Fantastic.. National Day is coming.. and it has earned me a floating leave.. guess I shall float it to somewhere end of the year, and you know, taking loads of leave at the year end is supposed to be shiok. Been years since I have been to NDP, and the fireworks and crowd will always be one of the events which makes me "feel" I'm alive in Singapore. Recently came across Suntec and was awed by the fighter planes roaming like flying tigers. Magnificent! I lost that feeling since young, but it suddenly brought back the thrill of imagining myself as the pilot, defiantly speeding the plane across the skies and into the clouds. So sorry I have to post this old SBC Drama Theme song, one of my favourites: the show and song both.


Woo hoo.. whoever has this mp3, mai tu liao send to me.

Olympics are around the corner, and I wonder if I get to watch it on HDTV, will I be seeing "more" effects than the usual stuff? Or just expose more pimples on their faces? Whatever, but I guess I will be hooking on to sports like badminton and soccer. And maybe table tennis. Who will be an instant millionaire on his way back from Olympics? I doubt so, unless he or she met Mas Selamat fatefully somewhere in Beijing.

So this weekend, I guess I will be hooked on to the TV rather than the PC. Great! I need a change. But of cause, I won't forget to go for a run to CCK and back. Anyone onz?

Seriously, it's great to have memories. As I think about the old days in primary school when we brought our erasers with different countries logo to school just to flip on opponents' to win theirs, or borrowed Western Bar and Donkey Kong hand held games from friends and beat them to their scores, or received friends' invitation to write something on their autograph book (usually I took most of the time loaned to me reading other's testimonials, and uncreative people would fold the corner into half and put some lame notes there haha), I could say these stuff we had done were specially nostalgic. The current PSP, Nintendo DS or some online multi-player games did contribute to the final erosion of these child plays.
Next came the Aaron Kwok dance steps which even wowed the paedophile a while (although I was thinking he bought AK moves just to mock at him). Beach Boys and GTO became the greatest few japanese dramas during those times, while I was trying to master void deck soccer skills. Did look at pretty netball and volleyball girls in school but never even thought of chasing them. Not with my nerdy looks. Okay, I better use the hectic school work as the main excuse instead.
Last time, going to polytechnic when you could sneak in any JC with the O level results was suicidal, as most people with poorer agg would want to slap you for being "arrogant" (they didn't realise there was a choice in us, what's so great about JC girls? haha). In poly, three groups divided the people I mixed with. (1) the girls chasing group (who changed partners like the new t-shirts they wore in different semesters). (2) the hardworking group (the ones who isolated themselves by sitting very in front of the lecture hall, but it's a smart move because the guys at the back are really too noisy). (3) the simply bochup group (the ones who could just walk out of the lecture room midway thru the lesson and self declare teabreak or skipped lessons just because they felt bored).
People who knew me knows the group I belonged to.
Going to NS indeed made most guys grow up. And the physical and mental torture really helped to shape up the perseverance and discipline in most of us. And I forgotten how many times I heard of some friends' gf broke off with them during the NS days. Now you understand why I say mental torture. But I still thank SAF for all the shit they gave me. It really strengthens me in many ways.
Hmm.. working wasn't so bad after all. Started to see money rolling into the bank any month. But taking responsibility like paying household bills and etc also came in at this coincidental timing, so it kinda offset everything that we earned.
Now as I sit here typing away my blog, chewing away my Pringles, I watch the system time on my bottom right corner slowly ticking away. I don't know what I will experience next. And I ain't an optimist who looks forward to every second of the future. But one thing I know, I definitely have to start what I want to do or things will be too late. I don't want to go thru my life portfolio later with blank pages within.

When I refreshed myself with Beach Boys, I admired Yutaka who just looked out of the window from his office, saw the horizon at a distant, and went for it. If only people can be as 潇洒 as him, then who will be blamed for the poor economy ahead?

Was trying to search for this chinese drama in youtube but to no avail. Then chanced into http://www.tudou.com/ and realised the entire show is there. Woo hoo.. save some mobtv cost..
The show is about a couple who hasn't met each other but has been communicating with SMS using their phones all the while before they met. And like all love stories, coincidence already knocks on the door for them before they know the truth about phone, as they have all along been working together.
I haven't finish up the show, so I guess I won't spoil it for those who wants to watch it. But hey, actors like 李铭顺 & 林湘萍 have been casted in the show, and they really show the how good their Singapore (or rather Malaysian for LMS) Mandarin sounds compared to the rest of the Chinese actors and actresses. But I kinda like the Mandarin of the Chinese, although Chinese in Singapore speak a lot more "rough".
Thats all folks, enjoy the July days!

After watching the Russia vs Netherlands match, I can say that Russia play the best football in Euro 2008. Netherlands seemed good with their lightning speed attacking football in the group games, but today the Russians are clearly the better side technically and tactically. Whenever they attack, the players will seem to find the best spot to support the holder. Each Russian player can dribble, pass and shoot well and it's this ability in each of them that makes their possession play so much better to the Dutch.
And the winning Russian coach has to be a Dutch ironically. And the style his team play makes one hesitate and think whether the ones wearing white are actually Dutch players (although it's quite obvious the ones wearing orange are).
Initially, I was quite glad Netherlands managed to get a goal back in normal time (because of a bet with my fren that Netherlands would win), but as I watched the extra time, I became convinced that Russia should be in the semi-finals. I started to love their football. So Russia all the way please go to the finals!
After this Euro, no teams would want to be tops in the group games(Portugal, Croatia and Holland all went out). An Italy win might be the last match to confirm this daunting fact.

Did I tell anyone I'm in a 10 day reservist?? Wow it's quite a breather from work and although I know the work will definitely pile up when I return, then be it. It is quite nice to meet my old friends in camp and catch back some memories. As usual time wasting should substitute the logo in our unit, but we just have to accept it.
So today, I struck $200 with a hell lot of sweat. Wasn't feeling very good these few days due to running nose, and got a knock on the arm while playing games, so did not expect myself to get away with silver for this work year. My legs were already wobbly right from the start of the 2.4 km run, thanks to the sit-up retake due to a lot of no counts. See how computerized systems make you 'sweat'. Sweat bigtime when it malfunctions. Nevertheless, I was able to clock 11.00min for the run.
Yesterday woke up to watch the fierce match between Germany and Portugal. Really wonderful play by both teams, but some mistakes from Portugal really cost them the game. I don't know why this Euro I'm supporting Germany more than Netherlands (used to be my fav team), it might be that I have started to be practical and love to watch teams who lack the flamboyant skills but attack with a self-belief that can't be matched on their day. That has to be Germany. Yes, of course I would hope classic teams like Spain and Netherlands win something after attracting even the neutrals with their play, I got a feeling it might be down to the boring experienced Germany vs Italy. And how much Italy's soccer sucks to me, they always seem to be the unspectacularly blessed team.
Actually soccer matches have really taken up a portion of my life. Some ladies despise the stupid idea of spouses losing their sleep to watch 22 people running around the field with one ball. Some gamblers laugh at fanatics who don't even bet and lose their sleep. But they can never understand how soccer can inspire people's life, and I don't mind exchanging some of my life for inspiration.
Hmm.. anyone free to kick at teck whye block 8 on weekends morning?

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照亮这城市的阳光
在地平线远方
让夜不再漫长
受伤它是什么形状
被埋藏在何方
让痛化为了想象

爱如果一切重来
爱如果失去了伤害

再重来
会有什么精彩
还有什么值得期待
已过去的未来
再重来
难道不会失败
若失去跌倒的痛快
前进的方向还存不存在

再重来
会有什么精彩
还有什么值得期待
已过去的未来
再重来
难道不会失败
若失去跌倒的痛快
前进的方向还存不存在

Guys, sorry long time never blog. no, no, i'm not sick of blogging.. it's just that I wanna remind silent for a while, at least for the victims of the recent disasters. It's just that it felt a bit out of place to be seeing different people from different areas struggling, and here I wasthinking of what kind of ice-cream to eat to curb the afternoon heat. Well, the only deed we could sow over here is call the infamous 1900-number. Hope everything will be back im place.

These days when I go to work, I will see an man in his 50s, with his hands gripping hold of his wife's tight. The wife seemed to be mentally unstable. Last time when we took the lift together, she would look disturbed and would hid behind his husband. The husband would sometimes reassured her to calm her down.

I often see him bringing her down for strolls, and he always would hold her hand, and talked to her patiently. And indeed she appeared healthier nowadays and could even talk to the husband, although I could only hear muttering. Then I was thinking to myself, some people just amaze me. I could see in his eyes, he only wished to take care of her for life. Really he wouldn't mind, coz you could usually notice the impatience in someone when help is rendered unwillingly.

Suddenly, I have a thought. If we know that our partner would have some problems and would need to take care of her/him this way, maybe not now but in the future, would we step into it in the first place? It's easy to say yes, but it's difficult not to have that bit of grumbliing later on, or rather regrets. But I definitely do not see it in him.

No, I wasn't hooked to the badminton cup held by Indonesia because of the suave Korean youngster Lee Yong Dae, but the 19 year old showed his experience in beating China in the doubles and got my adrenalin rush flowing.
At first, I tuned in to Sopcast with the hope of watching Roma make a final push for the Italian Seria A title, but when I saw the match up of the Koreans against Chinese, I decided to stay at the channel and watch. Gosh, the reflexes by the players were fantastic.
The chinese were strong and tall, and were heading for the victory in the first set when the shorter Koreans kept their hopes alive by going into deuces. And imagine the match was kept "deucing" until the score was 25-25. And all these while the advantage in the deuces went to China. They just could not break the Koreans down with the vital point. Tides turned to the Korean side and the moment they had the advantage, they went on to defeat the China side in the first set. And the 2nd set, it was Korean all the way.
Wow.. long time never play badminton, and as much as I know competitive badminton can be boring (if it's one-sided, and usually it is), I think it's never so when you have met your match in an opponent.


Lee yong Dae with a fan