And its Game On in the EPL!
Rather disappointing though. Quite humiliating to have conceded the first goal of the season at the brand new Emirates Stadium. Arsenal pass too much and can't seem to have proper finishing. Arsene Wenger should make his team practise their finishing technique- their passing is good enough already as it is. If they can't conjure the kind of immaculate, artistic goals that Dennis Bergkamp and Henry used to do in seasons past, then at least just bloody whack the ball into the net, English-style! No use passing it round and round and round the penalty area.
And Wenger should never have bought Adebayour. The guy is becoming more like Arsenal's version of Peter Crouch. Tall, yes, but totally useless with pathetic ball control, speed, passing and shooting skills. And even Crouch is scoring nowadays! Master Wenger should have just sold him and cry-baby Reyes and bought Kuyt and Ribery instead. Then we'd be the Ownage. But, as Wenger would have said, "c'est la vie"- such is life, and what has happened, has happened.
At least the loathesome Chelsea lost, despite their 30-million-pound-hitman Shevchenko. HAHA! BALLS TO YOU, MORONho! Even with all those quality players you STILL LOST! NYAH NYAH NYAH
Man Utd's gone way on top with 8 goals in 2 games (9 including Rio's own goal), and one of my friends, who's a Man Utd fan, has been aggravating me about it. Irritiating sia. But truth is I don't really care as much as last time because Man Utd is really the much lesser of the two evils. Make that three, if you count Tottenham (who incidentally have begun to look real dangerous of late, loss to Boltish Bastards notwithstanding).
Anyway life is getting tougher as ORD approaches. All sorts of shit-work (sai kang) flying thick and fast, and two colleagues in the office are beginning to really annoy me- one due to his incessant absence from the office by conveniently getting into some sports competition, the other due to his brilliantly fucked up attitude. Oh well. That's the warping effect your motivation to work suffers when you combine years of slavery with the faint whiff of imminent freedom.
And anyway, the IMF and World Bank are coming to Singapore. Hohoho. I think the Million Smiles Campaign is either incredibly cynical, or utterly stupid, or both (no offense to those lucky few whose smiling countenances are featured in the collage). Cynical because its just to rake in the money (typical Lee-Kuan-Yew School of Thought)- who gives a fuck about whether these guys are happy or not (again, typical Lee-Kuan-Yew School of Thought)? Stupid because Singapore- stressed out, overworked Singapore- is just about the most unhappy place in Asia- if I'm not wrong it came in second last in some international survey or other- and yet we get all these smiles from out of nowhere. And its frighteningly Communist-like at the same time- "Smile Comrades! For the sake of the Nation and the Party!". All that's missing from the campaign is a fine or jail term for NOT smiling as the delegates drive past.
That's happy, sunny Singapore for you.
Comrade.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
11 MORE WEEKS
The path to freedom is a tricky one.
Counting down too early is a danger; even a mere 3 months will assume the semblance of an interminably long stretch of time if one counts down and counts down and awaits the days to pass on.
And those guys are experts at making life difficult for you in your final months.
The fuckers want me to go for some 3-day combat range shoot on the very week that the Oxford interviewers are coming down!
Asked my officer about it and he didn't bother pretending to listen to my queries. He was looking at some program for the next day's run and obviously an interview with Oxford paled in comparison to the uttermost glory and imperative importance and vital urgency of a MORNING RUN.
After 5 minutes of repeating my question to barely audible replies of "mm" and "mm-hmm" and "I think the running route should extend to the other road", that muscle-minded tank-brain mumbled something about "you can go for range and after that go for interview" as if the fucking Oxford interview were some kind of insignificant and inconsequential event which you can go for in a state of total fatigue.
Those muscle heads must've been wondering "what's so important about this guy's university interviews? Are they really all that important? It's only Oxford University.. Why can't he settle for NUS instead? Its a damn good uni already lor..."
Right I am descending into bitchery here. But thats what the IDIOTS in the Army can do to any erstwhile sane person. Their sheer stupidity and ignorance is so utterly ludicrous that one can only deteriorate into base frustration, expressed solely in the form of Bitchery.
I am loathe to use such crude language. But this is the "gift" of the Army, and I can find no alternative way to putting it thus:
ARMY IS FUCKED UP.
Counting down too early is a danger; even a mere 3 months will assume the semblance of an interminably long stretch of time if one counts down and counts down and awaits the days to pass on.
And those guys are experts at making life difficult for you in your final months.
The fuckers want me to go for some 3-day combat range shoot on the very week that the Oxford interviewers are coming down!
Asked my officer about it and he didn't bother pretending to listen to my queries. He was looking at some program for the next day's run and obviously an interview with Oxford paled in comparison to the uttermost glory and imperative importance and vital urgency of a MORNING RUN.
After 5 minutes of repeating my question to barely audible replies of "mm" and "mm-hmm" and "I think the running route should extend to the other road", that muscle-minded tank-brain mumbled something about "you can go for range and after that go for interview" as if the fucking Oxford interview were some kind of insignificant and inconsequential event which you can go for in a state of total fatigue.
Those muscle heads must've been wondering "what's so important about this guy's university interviews? Are they really all that important? It's only Oxford University.. Why can't he settle for NUS instead? Its a damn good uni already lor..."
Right I am descending into bitchery here. But thats what the IDIOTS in the Army can do to any erstwhile sane person. Their sheer stupidity and ignorance is so utterly ludicrous that one can only deteriorate into base frustration, expressed solely in the form of Bitchery.
I am loathe to use such crude language. But this is the "gift" of the Army, and I can find no alternative way to putting it thus:
ARMY IS FUCKED UP.
From Scratch
I will obliterate all traces of my servitude to you. And all traces of memory of you and emotion for you.
There will be no more flagrant displays of obsequious fealty to you. No more seeking your approval and attention while you pine and whine for another's affections.
I will destroy this delusional world of ours and I will start from scratch. From scratch.
I depart in bitterness and in an appalling show of melodramatic weakness. May you receive what is your due.
There will be no more flagrant displays of obsequious fealty to you. No more seeking your approval and attention while you pine and whine for another's affections.
I will destroy this delusional world of ours and I will start from scratch. From scratch.
I depart in bitterness and in an appalling show of melodramatic weakness. May you receive what is your due.
Friday, August 11, 2006
I have had Enough
You
have hunted and haunted and hounded me for the last time.
There will be no more spasms of darkness and madness and anguish.
No more hours wondering through the night about what went wrong and what might have been.
I have had enough.
have hunted and haunted and hounded me for the last time.
There will be no more spasms of darkness and madness and anguish.
No more hours wondering through the night about what went wrong and what might have been.
I have had enough.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
National Day
Went out with my church cell group to a restaurant at The Treasury called Petals, where one of our cell group members is working as a trainee chef!
Good stuff, the food. After that we went to watch Click at the new Cathay place near Plaza Sing. The show was retarded enough to be funny, even hilarous (ie "In the news today, Michael Jackson became the first person to clone himself, and became the first person to sue himself, after becoming the first person to molest himself"- WTF!! HAHAHAHA). And it had sufficiently intensive sentimentality to drive home one or two simple and yet true messages, the important one (in my opinion) being: Family Comes First (over work). Cheesy and yet profound. How does Hollywood do it?
NDP is on.
I think the whole idea is bullcrap actually. I'm not going to launch into an anti-government tirade, because from a relativistic point of view our government isnt even near half as screwed up as it could be. Credit where its due; despite certain sinister autocratic tendencies, Old Confucian MMperor and his Dragon King son-successor have built themselves a system which compares favourably with the vast majority of the Third World miasma of chaos and poverty.
But as credit is given where it is due, criticism must also be granted where needed.
I think the NDP, along with the patriotic songs and cheesy sentimental vid-clips, should be scrapped and the money saved given to the handicapped and homeless people stuck on the island. The whole idea of using cheap sentimentality such as the NDP to arouse patriotic passions in the intellegentsia is ludicrous. It insults our mature, educated intelligence. And I do not take it kindly when we mature sentient adults are treated as mere babies to be absorbed and fascinated with sparkling displays of sound and light. We are not some toddler children who can be expected scream in immature excitement at the pretty bursting glows of fireworks or the
thunder-roar of F-16C/D fighter jets, and therefore feel a sense of nationalism. It's just as degrading as National Education. Stupid, blatantly propagandistic, and little better than what Hitler and Stalin and the rest of them tried to do at Nuremburg and Red Square.
No doubt it may sway the underopiniated, gullible masses, but I loathe to be exposed to such an insult of my thinking faculties.
On a brighter note, Arsenal have crushed some Croatian club called ZagbrebDinamoVaklebTrannsylvaniaVladDrakulorsomethinglikethat
3-0 AWAY on the qualifying campaign to the Champions League! Without King Henry and half the senior squad! Go Cesc Fabregas! Go Robin Van Persie! Go Johan Djhorou!
And Justin Hoyte can play left back too! With Gael Clichy, Hoyte, and Flamini, who needs Ashley Cole!?!?! Having said that I certainly hope he'll turn from his mercenary ways and pledge loyalty to Ashburton Grove. I hope he'll withstand the corrupting, warping, influences of Russian money and not turn Traitor.
If he does betray the Arsenal, though, his name will forever be blackened. And then Master Wenger had better get Gallas! No way should Pascal Cygan be allowed to play.
The new EPL season looks real exciting! COME ON ARSENAL! COME ON ARSENAL!
DOWN WITH CHELSEA!
DOWN WITH THE FALSE CHAMPIONS!
DEATH TO THE RUSSIAN CORRUPTOR!
COME ON ARSENAL!
Good stuff, the food. After that we went to watch Click at the new Cathay place near Plaza Sing. The show was retarded enough to be funny, even hilarous (ie "In the news today, Michael Jackson became the first person to clone himself, and became the first person to sue himself, after becoming the first person to molest himself"- WTF!! HAHAHAHA). And it had sufficiently intensive sentimentality to drive home one or two simple and yet true messages, the important one (in my opinion) being: Family Comes First (over work). Cheesy and yet profound. How does Hollywood do it?
NDP is on.
I think the whole idea is bullcrap actually. I'm not going to launch into an anti-government tirade, because from a relativistic point of view our government isnt even near half as screwed up as it could be. Credit where its due; despite certain sinister autocratic tendencies, Old Confucian MMperor and his Dragon King son-successor have built themselves a system which compares favourably with the vast majority of the Third World miasma of chaos and poverty.
But as credit is given where it is due, criticism must also be granted where needed.
I think the NDP, along with the patriotic songs and cheesy sentimental vid-clips, should be scrapped and the money saved given to the handicapped and homeless people stuck on the island. The whole idea of using cheap sentimentality such as the NDP to arouse patriotic passions in the intellegentsia is ludicrous. It insults our mature, educated intelligence. And I do not take it kindly when we mature sentient adults are treated as mere babies to be absorbed and fascinated with sparkling displays of sound and light. We are not some toddler children who can be expected scream in immature excitement at the pretty bursting glows of fireworks or the
thunder-roar of F-16C/D fighter jets, and therefore feel a sense of nationalism. It's just as degrading as National Education. Stupid, blatantly propagandistic, and little better than what Hitler and Stalin and the rest of them tried to do at Nuremburg and Red Square.
No doubt it may sway the underopiniated, gullible masses, but I loathe to be exposed to such an insult of my thinking faculties.
On a brighter note, Arsenal have crushed some Croatian club called ZagbrebDinamoVaklebTrannsylvaniaVladDrakulorsomethinglikethat
3-0 AWAY on the qualifying campaign to the Champions League! Without King Henry and half the senior squad! Go Cesc Fabregas! Go Robin Van Persie! Go Johan Djhorou!
And Justin Hoyte can play left back too! With Gael Clichy, Hoyte, and Flamini, who needs Ashley Cole!?!?! Having said that I certainly hope he'll turn from his mercenary ways and pledge loyalty to Ashburton Grove. I hope he'll withstand the corrupting, warping, influences of Russian money and not turn Traitor.
If he does betray the Arsenal, though, his name will forever be blackened. And then Master Wenger had better get Gallas! No way should Pascal Cygan be allowed to play.
The new EPL season looks real exciting! COME ON ARSENAL! COME ON ARSENAL!
DOWN WITH CHELSEA!
DOWN WITH THE FALSE CHAMPIONS!
DEATH TO THE RUSSIAN CORRUPTOR!
COME ON ARSENAL!
Saturday, August 05, 2006
The News in Brief
Been a crappy July, 20th birthday notwithstanding.
In fact, I had duty on my birthday! WTF.
And the new RSM has come in and all the dark terror of the Warrant Officers have been unleashed.
And England lost to Portugal and that dirty diving dogfucker Ronaldo. (Not that I was really supporting England since Sven-Goran Idiotssen NEVER played Theo Walcott)
And France lost to dirty Italy.
And Ashley Cole wants to defect to Chelsea and motherfucking Mourinho.
And Jose Antonio Reyes wants to leave for Real Madrid just because he can't speak good English.
And Iran is is going nuclear, with a madman mahdi at its helm.
And North Korea is launching missiles all over.
And there's war brewing in Israel and the children are getting blasted to little pieces of kiddy meat.
And Gayle Nerva is out of Singapore Idol AGAIN.
And Paul TwoHill the OneEyed is still going strong. That thing masquerading as an idol contestant is more like those psychotic killer dupes from a stereotypical Hollywood slashing horror flick. One of the guys in camp commented that he felt sorry for his left eye because it couldnt see anything. I replied that he didnt have a left eye to begin with; it was gouged out by Paul himself during the selection rounds to traumatise the judges into accepting him, so he had to cover the gaping socket with his hair.
The only good news is that Arsenal's EMIRATES STADIUM is finally complete! WOOOT! The best stadium in England with state of the art facilties. The best stadium in England for the best team in England. Come on Arsenal!
Oh well enough about July.
Remember, Remember, the FIFTH OF NOVEMBER!
In fact, I had duty on my birthday! WTF.
And the new RSM has come in and all the dark terror of the Warrant Officers have been unleashed.
And England lost to Portugal and that dirty diving dogfucker Ronaldo. (Not that I was really supporting England since Sven-Goran Idiotssen NEVER played Theo Walcott)
And France lost to dirty Italy.
And Ashley Cole wants to defect to Chelsea and motherfucking Mourinho.
And Jose Antonio Reyes wants to leave for Real Madrid just because he can't speak good English.
And Iran is is going nuclear, with a madman mahdi at its helm.
And North Korea is launching missiles all over.
And there's war brewing in Israel and the children are getting blasted to little pieces of kiddy meat.
And Gayle Nerva is out of Singapore Idol AGAIN.
And Paul TwoHill the OneEyed is still going strong. That thing masquerading as an idol contestant is more like those psychotic killer dupes from a stereotypical Hollywood slashing horror flick. One of the guys in camp commented that he felt sorry for his left eye because it couldnt see anything. I replied that he didnt have a left eye to begin with; it was gouged out by Paul himself during the selection rounds to traumatise the judges into accepting him, so he had to cover the gaping socket with his hair.
The only good news is that Arsenal's EMIRATES STADIUM is finally complete! WOOOT! The best stadium in England with state of the art facilties. The best stadium in England for the best team in England. Come on Arsenal!
Oh well enough about July.
Remember, Remember, the FIFTH OF NOVEMBER!
Friday, August 04, 2006
93 MORE DAYS
And so here we are, a mere century of days away from the finality of freedom!
As it stands, though, the final days won't be a piece of cake.
A new Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) has just taken over and he is truly insane, even by RSM standards.
But that will not faze me, nor the hundreds of other comrades in arms who eagerly await the first week of November.
Forward my brethren! Let nothing stand in the way of our birthright!
For freedom! Forever Freedom!
We will not falter till the PINK IC is ours.
As it stands, though, the final days won't be a piece of cake.
A new Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) has just taken over and he is truly insane, even by RSM standards.
But that will not faze me, nor the hundreds of other comrades in arms who eagerly await the first week of November.
Forward my brethren! Let nothing stand in the way of our birthright!
For freedom! Forever Freedom!
We will not falter till the PINK IC is ours.
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