This week was pretty fun as I started off with a training session on Monday which lasted only for 30mins due to the lack of players and the floorball training session ended off with a practice match against EEE and they soundly beat us by a huge margin. The training session was too tiresome for me as I could only last for five minutes. As my team lacked a keeper, I volunteered to be the keeper as I did not want to run myself and tire myself out but trouble was our first match was against NIE who have a few national players in their team and are the tournament favourites and I had no experience in being a keeper. My friend gave me a few basic tips on how to be keeper and a 15 min practice session was all I had before my maiden match with NIE.

As always, I have nightmares before crunch time and dreamt that they were going to put 5 or 6 goals past me. However, our first match against NIE was a pretty close affair as we managed a water tight defence and their players couldn't get a easy shot at goal thanks to my defence who made my workload easier in the first half. In the second half, they came back with a vengence to put a goal past me and eventually, they broke their duck. I was pretty disappointed with the goal but nevertheless we managed to keep the scoreline to a respectable level and we only knew that we have to beat SCI to qualify for the quarters and we did beat although the goal was a bit of gay but who cares as long as we win the match.

We beat HSS in the quarters via another gay goal but lost to MAE in the semis as the match was again a pretty close affair as I was hoping that we would score in normal time as I did not want to face the prospect of penalty shootout where I had zero experience but the fact our make shift team made it to the semis was instead commendable and my stint as a first time keeper was good as I tried my level best at keeping a low scoreline and was worried that I would let in some gay goals. Perhaps, I would be more experienced and be a keeper for my school again.

Mr Kopi drafted me into the volleyball team at the last minute and I agreed as I was free in the afternoon but trouble was that it has been a long time since I played volleyball and was having a bad feeling about it and rightfully, I played a horrible match where half my serves went off court and my layups were pretty aweful and I basically made a fool of myself on court. The fact that I was slotted in at the last minute and we almost had a walkover showed that our team was certainly inexperienced.

Saturday Night Fever

My Saturday night pretty much consisted of watching television and reading books. It has been a long time since I saw a Tamil movie as they seem to be full of crap these days but the movie on Central was pretty decent but the ending was stupid which consisted of the lead character giving back the $$ to the kidnapper who has clearly been defeated at the end and the $$$ was given so that the kidnappers won't bother him again. What a stupid ending and the kidnapper looks and acts like a clown which is even more that the lead character took the clown more seriously was a joke.

Soccer seems to be pretty standard as Chelsea and Man Utd posted wins over teams which they are expected to win and this season was pretty much shaping up to be a 4 way race and of course, Liverpool choked by losing 3-1 and Rafa is under increasing pressure as he has lost his unbeaten record in EPL but I guess fans are seeing a familiar scenario. Liverpool spends big to get good players, fans get hyped up and talk about the title going to Anfield, Liverpool wins the first few games and convinces their fans that this is their season and they managed to beat big teams but could not beat minnows in their later stages, conceding the title yet again to either Chelsea, Man Utd or Arsenal. I guess there's always next season.

I'm currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo and I'm just halfway through the book having covered some 600 odd pages and this book has been a test of patience as it has been a long time since I read a 1000 page odd book but I guess I got to savour the book slowly before it gets terrifyingly good. I would recommend it for those interested in knowing more about French History and it's a must read for those who love classics.

I'm waiting for my friend to pick me up to go to Chomp Chomp now and I hope time flies. Ciao.

Updates

I guess this is the perfect time to provide updates as I'm waiting for 1.30pm to strike for me to start registering for subjects for next semester. There are 3 instances of stress during a student's semester- during exams, getting results and registering for subjects. Registering for subjects is pretty stressful as you would want the best time table and you need to have pretty fast fingers to get the slots which you want as you do not certainly want tutorial slots on friday afternoon unless you have gone crazy to want such slots. I pray that I get the slots which will free up my fridays as I would be having a almost 4 day week as I have only one lecture on friday and that is computing.

Computing is one subject which is a nightmare for most Singapore students as it does not make sense to us and most of us would be happy to just clear it as we don't understand of what's being taught and I would be more than happy to just get a pass as I can't put myself again through the torture of cheating myself and the agonizing 2 hours spent in laboratory trying to solve something which I have no idea and just hope to get some working or method marks. I hope next semester will be the semester in which I will get to see computing for the last time.

However, I'm kind of worried about the choice of electives which I will get as I do not want to make the mistake of taking essay based electives as it's harder to score and SU will be the only option to ensure the elective does not bring your GPA down. However, the GEs seem to be scary as the modules are core modules for some schools and I don't want to be at the losing end. It's very important that I make the right choice.

On a lighter note, I have been catching up on football for the past week and caught the Manchester United match and was impressed with Ronaldo's performance. He just seems to get better and better each season and I won't be surprised if he can eclipse his last season's goal tally. I guess Ferguson will be off-loading Saha as I seriously feel he's injury prone and becoming more of a liablity but in the event of either Rooney or Tevey getting injured, he might come in handy but I'm glad that Arsenal are playing sublime football this season and this team has impressed me especially they went on to win the match from a goal down. Previous Arsenal team would have given up or settled for a draw if they were in such a position and I hope their unbeaten record continues today against Newcastle.Sorry Sammy. Although I would like you to win to ensure that you are in job, I hope miracles are not performed today against Arsenal.

This morning's AC Milan match would have certainly increased the transfer fee of Kaka. That guy is simply phenomenal. Although he did not score, his gameplay was simply superb and he can read the game well and his acceleration is second to none as there was one instance he received the ball from the halfway mark and his first touch and acceleration left the defender chasing after him but he wasn't able to finish. That would have capped off a superb Kaka performace. Credit has to be given to Inzaghi who rescued Milan.

I'm also catching up on the 70s show. It's one hell of a funny show and thought that it would be a lame show but the show turned out to be good with interesting characters such as Eric Foreman- the lead character, Stven Adler- the guy against establishment, Fezz-the horny exchange student, Michael- the dumb bloke who likes to silly stuff, Jackie-Michael's on and off bimbo girlfriend, Donna- Eric's girlfriend, Red-Eric's strict, no nonense, skeptical father and Kiddy- Eric's funny cute mother and of course Donna's crazy parents. I would highly recommend this show as the show takes place during the 70s and gives the viewer of how people dress and how they think and what was hot and what was not.

Speaking of the 70s, I'm currently hooked onto stairway to heaven by Led Zepplin. I guess it's never too late once again as I should have discovered Led during secondary school but it's pretty cool stuff as the music is good. I guess I have to move on to Jimmy as he's pretty good stuff. I'm waiting for American gangster to come out as I can't wait for the movie to be released. My friend told me that it's oscar worthy and I hope Denzel bags the best actor again as he's a very talented actor. Hallmark channel does screen some decent shows but you have to be very selective and wise in your choice of movies as it's mostly B-grade movies.

What the hell is happening to the Malaysia Indians? The group leading the protest accused the government of ethnic cleansing. What the hell. Rwanda is an example of ethnic cleansing. Kosovo is an example of ethnic cleansing. What is happening in Malaysia is discrimination. The plight of the Indians over there is very bad and it was time that their grievances were aired but if they are planning to skive and not do anything to raise their standard of living or education, I guess no matter how much help is provided, they will still remain stagnant. Being poor in India is one thing but being poor in another man's land is really really bad.