Camera One by the Josh Joplin Group

The sandy haired son of Hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he never got undressed
And no, he never made a mess

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera One closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow
Take a bow

The trophy wife from Palisades
Whose yearbook beauty never fades
Sits and watches the sea fold in
And wonders what might have been
If she could ever have the chance
Would she do it all again?

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera One closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow
Take a bow

On the corner
By his streets
He sits in his lawnchair
In the heat
Sightseers see
What they want
They're selling star-maps
To the sun

The sunny-haired son of Hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he didn't get undressed
And no, he didn't seem depressed

It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera One closes in
The soundtrack starts
The scene begins

You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now
You're playing you now

Take a bow
Take a bow
Take a bow

Take a bow

Murder, he wrote. At 4/11/2004 09:34:00 pm

My first love... I will always love thee as long as you remain you.

Haha, Why would I blog on a sunday after blogging the day before? 1) Something interesting happened. 2) Something really really interesting happened 3) Something really really really interesting happened 4) Man U dumped french arsenal trash out of the FA cup

Yeah, today it just so happens to be scenario 4. :P

Before the match I was thinking, Ah it'll probably be a draw, and there would be a replay, adding to Arse's already congested fixture list. Hehehehe. The final score, however, was even sweeter. Manchester United 1 Arsenal 0

The match begun and I bloody hell had my heart in my mouth for the first 5 minutes. Arsenal almost scored twice, once with Roy Caroll and then Wes Brown saving from Dennis Bergkamp. Later Edu's chip rebounded off the bar, leaving Kolo Toure and Freddi Ljungberg seemingly competing to nod the ball into an empty net, with Caroll sprawled on the turf. Amazingly, Caroll sprang into the air like a panther and miraculously clawed the ball over the post. However, after that lean spell, Man U reformatted their defence to almost water-tight, heck, they were sea-worthy. Both sides were parrying and thrusting ( not each other, though. ) until Man U got the decisive, and later proving to be the solitary, goal.

Viera lost possesion in the middle of the park to Fletcher, who fed Gary Neville on the right wing. He then threaded a defence-splitting pass to Ryan Giggs, who found himself in acres of space in the corner of the Arsenal penalty box. He turned, advance a few strides, drawing defenders toward him, raised his head and spotted Paul Scholes making a signature late run into the box, and squared a weighted pass to him. Without breaking sprint, ginger scholes smacked the ball emphatically into the net, leaving Jens Lehmann flailing like a hapless ballerina into a too-tight tutu.

It took almost a second for me to register that we actually scored. Against the 'mighty' Arsenal, against the run of play, we scored! I then burst out into a guttural 'Yessss!', stood up and raised both my hands. Relief poured out as much as my voice did from my throat.

At that point I had a sneaking suspicion that the Gunners ( or, more accurately, the Gooners ) would turn around with, pardon the pun, all guns blazing. But for the remaining 58 minutes of the match, their attack was almost as potent as an 80 year old man with blood circulation problems and an unhelpful doctor. Granted, there were a few scares, but the much-ridiculed United defence lived to their name, United. The midfield also helped tremendously, dropping back to stem the gallic advance. The Man-of-the-match in my books, Darren Fletcher, together with Roy Keane, ran rings around Veira and Edu in the centre of midfield.

I strongly feel that Darren Fletcher is the future new-generation hardman of Man United, following, and breaking, the mould of his established predecessors. Keano himself, Paul Ince the 'guvnor', Bryan Robson, and Paul Mcgrath, just to name a few. What sets Fletcher apart is that apart from defensive skills and tenacity, he has Beckham-like ball distribution skills, although admittedly he is not yet at Goldenballs' stratus.

Towards the end, having come on for Ole Solksjaer, David Bellion missed a golden opportunity to put the match beyond doubt. He came sliding in on a Flectcher cross, and missed contact with the ball from two metres out, with the keeper stranded. ( He was feeling clueless after the referee insisted he took off his tutu, the saxon sissy. ) Talking about the german keeper, he had a miserable day. Frustrated by the close attention given to him by the United forwards at corners ( which surprises me, I expected him to revel in the attention given by the handsome united forwards ), his frustration was exacerbated when the referee not only ignored his claims of a foul, but came over and gave him a good-old father-daughter admonishment. The hairy german girl ( the one playing for Arsenal ) with the broad shoulders confronted Cristiano Ronaldo and gave him a shove, with the ball already out of play. He got a yellow card for that little tantrum. Be grateful that Lehmann didn't bitch-slap Ronaldo.

So when the final whistle went, the United faithful went up in a magnificent roar. The United players, in white, did a sort of victory parade and were joined by Rio Ferdinand ( banned for forgetfulness ) and Ruud van Nistelrooy( knee injury ). I was beaming from ear-to-ear ( not literally ) and hyperventilating.

We are in the FA cup finals! And we were to face either Division 2 Millwall or Division 1 Sunderland! The FA cup's romantic appeal is exactly because of this. Unfancied clubs having the opportunity to go up against the big guns, and the chance of an upset being only too real. But I believe the Romance of the FA cup will only be surpassed by the Romance of Manchester United.

The many ups and downs of Manchester United Football Club has made it the most widely-supported football club in the world. From the fatal Munich Air Crash in 1958 which wiped out almost the whole team, to their European Cup triumph in 1968 barely ten years later, defeating Benfica FC and the likes of the legendary Eusebio, their history is spectacular. Their many FA cup triumphs, their total domination of the English Premier League since its inception, The legendary Treble of 1999, the many colourful ( main hue being passionate Red ) characters of Old Trafford - Best, Incey, Keano and the incomparable, talismanic Eric Cantona - makes Manchester United the 'religion' that many die-hards worship. There has been many a reference by commentators to the mythical 'Footballing Gods'. If they be true, then surely they must reside in the Theatre of Dreams where 67 000 come faithfully to worship every week.

Lost the Premier League? Never mind. Out of the Champion's League? Never mind. Stopping Arsenal's Treble Dream? Great! That way, Manchester United remains unique, and retains their claim to be the greatest English club. On the basis of the legendary 1999 treble of League, FA cup and Champions League.

Glory Glory Man United!

Murder, he wrote. At 4/04/2004 05:31:00 pm

SJI declared 13th March a holiday due to the excellent results of the 2003 cohort for the O levels.

haha, just found this out today. I am so proud, that my hard work, combined with that of 380 others gave our juniors one well-deserved day for a break. Well-deserved, cos no matter what i've said about them in the past.. I have to admit they have immense potential, in the very least academically. Ora et Labora guys! =)

This week... in boxers

Argh, this is the third time I am typing this.. My comp restarted on its accord thrice already, wiping out my post..! Well, not on its own accord, there;s this wire behind my comp, if you touch it slightly the power supply to the comp shuts off.. and I keep stretching my legs and touching it. Damnations.

Am trying to write in a thematic way.. since Narindar keeps harping on that lol.

Looks like the real deal has started. No more jiggery-pokery, lala-land 1st three months slacking. The work has been piling up a little. As a matter of fact, I just got screwed today by Tan js for not doing Maths homework.

Looks like the remaining members of 1T06 are fitting in. Although Grace and Peh Lin (not sure about the spelling) both transferred to the science stream. Can't help feeling that their decision was partly influenced by the fact that we were leaving them out a little. Feel guilty. And Laura got transferred to another class too, to be able to do her maths econs hist lit combi. She, tselert and justin comes to our class for history. At least chao and chongying look like they are getting more vocal and acting a little more themselves. Chao is sooo gay! Like someone said, either he is really damn gay or damn good at pretending to be gay. chongying just lent me his radiohead cd today! its called ok computer, apparently its damn good and won quite a few awards. Haven't listened to it yet, but can't wait to.

I am sitting next to Praseeda in class, who in turns sits next to Dhanesh. Sitting in front of me are 'Sleepti', Sewei and Inami. Inami and Sewei are a riot, especially in chinese class. The lame things they come up with! And we have a great time laughing at treepti and her drowsy ways. :D She's forever looking like she a) just woke up b) is sleeping or c) needs to sleep.

Oh yes I was recently elected as Discipline Councillor. The position vacated by 'Sista Jo' Joshua tan. I am supposed to assist the HTC and 'liase' with the discipline master on matters regarding discipline. Basically what that means is that if anyone gets in trouble, my ass is next in line for a good hauling to the DM's office. And that also means that if you ever walked past my class and hear someone going 'SHHHH!', chances are that's me. Oh yes Khai remains as HTC, but only on condition that I get to hold the key. Haha, he has a habit of slowing down time and space whenever he is in domain of the key. =)

Reina dethroned Dhanesh from his pilfering, embezzling position. Now it's her turn to pilfer and embezzle. Talking about Reina, I've been calling her Wing, Adel, anything except her own name recently. And it isn't deliberate, I just can't seem to piece her face together with her name recently. Haha. Yeah, adel wanted to be DC too... so Mdm goh said if I get elected into council or smth adel would take my place. I was like O_o ... 'cos In the first place I dun wanna run for council.. Second, it sounded like those Miss Universe thingies where if the winner was 'unable' to perform her duties, the runner up would take her place. Yeah.. Geri was Lit Rep, Soonkiat got Maths rep, Inami was chinese rep, Peter remained as history rep, Dhanesh Gp rep, and Sewei ( horny b ) got IT rep.. He got that cos for every position available he was trying to saboh soonkiat. And finally we made him take the crappiest position of all, IT rep. Cos everyone knows IT rep doesnt do much. hahaz.

Oh yea, the teachers. For history we got back Aljunied and Narindar. There was a little scare cos for a moment I thought we were going to get Steven Su for Paper 2. And I've heard absolute horror stories from my sis and from gerard yip and reina and adel. For Maths we got Mr Tan jeksuan! Haha, he's quite a funny guy and apparently he is a good maths teacher too. For Econs we got Madam Goh again. For chinese, we got Mdm Wee who has a peculiar habit of speaking to us in english once in a while, and saying 'Hor?!'. For Lit, we have Miss Shirley Ting for Paper 3, thats twentieth century paper. She's actually a nice lady,although on the strict side. Also, she seems like a good teacher. But that hasn't stopped us from naming her 'The Thing' already. Mr Pang for Paper 1 , the shakespeare paper. He's quite funny, and he's a little... limp-wristed. And oh my, the mother of all lit teachers for Paper 8. ( joking ) Miss Nathan. Yup, Miss Party Hats herself. Sigh, I got a very bad impression of her from the first lecture she gave us. She can't speak properly, isnt good at getting her points across... and makes gross injustices towards the language. Me n praseeda were compiling a list of 'nathanisms'.. mistakes she made just for today's double period.. and some are just downright funny.

First thing in the lesson she wanted to write 'Practical Criticism' on the board. Guess what she wrote down instead? ' Pratical Critism'. She said the word 'horric', but mean to say horrific. She was talking about a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow.. or rather, in Nathan-ish, 'Gwyneth Petrol'. She read the word Crises as 'crisises'. And when she was talking about what she used to like to read, she said she used to 'like to eat the Famous Five.' Oh dear oh dear.

We've taking lots of pictures recently, and some videos too. Lol, Elle is looking like she wants to join the photgraphy club, taking pictures of practically everyone in class. Even Mr Aljunied too. :S There's a video of joy dancing and of chao jumping and giving a damn gay move. haha. I had a few interesting pics taken too. :D Remember Kenny Pereira from Army Daze? Haha. :I

Oh yes today some very interesting things happened after school lol. Me Khai Chao Chongying and dhanesh were walking across the bridge and contemplating whether or not to go to khai's house. The reason Khai gave was quite lame, so that he could change into outing clothes. But why did he need us to go his house so he could change? =) Chao went like 'eee you want us to go your house to watch you change?' Yeah, so I made the wise decision to go home instead.

Then shortly after that this bus with the Police Logo stopped at the bus stop and a whole buncha guys in PT kit got off the bus and started marching towards the Police Academy. Then brilliant Chao started shouting ' Left! Left! Right! Left! Right! Right! Right! Left! ' randomly, trying to confuse them in their marching. Then this old guy, presumably the guy in charge of them started shouting at Chao. Haha. Then after that Chongying was like 'holeeee shit! I thought he was gonna take out his pistol or something!'.

Haha, I'll just leave you guys with something to think about. Humpty Dumpty is NOT an egg. Think about it. Think hard enough and you might agree with me. ( Courtesy of Ah-choy! )

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' How do you get rid of a shadow? You shut off the light source. But do that at the risk of blanketing in darkness, the goodness of everyone else around, and of you, and of your shadow. '
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Murder, he wrote. At 4/02/2004 08:52:00 pm