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.
