Ok so it is 2pm now. I am back home because my team did not make it pass the quailfying rounds. Time to blame people. Now other than Matthew and me, the rest of the team were bollocks. Two of them were Matt's frenz so I didn't want to make a big deal but honestly Stanley was way too relaxed. He takes like 5 seconds to pass the ball, his passing is way off, my jaw almost dropped when I saw him play, assuming I considered that as 'play'. Why do I always get clowns in my team. Damn.

Ok time for my two cents bit on Euro 2008. Now I will officially be rooting for Holland (as usual). But deep down, I know they will fuck it up in the quarters. Same goes for Spain, they are the Liverpool of major tournaments, forever promising much only to falter like feathers.

I believe France will make it to the finals, they have a squad with experienced veterans and hungry young starlets. I also reckon Germany to make it to the finals. Germany have a habit of struggling in the qualifiers only to excel when the tournament starts. I attribute it to the kelong theory, giving punters the impression that they are weak only to win when people least expect it. The signs are starting to show again, Germany just drew with Belarus a few days ago, so the trend is similar again. Remember, you heard it from this space first.

Honestly if Holland doesn't win it, I hope underdogs like Croatia or Russia nick it. The one team that I HOPE not to win it is Portugal. They are a nation full of wankers. Ronaldo, Nani, Petit, Simao and the king of all wankers, Ricardo Carvalho. I can't stand the sight of them crying on the ground when they get tackled and lashing out at opponents for diving when they mis-time their tackles on the opposition. The Portuguese are a bunch of softies in my opinion.

Having said everything, I hope the Dutch can surprise me.

I can't wait for the LTA Hampshire Cup this saturday. I have set myself a target. To win the final. I believe I can singly handily win the competition all by myself. I have seen most of the people play. In short, they are bollocks. I reckon I can use my left leg to shoot and still score. I hope to hang the championship medal on my office cubicle next monday.

Last night I had dinner with my cousins at Shokudo, a Japanese Marche style eatery. Honestly at first sight, I thought the food was pretty little and no kick for me, but well lets just say that when I went home, I couldn't sleep even after midnight because I was too full. Looks can be deceiving aye. The pizza, fried rice and omelette was pretty good. Yup I enjoyed myself. Thanks cousins for the treat and the Hokkaido snacks.

Champions Of Europe!!!

Nothing can beat the feeling of seeing your favourite team lift the champions league trophy, the captain kissing the trophy before hoisting it up above his head. When Van Der Sar palmed Anelka's penalty away, I had to pinch myself to believe that we had won it. My mates and I were jumping around in joy pumping our fists in the air. Finally after 9 years of hurt, we are the champions once again!

Credit to Chelsea, they never gave up. I felt that both sides were equally matched even till the penalty shootout. But two players particularly stood out for me. Owen Hargreaves for his tireless runs and Nemanja Vidic. The Serbian practically shut out Drogba for the whole game yesterday until Drogba had no choice but to slap him. I have to admit, when Ronaldo missed his penalty and John Terry lined up to take the decisive spot kick, my heart was in my mouth. Thankfully he slipped and the rest is history.

To the Manchester United team, well done lads! To the Man Utd fans out there, we have the bragging rights now!

Alright here is the latest Mas Selemat conspiracy theory that I heard from my friend. The Singapore ISD has successfully managed to convert Mr Selemat to be a good guy and the 'escape' is actually a smoke screen for him to be reunited with the JI members and infiltrate their organisation. The confusing part is that he is also supposedly according to my friend spying on the United Nations for Singapore, for what purposes I dunno.

The other rumour that my friend claims is that Mediacorp actresses Le Yao and Ong Ai ling are high class social escorts. To be honest, I do believe that Le Yao is one.

Just some rants.

Yes. We did it! Champions Again! Well done lads!

Today was Mr Chew and Cecilia's birthday celebration. I love birthdays, lots of fun and joy, especially eating the cake. Well I believe pictures speak better so here they are!

I was having supper with my secondary frenz about an hour ago at a prata shop near my house. Halfway through, a malay fella, obviously drunk from the way he walked and slurring speech, started shouting abuse at both an Indian and chinese fella. He then took out a beer bottle, smashed it and started chasing them. He then came back, obviously having lost the race, started shouting at them from afar again. The usual 'bo lan jiao la u all, got balls come one on one with me la' lines came out. My fren decided to call the police to my disappointment, rather anti-climax as I was hoping for a full blown fight to occur. But credit to the police, they came within less than two mins, ran out of their car and nailed the bugger to the ground. A few mins later, more reinforcement came. In total, 3 police cars, one van and one SUV were activated, in my opinion abit too kua zhang la. But at least i feel safe knowing that the police will come to my rescue fast should I need them. I captured the scenes on my camera phone, abit blur but nonetheless I will upload it on youtube and paste the link here.

Finally my house is beginning to see more action.

Utterly disgusted

This will be a freaking long post about Mindef. For those not interested pls skip. But for those who have a Singaporean brother, BF or even a son, do read on.

A few weeks earlier, I had applied for deferment for my upcoming ict in july. This is to enable me to complete two projects which I am involved in, both slated to finish by end july. My supervisor had written in for me and I had also explained to Mindef my rationale for extending the IA. This is a golden opportunity to perform well for the projects and give my superiors a better impression and enhance my chances of rejoining back. In fact, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a chance given only while doing IA. Sadly, the Commanding Officer has rejected my deferment. He did not even bother to call me or my supervisor even though I clearly provided telephone numbers to call for clarification. This is clearly a lack of respect for me.

I reminisced my two years of national service, doing COS duty on Christmas eve and National Day, going ranges on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. Those were days where I could have spent quality time with my family. Those were days gone which can never ever be bought back with money. Protect the country they say. Protect your loved ones and even the foreigners. End of the day, what to we get in return? A verbal thank you? Nonetheless, I took it like a man. Some of my frenz have laughed at me for being so gung-ho during NS and questioned me why I do not downgrade even after serving finished NS. Even now during university, local males are not allowed to take intersem modules or extend IA for ICT obligations. This is seriously putting us at a disadvantage. Foreigners are clearly benefiting from lack of 'competition'. I have clearly lost my pride and regret serving national service. In my opinion, The CO only cares about the recon status of our high key performance. I bet he doesn't give a two cents shit about our careers. After all, if we get a good recon status, he will look good and enhance his chances of promotion. What to we get in return? Another verbal thank you?

Well then, Mindef have made their decision. I will appeal to my MP. He better do something or else I will personally plead with Low Thia Kiang to run for the next elections in my district. I'll even campaign for him if need be. If all else fails, I will visit the infamous Doctor Koh at Serangoon Ave 3. I swear I will fight LTC Goh Yeow Kiang to the death. I curse his whole family get knock down by lorry. I curse his wife and daughter get raped. I curse his mother choke to death. I curse his father get prostrate cancer. I curse his whole freaking family line to fucking burn in hell.

Nb, I have never been so emotionally charged while writing my blog. The son of a bitch has really pushed me to the limits.

I am in Hong Kong right now. So far haven't bought anything much. But I have been doing some serious damage to my stomach. Eating is both a bliss and a sin. I went to Macau today and did what every proud chinese should do. Gamble. The min bet was about 60bucks Sing, so I was abit stressed at every hand. But lady luck was with me today, a few black jacks and a pair combo earned me quite a tidy sum of money, shall not say how much but pretty much for my standard. Tmr will be the Olympic torch relay in Hong Kong. i hope to catch a glimpse and be part of history. Actually I am looking forward to see if there are any Tibet activists rioting so that the task force can bring them down. Yup. So anyway more on the trip in the next post.