Blackout!!!

Argh!!! We had a blackout here...

Well, well

Being some time since I blogged...

Haha...someone didn't believe me when I said that I am blogging...well I told them I got verbal diarrhoea!

Let me see...what to write?

Quite a few things, let's start with soccer, ok?

Well, well, there have been a number of upsets in Euro 2004. Traditional favourites like Spain, Germany, Italy got knocked out in the group stages. England was pipped in the penalty shoot-out by host Portugal, defending champion France was dumped by unfancied Greece, then Holland survived against Sweden and then finallly the Czech Republic won with a convincing 3-0 win over Denmark.

The semi-finals will see Portugal pitted against Holland, while Greece will face the Czech Republic...

I will be betting for a Portugal vs Czech Republic final...

Attended my previous company's barbeque function on Saturday night...hmm, I was kinda surprised that I was about the only ex-employee there...you see, I left that company 8 months ago, so I was not really expecting it...initially I had thought that this was a gathering of some of my ex-colleagues and good friends...

Well, there were quite a number of new faces there...I think my previous company is now getting back on track in its business...cheers...

Back to more mundane stuff, with my new school term approaching, I guess it's time o pull up my socks and fight hard this year. The time is soon coming when I must decide whether to stay on with my present institution or to change. I am just very uncomfortable with the way things are done over there...sigh...

My friends will know that I tend to understate things or be "diplomatic" when I talk...so I let you venture on that thought.

Till the next blog...

Spaniards out!

Hear...hear...


The Spanish Armada failed to beat the Portugese Navigators...actually talking about Euro 2004...Portugal defeated Spain 1-0.

Figo and company goes to 2nd round.

Greece 1 Russia 2
Despite this defeat, this could happen to be the year of the Greeks...they got two movies ("Troy" and "Alexander the Great" coming up and keeping people interested in the Greek mythologies...think men in skirts wearing sandals...)

Last day at the exhibition

Haha, did a little bit of rock-climbing today...SAFRA was holding the last day of their rock-climbing competition today.

Anyway, the competitive bit was over on Sat. So today's event was open to the kids and the public...

so funny to see the kids hanging for dear life as they struggle to reach for each handhold. Crowd support was fantastic, they cheered as the child passed an extremely tough obstacle or completed the climb...

I joined the queue and then found myself alone for this climb...gulps...

I got height phobia!!!

Yeah, it's true. I admit it, people. I got this height phobia...maybe due to the fact that I wear spectacles.

Always afraid that my glasses will fall off and that I will be left hanging in mid-air helplessly...

Anyway, with the legendary speed and agility of the Kai...you climb the wall effortlessly and complete it...

Yeah...there I go again, imagining myself as some kind of character...

But the truth is for a first-timer, it's quite alright, not too tough...just like the feeling when I reached the top...it's exhilarating!!!

Yippee...Markus 1 Height Phobia 0

Transferred from Friendster: some thoughts from me...

This is to help save some space on my Friendster...

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A self-composed poem: "the timing seems all wrong... the mind is not what it seems... the spirit of the soul is flagging... the body is itching yet aching...

Things come but at the wrong time... Yet not to do will make a dodo... To do means hard to balance... Yet a necessary evil to stay afloat..."

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"What is my destiny? That is a question that only Time can tell..."

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Translated from a Chinese saying..."There is no feast in the wide world that does not finish...all good things must draw to an end..."

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They say a star has fallen in the east. Its tail a trail of fading light in the dark. I went there to seek it. And found engraved in it my prophecy of doom.

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The hand of Fate can be rather unfair at times, doesn't it? *sneers*

Transferred: My Friendster thoughts on LOTR

"Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatuluk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."...

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them."...

LOTR freak...one day I might be a Ranger...another day, I might be an Elf princess, and then I could turn to the side of evil and become a dark lord or a snivelling misshapen creature struggling for survival...

Update: Euro 2004

Amazing, just as I lament on not watching enough soccer...there I go, not being able to sleep and I managed to catch the incredible comeback of the Czech Republic as they came from 2 goals down to beat Holland 3-2. Simply superb...

I am kind of tired...but

Try standing for two days while on exhibition duty...tires you out...wonder if I am getting old...sigh...

There's a Rock Climbing Competition organised by SAFRA at Suntec City yesterday and today. Many kids took part in this. So thrilling to see the relays that took place. If you are not careful, you miss your footing and that means precious time lost.

The "business" is not good lah!!! Wrong place, wrong crowd...

So far only managed to watch only one Euro 2004 game so far...that's the Italy vs Denmark game...and I watched one half of it. Punters and fans, you know that game ended in a nil-nil draw...yawnz...first time I missed so many football games worth watching...maybe I should fly to Portugal...*grinz*

That's it...till the next time...

First post - 20 June 2004

Hallo, ladies and gentlemen,

this is my first blog post...let me explore a bit more before I unleash the power of my thoughts...hehe...