Return air tickets to Bangkok: OK
Hostel room: OK
Match ticket: OK (Trusting the receptionist at Thai Football Association)

All ready to go this friday to bangkok, 1st time there and i’m on my own..talk about shiok n happening.. All ready, except that i’ve yet to pack my bags

And i’ve started preliminary planning for a YEP in dec 07, working with the student grp that i’ve worked with for the past 2 times.  Something seems to be very different, the last 2 YEPs had ppl who were willing to hustle bustle.  I get very fast sms and email replies from Tumkur04 ppl mostly. 

Not that slow replies means that you not on, it could imply quality.  But somehow i detected some feet-dragging n perhaps, complacency since the proj is still so long way to go.  It’s funny, when ppl expect fast replies from me even when i’m in KL watching soccer, and they fail to reply to a simple sms and email.

Somehow i think this is gonna be harder than i thought..

Basically, they got extras to pretend to be a mob and storm the poor fellow..

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Winner liaoz lor..haha!

And so Singapore beat Laos last nite at the National Stadium, 11-0! To say that it is an easy win, that we hamtam the Laotians upside down, are both understatements. It was more of us riding roughshod over young men.

The Laotian players are all amateurs in their home league, and mostly undergraduates. In short, their local league is like inter-varsity games. The players study and train after school. Their average age was around 20, making them even younger than the guys in the singapore universities. Obviously in terms of experience, they are unable to match up to the Lions. They don’t have the physique to compete at the same level as well. They don’t train enough to have the stamina to match us.

Granted, we should never slacken off in an international tournament, especially one that is of great prestige within the region. After the 9th goal, with about 20 minutes left, it was obvious that the Lions were trying to slow the game down, preferring to pass the ball within their own half. It was a marked change from the aggression shown after the 6th goal when they were pushing deep into the half of the bewildered Laotian boys. My guess is that probably we realised that a new record has been set for the biggest victory, so they were holding back.

The fans were obviously not happy and started egging the Lions on, hoping for 10. And to my disappointment, they scored 1 more. To rub salt into the already deep wound, they added 1 more just before full time. Noh Alam Shah scored 7 goals, a new national record. He was recorded as saying he doesn’t remember scoring so many goals in after-school kickabouts back in secondary school. The Laotian coach was also too distraught to attend the post-match conference.

My bet is that those Laotians would just go back home after this tournament, hang up their soccer boots and study hard instead. It could be their alternative ticket to a better life.

Here we go again…rain again..i not gonna curse n swear this time, esp after carlin reminded me that i’ve got a young blog audience…oops.. somemore this time my bike never jia4 zui4, this is a direct result of my TLC, and yea, some common sense.

Today is a new record though… Rode my bike for 5 trips
Home to school
School to BBDC
BBDC to home
Home to esplanade
Esplanade to home

All rained like f*$k, all have to wear raincoat.. And i probably escaped some shit by leaving for esplanade 30mins later than my originally intended time.  There was a minor landslide on the Jalan Anak Bukit PIE entrance and it was closed off just as i passed the junction.  Who noes what would have happened to me if i had left my house on time..

Bearing in mind all the luck that i’ve got, i shall buy 4D tml.. 1201 (12th Jan) 1205 (raincoated 5 times on 12th)..

Way cool lah, someone pls lemme try @ home..or we can go 7-eleven…heh..



Got the video and the following explanation from Popular Science Blog

Far be it from us to deride anyone’s childish fascination with blowing stuff up in a microwave—a foolhardy nerd rite of passage if ever there was one—and what better place to exhibit dangerous, potentially expensive shenanigans than YouTube? The experiment is simple. Take a seedless grape and slice it lengthwise, making sure (this part is important) not to cut all the way through, so you leave a little bit of skin connecting the two halves. Put it face-up in a microwave, and blam: fireworks!

So what the heck is going on in there? Grapes are chock-full of electrolyte, an ion-rich liquid (a.k.a. “grape juice”) that conducts electricity. Each grape-half serves as a reservoir of electrolyte, connected together by a thin, weakly conducting path (the skin). Microwaves cause the stray ions in the grape to travel back and forth very quickly between the two halves. As they do this, the current dumps excess energy into the skin bridge, which heats up to a high temperature and eventually bursts into flame. At this point, the traveling electrons arc through the flame and across the gap, ionizing the air to a plasma (which itself can conduct electricity) and creating the bright flashes you see.

And that notion about poisonous gas tainting your roommate’s Hot Pocket? Well, the guy’s talking about the ozone generated when the air inside the glass is ionized. “Poisonous” might be too a strong word in this scenario (a little ozone definitely won’t kill you), although high concentrations of ozone can oxidize lung tissue and have been known to cause asthma in urban inversion-bowls like L.A. and Mexico City.

Again, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. Microwave ovens + biological capacitors = bad news. —Martha Harbison.

Nothing much..just arranged alot of RISK figurines, played silly games and of cos set off pyrotechnics… Check out kee siu’s video…




UCC Rocks!

A net acquaintance, Lancerlord aka Lord of the Links sent me a link of the video of Saddam being hung.  I watched the video of the noose being put ard his neck and that’s it.

Shall pass on the actual hanging, somehow I think it is super weird n morbid to watch someone dying.  Even though he’s a bad ass dictator who had no qualms in torturing and killing his enemies.  And it’s genetic lah! His son, Uday tortured the Iraqi national footballers when they did badly in a tournament.

For you sick asses who wanna see the full vid, msg me.  If not google for it, i’m sure u can find it..

5.25am on the 1st day of 2007, and i just got home from Pris’ place in JB.. we had a pretty unique countdown party there.  No professional fireworks to see, just us setting off firecrackers..heh.. I got bored and decided to ride home @ 4am…

Firstly congratulate yourself for getting through 2006 alive, seems like the end of the world wasn’t supposed to come last year.  I think I had a relatively good year, with mostly ups and some downs.

Academically, i finally got out of NUS but the most impt thing that happened in the final semester was taking and passing Quantum Mechanics II.  Killer module, meaning that you have to attempt to kill it 1st with extra mugging and thinking.  So that was good. 

1st job, as a teacher in a top school.  Really wonderful experience @ my alma mater, even though my boss is damn strict with me.  The beautiful thing about that is that I’m forced to be on the ball, and that is how i really prefer to work.  I realised that I cannot work efficiently when ppl tell me “oh this work, just do @ your own pace..”  The control freak in me would go bonkers, and I would want everything in its own time n place, with deadlines so that I can allocate my time properly..  Stage 2 of career begins now by accepting a place @ NIE, and signing 4 yrs of my life away to the government.  Very big decision for me, not in terms of the career choice, but more of the fact that i decided to tie myself down.  I guess the bonus helped, haha!

I really cannot thank my friends enough, having to listen to me complain about misc stuff and my crappiness.  Then again, I listen to you ppl complain n crap as well wat..  Some ppl whom i noe, i think it’s really hard to go beyond a professional relationship with them, and that is something that i’m perfectly comfortable with.  I would rather go off on my own sometimes.

Relationship problems, nah dun have any.  As in dun have any relationship now, this gentleman here is still single and available.  Yessir!  I should get my students to intro their elder sisters or someone else to me in exchange for less assignments and homework.  Or I should just go SDU, before it closes down that is.

May u be like me and stay positive for the yr 2007