Sunday, December 6, 2009 @ 5:56 AM
Y1 year to ord seems like a long time, but it's already been 1 year since jc prom, and that doesn't seem like so long ago.
moral of the story: time will still pass no mattter what, so just try to enjoy with whatever you have.
Saturday, December 5, 2009 @ 4:50 AM
Ythere's this report in the new paper recently. it's about an indian woman who had some strange bacteria in her, causing her to lose the twins she was pregnant with, both ler legs, and most of the fingers on her hands. if this had happened to anyone else i'm quite sure the person would have gone crazy or attempted suicide. but not her. she's still determined to live with whatever she has left, and she's even looking for work now.
people say that new paper is full of crap, but i think amidst its tabloids and gossips are social stories that all of us should get to know.
Saturday, November 28, 2009 @ 12:55 AM
Ysometimes i wonder why people can be cruel enough to keep birds as pets. looking at the birds flapping their wings in an attempt to get out of captivity, only to bump into their cages, is really quite a pitiful sight. i can accept that we humans rear animals for food, but depriving birds of their freedom because we think it's nice to hear them 'sing'? i think that's just screwed up. for all we know, what we interpret as the birds singing might be them cursing and swearing at their owners.
makes me wonder what those old fools at my void deck are thinking when they sit there with their bird cages hanging above them.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 5:22 AM
Ythere was a article in the new paper on jose mourinho yesterday. i've never liked him from his time at porto and chelsea, but i have to admit that some of the stuff that he said makes alot of sense:
JOSE Mourinho has told The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom that Manchester United's Red Devils would be his ideal team for a return to English football.
The Portuguese has won the Italian Serie A title with Inter-Milan already and in his second season with them now.
He won the English Premier League twice with Chelsea when he first managed in England in 2005 and 2006.
Before that, he led Porto to domestic, Uefa and Champions League triumph eventually, in 2004.
He even dubbed himself the Special One when he first arrived in England.
Now, he sees his long-term future in England, at a club like Manchester United, that supports a long-term vision, in the same way it has stuck with legend Sir Alex Ferguson.
Mourinho, 46, said: 'I am thinking about the future in terms of youth development and the age structure of my first team (here at Inter).'
'But Italy is not the country for this.
'England is the country. And my football is English football.
'Clearly it is unrealistic to expect to stay at a club as long as Sir Alex, but I am ready for the next phase of my career. I want to work with a different perspective.
'At Porto, my objective was to win to earn the right to go abroad.
'At Chelsea, my ambition was to create a bit of history (the club had not won the title for half a century till he arrived). But I always knew Chelsea lacked the normal English culture of stability.
'I was never under any illusions. I understood the personality of (Chelsea owner) Roman (Abramovich) and the culture of the people around him and knew it was not a job for 10 years.
'In Italy, I was coming to the motherland of tactics, the country of catenaccio and defensive football. The objective was to win not only in a third different league but also at a place where they say foreign coaches have had little success. But the time will come for stability.'His prime target is the United job.
He was asked twice last season, if he would be prepared to replace Mark Hughes as the manager at Manchester City instead, but declined both times.
Mourinho developed a strong personal relationship with Ferguson and has been given reason to believe the Scot will play a significant role in appointing his successor.
The Sunday Mirror though, reported yesterday that the rise of Bordeaux in the French Ligue 1 is said to have made their coach and ex-United player Laurent Blanc a serious contender ahead of Mourinho and Ferguson's former assistant and Portugal boss Carlos Queiroz.
No firm date
While Ferguson, 67, has set no firm date for his departure, there have been indications that he will go after winning one more European Cup.
He has said he will not be doing the job at the age of 70.
But after the interview was published on Saturday, Mourinho later reassured Inter on their website that some of his words were used in a different way.
He did deny using the words though.
He told Inter's website: 'I am very sorry a sincere tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson has been used in bits in a media outlet and in a different way from which my input was requested and above all with totally different aims.
'As you can read from a correct translation of some of my quotes, I explained I love Inter, that I am happy at Inter and that I am building for Inter. Indeed this is the reality and will be so until the end of my contract.'
Mourinho's contract with Inter ends in 2012. By then, Ferguson will be 71 after his expected final season with United in May.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 @ 8:53 PM
Ywanted to blog more on last night's game at kallang, but on second thoughts, it's a night i would rather forget.
so i'm posting the list of already-qualified teams for world cup 2010 instead:
host:
1)south africa
from africa:
2)ghana
3)ivory coast
4)cameroon
5)nigeria
from asia:
6)australia (don't ask me what they're doing in our qualifying zone and not oceania)
7)japan
8)south korea
9)north korea
from europe:
10)denmark
11)germany
12)netherlands
13)slovakia
14)switzerland
15)england
16)italy
17)spain
18)serbia
from concacaf:
19)honduras (waste of world cup slot, in my opinion)
20)usa
21)mexico
oceania:
22)new zealand
south america:
23)brazil
24)chile
25)argentina
26)paraguay
only 6 slots left. and the 6 teams will be known by the end of next week.
i'm already looking forward to the draw on 4th december in cape town. can't wait for the next Group of Death (:
@ 8:03 AM
Yabsolute rubbish. we played like a bunch of amateurs tonight.
Friday, November 13, 2009 @ 6:26 PM
Ypeople always ask me, why bother supporting a team that relies on foreign imports (not as much as table tennis does), plays unattractive football and is so inconsistent?
the answer is always the same- i'm a football fan, and i'm singaporean. if these aren't strong enough reasons for me to root for our national team, then i really don't know what is.
to me, manchester united is like my wife- it's something that i chose for myself. the national team is like my mum- i am obliged to support it. sure, there's nothing wrong with loving your wife more than you love your mum. but if you send your mum to the old folks home because you find it a chore to look after her, and you think that other people will do a better job in doing so, then you're quite a bastard. so stop thinking that the lions are not worth your time, and that there will be others at the stadium to cheer them on. why shouldn't you be there yourself? either you're a fake football fan, or you have no pride as a singaporean. if both of these statements aren't true, and you have nothing else on tonight, i'll see you at kallang.
let's go lions, and make some tom yam soup out of the thais.