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We're Going Down Down, In An Earlier Round - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 9:57 PM

Yes, it's official. England sucks.

All the talent available, and nothing to show for it. Same old, same old.

To think i stayed up all the way to 6 in the morning just to watch a comeback in the works from 2-0 down. It almost did happen, not that England deserved the short-lived comeback, but it seemed fairytale-like especially with the equaliser provided by Becks, who was incidentally the hero a couple of years back with that famous "save-England's-blushes" free-kick against Greece. But some things are never meant to be, innit? Aside from Scott Carson, Wayne Bridge's mistakes at left-back, Micah Richard's consistent fouling... basically, the entire back 4 and the keeper's incompetency, i thought everyone else did pretty well. It's just Steve Mclaren who did a rotten job at formulating the winning strategy. Ok, so he did in the past few games prior to the Russian crash-and-burn disaster a week ago, but that was really against lesser teams. The real test was against Russia and Croatia, who turned out to be top 2 of the group, and Mclaren failed TERRIBLY. The obviously glaring mistake was fielding Scott Carson. So maybe nobody would have thought he would have made his blunders, but unlucky for Mclaren, the blame has to rest on him for his high-profile replacement of Robinson. Lanlan. And after claiming to show no favouritism whatsoever, he reverted back to his old ways of trying to fit Lampard and Gerrard in central midfield. The second goal was exposed by this combination, if i didn't remember wrongly, the attack went past Barry with Lampard and Gerrard positioned further up the fail, leaving a foolish-looking Lescott and the blistering snail pace of Campbell to protect Carson's goal. Tactics? Rubbish i tell you. Croatia was away from home, had absolutely nothing to play for, other than the satisfaction of knocking out one of the world's "soccer greats" nation.

It's seriously a pain to be an England fan. Currently, the consolation i can think of is to see Mclaren's head roll (metophorically. i'm not psycho or sadistic) in a couple of hours' time. The bugger still can say "I should remain as Enlgand coach". What rubbish. Sack him and exile him from the football world i say. Or better yet, let him succeed Fergie's throne. After what he did to England and Middlesborough, i'm convinced he has the death touch, i.e. that goth-looking, decay-loving, vampire-like chick from Elektra.

On other news, the writers of america are still on strike, effectively cutting short the heroes and prison break season. Now, personally i don't really know how much these people are earning and want to earn, neither do i care. All i know is that the countdown to the next prison break episode stands at 53 days, and the last episode was a cliff-hanger too. That's an absolute kick in the nuts. The next thing you know, the lighting crew and the makeup artistes will follow suit, and we'll have to content with darker sets and ghastly-looking actors on tv.

Downloading re-runs looks to be the trend for the Christmas season. Ah.. the ironies of piracy.

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Defying Gravity - Tuesday, November 06, 2007 at 9:53 AM

Every semester, there's always a dreaded period of frantic cramming, where i'll take on the seemingly impossible task of squeezing 3 months worth of lectures and tutorials into a couple of days' worth of learning. Talk about bending space/time continuum, this is probably the closest i'll ever get in reality.

The task gets more impossible when you factor in my short attention span. After 10 mins or so, i'll get distracted by something, the bed, the television, youtube... anything to "rest", in inverted commas because really, the extended periods of "rest" are more like "laze-around-extensively time".

Only solution is to go to school to study, which i will be doing tomorrow. 6 hours time actually, which effectively means i'll be doing the "wake-up-early-to-go-to-school-even-though-i-have-no-morning-classes" thing, which means i'm in second gear. I'll only put the pedal to the metal the day before my paper. That's the way it has worked, and will always no matter how hard i try to study earlier. All the nice studying time-tables leading up to my exams, never goes to plan, never works.

Anyway, enought about studying. Prior to exams, i'll always have this list of things that pop up in my head periodically. The to-do list for my free time after exams. So far, i've got a couple of things to be done during this short holidays, and of course the long one next year, and the one i look forward to next next year, which i will cover later *claps in exitement*.

This hollis:
1) Watch as many movies as i can. I feel so deprived now. Hopefully stardust will still be in theatres then. Hopefully. Also other movies i've been wanting to watch, but don't have the time, Minority Report, Les Miserables, Resident Evil 1&2 (haven't watched 1, forgot how 2 went).
2) Learn to play the songs from Wicked: the musical. They're nice! Seriously, no sarcasm there at all. Hey, i've already established the fact that i'm a fan of musicals, no?
3) Pedal modding, as mentioned before. Melting stuff = neverending fun.
4) Hellgate: London. Looks to be a solid game, and to be honest, i haven't played a solid game ever since i picked up Dota, which i'm still clean from fyi. 5+ months now.

Next hollis:
1) Unfortunately, to lighten my load from the normal school semester, i'll have to attend 6 weeks of "summer school", to clear 2 modules. Hey, this beats 12 weeks of vaction internship program. 3 months of working, 8 to 5. No thanks man, i'd rather study.
2) Probably going to France to visit moi sister. Hopefully i'll be able to convince my family to take short trip to England, where there should be more interesting stuff and the people speak funny but are understandable. Interesting, referring to the soccer stadiums and West End of course. Too bad the soccer season's over then. West End should be interesting though. I'm aiming for Wicked and Les Miserables, and if there's time, the Phantom's always there. Wicked looks really cool! I caught the short version of it in Japan Universal Studios, and though the whole thing was in Japanese, i enjoyed it a lot! Think about it, if it's in English, 100 times the fun.

As for France, probably the places of interest, which won't be interested in for long given my fore-mentioned baby-like attention span. Bonjour, merci, madamsoille, monsiuer, and that is the full summary of my French vocabulary. Of course there's that naughty line from Lady Marmalade, but i'm not counting in a statement that'll get me slapped in public.

June 2009
Yes, this is THE holidays to look forward to. No numbering of to-do's like above, just one huge thing to do: AMERICA!!!!! Yup, our cell group's planning a trip to the US of A for some Disneyland fun. There's a million and one things to look forward to. Disneyland, theme parks, music equipment.... EVERYTHING! And if someone's with me on this, i will also want to make a trip down to NY. Yup, broadway! And also, there's just this certain magic to the city. I've been there twice before actually, and i can attest to the notion put across by so many Americans, that the city is indeed MAGICAL. There's just this movie-like feel to the place, probably because there are thousands of films based in NY. From the rooftops, to the back alleys reminiscent of West Side story, to the famous places like Times Square, Broadway, etc. The urban feel to the place, is just so... ok, i'll stop gushing about it before i start to sound like a girl. In short, *puts on non-chalant look* it's cool.

So many things to look forward to! But currently my worry should be, just like the slogan on this particular shirt worn by all the PRCs and Indian scholars in NUS, "i'll graduate on time no matter what it takes". Yes, i'm serious, they wear that. And my friend WW, who apparently shares a common taste with scholars. I think you can fill in your own punchlines in here, i'll leave the final blow to you =)

Back to study. My, that was a long break.