Thursday, March 21, 2013

1st post... as an adult

Ok.... so yes... birthday today.... nothing much so far.... except that i know that i am no longer a teenager....

Usually around this time there will be a few birthday posts on my facebook wall.... this time round.... theres zero...... =(

As usual, just wanted to live a carefree life before today... i am glad i did.

Until yesterday 20 March which is just now actually.... i went to Certis Cisco office at Changi Airport Terminal 2 for internship briefing....... found out i have a classmate, Ain, doing this internship with me. The others Aloysius, Tamimi and another guy i dont know whom are from P1004.

Yes, so have to go to the Airport around 3pm, reached there about 2.45pm...... went into the office, where i was welcomed by Mr Vincent, who will be our supervisor for our internship for the next 6 months.... and also Mr Abbas will be our lecturer supervisor also....

Mr Vincent seemed quite nice, on first impression, so good so far. And Ms Mandy also.... Mr Vincent conducted a briefing for our internship and then Ms Mandy checked our Airport pass application form and our application form for the internship..... We all have some homework to do... pay some administrative cash  and so on.... which i dont feel like doing now....

Ok... so internship will start exactly April Fools Day where we will have to start a course at the Police Academy... seems very far from my house.... and have to get there at 830am...... woah.... that sounds like my waking up time for secondary school..... yays....

Well.... i guess this sums up my first post as an adult...

A Great weekend... hope for a great week ahead...

Lol... I know when I am writing this, its already in the wee hours of Tuesday Morning.....

But then..... i really do hope for a great week ahead.... as its my birthday week.... as this day inches closer.... only 2 days away.....

I really hope I can have a lot of birthday presents, just like other people normally do... but then.... nobody really cares about my birthday, do they? Last year had my first celebration for my birthday though.... although i didnt really like the present my friends shared for me, but still, i appreciated that and just went on to complete the present, which is to fix up a Messerschmitt Bf-109 F model kit....

I really hope I do not get model kits this time, as I really have a lot more model kits at home waiting for me to start work... so another 1 from my friends would really hinder what I want to do....

Anyway, whatever it is.... it was a great weekend of football because almost all the results were mostly what I wanted.... except Barcelona winning Rayo Vallecano of course..... and Bayern Munchen winning Bayer Neverkusen 2-1 at the BayArena....

But then, first up on Saturday, Man Shitty lost to Everton 2-0 at Goodison Park. Man Shitty lined up in an unfamiliar 3-4-3 formation..... and when Everton took the lead through Leon Osman, and my, its a wonderful goal!!! Then Steven Pienaar our former Borussia Dortmund player got red carded. (What? Seriously? Stupid Javi Garcia was play-acting!!). Whatever it is, Man Shitty pressed forward, didnt get anything, cresit to Jan Mucha the Everton goalkeeper for keeping the score at 1-0. And in the dying minutes of the game.... a counter attack was pearheaded by Marouanne Fellaini, who squared the ball to Nikica Jelavic to finish off the game at 2-0! AWESOME!!!

If that was not good enough, Borussia Dortmund later romped to aa 5-1 victory over Freiburg at the Wesfalenstadion!!! We did not get off to a good start though, where Jonathan Schmid drew first blood for Freiburg in the 28th minute to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. However, Borussia Dortmund controlled the game after that, and 4 minutes before, the break, we had 3 goals in that 4 minutes, first from Lewandowski at 41', then Nuri Sahin at 44', and Lewandowski again at 45' to send BVB 3-1 up at the break! After the break, we continued our assault by Lewandowski and Gotze and Reus did waste some good chances, before Nuri Sahin sends a great left volley to get his brace and send BVB 4-1 up! Leonardo Bittencourt who came on as a substitute in the 77th minute rounded off the win when he scored just 1 minute after he came on!

And after the BVB game finished, I was absolutely pleasant to see that Loserpool were down to Southampton 2-1!!!!!  Morgan Schneiderlin and Rickie Lambert scoring in the 6 and 33 minute of the game. Philippe Countinho scored just before the break to make it 2-1. Loserpool werent playing well, oh well they are losers anyways.... and that frustration also translate into their performance especially when stupid racist and cheat Luis Suarez tries to block Artur Boruc from taking a kick, and promptly got yellow carded. Jay Rodriguez rounded off the score at 3-1 in the 80th minute, CONGRATZ SOUTHAMPTON!!!!!

Other results going my way also included Real Madrid coming back to win 5-2 against Mallorca when they recovered twice from being a goal down, where Luka Modric scores a sspectacular long range effort. And also Manchester United opening up a 15 point gap between the 2 Manchester clubs in the title race with a 1-0 win against Reading through Rooney's 21st minute goal.

Yeap, great weekend of football results anyway! Hahaha, great birthday present from BVB yeah! Hope Germany can do well against Khazakstan in the World Cup qualifiers this week too!

So, on Sunday, played football with friends again. And was more happy with my performance this time round compared to last week disastrous performance.

Nothing much really happened for this week so far, just playing my steam games and also preparing some important documents which I need to bring along for my Certis Cisco briefing scheduled on Wednesday. Hope it goes well...!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

the past week... and the last week.... to.... an adult

Yeah, soon I will be an adult..., well this past week what i've done nothing much new really.... just sitting around olazily around the house, leading a carefree life, after all its my last week as a 19 year old... next week... i am gonna be an adult..... *weeps*

The 142nd Revierderby over the weekend was a disappointment ..... my beloved Borussia Dortmund fell 2-1 to Schalke at the Veltins Arena.... Julian Draxler opened the scoring in the 12th minute, and then Klass Jan Huntelaar doubled their advantage in the 35th minute. Robert Lewandowski 60th minute strike just proved no more than a consolation....

So, that was on Saturday, March 9.... a loss to Schalke... then Sunday i played a shit game for football.... and i am so mad at myself..... wtf. i wasnt even playing properly.... with Ibrahimovic and the team.... i felt like i let them down.... seriously.....

So after that, monday, tuesday flew past..... but on wednesday, my classmates Bronson, irsyad, Chongyang and Jason who happened to be jogging at East Coast Park (BOJIO) called me to ask if they could come to Thaipan.... i got the timing wrong for Thaipan closing hours.... thanks to the stupid voucher making me think it closes at 11pm when it closes at 10pm..... so its 940pm they reach the underpass near my house.... then have to break the bad news to them.... so i brought them to Siglap Food Centre which is beside NTUC.... and had dinner.

And then, it was football, where Bayern Munchen took on Arsenal for the 2nd leg of the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal surprisingly defeated Bayern. Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal the lead in the 3rd minute.... and then it was Arsenal all along... Arsene Wenger had dropped Thomas Vermaelen and Wojciech Szczesny from the lineup and was missing Jack Wilshere and Lukas Podolski through injury. However, for the first time this year Arsenal defence really looked solid with Kieran Gibbs, Laurent Koscielny, Per Mertesacker and Carl Jenkison doing well to keep Bayern at bay. Bayern are without Ribery but had still had Robben, who was marshalled well throughout by Arsenal defence. Even the goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski had a commanding game. Gervinho could have made the score 1-0 in the 82nd minute but wasted his chance. Then Arsenal's 2nd goal came through Laurent Koscielny who powered a header from Santi Carzola's corner. A scuffle broke out (lol) as Manuel Neuer didnt want to give the ball to Arsenal.... Bayern had a nervy game... and Theo Walcott threatened and made Bayern defence look nervy until he was substituted in the 72th minute by Alex Oxlaide Chamberlain. Nevertheless, Bayern still held out for a 2-0 loss for a 3-3 aggregate draw, going through to the quarter finals on away goals.

In the other UEFA Champions League games for the week, Barcelona romped AC Milan 4-0 at Camp Nou..... to comeback from a 2-0 defeat at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza and win 4-2 on aggregate. Galatasary won 3-2 at the Veltins Arena to win 4-3 on aggregate, and Malaga win Porto 2-0 to win 2-1 on aggregate....

So the Champions League quarter finals draw: results are

Malaga vs Borussia Dortmund

Paris St Germain vs FC Barcelona

Real Madrid CF vs Galatasary

FC Bayern Munchen vs Juventus

Oh well.... and then I bought some steam games, Battlestations Midway, Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty: World At War.... and just playing my heart out.....

Sighs... tomorrow will be work.... and my last day at work as a teenager....

Saturday, March 9, 2013

what am i doing...?

yeah what the fuck am doing...? am just slacking around... doing nothing as usual....

didnt catch the UEFA Europa League last night.... but got to know Tottenham beat Inter at white hart lane 3-0 with Gareth Bale scoring a header and Sigurdsson pounced on Handanovic's earlier save from Defoe to give Spurs a 2-0 lead and then Vertonghen added a header to make it 3-0.

Andre Villas Boas was happy that Gareth Bale got a yellow card for simulation.... because he would get his dsiciplinary record wiped clean for the quarter finals. Wonder if that would get him into trouble lol. Reminds me of how in 2010 Real Madrid defeated Ajax 4-0 at the Amsterdam Arena and Jose Mourinho asked Jerzy Dudek to relay instructions to Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos to get themselves red carded so that they can miss the next match and have their records wiped clean. lol.

So anyways, Chelsea fans will call for Rafa Benitez's head again... after losing to Steaua Bucharest 1-0 in Bucharest thanks to a questionable penalty given against Ryan Bertrand which Rusescu converted.

Well... Europa League is not that important anyways, didnt catch the UEFA Champions League clashes between Juventus vs Celtic (2-0 FT; Matri 24', Quagliarella 65') and Paris St Germain vs Valencia CF (1-1 FT; Lavezzi 65'; Jonas 55').

Pity Celtic are out....read from match reports they played ironically some of their best footballs against Juventus over the 2 legs and the 5-0 aggregate win for Juve flattered them... Well... I will still love Celtic anyways, for their group stage heroics against Barcelona, winning 2-1 at home.

And then theres No Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Paris St Germain to whoever they will meet next as there was additional game ban for him for his red card in the first leg...

But most importantly, BORUSSIA DORTMUND ARE THROUGH TO THE QUARTER FINALS. We defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 at Wesfalenstadion!!! WOOO!!! Felipe Santana with an unstoppable header in the 31st minute, Mario Gotze finishing well from a low Lewandowski's cross to make it 2-0 in the 38th minute. Then a goalkeeping howler from Ukraine's first choice goalkeeper at Euro 2012 Andriy Pyatov as he fumbled Ilkay Gundogan's shot gave Jakub Blaszczykovski the chance to make it 3-0 and a resounding 5-2 aggregate victory for us!

In the other match, Real Madrid defeated Manchester United at Old Trafford 2-1. Manchester United dominated at first (heard from my friend Wen Pin, who was whatsapping me) but didnt finish their chances well ( or rather I think Diego Lopez was very good). Still, Man Utd took the lead when a low cross from Nani hits Danny Welbeck and then hit Sergio Ramos for an own goal in the 48th minute. But then, disaster for Man Utd when in the 56th minute, a questionable red card was shown to Nani for kicking Alvaro Arbeloa in the chest (to me, he was looking at the ball, seeking to control it, so a yellow card would have done). Rio Ferdinand sarcastically claps at the referee's decision and no punishment for him, says UEFA, lol. So, with the red card, Jose Mourinho brought on Luka Modric on for the person who got kicked, Mr Arbeloa, and Modric hits a wondeful long range shot which cannons off the post into goal to equalise for Real Madrid in the 66th minute. Then, inevitably, the man, Cristiano Ronaldo, so loved by Man Utd fans who came back to Old Trafford, scored in the 69th minute, who drives it in from a cross by Gonzalo Higuain. Diego Lopez, the goalkeeper who had been brought back by Real Madrid since Iker Casillas fractured his hand, was outstanding, repelling Man Utd attacks one after another.... and so... ended 2-1 to Real Madrid and Real thus advance with a 3-2 aggregate victory over Man Utd. Jose Mourinho said that the best team lost... and i guess he was right...

Anyways... lol... just realised my blog posts mostly match reports.... but oh well... football is life....

Have been playing football manager 2011 for this holiday so far (yes, 2011.... didnt upgrade to 2012 or 2013). Now I have just been offered to take over Sir Alex Ferguson from Man Utd in the game after he retired.... I was Sunderland manager in the game... so i gladly took up the job offer... hehe.

But well... just now have also been reading MSHS confessions and TPJC confessions on facebook. Perhaps its time to confess some stuff. So I wrote one to MSHS confessions. But TPJC confessions is really rubbish. its like 90% of confessions are about having a crush on some guy/girl.... zzz...

Ok... so sian... Saturday comes so fast.... and got to work later.... so time to sleep now...

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Holidays so far...

Ok... so for this holidays... I've really just laze around. There's pretty much nothing much which I wanna do.... other than playing Football Manager....... being the manager for Sunderland A.F.C and Singapore National Football team.

Its my last few days before turning into an adult, no longer being a teenager, so i guess lazing around leading a carefree life eases the painful thought. Lol.

Anyways, Borussia Dortmund playing Shakhtar Donetsk tonight in the UEFA Champions League, with a 2-2 draw at Dombass Arena having the away goal advantage, I hope we can secure progression to the Quarter Finals. COME ON BVB!!!

The last weekend football matches saw BVB vs Hannover at the El Clasico taking place at the same time.... almost. BVB vs Hannover at 10.30pm in Singapore while Classico at 11pm. So I watched the BVB game for half an hour, where Lewandowski scored twice to give us a 2-0 lead, before switching over to watch the Clasico.

So, BVB won in the end, 3-1. With Julian Schieber and Abdellaoue adding on to the scores. In the Clasico, Real pretty much starting a changed team from the side that defeated them in the Copa Del Rey Semi-Final earlier in the week. But Barcelona made only 3 changes. Heres how the line up looks for the 2 games.

Copa Del Rey Semi-Final:

Real Madrid: Diego Lopez, Raphael Varane, Sergio Ramos, Fabio Coentrao, Sami Khedira, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Ozil, Xabi Alonso, Alvaro Arbeloa, Gonzalo Higuain, Angel Di Maria.

Barcelona: Jose Pinto, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Carlos Puyol, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Francesc Fabregas, Pedro Rodriguez, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi.

And in the La Liga game:

Real Madrid, Diego Lopez, Raphael Varane, Sergio Ramos, Fabio Coentrao, Kaka, Karim Benzima, Michael Essien, Luka Modric, Jose Maria Callejon, Alvaro Morata.

Barcelona: Victor Valdes, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Javier Mascherano, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Thiago Alcantra, David Villa, Pedro Rodriguez, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi.

And Real Madrid still won !!!! 2-1. So they beat Barca twice in a week!!!!! The game got off to a good start for Real, where Benzema scored in the 6 minute. But then, Messi scored his 50th goal of the season at the 18th minute to equalise.... But then, Barcelona never looked like they were in control of the game despite having more possession. Cristiano came on in the 57th minute and terrorised Barcelona. He registered 6 shots on goal in that short time, compared to Barcelona's 5 for the whole game. The game was eventually won in the 82th  minute by Sergio Ramos who powered a header past Valdes. There was controversy (or is there?) late on in the game when Adriano was felled in the box in injury time by Sergio Ramos, Real's stand-in captain (but looked more like a dive by Adriano to me, Barca are cheaters after all). So no penalty, Real went on to win 2-1, and Victor Valdes got himself red carded by the referee for shouting in his face. He was shown a yellow card but he continued shouting so he got a 2nd yellow card  2 seconds later HA.

Ok, football action later. Very exciting. Manchester United vs Real Madrid at Old Trafford, Manchester where Cristiano returns. Epic match up but I'm watching Dortmund.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Exams over... and a mini class gathering

Oh well... Security and Surveillance... some thing happened during the paper... invigilator suspected I was cheating.... oh well... heard from my classmate that when I dropped the paper i immediately got his attention. What an overreactive freak.

Whatever it is... its all over... Finally.

Was very surprised with my classmate that he actually made up his mind to drop out of school. It wasnt nice to see him go... just like that.... Although i dont really like working with him for projects... but still... theres a good side to everyone... so yeah..... its still sad....

Anyways later on, my classmates Irsyad, Kean Sing, Wei Qiang, Clara and Chelsea came over to my house. We ate at Thaipan, using the vouchers they mail to the residents monthly.... and unfortunately, the food we had there yesterday was not as good as last month.

Irsyad apparently sustained an abrasion on his right shoulder whilst trying to do a backflip.... Lol.... and also unfortuantely, my house no medical supplies, so I ran to Siglap Centre to purchase some antiseptic stuff and the various items.

So Wei Qiang, being Tiger Airways certified medic, helped him with the wound, and he was kinda in pain... and the girls took a video. hahaha. but oh well, seldom go out with my classmates, so must really thank them for coming over and being my guests.

Anyways, I did watch the Bayern Munchen vs Borussia Dortmund before the paper.... and Borussia Dortmund was absolutely lawnmowed over by Bayern Munchen. Bayern only won 1-0 through Arjen Robben's goal from distance, but could have been more.

Anyways, just time to do whatever I want... for now.... and time flies.... its now March 2013.... sighs.... just 20 more days and I would no longer be a teenager....