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Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 11:02 PM

RAnts

I can't believe time passes so fast. today's date: 24 April 2007.

The next time u or me realise it, it will be December? sigh. i wish i had the power to control time. wouldn't it be damn cool? slow down unforgetful moments and fasten the ones to forget.

now my music player is playing peng you. i think it can read my mind leh... lol. kinda reminds me of council and all the stand downs. hmm..

this day last week at this time me, pc, lc and lewis were waiting for mad to finish her work. one week has past already. yeah. one whole week? in a blink of an eye.

juz now do opening. than got this new guy. first day. pity him sia. why choose cartel of all places. hahaha.. today's work not that bad.. got lewis to help help.. haha.. did S1/S2. than left at 3. oh yah. the injured ah ba came to cartel to demand work from dorothy. hahaha.. so he's working 5 to closing tmr. same like me. only i start an hour later. yeah.

went home. than decided to go down to the court to play soccer. play play play than half way through a game at ard 6, a loud *BANG!* was heard. super loud until everything went quiet for a few precious time ticking moments. everyone went to the fence of the court to see. people were saying it was a car crash, others were jokingly saying it was a bomb. guess wad it was?

THE STUPID SBS BUS 12 TYRES EXPLODED. hahahahaha.. so damn funny. and the best part was, adam was on it. he called me later on to ask me if i heard it. LOL. well. it took them abt an hr or so to get the bus moving again, mayb to the tyre shop.

than we continued playing again. and i kinda injured myself again. argh. my ankle's swollen again? i hope not man. but my left ankle definately looks smaller than my right. lets just hope it can subside by tmr. *praying* i can't think of anyone to call if i can't work. i seriously can't. most of the contacts i noe are either not workin anymore or not free? lewis is doin opening, lc exchanged her shift with me, mad not working anymore, jared not working anymore, pc ALSO not working anymore? so who to call? maybe i should call.... GHOST BUSTERS! lol.

i hate being injured. can i don't be so injury prone?

Friday, April 20, 2007, 10:50 PM

NEW HOUSE!!!!

WOO!! did i mention that i'm moving house soon? yeah. haha.. moving to tampines! haha.. although i prefer to stay where i am but heck. shifting soon man. yeah. we found a house that everyone liked so my parents paid the deposit on thursday, 19 April 2007. its a stone throw away from tampines mart.. which i must say has mac, kfc, pizza hut and bubble tea all at one place! haha.. so nice. juz hope that none of them shift out when we move in. LOL. the only down side is that there are only 2 buses servicing the area, and one of them is a loop service. =/ one goes to toa payoh i think. 28. ring any bells? no more direct bus to bedok or katong. or the route that 12 takes. i kinda like 12. goes to lots of places. haha...

location: tampines street 32? blk 334. unit no. 09-520. come visit next time. wuahahaha..

after that, my dad and i went to eat at the coffee shop at tampines mart. yeah. dinner before class. a first? he sent me down after that. reached class late by 10mins but it juz started so didnt miss much. yeah. anyway. dun wanna elaborate more on class. borin. so to spare u the boredem, i shall not sae more. haha..

went straight home after class, so i reached home super early. before 11.. haha.. than today. slacked at home. yeah. nothin much. oh. lucky had his fur trimmed. now he looks younger. lol. =P

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 1:04 AM

ok. i left home at 9. destination, cartel. when i stepped out of the perimeter of my house, a 38 drove by. my bus. argh. waited for quite a while before the next 38 came. but i reached cartel earlier than i tot i would. 9.55 i think. yep. lc and mad were still busy working. pc was outside. so i slacked with pc first lo. than ah ba saw me. hahaha.. so funny la. i was trying to pretend to hide from him. than he came out and "shook" my hand. actually he was squeezing it with all his might and at the same time saying long time no see. LOL. crap la he. hahaha..

ok. time flashed by. very soon lewis lc pc me and mad were sitting outside at the usual table discussing where to eat. i wanted cakes. they didnt. so we went for prata instead. yeah. when we reached the place, LC and Lewis ordered alot of different kinds of prata they had. cheese, bomb tissue were some of them. yeah. haha.. and. there were some scandal pics. shall post it up next time.. wuahahaha.. XP after we finished the pratas, we slacked there.. waiting for rave to join us. talking alot of crap. so fun. in the end, we left without rave.. mad and pc went their way while me lc and lewis went our way. walked to lc's bus stop to take 38 home. wanted to take 12 but no more service le. =/ than my dad keep on pestering me with smses la. so irritating. he treats me like i'm still so young. argh. why. reached home at 12.45am. yeah.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6:52 PM

yeah.

OK. my prayers went unanswered. Chelsea beat Blackburn in extra time. at old trafford. wtf. they deserve to lose there. blackburn definately played better than chelsea. argh. hmm..

mon. woke up late. than went to school at 7pm. Fundementals Of Marketing. well. the lesson was about research techniques and consumer behavior-how do people buy.. yeah. research techniques is basically all about.. hmm. research techniques lo! haha.. it sums it all up. yeah. lol. NEXT. there are 2 types of buyers in this world. CONSUMERS and ORGANIZATIONAL BUYERS. the consumers buy goods and services for their own or family's use. the latter makes purchases for their organizations. yeah. the most powerful decision making unit is the family.

ok. lets say for example. you ask for a new handphone (the initiator, because you suggest). than lets say your mum sees it as a good idea for a birthday present (the influencer, because she agrees that it should be bought) so ur parents agree to buy the handphone (the decider, both of them decides to buy it) which in turn leads to them buying it (the purchaser, they bought it) and u using it (the user). so all this is the purchasing decision. simple enough? haha..

oh yah. ALWAYS keep ur customers happy.
dissatisfied customers can tell up to 11 other people about their bad experiences, which is 2 to 3 times more people than a satisfied customer will talk to. haha..

hmm.. there are 5 types of purchase classes.

Impluse purchases (e.g. fashion and food, u can imagine urself juz passing Old Chang Kee and end up buying a curry puff or a carrot cake)
Routine purchases (e.g. Groceries) U noe wad i mean.
Familiar purchases (e.g. Brand Loyalty) buying ur fav brand for example nike or sony ericsson.
Unfamiliar purchases (e.g. Drugs and tickets to travel places) Well. for drugs, its out of curiosity, like smoking. travel places are foreign places that not many people have gone not like bangkok or malaysia but tibet or russian. get what i mean?
Critical purchases (e.g. Insurance policies and medicines) yeah. coz its critical? haha..

well. that almosst sums up my whole lesson. haha... and it ended an hour earlier. woo! so me iggy fatty and phy wanted to play pool. headed to cinee. $8.80 an hr. played an hr and chao. took 14 with phy.. reached home ard 12? yeah.

today. opening. 10.30am. argh.

went with my dad to eat breakfast at simpang first. than headed to cartel. today got new dm. Xiao Xing. and she reminds me of council jane. haha.. but she's very nice. very siao one. luff alot. joke alot. never angry. yeah. power dm. in the class with ah ba and erene. only nicer? haha.. alrite. mavis was late again. by 15mins. and she was doing bar. haha.. so when i finished my tasks outside i went to help her lo. than opened. pple came and pple went. and today was the first time i served a customer outside, a middle aged lady, and ushered her in. she was flipping the menu, so i asked her what was her taste like. fried? spicy? bland? creamy? yeah. so she told me that she did not like creamy but wanted a pasta. so i recommended the panfried lingunie and all the other non creamy pastas. and she took it. yeah. ushered her to table 5. and placed an order for her. than she asked for my name. haha.. no idea why too. hmm. well. after trying a bite, she gave me a thumbs up for it. yeah. later on, she asked me if next time she could asked for it to be less peppery. haha.. she never finish it in the end. lol. so she ordered a orange juice and called for the bill. and she gave me $2 tips. wuahahahahaha... it pays to usher customers in. LOL! well. thanks alot lady. hope to see you again.

went home after work.. ard 3.30.. than saw that there were people playin soccer at siglap cc. so i went dwn to join them. played for abt 2 hrs than they all left. =( so i left too lo.haha.. later going back cartel to eat cakes! meeting lewis mad jared and pc. think that shld b all? haha.. see who else comin.

Sunday, April 15, 2007, 10:52 PM

the new wembley here we come! woo.. united trashed watford to seal their place at the finals of the fa cup. just hope chelsea lose tonight. X)

mahdi and adam came over to slack at ard 8pm ytd.. adam came at 9. than played winning 11 like, countless of times with mahdi. and i dished out a 7 nil trashing against him! woo. first time sial. adam was watching the arsenal game before my family came back from my grandma house than he came into the room to use the com instead. haha.. he's scared of lucky. LOL. mahdi was hungry. so we called 6777 3777. MAC DELIVERY. woo.. one mac chicken meal upsize, an apple pie and a 6 pics nuggets pls. hahaha.. both of them were disturbing my important fone call to them by disturbing the female operator. they wanted a hot guy to deliver our food/ wanted a whole carton of curry sauce/wanted to have 50% discount coz adam said so/ ask her if she's chio/ ask her for her no./ LOL!/ ask random questions.. wuahahahahhahaha... so funny la. the operator was very professional. just ignored them and continued with her job. difficult customers. tsk tsk. we were having fun. heck.

than adam left at 12.30 while mahdi and i continued winning 11. mahdi was bent on trashing me. plus. he wanted to watch the man u match. so we stopped and went to watch the match. man u went on to win 4-1. and we were back at it. played all the games are supposed to play in the champions league. 2 legs. chelsea and man u went thru. hmm. shall see if our predictions will come true.. haha.. it was ard 3am alr. mahdi wanted to change game to fm. i continued winning 11. until i dozed off.. hahaha.. mahdi woke me up at 6 to get me to send him to the door in case lucky intercepted his exit. so i woke up lo. send his sorry ass out than went back to my nice and comfy bed. X)

woke up again at 10am for no apparent reason. than went back to slp. woke up again at 12. than bathed and went to century square with my family. than at ard 4 met mahdi again to go katong. adam and i wanted to get our hair cut. so go roxy square. usual cutting place. wuahaha.. reached there at 5. left at 6. now hair so short. argh. stupid hair dresser. cut my fringe till so short. opps. should have told her in the first place. nvm. learnt my lesson. hahaha.. than went to penin to get mahdi's shin pads and tight socks. we were their last customers. but no discount. lols. walked past 2 beautiful pitches after that. so nice la. the fields. and there was one game on going. so jealous. adam told me that they were src's fields. so hard to get. argh. shld suggest to sgx get their own field too. LOL. haha.. went to my grandma house for dinner which leads to here! haha.. going to watch chelsea lose!! woo.. X) *cross fingers*.

Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:28 PM

3 days summary. XP

I simply do not understand why customers like to sit at table which have not been cleaned while they pass all the seats that are just as good. I simply don't understand. retarded people.

Well. i hate it when customers do that. there are other cushion seats ard. why oh why must they choose the tables that haven't been cleared??? so leh chey. have to wait for the table to be cleared and then cleaned than they can sit down. or worse. they juz sit. don't you realise that the table has not been cleared? dun you have the decency to juz choose another table? Singaporeans. one word. Kiasu. that makes us unique. or strange. well.. i can't tell them to go to another available and clean table can't i. so have to put up with clearing as fast as possible and clean it as well.

worked from 12 to 5 on wed. Order Taker/ Server 2. My OT went without a hitch! woo.. so happy. first time doing. lots of customers. no mistakes. style.
alot of people were very generous that day. lots of tips. and jake treated me, lc and pc cakes. coz she wanted us to stay and help to close the breadstation and some closing stuffs. so upon hearing that we were going to eat cakes instead of leaving after work, she saw an opportunity. an opportunity to go home early. an opportunity of not closing the breadstation herself. so she took it. jokingly she asked us to help her do all the above stuffs and in return, cakes paid by her. we actually planned to packet 3 cakes each on top of the cakes we were going to eat. but. since she was going to pay out of her own pocket ( we thought she was going to sign), we were thoughtful enough and cancelled all the pre ordered takeaways. so nice of us right. yeah. we are nice people. unlike some customers.

well. after we waited for lewis, who was doing closing, me lc rave pc lewis and kelson went to mac to slack. lc and kelson wanted to eat supper there. in the end, lewis treated me a double chocolate frappe and rave bought a 6 pcs macwings. lewis bought potato wedges to share too. than we left at 12.30am for home. me and lc caught the last 38, and i not letting her down until eastpoint as usual. sorry lc! heh.. XP

next dae had to wake up at 6 in the morning. my mum needed my help to do school sales. well. to explain, its basically quite simple. my mum sells educational products meant for primary school students and she goes into primary schools to sell her products. go to her company's website to check out her range of products. www.play-n-learn.com yeah. thats her website.

i'm supposed to sell all the bargain items : pocket magnifier, growing eggs, badges, rocket crayons just to name some. and i get paid $5 an hour plus 1% commission. the 1% may sound little but sales bypass thousands. no kidding. better than what cartel's paying. the school to go to, Fairfield Methodist Primary School. Location, buneo vista. thus the early morning call. upon reaching there, we had 5 of us to set up the booth. opened us cartons of products and set them up for display. than we waited for the students' recesses.. and busy time. the students pushed each other to get a better look at what we have to offer and crowded the front of the table. keeping a watchful eye on children who walk away without paying, i collected what's worth for what the students wanted. my section was the leh long items. so mostly small items than prices range from $0.50 to $3. and easy to take too. cause they crowd and jostle. any hand can just reach out while we are attending to other students. i hope i didn't let anyone did that. =S well. after 2 recesses, we finally had our lunch break. canteen food. than the busy period starts again. school finishes, so ALL the students flock to the booth. well. since the stupid teacher never distribute the company's brochures till the day we came, so most of the students did not bring their money. so our takings for the dae was only 500 plus.

next day. same thing. only that takings for the day was 5K. yup. 1 more 0 at the back. see the difference. its because the students bring the brochures back to show their parents. and in turn, their parents give them money to buy what they want/ the parents come down themselves. so our takings was much more. yeah.

OH YAH. did i mention about the school's operation manager? haha.. what a idiot/moron/difficult to work with/idiot/moron(did i mention it already?)/stupid/mean/evil/horrible/monster/moron(i think i mentioned it already...hmm)/people-hater/has poor hospitaility and management/ poor people relations skills.

overall remarks: should be sacked straight away. yeah.

he's worse than cuthbert. cuthbert would look like an angel beside him. first, he told us to stop selling the balloon helicopters (a product that can fly 3 storeys high and hot seller) cause he dosen't allow the students to play. so when we sold that we told the students not to play in school. when students dun play, it means other students will not see it in action which leads to the product moving slower than expected. no thanks to the OM.

secondly, later in the day, he told us to pick up the litter like he was talking to some PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT.asshole. otherwise? he will tell the principal to not let us enter the school next year. what a bastard. i felt like going up to him and smack him right in the face. i really did. but since our reputation/ chance of entering the school again was in the balance, i did not. the next day, he was back again. this time, a customer wanted to pay by nets. we had the nets machine but no power point. so looking ard and failing to find any, we went to ask the security guard if we could borrow the powerpoint for a while. he referred us to the OM. guess wad the idiot had to say. idiot: "If you want to use the power point, you will have to PAY for the amount that you use." YAH! stupid right. like he PAYs the electricity bills. pls la. and better still. the customer was a parent volunteer in the school. what a joke. this is how they treat their own people. the poor lady had to be driven to the nearest atm to withdraw cash to pay us. what a goddamn huge laughing stock the OM had made the school look like. PAY for what little amount of electricity u use. HA. this man ought to be shot and stabbed to make sure he's dead and rotting in the 18th level of hell.

OM OF FAIRFIELD METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL. IF UR'RE READING THIS, U *POINTS TO YOU* SHOULD CHANGE UR GOD-DAMMED ATTITUDE. MORON.

left the place at 3pm.. and my pay for both days was...... dum dum dum: $130 bucks! woo... rounded up too.. interested in joinin the sales reps? hardworking? able to handle lots of small children at one time? interested in earning this type of amount for just two daes and just 18hrs++ of work? contact me now! haha.. LOL.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 8:05 PM

Jake juz called me to extend me tmr from 6 to 10. not enuff slp! lol.

6:31 PM

MONDAY/TUESDAY.

Ytd i was in a bad mood at night and i don't noe why. =/

today, work. opening again. =/

well. at least it was fun. work i mean. today was so slack. usually a few people will come in at 11.35 like that... not a single customer was in cartel till 12. and that was for takeaway only. X) finally, customers started streaming in slowly, slowly taking up their seats at various tables.. today runners were only me and grace, jake and later on doro.. but we still were able to cope and no jams! wooo.. than got $3 in tips frm juz one table. maybe coz i was providing exceptionally good service today. i have no idea why either. haha..

AND I GOT MY PASSWORD FOR ORDER TAKING MACHINE ALR!! WOO!! finally. my password is ****. well thats wad it saes when i key it in. XP

supposed to finish work at 3. left at 3.33pm. slacked outside with hussien. than waited till rave, who just came, to go inside before going to buy our lunch. went to century the food court to buy special sambal fried rice. less chill. than went back to cartel to eat. wanted to go mjc to watch mahdi's first match but no one was going.. so neva go lo. =/

well. left for home ard 4.30 like that.. than realised that i was supposed to top up my ez link... when i was on the bus. =/

2 options:
-wake up earlier for work tmr and walk to tanah merah station to top up than go to work
-cycle to tanah merah after reaching home and top up.

i choosed the 2nd option. well. i think its the right choice. since i'm not slpin till 5am later. X)

tmr workin again. 12 to 5. PC's doin opening. haha.. at least got fren fren liao. woo.. and tmr i'm finally doing OT/S2. everytime they give me that they will change to another duty. hmm.. pray that tmr won't jam. pls let my first OT go well.. haha..

Monday, April 09, 2007, 7:05 PM

Some random pics.. wuahahaha.. XP

7:01 PM

Chocolate Cream Chip Frapp! woo.. so ex. lol.

Sunday, April 08, 2007, 6:50 PM

day by day.

Well. Friday. Good Friday. Equals opening at cartel for me.

SIAN!

woke up at 6.10am. yup. on a good friday. so sleepy la.. reached cartel at 6.55.. did the usual opening at an unusual timing.. for me that is.. than opened at 8am. so stupid. have to wake up so early. well. cartel wad. so similar to Mr Crabs in spongebob. $$ minded. Poor staff benefits.. wuahahaha... well. got ed to help me with the first customers.. thanks man. haha.. the only incident that stood out for that day for me was when i sent a bill to a certain table 27. it was a credit card bill.. so the guy checked and ask me if there was service charge.. so i said no.. wondering wad he was going to do.. i tot he wanted to double check if we did not charge that or not. instead, he took out his wallet and took out a $5 note!

Nice fella.

haha.. well. there are kind souls in singapore. but only a handful. mayb that shows that we have good service, even thou cartel don't charge service charge. niice. after work, 5 of us finished at the same time.. how cool.. grace, jun hong, ed, vivian and me all sat at 53.. than i ate mushroom and ham pasta while ed had chicken cutlet. the rest didnt want to eat. so. likedat lo. my food came after ed's and i finished faster than him. cause he was taking super tiny bite sizes of his chicken cutlet. haha.. anyway. i saw ruiqi at inter after my work! so long neva see her le.. haha.. than took a bus home. so tired lo..

Sat. Soccer match. Adam's team.

meeting time, 2pm at tamp inter. venue of game, east view sec. 3pm kickoff. well. everyone was late for the meeting time. haha.. common practice. we left the interchange only at 2.30. reached the field. gate was locked. so stupid. waited at the hdb blk opp the field gate.. until one guy came frm inside to unlock the gate for us. ref was late. started late. =/

kickoff! i was playing defence. well. i'll play where ever they want me to play. we scored first. quite shaky in defence. due to the fact that they play a sweeper instead of the now common 2 at the centre. so they caused quite a few problems. well. we managed to get to half time leading without conceeding.. that was nice. second half started after a while and we scored again! 2 nil! woo.. but we were still focused on not conceeding. alas. they scored thru a wonder goal by their striker. sobs.. anyway. we scored again to make the score 3-1. only for the striker to put another into our net. so. it led to a nerve recking ending. but we held out to win the match. X)

After the match, i followed mahdi to his house first than we went to sinpang to meet the rest.. had dinner and watched the chelsea match there. MAN U LOST! ARGH!!! so irritating. now the gap is only 3 pts. no chance for united to win the title alr. i can't see chelsea slipping up at stamford bridge. i really can't. =/

Sunday. SCHOOL!
woke up at 7.30am.. school starts at 9am. so early rite! on a sunday somemore. reached there, met ignatius and physilia. they were on the way up to the centre too.. so juz happened to meet them in the lift.. hahaha.. had Fundamental of Marketing from 9 to 12pm. learnt about innovation and how it was applied in the olden days.. and we had a case study on Starbucks.. the first lesson's case study was on Nike.. so cool.. watch a video on hw they market the company to a bigger scale, bigger market. Starbucks wants to make their cafe like a neighbourhood cafe. homely and all. well. everything's alrite other than the prices if u ask me.. they also dun spend much on advertising. instead, they spend that money on staff welfare and training.. thus, leading to good service to customers coz they noe if they take good care of their staff, their staff in turn will take good care of the customers. cartel should take a leaf out of their book la.. MORE STAFF BENEFITS!

Had a 2 hr break after class.. so me, iggy and another guy called yi liang went to ps to check out movie timings.. haha.. but all the timings were going to make us late for class.. so we didnt watch in the end.. went to mac and had lunch before walking back to meridian hotel to play some pool.. well who noes. i tot it was going well. until we played the 4th game. the stupid pool table got hole. than was dropping balls out. so we told the person in charge, some bloody stupid balding old man that there was a problem with his pool table. guess wad he said. He had the cheek/nerve/guts to sae that we hit too hard. than spoil his precious pool table for him. WAD A ASSHOLE. i wanted to use the stick to whack him la. so freaking unreasonable. uncle ar! if i see u outside. good luck to u. if u see my fren good luck to u too. POOR CUSTOMER RELATIONS. fucker. i'm not gonna let u earn my money ever again. hope u crash and burn. bitch.

anyways. 2nd lesson, Innovation and Creative Thinking started slightly after 2pm. learnt about how to respond to the micro and macro environment and also about secondary data.. ended super early laa.. supposed to end at 5, but the cher let us off at 4.15. 45mins earlier! woohoo!! lols. but i LOVE SCHOOL! so fun.. can't wait for next lesson to start. next next monday.. woo.. haha.. well. the three of us walked to plaza sing again. this time to check out more movie timings.. alas. no nice movie to match our timings.. so we abandoned that idea and went to starbucks instead.. X) bought a chocolate cream chip frappe.. so nice.. hahaha.. $7.50 lehh.. coffee shop my ass. u go coffeeshop charge that kind of prices and u'll close down in a month. or mayb less.. but starbucks wad. world recognised brand.. sigh. if only their drinks were cheaper.. X) haha.. than we took a mrt home.. than. well. yup. thats about it.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007, 11:51 PM

OH YAH! i forgot to mention.

U alreaady know what limited staff benefits cartel worker's can enjoy already. now they took another one out. NO ICED PEACH TEA FOR STAFF. ya. so stupid. i asked lewis why. and the reason he gave me was becoz management asked about hw many cups 1 ice peach tea bottle can fill. and they were not satisfied with the ans. so they stopped all iced peach tea. to SAVE COST. hmm. SOONER or LATER, they are juz gonna give us plain water to drink. so CHEAPSKATE.

10:05 PM

Some random pic i took. Cafe Cartel. haha..

8:16 PM

back to back posts.

WOAH. back to back posts! its a first.. well. in a long time that is.. X)

Went to work in the morning.. did opening. 10.30 to 3. i was 10mins early for work. i always am. for opening that is. no idea why. haha.. well. did all the usual stuff required of me.. today's my first day under the new dm, si ling. at first.. it was i do my own duties and she hers.. than laater on in the day, she kept on asking me do serve ice water and bread to the tables when i still had other tables to clear. not like i'm the only S2 there. ah ba also wad. can also tell him wad. so unjust. argh. not like ah ba got help me to clear tables also. only michelle does that.

oh yah. ah ba worked morning. once in a blue moon man. he works mostly at night. so was glad to work with him. than he kept on bumping into me la! so irritating. haha.. but well. at least got "fren" there. and perlin too. haha.. all can joke joke.. than perlin's best friend came to eat at cartel. haha.. she's a middle age lady. fierce looking. i call her perlin's best friend because she was very happy with her service the last time she came and gave her $5 tips. thus the nickame. =P

at around 2.50 like that, pc, jared and his friend came to cartel to wait for me. we were going to play soccer at some random place at bedok. stopped by at mac to grab lunch, a double cheeseburger. than took bus 69 to the place. ulu ulu one lor. so deep in! we walked from the main road for about 10 mins? before reaching the basketball court. yeah. not a proper street soccer court. so stupid. lol. pc's friends were already playing amon themselves so we just formed a team and joined in. played for abt 2 hrs before all of us went to buy drinks and slacked at a sheltered area. haha.. left at 7. took 18 back to bedok. than i missed my 38. i wondered why i didn't run for it. maybe too lazy. haha.. than i saw sarah! so long neva see her le.. haha.. she was heading for home. juz like me. haha.. lolness. XP

well. tmr. school. fri. work. sat. soccer match. sun. school. all planned out for me already. =/

12:42 AM

My swollen ankle.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007, 11:23 PM

PLATTS FUTSAL CHALLENGE 2007

I know its a bit late but this post is for Saturday.

To start off, my whole week was spent at home due to an ankle injury that i had picked up on the previous sunday's match with sgx united. We drew that game 2 all by the way. AND, i created one of the goals. Yeah!

I had to sweat over my fitness for last saturday's street soccer tournament that a company named platts organised. Been waiting since the end of the radix tournament last year, so was estatic when this day finally arrived. 31st of March 2007. I was like tossing and turning on my bed the night before.. went to bed like around 11.20 and only slept at 1am. so irritated. i felt like i forgot how to sleep. well. excitement got the better of me.

woke up at 7.30am the next day. (saturday) had arranged for someone to come pick me up as the place is at choa chu kang sports hall. yeah. that far. so my team mate, hadi, came to pick me at 8.30. Upon reaching the place at around 9am sharp, a number of other companies' players were doing their warm up while some passed a futsal ball among themselves. walking through a door which lead to the courts, 2 courts side by side but divided by a row of 7-11 advertising boards and a stand for seating purposes were the main things that caught my eye. another pathway leading to 2 styrofoam boxes containing drinks and the toilets were part of the floorplan too. walking to the stands, we were peeling our eyes out to search for SGX. finally found them without much difficulty as the captain was waving his arm off to get our attention. our first game started at 9.30 according to the schedule.

while the other teams were playing, the captain, chee boon, was getting the team organised. all the logistic stuff that required attention. like who was going to start in the first 5. i was named a super sub. =/ by the way. it means that i come off the bench to leave a lasting impression on the game. like score or create a goal. yeah. thats what it means.

first 5 were: Kelvin, Jeffrey, Mike, Damien, Victor (Keeper)

just before our game started, there was a dispute between the organisers and the referees about the length of the players' socks. the acceptable socks were normal field socks, nothing less. So i had to change.

the moment we have all been waiting for happened at the very moment the referee blew his whistle to kick start the game. the rules were simple, 5 minutes was allocated for each half, with no break in-between. the goal keeper had to throw the ball instead of the usual kick start. kick-ins were taken instead of throw ins and no sliding tackles were allowed. simple yet hard for some to understand or follow. well. what can i say..

we were down one nil before we even realised what happened. the team needed some inspiration. so they brought on their supersub, me. my ankle was not feeling right. it was giving me pain signals whenever i ran/touched the ball. it was horrible. i came on for jeff for the second half and i tried my very best to score. i ran for/with the ball to get it to hit the back of the opponents net. all seemed gloomy until we had a freekick during the dying seconds of the match. i stepped up to take it. placing the ball on the spot of the commited offence, i took a good look at my target and with a deep breath, i ran up and struck the ball..

moments of miliseconds ticked by...

and more..

seemed like time was suddenly slowed to a stand still...

until i saw the ball hit the wall which was formed to block me from scoring. i missed.

until someone came to my rescue.

the man in black, the referee.

he spotted an infringement and yellow carded a player from the opponent's side, ordering the free kick to be re taken.

my second chance at glory.

did i take it?

the answer is... YES. I now focused on hitting a low ball, straight at the side of the wall. AND I SCORED. albeit through a deflection. but I SCORED! in the dying seconds of the match, i saved my team and earned us a point! The supersub made his mark.

Everyone came to tell me what a great strike it was. but in truth, they were glad to draw the game instead of losing. it maintained our unbeaten record for futsal since 2006. although we did not play again after winning the last tournament which was in may. well. it still counts right.

breakfast was provided and i had some sandwiches to fill my almost empty tummy. and a sausage after that. than came our next game which was at 11.15. my ankle was threatening to swell up if i even considered to play. I had to.

we were left trailing again when the second match started. and i was on the bench once again. i came on for jeff again. and i was their supersub once again. it was through a corner taken by me that we equalised for the second match running. i drilled the ball hard and low into the danger area ( right in front of the goal post) as there were alot of players crowding around there. so i guessed that if i get the ball there, there's bound to be someone to tap in. or the ball will come off someone to score. and it did.

3rd and final match was against the team which has not lost yet in the group. and we had to win it in order for us to have a chance to qualify for the quaterfinals. the match started and we were on the backfoot.. and they scored. the match ended and we were left ruling our chances we had to win the game. well. thats fate. first loss since our unbeaten run began. now's time to look forward to the next radix tournament for us to defend our trophy. lunch was also provided so we all had lunch first before i dragged my feet out of the hall. that concluded my saturday. my ankle looks like it was going to swell up again.

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