Monday, July 30, 2007

yeah, tmr is a holiday.
Like.......finally!
During the collection of O lvl results period...some schools has like 3 days off, some had 5! And we only had ONE.
Also, after common tests other schools had things like sabbaticals or enrichment week, and for us it was just business as usual.
So, this is well and truly and well-deserved break for us la, and all thanks goes to all the sports players who earned us this break. =)
22 golds! Like...how good is that?
Oh, and next Wed too, will be a school holiday since 07 08 07 celebrations is at night.

So, guitar pracs are finally resuming and I am realising how weak I am, but yeah thankfully the people there are really nice and helpful, and I'll certainly have to spend time memorising that piece of paper which I have about the note arrangement on the guitar...so I'll be able to be more pro-active and be able to read guitar scores. It's like so embarrassing, knowing how to read music scores but not know their corresponding positions on the guitar.

And, the weeks seem increasingly stretched...with physics H3 and olympiad meaning it's now 5+2+2=9 hrs of physics per week. Aha. Boy am I going nuts about it. But yeah, I'm thankful I have my saturdays free, I know that if I compare, there are tons of people who are so much busier than me, from those pple like AG who had to spend the whole week helping out for Lit week and Othello, councillors....etc. I am always so amazed at how these people can manage their time so well, and I have a lot of respect for such people.

So really, I hate myself when I try to compare myself with people who are so free, have few commitments, and think that I should pity myself. Oh, that would be my downfall.
As busy as I am, I know it's really only from my point of view, and if all things are relative, (or as economists would say relative to the marginal 'product'), I really shoudn't be lamenting anymore.

Perhaps if future work requires me to, then I'd have no choice, but I won't let myself be deprived of football for the next year or so. I know, Arsenal are a shadow of the team they once were. The Untouchables - Henry, Pires, Vieira, are just a shadow of their former self. They are no longer the match winners they once were. Yes, and now Ljunberg is the next one to go. He was the one that helped us to win 13 in a row in 2001-02 to storm from 12 points behind at one stage to beat Man United to the beat, and believe me, the sweetness of that was more than winning 03-04 unbeaten. yes, I remembered young me, boasting all over football forums then, yes. Now, I think about it.
Chelsea. Match winners? Cech. Terry. Carvalho. Lampard. Drogba. Joe Cole.
Man United? Ronaldo. Rooney. Giggs.
Liverpool? Gerrard. Carragher. Maybe Torres.
And, for Arsenal? yes, the first name people will probably mention is Fabregas, but seriously, the only one Arsenal have is van Persie. So, yes, I'm resigned to the fact that we are way behind in terms of quality relative to the other of the top 4. But hey, ask the same question of any other team in the premier league. And they would probably have none. If Arsene could swap any players now with any other player from the other 16 clubs, the only one that would be of interest is Berbatov or Tevez. Forget Michael Owen.
The beauty of football is that the whole is not the sum of it's parts, but rather, how they interact with one another.

And yes, I am eagerly awaiting Aug. 11. As for now I'll be doing all I can to offset the reduction in focus on studying come that day.

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