Thursday 19 March 2009

Just remembered that I need to plan ahead 2 weeks for my fantasy league

Was browsing through the net and I realise that I would not be able to change my fantasy league for the next 2 weeks. I earn a 20plus point lead last weekend but I reinvested it into the squad by making another 7 changes.

Earlier in the season rh mentioned that I tried to take 4 players from hull. I did that just again only to be reminded by the "too many players selected from Hull" notice.
I took rickets, zayatte and I already have mendy. In order to finance my gerrard-torres partnership, i had to sell almost everything that I have barr Arsenal players. Even my swazer have to go. I wanted to take myhill but they just refuse to let me take the entire Hull backline... "too many players selected from Hull".

Nonetheless my entire defense will still be based on hull for the next two weeks.

I think both hull and middlesbro will be tightening their backline for the premier league run in.

Welcome Rh and welcome lampard. Frank lampard is once again restored to the team. The same goes for torres and gerrard. All 3 of them were once my main-stay in my team but due to injuries and drop of form, I left them out.
With the premier league coming to an end, I believe they will earn the points for their respective club and also for my fantasy league team.
It would be perfect if I could just have essien in my team. Since he came back from injury that very 1st week, I wanted to buy him, but i am just unable to squeeze another 1.2 value for him. Rh said that he wants to get him. I hope by now he already have got him. He should be crucial to chelsea in the title run-in as well.

Of course I have drop ronaldo, he is just too expensive to earn that 1 assist or 1 goal. Should have dump him after his world club championship involvment. He is like on "pah" with lennon and milner in my team for the past few weeks. Having 1 goal or occasionally 1 assist.I just hope this decision dun come back to haunt me.

My investment in Arshavin finally pays off. And as I said all along, alot will depends on Arsenal results and that means Rvp-AA-Nasri. I wanted walcott as well but i just deem the 3 of them undroppable. But RVP has been a disappointment missing the last 2 match. Lucky my team for the last few weeks is based on "stronger than average law" so I have subs to come in.
Now that I revert to the "star system" with only pantsil on bench, Wenger better be playing rvp regularly.
Rh were so suayed that he have all of his 3 striker rested or injured for the last last week.

If not for the "too many players selected from arsenal" thingy, i would have take bentner as well. 5.2 is cheap

2 more days to Italy...and work life...

It's already the 3rd week since my first day of work. Things are happening real fast. Managed to learn alot of things and the workload is getting more more and more. Only today I was able to get a breather. For the rest of the weeks is like, start work, the next thing I know is lunch time. Come back work and suddenly its 5pm. And I am still rushing to finish up before 630. Then the next thing its 7pm.

Pro and con, cause time really flies for me at work. Con, would be there is really alot to do.
I take pride in my work though and I am not going to complain about it. I feel I am getting more work because I am simply better than some of my colleague.

Speaking of colleague, there is this particular one that I am going to have problem working with. She is error prone and her superior no longer trust her to do the work. So basically I am assigned to do her work. Well I dun mind helping my colleague do the work but while I was slogging at one corner struggling to keep my head above the flood of work, she is gaming msning and facebooking. It kinda make my blood boils to think that I am in this overload mode to do someone's job and that very someone is enjoying herself.

Alright, I have reach my whinny the pooh limit for this week so move on to something non-whinny.

Less than 48 more hours to go before my trip. Kind of feeling daunted. Excited about the trip but I know I am there to work, learn and grow. Anything else would be a bonus.

Think through about it and I believe the reason I feel daunted is because I am afraid I might be not up to it. The company chose me ahead of the others so in a way I have an expectation to fulfil and I am afraid that I might not fulfil the expectation.

Aaron say I should just take it like a normal trip, and I think he is right. Just do my best and take it from there.

Gota sleep, guess this is the last post.................before the trip. Will be back with photos to post here.

Arriving back in SG 28 mar sunday, probably 3plus pm sg time.

2 week no basketball and epl.

Seria A for now...

Friday 13 March 2009

A nuclear explosion happened during my 2nd week of work

Thursday, 12 Mar 2009.
64 years after the World War II

I was assigned to the frontline, my utmost task was to defend Braddell Tech.
An important build belonging to the Allied Unit in front of General CW's home.

In the darkest hour of mankind, an atomic nuclear war head (fat boy rh) landed on us and destroy nothing but an important file named "Workbook promo.xlsx" a microsoft excel file.

Though there was no casualty, but I had flu due to the aftermath and the file
"Workbook promo.xlsx" went missing. I activatated the ESU, Emergency Searching Unit to find the missing file.

"Workbook promo.xlsx" was erase from the surface of earth, my ESU unit cant even find a trace of the radiation. The nuclear warhead Fat boy RH basically eats up everything and leaves nothing.

"Workbook promo.xlsx" is actually a very important document handed down to me by Bridgadier Boss.

I reported the matter to Bridgadier Boss and he said there is nothing much we can do except to rebuild the file.

Friday the 13 Mar 2009...
1716 hr...
Ensign Sam finished rebuilding the 1st part of the file...
For peace...

Thursday 12 March 2009

Champions league round up

Almunia made 2 good save to keep arsenal alive.

the most biased comment i have heard since RH declared that Gamst morten pedersen is god and lampard is a competent player...

“The nearest Raul got to greatness [last night] was when he shook Gerrard by the hand” - Matt Dickinson

I believe Matt Dickinson is Jinhao good fren...

Tuesday 10 March 2009

HiHi No Offence but i feel i need to explain myself...

becos of 5min it can snowball til 15min
U go down, 238 just pass by, wait for bus another 5min sometimes 10min, reach tpy, train just go, next one is 5min.

so in total u the delay is 15-20min

Assuming u leave at 630 u can reach orchard at 7, BUT becos of the e 5 min, snowballed in 15-20 min, u reach 7.15-7.20, which just nice u miss the show.

After missing the timeslot, we had to watch the 9.30 show. and it ended at 1130 reach home 12plus, bath finish 1am slp almost 2am.

if i can watch e 7pm show, i can reach home probably 2hr 30min earlier, i can prob slp at 11.

so my 5min ended up becoming a 3 hr difference. from 11pm to 2am.

It might nt happen to other ppl, but the 5 min thing happen to me and not for 1st time. and its really very irritating, and its definitely nt a cover up.



not everytime its becos of the 5min, but i have alrdy mentioned its BOTH the 5min AND also the very fact that i end work at 630.


U can also say that if miss dun watch, who ask u go watch e 930show. But den again everytime u plan den miss den dun watch, nx day plan den miss again, its frustrating rite? Thats y i complain, I just wanted to complain that e very fact I am unable to watch a 7pm show.

U can say tat i am whinny the pooh but i hope u can see that i dun mean it as a cover up or anything.

Sorry for being whinny, I no i am very privellaged compare to cw. CW faster change job la, u like workin in 7-11 store...

Ps: Nowadays the 3 show is more den 2hr

Another Movie Marathon

Watch K-20 last week but didnt get the time to blog.

Well the city in the K20 movie resemble FF7 sectors and town. The opening scene where they show the city with a tower, reminds me of FF7 town(cant rem the town name) and the shinra power plant. The music they used, also have a very FF7 feel.
Its a very lighthearted, anime-story-line-made-into-a-movie, movie, with a little hinge of Jin Tian Yi. Finally remember the words i used in the cinema.

This is a capcom storyline made by squaresoft director. A fusion

Movie 2

Watchmen, refer to previous post.

Movie 3, which i just finished watching.

Slum Dog millionaire, its an oscar award winning film based in india.
Its about hw a slum dog(poor and uneducated person living in the slum) becomes a millionaire but win the "who wants to be a millionaire" show.

The police did not believe he is able to answer so many question as he is just an uneducated guy who works as a phone assistant.
In the show the guy explain to the police each question is a real-life situation he faced while growing up in the slum.

One of the question was; Who was the inventor of Revolver handgun?
He was point at point blank with a revolver on his head, thus he remember the gun and gunmodel and subsequently the inventor.

In the sequence with 1st most enjoyable and 3rd least enjoyable

1st Slum Dog Millionaire
2nd K-20
3rd Watchmen

Monday 9 March 2009

Watchmen was disappointing....

Watched Watchmen at shaw orchard just now. The show was disappointing as i have high hopes for it. Will not be spoiler-ing the movie so i will descripe in short:

Uses Gundam plot
Complicated and irrelevant storyline

Arsenal won 3-0

Not sure whether was burnley lousy or arsenal good, but after watching the goals and highlights:

1st goal
Vela finish was bergkamp-esque

2nd goal
Song cross was pint-point like beckham and eduardo finish was zidane-ed

3rd goal
Song again assist, his back heel was henry-styled and eboue finished it like pires.

Saturday 7 March 2009

Really tired.

Just finish my basketball session. As expected was really tired. Suprisingly my arms were able to do with e basic shooting and dribbling, but my hamstring were really tight couldnt run or jump much.

Yesterday my reaction was damn slow, even when talking, I said things tat i dun mean it. For eg, i told my fren tat i always have to leave 5 min later and often i cant catch movie before 7pm.

Actually the 5 mins is nt e main reason, the actual reason is i dun like my work ends at 630, cos most movie time slot is b4 7pm. I end at 630, plus e 5 min time difference of the punch card clock, I onli get to leave 6.35.

When u miss e 7pm timeslot, e nx movie timeslot is 9plus. When u finish e movie its alrdy 11plus reach home 12 plus bath everything almost 1am

altho i live near but you will still feel tired e nx day.

well, other den this reason, there isnt much i can complaint abt. Yesterday was bombarded by my fren for complaining.

Oh ya, though i might complain, when it comes to work, my attitude is very different

Friday 6 March 2009

Watchmen... all full...

Wanted to watch watchmen with jh and cw but most of the cinema timeslot is sold out, barr midnight timeslot.

We change from movie to lan but due to some communication error with irving: he tot i ask him for movie, i tot irving dun wan lan, end up we didnt go lan either.

So bored, I am so free tonight after a week of work yet I have no place to go.

Later will be playing Bball with e usual company. Just now i tot bball is off, so i went to train by myself and took some weight. Now after my hands cant move and muscle twitching non-stop den rh gave me a call and say: YO!Still wan bball?

Anyway i guess like tat more fair ba if nt always i win also boring. hahaahah just joking, i dun always win.

alright time to rest and settle my score with e 100kg eating monster

I am going to Italy, Bologna

Barely a week into my job, I am feeling the intensity already. I believe right now I am operating at the 75% level. I thought my honeymoon period will last longer. I believe by early next week I will be fully integrated into my role. The pace is quite fast, normally the 1st week is just to observe and see how other people do things.

Just when I thought I am out of breath, my superior told me that I will be traveling to Italy with them.
I am left with only 10 working days to absorb as much information as possible, because I will b replacing one of my colleague for the trip, not as an additional help, meaning I will be taking over his job.

Not sure about reason why they suddenly decide to bring me along, but i believe this would be an opportunity to learn on the big stage.
Only 4 will be travelling, 2 are my superior, 1 designer and me.

Wednesday 4 March 2009

Sam is a funny guy...

Its now 12:47 but i am updating blogs.

Time is short for me because of my new job. But when i have all e time in e world for e past few months i dun feel like updatin my blog. in fact i feel more busy before i gt a job. but i think i am rite to a certain extend.

before i gt a job, i need to ear breakfast.
before i gt a job i need to play my left for dead
before i gt a job i need to watch my gundam
before i gt a job i need to read manga
before i gt a job i need to play d2
before i gt a job i need to i need to find a job.

after i have a job, all i need is to do my job.

see now i gt more time.


Well rite now i am workin in toapayoh lor 8 basically just opposite of cw and nw block. i just have to walk 5 min. it really does feel gd when i can just walk up to my place after lunch and close my eyes for 15 min on my bed.

My boss are nice ppl, at this point of time. but i am nt sure tmr

pay wise, i shall nt mention here but still ok for e market now.

Jobscope wise cover alot of ground, cos its a small company with onli a team of 7 ppl including me(delivery and packing excluded). so basically alot to do.

my company handle children educational material. so we print and sell children books. mainly kindergarden level. for a small company i think dey have a big customer base. altho economics bad but we are venturing oversea and we will be buying our own printing machine. so everything will b in house, designer, print, delivery, marketing all in house.

my job include marketing, customer service, admin as well as events.

marketing- gt promotion need market books
customer service- need take order, process delivery and bla bla u no
admin- type lor
events-bookfair

wat really attract me is marketing and events.
we have new series of book coming up and various proj. we have plans to go into retail also. going into retail really interest me. i believe i will learn alot from this.
you can be working for 2 years as a marketing exec, but if in my resume i can state wat i actually did, helping to set up a retailing outlet for e company bla bla, i believe it really looks gd.

same goes for events, its part of marketing as well and best of all get to travel. this month 4 from my company is going to italy for book fair. zzz newbie dun get to go...so sad in oct dere will b beijing, we are looking at korea and jap too. hopefully i get to go to all this places as well.

well is pink and rosy now but i am onli with e company for 2 days, i duno how things is going to be like. but if everything turns out like wat i see, i think its quite a gd job to start with for me.

for colleague wise, we had 5 person starting work together. so we are at e same lvl. and age wise its all 22-25 except our boss. so we can get along well. no cb thou for ppl who keep ask me tis question.


office ppl = 7( 5 new, e other 2 join 2 month ago ) so basically we are all same rank same lvl. not much hierachy. which is wat i enjoy most. i dun have a senior or manager to look out for. i just have my boss above me.

Well i hope not to bored u with e long long post, just trying to let ppl no a clearer picture.

gtg guys talk again!

Sunday 1 March 2009

yes new job.... tmr start....

more to come....good luck sam...

Just one more complaint ok?

I am so lucky, or rather my frens are so lucky. I watch Arsenal vs Fulham at my home last nite. no msn no contact with the outside world. My frustration reach the highest lvl last nite. poor zombie, choky and alimushroom had to listen to my tirade of critics on the team.

I was so frustrated, not becos of eboue or diaby. becos arsenal just cant score and becos the arsenal tat i support pass the ball ard with opponent chasing shadow. but yesterday fulham pass the ball ard with us chasing shadow.

I tot yesterday diaby was good, better than usual. Eboue was doin alrite nwadays. but arsenal as a whole just aint gd enuf. cesc flamini hleb can keep the ball better den the whole string of midfield plus striker yesterday.

clichy and sagna, i really support dem, but dey just cant cross. or rather our striker and midfield cant head. or i think is both.

suddenly toure and gallas look superb. keeping out any fulham attk tat came.

The neutral or commentator keep saying patience is a lost virtue among the fans, but i can tell u, if we swap place with man u. diaby can pass to opponent for all his liking, bendtner can miss open goal and we will still say come on, bentner is onli 21...
but we are 5th behind villa for 8 pts if dey win stoke and i think dey will. so its nt tat we do not have patience but we are staring at uefa cup now. not onli villa have to draw or lose 4-5 games from nw til end of season. We need to win every single match. both are nt feasible. we cant even beat fulham at home, wats more we can expect.

on e plus side just tat little plus side...

Arshavin is quality. He didnt get e ball much last nite. but when he gets e ball he whips in a pinpoint header in between the 2 central back. exactly on to van persie forehead. onli for RVP to head straight at swazer.

Another arshavin true ball puts RVP 1 v 1 with keeper, again RVP shoot straight at swazer. disappointing but who can blame RVP, after alll he single handledly carry us tru e past few matches. we cant jus depend on 1 player.

Vela looks good on e left flank. running at e defender whenever he gets e ball.streches the opposition defense. but he really needs to up his composure when given e chance to score.

I still think maintain that a dm is wat we need most...its shows especially with cesc injured. if wenger had sign a dm(alonso) think wont be like tis.

all in all, i feel tat this season of disappointment is nt cause by e players, its by wenger refusal to sign new player. selling 3 1st team midfield and replace it with another 3 from reserve is just not e way forward.