Wednesday, November 30, 2005
11:15 PM
I finally been to Highbury!! It's so cool. all the arsenal fans got off the tube at "Arsenal Station" and while walking towards the control station, some fans starting singing "I hate Chelsea". haha. directly in front of the tube station is the Highbury stadium!! It's soooo pretty. The stadium is really kinda small.. and the pitch is small too. But it feels very cosy coz the opposite stand is like so close to you and you feel surrounded by all your fellow arsenal compatriots. and the good thing about the pitch being small is that.. you get to see the players like right in front of you. I was sitting at the west stand. and the arsenal team was warming up at our side when i went in. saw Van Persie warming up. he looks exactly like he does on tv!! haha. gosh. i've never been so excited in my entire life. the best part was arsene wenger decided to start van persie and reyes.. and both of them scored during first half!! it's such a pity coz arsenal wasn't attacking at my side during the first half. the fans are really enthusiastic. they kept cheering and standing up when the attack is on the other side. i missed reyes' goal coz the guys in front of me were too tall. but i caught the replay on the big screen. it's brilliant! van persie's goal was good too! classic. During 2nd half, arsenal was attacking on our side and you can see the play soooo clearly. watching real life in the stadium is so different from tv. be it a flat screen 60 inch plasma. nothing beat being there at the stadium. arsene wenger substituted van persie and i was quite sad. on comes lupoli and within 3 minutes.. he was through on goal and i swear when you see him dribble right in front of you, you know it's gonna go in. it's THAT clear. you know it will go in. i was just waiting to cheer. that goal was brilliant too. 3 clinical goals. for 12 pounds. perfect!
gosh. the play is so fast for carling cup already and you can just imagine what if it's epl. henry can just sprint down the small highbury pitch in 3 seconds. man. i must go back again. it's awesome. i wonder how emirates stadium will look like. must go next season. yay!!
Monday, November 28, 2005
6:24 AM
im going highbury on tuesday! can't wait!! it's my first time watching a real football match in a stadium. arsenal vs reading. carling cup. though it's not an epl match and chances are i wont get to see much first team players (definitely no king henry), but i guess it's good enough. maybe there's this little littlllleee bit of chance that they might put fabregas, van persie or even bergkamp. if hleb and gilberto silva recovers speedily, they might be fielded to gain match practice. this is the last season for highbury stadium. it's so special. i have to go. haha. next season.. i shall go to the newly built emirates stadium.
i havent watch much soccer games ever since i got here. how ironic. haven't really gotten used to watching soccer on saturday afternoons.
this coming holidays are gonna be real busy for me. many things are going on back home and im not there to help. i've planned a list of things to do before i return to singapore. want to finish all my work and enjoy my holidays fully. so fast. december is coming. i love december =)
Monday, November 21, 2005
6:55 AM
was talking to a friend this afternoon about home and i mentioned to him that i do miss home, but not as much as the way my family misses me. and he said that its because they wake up every morning to see an empty bedroom and i don't. that's quite true.. especially since both my 2nd bro and me are over here at london. the newly built home is empty. sigh. we left soon after it was being built. and it doesnt help that big bro is always working. i guess it must have been really hard for daddy and mummy to return to an empty home everyday. daddy called me this morning at 8.30am london time when i was still sleeping. felt quite bad that i didn't get to talk to them much. guess they really miss me. can't wait to go home all of a sudden.
i wanna spend x'mas at home. sitting around the dining table. eating the 933 cooked- style turkey and putting the presents under the money tree. i'll be home soon. i promise.
Monday, November 14, 2005
9:00 AM
i love this game
i played my first bball here this week!! i thought i will never get to touch bball in london. like no one plays bball here. there's no proper court or hoop. played in school on tue and the court and board was really lousy. it was an indoor badminton court.. so the grounds were slippery and the bball board is the foldable kind. so after several shots... the board will start to slant to the left. how lousy is that!
played outdoor today at this street soccer court. the bball rim again has no net and there was no box to aim at. it's like a cage. not board. no "chopped" sound after u score and no "da pan".. i miss playing in singapore.. where the weather is really warm and nice. but the good thing is you dont sweat here.. and the bad thing is ya fingers get 'frozen'. initially.. my fingers was all numb and when i received a pass... they felt like breaking! ouch!
but bball was good. i really love the game. and i keep sticking to alison (this pro vj bball player).. and i think i really irritated her! haha. okok. shall not defend her next time. but my shooting from outside the range kinda suck now. i've sort of lost my "touch" (if i even got any to start with). haha. i miss my ac bball court. need to practice more shooting. been so off here in london. embarrassing!
shall start to make bball part of my life again. though i suck in the game.. i just love playing it. how irritating is that? haha.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
7:13 AM
when a decision is being made, a lot of thoughts and considerations are assumed to have been done. but is that really the case? or do we normally just skip the tedious and painful process of contemplating and try to convince ourselves that "yes.. that's what we really want" and "yes.. that's the best for me"?
i dont like the feeling of having to rethink about a decision i've made. because i like to think that we should not do things only to regret in future. should a third party's viewpoint be considered, a whole "series" of regrets, uncertainty and perhaps even guilt comes haunting you again. maybe we should just think through things again. and then forget about them. once and for all.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
7:20 AM
hall life
some mickey mouse set the fire alarm off at 2am sunday morning. initially i thought the receptionist or the security guard must have accidentally triggered the alarm off or something.. or that the hall warden suddenly decided to have an impromptu fire drill.
and so i waited for the irritating fire alarm to go off. but it persisted for quite long and i decided to look out of the window. there were actually people crowding outside the building and thus i grab my keys and jacket and went downstairs. (luckily i only live on the 1st floor. ie the 3rd floor here.) everyone was in their pjs or shorts and slippers while we waited for the 'fire' to be put off.
2 fire engines actually came.. and left within 2 minutes. it was just a false alarm. apparently some guy left the kitchen door opened or that someone was smoking and the smoke triggered the ultra-sensitve smoke detector in the corridor.
luckily i was still awake at that time.. otherwise i would have been super pissed. oh well.. that's hall life for you. exciting isn't it?
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
7:01 PM
quote of the day
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke