Hail to 'The New Invincibles"...Arsenal Football Club...

43 matches unbeaten and still running strong...

My...my...what an achievement by the Arsenal team...

It all started with the 2002-2003 season, when we won our last 2 games of the season...before embarking on the incredible 38-game unbeaten streak throughout the 2003-20004 season...Now that we have won the first three games of this new 2004-2005 season...the Gunners have broken the previous record held by Nottingham Forest...

With the ever-dangerous Thierry Henry in attack, the Dutch wizard Dennis Bergkamp to deliver the passes, the flamboyant Robert Pires on the wings, the hard-tackling and skilful captain Patrick Vieira in midfield, tough defenders Sol Campbell and Kolo Toure around...you got a team of winners!

Add to that the youth and flair of young Spaniards like Reyes and Fabregras, Englishman Jemmaine Pennant...

This team smells of promise and there's more to come...Long live the Gunners!!!

May we win the European Champion League!!!


From a very happy Arsenal supporter of 13 years(and counting...)

The owner of this blog

Fever...

This is not football fever I am feeling...but the more mundane kind...

38.2 Celsius...

I should be eating my medicine now...sigh

The time is coming when I must act...

Maybe it is the impending release of my UOL exam results, maybe it is due to the frustration I feel about my life, work, studies and everything in general.

I know that I feel this distinct unease within me for days now.

I sense that everything is building up to a point whereby I must make a big decision. Perhaps I can pinpoint this to the release of the results, whereby the decisions that I make will affect me for the next few months or even possibly the next few years.

To stay or to go? That will be a big question that I will attempt to answer.

To be true, I am gradually getting fed-up with the education system at UOL. I wonder if the 100% theory-based syllabus over there really prepares one for the thrills and knocks of working life.

Theory is one thing, but actual experience is another matter entirely.

As I have always maintained to my friends and anyone who would care to listen to me for the past one year, in the future, there will be so many people holding degrees such that if you throw a stone, you will hit a university graduate (be it from Singapore, UK, USA, Australia or whatever country)

When it comes to the job hunt (pedigree of the university not included), the only factor that will distinguish one job-seeker from another is the work experience that he/she has, and the quality of that experience.


So what does it mean? It means that people nowadays have become more discerning. A paper qualification means little or nothing. What they care about is whether you have the experience and ability to do the job, and what can you bring to the organisation.

I don't propose being an "organisation" man, but I think we should all take charge of our lives. You decide your own career, not your company.

Live your own life and be free.

Till the next blog.

Happy National Day, Singapore!

Happy National Day! Singapore!

It is our 39th National Day! Yippee!

Speakers blasting above my head

You may wonder why the title of this post is so named...

As I sit here, typing this post, there is this one speaker blasting out the latest pop music at full volume above my head.

Why is that so?

I am at this carnvial for HardwareZone's Reality Challenge event, held outside the ever-popular Orchard Cineleisure.

It happens that my company's booth is located in such a way that my sitting position is just next to the overhead speakers.

Oh well, one could get nuts with all the loud music blasting over my head. Well, after going through it for more than 2 days, I have been sitting there thinking and thinking.

Think what? Ouch the music is too loud...

More on that the other time...till the next blog.