oh no, i just remembered that i haven't paid steph back for her 2 bucks!
oops!! sorry!

anyways, today has been a day for knitting, and horlicks. not much else went on today. *yawns* but sunday and tuesday were fun...

sunday: went to two weddings. not much fun about that, except for looking at fabulous wedding decorations.

The first wedding was my mum's brother's adopted family's wedding for their daughter, and it was fabulous! The father of the bride is a chef at suntec city, so the food was fantastic.

He and his siblings made all the food themselves, and it was totally hotel/restaurant fare: A long table just for desserts (more than 20 types!), and a separate table for food! There were fruit tarts, and quiches, and little hors'deurs (if that's how u spell it), and cheese cake, and traditional malay kuehs, and loads more! My plate was full even before i reached the other half of the table. (i never did get the chance to walk the entire length of the tabel; no space in my tummy). The main course was nice; black pepper fish, and fried kway teow, and i-don't-know-what-else. Dessert definitely outshone it, though.

And although the wedding was typical void-deck style, it was decorated so nicely- chandeliers, and coloured lengths of cloth spruced up the ceiling. Round tables, chairs with satin and gauze covers were used, and the dias was... woah! It looked like some rich person's living room, lol. The entertainment was not typical karaoke. No, they had traditional malay art forms- dikir barat, and malay dance. Fabulous(except... it was a bit crowded...)

Phew, that is one long description. The second wedding was typical, except the dias was the pretty flower-garden-gazebo type. Lesser variety of food though.

tuesday: DFS ice-skating outing!
yay! with dan and steph, went to kalland ice-skating rink. and man, it was so cold that you could see the water vapour just swirling in the air! and it was pretty thick, too. You could barely see the other side of the rink. It was so fun; dan tried to teach us this two-foot spin thingie, but we couldn't spin... but dan was in her element! so nice to watch! well, at least steph and i learned to swizzle and twizzle (or something like that)

then it was off to the esplanade for photo-taking op. I'd forgotten to bring my camera :( so i just knitted in that darn hot sun. We tried to take a photo of the three of us jumping in the air. It took many shots, and many unglam photos (me, particularly), but we made it in the end. yay-ness!

after that, a little unwinding at mrs fields, where we had orangina and two snapples. and then it was off to home

i wanna go ice-skating again! But the three of us are finding it hard to coordinate our schedules. aww... steph's in melbourne now, then next week i'm off to hong kong, and the week after that dan's off to bangkok. Darn. Then after that there's the rush to finish all our homework...

oh well, maybe next year?

fina-colada-who-takes-unglam-shots

p.s. arsenal lostin the euro cup game, but it's ok
at least it's not the epl, and we've already qualified for top 16 anyway
darn
clichy was injured, as was hleb, and fabregas (oh no!), and flamini, and diaby, and god-knows-who-else
i just hope fabregas and the gang recover soon
go cesc! and go arsenal!
allez arsenal!!!

p.p.s. notice the new format? i just wanted to see if it was easier to read. feedback, please!

sevilla 3 - 1 arsenal

:(

arsenal was totally having an off-day this morning
i have no idea why, they just didn't click

passes sloppy, mistakes made repeatedly
sevilla really deserved their win over arsenal, i admit
if i wasn't an arsenal fan, and this was the first arsenal match i've ever seen, i would have thought that arsenal was a sucky team
but they're not the rest of the time

i quite like sevilla as a team
except for a few rough players, the rest were quite fine
and their manager looks like a decent character too
their fans were well-behaved,
and quite nice to clap for francesc fabregas when he was substitutedand was walking off the pitch
what with him being spanish too
if i were a spanish la liga watch-er, i probably won't mind supporting sevilla

dodo scored first
but then everything went downhill from there on

i was so freaking disappointed
really
why?
why were they so terrible today?
i don't understand

is it because hleb, flamini, van persie are out?
is it because noob players were playing?
is it because they switched off, knowing that they didn't need to win this game, having already qualified for the next knock-out stages of this competition?

grrrrr
armand traore and phillipe senderos especially
so many mistakes
they gave the ball away to sevilla so many times
granted, armand traore may be only 18 y. o.
but he's playing with the big boys now
and senderos just doesn't defend very well
*sighs*
even veteran players like gilberto were totally off
mayhaps it was a conspiracy on his part
he wants to move out of arsenal, to juventus, so maybe he wanted to sabotage arsenal?
hahah
what a long shot

theo walcott, when he came on, was a breath of fresh air
great pace, nice runs
he's played first division football quite regularly, so maybe he's more experienced that traore
and nicklas bendtner was stable most of the match


but terrible overall
simply terrible
sevilla deserved their win
arsenal deserved to not win
*sighs*
so tired
had to wake up at 3.30 to catch this match
though it's not exactly a waste of time, it has been very disappointing

so i'm going to sleep now
good night/ morning

fina

luis fabiano of sevilla, on arsenal, before the match:

"Fabiano admitted that he is a big fan of Cesc Fàbregas, but believes that Arsenal's biggest strength is the unity that have.

“The best player for Arsenal is the team," he said. "They have a good defence, a great midfield and up front are people who are capable of scoring goals at any moment. We cannot give them any chance.
I have watched some of their games and their great star is Fàbregas.
For me he is one of the best players in his position in Europe. We will have to stop him.”

How i wish arsenal showed all this quality in the match...

p.s. sevilla is quite a good-looking team
hahah
must be because they're a spanish la liga team- loads of tall, dark, and handsome people

p.p.s. will post later about yesterday- ice-skating= fun!

complain, complain, and COMPLAIN!: a review

my family decided to try having lunch at mad jack's
after what dano told me about the management, i was a bit unwilling
but since my parents have wanted to try eating there for so long, i thought: what the heck

and it sucks!!! sucks, sucks, sucks!
ok, so the food is not that bad; it's not inedible bad
but the word i'd use to describe everything there would be sub-standard

i had this dinner set, which includes soup, a main course, cake w/ ice-cream, and a drink
my main course was grilled salmon in cream sauce,
and it came in a timely manner, everything was going fine then
but it wasn't the best salmon i've ever had
the cream sauce had no taste,
and although the salmon had visible flakes of black pepper, it tasted virtually naked
of course, right then i was wondering were my soup was
it is, after all, an appetiser
then the guy comes up to us and asks if we wanted our soup now, with the course
yes, said we
it's quite obvious that the soup was supposed to come afore the main course
but it didn't show up anytime soon

our drinks were also forgotten
only my dad got his grass jelly drink
so all of us had to share that in the mean time
my mum had to ask them if our drinks were ready
turns out they'd forgotten our orders

but then only my sister's drink came
my mum and i were still left drink-less
so my mum had to ask them yet again
then she had to walk all the way to the counter and tell them what our drinks were supposed to be

uugghh
and that's not the end of it
i only got my strawberry&banana smoothie when i'd nearly finished my main course
(which took very long. u noe me, a slow eater)
and it made me very unhappy
i mean, try eating mashed potato, without anything to wash down that thick mushy food
and my soup and cake were still missing!!!
my mum had asked them about the missing cake and soup when she's gone to the counter to settle our drinks
but it was still nowhere in sight

well, it was until i finished eating my main course
then finally dessert came
and then he had the gall to come up and ask us if we wanted our soup now
like, duuurrrhhhhh!
where were you the past hour, man?
the soup was supposed to arrive before the main course, not after dessert!!!!!!!

ahhh
ok, patience is a virtue, so we didn't make a big deal out of it
but come on lah!
we understand that the servers were all students, and maybe that's why they're incompetent
but how come there's no supervisor overseeing these kids?

also, there were alot of workers there
but they seemed only to be milling around the kitchen door
or sitting at the table near the counter
they were very inattentive
try, totally inattentive!
the numerous times my mother had to call the waiter over to ask about our food,
she had to wave at them for at least half a minute or so
and i still can't believe they forgot our orders!
i mean, forgetting one order is excusable, but forgetting two soups, three drinks and two cakes?
too many

grrr, grrrr, grrrrrrrrr
we could have had better service at delifrance, or pizza hut, or swensen's
and at a better price too
and we paid 7% gst, with added 5% service charge
what service, i ask u?

as i said, sub-standard

fina

wooohhhooooooo!!!!

after a frustrating 80 minutes (more or less), arsenal finally scored a goal against wigan
go gallas!
the arsenal skipper showed them how it's done

and then a few minutes later, rosicky scored a goal
yay!!!
go tomas rosicky!!!
so the games ends 2-0, one goal short of the 3-0 i expected

i can't believe wigan held them off for that long, but tonight's a night of weirdness
you see, bolton beat manUre (man utd. duh) 1-0
even though bolton are in the bottom three of the table still
so arsenal are three points clear of manUre at the top of the table
woohooo!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you bolton!
i don't like bolton, and campo, and diouf, but i'm ever so grateful!

hahah
so frustrating though, when arsenal couldn't score
damn ade(bayor) missed so many chances
bendtner, when he came on, seemed so much more helpful than ade
i say, put ade on the bench, and bring nicklas bendtner on
god knows he's been straining on his leash

clichy... man, that gael clichy can really run!
all he does is run
and run very fast he can
it's just when he's attacking with the ball, he turns a bit weird

and walcott
poor theo walcott had to be carried off he pitch on a stretcher
after a tackle by that abominable heskey
who also picked a fight with gallas which got innocent gallas a yellow card
that damned heskey got booed everytime he got the ball, from then on
hah!

francesc fabregas, aliaksandr hleb and matthieu flamini were sorely missed
there was a shot with the three of them sitting in a row on the benches
cesc- suspended, alex- injured, matthieu- injured
robin van persie's goal-scoring abilites were sorely missed too
especially in the fruitless, goal-less first 80 minutes

nevertheless, an adequate result
not really satisfying
but still very much welcomed

fin-a-rsenal

p.s. in your face, man utd!!

changed my skin!

i will make further changes to it
maybe change the picture, or more words, or colours

maybe not


good nightey everyone

finacolada

when avril lavigne first started out, i kinda liked her
kinda
some of her songs were nice to listen to, nice to sing, with heartfelt lyrics

but now...
now i really, really, really, really, really,really, really find her annoying
first there was that insanely annoying "girlfriend" song
i was turned off by that almost immediately
then there was "when you're gone"
okay, the song was nice, but the lyrics were amateurish

"when you're gone, the words i need to hear to always get me through the day
and make it okay, i miss you"

notice something wrong with that line from her chorus?
yea, it's incomplete
and i don't like songs that leave you hanging
no coherence

and finally, the last straw: "hot"
aarrgghhhh!!!!
i don't like the verses , at all
i think the lyrics suck

i dislike avril lavigne!

yes, i know- there are loads of other artists who have lousy lyrics
but somehow they don't get on my nerves as much as avril does
maybe cos they did not go on as steep a downward spiral as avril did in my books

arraagghhhh!!!! @*&%!&*(`%$~%!!!!!

ahahah
ok
i should relax
so here's a song for everybody to enjoy!
okay, two songs!
hahah
ok, ok, three songs!!
hahaha
i'd love to add more
but these chosen three are upbeat, happy songs
which is the pick-me-up i need after diss-cussing avril lavigne

1. melee- built to last

i fell in love with this song-about-love since i saw it first on mtv a few months ago
yea, i know, what a way to listen to songs- mtv?
but it's a nice song

2. the beatles- here comes the sun

sheryl crow sang a cover of this song in "bee movie"
and i like the mive
and the song =)

3. simon webbe- no worries

nice beat
very laidback
his voice's a little low, but i still like the tune of the song

finacolada-dee-da

i had a nightmare-ish dream the other night
really, really scary
it left me feeling shocked, flabbergasted, scared
i dreamt...

...that i was assigned to join the ava club!
jeng jeng jeng!

hahah
no offence to the ava club or anything
but in my dream, when i found out that i was slated to be an ava-er, i really did get very scared
hahaha

i've been messing around with my knitting needles all weekend
i've made 3 patches of knitted material
and i have no idea what to do with them
but they were all practice patches
really ugly, just my first few tries

but i've realised that my needles are way to big
for a 4 ply yarn, which is what i've got, i'm supposed to use 3- 3 1/4mm needles
but i've got 6mm needles! (or thereabouts)
which explains the really ugly loops called knit stitches in my knitting
they're really ugly and loose
not very nice to look at

so, as part of my experimentation with knitting, i tried to knit using satay stickes
and it looks fab!
really close together, neat-ish stitches
except... it was torture knitting like that
really slow, too tight, and the material's not very elastic now
and it's super small!

so i'm thinking of getting new needles
or getting an 8/12 ply yarn
maybe mohair, or cotton or something
maybe
cos my mother's spent too much on my knitting already
she bought a $42 knitting book for me, wrongly seeing the price as $12
haha
imagine the shock she got when she realised she had $30 extra to pay

bored... bored... bored...

i've just been knitting, reading, tv-viewing...
i'm dying here!!!

fina-cola-dying-dying-dead.

(i need my weekly dose of arsenal! no match till 24 nov. help!)

yay!!
finally, there will be no more shadow of a lit holiday assignment hanging over my head
the relaxation can begin!

unless u count claudine tan's ass., that's due next year...

went to school this morning to hand in my ms. k assignment, along with roy's and steph's
I was just about to put them in pigeon hole #66 when who should walk out of the staff room but ms. k herself!
goodness, i was so freaking scared, cos i was on the phone
but she seemed... okay-ish
but still freakingly intimidating
maybe she wasn't in the mood to scold people today
so i just gave her the assignments and ciao-ed

hahah

need to take vitamin C...

finacolada

p.s. i'm gonna die of fright next year!!!

...tragically heroic...


i still hate A&C

...i hate A&C...


fina-dying-from-shakespeare-itis


(and bloody math)

aww, poor reading lost...

... because arsenal won!!
haha
3-1, when it should have been 4-1

you see, adebayor scored a goal
which was disallowed
because the stupid linesman was behind the line of players when adebayor received the pass, therefore he wrongly saw adebayor as offside
and promptly raised his stupid checkered flag to disallow the perfectly alright goal

harrumph!
but 3 points, all the same
and arsenal retain top position in the premiership table

flamini started things off with a goal
tight pass from hleb
and then chipped in by flamini

second goal was by adebayor
after a perfectly-timed pass from fabregas

and finally,
hleb scored a goal! hleb scored a goal!
finally, the player with super-quick feet got on the scoresheet
good for him!
=)

man, winter is coming, must be getting really cold in england
i saw gilberto on the players' bench all huddled up to his nose in his jacket
lol
and the players' breaths came out in visible puffs of water vapour
looked interesting when you see puffs of white appearing around the players

satisfied to a large extent over the results
except for that stupid linesman's disallowing of the goal
and except for the fact that i had to wake up at the unearthly time of 3.55am to catch the match

ladeedadeeda
good night =)

finacolada

0-0!!
but that's ok, cos most who played were arsenal second-stringers (reserves)
so our reserves were quite good!
and it's still 7-0 on aggregate

and arsenal have already qualified for the top 16 in the UEFA Champions League

=)
ok, so i've received feedback that there is confusion between "cesc" and "fabregas"
steph thought they were different people
so here's a little intro to arsenal's 20-year old wonderkid:


1-his full name is francesc fabregas soler
referred to sometimes as cesc or fabregas
born May 4 1987


2-
plays for arsenal
central midfielder
inherited the number 4 shirt from patrick viera
usually takes the corner kicks, sometimes the free-kicks
he recently signed an 8 year-long contract with arsenal
which means he'll play for arsenal till 2014, i think
he was arsenal's youngest goalscorer in the league cup, at 16 years old


3-plays for spain
18 appearances, so far, in the senior squad
was the youngest player to be capped for Spain in 70 years
of course, he played for the youth team afore that



hmm, i guess that's all the important bits done
misc stuff:

1. had english tuition three times a week, 3/4 hours each time when he first arrived at england (such dedication!)
   
2. had an Irish landlady, together with philippe senderos
3. i think he has a younger sister; not really sure about that
4. he celebrated his first goal by having kinder bueno and a coke (my favs!)
   lol
5. he was often criticised for having a lightweight build and a less aggressive style of play
   (by ppl like Cash-ley Cole)
   but he's proven to them that his skill and vision more than makes up for that
   "suck on that, you haters!"
   hahaha

finacolada-soler

"I have been educated to play good football, attractive football. I could never play in a team, who win everything, but where I’d be uncomfortable in the way they play. I certainly don’t enjoy a game if the ball is in the air all the time and I am always tackling. I want to win – but I also love Arsenal because of our playing style. If I had to spend 15 years playing ugly football, I’d prefer to do something else." -Cesc Fabregas

after feeling so upset over stupidoes har-grieves and la frog's comments,

i've been consoling myself with surfing youtube!
hahah
all i need is a little bit of cesc to feel better
just, omgoodness, such an adorable guy
with such a good sense of humour

haha
for example, in an interview,
he was asked: What if you could be any pop star, who would you be?
his answer was: britney spears...nah! hehehe, i'm joking, i'm joking

hahah
even watching the video of cesc being such a bad boy makes me swoon
hahah
ok, ok...
should stop...
don't want to, but i will

got an e-mail today
by YMCA sth, since i took part in care-to-dance last year
inviting me to go on a skiing camp!
in korea!
me wanna go! me wanna go!
but...i can't...
='(
since i'm already going hong kong, i can't go korea
='(
if only i can go both... what a wonderful world it would be!
lol

ok
watching more of cesc
:P

finacolada


cesc being bad: grabbing lampard by his shirt
in that famous carling cup final brawl

cesc and alex: my two favourite arsenal players!

lol ;P

goodness, but i do hate owen hargreaves
(and sir alex ferguson, at this moment)
stupid ManUre

he, just like that fergie guy,
has been whining about how ManUre was the better team
and how their two goals were beautiful while arsenal's were "scrappy"

hmmph!
beautiful?
you call an own goal by gallas (arsenal) "beautiful pieces of play"?
hello, you did not score that goal,
by accident, willy gallas did
definitely not you

and the second one, that was due to a mistake by almunia
not by your own design
almunia left the goal open
that's his mistake
not your cunning

arses

i am so sick of reading about these stupid people complaining ever since they did not win last saturday
whiners

at least wenger could admit that he played the players in a wrong formation

i noe, wenger complains sometimes too
but i am an arsenal supporter
so when i hear about stupidoes like ferg la frog and har-grieves
i get very mad

*mentally bitch-slaps the two ManUre people*
*mentally cutting off their heads with a chainsaw*
ending off with a
*mentally-applied shower of stomps on the now-severed heads*

now, that felt satisfying...

my goals:

#1:
to become rich,
to live in a place with a beautiful view (preferably near ashbburton grove),
to be able to travel,
and ultimately, to be able to...

...#2:
watch arsenal play at the ashburton grove (emirates) stadium!
of course, i'd like access to the club level,
or better yet the hospitality level,
where there's a higher chance of meeting with players!
*swoons*
after achieveing #1 goal, i'll be able to afford season tickets,
and sit at the primest spot week after week, after week...

#3:
a bit unrealistic, but i'll put it here, nevertheless...
to marry cesc fabregas!
hahaha
i told you it was unrealistic
but he's such a nice guy, and funny too
hahah

#4:
live a loving life?
sorry, i'm all out of ideas after #1, #2 and #3.
hahah
arsenal and having a beautiful life (with cesc) is what does it for me
:P

of course, god is the umbrella over all these dreams
hahah
"umbrella"
okay then
shall end off here

finaladida

p.s. poor reading lost =( to fulham
p.p.s. liverpool drew at 0-0, so they too are still unbeaten :)
p.p.p.s. nobody cute from ManUre (get it? manure? shit?)... shame

Yaayy!!!
Arsenal drew with Man Utd 2-2
so they're still number 1!!!

fabregas scored
a cool shot into the corner of the net
and gallas scored one that wasn't really that clear since man utd's goalkeeper pushed it back out
but by then it had crossed the line
so it was a goal!!!

arsene wenger just looks so cute when arsenal scores goals
hahah
walcott shaved that thing under his chin
so he looks much better now
and my feelings towards wayne rooney have mellowed a bit
i dislike him less ever since i saw him shaking toure's hand after toure tackled him good
good sport he was

and i hate that anderson kid from man utd
eww
and cristiano ronaldo?
double eww
carrick i don't mind so much
but that's only because he looks much better than the former two

fabregas, fabregas, fabregas
kellyn gave me this poster of cesc on thursday
thanks kel!
=)
it's now on my whiteboard directly in front of my bed
heheh

and guess what?
as the icing on the cake, it's confirmed: we're going Hong Kong!!
today's a happy day
yup, it is

raya-ed just now
so i'm tired
but i've work to do
so i'll hop right to it

good night!
<3<3<3
finaladida