
Sylvester Sim.(pics are blur 'cos i took them with my hp)
Yesterday was hell of a time. after my relative's wedding thingy, i rushed down to kallang to meet my friends at the national stadium to watch the tiger cup semis: singapore vs myanmar. we waited for 1 hour inside d stadium for d game to start, but d waiting was very very worthwhile, as we saw a spectacle not common in football. every essence of football was present inside this game and d amount of goals also dint disappoint. when i arrived inside d stadium, i saw ewen, wilson and gang. they pointed to where eugene and gang was sitting and so i went over to join them there. it was raining rather heavily n d pitch was waterlogged. it isnt as easy to judge the movement and bounce of the ball in these situations so i prayed hard that the players making d judging mistakes would be the myanmarmese.
the match started n d players were starting to get dirty. the myanmarmese players scored d 1st goal, much to d dismay of the 30000 strong spectators. d 1st half wasnt very exciting and it ended very quickly. d second half was a whole different story. tackles flew in n fights soon evolved. while singapore were losing 2-1 in the 89th minute, indra got bodychecked by a myanmar defender and earned a penalty for Singapore. d defender kena sent off, n the whole myanmar team become incensed. 1 stupid fellow kicked mud at the referees and he too, kena sent off. so it became 11 men vs 8 men. the penalty taken by indra hit the post and went wide. every1 'cept d myanmar supporters were disappointed. as d full-time agg. score was a tie, the match went into extra time. there the drama unfolded. myanmar sub. keeper threw a pplastic bottle full of water at subrimani n he kena cut on the ear. the impact was damn great. but den, d keeper kena sent off. it was so stupid. by that time singapore was leading by 4 goals to 2. the fans were singing for myanmar to go home and at that moment, fighting in the stands ensued. after the game all of us had to run out of the stadium in fear that the myanmarmese fans would kill us or something. in d end nth happened, only some ambulance and police cars arrived to control the situation. d best thing was that singapore are thru to the finals and every1 are happy. this game will be remembered for a very long time....
happy as all other people are, new years eve was as joyous as before. wad i did on new years eve was d 1st in 16 years. it all seemed predestined. everything planned for itself. in the morning i went to play bowliing with my cousin and his pastor. it was quite cool for me, as i raked in some high scores despite my absence from the game for like 2 yrs. after that we went to the katong basement's chicken rice shop to have lunch. d chicken rice there was one of the best i've ever eaten. it was so nice d smell of my rice enticed the pastor to order the same food as me. he even treated me to that meal. After the meal, my cousin and i went to meet nigel at toa payoh's pool hall. upon reaching we saw ridzuan, marcus, eugene, jerome, earl and a few others. the whole place was reli packed so we ha to queue to wait for our tables. Ridzuan and gang soon got tired of waiting and went 1 story below the pool place for some lan-gaming action. my cousin n i den intelligently walked to the table nigel was playing, as nigel had some friends there who was already playing. We waited for awhile and true enough, they offered my the cue stick. i eyes lighted but i wasnt ready to accept it. however, being the gentleman, Bill(nigel's fren) sis friend's bro held the cue stick in my hands. i accepted the offer and played a halved game, as during the game another table was unused and we took it. i then proceeded to the empty table and played a few good games. soon after another table was unused and we decided to take it for ridz and gang. however they were still playing lan and came up only fifteen minutes later.
pool is an expensive game, i agree. haha. since my birthday, i've spent over $120 on pool i guess. that's lyk $120 spent during the course of only 1 month! After that we went our separate ways; marcus and gang went to harry's house while nigel n cousin n i went orchard/ps. we met my cousin's church friends but left soon after. my cousin had a curfew so he went home, leaving nigel and me. we proceeded to meet tiffany, glamis n glamis's fren. fast-forwarding to minutes before the countdown; we had been separated as glamis met his friend and went to esplanade while we remained in orchard. my cousin met us again unexpectedly as his curfew had been surprisingly lifted. we went on the streets of orchard armed with cans of foamers and streamers. during countdown it was hell. many people dint reli care dat above us on the world map many people are still homeless and dieing. we were spraying each other with the streamers and we four certainly got alot of it sprayed back at us. After the hectic period we all went to have supper and finally ended our new year countdown.
tiring it was, but certainly happy n satisfying. we had hell of a time, but i really wish more people could have joined us in the countdown. if only there werent any conflicts... wad a better time it would have been...