On the wrong ball

"Hey, I don't understand how you were not promoted. You perform consistently well on board what..."

"Well, put it this way; Those who are promoted, did they get it 'cuz they perform consistently well on board?"

"Uh..ya hor. You have a point."

Sometimes, it's not a matter of how hard you work, but how much sucking up to people smart you work.

Like Thierry Henry. He plays his guts out for Arsenal and France. Who gets the Ballon d'Or though? Some Italian who played for a club involved in a scandal, who now plays for some abomination of a club in Spain.

Really catch no ball...

I believe the children are our future...

I'm not one to usually trumpet charitable causes but this one caught my eye.

MILK (Mainly I Love Kids) reaches out to disadvantaged children and youths by focusing on advocacy and fund-raising whilst working through their partners to implement preventative and rehabilitative programmes.

This is no NKF-esk foundation. Every cent goes to the fund, with costs sponsored or funded by the managment commitee.

As with all charitable drive in SG, there must be some prizes to "encourage" donor support. 2nd prize is a trip to watch an Arsenal match at the Emirates Stadium plus 3 days accomodation. I can live without the top prize of a Subaru R2 (without COE hor) , unless it comes with a cheaueffer.

So if you want to buy a coupon, or the whole book even, can gimme a ting-a-ling on my ring-a-ling. Or get in touch with any Singapore Gooner.

Knock on wood..thrice

The Singapore Gooners are really a dedicated bunch. Where else can you see a group of guys in a pub, 1am on a Sun morning, watching a big screen telecast of their favourite team? Mind you, these are not betting (at least, not heavily) people or some tikoh trying to score with chicks (there's none). Just honest to goodness fans who make the trip down faithfully for every Arsenal match.

The Bolton match was, in my view, a disaster. Arsene fielded a fairly "soft" team against our bogey team, due to injuries and suspensions to our starting XI. I say "soft" because that's the way Bolton plays against us, by bullying the ball off our feet. Heck, even the ref seem to be on their side, flashing the yellow card like he was in an auction. Like gooner4eva says... we need some good 'ol Martin Keown-type players to stand up to the rough play that some teams dish out to us. Cannot always depend on skills la...

The 4-5-1 shouldn't have been deployed in this match. Reason is Adebayor is not the lone striker that we can use in this kinds of matches. Theo, for all his tenacity, should have maintained his super-sub tag and come on to provide last burst of fire for the last 20-30 min. Why was Hleb not started? Someone tell me please.

We did come close, 3 times in fact. Damn woodwork just keeps getting in the way la. I always wonder why we say that, when in actual fact it's a case of the shooter not getting the ball into the net when we need it to be.

Like Sggooner says, doesn't matter what happens in the ManYoo-Chel$ki match liao...

No Ho Ho :~(

Dang, double whammy from rostering department.

I fly off to, of all places, Karachi on X'mas day.

As if that's not enough to take away my holiday cheer, they have me counting down to 2007 on a flight to Japan!

WTF!!

Moblog: Bored outta my head!

And no interneck too!