more pictures from the euro 08 final where spain won 1-0 on torres' goal:



spain team's jubilation contrasting with the dejected germans (in this case, their captain, ballack)


fabregas lifting the trophy after having a go at kissing it


fernando torres, the match winner, lifting the trophy


the spanish team celebrating!!!!


yep, that should be it for today.
as for irritated americans who think soccer is a game for european fags:
football is played in every continent except yours. with such a lousy USA team, it's no wonder.

fina*!!!!!!!

yes, yes, YES!!!

spain won!!!
i am sooooo happpiiieeeee!!!!!!! (deliberate misspelling - of course)

fabregas made the starting XI
so that started the game well =)



torres and casillas (goalkeeper-captain) celebrating hard


things i noticed during the game:

#1. fernando torres' side parting looks nice!
yep, the dreadful headband was missing
and he parted his hair on the side
so he looked more like the fernando torres that i used to like

torres celebrating his goal

#2. the german chancellor's bad-mood when shaking the hand of spanish players
she totally didn't look happy
the least she could do was try to smile
but her face held no discernible goodwill
what a bad sport!

#3. fabregas did an oh-so-funny and embarrassing dance while celebrating
i just couldn't help but laugh!
he was waving his arms while jumping side to side
he earned it, though!

#4. sad faces of the german players
especially michael ballack!
poor guy bled a lot from a cut on his right eyebrow
and he (along with every other german there) looked so out-of-sorts and dejected and stunned when they lost
and yet, michael ballack was personable with the big shots who shook his hand
smiling all the while
(as you can tell, i have a soft spot for him too)

#5. ... can't really think of much more
i was drifting into sleep by the end of the first half, and woke up only in the 75th minute
so i missed fabregas' substitution, and who-knows what else
am so sleepy

good night!

the spain team (fabregas - bottom second from right)
(and i admit - david silva isn't so good looking;
would've preferred david villa playing)
(and torres looks so unglam in this shot!)


finananananananananannanananana-spainwon!!!!

hey all!!!

am i glad to say that BT2s are over or what!
(and that isn't a question, by the way)
of course, it's aftermath will bite me in the butt later on,
but in the meanwhile, i might as well just relax and take it easy

i've spent the weekend reading,
and have thus far completed three chick lit books
and i have enjoyed almost every minute of it
(i certainly did not enjoy reading about the heroine getting thrown into jail,
or being slandered in the national press, though)
just living the high life, you know

interestingly,
i visited my grandparents' house today
to find that their surrounding walls and gates have been painted two colours
that are not unlike my blog colours now
watered-down green and pale blue-green
okay, so that isn't really interesting, but that's what i've been doing this weekend
kinda boring

also, i realise that working in a bookshop isn't all fun and games
especially when they ask for books that you have no idea about,
because you don't really work there
i do like it fine being the cashier, though,
except when they ask such questions
but people who visit the bookshop generally are patient people,
so i've never had a hard time dealing with a customer

am hoping that the remaining three days of my holiday are more relaxing
maybe i'll go to the beach one of these days
alone? i've nobody to go with, that's for sure

EURO FINALS ARE STARTING IN 2 HOURS!!!!
viva la espana!!!

España será victoriosa!!!
(Spain will be victorious!)

Fabregas golpeará extremo con el pie!!
(Supposed to be "Fabregas will kick butt", but it came out
"Fabregas will strike end with the foot" - close enough, i suppose :p )

i'll try to find things to do till then
finanana dice adiós!

p.s. Spain is such a good-looking team!
fernando torres, cesc fabregas, xabi alonso, david villa, david silva, etc...
plus, wimbledon lawn championships are going on
more goodies to watch!

p.p.s.
i want to be one of the guys who stand behind the goalposts and take pictures!
especially when fabregas is playing!

oh no! i can't believe Russia beat Holland!

more woe! cos i generally feel goodwill towards the Dutch side
but, never fear, Spain are still in the game
all the way, spain!

decided not to go for the 3 o'clock tuition today
thought i'd go for the 6.30 one, but i realise my awesomely bad grasp of theory right now is a more pressing issue.
you can't answer questions if you don't have any knowledge, can you?
right.

here's a funny picture of that spain match against italy, where they won on penalties

see?
haha their individual expressions, and the collective effect of it, are so comical!

and here's another, of cesc celebrating his winning penalty goal against italy
haha i love that kid
but you can never poke too much fun at the people you like!

haha
ok
back to studying

see ya'll

fina*

I have been too lazy to post lately

i got bed bug-bites in Kuantan!
WOE! WOE! WOE!
i counted around 23 bites around my right wrist, and around 10 bites on my left upper arm
two bites on left leg, and four bites on right
sucks as hell
it was super, super, super itchy during that first week

and then i got home, and i got even worse bites from some unknown freaky thing
it left a few bright red spots around my legs
and two particularly stand-out purple swells on my right leg
it's gone down since
-thank God-

not to mention, i got sore eyes the morning that we left
around 3.00 am, i noticed my red-ish eyes
and my eyes are still red now
maybe i should go to the doctor...

my red eye- shiny because of my specs- disgusting!

the beach at Kuantan was fun
we picnicked there when my parents went shopping
just me, sister and cousin
and spent the rest of the day there playing with starfishes and sand

real live starfish- kept trying to crawl away!

this shot of my sister and cousin looks nice

but the beach at Mersing was... scary
although it looked nice, it was full of crabs larger than the hermit ones at Kuantan

empty Mersing beach on a weekday

my sister and cousin with the kite that failed to take off

on our last day, we went to Kota Tinggi waterfalls at my suggestion
and it was fun!
rocks were super slippery, water super cold, water fell painfully on our backs
but it was fun

my cousin and me (front)

and now, bowling National Age Group championships are going on
can't say i don't feel embarrassed being there
team singapore players present and all
i don't even have my own shoes and ball!
but it's something for the sgc, so...
wish me luck!

fina*

leaving for Malaysia in approx. 1.75 hours
hope i get to see beautiful, sunny, CLEAN beaches!
see yaz =)

fun fun fun!
the picnic, i mean.

and when we got there, something really cool happened.
two airplanes flew to form a heart-shaped cloud thingie!


lucky to catch it =)

i didn't bring a change of clothes though...
cos that garbage pick-up session at pasir ris beach scared me out of entering the sea ever
but the beach at east coast, especially the slightly secluded part we went to, was super clean!
boy, did i regret it

food was aplenty, thanks to syaz, as was chips, thanks to diana
couldn't stop eating...
:p

fina*

p.s. going to kuantan next week; leaving sunday
yay! more beach!!!!

p.p.s. diana and syaz: go to the private album on my friendster; other pictures are there =)

i am now officially addicted to deviantart.com
why? it's not like i contribute any art there
but the photographs there are to die for!
don't believe me? just go to the site, click photography in the categories browser
and feast your eyes!

just looking at the photographs makes me smile
especially the astrophotography
=)
even the non-photographs...
the manipulated pieces, the vectors - all the digital art!
they're all so talented!
haha
omgoodness, i'm turning green around the ears already from jealousy
a few more days, and my entire head will be green!
not a bad colour, though, i say...

tmr is picnic day!
yay!
fina*

p.s. see, it IS more than the last post!

yay! new skin!
and this one's much easier on the eyes, i think

've got bowling tmr
bleh

good night.
i think i will surely have more to say next time i post.

fina*

school was a total waste of time
happy birthday, jerrald!
but besides that...

i went to watch chronicles of narnia just now
fantastic!!!
love, love, love, love, loved it!
i really didn't want the movie to end

well, from the first movie,
i've always been intrigued by edmund from chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
have always thought he was cute
even while others went crazy over peter
euughh
but now he's all grown up!
perhaps part of the reason i'm so in love with the movie is that i'm enamoured with him!
haha

his name's skandar amin casper keynes
lebanese mum, english dad
funny thing is, he's the greatx5 grandson of CHARLES bloody DARWIN (?!!)
and his dad's the great-nephew of JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES!
and some other ancestor of his won some nobel prize
talk about an illustrious lineage, huh?

am so infatuated! haha
see yaz

fina*

there should be no school during the school holidays!
especially since going to school makes me not study, because i've already been to school!

anyways, monday... school...
and it was the return to the place we did our SL
to share our top prize money with them
$220 of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream! mua-ha-ha!
we bought 16 pints at cathay and hopped on a cab
and made it before anything melted!
very~ nice~!

tuesday... after school was AC perbayu play
sat under the open sky
watching traditional malay fables being acted out
leg got a cramp, but the show was interesting:)

today... bloody school again...
maybe i'll go vivo afterwards...

anyways, told pat i'd put up a video of nick pitera singing both the guy and girl parts in "a whole new world"
it's amazingly weird



haha
okays
gotta go school
fina*

i give up.
i seriously have.

can't continue till i have un-given up.

just woke up after an entire day's sleep
i feel refreshed!

the last few days, i haven't really gotten much sleep
and yesterday -haha- yesterday was the absolute worst!
the 12 hour writing competition thing

school ended at 12, so i went home soon after borrowing a laptop from the school library
met andy along the way: other students don't even have to go school! unfair! *sulks*
anyways, got home, took a shower, then went out again at 4.30 to meet mum and dad for dinner
unfortunately, a traffic jam meant that i only reached potong pasir around 6.45,
so i bought a mcspicy meal, ate it in the car, finished an entire burger and fries in 12 minutes
and went to the meeting place
i could have come late! darn, totally didn't know
but at least i'd had dinner

anyways, the first four hours was slow
i had a story, just no idea how to make it into writing
if it had been a movie-making thing, i'd have all the ideas ready
but writing... i'm not so good at that
i bet mine's probably the worst prose entry...

we were ginven all these clues that we had to fit into our stories
made it harder

at 11, we had supper on the tracks
candlelit canadian pizza supper under the stars
we rolled around on the tracks after eating, gossiping, mostly
it really was nice lying down, looking up at stars

but 12 o'clock came
and we had to go back to our writing
from 12 onwards, i just sat in front of my laptop and typed away through the night
others went to sleep around 3, 4

jeremy, that drunk bastard, went to sleep the earliest
and woke up the latest
bloody thing made me so jealous, just snoring away in the corner while i had to stay awake and write
huhh

i had a nap from 5.30 to 5.50 thereabouts
and went back to typing
i tell you, my story must be the most boring shit ever
it's science fiction, and not really very well written
i just put in words for the sake of putting in words
boringgg...

anyways, showered after the thing was over, around 8.30
and went to mcdonald's for breakfast
mcGriddles! yum!
and i was like dead by then
hung around with rachel for a while
then took the bus home
i slept almost the entire way home on 966
got off the bus, lined up for bus 912, fell asleep while standing up (really!)
took the bus, slept all the way

then i reached home around 11.30
immediately fell on my parents bed
and didn't wake up at all till 8.30
it was so, so, so nice to sleep

still tired
maybe i'll go to sleep again
haha
good night!

fina*

- from the Institute for Stork Research and Science
Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of Sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world's leading scientists are in favor of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught.

Evidence supporting the theory of the stork includes the following:

1. It is a scientifically established fact that the stork does exist. This can be confirmed by every ornithologist.

2. The alleged human fetal development contains several features that the theory of sexual reproduction is unable to explain.

3. The theory of sexual reproduction implies that a child is approximately nine months old at birth. This is an absurd claim. Everyone knows that a newborn child is newborn.

4. According to the theory of sexual reproduction, children are a result of sexual intercourse. There are, however, several well documented cases where sexual intercourse has not led to the birth of a child.

5. Statistical studies in the Netherlands have indicated a positive correlation between the birth rate and the number of storks. Both are decreasing.

6. The theory of the stork can be investigated by rigorous scientific methods. The only assumption involved is that children are delivered by the stork.

========================================
btw, results of monday's finals...

Guys: winner- guy 10
second- guy 7 (?!!)
third- guy 3

Ladies: winner- girl 10
second- girl 8
third- girl 5

fina*

monday was the rugby finals
us, against acsi
we lost to acsi, sadly...
but -damn!- a few of those acsi boys were fine
hahaha
really fine
and most of them were huge
as in, way huger than most of our boys

anyways, yesterday was the pre-final show of that "dewa dewi" thing my brother entered
my brother didn't dance the bollywood dance yesterday =(
instead, they'd moved it to monday's finals
but they at least gave out the subsidiary awards,
after everyone'd strutted their stuff (and a few draggy performances by four akademi fantasia singers from malaysia)

nobody got more than two awards
some of the awards were misjudged, i felt
like, if you see the pictures below, Guy 1 won Best Smile (what smile?!!)
but i think Guy 3 should have won
oh well
my brother's Guy 9
he got the Best Physique Award- can't say i disagree heh heh
anyways, in his photo you can see his sunburn spots from training just before the shoot

other awards of the night:
Mr Photogenic- Guy 2
Miss Photogenic- Girl 4
Best Smile (female)- Girl 1
Mr Favourite (as in, most supporters)- Guy 5
Miss Favourite- Girl 7
Mr. Personality- Guy 4
Miss Personality- Girl 6
Miss Body Beautiful- Girl 2
Congeniality Award- Guy 10



seeyaz! (tmr, if you're going for the band concert)
=))

fina*

interesting day at school, today
went to school carrying the cheque to pay for a level fees
thought i'd done everything right- didn't forget anything, no due work to be done, shirt newly ironed, etc.

and then came the time to pass her the cheque
up shot her temper
faster than a rocket aimed at the sky
and she called us "pains in her butt"

ehk. not that it affects me much
but we did ruin her mood for lesson afterwards
poor class- we're all very, very apologetic that you guys had to go through that
being "despised" and all that
i'm sure you all are desolate because of that

however, i am not apologetic about whatever it was that made her so infuriated
really, tempers are there to be controlled, not to be given the freedom to rampage rampantly with unbridled rage
(notice alliteration of "r"? reflection of me scoffing at her lack of control, and thus mocking her; lol)

anger is not the problem here; it in itself does little harm.
But the problem here is her response to that anger
she lets it boil too quickly, and indulges it by raising her voice.
really. think about it. does raising your voice achieve anything?
it's supposed to scare the shit out of people, but to seasoned veterans like us, it does little
and so, i return to my point of what is achieved by the raising of your voice
it makes no difference
all you're doing is adding to noise pollution. that's it.

heh. i do sound a mite bitter, don't i?
it's just that i do not like being made to listen to screaming in the morning
not when i've "had my morning coffee" yet
and over something that actually has no consequence- over a nonentity of a mistake
that has no detrimental effect

thus ends today's post.
maybe today was karma for a very funny story i wrote yesterday
who knows?
good night all ;)

fina*

finally had a mcgriddle breakfast! yum!
instead of the usual muffin bread, it uses something that tastes and looks suspiciously like pancakes doused in syrup
and it tastes great!
because it's both sweet and savoury

before i go, here's a cute picture
i was sad when thierry henry left arsenal,
thought i'd miss him loads
but apparently the feeling's not reciprocated
lol

henry having a merry good time with his new best friend

see ya!
fina*

watched our girls soccer team beat rjc yesterday at kovan field
irritating mrt guy told us it was at srjc
humph!
so we walked all the way there, past florence road and lim ah pin road and all the rest
we bloody memorised road names to get there!
and when we arrived, we didn't see anybody at srjc's field

haha
we did make it in time for the second half of the match, after a stopover to get coke light (dan) and a double choc frappe (me- yum!)

after the match, i went off for bowling
while dan went back to toa payoh
paid $14 (not worth it) to play for one and a half hours
while trying to study in between half-hearted rolls of the ball

(haha can't believe the school wants to send people like me for competition!
can you say embarassing?)

went home, slept till 1.30 today
lifeless, much?

fina*

today has been a bad day so far...
accidentally ate something i shouldn't have,
did something silly to my lit test paper,
and my queue got cut while queuing up for the super-mega-ultra-long B&J free cone queue!

and! just found out that flamini's leaving arsenal! :'(
and hleb is thinking of leaving arsenal! :'(

but at least i got my free cone!
although it dripped all over my fingers...

oh, woe is US!!!

fina*

three plays in a week... hahah

dan will know what i'm talking about!
Hamlet, My Mother's Wooden Chest (translated from malay), and Traveling Light
but they were fun

something stupid:
(i keep accidentally ordering stuff! cos i just agree to whatever the person behind the counter says even though i either can't hear what they just said, or i wasn't paying attention haha... dan and pat can testify!)

anyways, i think i've become meaner since the start of this year
really, really mean :(
i'm sorry, everybody i've insulted with whatever i've said!
especially worse-than-a-rock-Keed!
and drowned-crickets-in-the-brain-Bong!
and crows-appear-whenever-he's-near-Borge!
as for the others...
haha Jeremy really is a freak,
Zong"d"e i haven't insulted much (and he's yet to pay back $1.50!)
and Jerrald... really is weird sometimes! haha
but as i've said, weird people attract weirder people
and i'm finally ready to admit than i'm one of those "weirder" people
hahaha



finally watching the Soren Mongkontong King (right) vs Sean Wright (left) fight
they didn't show it during the Contender Asia finale that they showed on television
maybe because it didn't have anything to do with the actual show, other than the fact that they were both contestants
yess! finally got to re-live my time at the Singapore Indoor Stadium!
hahah

as i was telling Syaz the other day, my infatuation (yes, i'll call it what it is- not love haha) with Soren didn't begin from the start of the show
i mean, when i watched the first few episodes, i must admit that i thought Sean was cuter! haha
then the Soren vs. Alain fight came about, and i started noticing that Soren was not bad looking,
especially from the part of the episode when he said that some fighters get angry before a fight,
but he just gets quieter (i dunno why, but that recommended him to me)the Soren vs. Alain episode

and finally, the determining factor, the episode when their family/ friends came to visit them
and Soren's mum came
and i saw how much he loves his mother, and the great relationship between the two
and just like that, i fell!
i'm such a sucker for boys who love their mums! lol
maybe because it shows that they're not brutes? haha

and that, ladies and gentlemen, was The Great Singaporean Love Story - NOT!
hahah
learnt that from Borat
(yes, i finally watched it!)
he was learning how to be funny in an American way
and the person who was teaching him said that American humour leaned in that direction
like how they say something... -pause- and say "NOT!"
but Borat was totally messing it up haha
ok ok, digression

am going to nap now
good night/ evening!

fina*

p.s. conversations in college has since become more intellectual
a common convo between me and Pat or Keed or Borge can go like this
*please note that everything's said in Borat-accent
the fabulously satirical Borat

me: yes!
P/K/B: yes!
me: yes!
P/K/B: yes!
me: very nice!
P/K/B: yes! very nice!
me: yes!

... how spastic are we?...