end to begin

e time has been moving real fast these dayz. it happened so fast that sometimes i've forgotten that it's another brand new week. i'm behind schedule for e next upcoming event. i've been working hard at work and similarly i am working hard at my golf too.

finally ending my golfy in 2 weeks' time. e ending of e lessons also mark e beginning of my decent golf adventure. frankly speaking, i am still in e midst of accomodating myself to e rules and regulations at e golf course but e thought of being able to play a decent game on a golf course really thrilled me. would you be able to understand the thrill of having e adrenaline rushing up to brain once your club hit e ball perfectly! taaaaaa..... first of all, gonna secure e pc with edwin, sam and adam , we're gonna whack all e way across the fairway!

so what's next on e list after e golf? erm... unable to resist peer temptation, diving should be e next target. dasmond has been a harcore salesman via cyberspace. after looking through e photos taken under e sea and after hearing so much about e underwater world, my curiousity is about ready to lure me to e open water. well, currently i'm doing good with my schedule but i'd love to master e game of golfy before i embark on another adventurous stint. so diving wise, gonna be on hold.

have not been feeling good since last evening. i know my body well enough, e sicky devil is trying to put me down anytime. today, i practically poured tonnes and tonnes of fluid into my body hoping to wash away all unwanted toxic. gonna keep doing that till this weekend. not too sure if i've got e energy to join in any futbol this long weekend.

passion

involving in one of our latest "passion" advertisement. should you bypass e centre, you should be able to spot posters bearing my name. as part of e advertisment work, i was involved in a short filming for e centre's centrestage quarterly e-newsletter as well.

in fact, sometimes when i think about it, my current job does answered to my initial request prior to my transfer - getting involved in more major events and most importantly learn more new things. in a way or another, my job has given me opportunities to diversify my learning edge. as such, my network has been broadened. new friendship is forged at almost every event.

what i've been experiencing now could be e next phase of my working life. it has been moving real fast and never will it stop for anyone i supposed. few attempts to take a breather during e course of my work resulted into undesirable consequences. those struggling periods are so heavy on my shoulder. sometimes i was half-convinced to stop what i've been building up in a career at an establishment where i've traded my youth. however these are e periods of time where i suddenly remember what i am here for, pick up all e skills for e cruel realistic world. for that, i carry e load, move on. what could have been e worst for an army guy and a former semi-pro footballer? it might be worst somewhere else i said to myself.

but e question is where is e best place for one to settle down, build up a career where you're so much in love with what you're doing every single day? from an outsider's perspective, you're looking at the most positive benefit of others' and vice versa others are looking at the most positive benefit of yours. singlish-speaking: you see me good and i see you good lah.

you can see, i am convincing myself to see e whole picture where it's always e same shit everywhere. if i can survive in such an environment, most probably i can survive anywhere after my journey with e centre. probably not?

baby project

e latest projection of my futbol life is to establish suntec singapore futbol recreation club within working hours. although e recreation club has been official launched few months back, personal ambition for e club has not been achieved.

i am not losing confidence with e progress, in fact i am satisfied with e overall arrangement. afterall, e establishment of e club did not come easy. it took me near 3yrs to convince e management to launch such a recreation club on a permanent basis.

lady's luck came knocking, genuine help fell on me, support has been overwhelming. i wanna do more for e team. however there's something which one is unable to accomplish without e help from e rest. i am doing my part. seriously.

and why am i indulging myself in all these? e only reason which i can think of could be e fact that i am still involved in an activity which i am still in love with.

gun-du

so look forward to e puma product launching event at zouk last night but eventually i was left stranded at kim send road.

yes, for e second time, i was rejected entry.

sad to say, i got e timing wrong and only arrived at e venue when e event was over. e feeling was real bad especially when you really put in effort to grace e event. i blamed nobody but myself. i made my way out to great world city by foot. thank god dorcas was around and e night was spent drinking at e pump room.

don't see e need to blog more. to waste such an opportunity to mingle with cube, e freestyle footballers, was too much to swallow. shall commit suicide shortly. let me use my head to hit a football.

puma night

have been real torturing these dayz. ain't got any idea why i am engaging in some activities which i never thought of. was it intentionally or plain curiousity? god knows.

puma product launching this friday night at zouk. i was invited to the occassion to mingle around with the japanese freestyle footballers. rare opportunity i thought so. gonna ditch my adidas top for a puma this coming friday ya. well, my very first visit to zouk in my entire crawling life. i thank fei and clara for such opportunity.

anybody interested to join in e fun? well, i guess e usual way, see ya there...

WARNING

LADIES, THE ENTRY WHICH YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ IS FOOTBALL-RELATED. SHOULD YOU FEEL ANY DISCOMFORT AFTER READING THIS WARNING, PLEASE EXCUSE YOURSELF FROM READING FURTHER.




asian champions league @ jalan besar stadium. famous japanese red army, kashima antlers, strolled past saf fc 4-1 this evening. thunder-like swift quick-pass was how it worked.

year 1999, japan u-20 historically reached world youth championship final at south america. fyi, i'm watching e game "live" in japan then. although e japanese lost 0-4 to e spainish in e final, that team produced some of e finest players which japan could ever imagined. some of those finest products are motoyama masashi, ogasawara mitsuo and sogahata hitoshi. these 3 players are here, playing right in front of me at jbs.

i couldn't express how happy am i to see them playing in front of me. especially upon seeing motoyama masashi having his warm-up, just so unbelieveable. this is my 3rd time watching kashima antlers' game, e first time in year 1996 where geylang utd fc played host to antlers at e national stadium, second was in year 1999 where nakamura shunsuke leaded yokohama marinos to a 4-3 victory over antlers at e yokohama stadium. a typical j-league game and atmosphere are explosive. i am hooked.

with me, i've got jonathan, zul, manhon and albert. it's e first jbs game for jon and apparently he was impressed by e pro-standard which e japanese have displayed. great passing was e sentence constantly coming out from his mouth. as usual, manhon was criticizing about players' attitude in e game, albert busy looking at japanese babes and worst, zul kept shouting e wrong club name! GAMBA OSAKA! GAMA OSAKA!

such high-calibre game will only spark off your football interest to an even higher level. hopefully more such game will continue to flow into e red dot. well, come and think about it, i do not have to fly all e way to japan to watch j-league game anymore! erm.. aside to joanne, maybe next time when we're going to japan again, erm... let's watch urawa reds vs gamba osaka!

never too old

i took up piano at e age of ripe old 24. obtained my long-awaited piano grading certification at e same year. duration - one year plus.

read selene's blog recently, she blogged about how she wishes that she could have pick up piano when she's younger. e entry unintentionally brought back some of my piano-learning memory. i wouldn't say that phase of life was a musically outburst. i always long to pick up piano when i was young. my mum didn't provide me with a satisfactory reply when i asked about why i was not enrolled in a piano school. regardless of what, i paid for my own lesson when i was 24.

every tuesday noon, i would make my way down to plaza singapura - yamaha, for my weekly 30mins lesson. my teacher was mr. danny who's also a music arranger. every week will have an assignment - a brand-new song, to master. at home, i will be practising with my own keyboard in my bedroom.

my bedroom setup then was what i'd described as an ideal home studio. my working desk in e front, keyboard by e side on a standee, e rest of my electric guitars and acoustic with amps will be on e other side, surrounding my main desk. i'll only need to twist my body from side to side for daily music "handling". of cos avoid messing up e cables running around on e ground.

however with such wonderful home studio which i've set up over e months, i've got to give in to my hectic work. although hideaki did invite me to his school for complimentary lesson, i didn't want him to feel obligated. i didn't go. e entire piano journey came to a halt.

well, when i looked back, e piano-learning journey has indeed highlighted an enlightenment in my life; it's never too old to do something which you long to do. it's never too old to accomplish something which you long to accomplish. especially something which you are dream, love and passionate about. every now and then, i will be attempting to relive all my childhood dreams if possible. some might not be achieveable but very much wish to be involved in a way or another.

should i accomplished more in such exciting life of mine, i'd share with you.