I SHOOKED HANDS WITH RUSSELL HITCHCOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never mind if the sound system at the start was bad.
Never mind if the crowd was mainly in their 30s or 40s.
Never mnd if the crowd around you was not that lively.
Never mind if the concert hall had a bit of echos.
Never mind if you were sitting quite back.
Never mind if at times Graham was a bit corny.
Most importantly is...
I SHOOKED HANDS WITH RUSSELL HITCHCOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The concert was quite solid actually. Its amazing how crazy fans who are in their 30s and above be, I reckon I was one of the youngest at the concert. But to see those people in the 30s and above go up and hug Graham and Russell was quite a sight. I must say that Daf and I were very lucky to be able to shake Russell's hand when he went round to mingle with the crowd during the concert itself. The first time he went up the aisle he did not shake my hand but when he came down, I thought he wouldn't shake mine hand but he suddenly turned back and shook Daf's hand and mine. Yea! Enjoyed it big time! Power concert. Initially will only give the concert 6.5/10 but the way they managed to steer up the audience made me think twice about the concert. Final rating is 8.5/10! Russell in particular was superb in rousing the audience! Those people who had organised functions will often know how hard it is to get the older generation going at times, but there were Graham and Russell motivating even people in their 50s! Its a concert I will not forget! It was power!
Charity Shield
Man Utd 1 Arsenal 1
Man U won 4-3 on penalties.
Howard and Scholes the heroes.
van the Man finally missed a penalty. He has never missed a penalty for Man U until now. Maybe this miss will remove some pressure off him from taking penalties. To me, he's still the current best striker in the world, way better than Ronaldo!
he spoke at 11:58 pm
Anyway, got this in my email and thought that some of them are quite true.
1. Thanks to SMS, you have an extra large thumb.
2. Tks 2 SMS, u oso dun no how 2 spel n e mor.
3. You pat MRT and bus seats to cool them before you sit down.
4. At lunch, you start discussing what to eat for dinner.
5. Your wedding photos include shots of you dressed up like Louis
XIV,
Michael Jackson, or Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.
6. When speaking to foreigners, you somehow feel a need to adopt an
accent.
(If you're a DJ, this happens even when you're not speaking to
foreigners.)
7. You won't raise your voice to protest policies, but you'll raise
your
fists to whack someone over Hello Kitty.
8. You're forever talking about businesses you want to set up but
will
probably never get around to starting.
9. You don't know ¾ of the people attending your wedding.
10. You separate food into 2 basic groups: 'heaty' and 'cooling'.
11. You're never completely sure how many times you've sung the
second
verse of the National Anthem.
12. You think that what makes you 'married' is not the legal
registration
but whether you've thrown a 12 course dinner.
13. You marry for the real estate breaks.
14. You have kids for the tax advantages.
15. You move to where you want your child to go to school.
16. You feel you can't walk around naked in your own flat.
17. You force your children to take Speech & Drama classes, but pray
they
won't wind up in Arts later on.
18. You suddenly realize you're very interested in biotech - just
like you
suddenly realized three years ago that you were very interested in
e-commerce, and before that, engineering, and before that, medicine
and
law.
19. You think being an entrepreneur is setting up a bubble
tea/Portuguese
egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop right next to an existing bubble
tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop.
20. You think people are inconsiderate when they don't leave their
table
immediately after eating at the food court but think you have every
right
to take 25 bites to finish the last red bean in your ice kachang.
21. You find it impossible to make suggestions without drawing a
fishbone
chart first.
22. If you're a guy, whenever you get together with your guy
friends, you
invariably trade army stories.
23. If you're a girl, whenever you get together with your girl
friends, you
invariably trade stories about how your stupid guy friends are
forever
trading army stories.
24. You think the most important sporting event in Singapore this
year was
David Beckham switching from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
25. You somehow feel that food tastes better when eaten by a
longkang.
26. It actually makes a difference to you being called an 'NSMan'
rather
than a 'Reservist'.
27. You've eaten more times at the Esplanade than you've actually
seen
shows there.
28. You need campaigns to tell you how to be courteous, to flush
toilets,
have sex, etc.
29. When you visit the Zoo, you wonder what the animals taste like.
30. You feel the urge to add the suffix '-polis' to everything, viz.
Biopolis, Airtropolis, Fusionopolis, Entrepolis, etc.
31. You always feel oddly hungry at 11 pm, and are willing to drive
to far
away places for supper.
32. You meet in hotels a lot.
33. Your children have a rudimentary knowledge of Tagalog or Bahasa
Indonesia.
34. You work at McDonald's when you're old rather than young.
35. You'll gladly spend $50,000 on a car, but will go to great
lengths to
save a few bucks on ERP charges or even a few cents on a parking
coupon.
36. Pork floss and mayonnaise on bread is a completely natural
combination
to you.
37. If you're pregnant, you have the strange ability to make people
on the
MRT fall asleep instantly.
38. You ask for the bill by miming a signing movement.
39. You've started referring to foreign employees as 'talent'
instead of
'expatriates'.
40. At the dinner table, you're always discussing which other food
places
serve better versions of what you're eating.
41. You copy down licence plate numbers of cars involved in
accidents.
42. You think your boyfriend doesn't really love you unless he gives
you
part of his liver.
43. During sales, you book hotel rooms near malls to enable you to
shop
more efficiently.
44. You pronounce the letter 'R' as 'ah-rer' and the letter 'H' as
'haytch'.
45. No matter how old you are, you keep associating people with
their
secondary schools. (alternative: No matter how old you are, you
secretly
need to know what other people got for their PSLE, O levels and A
levels.)
46. You're always on a quest for the definitive version of your
favourite
local dish.
47. When you explain things to people, you keep (a) using alphabets,
and
(b) speaking in point form.
48. You believe that you can generate 'creativity' through rules and
committees.
49. You 'chope' a seat by placing a packet of tissues on the chair.
50. You're very forthright with your criticisms of the Gahmen,
unless
there's a chance they might actually hear you.
51. You diligently track the whereabouts of your favourite hawkers,
i.e..you know that the famous Tiong Bahru Bao is now in Jurong, the
famous
Outram Char Kuay Teow is now in Hong Lim Centre and the famous Lau
Hock
Kien Hokkien mee from the old Lau Pa Sat is now at Beach Road.
52. Your mother probably can't speak your 'mother tongue'.
53. You'd rather drink your own pee than pay someone more for water.
54. You secretly find that the best part of the Speak Good English
Movement
is hearing the Singlish bits in their ads.
55. You have an automatic sensor in your head which categorizes
people you
meet into stayer/ quitter, cosmopolitan/heartlander, normal/
express/
gifted, etc.
56. You think we're living in a modern, sophisticated country even
when our
leaders still insist on wearing their school uniforms.
57. You wish your constituency is in a walkover, because otherwise
it's
damn 'leceh'.
58. During elections, you decide that there is no credible
opposition even
though you don't know the name of the opposition candidate in your
constituency.
59. You think having a constitution is like the condition you get
when you
don't eat enough fibre.
60. You can never quite remember what "the core values" of
Singaporeans
are.
he spoke at 9:06 am
Woke up to watch the match between Sporting and Man U. Woke up in the 2nd half to be precise only to realise that Man U played quite a 2nd team and thoroughly deserved to lose 3-1. Mind you, that 1 goal to their credit was a Sporting own goal. O well, that's the final friendly they will be playing. Next match is against Bolton at Old Trafford. 2 major absentees from that squad will be Beckham and Veron. Was actually quite surprised by Man U's move to sell Veron especially after he played quite well in the friendlies. Happy also that I managed to catch his final game for them. Fergie's reason was that Man U had too many central midfielders and had to sell Veron to keep the midfield happy especially with Kleberson's arrival. Wonder if he will fit into the Man U playing style. Veron did not so he was shipped out and I got this feeling he can survive in Chelsea as their playing style is more Italian influenced. Pretty confident that despite their sales, Man U will still be a force to be reckoned. Got to remember the time when they sold of players like Ince, Kanchelskis etc, player whom people considered as the stars and main players in the the Man U squad. Replacing them were than unknown players like Beckham and Scholes. Look how they have blossomed over the years. Over 6/7 seasons to be precised. Imagine putting in a team of youngsters in the shoes of experienced players. Which team will dare do that? Fergie did it and in 2-3 seasons, those questionable youngsters became international stars and one of them is probably the most well known footbeller in football history.
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