been working real hard, perhaps its all worthwhile

Been tired, still is




Beans, makes people fart

Of Maroon 5

I asked her to stay
But she wouldn't listen
She left before I had the chance to say
Oh
The words that would mend
The things that were broken
But now it's far too late, she's gone away

Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?"
Hard to believe that

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

The taste of her breath,
I'll never get over
And the noises that she made kept me awake
Oh
The weight of things that remain unspoken
Built up so much it crushed us everyday

Every night you cry yourself to sleep
Thinking "Why does this happen to me?
Why does every moment have to be so hard?"
Hard to believe that

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

Of all the things
I felt I've never really showed
Perhaps the worst is that I ever let you go
Should not ever let you go, oh oh oh

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you, ohh

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you
And I won't go home without you




I don't know why, but i have a liking for emo-songs

Of Weekend Morning

Not exactly the best way to start your saturday, waking up just minutes after midnight (hey, Linkin Park!) after squashing the nooze button umpteen times..

It's not exactly correct to say i asked for it, but in this job, i'm prepared enough to put it that extra effort. I'm not running on full gear now and its good to say that i'm gearing up for high speed cruising and we go along..

This extra work, OT as people might put it, is inevitable, not when a big event involving a minister is happening in about a month and we are right at the planning stage... only.

So hang on tight and take the ride, lets see what happens after 25 April 2008

School starting on 17 March by the way, hope it doesn't become a distraction or disruption to work.. i really can see myself doing more of such overnight work in the next 10 weeks, for work or for school? I don't know.. i hope it's for none, i hope i'll get 7 hours a sleep every night, good sleep please..




Alright, 5mins break's over.. back to work, at 2.41am.

Of Lethal Pacts

From CNA:
TOKYO: Five people were found dead in a car with a charcoal burner inside in what is suspected to be yet another group suicide in Japan, police said Sunday.
The bodies were spotted by a man walking in a forest in northern Japan's Aomori prefecture on Saturday, a local police official said.
"Burned charcoal was inside and there was no trace that they had been attacked by someone outside," he said, adding the car was sealed with tape from inside, leading to suspicions it was a group suicide.
Four of the five dead were from different parts of Japan, suggesting they met on the Internet, the official said.
Three were men aged 21-37 and the fourth a 19-year-old woman, he said.
One body has yet to be identified and it is believed that more than one month has passed since they died, he added.
Japan has witnessed a growing number of suicide pacts among strangers who meet on the Internet and then go to scenic areas where they kill themselves through carbon monoxide poisoning.
The country has one of the developed world's highest suicide rates, with more than 30,000 people killing themselves every year. - AFP/ac

People meeting on the internet to kill themselves together? Now that's a gross thing to do isn't it?

Sure this people have issues, but to offer support for suicide equals to abetment of suicide.. such a wrong thing to do..

in the modern age of connectivity, the Internet can become a tool for suicide intervention, internet chat rooms,forums, can become sources of support, for people to share their problems and to overcome them in a collective manner..

Japan, suicide rate 30k, i'm baffled.. that at least 12 suicides every single day..
So please, don't kill yourself, if you need someone to talk to, there's always the person beside you.. if not, please call SOS at 1800-2214444, its free and its 24hour



There's always hope, always

Of Raeburn Park

I did something rather awful today, I decided to be nasty and send in one of those long emails that could potentially piss someone’s day off.. my wife advised against it, but I had already completed my “masterpiece” and didn’t want to let it go to waste. The dark side I sense in me..

As it goes, my part time degree institute, MIS, has decided to relocate the “campus” from Prinsep House to Raeburn Park.

Prinsep house is that NTUC income building that is along selegie road, just beside Hotel Rendezvous and SMU.

Raeburn Park sounds like a damn stylo name with links to some English Premier League stadium (think Ewood Park, Highbury type names). But Raeburn Park is actually the former(as in really old) Gan Eng Seng Secondary School. To get there, one has to take the train to Outram and walk very very far before you reach the campus, I reckon I would need a bus from the MRT.. not sure how much distance the bus will cover though. To strengthen its image as some outpost of Singapore, the school is actually located beside the railway. What railway you say? Now how many railways does Singapore actually has? I’m not talking about MRT or LRT here. It is simply railway, the ones where choo-choo trains travel.

Actually, my email’s focus was on the communications of the relocation. We were informed like 14days before the shift and I didn’t even get the email directly from MIS. So in my opinion, service quality and trust were seriously lacking, I mean you don’t wait for the relocation to be confirmed and in progress before you inform your students right? What’s more, you are shifting your school to a not-so-accessible part of the island. Gosh.

And so, for the remaining of 2008, I would spend extra money and time traveling to school and returning home at least 2 times a week, make that 3 times for the next 10weeks.

Raeburn Park, please give me something to cheer about.