; the little -details- xXx

I'm a happy happy bayern fan right now; and an even happier Miro Klose fan! Said striker scored two and set Luca Toni's maiden goal in "a galore of missed opportunities" and helped Bayern to get a 3-0 win and clinched qualification.

Lyon didn't get raped by Fiorentina despite having key players now regulars in Hôpital de Lyon; Fiorentina couldn't even take advantage of the fact that Lyon's defense isn't made up of first team players (Reveillere has officially joined others like Pjanic in said hospital) and instead Makoun and 'course, Big Benz happily scored one each to help Lyon clinch qualification with a 2-1 win.

Arsenal. Sigh. After getting owned by Aston Villa and Man City, all the Gunners can get is a 1-0 win thanks to a late Bendtner strike. What the hell has happened to this team, I seriously dunno; currently, I'm just hoping we can actually stay in the Big Four now...

Whoops. Orchestra now xD (Oh, the joy of Livejournal mobile...)

i can't believe how close lewis hamilton was to not winning the F1 crown yesterday--he was sixth in the last lap and massa was first, but he managed to slip into fifth to cross the line, and fifth was all he needed to win the championship by a point.

my heart breaks for massa. sixth straight brazilian GP win, and still no title.

now hamilton has something real to brag about. urgh.

arsenal vs stoke city? DIABY GO DO YOUR JOB WELL CAN AND VAN PERSIE YOU DON'T CHARGE AGAINST THE GOALKEEPER WITHOUT ANY REASONS AT ALL. now you go get yourself red-carded. excellent. 

(vela needs to have more playtime).

tottenham is shedding their ramos form seriously quickly--harry potterredknapp's waved his wand and suddenly roman pavluychenko has become the striker we all admired in the Euros and luka modric is quickly becoming that fleet-footed playmaker again. arsenal still managed to draw against them, but liverpool--who was still high from beating chelsea a week ago--lost! and hull city--ever since they beat arsenal a month ago or so, they've gained my respect, and the fact that they fought really hard against manchester united would only increase that respect; i hope they'd be able to stay in the premiership for a long time if their form continues.

miroslav klose: 3 goals and 6 assists in 6 games--top of the assist table in the bundesliga. you know what's so sexy about him? the fact that he's so unselfish he'd sacrifice glory he can bask in himself for the team and his teammates--he can't be happier that he's leading the assist table.

You see? I didn't watch yesterday's Champions League matches due to obvious reasons (exams are comiinnnggg) and then all my three teams play their best!

Arsenal was a five-star team--hints of which they showed during the second half of the Everton game last weekend--who handed Fenerbahce their first home European defeat in three years. 6 goals were scored by the team, compared to one by the Turkish giant--admittedly, one is an own goal from Mikael Silvestre, but Abou Diaby, Emmanuel Adebayor, Theo Walcott, Alexandre Song, and here's another piece of good news: Aaron Ramsey were there to hand Luis Aragones his butt.


Bayern produced probably their best performance under Jurgen Klinsmann yet with Miroslav Klose nicking another goal as early as the fourth minute and Bastian Schweinsteiger and Ze Roberto adding more goals to their already impressive form. Fiorentina, whose domestic form is as sad as Bayern's, has now gone on three matches without a single win despite being a heavy favorite at the start of CL.

Pretty happy day for me after I found out about the results this morning--plus the fact that today's the last day of school! And oh yeah, the year 6s were graduating today. I wonder how our school would be like without them? They've always been the ones bringing most of the trophies to school and stuff--and to me, they're probably the most capable people to take up leadership positions in the school. Whewt, how time flies--the next thing I know, our batch may be the senior batch and the ones standing up there to be waved farewell upon!

Gotta get back to studying. Urgh. Let me just put some gratitious Juninho picture (because I covered him with Karim up there), a grinning Arsene Wenger, and a Miro shot (because he's sexy).

i wonder if michael schumacaher is around? i also heard that some other famous personalities like david "golden balls" beckham and nicole scherzinger would be around to see the F1's first ever night race. if only i'm around to watch this historic even too. looks like it's the tube box for me again...

(watching it on tv is sure as hell not as exciting as watching it live--the unbelievably loud noise of the roar of the cars overpowering the already deafening cheers of the crowd; now that's what i call atmosphere).

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bayern munich saw miroslav klose and tim borrowski scoring to push the bavarian giants into the next round of DFB pokal with a 2-0 scoreline against fc nurnberg on wednesday. miro gave way to make way for the comeback of the anticipated star of the team in the 65th minute: franck ribery. HE'S BAACCCKKKKKK! and so is miro, bitches :D keep track of his goals (and tim borrowski--now, that was a bargain deal seeing the number of goals so far from him) as he makes his way back to his form--slowly, but surely (all he needs is the fans' trust and belief in him--he's got klinsmann's, jogi's, and he's certainly got mine).

meanwhile, lyon thinks jesujuninho won't be able to make it for this weekend's game against AS nancy and next week's bayern game. :( oh noes! would lyon be without their miracle-worker against bayern (who certainly needs some miracles to be injected into the team themselves), but fabio grosso is gonna be back (i miss that man). still looking forward to an exciting showdown between these champion clubs, with juninho or not (keepin' my finger crossed that miralem pjanic may start).

and this comes damn late but oh yeah arsenal's youth team (which averages around 19 years of age) trashed newly relegated sheffield united 6-0. carlos vela, that hunk of a man, scored a hat trick, as aaron ramsey--another hunk of a (young) man--called the shots in the midfield. nikolas bendtner and jack wilshere got some time to shine too as this young teenage team beat a team full of veterans. that is our future team, gunners, and right now, the future's looking very, very bright.

in arsene we trust!

THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT--BUT I SAW IT UNFOLD WITH MY OWN VERY EYES!

Bayern Munich had just lost 2-5 to Werder Bremen. At home. In their grand Allianz-Arena stadium.

I...

well, I'm just in shock.

... this is the worst I've ever seen Bayern play. I don't know where to start since every frikkin' aspect of the team is just plain wrong. The defense! Shambles! It's as if they've never played together. Michael Rensing can be at fault for ... urhm all the goals?--although truthfully if the defense did their work, probably Bayern would have a chance (he was undoubtedly at fault for the second goal--a setpiece, and he still dare to blame his defenders for that. Uhm, show of maturity, please?). Miscommunication between Rensing and the defenders--and where's Lahm? I see him more in front than at the back--you are a frikkin' defender, Philip, and please start acting as one--cost Bayern the match, among many other mistakes. But if anything, this match probably served as a tight slap on the cheek of Bayern fans to remind them that oh yeah, their world class goal keeper Oli Kahn's no longer around to save us anymore.

The midfield. Maybe the players were rejoicing that they thought Franck Ribery was gonna be back (but he was in the stands with his cute daughter and a seriously hot Klose--a sight for any girl squirming in pain from the medication on her abrasions) and so they decided they would play like shit and let Franck save them all. How many passes were complete? The commentator was making a joke about it, but I couldn't really remember (and to top the match off, I got stuck with some lame, unfunny annoying commentator, yeah), but again, they weren't frikkin' united. They seemed confused and/or hungovered--after the first three or four goals went in, all the players just seemed to let their souls leave their bodies which roam around screaming for BRAIINNS BALLLLL.

Van Bommel was supposed to be the captain and a defensive midfielder--after two matches in the bench, it can be expected that he might be out of form. He was supposed to inspire, to be there. But I almost forgot that he's allowed to play again this match until there was a shot of him looking frustated. Maybe it was a bad day for him--well, after the match, it would be everyone's bad day.

Franck Ribery was bitching away into his phone by the time it was 0-5. The commentator was saying how he was calling his mom about his black day in the stadium, but since the phone bitching went on until almost the end of the game, he said that Ribery had been calling up all his family members to pour his despair on--that was probably the best joke the commentator'd cracked in the game. Personally, I'm just scared that his conversation went like this:

"Hello, Ma? Yeah, I think I totally made the wrong choice in clubs--even Marseille won't lose 0-5 in a home game against a side that's missing 4 key players. Yeah, Manchester City still offering for me? Hmmm..."

I believe that Franck is wayyy nicer of a guy than that, but it's obvious that if Bayern's without him until they find another midfield talent, we're dead. Schweinsteiger and Ze Roberto are trying really hard to control the midfield, but they're not as creative as him--we just need a playmaker to sort things right.

And then up front. Miroslav Klose was out injured and so Podolski had the chance to shine. Except he did not--the only thing I remembered him for this game was how he and Luca Toni blow the few chances they made. It wasn't as if the Bremen goal was threatened much or anything, and when the ball finally was played there, crosses went awful and finishing was literally way over the top (crossbar). I couldn't help but think (since I'm such a Klose fangirl) what would happen if Miro was there, poor form or not. Well, it wouldn't really make a difference since the ball hardly ended up at the offence's feet, and he'd just be blasted for not making chances again. At least this time around the flames would be directed at Poldi and Toni--who hasn't really gotten to his ol' goal blasting form yet.

I still have an inkling of thought that maybe performing in front of the Bremen crowd may give him some motivation. Like how Tim Borrowski came on as a sub after half time and proceeded to save the horrible scoreline a little by scoring 2--there was almost a chance of him making a hattrick at the last minute or so, but it was to be denied. Bremen could have made it six, but thankfully the ball went behind the goal. If there's one thing Bremen did wrong today, it's how they let down their guard after they secured a definite victory ("yeah, like Bayern can come up with five goals in 20 minutes"--they did come up with 2 though) and let Borowski to slip through the cracks and scored. But they still clinch that victory anyway, and the boasting rights for trashing the champions in front of their very own fans--oh, it was a fullhouse by the way.

Miro sat in the grandstands today and he looked so pained by the end of the first half when Bayern was already 0-3 down--he'd probably wished that he could just jump down in the field and play. But he looked damn good even while looking so frustated. :D

And so...

... yeah. Bayern's plagued with out-of-form players and what seems to be a lack of motivation (I translate that drowsiness I see on the field as a lack of motivation--what else can it be?). I sure as hell don't see that EPL-style pace that Jurgen Klinsmann wants to instill in the team. Speaking about Klinsmann, he'd need to be really careful since this loss--Bayern's first home loss since April 2007--might wear down the fans' patience, the board's and most importantly, Uli Hoeness'. I feel a bit bad for the bloke--he's a nice guy and he's made a miracle before. But can lightning strike twice? Maybe he's right, and his policies need time to be implemented, but after such a huge landslide loss, such "time" may not come easily. The thing about football is that people want "instant", people want "now" and now he'd bear the brunt of everyone's frustation.

Bayern's dropped from the second spot to the fifth spot while Werder climbed to the fourth in the league standing. Schalke is now at the top spot, whereas Martin Jol's Hamburg went down to the second stop after a brief stint at the top.

The start of the OktoberFest usually means Bayern triumphing against their opponents as the beers flow in the street of Munich as statistics show. The Bayern homepage says that if the statistics are right, then Bayern should beat Bremen 3-1 today. But this time 'round, the beer's not gonna be passed around in happiness, but to help drown the players' and fans' sorrow.

Next week: FC Nuremberg on Wednesday for the Cup and Hannover 96 in Bundesliga. Nuremberg's in the 2. Bundesliga--they got relegated last year, but their match against Bayern's always hyped up as it's the Bavarian Derby right there. Hannover's currently in the 14th spot with 5 goals scored and 10 goals conceded. I'd like to see some definite changes made here despite Hannover probably posing as a lesser challenge--it's not that I want Bayern to be a defensive team, goodness, no! But defenders must get their priorities right, and the entire team must know when to be defensive and when to attack, not to walk around so dazed and confused. Need to work on passes and Bayern better have its sights on another playmaker or groom one since it's bad depending on Ribery too much. And more shooting practices for the strikers :D so they can have proper finishing.

(On a really random sidenote, I wish I could be there in Munich to enjoy OkoberFest. Ahhh, autumn, sausages and pretty girls and boys dressed in that cute traditional costume. Totally beat getting hit by a car and doing homework :D)

I got around 2 hours of sleep last night, thanks to a shitload of procrastinating, Young Avengers, Runaways, Young Avenger/Runaways, a little bit of Tiny Titans, and Geog Elect case study. But I got to watch at least a match live--and two others liveblogged (all the channels were on Sopcast--and I've only got one Sopcast!), and the adrenaline from watching/following these matches kept me high and awake the entire day long.

(So what's new? I realised I screwed up chem test big time, and I was late again. For the 2nd time. Public buses seem to hate me).

Anyway, what can I say? Arsenal, Bayern and Lyon obviously have problems in the finishing departement--in Bayern's case, they need to work on their pass too (I can only say this confidenly of Bayern since theirs was the match I streamed). Superb crosses from Fabregas, attempts from Toulalan and breathtaking dash from Lahm would all go to waste if someone isn't there to properly net the ball in. There are the goods, then there are the bads, and then there are the ugly, during these three matches last night.


It's quite sad once you realised that Bayern could only get a goal in pass the makeshift team Steaua had assembled after its injury crisis. Schweini--I can't help but express admiration in his talent for set pieces this season--launched a free kick that Daniel van Buyten found, and headed it into the net in the 15th minute. The Belgian was excited and every Bayern fan was probably excited for him too--this guy never gives anything less than 120% for Bayern (and yet left to rot in the bench for a handful of games) and he deserved this. Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni (and then Lukas Podolski) tried their hearts out, but alas, they were to be denied as the game remained a 0-1 at the end of 90 minutes. Rensing was tried a few times--he made a few saves, and were mostly luck as Steaua men found their balls hitting the post and/or crossbar and missing the goal by inches. The pace was okay--not as fast as I'd like it to be yet, but most of that drunken-hangover-ish sluggishness is gone, although maybe the team could need more urgency, and more desire to trash the home team.

Miro was injured. Last thing we need is yet another setback to his form which is slowly creeping up. I'd be really disappointed if he miss the game against Werder Bremen this Saturday--but one good thing is that we may see Franck Ribery's season debut. Fingers crossed--for both men.

Hopefully, Bayern would pick up the pace and produce even a better performance with better passing and better finishing as they face Lyon next--and they better produce a heckuva show for me to watch. Speaking about Lyon...

it's a good week to be an arsenal fan!

after walcott's deserving hat-trick on wednesday, arsenal fans get a taste of another hat trick during arsenal's 4-0 demolition of the blackburn rovers. walcott rounded off his excellent week by an eight minute assist to robben van persie, and after that, emmanuel adebayor took the spotlight.

honestly, i don't really like ade as a person--he's greedy, he's whiny, he's arrogant. just this week there's that scandal about him refusing to get onto the plane for his NT if his president doesn't get onto it with him since he's convinced the plane would crash. but there's no doubt about his ability.


i mulled about writing "SHOW ME THE MONEY NOW, WENGER!", but i think that's a bit too shallow. he's shut up about $$$ for a while now at least.

but in all honesty, i didn't watch the arsenal game because it came on the same time with the bayern game :D my brother watched it for me, screaming updates from the living room as i frustatedly tried to get Sopcast to load (i hate streaming a match--but what the hell can i do if football channel/any other channels do not show bundesliga matches live?)

anyway, it's also a good week to be a bayern fan. after miro klose's hat trick on wednesday, it's luca toni's and lukas podolski's turn to shine as Bayern eases into a first away win of the season--a 3-0 win over FC Koln (FC Cologne in English), which happens to be podolski's beloved hometown club. Cologne has just returned to 1. Bundesliga this season and has been trying to entice prince poldi back to the club, but podolski made his loyalties clear in the match.


toni's obviously back in business with two goals--and an almost hat-trick. the first half was boring, with few chances, but the second half saw bayern pummeling the home defence again and again. michael rensing kept well for bayern, making a few saves (Cologne didn't really attack much). the home team was lucky to keep the goal difference to -3, since bayern saw a lot of wasted chances.


podolski came on as a sub in the second half to ravenous applause, and he didn't take much time to try to dazzle both home and away crowds. his goal came just before the final whistle--a toni cross into the penalty area which he tapped into the goal. the crowd cheered as he lay on the ground for a moment, savoring the moment.

yeah, it was a very emotional moment for everyone.

much as i love miro, i'd really prefer it if klinsmann would start poldi with toni--and then use miro as a super-sub in the 65th minute or something. at least for a while. klinsmann said that there would be a rotation soon (i think he probably meant that schweini would spend more time in the bench to make space for ribery, who's already training with the team after his recovery from his surgery) and there's a chance this might happen. just like what happened with schweinsteiger in Euro 08, maybe a period of being benched would so miro some good--that bench sure has a way of making someone train even harder to prove himself.

(of course, that bench also has the power of making someone sulk a la dimitar berbatov or lukas podolski, but miro's character is like 100000000 times better than berbatov. anyway, i enjoyed knowing the fact that his dream debut was ruined last night by liverpool. couldn't really care about the match since it was between two of my most hated club, but at least the article about sir alex ferguson blaming liverpool fans for his team's loss is hilarious).

i can't believe i digressed from bundesliga to epl just like that. okay, anyway, to complete my hell of a week, there was the lyon-nice game too.

( I sure do hope that title's correct--currently learning German online, and my progress is dismally slow! )

Wednesday's Man-of-the-Match Miroslav Klose hasn't quite lost his sense of humor even after that tiring climb towards his good form (and he isn't there yet--yes, you all have much to fear, defenders!). He said that the good and the bad thing about being a striker is that he would always be judged on the number of goals he'd scored, after which he'd said that despite the unususally heavy flak from the press (oh, how a star can fall!) he'd never stopped believing in himself and continued to persevere until he'd get that reward he deserved. Then when asked if being a striker was his dream job, he replied:

“(Being a) Footballer’s wife would be better, but (being a) striker’s not bad either."

(Being Miroslav Klose's wife would be a dream come true, but Sylwia Klose would know that very well, wouldn't she?)

Oh, Miro. Looks, talent, heart, attitude. And now sense of humor too.

My God. Why the hell are you so perfect?

Elsewhere around the world: Usain Bolt is training with Real Madrid, his favorite club in the whole world. The fastest man in the world would be running alongside Real's slowest player--striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, apparently his favorite striker in the whole world. Bernd Schuster probably secretly wishes some of Bolt's speed might rub on RvN, but as long as that insane goal-scoring instinct is still there, Schuster won't need to worry much about him.

Guess who scored a hat-trick last night?

Most people would say Theo Walcott. Yeah, okay, I'm happy for him. He's a good looking lad laden with talent, he's in Arsenal, and he's not as much as dick as the rest of the players in the England squad... yet. England improved tremendously loads, playing quite an exciting game against a hapless Croatia (that isn't the Croatia I remember. What the hell happened, Bilic?). I know because I caught the second half--the only match they aired on Football Channel.

Anyway, I edited a few pics here and there in celebration :)


France played well beyond expectations too. Nasri was dropped again (I just made a new acronym: FUD, which stands for F U DOMENECH, since I think I'd be using it a lot. Anyway. FUD!), but Gourcuff started. In the center midfield. Playmaker. And he was plain brilliant. Anelka and Henry made it a 2-1 victory, and Domenech can rest easy (he's still breathing on borrowed time) for at least a while until the next match. Amazing to see France not stumbling their way through a match. Still disappointed about Big Benz--he doesn't seem to be able to find his best form while donning Les Bleus jersey, and it's the otherwise for Govou, Anelka (okay fine, his club form is increasingly better too) and Henry.

Yes. If there's one thing Rayray's gotten right, it's Gourcuff. His prettiness talent shall lead Les Bleus to glory!


Germany made bookmakers cry, since they drew 3-3 against Finland (who has that frikkin' 2.02 m tall striker). Tasci and Westermann were a mess. Podolski was practically invisible. The game has to be horrible, since Germany is third in UEFA ranking and Finland... well. A draw. 3 goals conceded. Enke, what the hell?

3 goals scored. Who scored them?

Anyway, the next person who scored a hat trick last night was none other than captain Miroslav Klose. I didn't expect this at all! I thought with his form, okay, maybe he could score one, assist one, you know, make his way slowly to his old goal-bursting form. And he was the only bright spark in the entire German team! So critics now can STFU. He can lead, he can score, 'kay? In fact, if he was a little bit luckier, he could have grabbed a fourth at last minute, or a fifth, that was saved superbly. And he missed a free kick too -.-


So what have we learnt? Trust in Klose could never be misplaced (even though it might take him half a year).

Third hat-trick for the night went to Zvjezdan Misimović of Bosnia-Herzegovina during their 7-0 win over Estonia.

Who? x) (I copy and pasted that name; couldn't spell it too).

After a quick search through Google, I found out he's German-born, and he plays for Wolfsburg in Bundesliga. Apparently, he's one of the most creative midfielders in Bundesliga. He even used to play for Bayern.

Yeah, I know: shame on me :X

Woo-hoooo. Three hat-trick in just one night. That is an exciting start to the SAWC10!

What have we truly learnt today? Pretty boys always get the hat-trick!

the large hadon collider has been switched on.

fingers crossed so no black holes that can eat up earth's matter or or monopoles or quarks are gonna be created while physicists have the fun of their lives figuring out the secret of the universe.

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anyway, i don't think i can catch the finland vs germany game today. what an awkward timing (i hate it when this happens). maybe i can catch half an hour-ish or so when i try to catch the france-serbia game.

apparently, finland has a striker who is 2.02m tall. and it's now tasci's and westermann's task to take care of him since i think mertsacker and metzelder still can't make it in (but it's okay--those two seem less of a disaster together than the latter two anyway). i'm watching the german-liechenstein game now, and i have to tell you that urgh the mannschaft is looking horrible. wayward ball everywhere, no coordination!

klose just gave way for gomez and gave the armband to schweinsteiger. he looked so disappointed. :(

there is no reason for the germans to be happy with their performance since they won by a landslide due to carelessness by the liechenstein team. tougher tests await in the form of finland and russia, and die mannschaft should be able to adapt to them.

awww bastian schweinsteiger. whenever you don that captain's armband, you'd strive to score and mostly do score (except for the versus bayern game, when you assisted). gone is the fiery tempered little boy, and in his place is this mature, talented young man.

and miro. miromiromiro. i love you. d'oh understatement of the century. but you just need to work harder--you're almost there (two goals last week remember?). those critics would just stfu if you make that armband proud, if we see the ball that leaves your feet shooting into the embrace of the nets, and all you'd need to do is that somersault to express your feeling.

SCORE PLEASE, KTHX!

Back in hot, humid Singapore. I swear, when I first breathed Singapore air for the first time in a week, I couldn't breathe. I have a thousand over gorgeous pictures of gorgeous Sydney and Gold Coast over the seven days; now, this was the best holiday of my life (despite that constant nagging guilt about not doing my schoolwork. Urgh. School can haunt you even during holidays.). I'm really thankful that I have the chance to go with my family to enjoy the first week of spring in Australia and to have such a great holiday.

Danke schon, mein Gott!

Apparently, I missed a lot of stuff during the one-week stay in Australia, because internet access is so limited and stuff (read: internet access is expensive there; in the first hotel, we have to pay 55 cents for every half a minute. Can you believe that?) Avril Lavigne should have just finished performing in Singapore (meh; don't care). There's a sneak preview of Harry Potter 6 for a selected few who were sworn to secrecy--but such things never work anyway since spoilers are flooding my LJ Friends page (meh, Remus and Tonks don't get much screen time + my least favorite book in the series. Despite how 'good' it's supposed to be, I'm not hyped up about it at all). Franck Ribery is fit again. Bayern triumphed 4-1 against Hertha Berlin; Klose scored. FINALLY. And oh, there were World Cup qualifications yesterday--and some still going on right now.

And the Bayern Munich vs Mannschaft game, in honor of Oli Kahn. I can't fucking believe I missed that. (Klose scored for Bayern. That's two matches in a row, bitches! And Schweini--awww, Lil' Bastian's all grown up--captained the Germans. And probably gave the best effort in the match) In dire need of this video stream. Seriously.

Oh yeah, and there's that F1 race in Belgium. I wonder how that turned out. Huh. Kimi Raikkonen is turning Miro on me :( no victories over the last four matches and what's with the rumors of that world-champion-turned-nobody Fernando Alonso taking Kimi's place in the Ferrari team next year?!

Oh and Germany, with "typical ruthlessnes and efficiency" triumphed 6-0 against Lichenstein. That's another three points. Klose captained the team again, and Podolski scored twice, and Schweini scored yet another one (guy's really on a roll!). Pity didn't watch this too.

I saw scans of X-Men Legacy, and wtf the artist didn't even bother coloring Gambit's eyes properly. 1. His eyes are not hazel, homme. 2. His scelera is not white either. 3. If you think that by slowly editing Gambit's red-on-black eyes to normal-looking eyes on the comic can prepare us for the horrible lack of effort in special effects/make up in the movies that go into his eyes, you're wrong!

It's 11:05 PM and i'm so tired. Sydney/Gold coast was two hours faster than Singapore--a small number, perhaps, but I was already tired at 8 PM on the plane just now--since it would be 10 in Australia, which is when I usually slept.

Need to wake up early tomorrow to finish homework. Urgh.

SCHOOL. OH NOES.

Things that have made Intan very unhapppy this week:
~Getting Math test results back
~Geog Elect Test
~English Presentation
~Finding out that Ms Lim is not gonna be our mentor next semester
~The fact that she's still averaging 4-5 hours of sleep every day
~Tonnes of homework and projects and tests to study for during holiday--and half of it would be spent in Australia
~Finding out Marko Marin has a girlfriend
~Today's performance

(Second time the same amp failed on me during a performance, and third time--for three performances--something went wrong with the amps. This time it was the plug--and then something about the volume control. Which was weird because yesterday it was loud, and today it was so soft. In the end, everybody was like wtf were you doing there?)

Things that have made Intan very happy this week:
~Didn't fail Chinese too badly
~Chance to play guitar
~Teacher's Day presents: finally an excuse to complete not one, not two, but eight sets of drawing to be framed up as presents.
~A chance to think about how I should appreciate my teachers (I can feel myself becoming more mature).
~Seeing how happy the teachers are today. I've never seen so much raw emotions in adults!
~Going Australia
~ICESKATING today with Aaron, Movin and Janel in that new Kallang Ice Rink.
~By finding out that Marko Marin has a girlfriend, Yang Xuan and I somehow stumble onto a treasure trove... a shitload of topless pictures of the elusive Miroslav Klose, who at least takes his shirt off when swimming.
~HOLIDAY!
~Today's performance

(I thought I'm frikkin' through with performing on stage if this 'curse'--Nic's words--continue, but somehow, a wave of optimism hit me, and I decided that I won't let this stupid curse define what I love doing. One of these days, that amp would not fail me on stage!)

~and oh yeah LYON AND BAYERN DRAWN IN THE SAME CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP OZOMDSFKMNXSDJKNFMXKJM!
while fans from respective teams may look down on the other, i think that each side is strong and formidable, both being regular domestic league champions and CL teams. Puel is gunning for succcess for Lyon in the international stage and right now, Lyon's just looking awesome. Uhm, Bayern... Well, if Bayern finds its form and Lyon keeps its form, 10th December would be a date to remember!

so I guess I'm pretty happy. A little bit.

Mr Kevin's recommended some German rock songs for me, so I'd go look them up. And urgh people who keep telling me that I should buy guitar pedals: I KNOW! Rest assured, I lust after the pedals as much too--it's just that my wallet's not very bloated right now. It's been a never ending battle between my savings and the multi SFX guitar pedal and that Gibson guitar I want (Mr Soh suggested I buy the Robo one that would tune itself automatically since my elec consistently detunes itself).

And I've used up like this semester's savings today on Pastamania, skating and Coffee Beans, being the frugal girl I am.

i leave it to yourself what they have in common apart from having a german passport, playing in die mannschaft, and having me as a fangirl.

and arsenal's boy wonder samir nasri should smile like that more often (enhances his cuteness by a factor of 18738746734). therefore, he should score more goals, since scoring goals is what make him smile like that!

(i think i'm gonna give marko marin and samir nasri their own tag since i think i'm not gonna stop being fascinated by them anytime soon).

one more picture:

the caption reads: Joachim Loew, head coach of the German national football team, controls the ball during a training session on August 19, 2008 in Herzogenaurach, southern Germany...

to me however, it seems like he's got struck by the ball more than him controlling the ball x)

... and marko marin is officially my new crush--it was either him, jack wilshere or toni kroos. since jack's of my age and most peoples still don't trust him with coping with the pressure in the premier league, i don't think i'll see him anywhere near the arsenal senior team this season unless injuries get that bad (well, that's kinda ironic since the 'senior' team is made up of mostly youngsters 21-23 of age. but with new signing ex-united silvestre, the average age might be raised up a little--like by 0.5). toni kroos was toni snooze during the bayern game against hamburg despite his promising pre-seasons.

and that leaves marko marin, who's the star of newly promoted club borussia monchengladbach, is 19, and the apple of germany youth football...


... who was cut from euro 2008 because jogi has a crush on out of form but experienced players...


... and who scored for the belgium game this morning--a very beautiful goal he set up with phillip lahm.


yes, i think from now on, everyone would know him. jogi would not call him markus anymore or just 'little one' anymore, and maybe little marko marin had just booked his permanent seat on the senior squad.

and that's not the only thing to celebrate about. miroslav klose (permanent crush) took the armband in the absence of michael ballack and the still-injured bernd schneider. he didn't score like he did the first time he captained the team, and he was substituted out for kevin kuranyi (uuurrgggghhhh!) in the second half.

and that means...


i'll just end this post with a non-football related photo. this is taylor kitsch, star of soon-defunct popular drama friday night lights (which is a shame since i'm about to pick up on this drama--i heard it's an excellent series). he also happens to be one of the many, many (uh-oh) stars for next year's anticipated superhero flick wolverine.


guess who he's gonna play?

LOST fans are not gonna be happy about this, but kitsch is going on to play remy lebeau, a.k.a gambit, a.k.a that super hot cajun superhero who walk right in the middle of the angels and the villains, a.k.a he wishes he can get horny with rogue. he happens to be one of my favorite marvel superheroes as well (very few of those). i heard josh holloway who plays sawyer in LOST was the shoo-in for the role--not a big fan of the series, but i heard that he looks and sounds like him--but holloway doesn't wanna play remy cause he thinks the character is just like sawyer.

i'm okay with anyone as long as 1. they're hot, 2. they've got that cajun accent and 3. they get that gambit character right. personally, i think that new wolverine movie would suck since there are way too many characters in it so far and how deep can the story be? i'm just gonna be concerned with gambit. and gambit. (and hugh jackman!)

so taylor kitsch should wear his fringe down and wear those red contact lenses. he should be fine.

OH I SUCK MY LIFE SUCKS SO BAD KILL ME NOW...

because bayern munich drew with hamburg for the opening game :( it was an exciting game, but i'm a firm believer of getting three points at the first match of the season.

AND THE WORLD HATES ME AHH I WANNA DIE NOW...

because klose didn't put up a good display! i'm so worried for him since it seems as if he's lost his goalscoring edge... every footballer has a curve for their abilities, and now that he's at the wrong edge of 30, i'm afraid he's on the 'concave down' side of the curve (yeah, i've been doing too much calculus!)

and i need to stop squeeing whenever the camera shoots him. i'm gonna lose my voice if i keep this up! (but my gosh, he is just so frikkin' cute!)

one good thing is that i'm five bucks richer, 'cause i bet with my bro that mark van bommel would get a yellow. he doesn't watch much bundesliga, and so he hasn't been acquainted with mark's uhm, passionate flair for the game.

anyway, mark did get a yellow. although after the slow-motion replay, he didn't really deserve it, but that man and his yellow cards--he can make a small house stacking up the ones he's gotten in his career!

IT'S ME AGAINST THE WORLD OH GOD WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME...

because arsenal is faring 1-0 as i'm writing this. against west brom. what the hell is that (i will NOT settle for anything less than 3-0!). apart from the 3rd minute goal from nasri (*SQUEEEALLLL SAMIR I LOVE YOU*), arsenal's been playing pretty, but again, lacking that extra push in front of the goal. what's with my favorite teams today? they really seem goal-phobic.

but you know what's cool? that five minute after nasri's goal, i checked his wikipedia page and his goal was already mentioned there. wow.

OH I JUST WANT TO SLIT MY WRIST OR HANG MYSELF AND DIE SINCE NO ONE WILL MISS ME ANYWAY...

urgh. it's so tiring to write emo. it's seriously bad for the soul. i guess it's even more tiring to speak emo. or display emo. those emo people in our school must have a lot of finesse to carry those emo-ness. and even more, since all those are so exaggerated to gain attention anyway.

i think dressing up to school in a clown suit is a much more effective way of attratcing attention. if i'm really emo, i'd rather keep it as another skeleton in my closet--keep it inside myself; being emo, to me, is a weak weak thing and why would i want to display that? although i don't have any closets and even if i do, i'd prefer not to have human skeletal remnants in them--that would really stink up my clothes i should think.

OH WHY AM I SO SO SO ALONE IN THIS WORLD IF I HIDE AWAY NOBODY WOULD FIND ME!

i think i would really suck at writing emo song lyrics. haha.