Germany 4 England 1


Yesterday was my first time
supporting England &
it all end in disaster.


If not for the betting ticket,
I will never imagine
supporting England.


Spain was another losing ticket,
but I still got two more.


I don have a lot of eggs but
I do have a lot of basket
to put them. Maybe
the adage 'Don't put
all your eggs in one
basket" really
does make
sense.


Before learning & paying
sch fees in stock market ...
I never believe in the adage.
In fact, I did the contrary.


England just could not handle
Germany's pace. I was really
surprised tt England defence
was so poor.


Their play lacks coherence. I
guess they really choked on
the big stage.


The South American teams
are different though. They
seem to peak at the
World Cup.


Even doom during the qualification
doesn't matter to Maradona
& Argentina. They are cruising
into the q-Final.


Maradona just have a lot
of guts. Loads of that. He
has an incredible life. A
few years ago, he was
so close to not
living.


As for Capello, he has such
a wonderful track record.
Before Mourinho, he
was the next manager
tt could guarantee
a trophy.


I thought miracle will happen
because I believe in
miracles.


Believing in miracles usually
bring loads of heartache. But
on occasion, it's worth it.

Opening a can of worms

I have never used this phrase before
& I will never imagine that I will use it.
If you have nothing to eat & you saw a can of "food".
It's the only can! Will u open it??


Tt's a bit of re-invention of the phrase but the point
is I think I self-sabotage because I am
desperate. I thought of doing the
microarray experiment for
my thesis so that my research will be more complete.


Basically for non bio-geeks, microarray allow you to
monitor ALL the genetic changes in the cells
during your experiment. The idea is
good. But it's like if I were to you one
million dollar and put you on a barren
island ... do you think the million dollar
is tt useful? Now I'm trying to
make my 50MB of data useful.
It's like finding food on a barren
island, a bit tough.


Now I'm almost done with the tidying out of the data.
It took much longer than I expected.
I'm left with the last part of the
experiment then its adieus
to lab work ... for now, or forever?


Boss had a chat with me and he asked me
about the future ... He told me not to be
overly concern with getting the right
career the first time ... I donno
whether he was surprised tt I
told him I wanted to move out of
research. Some people was surprised.
But I'm not surprised at all ...
I think I will be more surprised
if I stay in research long term!


I donno where exactly I will be heading,
but I wish to join an innovative
company.


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Last Friday evening my tuition ended early,
so I took the opportunity to watch midnight
soccer with Dick ... The Mac place tt we went
to were filled with Eng supporters.


We are anti-England fans ... & when everyone
was in agony when England spurned a chance ...
we were silently delighted (not exactly silent) .


Algeria does seem to have better ball handling
skill than England. England has one
of the most successful league in the
world but they are still miserable in
terms of technical skill

Dick has a method of betting in the world cup.
The method seem to work ... but then you have
to play most games for the unexpected to
even out. Singapore pools have evolved
a lot ... you can bet so much stuff
then in 2002 when I last bet.


There is top goal scorer, winning continent,
the rounds of knock-out, under or above
2.5 goals & a lot of creative options.


I don't treat soccer betting as a form
of investment. Tt wat most gamblers
believe in. AN INVESTMENT. I
treat in as an entertainment
device. So I only use
the equivalent of a
good dinner as
the budget for
my betting this
World Cup.


The feeling is quite fantastic for example, if you
bet for England to win the World Cup

& pple say you are nuts. Then you
show them the winning ticket
after the FINAL. And for
$5, the entertainment
value you get is quite
worth it.


So I was bargin hunting


I don't go for the sure-win ... becuz you are adequately
rewarded for your risk & it's quite boring
right? My Bets: Golden Boot: Luis Fabiano
Spain: Knock out first round Winning
Continent: S. America


Luis Fabiano is a goal machine!!! The odds is $5.
The third lowest odds but good enough. The


With a bit of luck, I might strike all 3 ...

Passion & Addiction


I was thinking abt addiction &
den I thought abt passion ...
they are quite different thing but
the similarity lies in the
desire that is present in
both instances are extremely
strong


One can work in a job without having
any passion in it but one have less
control over addiction


I think if I were to smoke, I will probably
have bad breadth, spoke a
box a day & wishing to stop but can't


The worst addiction though is gambling.
My hairstylist & her husband lost $4k in
just one day at resort world. She was relating it to me


She:"we were actually thinking about where to eat
with our winnings ... den after tt
we just kept losing"

Me: "so where do u all eat after the massive loss?"

She: "at the coffeeshop downstairs"


She is not addicted to it though. But some pple
gamble for the adrenaline I don't get the kick
from gambling ... there was once I
made $2k from stock in one day,
but I was just happy nt really
ecstatic ... intra-day trading is not quite my
thing...


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This deserves to be one of the rare
picture on my blog. The
magical hydroviton.


It works like miracle. Everything
comes with a price though.
This costs ard $40 SGD
& will last you for a
month.


If you have oily skin, the type
whereby it get oily within
30 minutes of washing
your face ... this
will work
like magic for u !


It has the usual expensive stuff
you find in top-notch cleanser,
like the fruit acids. But probably the
killer stuff is liposome used to deliver the active
ingredients; the liposomes are able to
penetrate through your
outer skin. Sounds v nice huh!


My acne has been kept
under good control! I
think it works better than accutane.
Long term, this cleanser is more

expensive than accutane, but
u really won't want to
take accutane long term.


Divine skin, the company that
sells the product also
have products for hair loss.
The great thing about the company
is that they seem to constantly
fine-tune their product now and
then to make it even
better & after fine-tuning
it, they never try to sell
it at a "new" but more
expensive product.


The company is a class act. But
I will stop here heh

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The World Cup started but
my passion for world
cup football has
decreased with the years


2002 was amazing for South Korea,
I remember following it v closely ...


I don't remember much of 2006 except
tt I was glad Jens Lehmann save
the penalty against Argentina.
Jens is a legend, one of Wenger
greatest buy.


He's fiery, but he got great, great
belief. At that time, no one
thought he can displace
Oliver Kahn. The rest
was history, really.


I still support Arsenal a lot. In fact,
it is like an addiction. The first
thing I check in the morning
is Arsenal-related news.


My interest grow gradually until
one day I realise it has became
part of my life.


Some of my female friends said
tt guys are more loyal to
the club they support
than to their partners


My retort was this "If you
only have a pair of shoes &
it's unbearably painful on
your feet & this pain
doesn't seem to go away
with prolong wear, do
u still want to wear it?


Being loyal to a club is like
going to the theatre. Sometimes
you watch crap show & you
think tt it's a waste of money, but
eventually u go back again, becuz
u think the next time things will be
different.


If the club loses & u feel really painful,
then you just don't read the news
& prolong the pain. But if
a relationship brings u lotsa
anguish ... u can't really
switch off unless u
end it permanently.


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Played badminton with a couple of
friends on Sat. The badminton
gang is expanding!


I am still not as good in badminton.
My motor skill is defnitely not
as gud as some of my friends
like KK & Junwei.


Junwei got v v good motor skills,
he can blade much better
than me even when he
is injured. Then of course, he can't

be my teacher for nothing.


It must have been a year since
I was in East Coast Park.


After I completed my thesis, I will
really want to take a break. By end of this
year my students will all graduate with
their 'O' and 'A'. I have coached 2 of
them for 6 years. Ever since, I
graduated, this was like a part
of my job.


When you watch your students mature
over the years, it's a very
gratifying experience.


Then you watch them become
more emotionally stable &
motivated to do well. Tt is
very deeply satisfying.

Just this morning, through the
recommendation
of a friend, I manage to secure
a new assignment. Tt will start
in August. The rate is ok &
the father sounds very nice. The
conversation was funny & mabbe
consider a tad embarassing for
some ... I'm ok with it though ...


Me: "Hi, May I know who called me just now?"

Yihao: "Hi, I called, I'm Yihao"

Then I thought this guy really sounds like
my friend Soon Chye ... & he used to
call me last time & impersonates ...
plus he seem to have multiple number
so I say

Me: "Don't bluff lah, I know you
are Soon Chye"

Yihao: "No, no. I'm not bluffing. I'm calling
you regarding the tuition ....."

Me: "Don bluff lah." ...

I apologise soon after. It sounds pretty
rude right?

Still v happy to have got the assignment,
this will help to balance the book until
I find a new job.

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I can't wait to graduate. Although, research
was something I like to try. This
few years feel very strange
for me.


Still, I am very optimistic & very
hopeful that good times will come.
Things always happen together,
the good stuff and the bad
stuff.


I have some business ideas so
maybe I will think of how to
implement it. If I can
be a success entrepreneur for
a part of my life, I will be
quite contented to retire
& be a permanent
tutor.


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