Friday, July 28, 2006
having amaths now! haven't blogged for a long time man! shannon's beside me peeping through the small small hole in the blinds of the window trying to see who she can recognise who's running 2.4 now for PE! so dumb can. haha. anyway, i wanna go sa now. blame it all on yesterday having so much free time on the way home from piano, give me so much time to really think everything through lah. sigh... but i'll feel damn bad calling tjc up and telling them i wanna withdraw just one day after signing and handing in the acceptance form. so dumb. aiyah. but i was thinking, okay lah. after prelims then really think where i wanna go lah. if not my studies affected then everywhere also cannot go how? haha. oh ya, talk about piano. know right, i thought my examiner tested me wrongly, then had piano after the exam. so my teacher checked the syllabus and there it was! then my piano teacher still can blame me for not practising it lah! like what the hell! AMELIA WANTS HER NAME HERE. THREATENING TO TOUCH MY BOOBS ONCE AGAIN. WHAT A MONKEY. AMELIA SAY: WHAT BOOBS?!i say: BOOBS LAH! know, the two things on your chest. heh.shannon says: please post it. it's enough.haha. stupid piantai amelia. anyway, doing some advertisements here...5 AUGUST! FESTIVAL OF PRAISE! 10 AUGUST! MEGALYMPICS! whoever's interested, let me know! actually, amanda gotta coordinate by tmr, and no one has confirmed anything! i wanna join captain's ball though! heh.11 AUGUST! PLANETSHAKERS CONCERT!awesome week ahead! with all the national day holidays coming too! yay! until olevels are over, take care, love y'all loads! (: -NAH.
amelia is hugging me and don wanna let me go! hehheh.
char/min blogged at 8:22 AM
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
L'ITALIA AVENGED LA SPAGNA!Which basically translates to: Italy has avenged Spain! Yeah, 13 days after Spain bowed out of the World Cup I'm still pretty sore about it. So Italy has won the World Cup and they totally deserve it, what with the scandal back home.
The game was quite alright, for France to score so early would be an invitation for Italy to fight back. Zidane took the penalty kick, and the ball hit the crossbar before dropping just within the goal line. At first, I thought it wasn't a goal until I saw Zidane celebrating and the replays. First time Buffon let in a goal from the opponent.
True enough, Italy equalised in the 19th min when Pirlo took the perfect corner kick, it had to be, since it met Materazzi's head and found the net. While Barthez was flapping like a chicken (what else is new?).
Italy seemed to be aiming at tiring the French, but by the second half, it was France who were attacking while the Italians defended like crazy. But the Italian defence was impenetrable, with captain Cannavaro making several vital saves, and if the ball ever passed through the defensive wall, there was still the ever stable and reliable Buffon.
Luca Toni headed in what seemed would be the winner for Italy in the min, only to be disappointed when the linesman raised his flag for offside. But it wasn't offside! Oh well, the referee's decision prevails and the score remained 1-1. And Pirlo took a free kick which he missed by just a little bit.So the game went into extra time which was pretty nerve wrecking because whichever team scored would most probably be the winner. Extra time was not very interesting... Until the infamous head butting incident occurred. I was awfully shocked by it. Suddenly there seemed to be a commotion and all I could see was Buffon running out of his goal post and looking really peeved and gesturing madly to the referee.
I'm surprised cos I've never seen Zizou act like that. You might blame Materazzi for provoking Zidane by talking a lot of crap, probably. But this is football, players would do anything to give their team the advantage (remember C. Ronaldo vs Rooney). So this was how the greatest magician of football history brought down the curtain of his football career, with a red card in the finals of the World Cup.
It seems that Materazzi was the one steering the match, granting a penalty kick To France, scoring the equaliser, than getting Zizou sent off. But both teams held on and it was left to a penalty shoot-out to determine their fates. France's chances were rather slim, Zidane, Ribery were off, and Henry had been replaced by Trezeguet, possibly because the French coach wanted to try and repeat history, where the same man came on as a sub and scored the golden goal which led to France winning the World Cup in '98.No such luck though. Trezeguet brought about the defeat of the French team by missing his penalty kick. Pirlo, Materazzi, De Rossi, Del Piero & Grosso all delivered, none of them missed. Hence Italy are the champions of the 2006 World Cup, righteously so, as they have been very consistent with their performance in this WC.
Grosso's winner.
Pirlo hugs Cannavaro while watching the PSO.
Mauro's ponytail getting chopped off while teammates celebrate.
Holding onto his has been ponytail.
Gattuso decides to take off his shorts as a form of celebration.
Crowning the cup.Oh and the reason for this late update is because I wanted to see who would win the Golden Ball. Apparently, its Zidane. Maybe this would help allow him end his career on a better note. Except that the last time I checked, the Golden Ball was supposed to be awarded to the OUTSTANDING PLAYER IN THE FINALS. And by outstanding, I supposed they meant it in the good way, not the bad way. Sorry but even though I like Zizou well enough, I feel that Buffon, Cannavaro and Pirlo are more deserving of that award.
char/min blogged at 7:32 PM
Sunday, July 09, 2006
It was Bastian Schweinsteiger’s night. He scored two long-range stunners, and the third, an own goal by Petit, resulted from a free kick by, who else, Schweinsteiger. That guy was touted to have loads of potential and he only fully displayed it last night. Well, better late than never. And at the young age of 21, he’d still have much more opportunities. Oh and he got a yellow card straight after scoring the third goal, for taking off his shirt. I don't think that did anything to dampen his spirts though.
Schweinsteiger goal no. 1.
Schweinsteiger goal no. 2.
That own goal was the dumbest one I’d ever had the misfortune to witness. At the rate the ball was going, it was obviously not going to get into the net and Ricardo had been poised, ready to scoop it up when all of a sudden… Petit tried to be clever and stuck his leg out, but instead of stopping the ball, he gave it the momentum it needed to get into the net.
King Kahn played. Not as ‘Nummer Ein’ of course, in fact he was ‘Nummer Zwolf’. I’ve been hoping to watch him play and I finally got my chance. He’s still pretty good at the ripe old age of 36. Did you know that Lehmann’s also 36? The only difference is that for Lehmann, 36 is his prime but for Kahn, 36 is way past his prime. Yet, he managed quite a couple of saves.
However, the header by Nuno Gomes was unstoppable. I don’t think Lehmann would have been able to stop that either. Give Portugal some credit alright, they deserved that goal, considering the fact that they were playing really well. Figo should have came on earlier, he’s great as a playmaker.
So Germany takes third place while Portugal fourth. The Germans had quite a good World Cup, I suppose. Third place isn’t so bad, plus Podolski crowned Best Young Player, and Klose’s likely to take home the Golden Boot Award.
-min
char/min blogged at 11:43 AM
Friday, July 07, 2006
I don't think Cristiano Ronaldo deserves all this shit people are giving him now. Anger-management-retarded Wayne Rooney lost his cool for a couple of seconds, commits two obvious and deliberate fouls consecutively, gets sent off and you blame C. Ronaldo for it? So maybe C. Ronaldo had been egging the referee on, but if Rooney had not stomped on Carvalho in the first place, C. Ronaldo wouldn't have the chance to get him sent off. I remember the exact same thing happened to David Beckham in World Cup '98. Antagonised by Argentina's Diego Simone, he kicked out at him and (surprise, surprise!) got himself sent off. At that point of time, people blamed poor Becks, not Simone. So shouldn't they be consistent now and blame Rooney instead of C. Ronaldo? Sending him for counseling first would be a good idea. Booing C. Ronaldo every time he has the ball is not a good idea.Well. Italy vs France, who would have expected? Did you know that both teams have 2 really great midfielders? Italy has Andrea Pirlo, the Midfield Master, whereas France has Zinedine Zidane, the Midfield Magician. This will be especially interesting to watch.
Oh and I think FIFA is really bias you know. They’ve got the Golden Shoe Award for the player who scores the most goals and the Golden Ball Award for outstanding players in the tournament [the nominees are out and NONE OF THEM ARE GOALKEEPERS (except for ONE PATHETIC BUFFON)]. That’s why I’m going to create my very own Golden Glove Award for the goalie who makes the most fantastic saves. And to prove that I’m impartial and righteous and honest and upright and just, I’m not giving the award to Iker Casillas (ESP) though he kinda deserves it. No, I’m gonna give it to Ricardo (POR)! That’s for the 3 penalty shoot-out saves he made against England, and he rarely concedes a goal. He even had a hand to the penalty kick by Zidane. I actually wanted to give it to Zuberbuehler (SWI) but he totally sucks at penalty shoot-outs. Unlike Ricardo.
-min
char/min blogged at 3:46 PM
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
hello! i'm blogging now, at half-time. heh. anw, no i'm not gonna talk about football haha. i'm gonna talk abt nahnah cos nahnah so poor thing. see i even used a different font! hurhur. and for the NAHNAH FAN CLUB who wants to know whats happening to nahnah and why she hasn't been updating. her comp is down or sth cos she just shifted house.. yah and so her bro keeps kajiao-ing her since he got no comp to play with. oh she shifted house to geylang (the civilised side not the red-light district). and ummm, she had her chinese oral yesterday.. tho i havent ask her how was it for her. but from what i heard from others, it was pretty sucky. and ummmmm.. OH MEIN GOTT MY MATCH IS LIKE STARTING okay bye.
-min XD
char/min blogged at 4:03 AM
Sunday, July 02, 2006
WORLD CUP SHOCKERBrazil 0-1 France. I guess Zizou isn't gonna have such an early retirement after all. The We Hate France club membership has just increased by 100mil, thanks to all the Brazil fans (and i'm including those bandwagon jumpers who support Brazil just cos they won the previous World Cup). I knew Brazil wasn't gonna win this year. but i did not expect France, of all countries, to kick them out. Let's see, Ronaldinho was such a major disppointment and did not perform during the Brazil matches. I don't think people should criticise Ronaldo, at least he has 3 goals to his name, as compared to Ronaldinho's 0. As for the defeat, i guess i'll blame the coach for not fielding more of the younger players, Robinho for example.
Henry's winning goal.Anyway, i totally did not want to talk about France at all cos i'm still pretty sore over them kicking my beloved Spain out. now when people ask me who i support, my answer's Germany. no i dont exactly support them i just want them to win the World Cup. my heart willl always be with Spain.. heh. Die, France, die!I want to talk about the England vs Portugal match actually. England has done everyone a favour and are finally out. Frank Lampard is really suay, man. he had another 3 missed shots on goal and 1 missed during the penalty shoot out. Gerrard and Carragher missed too, or rather, their efforts got blocked by the Portugese goalie, Ricardo. wow, he's damn good ok. better then Zuberbuhler. Only Hargreaves' shot managed to find the net.
Lampard's shot saved by Ricardo.
So is Gerrard's.
Hargreaves presents a glimmer of hope for England.I commend England for being able to hold out for 2hours with just 10 men. Hot headed Rooney never learnt how to control his anger. After stomping on Carvalho, which would only give him a yellow card, he made matters worst by shoving Cristiano Ronaldo away, thus leading to him getting a direct send-off.
I welcome C. Ronaldo with open arms to join Real Madrid. Isn't it pretty obvious already? he's leaving Man U, definitely. The signs are there. First, there's the rumours of him leaving. Then, there's the falling out with his team mate. I bet you next, probably after the World Cup, he's gonna have a disagreement with Ferguson. All these happened to Beckham and Van Nistelrooy and subsequently, they left Man U.
Well, even if England got to the next round, they couldn't have defeated France with key players like Rooney and Terry out of the picture. its all Eriksson's fault (yeah, blame the coach again), for only including 3 strikers, and with Owen injured, he was only left with Rooney and Crouch. and 17-year-old Theo Walcott just wasted a a space on the Engalnd squad.Now its up to Portugal to avenge Spain.
-min
char/min blogged at 12:33 PM
