We are the ASEAN Champs!

I am so happy! Despite sucking worse than the Thai team in terms of talent, skills, commitment and work rate, our team managed to hold Thailand to a draw in Thailand, and won the ASEAN football championship by a 3-2 aggregate score. Despite being a patriotic Singaporean, I must admit that I feared the worse for our boys when I saw them playing in the first half, and gave up hope once Thailand had scored their goal. But that seemed to wake up our boys, and the coach must have "humtam" them during the break, cos they fought back in the second half and we equalized! I was so happy at that moment, and even though Thailand tried to fight back, I think they lost hope as the minutes ticked away, and we triumphed!

My friends know that I adore Thierry Henry and my team is Arsenal, cos they play attractive football that is always exciting to watch cos it flows and is like poetry, especially when scoring a goal. Singapore's football team has a loooooong way to go, but patriotism comes to the front and I can't understand my friends who tear down our team and say that local football is crap! Hey, they're Singaporeans so we must support mah! And some were jeering that half of the team are imported talent. Hey, we're a nation of migrants and children of migrants, and our total population is 4 million, so what's wrong with having imported sports talents, anymore with having imported CEOs or construction workers? I think they've showed their loyalty to their adopted country by giving up their original citizenship to play for Singapore. You think they're paid that much ah? To run around for 90 minutes in a foreign country and be booed non-stop? Or face the risk of being hit by flying urine-filled mineral bottles (that happened 2 years ago in Indonesia)? I think they're more Singaporean than all those on-line cowards!

Over the past week, I have been reading some of the on-line forum pages, and I'm appalled that some so-called Singaporeans actually were supporting the Thai team and saying that our team don't deserve to win, that we CHEATED to win the first leg! What nonsense! I was in the National Stadium on Wednesday and I saw a lot of Thai players falling over everytime they lost possession, and how they kept trying to move the ball forward when taking a free kick. And of cos, much has already been said about how they staged a walkout when they got a penalty ruled against them. I've never seen such bad sportsmanship in all my years of watching football, or any other team sport for that manner! For a minute, I thought we had all been whisked by some transporter to Italy.......

Okay, enough ranting for the day. The Lions Rock!

This and That

Feeling a bit sleepy all day today cos went to watch Singapore Lions against the Thai Chickens at the National Stadium last night. Most entertaining game, even though the Thai chickens (I just coined that term, not their official name!) were most unsporting, falling over at the slightest touch from the minute the whistle blew at the beginning of the game, and culminating when they walked off the pitch towards the end of the game when a penalty was awarded to Singapore. Such unprofessional and unsporting behaviour! I was proud of our Lions, not for how they played (frankly they sucked big time!) but for how they worked together as a team and did not react to the Thai players when they staged their mass walkout. The second leg will be played in Bangkok, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's worried about the safety of our players and fans in the stadium....hopefully the Thai authorities will be able to control the situation properly.

My beloved Gunners won last night against Tottenham Hotsperms...oops, I mean Hotspurs! So now we will meet Chelski in Cardiff for the Carling Cup final. Can't remember when it is now and too sleepy to search the Web for that info, but you can be sure that I'll blog about it when the time comes.

Now for a bit of ventilation...those who know (and love ;-P) me know that I have very strong feelings about most things, especially our international neighbours....I try not to politicize this blog since I've no wish to run afoul of any authorities...but I read that some silly minister in the country north of us blamed Singapore's land reclamation as the reason for their recent floods! Talk about trying to shift the blame for their own lack of competence, foresight and preparation on others! The sad thing is that I'm sure many of their people will believe them and also blame us. And there were we sending supplies and personnel over there to help them! Some people really don't deserve to be helped! Next time we should just laugh at them when their homes get flooded and people have to perch on their roofs while waiting for help! Unfortunately we are too nice and politically savvy to do such a thing...but still, I can fantasize, right?

Ok, gonna log off for now since I'm so super sleepy.....yawn!

The one and only Thierry

My darling won the big game last night for the Gunners with a last-minute goal that stunned Manure! Haha! Serve them right for trying to settle for a draw when they should have continued to press forward. While Manure's loss meant that Chelski still can dream about winning the League, I'm still happy cos my darling scored again! He got such a beautiful head....sigh... (he scored with his head lah!)

Here's a pic of him and Robin Van Persie celebrating the goal....2 gorgeous guys who ARE NOT GAY even tho it looks like it when they are running around with their arms around each other. I wonder why footballers always hug and jump on each other when celebrating goals? Don't they realise it looks very weird? The ones who dive, make rock-a-bye baby movements, or dance like a robotic giraffe at least look straight (just extremely geeky!) But they often will jump on each other, have mass hugs, or worst, piggy back the scorer! Why don't they just hi-five each other? That's relatively cool. And they can go around kissing their female fans! I'm sure I'd be first in line to be kissed by darling Thierry.....

Mini Treble

Hohoho! Christmas is definitely over for the Northerners in England! Arsenal won again last night at Blackburn, despite being down to 10 men for almost 75 minutes! We have beaten Fools twice and then Blackburn over the past week! We are definitely back to our winning ways! And best of all, my darling Thierry scored again! He is the best, the one and only, the supreme goal scorer!!!! MARRY ME THIERRY!!!!!

Do I sound a bit delirious? Maybe it's from all the rain we've been having...raining non-stop for the past 3 days and even sun-shy me is wondering when we'll see the sun again! Ah well, at least we're not having floods, unlike our Malaysian neighbours who are facing water trouble...Thank heavens for all the good work done by PUB over the past few decades in constructing canals etc that siphon away water from low-lying, flood-prone areas.

What amazes me is that Singaporeans (aka Complain Kings) can still gripe about NEA not giving sufficient warning when a flood is imminent! Some folks are mad! NEA comprises of human beings, not fortune tellers, you know! How the heck are they supposed to be able to predict where floods are going to happen? If their forecasting was so good, they would all be millionaires, courtesy of Singapore Pools, and wouldn't need to work anymore! Chee sin! (Cantonese for mad) I wish Singaporeans would stop complaining about trivial things, especially when there are places in the world where there are real serious troubles and problems! What's the point of Singaporeans being rich enough to travel to see the world, when these folks are obviously not learning anything about how fortunate they are????

FA Cup glory!

Gunners shot 3 goals past Fools last night! Hooray! My darling Thierry scored a goal! Boy is he back! The enforced rest obviously did him good, and he's scoring beautiful goals....He's the best in the world! Drogba looks like a clown beside him! Now we're going to the 4th draw....and may we be drawn against a team from a lower league so that the team can concentrate on their EPL and Champion League games instead....

Oops, just realised that I'm going on and on about football again....but can I help being a fan when it's such a beautiful game??

OK, I'll give a plug for a show that I just discovered on DVD....Battlestar Galactica (the new series). I was a huge fan of the old series....Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch were my two childhood pinups and I remember that I was glued to the TV every week when the show was on. The new series has a female Starbuck...who's almost as big a cad as the male Starbuck! Tip to any parent-to-be: DO NOT CALL YOUR CHILD STARBUCK! Series 3 is halfway through in the US, and I can't wait for the Season 3 DVDs to come out so that I can see what happens to the humans under Cylon rule....If you have to ask what I'm talking about, you're obviously not a BSG or sci-fi fan! After I watched the first show (aka the pilot), I was hooked and went through both seasons within a week! It's that addictive! Go watch it and you'll see what I mean.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to meeeee! Today's the glorious anniversary of my arrival on planet Earth! Of course, I am not going to tell you how many years ago that was (erhem!) but it was a wonderful day that saw my arrival to bless my kin and kith with the joy of knowing me and having me in their lives! :-P

Okay, self-congratulations are done with....My darling Gunners won again last night! 2-1 win away at Watford! and believe me, it was a hard match! Watford is good, too bad they're heading back down to the Championship...Chelski drew (haha) and Fools lost (HAHAHA!) Too bad Manure won....but never mind, I'm sure they'll start losing...SOON! But we're climbing up the table...now we're just behind Chelski and Jose will soon have to start looking up Arsenal's arses (bad pun, I know, but hey! it's my birthday so I'm entitled to a bad pun once in a while, right?)

Went to Sakae Sushi at Harbourfront to celebrate my birthday with KL, KL's nieces and LF last night....I have fabulous friends who suffer eating sushi just because it's my favourite food and my favourite joint! Too bad it was a dreadfully rainy day so we couldn't enjoy the view though we got a window table...and Jezreel suddenly felt sick so we had an early night. still, it was good night all in all

I'm heading to the gym soon, then will have an appointment with my dentist (urgh!) before dinner with my family tonight....mum's going to treat me to Tanglin Club! Love that club, too bad too poor to join it...ah well....maybe God will be kind to me and allow me to strike 4-D today!

Drawing Portsmouth

My beloved Gunners drew again last night....sigh....the Premiership title is slipping further and further away from our grasp....But I guess it's good that we got a relatively easier draw in the Champions League than Fools, who are going to face Barca....which is the team I'd support if it wasn't for the fact that beat us in the CL finals last year! Guess I can hope that Fools get eliminated, and we face Barca again in this year finals....and beat them 3-0! Ok ok, I know I'm dreaming, but if I'm going to dream, might as well dream big, right?

Have been doing a bit of Christmas shopping and still haven't really gotten all the gifts for my pals and family yet....and now having the headache of thinking what to buy for my godkids...whom I adore but see all too seldom...will try to get some pics of them and post them up soon...they're really cute, and best of all, they ain't my own, so I don't have to actually CARE for them, just enjoy playing with them whenever I see them! But one of them is on Didiez's blog (she's the mum of my godkid, who is the older of her two daughters...swing by her blog at Juz-4-Babes.blogspot.com if you want to see what she looks like....)

We beat Spurs 3-0!

Hooray!!!! Gunners won the derby, and made up for the last 2 disappointing games....don't think we'll win the League unless Manure and Chelski die on the field, but at least, we won't get relegated!

I'm up early to prep for the half-marathon (Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. A bit excited and kept waking up,and got a stiff neck...but hope that won't affect my run too much. Anyway, I'm just aiming to finish and not to set any world records. Hope I better the timing for my last run, which was really bad. OK, gotta go!