Finally, the World Cup is over. Ordinary people like you and I can go back to our normal lives instead of pretending to be football experts and commentators. It was grossly infuriating when males and females alike would chip in their two cents worth about who they think would win and why….. not like I would care. And ordinarily, these people would not even watch soccer, be it the Serie A or the A Division Boys matches.

So instead ranting on about soccer, I shall produce a my list of 10 reasons why I think soccer is silly.

10. ARSEnal and Nicky BUTT
9. Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho…. ?
8. So what actually constitutes an off-side. ( watch Italy’s last two matches)
7. Integrity, or rather the lack of it, e.g. Rivaldo
6. The Americans made it to the quarters and all three Americans watching wonder why they don’t pick the ball up and run with it.
5. Perugia
4. Do the players know their national anthem?
3. Sudden death play-offs (so anti-climax)
2. Girls actually know more about players than I do
1. So is it football or soccer?

On the whole, I had a good week if you don’t count the screwy Physics common test. So I hope I manage to keep this momentum going all the way to the dreaded As. Oh yeah, today I was out with a couple of friends of mine and we went to Borders and my friends were perusing through the books and we landed in the gender studies category. We found this book called “Boys who want to be girls” on the shelf and it had a picture of a couple of transsexuals on the cover. Hmm….I guess the Singapore Censorship Board starting to be more lax huh? But really….. you think anyone would want to buy that? Can you imagine the stares you’ll get if you walk up to the cashier with it? It probably even beats buying a years supply of condoms at 7-Eleven. And then there was this other book called Gay 100, which had a brief write-up on 100 famous people who were gay, among them the usual suspects of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare, and then surprisingly they included Florence Nightingale, Socrates, Madonna and some other geeks. Too bad they didn’t include Keynes.

So that’s my week for anyone out there still interested in what I’m doing. I’ve been reading this really great book called 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens and I must say, it really is good. Who would have thought to write their goals down on paper. Yup I’ll be a better person.. Soon. Till then..

i hate vectors. just realized that i have a lot more to studyfor vectors, not counting physics(charge particles, waves and the works)
i wish i had more friends, no offence to my current friends.
i am weird.

studying for three hours straight is not good. that's why you need to take an hour to read the papers and other periodicals they have in the library and come to the com lab to tinkle with the computers. well anywayz, i'm soooo dead....got so many chapters left and made a pact to finish studying by today to revise tomorrow. so ciao!

spirit: stallion of the cimarron is one heck of a show. okay wait, that didn't come out right. let me try again. spirit: stallion of the cimarron was one heck of an idiotic show. totalky childish. i can already see the faces of the cartoonists or whatever you call people who draw these animated features going, hmm....."d'ya think the kids will buy it if we paint the horses as if they could show facial expressions? well, let's just go ahead and try it out." then they'd be thinking "hmmm, do you think the kids would buy it if we recycled the scripts from black beauty/lassie/skippy:bush kangaroo. nah, they're probably too young to have watched any of those, let's try it again, hope we make a coupla million dollars and win an oscar while we're at it."
seriously, it was one heck of a dumb movie, unless you believe horses actually have emotions, could love and would risk their lives to save the life of a man he hardly knows but who gave it some apples earlier in the day. was knocking my head against the chair in front of me the entire show. plus, there was this idiot ang moh and his wife and KIDS sitting in our seats and we came and told them, he told us off...saying that there were so many other seats.....tsk tsk....just cause they have fair hair and skin....you'd think they'd at least be more courteous. on my way out, i heard this kid(about 10 years old) saying "so boring!" and i was going to go up to the kid and say you got it buster, but then....that pretty summed up spirit: stallion of the cimarron, hella mouthful if you ask me.

great, i told more of my friends that i had a blog, and i had purposed not to tell them so they wouldn't see the evil side of me. oh well.....i wish i still had my counter. it's not like people actually read my blog, no thanks to my infrequent and inconsistent blog updates.
so i'm now trying to get some studying done. i think i'll do physics and maths today. i got about 3 gp compres covered and the econs essays are going to the dogs, but at least i have physics of fluids!! haha.
yesterday was a really fun day. i heeded mrs chan's advice to study for three days and then take a break so i didn't study at all yesterday. instead, i had cell group in the morning and we shared for a whole 2 hours. we were really very blessed this hols.
then we adjourned to suntec where we had a sumptious jap lunch and watched scooby doo!! very funny, although i've gotta say scooby is the cutest and most like the cartoon of all. oh, and if you haven't watched it, watch out for scrappy....oooppppsss, did i give everything away?
and at night, we went to the singapore indoor stadium for the festival of praise, which was really good. i'm signing up for a missions conference although it'll be really close to the prelims. god will provide.
i didn't know that there's this whole hip row of joints behind the indoor stadium. walked past it last night and it was totally awesome. felt like i was at sydney harbour or something.
i was doing my devotion and i read this interesting part where it said that you should be an encourager so i'll try my best to encourage everyone now. already written a few notes yesterday, hope they're encouraged :) .

and we know that in all things, god works for the good of those who love him, and have been called according to his will. romans 8:28

i had a fantastic weekend.
first, let me tell you what happened. I went for a church camp, called an 'encounter'. it was a really really surreal experience, like you're in heaven for the weekend. well anyway, i encountered god over the weekend and he gave me a vision, at least i think he did.
we were all praying and i asked god to show himself to me, to be more real in my life. then someone came over to pray for me and then he told me to let go of my own visions and plans, and i thought that was really really true cause all this while, i've held on to the belief that one day i'll be a successful entrepreneur/financial executive, i'll graduate from one of the best business schools, prob Oxford haha.. but then once he told me to let go cause that isn't what god is planning for me. and then he prophecied on me and said that he could see me standing in front of a crowd and preaching god's word. and i saw it too......like i said it was surreal....
i think i've gotten rid of my demons.....like god has helped me to break my bondages and repent of sins, little sins that i didn't know i had.....and i feel like a different person after the encounter.
you might think i've lost my marbles but i truly believe it. anyway, i think god's calling for me is to be a missionary or a pastor. and if god says so, then so be it.
i think it's quite a relief for me too because i've been really troubled by schoolwork and computing especially. but then now that i've received this vision, it's as if god is saying to me that if i put god first and honour him, he will take care of the rest and crown me with his glory....:P.
just thought you might like to know.

okay i managed to get it up. click here for my wishlist.

can't seem to get the wishlist link to work so better luck next time eh? i'll ask lanet how she managed to get the list up.

since lanet was on the idea of creating a wishlist, i'll let you all see mine. my wishlist..

venus and serena are in the finals!!

i just came back from supper only to be plesantly surprised to find that serena williams beat jennifer capriati!!
the willieams are on course for a showdown in the finals of the french open....pwhoarhhhh!!

i do silly things everyday

well.....yan...i think the goalkeeper is not playing in the world cup..disappointing right?
well i scored 10/30 on the latest oop quiz...i consider that an improvement over my 2/50 score...don't you? hah
life has been really hectic and fun for the past few days...gotta go out a whole lot and bond with some really great friends.....and all this will be gone if i go overseas....so sad to be so far away from people you cherish..
today i did half a comprehension..maybe more than half....i stopped at the part where they ask you to build sentences with a given word and i had this strong feeling of dejavu....reminded me of higher malay...thoguht it was quite weird for a gp paper but it was for previous years one la ...so i just stopped there even though there are questions after that..i'll just assume that's all i'm supposed to do..even though theres another summary or analysis question...hmmm
venus and serena williams won and they are both through to the semi finals!!! so cool.


this week i watched: count of monte cristo
this week i am listening to: moby-play

okay so i took the assignment that gisc posted on blackboard and i got 2 out of 50. it's term 1 happening all over again. deja vu. okay computing aside, i'm really tired...been out nearly all day. of course my day started at noon so technically that wouldn't be all day.
hhmmmm.....some of my friends took their sat today. i wonder how they fared....hope they did well.
well...nothing much to say except that my parents are really irritating.
for instance, just now when i was icqing she snuck up behind me and watched what i was doing. of course i heard her so i minimized all the windows and then there was this hotmail junk box window left. but then i realized that hotmail's so crappy that they send you porn mail and there was one that said something like FREE SEX VIDEOS or something and i quickly minimized that window too. i hope my mum didn't see that or she'll be doing more spying on me. what mrs liew says is so true....
my parents are crap. i feel like such a loser, the only loser who has a drivers licence but can't drive alone. well for your information bitch, i've driven your stinking car ALONE. haha.