the soccer labyrinth.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
mused @ 11:39 AM
i am currently at work. why am i so free? i am waiting for a few calls to come in. so in the mean time, i will just blog a bit.
singapore beat
laos 11-0 on
monday. it is obviously a fantastic result for
singapore football.
noh alam shah with 7 goals. however, the opposition IS
laos. only tonight, when they play
indonesia in a must draw/win game will the lions true colours show. or not.
yesterday i was at
taekwondo, i realised my standards are really poor. possibly because of my lengthy layoff aka
ns from training. i pale largely in comparison with the black belts who are younger than me. there is also a tinge of politics in the
taekwondo field, which i would not comment here. i prefer to take a non intrusive approach to matters that do not concern me.
on
saturday,
kumar,
chuan,
wenjie and
siyuan (i will from this blog post thereafter refer to them as 'the guys') played soccer at the
simpang bedok court again. there were about 5 teams there with a goal cap to win each game. after losing the first match 2-0 (getting my glasses bent to an awkward angle for saving a goal with my face and letting in a horrifying
backpass goal),
jeremy tan (
jermaine tan's brother) joined us. and boy. did he inspire us.
he single
handedly helped the team go a 5 game 2-0 streak. his play was almost cheeky, scoring from the halfway line a couple of times right after kickoff. in turn, he
inspired the rest of the guys to score at least one goal a piece. there were a group of
malays there as well who were intent to put us down after we beat them 2-0 twice in a row. complete spoilsports. the most surprising thing i guess was that a team with 4 people requested me to help them out in goal. if you don't know this by now, i play the keeper in our street soccer team (a non glorious position, yet important by all accounts)
kumar likened it to an
epl team loaning out their keeper off season to another club. i didn't really do well for them though. left the court with cuts and bruises to my leg, as always. and another sprained thumb, this time my left thumb. so i have 2 sprained thumbs now. cute.
in the afternoon, we caught another movie. this time it was
pan's labyrinth, a spanish movie. the story is set in 1940's spain. although the papers rated it as great, i found the movie to be a bad mismash of fantasy and history. not that the acting was bad. it was good on the whole, just that the combination was just a tad strange for me.in the night, all of us except chuan (who finds watching singapore matches a waste of time), went to the national stadium to watch singapore host vietnam. disappointing match that. to end the day, we caught man u thrashing aston villa 3-1 at simpang.at least my weekends have some sort of routine to it again. oh well.
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