Sunday, July 27, 2003
Damn addicted to the theme song (I think) from Lunar Silver Star Story. It's called Wind's Nocturne. Super moving and power song!
he spoke at 12:15 pm
Was damn frust and ritred last night cos I could not figure out certain functions of Dreamweaver MX. Fuck man was like at the brink of smashing my comp. Got to apologise again to Sher cos think was really blabbering rubbish while chatting with her. Been reading a lot of articles with regards to the mad footballing world of today. So many reports these few days about how European clubs are coming over here to exploit the Asian market and as the days go past, I'm beginning to despise Real Madrid bit by bit. Let's say that I was never really fond of them since 2000 when they poached Zidane from the stables of Juve. Than this season they became so obsessed with success that they sacked loyal servants like 'Captain Marvel' Fernando Hierro and their popular manager Vicente del Bosque. Mind you, all this happened the day after they won the league and that these 2 people are very popular with the players. Hierro has been the rock of defence for Real, the inspirational captain and a model for the younger players. Del Bosque has brought in many successes for them during his short tenture. At least 2 league titles and 3 European Cups. No current manager in Europe even come close to bringing so much success in Europe in such a short span of time and because of apparent differences with the management, off he goes. Where is loyalty?? Do you really think that they bought Beckham for his footballing skill? More for his Asian appeal in mu opinion. How sad and tragic this world has evolved. Look around and you see the retrenchments. Money comes before loyalty. "O, we do agree that you have been a loyal and effective staff to us but since we can get a person cheaper than you, heck if he is less effective but he's cheaper so here's your retrenchment letter. What? Loyalty? O that's only what we say when we lament about young people job hopping. So long, please clear the desk that you have been sitting for the past 20 years in 2 minutes. Our security will escort you on the way out. Thank you once again. O yah, I'll have a fake remorse to compliment what I said and I'll put a sad face in front of the media to prove my point. Since you are leavng I'll let you in on a small secret, actually you are getting retrenched, its because the board needs to maintain our year end bonus. Bye."
he spoke at 10:35 am
Friday, July 25, 2003
In a blink of an eye, the 3rd week is over. Today's Newswriting is an adrenaline rush, fancy learning how to write a news lead and have a 15% assessed tutorial immediately after that. Wow, that was amazing. Had a lovely lunch with Keng, Penny, Yah Yah, Joy and Michelle to celebrate Keng's birthday. Well, as some people say, its not also about the fodd but also with the people you have it with. Brian, Melly, Bern and Grace came after that but did not makan at Sakura. Grace left early and we than went window shopping. When we left Far East, we had only me, Keng, Brian, Melly and Yah Yah left as the rest had something on. Yah Yah left not long after and the reminding of us went to HMV to look around. Think I'll soon buy AK's album as I realised that it comes with quite a few MTVs! On my way back, i was thinking of what to put in my Web Design website. Think it'll be on 'Journey' and about tennis. Not sure if I should cover on tennis in general or should I do the open era or the 4 Grand Slams. The first two may have quite a bit to cover but guess it all depends on how I intend to cover it. The Grand Slams seems easier but not sure if I can find enough materials to cover it. Got to do my journal over the weekend; a target of at least 5 pages.
he spoke at 6:48 pm
Thursday, July 24, 2003
On my way back today had an eyesore sia. There was this St Margaret's student that was sitting opposite me and her shoe laces was undone so she crossed her legs so tie them up. Ok, I immediately turned my head and did not see anything but think by the way she sat she was probably... you guys know. Why can't these people sit properly or be more aware?? Sheesh.
Was rather pissed when I read about what some German papers reported about the Tour de France and how they lamented on how Jan Ullrich should had attacked when Lance Armstrong fell. What kind of message are they sending out?? That we should take advantage of the unfortunate? Or maybe they just did not do their research on cycling. There's this unspoken rule that when the leader falls or take a piss etc, the peloton will slow down so as to let the leader come on. Fools who do otherwise will find themselves being chased down by the entire peloton and will probably make a few enemies. Cycling to me is actually a very gentlemanly sport with the cyclists all respecting all the unspoken rules. Back to Ullrich, he played down the reports by saying that if he had attacked and won, there would had been no glory even if he won the tour. Wow. Thinking back, such incidents are pretty rare in modern day sports. Those I can remember at this point is Paolo di Canio picking up the ball during an EPL match against Everton when Everton's keeper fell and hurt himself. Despite having the goal at his mercy, he sportingly picked the ball to allow treatment for the opposing keeper. Robbie Fowler too once did something similar. He was brought down in the box and the was awarded a penalty. He felt that the fall did not warrant a penalty and protested against it despite the penalty being in his favour. He had no choice and had to take it and he duely missed it. Speaking of him, was watching his former club Liverpool play against Thailand. What a fucked up referee! He actually played 10 minutes of extra time when there should had only been 1 minute. Thailand's coach protested a few times until he finally got the message! What a dickhead. he result? He got booed by the amused fans. The commentator mentioned that he probably got his watch from one of the stalls outside the stadium. The linesmen too had quite a few questionable offside calls. Really a case of kayu!
he spoke at 10:37 pm
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Apart from feeling a bit under the weather, today passed by rather well. Most interesting lesson probably was Studio Pro. Had our shooting done today and again JT acted in a way that fascinated some of us. When the DV recorder kept getting stuck, she was so frustrated that she slammed the DV casing on the table. She caught the few of us by surprised doing it that. You guys should have seen Grace's and mine stunned face when she did that. Web Design was quite boring but did learn quite a bit so now the goal is not to forget all that I learnt. Haha. Thinking about signing up for thingy Brian Lee mentioned, don't know man, still quite undecided. Anyway, recording went pretty smoothly and most of us are quite happy. Willie called and asked me if I wanted to go Centro tomorrow but can't cos got a morning class on Friday. O well, not fated to club.
he spoke at 8:10 pm
Monday, July 21, 2003
Joanna appeared on Ready, Steady, Go!! Haha, cannot believe it that they will actually ask a person like her. Yup, she thought that Ang Mo Kio was just a stop away from Toa Payoh! Those people who know her too will know what I mean, as in how blur she can be. But the good thing is that she can be so blur that it makes her very lovable. Haha. Yea, go figure. Hmm, another lecture day tomorrow and not to mention the dreaded 3 hour break.
he spoke at 10:23 pm