Buy of the Month

Joanne and me gonna samba our way to the Grand Old Lady again next week. We might be watching a so-called "Once in a Life Time" kind of game; Singapore Selection taking on Brazil Olympic Team!

The brazilian team is not treating this game lightly. By just judging the name of the players travelling with the team, the underdog Asian are sparring against the mighty Ronaldinho, Robinho and gang! Good fight though!

Too bad not much friends are willing to join me and Joanne. Nonetheless, I believe Joanne and me will be enjoying ourselves in the "I Reckon" sell-out crowd at the Grand Old Lady once again!

Futbol Recreation Club

Management approached me, they are planning to set up a perm football recreation club. I have been specially choosen to lead the set up.

To run a club is always one of my many dreams. Some months back, I wrote (here) about how I'd wish to have a club which I can call my own. The only difference is I can't buy any players which I ain't got any issue at this point of time. I welcome players from all departments to join the club!

With all reasonable funding and unfailing trust from the management, I do wish to do whatever I can to launch the football club successfully. Personally, I do not have the ability to nurture the present generation to be a warrior team, but I can contribute by raising the awareness in our current working environment, gather more players to the team, and set our sight at the next CCG competition next year. This new task has since given me another reason to convince myself why I am still extending my service in this first job of mine.

Anyone with me?

Studio 1994

I was chatting with two of my colleagues this morning. We talked about jamming. They know that I jamm and they were asking if they can join me at my band's next jamming session. Without knowing when is my next session, I agreed.

While watching the Superband on TV this evening, the jamming sensation really brought me back 14years ago. My classmate, Jeremy, took me to a studio along Upper Serangoon Road after school. Never in my life had I been to a music studio. With only a rough idea from the TV, studio should be a nicely parqueted, branded music instruments-filled, a big glass window separating the recording studio with a giant mixer being placed right in front of Music Arranger.

When I reached the studio for the first time, my anticipating mood was devasted. Welcoming me, were torn mattress stuffed in the bass drum, dusty cables running all over the ceiling and dirty greyish carpet and lastly wall paper probably was peeled off by previous "musicians"!

It was totally off. Never did I expect such a big difference. Well, nevermind the difference, I have been patronizing jamming studio for the past 14years.

I can still recall how it felt at my first jamming session. I was amazed by how a normal 4-piece band can actually played a song similar to the one which I've always hear from the discman! I am impressed with Jeremy and his band.

Ever since, music has been playing an important part in my life. Till now, I am still in love with it. Because of my current job, I might not be able to jamm as much as I wanted to, but the passion for jamming and music has never decreased. Kind of looking forward to the next jamming session.

CCG 2008 - Part II

Stop discussing about my stockings.

Hancock: Good Job!


Inches Wide..


All-Star Game, Blue Team


I Hate the GK for Posing Me!

Sankyu..

Appreciation

This is my second year leading the team in the CCG competition. Compared to last outing, this year we were slightly ill-prepared. Obstacles have been hitting the team, or rather me I should say. But yet we came out strong, brushed aside all challenges and we completed the competition. I told everyone that our team got the third-placing in the group. But I'd add, there're only 3 teams in our group!

To lead this team is never an easy task, considered we've only got a month to prepare and most of the time, we did not have sufficient players to form a team. I was indeed pissed off with a couple of irresponsible matured adults whom I thought I would never miss-judged weeks ago. The fact is I totally screwed. It's ok. Never really wasted much time on those people but just hope that they can realise how much they have missed in life, how much they had let those who pinned the minimum hope on them to deliver, down.

Workload's average. Balancing my life well at the moment. So much time have been spent in office although that has been made-known to myself right from the start. I still feel rather uneasy. Uneasy as in the searching for myself in a glass of beer; before I can kick myself out of the beer, I'm already drunk. I am.. I am still..

CCG 2008

Conversation With Coach

I was chatting with Balestier Khalsa FC head coach, Nasaruddin Jalil, 2days ago. Suprising, both of us were at the St. John first-aid refresher course, busy with tonnes of "kissing" and "hugging"!

In fact, I knew Coach Nasa since year 2001. That year I was playing for the formerly-known Balestier Central Utd FC in the Prime/S-League while Coach himself was coaching the COE U-16. I never train under Coach Nasa before but I know that he's definitely one of those nice coaches, modest and calm in all situation, out there in the local football scene.

Coach Nasa even joked, saying all the other S-League clubs should be careful. Do let his team beat theirs! Haha.. With the current squad, Coach knows that he has got nothing to lose. With the team currently 3rd from the bottom of the League table, Coach knows that the team just has to focus and play it's own game. Not for the top glory but at least for the fans who's there all these years I supposed.