`dreams in red`

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Thursday, June 22, 2006

YO. HAHAHA.
HOLLAND VS ARGENTINA.
GROUP C
back with a blog post about the argentina vs holland game yesterday night.
or instead, this morning.
the game was kinda boring due to the abundance of goal scoring opportunities but lack of goals.
and of course, argentina rested several key and interesting players.
was just so SAD that palacio didnt play.
he is that kind of guy that can keep me awake throughout the match with
tricks like falling down or tripping over his own boots.
but after this game, i have a new idol. lol.
RIQUELME. oh my, his style of playing is darn pro.
and his crosses are highly deadly.
the corner that he took ALMOST went in just like that.
without any nodding in from anyone.
the angle was JUST right.
omgg, riquelme the pro :D
and and the way riquelme held on to possession.
3 men surrounded him
and he ran off easily,
with the ball!
torres ought to learn from this master.
and riquelme was just so pissed when his side just couldnt score.
but nonetheless, he was great.
just kinda sad that he didnt get to be the man of the match,
but tevez deserved it.
the hyper active kid, what i call carlos tevez,
was just so ACTIVE throughout the match.
he was here,
he was there,
he was everywhere!
and everytime he was SOMEWHERE,
he got the ball and he effectively dribbles and passes.
even though his finishing abilities needs some touching up.
he blown several chances away. but not to worry.
argentina has ENOUGH finishers.
basically, the entire team consists of wonderful finishers.
rodriguez is one example of a finisher.(even though he isnt a striker)
crespo a classic one.
saviola is not so, but still one.

how i wished ronaldo, yes that brazil one.
was half, no no, a quarter will do,
as active as tevez.
blehhhh.
but something bad about argentina,
their players, most of them except some.
some includes RIQUELME
fall down too easily on the damn pitch.
one classic example, CAMBIASSO.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS GUY DOING.
i think he wasnt playing football,
he was just playing dirty.
or maybe, free falling.
and also coloccini. pig man.
constantly bumping people off the ball without apologizing and instead of saying
"sorry", they fall down and the poor netherland players have to get fouled,
yellow carded or be awarded a free kick against them.
what the hell. argentina may be strong, but never will they play beautiful football.

and back to ac milan, my favourite club.
never will i forget about them.
yes, milan is NOT GOING TO GET RELEGATED.
TO ALL INTER FANS WHO WISH FOR US TO GET RELEGATED:
I AM SORRY BUT WE WON'T.
9th JULY, *crosses fingers*
it is either juve going down to b or c.
none of our business.
seriously, moggi is just trying to pull us down with juve.
the more the merrier is what he likes.
but BALDIE, DO YOUR JOB. PROTECT US.
bleh juve bleh. dirty old BI****S

btw, GO ITALY AND BRAZIL.
ITALY, BEAT THE HELL OUT OF CZECH REPUBLIC.
kill nedved if you can.
thank you.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.

'dreams in red' 1:20 AM

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

AHAHAHAHA. I HAVE DECIDED TO START BLOGGING ALL OF A SUDDEN AGAIN :D
but surely, since its world cup season.
GONNA HAVE LOADS OF FOOTBALL STUFF.
firstly, let me blog about the very exciting spain and tunisia match.
i have to say, THIS MATCH WAS WORTH IT.
unlike the freaking crap that Italy gave me.
waking up at 2.45 am and starting to pray for spain to win was WORTH IT.
The game started off unsteadily for spain as tunisia scored a surprise 8th minute goal.
ok i cant remember the guy who scored. but heck.
freaking puyol just AHHHHHH, screwed the defence up.
i was so pissed by him that i dropped him from my fantasy squad.
and of course, i took fernando torres in.
torres gave me a whooping 24 points!
and villa gave me 21.5 points!
for the game.
in case you dont know, the fantasy game is on
fifaworldcup.yahoo.com.
just sign up and you get to choose 23 players from all the countries participating.
3 players max from each country.
i have maxed out argentina, england, italy and... spain and netherlands.

but spain's desire and crave for possession was HUGE and scary.
they had 644 passes with 87% of which completed.
and they held on to the ball 64 percent of the time. wow.
and the possession did help of course.

after half time, cesc fabregas, Joaquin and Raul came on.
Fabregas proved himself worthy of a starting position for the next game against Saudi Arabia.
yes, his passes were so crucial. i am for him to start the next game!
and a theory goes like this: when fabregas attempts to score and doesn't, fret not,
someone will score it for him.
in this case, raul and torres did their jobs by tapping cesc's ball in :D
damn it, i am darn envious of the arsenal squad.
they have HENRY (someone to die for unless you are talking about international wise)
they have rosicky (the pure genius young guy from the czech republic)
they have cesc (do i have to say anything?)

ok back to the game.
torres was kinda poor thing and sad throughout the game.
tons and i mean TONS of fouls were committed on him and the darn referee didnt see them.
he was consistently pushed, kicked, muscled off the ball.
but he has to be blamed too, his weak area is in ball possession.
he has to learn how to keep the ball with him and he will go further.
but his speed is something everybody needs.
hahahaha!
finally the referee saw the tunisia defender muscling torres in the penalty box
and boom. PENALTY!
HAHAHAHAHA. this is the 2nd penalty in the 2 games spain have played.
beware beware oh beware saudi arabia.
but sadly, villa wasnt there to take it. nvm though.

PS. XABI ALONSO WAS MAN OF THE MATCH <33333
man i love this guy.
his crosses are DARN accurate throughout the game.
aragones, PLEASE allow xabi to take corners.
for goodness sake, xavi screwed 9 out of 12 corners,
they were either too far or too high.
but maybe most of the corners required the use of the right.
and xavi is a left. so..
but anw. xabi proves that he was not bad in crossing.

hahaha, end of story and end of game.
should i blog abt the germany game?
YES. hahahaha!

i didnt really watch the match because i was "happily" doing my BSD essay
which is highly "interesting".
and i was chatting with my beloved twinnie, rimmie!
so sorry, i wasnt watching the match close enough.
pardon me if i make some mistakes in observations.

germans prove themself to be on top form after the 3-0 win over closest 1st place contenders, ecuador. yes yes, lahm wasnt playing his best football.
but his crosses are what i call.... deadly.
like what everyone says, "when you see lahm attacking, you smell a goal."
hahaha! that's for sure, lahm is a defender, left back to be exact, but he is a righty.
zambrotta is another case of someone being on the wrong side of the field.
because placing them on the correct side wont exploit their abilities!
back to the game lol.
the two goals from klose and 1 from poldoski all came like this.
lahm gets the ball from the back, advances to the attacking part of the left flank, crosses the ball accurately to the right winger (always changing) and the right winger passes it accurately to the central midfield or the strikers waiting and boom, it's a goal!
btw, poldoski FINALLY scored, waited for so long so long so long.
and klose overtook torres on the scoring board.
yeah man.
torres for golden boot!
klose for silver! hahaha is there such a thing?

4 passes = 1 goal.
argentina got to beware.
the germans are 6 times faster. :D

'dreams in red' 1:07 AM

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Well, it has been a long time since i blogged.
I shall have to type in proper English from now on,
because of the fact that I am using it for my diary.

Well, first 3 weeks of sec3 life was crazy.
Frantic with SIAs, thinking of how to combine them.
It is sort of irritating when you reach home everyday,
and you log onto msn, thinking you can relax.
However, there are tons of homework on the computer desk beside you.
How very exciting.

*groans*
well, even though I was quite busy,
happily failing math quiz 1 aka me and my 3 mark story
(specially stipulated for our class and
P.S majority passed with 10/10)
and getting a loser grade of 40/70 for my first essay,
i surprisingly still had time to sleep.
Phew.

I am currently LM-ING,
which is my self invented vocabulary.
Which actually means, loser-mode
or instead, low morale.

Even Milan is LM-ing.
What's with conceding one goal and not scoring any?
I always thought sheva and gila were reliable people.
They proved me wrong, grave mistake indeed.
And i lost all hope in the defense.
After some 6 goals conceded in 2 games,
I supposed that it is no longer reliable.

Well, i think that it will be awkward reading my first ever post in proper english.
I will try harder for a better style.
:DDDD

'dreams in red' 6:30 AM

Can't believe it!
Speech is one of the areas I am good in?
ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU,
ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY.
Yes, my favourite of the speeches today!

'dreams in red' 6:02 AM

Sunday, January 01, 2006

THIS IS NOT A FOOTBALL POST
*******************************
yay! ignore my previous post.
that was typed out of boredom. haha!
well,inspired by huiyan's post.
i shall blog about year 2005 in the year 2006.
treat it as some reflection.
well, 2005 was a blast!
i can't really remember the first term. (except that i partnered maureen and angela)
with history and geography fused together in one whole year
meant more pressure.
and LA having double weightage = paul tan X2
and becoming some senior and stuff.
and SIAs and tests. how did i survive them?
and some hiccups (uh hmm) here and there.
that made me freaking depressed and un-ego.
luckily i have supplies of ego-boosters often.
homework load was lesser compared to 2004.
but stress level was higher.
more competitive.
mentally, have to keep pushing yourself hard.
tests had their favourite days.
monday down for jap.
tuesday down for HCL.
wednesday down for history.
thursday down for science.
friday down for maths.
even though they were never all at one go.
but mentally UNSTABLE me almost died.
just can't put myself to think of 2006.

well but 2005 WAS REALLY FUN!
LSC '05 even though we had a screwed dance (though vanessa put in alot!)
we were not bad k!
i was striped of FM post (YES, FORTUNATELY)
i kept my index number 28 :)
having wacky teachers like mrs see <3 and PANDA (his compo comments are AMUSING)
and many many more.
well, i think i want to THANK PEOPLE NOW.
now now. enough of reflections of 2005.
those incidents are NOTHING if i didnt have friends.
awww.
well. i shall start now
(and to compensate for those i didnt blog about!
even though there will be repetitions)
*the numberings DON'T MEAN ANYTHING.
i just type in random order.

1) huiyan!
omg, best buddy in 209 man. beloved monitress.
status: :)
-great buddy!
-best post card mates!
-frequent tagger!
-always chat online contact!
-ego-booster!
always there for me!
-when i am depressed or angry
-when i am happy or hyper
-when i want to go SAC or library
-when i want to go down to canteen or stay in classroom
-when i am BROKE (that's SO WONDERFUL)
-when i am bored on msn
-when i need help!
-when i need a HUG. or a shoulder to lie on (ok, that's getting mushy)
she blogs about me!
and she rocks! that's why she became a councillor! (of course with my VOTE!)
and no problem. we will stay in contact by writing postcardies!
come to 302 to find me or i wil haunt you in 315.
BEWARE.
hahahaha!

2) vanessa!
very nice person. 3rd lang buddy! lovely first half drama rep!
status: :)
-msn contact that i even talk to!
(even though i thought she was a STALKER when she changed address)
-lovely buddy!
-fellow V MATE!
ok, this shall be used to compensate vanessa for the still not yet existent post about her.
well. this girl is a november baby!
but i got her present like MONTHS before her birthday.
omg, so thoughtful right! :)
but i thought that that thingy will be expired before her birthday!
so i gave her earlier! :D
she is gonna stay a niner for her whole sec school life :D
i guess i will be frequenting 309 alot :D
and she is a 3rd lang buddy! yay!
so we'll still get to see each other after 3rd lang!
wait at the same place after 3rd lang k? :D
and this girl's mummy is another HOTTY. besides her :D
and i can't forget how jolynn and i sabo-ed her into singing our
very badly composed song. ahaha!
well, she rocks alot man! just very rocky (ok, i lack in vocab)
hahahaha :DD thanks alot for year 2005!
you should come and find me in my class. or i will shoot you.
sadistic laughter fades-

3) yumei!
super funny partner! and our totally SPORTY pe rep!
status: :)
-partner!
-person who always eat in class(we were BLACKLISTED)
-msn contact!
-great buddy!
-fellow trip science!
know why i thought of her just at this MOMENT? cos it is number 3!
before i start a love declaration for the number 3.
i have to finish a para on yumei first.
hahaha! :D
aha! this pro girl in sports. makes me a bit depressed about my
unsportiness! and she makes me afraid of 2.4 run, when i NEVER was ok.
and always stealing my food during class time (even though i steal hers too!)
she is like totally the only one that can actually tolerate my football crap sometimes.
during class! and she and angela are smart people who always teach me math.
like that cosine thingy. trigonometry.
even though sometimes we are as blur as each other!
and she influence me into using jiayou alot at one point of time.
lol. ahahaha!
and she and eehui were the ones who convinced me into 3 sciences.
I SORT OF REGRETTED K.
should have taken physics and geog.
well, GO GO JACK!
i will be reminded of you whenever i play with poker :D
and you better visit me. since you are only 2 classes away.
that's good enough to make you visit me. HAHA!

4) tiffany!
someone really sweet and cute and pro at the same time!
status: :)
-someone i can talk to about soccer!
-fellow trip-science!
-coincidently have a similar name to the one of A DOG in my compo
-msn mate!
-lovely buddy!
-someone who likes tatu songs! (like meee!)
well well, tifa the pro kia. very pro in piano(she plays the school song k!)
i guess i wil miss the days when i listen to the school song and gets all tensed up
if she plays something wrongly as a classmate! but it's ok :D
and she watches matches too! yay! due to her papa's influence.
AND HER DADDY'S BIRTHDAY ROCK ALOT.
her daddy's birthday is 22nd APRIL
can you imagine it! :D:D:D:D:D
if you don't know who's birthday it is.. i suggest you ask me.
and i still remember the honourable naming of my card KAKA.
and i still remember walking down the whole orchard road (almost)
with tifa as a companion!
and i still remember waiting for her for around 30 minutes during choral night performances.
and i still remember her love for corduroy material :D
rock on tifa! our classes are only 2 classes away.
that gives you a reason to VISIT me.
ahahahaha :D

5) angela!
smarty father and with good genes! totally great to takeover me as fm.
status: :)
-3rd lang mate!
-fantastic buddy!
-NUMBER 27! (there is no one in between us in the whole level!)
-fellow trip science!
gah, she might not read this, BUT WHO CARES!
this person ah, have been with me since term 1! after changing places also!
and my partner for alot of projects!
science sia, maths IL, chinese cult sia, LA sia, history sia, geog sia!
that's everything isn't it? hahaha!
and she is pro in science and maths and chinese!
always teaching me stuff (esp maths)
but after she teaches, she will get freaking pissed off by my stupidness sometimes
ahahahaha! i can't help it :D
well well.
i have to go eat now
tata for now!
shall blog abt my new year resolutions another time
TATA!

'dreams in red' 11:42 PM

OMG.
today's 2nd january.
TMR TMR TMR.
AHHHHHHHHHHH!

'dreams in red' 11:15 PM

Saturday, December 31, 2005

OK, TO ALL READERS.
**********************
this is a football post.
i shall start this kind of warnings for my readers.
so they know whether to skip this or not.

starting with the aston villa vs arsenal match.
0:0
tsk! what a result!
i thought arsenal would win this.
since i only watched the very few highlights.
i saw the BAROS'S MISS.
you should have seen my face when baros missed the goal.
it was so screwed up that i couldn't even go omg.
i mean, the aiming was SO OFF! i thought strikers should have something called: aiming.
it would have been a brilliant goal if he scored.
well, we can't blame poor baros completely though.
he always played the role as a supporting striker.
so he was waiting for support to come from the back.
and obviously, his team mates failed him alot.
no coordination. tsk.
well, ljungberg's miss was a heartache i guess.
it hit the bar. the curl EFFECT was there.
although i still prefer pirlo's not so curly curl.
well, jiayou arsenal on your away record.
don't disappoint sam too much.
she's going after INTER now.
buck up!

chelsea vs biringham city.
2:0
common sight of the 100 % home record.
but this game doesn't spell "chelsea domination".
it spells "HERNAN CRESPO MAGIC"
5-6 goals-to-be hit the bar!
arghhh. i shall start watching chelsea's matches now.
if JOSE PLAYS CRESPO.
or not a chance man.
btw, LAMPARD'S BACK!!
bet lifern's excited.

tottenham vs newcastle
2:0
tottenham back on track!
with tainio and mido scoring!
tainio's goal was so cute! he made scoring from an angle seem to easy.
come on, teach baros a trick or two.
haha! so suan.
the second goal by mido (our school uniform brand btw)
was great team effort.
double blocks + a cross.
with davids sandwiched (or KIAPPED) by 2 defenders.
he just tapped it in.
yay.
well, sad day for newcastle.
OWEN'S OUT FOR MAYBE MONTHS.
that is too big a blow for newcastle and england.

charlton athletic vs west ham united.
2:0
hai. with sheringham / konchesky out.
means no left back cover.
and no goals (no creativity)
how were they supposed to win this.
and omg, their next match is chelsea.
all the best. i support you!
but bent's goal was PRETTY. nice header.

liverpool vs WBA.
i think opponents of liverpool SHOULD NEVER ALLOW LIVERPOOL TO SCORE FIRST.
cos once they score, the game is settled.
they always keep clean sheets.
make sure you are the one who score first.
or the game is set.
but, now.
it is tough to prevent them from scoring.
2 words: CROUCH UNLEASHED. ahh.

man utd vs bolton
4:1
complete demolition of bolton
happy birthday ferguson!
ronaldo gave the birthday boy(or is it UNCLE) the biggest present.
2 goals. :D
even though there were supposedly 5 goals.
i only managed to see 2.
one bolton and the 2nd ronaldo one.
i loved the second one from ronaldo!
it was like "oh, you mean i just SCORED??"
hahaha, he was given the ball through some way.
forgot what way.
but he was at his left flank.
untagged.
cos everyone thought he was gonna cross
but he didn't
so it was A GOAL SCORED!

shall leave the man utd post till later.
mean while.
HAPPY 2006!

'dreams in red' 11:49 PM

Friday, December 30, 2005

ok, before i go on with my hk post.
i just need to type something.
WHY IS SAN SIRO GOING TO INTER MILAN,
WHEN IT WAS PIRELLI WHO FOUND IT?
and to think that the stadium was built for ac milan's "deserving results"
inter was always considered the visitors to OUR pitch.
and now we are leaving it to THEM?
it's not the matter of how good or bad the pitch is (it's one of the best k)
but it is the matter of integrity.
well, maybe it just goes to show that inter are just people who take
RUBBISH (abandoned stuff) from us.
how low class huh.
hohoho. *did you hear anything i said*

anthea just told me something very amusing
great ideas often receive violent objections from mediocre minds!

ok ok, i shall continue with my hk post.
well, where did i stop?
oh oh, the tram.
well, then we got off (LIKE DUH)
and we walked to the christmas-y place.
some plaza i think
and i made a wish on this gingerbread man card.
and placed it on the christmas tree there!
lol, my gingerbread man is called gingery!
[IMG]http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/halfblackwinner/mygingerbreadman.jpg[/IMG]
isn't it cute???
hahahaha, my wish is now hidden in the midst of so many.
or maybe cleared away.
haiz, but i still hope that THEY will come true.
then after the whole day.
we went to the woman street there.
SO DOINK.
we walked alot you know.
hai.
and the street was BORING.
the shops were closing by the time we reached there.
and they were so freaking dao.
hmph!
yes, and we went back to hotel after that.
finally!
ok, i gtg.
sleeping time
and mumsie's scolding time
LOL.
byeee!

'dreams in red' 6:52 AM

Thursday, December 29, 2005

well, since i have recovered.
WOO HOO.
i shall blog a bit abt hk.
i hate to blog about camp since there are so many things i have forgotten.
well, we touched down pretty early in the morning
(it was 10:15 am if i did not remember wrongly)
then we saw this HUGE LV bag at the arrival hall of HKIA
(hongkong international airport)
and my mum was carrying her LV bag.
so cute right?!
but we didn't take a photo though.
my brother thought it was mad.
someone please stop him from irking me.
well, then we took airport service (A21!)
<3 #21!
(ok, that was out.)
then, the bus was quite cool.
it gives you space to put your luggages!
even though space was limited.
but it is kinda thoughtful right!
then during the half and hour -45minutes bus journey
we passed this 80+ storey building (based on my counting)
so scary.
then i fell asleep after eating my squashed peanut butter bread.
then finally, we reached our destination.
we were trying to find the STUPID dorsett seaview hotel (i think)
then we went round and round.
and discovered we went the wrong direction.
thanks to my all pro brother map reading skills huh.
and then when we finally found the place.
oh goodness, really dirty on the outside
and when we entered the stupid hotel
the room was.
incredibly small.
well well. then we set off on our journey to stanley market!
but before that, we had our breakfast (or lunch)
whatever.
but my mum's one was quite irk
while mine was NICE. ahahaha!
and my bro's one was IRKEST.
well, he's quite a loser on the first day.
then we went off taking some MTR (to central aka zhong huan)
then we took number 6 to stanley market.
it was really boring throughout the trip (though my mum insists that it was interesting)
i was falling asleep and my mum scolded me for wasting bus fare because there was scenary to look at.
well well, then we reached finally.
and it was BORING.
like there was nothing to shop at all.
except maybe the ac milan jersey that costs 350 hk dollar
which is around 70+ bucks (S$)
hai.
gives up and walks around aimlessly
well, we went to the sea rocks area to take photos.
well, it was quite windy.
well, and nice weather.
then we left stanley.
but it was after a 30 minute wait for the first bus.
and the first bus DAOED US COMPLETELY.
then another 30 minute wait for the second bus,
which we made a point not to miss.
grrr, then we went to victoria peak!
it was so freaking cold up there.
as usual, it took about 30 minutes to reach there?
then i was as usual, sleeping!
hahahaha :D
well well.
then we dared (me and my bro) each other to eat ice cream (haagen daz)
or how do you spell it?
in the open!
hahahaha :D
duh, i won.
i am much smarter to get a nicer flavour.
yay.
well well.
then we got ticks to go down.
then we were lining up like totally
but luckily the queue was fast.
then i was like
stuck to this guy who was apparently backpack travelling.
cos there was no space in the tram.
well well, i had to keep moving around.
to let him take PHOTOS
walau.
hahahahahaha
but i have to say the pics must have been nice.
:D:D
even though i didnt take anything.
:(
well, that concludes much of first day!
i have to go and bathe now.
well.
tata for now!

'dreams in red' 3:20 AM