U know the old saying tat when buying a gift for someone, its the thought tat counts and not the worth/value of the gift.
I always kept tat in mind when picking up a gift for someone. Be it for birthday, anniversary, wedding, newborn, housewarming, christmas, new year or watever occasion. I will think if the gift suited the person, whether he/she will like it and/or whether its useful to him/her. Can't say tat I am spot-on correct everytime but at least I put some thought to it.
So wat is the recipient side of the story?
People might say "thank u", "I love it", "its just wat I always wanted" or some niceties as response.
I find tat I generally only have the "thank u" response, then I take the gift without further expression or action. Thereafter if u see me using the gift
, it probably means I love it n its useful. But if the gift never see the light of day after it has broken out of its wrapping, then it might mean I dun really fancy it. But hey think of it the good way, I might treasure it so much tat I can't bear to use it.
In any case, I do appreciate all gifts from my friends n love ones. If u dun fall into those 2 categories, well then it will depend very much on the gift itself.
Wat irks me most is a type of person who opens his/her gift n start eyeing on others' gifts. whether to compare or out of envy/jealousy. Then he/she will make remarks as to how he/she thinks the gift is not to his/her liking. Hello? Where is common courtesy and gratitude to the person who bought the gift?
Hell! Its worse when one asks another how much angbao/red packet $ he/she has received from the same source...shameless...
So the next time u buy a gift or receive one, do put some thought into it.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
3, 2, 1....Fly Away...No?
Something just happened to K's holiday to Perth.
K was scheduled to take an afternoon flight but she missed it coz she forgot her VISA!
Now with Singapore passport being so widely accepted by so many countries and us Singaporeans being exempted from VISA requirement in a lot of countries as well, its not surprising tat we might forget to check if we actually need a VISA permit.
Anyway, Australia definitely needs a VISA permit for entry. From wat I heard from J, its ASEAN countries tat we do not need VISA...am not too sure myself but I think its best to check.
I feel kinda bad coz of this incident. Becoz I didn't think of reminding her abt her VISA when she bought her tickets and also coz when she was at the airport LOST without her VISA, she called me many times n I didn't even get her call as my HP was in my office drawer. Though she managed to get another fren to apply the VISA, the approval came in too late and she missed her flight. :(
I do wonder if I am in a similar situation who would I call....hmmm...first I think I will call Goon ba, then if he is not available maybe its K - J - A - G...this kind of order. Why this order? Of coz I will find the person who travel the most mah...LOL!
So, I decided to draft this checklist for points to note when traveling overseas:-
1. Passport
2. Plane ticket/E-ticket to exchange for Boarding Pass
3. VISA
4. Baggage weight limit
5. Restrictions on liquids aerosols gels in hand carry bag
6. No weapons or sharp objects in hand carry bag
7. Be at the airport at least 2 hrs before flight time to check in
Is there other points I missed out? Do let me know k.
K was scheduled to take an afternoon flight but she missed it coz she forgot her VISA!
Now with Singapore passport being so widely accepted by so many countries and us Singaporeans being exempted from VISA requirement in a lot of countries as well, its not surprising tat we might forget to check if we actually need a VISA permit.
Anyway, Australia definitely needs a VISA permit for entry. From wat I heard from J, its ASEAN countries tat we do not need VISA...am not too sure myself but I think its best to check.
I feel kinda bad coz of this incident. Becoz I didn't think of reminding her abt her VISA when she bought her tickets and also coz when she was at the airport LOST without her VISA, she called me many times n I didn't even get her call as my HP was in my office drawer. Though she managed to get another fren to apply the VISA, the approval came in too late and she missed her flight. :(
I do wonder if I am in a similar situation who would I call....hmmm...first I think I will call Goon ba, then if he is not available maybe its K - J - A - G...this kind of order. Why this order? Of coz I will find the person who travel the most mah...LOL!
So, I decided to draft this checklist for points to note when traveling overseas:-
1. Passport
2. Plane ticket/E-ticket to exchange for Boarding Pass
3. VISA
4. Baggage weight limit
5. Restrictions on liquids aerosols gels in hand carry bag
6. No weapons or sharp objects in hand carry bag
7. Be at the airport at least 2 hrs before flight time to check in
Is there other points I missed out? Do let me know k.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Childhood Myths & Superstition
Had this conversation with a fren n mentioned an old habit of crossing one's fingers when u really want something to happen. So she made jokes abt crossing toes as well, but crossing toes will cramp right. Lol.
Anyway, brought me to thinking abt wat other myths/superstitions/old wives' tales I hv heard as a child n remembered...
1) Cross ur fingers = hoping for something to happen
2) Touch wood = away with bad luck
3) Left eye twitch = something bad is going to happen
4) Right eye twitch = something good is going to happen
5) No swimming during Chinese Ghost month = or else will drown
6) Go home before sunset during Chinese Ghost month = or else will meet ghosts
7) Peel an apple infront of a mirror at 12am = will see how ur future husband will look like
8) Stand up n walk a round to change luck during a gambling match.
I am sure there is some more but I can't quite remember.
Interesting huh?
Anyway, brought me to thinking abt wat other myths/superstitions/old wives' tales I hv heard as a child n remembered...
1) Cross ur fingers = hoping for something to happen
2) Touch wood = away with bad luck
3) Left eye twitch = something bad is going to happen
4) Right eye twitch = something good is going to happen
5) No swimming during Chinese Ghost month = or else will drown
6) Go home before sunset during Chinese Ghost month = or else will meet ghosts
7) Peel an apple infront of a mirror at 12am = will see how ur future husband will look like
8) Stand up n walk a round to change luck during a gambling match.
I am sure there is some more but I can't quite remember.
Interesting huh?
Monday, August 16, 2010
Salt vs The Last Airbender
2 of the much anticipated movies I watched recently: SALT and The Last Airbender.
Before watching Salt, I was in the toilet at Lido and overheard comments tat these 2 movies are not really any good. A little disappointed then coz I already bought tickets for Salt and do plan to watch The Last Airbender anyway.
Both didn't turn out as bad though. NORMAL. Tats how I rated both movies. 2-1/2 out of 5 stars. Now some short reviews.
SALT
So WHO is Salt? It comes as no shock itself tat Salt is Salt.
No master disguiser at work here. Merely an American kid whose parents got killed in an accident in Russia, got recruited into a Russian spygroup, then later got adopted by the CIA. Double spy??? Yah maybe.
The ultimate goal of the Russian spygroup is to take control over Russia. So their ringleader recruited young kids, trained and influenced them to be his pawns, plant them at various parts of the world to be his spies. These spies can stay hidden at their supposed post for years and years, waiting for msg/signal from the ringleader to carry out their assignments.
So Salt is a Russian spy. And she got recruited into CIA which turns out to be very convenient to the Russian grp when they wanted to kill the Russian president during one of his visits to the US.
But Salt is different from the other spies...she loves her husband so much tat she betrayed the Russian spygroup. Actually she was planted by the CIA to meet and get close to her German husband who works as a researcher. When she was captured and imprisoned by North Korea during one of her missions, it was her husband who saved her and from then I guess she fell deeply in love with him. Thus killing her husband was probably the worse decision the Russian spygroup made.
Anyway, the storyline is ok and leaves not much for guesses except on whether she is a Russian spy (this was disclosed like midway in the movie, so no more mystery thereafter). And I am pleased to have guessed right from the beginning tat Salt's colleague/boss in CIA is also a Russian spy! Brilliant huh? No lah, just a hunch.
Other than the above, her cool fighting actions and shooting scenes are not really tat realistic. I mean wat are the chances a female can beat up a horde of guys?
The only mean thing abt her is her expression but tat can be mis-interpreted to be constipation. LOL.
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THE LAST AIRBENDER
I never expected this to be a movie with a sequel. Also gotten some feedback tat this movie is rather boring. I think this movie might be better made into a TV series.
The whole story and the war between the nations obviously cannot be squeezed into one movie session and I am not sure a 2 or 3 parts movie series will do it justice either.
The storyline is a bit sketchy...though they tried to explain a lot during the start of the movie with lines and lines of words for audiences to read...but isnt it better to explain it IN the movie itself with scenes and analog storytelling???
Acting by ANG (the avatar aka the last airbender) was so-so only. He probably knows a bit of kungfu coz his movements seem believable but oh! not so pretty....he juts out his butt a lot...looks as if he is poo-poo-ing in some of his poses. Facial expressions...bad. Cant sense any emotions from his expression...forced and unreal.
Acting by the girl waterbender...forgettable...(so unmemorable tat I cant even remember her name in the movie). Ok more expressions than Ang but average performance coz I dun even remember much abt her....see! it might be good to have bad facial expressions like Ang coz at least I remember him. Only other thing I remember abt her is, she looked like she's dancing more than playing kungfu. Not at all convincing.
Special effects in the movie was probably the only thing which did slightly better than average. But this too is becoming common in most movies these days.
Oh wait, I just remember tat The Last Airbender is in cartoon too...maybe tat is better worth watching.
Before watching Salt, I was in the toilet at Lido and overheard comments tat these 2 movies are not really any good. A little disappointed then coz I already bought tickets for Salt and do plan to watch The Last Airbender anyway.
Both didn't turn out as bad though. NORMAL. Tats how I rated both movies. 2-1/2 out of 5 stars. Now some short reviews.
SALT
So WHO is Salt? It comes as no shock itself tat Salt is Salt.
No master disguiser at work here. Merely an American kid whose parents got killed in an accident in Russia, got recruited into a Russian spygroup, then later got adopted by the CIA. Double spy??? Yah maybe.
The ultimate goal of the Russian spygroup is to take control over Russia. So their ringleader recruited young kids, trained and influenced them to be his pawns, plant them at various parts of the world to be his spies. These spies can stay hidden at their supposed post for years and years, waiting for msg/signal from the ringleader to carry out their assignments.
So Salt is a Russian spy. And she got recruited into CIA which turns out to be very convenient to the Russian grp when they wanted to kill the Russian president during one of his visits to the US.
But Salt is different from the other spies...she loves her husband so much tat she betrayed the Russian spygroup. Actually she was planted by the CIA to meet and get close to her German husband who works as a researcher. When she was captured and imprisoned by North Korea during one of her missions, it was her husband who saved her and from then I guess she fell deeply in love with him. Thus killing her husband was probably the worse decision the Russian spygroup made.
Anyway, the storyline is ok and leaves not much for guesses except on whether she is a Russian spy (this was disclosed like midway in the movie, so no more mystery thereafter). And I am pleased to have guessed right from the beginning tat Salt's colleague/boss in CIA is also a Russian spy! Brilliant huh? No lah, just a hunch.
Other than the above, her cool fighting actions and shooting scenes are not really tat realistic. I mean wat are the chances a female can beat up a horde of guys?
The only mean thing abt her is her expression but tat can be mis-interpreted to be constipation. LOL.
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THE LAST AIRBENDER
I never expected this to be a movie with a sequel. Also gotten some feedback tat this movie is rather boring. I think this movie might be better made into a TV series.
The whole story and the war between the nations obviously cannot be squeezed into one movie session and I am not sure a 2 or 3 parts movie series will do it justice either.
The storyline is a bit sketchy...though they tried to explain a lot during the start of the movie with lines and lines of words for audiences to read...but isnt it better to explain it IN the movie itself with scenes and analog storytelling???
Acting by ANG (the avatar aka the last airbender) was so-so only. He probably knows a bit of kungfu coz his movements seem believable but oh! not so pretty....he juts out his butt a lot...looks as if he is poo-poo-ing in some of his poses. Facial expressions...bad. Cant sense any emotions from his expression...forced and unreal.
Acting by the girl waterbender...forgettable...(so unmemorable tat I cant even remember her name in the movie). Ok more expressions than Ang but average performance coz I dun even remember much abt her....see! it might be good to have bad facial expressions like Ang coz at least I remember him. Only other thing I remember abt her is, she looked like she's dancing more than playing kungfu. Not at all convincing.
Special effects in the movie was probably the only thing which did slightly better than average. But this too is becoming common in most movies these days.
Oh wait, I just remember tat The Last Airbender is in cartoon too...maybe tat is better worth watching.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Colour Greetings
I just have to share this with everyone.
Was having lunch with my colleague a while ago and we were complaining abt how a certain Idiot in our office (yes yes, the same idiot whom I complained abt in my previous posts) like to answer his phone saying "Yellow" instead of "Hello" and in the most irritating manner tat sounded like "Yello~w"
We started to come up with how we shld answer calls in different colours...and this is the best one of my colleague's son actually came up with:
"Gr~ee-n! Gr~een!"
"Yello~w"
"Bl~u~e are you?"
WAHAHA........ROFL.........LMAO..........I laughed until my tears came out.......
Dont get it? Read again...out loud this time..... ;D
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And I found this joke from the internet "All Indian Site.Com"(thanks to goon) which is one of the version the above colour greetings joke:-
A man goes to get a job as a secretary. When the manager saw his yellow and red highlighted hair, his mind was screaming,'No, not this guy.'
Nevertheless, he had to entertain his guest.
Manager: "Okay, I will give you some words. Make a sentence with them and the job is yours. The words are green, pink, yellow, blue, white, purple and black."
The man thought for a while and said: "The phone was ringing GREEN GREEN GREEN. I go and I PINK up the phone. I say YELLOW...BLUE's that. WHITE did you call? Aye... wrong number. Listen don't PURPLEly call wrong numbers and don't call BLACK."
The manager fainted.
Was having lunch with my colleague a while ago and we were complaining abt how a certain Idiot in our office (yes yes, the same idiot whom I complained abt in my previous posts) like to answer his phone saying "Yellow" instead of "Hello" and in the most irritating manner tat sounded like "Yello~w"
We started to come up with how we shld answer calls in different colours...and this is the best one of my colleague's son actually came up with:
"Gr~ee-n! Gr~een!"
"Yello~w"
"Bl~u~e are you?"
WAHAHA........ROFL.........LMAO..........I laughed until my tears came out.......
Dont get it? Read again...out loud this time..... ;D
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And I found this joke from the internet "All Indian Site.Com"(thanks to goon) which is one of the version the above colour greetings joke:-
A man goes to get a job as a secretary. When the manager saw his yellow and red highlighted hair, his mind was screaming,'No, not this guy.'
Nevertheless, he had to entertain his guest.
Manager: "Okay, I will give you some words. Make a sentence with them and the job is yours. The words are green, pink, yellow, blue, white, purple and black."
The man thought for a while and said: "The phone was ringing GREEN GREEN GREEN. I go and I PINK up the phone. I say YELLOW...BLUE's that. WHITE did you call? Aye... wrong number. Listen don't PURPLEly call wrong numbers and don't call BLACK."
The manager fainted.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Courtesy or ???
Went to watch the movie "The Last Airbender" last night. Will try to write a review abt the movie and maybe finish off my review of The Inception.
So I was rushing off to the toilet after the movie and though it wasn't crowded, 2 ladies were walking in front of me to enter the toilet. I was relieved when I entered and saw tat there were a number of empty cubicles.
The 2 ladies were chatting, then Lady 1 went into a cubicle and Lady 2 suddenly stopped in her tracks in the middle of the narrow walkway in the toilet blocking my access to the cubicles.
"Excuse me." I said
And her reply was "Nevermind." And she continued to block my way.
?????!
WHAT! I thought the common response would be to give way since she obviously didn't want to enter any cubicle.
I MIND LOR, she was still blocking me! What nevermind!
Ok, correct me if I am wrong. Isn't "Excuse me" an international phrase for asking pple to give way politely? Was I supposed to say "Please go away" or "Get out of my way" or put up a YOG (Youth Olympic Games) logo to give way? Hehe...tat was a funny thought abt the logo huh.
Told some friends abt this incident and they laughed and said it will be a good tactic to use in future. Lol, ya probably to irritate some other pple. Hmmm...I shld think of a counter-response instead of just squeezing my way past tat Lady 2 last night.
Any good counter-response suggestions?
So I was rushing off to the toilet after the movie and though it wasn't crowded, 2 ladies were walking in front of me to enter the toilet. I was relieved when I entered and saw tat there were a number of empty cubicles.
The 2 ladies were chatting, then Lady 1 went into a cubicle and Lady 2 suddenly stopped in her tracks in the middle of the narrow walkway in the toilet blocking my access to the cubicles.
"Excuse me." I said
And her reply was "Nevermind." And she continued to block my way.
?????!
WHAT! I thought the common response would be to give way since she obviously didn't want to enter any cubicle.
I MIND LOR, she was still blocking me! What nevermind!
Ok, correct me if I am wrong. Isn't "Excuse me" an international phrase for asking pple to give way politely? Was I supposed to say "Please go away" or "Get out of my way" or put up a YOG (Youth Olympic Games) logo to give way? Hehe...tat was a funny thought abt the logo huh.
Told some friends abt this incident and they laughed and said it will be a good tactic to use in future. Lol, ya probably to irritate some other pple. Hmmm...I shld think of a counter-response instead of just squeezing my way past tat Lady 2 last night.
Any good counter-response suggestions?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Estee Lauder Makeover Contest
BUMP!
Please my dear friends and blog readers, do cast ur vote for Su in the Estee Lauder Makeover Contest (instructions are below).
The voting ends this Sunday, 25 July 2010, so please cast ur vote now!
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I am snitching a little time during work for this post.
A good friend of mine, Su, took part in an Estee Lauder Makeover Contest.
Look at how pretty she is.... ^_^
Let's all support Su...click on http://www.herworld.com/esteelauder and type in "#235" or "Suhaina" and VOTE for her!
THANK U ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT!!!
PS: I think pretty Su shld win...and not some of the ugly fat girls I saw on the page who are heading the votes just becoz they got more friends voting for them.
Please my dear friends and blog readers, do cast ur vote for Su in the Estee Lauder Makeover Contest (instructions are below).
The voting ends this Sunday, 25 July 2010, so please cast ur vote now!
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I am snitching a little time during work for this post.
A good friend of mine, Su, took part in an Estee Lauder Makeover Contest.
Look at how pretty she is.... ^_^
Let's all support Su...click on http://www.herworld.com/esteelauder and type in "#235" or "Suhaina" and VOTE for her!
THANK U ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT!!!
PS: I think pretty Su shld win...and not some of the ugly fat girls I saw on the page who are heading the votes just becoz they got more friends voting for them.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Spain Tops World Cup 2010
After a long and hard 1 month, World Cup 2010 has finally come to an end at abt 5am this morning Singapore time with Spain grabbing the championship for the first time in World Cup history.
Walking down along Clarke Quay at a couple minutes after 5am, I saw many disappointed Netherlands ("Holland") fans. Some were dragging their feet, displaying sad n dejected faces, while complaints of "kelong" were heard abt how the referee of the match was unfair and seemed to side with the Spainards.
As the match had dragged on to extra time after both teams failed to score any goals within 90 mins, I was dead tired when I reached home at 6am, showered and got onto bed only at 6.30am. Luckily I took leave today and could sleep all the way till noon.
For those who saw my Twitter last night, they would remember my complaint abt the restaurant Le Baroque situated at Chjimes, Singapore. Really felt like writing some complaint letters abt the place to some authorities.
Walking down along Clarke Quay at a couple minutes after 5am, I saw many disappointed Netherlands ("Holland") fans. Some were dragging their feet, displaying sad n dejected faces, while complaints of "kelong" were heard abt how the referee of the match was unfair and seemed to side with the Spainards.
As the match had dragged on to extra time after both teams failed to score any goals within 90 mins, I was dead tired when I reached home at 6am, showered and got onto bed only at 6.30am. Luckily I took leave today and could sleep all the way till noon.
For those who saw my Twitter last night, they would remember my complaint abt the restaurant Le Baroque situated at Chjimes, Singapore. Really felt like writing some complaint letters abt the place to some authorities.
I tried calling a few pubs on Sat and Sun, trying to make reservations to watch the world cup but I either couldn't get thru their phonelines or they don't take reservations. Le Baroque is one of which don't pick up their phone.
So, A and I went to Le Baroque early at ard 9pm to find seats n wait for screening of the WC finals. The waitress lead us to some empty seats where we ordered snacks and drinks. It was only at ard 11pm plus when the waitress suddenly came over to ask if we are waiting to watch the WC and tat if we are, there is a minimum spending of $100 per person applicable.
So, A and I went to Le Baroque early at ard 9pm to find seats n wait for screening of the WC finals. The waitress lead us to some empty seats where we ordered snacks and drinks. It was only at ard 11pm plus when the waitress suddenly came over to ask if we are waiting to watch the WC and tat if we are, there is a minimum spending of $100 per person applicable.
Outrageous! How could they suddenly come up with such rule abt minimum spending which they failed to warn/inform customers abt before they decided to sit down and make their orders?! When I grumbled at the waitress, she merely sulked and said nothing. It was only becoz we were pressed for time to find another spot to watch the WC, that I quickly asked for the bill and left tat STINKY LE BAROQUE restaurant! Now tat I looked back, I think I shld have insisted to speak with with their manager and threaten to sue them for misrepresentation! Worse is...our bill came up to $80+....CRAP LOR!
Anyway, we were fortunate to quickly find another MUCH more ideal and AFFORDABLE place for watching WC - Verve Pizzeria situated at Clarke Quay. They not only serve pizzas and drinks, one can also find Italian ice cream there...yummy! :) LOVE...Do patronize this place, its worth for $ definitely. Unlike some places which are out to fleece pple ("Le Baroque").
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Now for some personal analysis of the WC finals.
South Africa has outdone themselves putting up a spectacular performance for the closing ceremony. A pity I didn't catch the opening ceremony. But I gather it shld be just as good. Shakira also appeared in person to sing the theme song for World Cup 2010. The ceremony plus a lot of recaps on the matches leading to this finals started from 12pm plus. I shall not go into details on those as the WC is more abt the matches anyway.
Holland did not lose a single match since the WC started and they have to many pple's surprise beaten Brazil, the 5 times WC champions. Though I find them rather slacking in certain matches (eg. against Slovakia in the round of 16 and against Uruguay in the Semi-finals), they do pick up their act sometimes.
The Finals? Well, I find that the Holland team was a little disorganized and "rough". They had 28 fouls and got booked by the referee for 7 yellow cards and a second yellow card (red card is issued when the same player gets 2 consecutive yellow cards in a match) which sent 1 of their defender out of the field at a most crucial time during extra time.
Spain on the other hand committed 19 fouls with 5 of their players booked with yellow card. I think Torres was like a lucky charm for the team and he contributed to the singular most important goal of the whole match when he was finally sent onto the field in the last 15 mins.
Though I do not admire Holland's team for the rough playing, I also felt tat the referee might have been biased or overly cautious. He shld have given a yellow card for 2 other occasions to Spain's players:-
1) when Spain's defender Puyol was tackling Holland's Robben when he was heading for the goal, Puyol fell and sort of wrap his hands ard Robben and swung his legs across Robben's legs, making him lose the ball. Though I would not say tat it was intentional, I think it shld have been a yellow card. However, maybe the referee is hesitant abt booking Puyol for tat becoz it would have been a 2nd yellow card for Puyol and he will be out of the match.
2) when Spain's Iniesta got sandwiched by 2 of Holland's player (I forgot their names) and lost the ball, it was supposedly a "legal" tackling (dun ask me...I dun know why its legal...just coz the commentator said so then), after which Iniesta got mad and actually pushed Holland's player down. Now, tat shld have definitely been a yellow. But the referee only decided on a foul and free kick.
If the referee had given out the above 2 yellow cards, maybe the outcome of the match might be totally different....who knows?
Eventually this WC Final turned out to be the match with the highest record no. of fouls committed and free kicks given - 47 in total from both teams!
I will not dispute that Spain does have talented players and played a good game...just tat things might have different.
Guess this WC 2010 did take quite a few unexpected turns....Brazil and Argentina out so early in the tournament, England's controversial goal when matching against Germany, Portugal's 7 goals against North Korea, and the many yellow cards given out.
Now for the individual awards for the players:
Golden Ball Award - Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Golden Boot Award - Thomas Mueller (Germany) [He was also awarded the Best Young Player]
Golden Glove Award - Iker Casillas (Spain)
Will Casillas be the next Oliver Kahn? Haha....nah, hope not....I like my idol Goalkeeper as he is...non-replaceable.
PS: Post WC blues....not sure wat to look forward to watch now....so LOST.....
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Octopus Oracle vs Divine Bird
Paul the Octopus has an opponent to its position as the prophet for World Cup 2010.
Mani the parakeet has also taken to guessing the correct winners of the World Cup matches.
Coincidence?
Read on in this article...
http://g.sg.sports.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/blog/fever-pitch/post/Octopus-Paul-vs-Mani-the-parakeet-Who-will-triu?urn=fbintl,254967
So I was misinformed, the Octopus Oracle's prediction is supposed to be Spain and not Netherlands to win the World Cup.
But as the comment I have been hearing of late - "the ball is round and anything can happen". Anyway, its a 50% chance for either team to win anyway.
May the best team win then! (Anyway, my Germany team is out of the Finals...cant be bothered either way.)
Mani the parakeet has also taken to guessing the correct winners of the World Cup matches.
Coincidence?
Read on in this article...
http://g.sg.sports.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/blog/fever-pitch/post/Octopus-Paul-vs-Mani-the-parakeet-Who-will-triu?urn=fbintl,254967
So I was misinformed, the Octopus Oracle's prediction is supposed to be Spain and not Netherlands to win the World Cup.
But as the comment I have been hearing of late - "the ball is round and anything can happen". Anyway, its a 50% chance for either team to win anyway.
May the best team win then! (Anyway, my Germany team is out of the Finals...cant be bothered either way.)
Thursday, July 08, 2010
On the way to the World Cup Finals
Another short update on the World Cup 2010.
At 2.30am this morning, my favourite WC team Germany (who has gotten into the Semi-Finals) has been officially defeated by Spain and their dreams of entering the Finals is dashed.
Now the results of the past Quarter and Semi Finals since last weekend are as follow:-
Quarter-Finals
Uruguay vs Ghana = 1:1 (Penalty Kick 4:2) [Uruguay proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Netherlands vs Brazil = 2:1 [Netherlands proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Argentina vs Germany = 0:4 [Germany proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Paraguay vs Spain = 0:1 [Spain proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Semi-Finals
Uruguary vs Netherlands = 2:3
Germany vs Spain = 0:1
NETHERLANDS will fight SPAIN in the Finals!
T_T Boo hoo hoo!
Nothing to look forward to in the WC Finals le....so depressing....
And wats this abt the "Octopus"??? Some said tat it has predicted the outcome of many of the WC matches this year and it has predicted tat Germany will lose to Spain and the ultimate winner of the WC will be Netherlands? Arghhhh....stupid Octopus....
Just found a report on Yahoo on the stupid Octopus Oracle:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100708/tts-germany-offbeat-animal-fbl-wc2010-ge-509a08e.html
At 2.30am this morning, my favourite WC team Germany (who has gotten into the Semi-Finals) has been officially defeated by Spain and their dreams of entering the Finals is dashed.
Now the results of the past Quarter and Semi Finals since last weekend are as follow:-
Quarter-Finals
Uruguay vs Ghana = 1:1 (Penalty Kick 4:2) [Uruguay proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Netherlands vs Brazil = 2:1 [Netherlands proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Argentina vs Germany = 0:4 [Germany proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Paraguay vs Spain = 0:1 [Spain proceeds to Semi-Finals]
Semi-Finals
Uruguary vs Netherlands = 2:3
Germany vs Spain = 0:1
NETHERLANDS will fight SPAIN in the Finals!
T_T Boo hoo hoo!
Nothing to look forward to in the WC Finals le....so depressing....
And wats this abt the "Octopus"??? Some said tat it has predicted the outcome of many of the WC matches this year and it has predicted tat Germany will lose to Spain and the ultimate winner of the WC will be Netherlands? Arghhhh....stupid Octopus....
Just found a report on Yahoo on the stupid Octopus Oracle:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100708/tts-germany-offbeat-animal-fbl-wc2010-ge-509a08e.html
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