HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARVI

Courtesy of the 'King'

'Feelin' way too damn good' by Nickelback (them peeps who brought you 'Rockstar').
I think izz quite awesome. Enjoy.

PHAAAAATAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAAAAAAH PART 2

PHUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa.. this is even better than murtabak

MiM 12: Côte d'Ivoire vs Argentina

Match in Mind 12, by Shadiq A-H. Free of charge.
Côte d'Ivoire 1-2 Argentina
Olympic Games 2008 - Mens Football Tournament
7/8/08
7.45pm
Shanghai Stadium, China
Intro: Quite a few reasons why I watched this match and MiMmed it. Like how I haven't seen any competitive football since Euro 08 ended. And how all of u people are probably doing ur chem ias, math worksheets, history ias, what have u. But i, ah i dont change much (unlike our climate, thanks to deforestation, carbon emissions, ozone depletion... ah man i've been listening in bio, though) and so watched a football match instead. And also, this is true, nothing unites like football so if 5.11 needs anyth, its football (call this propaganda from me, but hey we've been getting quite alot of that stuff recently eh?). And one more reason, probably the biggest reason too, the reputation of the teams. Argentina have always been strong forces in youth levels (Olympics is under 23, with 3 overaged players allowed) and so had that reputation going into this tournament. Côte d'Ivoire (CIV) are African, and African teams have somehow been able to surprise us and win so much at youth levels over time, with their physical power mainly, so CIV could be the next African team to surprise us.
Tactics: Both teams had modified 4-3-3s. Argentina had a 4-3-3 where Lionel Messi was the focus in the 3 upfront. CIV had a 4-3-3 with their 2 wingers upfront dropping to about the halfway line alot. Other than that, Argentina tried to play their usual passing game.
My Man of the Match: Sekou Cisse (CIV). He made the left wing his in the first half, and got the goal for CIV. Had a very good game. His runs with the ball down the left wing were based mainly on his physical power and pace, and these runs did alot to make the Argentinian defence nervous. They fouled him at times, leading to free kicks too. Oh and in case u havent heard his name before, he playes for Roda JC in Holland. And e 'JC' in Roda JC isnt 'junior college', neither is the 'Holland' that place near school, i dont know what this 'JC' is and this 'Holland' is the country.
“What the..?”: Very few lah. Although when i saw the two teams and saw Juan Román Riquelme being Argentina's captain i was surprised, because I didn't read anywhere that he was even included as one of their overage players. Riquelme's passing range is (ask anyone) too good and seeing him there was surprising yet nice. Like i said, very few "what the?" moments. This one also not so shocking.
Commentator’s memorable quotes: I dont know who the commentator was, but caught a few quotes. "Here is Antoine N'gossan, CIV's youngest player, who's 17.. nicely done there", "I don't think i need to tell u when Messi gets the ball, the crowd's roar will tell u", "He scored one goal and set up one, another day at the office then for Lionel Messi" - commentator. The first quote above was just so.. The jealousy, turning saints into the sea, swimming through sick lullabies.
Implications/Expectations: Argentina did not really live up to their reputation in this match, i think they are capable of a much better passing game. So, yup that might be expected. CIV deserved a draw, i think, i expect them to keep this going and continue playing this well in their remaining 2 matches. Another implication is.. eh, that player was 17. the guy who wrote this post so nge ah?
haha, nevermind nevermind. enjoy ur national day holiday, classmates.

random ruth ranting returns

Hey all

Haha, it's really nice to see the blog revived, even though on a tad bit of a sour note but more or less it's been pretty good yeaaaahh?
And no, I'm not doing this for Charvi's drink.

Mostly, so I can clear the guilt trip at the back of my head for not uploading stuff like photos and videos ever since may. Hey! If you're really lucky, maybe I'll even upload the video where I almost killed Yi Wei in Thailand with the motorbike, just to show you how sorry I am(:
(and I truly am sorry Yi Wei, I don't know how many lifeyears have I scared out of you): )


EH HOLY MACARONI I AM SO SORRY I CAN'T FIND MY WOW VIDEOS. I CAN'T ENTERTAIN YOU FOLKS. Daaaaang.
Really sorry):


Oh wells, I'm really sorry guys):
But if you're looking for the marshmallow eating competition video, scroll doooowwwnnn.

Okay, now I shall move ooon and upload some WOW photos. Yeah yeah, I know they're uploaded here there and everywhere but this time! TADA! I shall give a commentary on the photos to help us all relive the good memories!(:

First, I shall spam photos of Kimchi, the extremely adorable 2months(I think, or was it 1?) old puppy from some Korean pastor to the school. The cuuuuteeenesss<3

aiyoh, jonny! go and spoil the photo. should just crop out your face. Ohohoho.

Haha, super adorable right?! But I'm kinda scared that we might have poisoned the cute little thing with all the paint on our hands when we carried her (at least, I think it was a a her, or was it a he?)

Moving on!

Pollution makes me angry >:(

Actually, the whole lot of milky dirty water was really gross. Specially when it came to jumping over puddles of it to catch frisbees

The murals!
Mistake: using the wall plaster white paint instead of patiently waiting for the acrylic white paint. Bigggg mistake, took me 40minutes and a scrub that was bigger than my hand to remove all the paint from my feet and hands.

But I guess, I still loved the murals even though they weren't mindblowingly awesome. Sentimental value!

EH EH THIS LOOKS LIKE MINHKY RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT?!
so amused.

and remember how we siao city kids were quite amusing with the train tracks?
we so need to go out of the house more.
Class outing!
Okay not really.

Okay, no more photos, I'm getting tired of uploading them.
Besides, my memories kinda failing me.

Wow was mindblowing in many ways. I guess, yeah, there were a lot of bad things that happened and stuff that seemed atrociously mindwrecking at that point back then but now when I look back, they weren't that bad I guess. There were plenty of good times too yeaaah?
So I guess, it isn't quite fair for us to say that WOW screwed up our class pretty bad.
And even then, it only seemed like the trip screwed up our class cause of all the horrible things that happened within the span of one week but in truth, wasn't a lot of the problems actually already there lying underneath the surface? Just that we never confronted the problems in our class and they happened to erupt in the middle of the trip.

I guess, you know! Instead of sighing and wishing ourselves back to the way things were at the beginning, shouldn't we be learning from our mistakes and confronting the problems we have now? If we all chose to keep quiet and just let everything bubble and boil and fester, won't it just erupt into something much more hideous than it is now?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, I don't want us to go back to the way things were in the beginning cause it isn't confronting the present and it isn't going to solve any problems that are happening now. It's a hopeless wish and it's my sincere prayer that we can all pull ourselves together to patch this class up.

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with all my love to the class that I know is still awesomely wonderful
ruth

CoC #1 The Dance/Choir Concert!

hey guys!
did yall check out the dance concert? ( nico & ganesh in dance! )
ooo edward is in choir!
awesomenessss!


haha as expected ( the main point of the concert was dance! choir wasnt that spectacular )

dance concert was sooo cool!
first, they had this MC Kevin Lim!
( oh mans... kevin damn gay laaa but he isnt gay! more pimpish )
made loads of funnny gayish inclinated comments!
i dint get wad he was trying to say thruout his commentary though!
but it served it purpose well! ( buy time for the dancers to CHANGEEEEEE INTO PRETTY PrETTY ClOTHES )

omeeeet "bully" lil boys b4 the concert ehhh? ( sry RANDOM )

yeah yeah!
and the dance was pretty awesome!
especially shocked to seeee nico dance! nvr really seen this DANCE side of nico before
the breakdance portion was really nice as wellll! as usual, never fails to impress!

i liked the love dance part, where everyone was in white
quiteee CoOOLL! if only i cld dance like tat
SRY THANACHOTE! dint go for ur asean dance!

okkkkkk la! choir wasnt tat bad
they had entertainment value as well
after a highly visual treat, the choir really looked GEEKY
weird geeky dance movements!
as quoted from Ruth: " arghh! cant stand this! too geeky for my eyes! " (smth along tat line! OOPS )
i was super amused mans! ( looking at ur brother do geeky actions is one of the joys in life )


OK OK im sry this post is HIGHLY PERSONAL and nth to do with the class!
was just trying to do my part in posting on the blog
heh sry for the somewhat improper name! i couldnt thing of any other that fitsss!
wells we got " Match in Mind" -- MiM soooooo there u go
"Commentary On Concert" -- CoC

Replies 2/ somewat of a teamtalk, i think...i dunno la

lemme first reply to the lesser important mattters...everyth charvi said...after goin on to reply to the more important matters that nana brought up....and i noe wat ya'll be thinking...but eh eh, FOOD is more impt than anyth, u shud noe tt by now...oh word of caution, this post is super long.

so rite...abt charvi's lil' speech there...interesting and tot-ful...but y needa drama so much la...but then again tt's juz charvi...drama mama only....chey chey...

kk wat was i gonna say...oh ya....as heart-warming as ur version of that pe lesson was....i will agree that it did in fact get the class together and shitz...but hate to break one fact to u....being tt we had more guys than 5.12 so once we got the hang of the game by the second round we juz started powning as a result of more manpower...literally man-power...and yes i guess teamwork and shitz too la...

and here's the point where i get all philosophical on you ppl....u can trust wat i say cuz...i'm tend to be gd at this stuff, somehow...if u dun think so...bleah...dun matter...(although if i find out u dun think so i'm gonna hunt u down and coerce to say i'm gd...haha kiddin)...listen to everyth i say b4 goin "but no! but wat if? but wat abt?"....in ganesh's words..."i'll slap u"...heh

right...where was i...the philosophical....k see here's the thing abt people, and society....people....nvr stay the same...things change. people change. such is life. so there's no way things can go back to exact same joyous way it was in the beginning, sad but true. no point continously thinking and fretting abt it. hate to be corny in a serious moment, but i noe there's always tomorrow cuz i look at calendars and the watch/clock. and to make a bit more sense, there ain't no point chasing rainbows cuz there ain't no pot of gold at the end. juz a foolish irish myth. but then again, things, people and situations can 'go back', per se, to a certain safe place...almost close to how it used to be, wif the changes included...

and here's the thing abt society. it's a beautiful balance of good & bad. happiness and sadness. love & hate. one form cannot exist without the other. a class is like a society too. as such, u can't juz expect everyone to love everyone, everyone to be happy wif everyth everyone does. and here's a clear example: not everyone really loves that superhero-person in our class, who Will Smith acted as in a recent movie (if u get wat i mean). so izz like, there's bound to be grudges and spites here and there, even if they're juz tinsy ones. i know i haf mine abt ppl, i noe ppl haf grudges against me. there ain't nth u can do abt it. life's juz a problem after another. there's no real resolves to our problems. izz juz a matter of which problem is staring at u in ur face in this very moment in ur life right now. izz like, initally squeezin 15ppl in one table seemed nice for everyone, but eventually ppl juz start feelin they need a bit more space, literally and figuratively. get wat i mean? life can nvr juz be always abt happiness and joy, we all know that innit.

but hold ur horses ppl. (yes i did say horses but dun anyone get excited, juz an expression) izz not like i'm bein pessimistic and saying things will be bad. i ain't telling u to juz stand there and watch and things go bad, and evertually get worse. here's wat i'm tellin u all to do, in a wonderful analogy using SOFTBALL/baseball.

think of urself as a mediocre batter standing in the batter's box, waiting for a really good pitcher to pitch. now when the ball comes at u, it is understood that u shud swing. juz cuz u're not that good dun mean u juz stand there, let the strikes go past u, and juz get struckout. it's evident that u din even try, so izz ur fault and not only will u feel guilty, u'll be blamed as well. the important thing is juz to try ur best. so wat if the ball is really fast and damn hard for u to contact, juz frikking try and swing la. u nvr know, u mite juz get a hit. and even if u do indeed try, but get out anyway, izz perfectly fine. u can at least say u tried, and ppl will say "he/she gave his/her best" how can u possibly know u'll get struckout if u dun even try innit? u must always try. even if failure's staring at u in the eye, u juz stare back, and try strive for success.

hope wat i've said helps u peeps somehow. and wadhwa, if at any point i seemed to disagree/shoot down anyth thing u said in ur speech, izz not intended as any form of offense eh. juz trying to bring the truthful points eh. no malice.

and NOW for the more impt stuff abt FOOD, izz more short and sweet cuz food dun need so much explanation. u cook/bake, u eat, u're happy. simple.

right...hey nana! can we make mutton/lamb instead? i love lamb!!!!! and lemme make a suggestion, u wanna try make the cranberry creme i brought to the airport for WOW? since u ppl noe better, u can actually make it look like and taste like wat it's supposed to be. plus since u teaching main courses, teaching a dessert would make it complete innit? juz a suggestion. and oso, i noe u weren't serious, but dun think abt murtabak, izz kinda lame. if u think abt it really, izz a lot like pizza, juz wif the ingredients inside.


RIGHT. now i'm done. eh wadhwa i better get smth for all this. i'm not toking crap (not really i think), and it takes up my time. hah.

onwards to a better tomorrow ppl, we must make sure the day does not become just as dark as the night. (adapted from harvey dent in Dark Knight. awesome movie =D.)

---A.K.S---

5.11...this is for you

hey guys! ok u guys call me your mother right?

so as your mother im telling u that during the PE lesson where we played dodgeball against 5.12....RMB!? yeah i dun think ive been more proud than that day after PE lesson of u guys..... i was seriously missing the class being and acting together as one esp after the hols... until that day when i saw that even after loosing 1 game, we managed to get together, act as 1 team, and be 1 5.11, and beat 5.12 at their very own game..... it was a sight to see and a success story to tell... maybe after all even though we may look very cliqish from the outside.... it seems that deep down inside each and everyone of us... there is that little wish of bringing back the class together like it was in the beginning of the year.... those very fun moments, those large group canteen discussion where i rmb we tried to squeeze over 15 people into 1 small circle table, the times when we had loads of laughs and had time to talk about nonsensical things, those "ruth" or "nad" moments, those stupid jokes we shared abt my announcements......

so lets all act as a class, as really good friends, and as good friends we should be able to hold onto our friendship through thick and through thin, through everything that we face. If u ahve any problems with other people, lets try not to hold grudges and instead forgive and forget. U guys can even sit down and discuss everything and solve all the problems and move on. Its time to get on with life and enjoy every moment of it... who knows if there will be a tomorrow? and u dont want any precious moments to be lost. Lets apologise if we know that we have done anything wrong or have wronged others....

ok im going to stop now... caz im like tearing remembering all the good times that we had. hope u guys make up with each other and we all as a class move on and forget the politics, forget the moments of hate, and remember the good times, caz after rain there is a rainbow. lets bring out that rainbows together as a class. :)

U know i love u guys! :)

Ciao >>>> 5.11 Peace out

Char

Replies

ello....i got lazy to type in that punny box so i'm posting...=\

1. let us all follow simple logic magic. relac' la....jangan tension (those who dunno wat it means...go ask arnd dun ask me i wud haf written it out if i rmbr-ed the exact meaning)

2. i agree wif nana. let us all juz live it simple wif love, and a hate-free society. let's not get too carried away with the love though, if u ppl get wat i mean (hint hint*)

3. as mentioned by minh (OMG minh i hate u, i think) and yi wei, lezz not get too explicit wif any details here. lez oso not get too emotional and hyped abt any matter. another reminder ppl, izz a frikkin blog, public can see. ur parents cud be reading it rite now for all u noe. and possibly some italian guy who's at a cyber cafe. (tt's juz random, but who knows. so maybe he's not italian, he's french, or spanish. my main point is there.)

4. nana i wanna join ur cooking thing, i'll confirm wif u like monday. two things though. I already know how to cook rice, in rice cooker, juz a statement, not relating to the 'class'. the more impt thing is...u're cookin some beef thing rite...i dun do beef...even cookin...hindu wat...how eh?

5. i wanna noe smth really impt here....since when the hell did MINH get so....smart-ish....is he finally off his magic mushrooms? or perhaps....i wonder......ah. ha ha. (if u get it juz laugh to urself, if not dun care juz move on)


6. LASTLY MY MOST IMPORTANT POINT. Yes omeet, i oso like mutabak, IT IS INDEED ZOLID SHYT. actual spelling is 'murtabak' though. and kinda pissed cuz stupid indian sch shop stop selling the mutton murtabak. baaaassssskket la. no fair.

7. 6points dun sound nice, lucky 7 seems nicer, so lemme juz bring back my earlier point of happiness, in awesome style, by quoting my idol the joker (not heath ledger but the character):

"Why so SERIOUS?,
Let's put a SMILE on that face, shall we?
HEEEEHHHEEAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"


Ladies and Gentle-men,
Thank You.
Have a Nice Day.
If You don't,
It just sux to be you.
Try haf fun anyway.

Ciao.

---A.K.S---