What a final it was at turf city. Final score 16-13 to the San Miguel Wanderers who successfully defended their cup title after losing the league to the Brewerkz Bucks.
A try early on in the game on the left side was comfortably converted by Marcus Blackburn. A penalty later in the half was again duly scored by Blackburn to bring the score to 10-0.

In the second half, the Bucks staged a good comeback with a well worked try through the fullback which was converted and penalty to tie the game. Scrumhalf Peter Jones seemed to be having a good game managing to match Blackburn's 2 for 2 kicking percentage. There were to be no tries for the rest of the game but penalties proved to be the turning point in the match.

The Wanderers' Marcus Blackburn managed to convert two penalties into points on the scoreboard while Peter Jones chalked up one more for the challengers to the trophy to bring the score to 16-13 to the wanderers.

Late on in the game, a good spell of pressure from the Bucks combined with several errors from the Wanderers resulted in the Bucks being awarded two penalties in good kicking positions. But the pressure of the cup finals got to scrumhalf Peter Jones and he missed both penalties, one hitting the left upright and the next hitting the right upright. Although much accuracy is needed to accomplish such a feat, points are only awarded for penalties that go between the post and above the crossbar. Effectively, the two missed penalties lost the game for the bucks as the final whistle went just after the second missed opportunity to signal the end of the game. As Peter Jones sunk to his knees, the Wanderers and their supporting fans rose to their feet to celebrate the victory. The Bucks will have to wait til next season to try and match the Wanderers feat of the domestic double that the Wanderers achieved last season.

Mohd Jamal came on midway through the second half as the fullback and had an uneventful final although he would be happy to bring the championship medal back home to his new son.

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okay.... enough for the corny match report.... it really was a good final lah... damn exciting.... really close and the drama at the end was fantastic... haha....

but san miguel really robbed me... fiftenn bucks for three lousy cans of beer.... damn... and i gave one to boon.... damn... haha... oh well... there is still next year's sevens to look forward to...

ITS OVER!!!! its finally over... the single most impt event of the year is finally over.... the autopsy will be in in a couple weeks.... and that is when i find out if the slacking i did for most of the year really did as much damage as i thought it did... hopefully not....

the physics was a killer... really... i guess i didn't really prepare much for it... most of my time was spent on econs and maths.... econs is really my best hope for an a lvl pass right now.... i think that maths is a possibility... but there is still my mid year results... and that'll pull my maths really far down....

there's a lot of stuff lined up for the holidays.... most of it has to do with rugby.... training training and more training.... there isn't really much to worry abt now... other than PW and that'll be over in a few weeks time.... we've got a trip to m'sia lined up, combining with SRJC's rugby team to play a few m'sian teams....

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here comes all the hot stuff for the folk who like a bit of gossip.... its the end of the promos... so i guess it's time to take action.... bit i guess i didn't strike when the iron was hot.... was talking to lorbah... and he said that i shd just ask her... at the most she say no and we be friends... right... right? yeah...

so i'll do that... i mean i guess i'll never really know what she'll say until i ask her right...

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i don't really have much to blog abt... just felt that i shd probably go online and do something since the promos are over and i don't need to study le... haha...
kinda bo liao.... but that's how i am....

there's no cure for the disease.... so you just have to live with it....

the promos are almost over... just two more days before everyone can start breathing properly again... but not for long.... got OP prep to do... argh... pw really just sucks lah....

i'm very proud of myself for finishing the chinese paper on tues..... i'll prob screw it up and get another 'F' to add to my collection but at least i attempted it... i don't think i would have even tried to do the paper if it wasn't for the words of someone that i know... and i owe wad ever marks i get to her...

maths... haiz... maths.... at least i can say that i have had definite improvement frm the mid years.... but it was amazing..... it was the fastest three hours of my life.... i can't believe that the time flew by so fast.... couldn't believe it.... its like... i glanced up at the clock at abt 8.15am, half an hour frm the start of the paper.... wad seemed like a few moments later, miss tian suddenly goes,"One hour left"... wad da hell... and i still had the last three qns to do... and they are the ones worth the most marks.... argh!!!

haiyah... wadeva it is... it's over shdn't think abt it anymore....

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Life is gonna be so good after the promos and the OP is all over.... man... frm that time onwards it's gonna be rugby, rugby, rugby... i've cut myself off totally frm rugby these past few weeks just to mug.... and i can't stand it anymore....
I.... Need... Rugby.... argh!!

we'll be combining with SRJC to go on a "tour" of m'sia.... i guess jamal is organising a couple of matches for us to play.... woah... i think it'll be really tough... but i wanna play... and i wann win... i'm thirsty for victory... damn...

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when the burning sensation of the sun's unbearable heat bears down on my naked back as i search for a place of refuge and shelter....
only to find my salvation in the One person that can truely give me rest and lift the cumbersome burdon of my sin off my aching body full of sores frm the load that i carry through my mortal life....

Man today was quite a nightmare..... My hand is begging for mercy.... Towards the end of my econs paper I swear it was starting to cramp up.....
but.... Overall I guess it wasn't that bad.... I wrote the longest essay for econs that I have ever wrote.... EVER.... Serious.... But I doubt that the quantity will make up for its poor quality..... The "feeling", as rus puts it, wasn't really there today... I think I'll have enough feeling to pass it....
hrm... I guess I'm kinda missing the class already... Its only know that you really appreciate the time spent together as a class.... Not to sound too mushy... But I really like this class... Super fun.... Super funky.... And full of really fantabulistically wonderful shiny happy people..... Okay... So there is no such word as fantabulistical.... But I couldn't really find a better word to describe them....

plus there's HER.... You guys who really know me shd know who SHE is.... Man.... I can't help talking about her.... Of all the gurls that I have known in my life, she's the nicest of all of them... There is no comparison to the rest.... The rest weren't really up to her standard.... She's so pleasant and sweet.... Never frowns.... She's not petty... And her major draw is that she's so unlike me... haha.... Well it's true... I'm a bastardly guy who will really dao ppl if I don't like them... I curse will almost every sentence that comes out of my mouth.... haiz... Trying to cut down on the cursing now.... Control my lad.... Its a virtue....

hope that someday she'll see something in me.... I want to be the perfect gentleman for her... And gadammit I'm trying my best...

haiz.... promos.... What the hell... I think that if I get retained I'd wanna go to poly... I have discovered a new passion... That is photography... I'm a totally under-talented guy trying to express my views without an easel and brush....
most of you shd know how badly my art sucks..... Serious.... I couldn't draw anything even if my life depended on it... Photography allows me to capture my visions and sights thru a lens that I couldn't do otherwise.... The lens allows me to share what I see without having to struggle to even sketch my ideas.... Check out some of the stuff that I have taken in my gallery... Some of the stuff is really crap lah... But I'll really proud of some of my pictures.... Such as the one that I took of a wire figure of Jesus... That was really inspired by the Man upstairs... And I thank him for it...

well... For those studying for the promos.... Remember this... Its no point to aim to just pass....

Shoot for the moon... Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

good night and God bless

woah.... psych... for the first time in over four years i got a children's day holiday.... didn't have to go to sch... but it wasn't much of a holiday cuz in the back of your mind you knew that monday was the big promos.... hrm... actually i did do quite a lot of studying.... went to toa payoh library to study with pris, her sis and their fren.... i did like six straight hours of maths.... equals two promo papers... so you can guess i'm pretty proud of myself for accomplishing that....

i slacked for most of the weekend... okay... i'll be truthful... i slacked for the whole weekend... hehe... oops...

had dinner with my mom's side of the family yest.... gwen jie came back frm australia and brought her aussie b/f back with her... nice guy.... quite shy lah... cuz my family can be quite intimidating.... my aunties are all quite well-built and laugh really loud... so i guess it'll be quite a man to come and meet our family and get thru it unscathed.... haha... actually that's exaggerating lah... their super funny ppl... you can really laugh out loud when you sit down and talk with them...

we brought him to eat at a coffee shop at havelock rd which has really good makan... then went to the west coast mac cafe for dessert.... woah.... eat until really full...

well.... after all's said and done... the fact that the promos will be starting tmr cannot be denied.... can't push it under the carpet and forget abt it... cuz it's there and that's it....

the first day will be a real killer.... GP, which is a three hr paper requiring you to write until ur hand pops off, and econs paper 3, which is the essay paper also requiring the sacrifice of your hand.... haiz... wad to do...

well... before i go... here's a damn funny one liner...




What goes 'clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop, BANG'?



An Amish drive-by shooting.




cheers ppl.... happy studying....

singaporean democracy.... hah... what a joke....
Mr. LEE Hsien Loong... the new leader of a democratic state.... erm... correct me if i'm wrong... but i don't remember the people electing him.... hrm... maybe its my memory...


NOT!!!


democracy:: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
by definition of merriam-webster dictionary

the singaporean method of election of the prime minister is through selection of the members of parliment(which doesn't exactly make up the majority of the population) and in the case of Mr. Lee a letter of recommendation from the former-Prime minister Goh Chok Tong.... so where did the "government by the people" part come into the picture....

although it is true that we have a say in who can become a member of parliment, we do not have a say in who they assume to be our choice of prime minister.... isn't it strange that the most established, better financed, seemingly invincible party always comes out tops.... there is no room for smaller parties to come into singaporean politics and they wonder why fewer singaporeans want to join politics.... look at what happened to the last few singaporeans who decided to oppose the ruling party... they went bankrupt and had to leave the country into asylum in malaysia.... the msg that they are sending is: "it's my way, or the north-south highway..."

now with that kind of governance the only way that you're going to get anywhere in singapore politics is if you become a democractic socialist or if you happen to have the surname LEE....

it's true that systems of election like the american electorial process is hard to implement for the inherent problem that singapore has... a small population... the small voting pool means that results may vary and the true average of the opinions of the singaporean people may not be accurately and precisely measured.... and the problem of having to change singapore's constitution makes it even more difficult to implement... but there has to be a way for more singaporeans to become more active in the way that their home is being ruled...

the problem here is not that singaporean do not want to help improve their society by going into politics but the fact that they can't when the government is as rigid as it is now.....

politics is a distorted unclear environment where one is governed by what other people think of you... but it has become a inseparable part of modern life....

gotta bear with it...

woah. I just found this song by starting line called hold on. Its such a brilliant song. Simple yet beautiful. Just a piano and a guitar. And soulful lyrics.



Hold on by The Starting Line
Her life was more than mine
Like a proud shooting star into the night
She crashed through the airways and ripped like a knife
It was a bad disease
Her searching was over, over

Hold on to the light that guides you
Hold on to the air that cools you
Hold on, hold on to me

Her mind stead fast through time
Her family stood by trying hard not to cry
With patience and virtue kept strong through the night, whoa
She never fell to her knees
Her searching was over, over

Hold on to the light that guides you
hold on to the air that cools you
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you
hold on to the air that cools you
Hold on, hold on

And Then my eyes stretched out as I saw her hand slip away

(instrumental break)

Hold on to the light that guides you
Hold on to the air that cools you
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on to the light that guides you
Hold on to the air that cools you
Hold on, hold on to me
To me, To me, hold on to me



Its really beautiful. Its like the person singing the song is sad yet willing to give the support to someone that he loves.
It is hard to really fully comprehend the true inspiration for the song, but each one of us can take a different interpretation of the words. I feel that the song is a promise that he makes to her. He says that she when she needs someone she can hold on to him. For comfort and for strength. And that he will always be there for her. He wants to be the light to guide her through time of darkness and be the air to comfort her in her times of difficulty. Even as she slips away he still stays strong as an anchor for her to hang on to in the storm.
I pray for the strength to be that kind of man.
And I pray that I will be able make that kind of promise for her.....

hey..... finally i can post frm home again.... how nice....

so today was the LEAP carnival "signing-up" day.... in the spur of the moment i signed up for three events... the rugby place-kicking challenge, the ICS floorball thingy and the guitar club's band comp..... argh.... just realised that i shd have checked the times for all the comps... i just found out that the guitar club's thing is at 0830h while the rugby kicking is at 0740h... omg.... its gonna be tight.... but i think can make it lah... i still don't know what time is the floorball thing too...

ten days more.... my maths sucks.... twenty-one topics to go thru.... and i'm still sitting here typing... i'd say i'm pretty much screwed.... i think i'll be able to make it thru just by a bit..... i think i'm banking quite a lot on my econs... it has out of the blue become my best subject... i'm pretty amazed with some of the stuff that i know... and thought i wouldn't know... haha....

gotta go.... studying again... argh....
c ya guys after the promos...

argh.... there is something wrong with my computer again... i can't type anything into the space that you're supposed to type your post into... i'm now in the sch library typing this post....
i haven't posted anything for almost a week plus le... doubt many ppl read my blog anyway... but i miss writing...

so the promos are drawing nearer... 18 days at the last count.... my preparation has been going quite well... supposed to be doin pw now... stupid thing.. hate it sia.... that stupid bao ling oso staring over my shoulder... oh yeah.. and pei wen too... so kay poh nia...
actually... there is nothing much to talk about... but i just wanted to type...hehe.. oops...

my dad's been nagging again... he wants me to go and work out a work schedule etc and sit down and show him.... wateva lah... i'd rather do things the way that works with me.... making a scehdule etc doesn't really help me cuz i don't really stick to it... if he just left me alone to do my thing i think that it will be much more productive... i did it for o levels i'll do it again for promos and the "a"s....

i haven't really been in a good mood past few days.... i just don't feel right.... i don't know what exactly is wrong... but its not normal... had a good chat with ah ning yesterday on MSN and managed to get some stuff off my chest... i'm not the type to go all mushy and talk about feelings and all that crap... but sumtimes i need ta let off some steam... wad de hell.....

can't really think of sumthing to write on today... maybe the inspiration'll come tmr...

til then...
cheers

haiz... 26 days left... that's the official countdown... i don't know which is more worrying.... getting stressed over the promos or not getting stressed when you know that you shd be... i think i'm sumwhere in btwn the two... at least i have started some form of revision..... managed to sit down today with lorbah and mrs chong... so nice of her to sacrifice her time to stay back after the lecture to let us clarify our doubts etc.... but i don't think that is still enuf to get me thru cleanly.....

wah lau... that reminds me... me and lorbah did a really dumb thing last sat.... we were in the library studying when we decided to go out of the library for a walk..... we went downstairs and sat with some of his CO frens to chat.... after we went back to the library to find the lights off and the doors locked.... wah lau.... damn sian... we went ard the whole sch trying to look for someone with the key.... but no one had it... in the end we contacted mrs chong and she helped us get miss koh (the HOD for PE/CCA) to open the library with the spare key.... mrs chong was willing to come back to sch frm SMU to open the library for us.... but luckily they had a spare key so she didn't have to come all the way back.... big thank you to mrs chong and miss koh....
lorbah and i have learnt our lesson.... haiz...

learnt how to play "she will be loved" by maroon 5 over the weekend.. its actually a pretty easy song to play... but is still sounds so nice... esp the words... very meaningful... they're one of the few rock bands that get radio airtime in s'pore that i listen to... most of the stuff on the airways is actually total crap.....
maroon 5 actually are quite a dorky bunch of nerds.... no disrespect.... but that's what they look like... but its kinda cool that they don't care what people think of them and still go out and play super songs.... i guess i'm to concerned abt what ppl think of me to go out and do that kinda stuff...

got some ideas on what to get her for her birthday yesterday... won't tell ya ppl yet.... only a few ppl will know what i intend to buy until i actually give it to her.... hope she'll like it though.... i'm stuck btwn two options now but i've got some time to think abt it....

well... to all the sept babies that i know... happy birthday.....
and a happy new year.....

'nuff said