"It is through memory that we hold on to those we love"

The holidays can be said to be well-and-truly underway, after oral presentation is over. And boy am I glad that it is. My group's preparation for it has been relatively smooth (compared to WR...) though, and I'm glad the presentation went pretty well. Since then it's been outings and meeting friends, which has been great really. The downside to all this is...of course...that I have ended up having to spend more money. Still it is money worth spent, especially when I get to see the comedy of errors displayed by JJ and Weelic and the ends they will go about $3.50, as well as the nice frappes. that I got to enjoy at Starbucks with Leon. The buy-one-get-one-free offer for earthquake at Swensen's meant that between the 5 of us relatively light eaters we had 2 earthquakes to share, and it turned out to be a great way to gain weight, which was of course delightful for me, although perhaps the same cannot be said for someone like Sherhan, haha. Of course, more importantly is the time spent with the people I haven't been able to hang around with too often over the year, and that is priceless. Thus, I really look forward to the rest of such outings over the holidays. I probably do not have too many great friends, but I do treasure the time I have with every one of them, and most importantly, I'm very satisfied and grateful for those I keep in touch with. =)

Something else that I would really like to do is play soccer. While I used to just go on those lonely runs to Bishan park and back, I've taken the 'courage' to go to the street soccer court (wearing the 'destroy-able' specs of course) and play it out with those older and bigger size people all wearing jerseys. While they are rough in playing football they are actually pretty friendly to talk to and of course, they let me play with them, so here's another prime example of why we should not judge a book by it's cover. I feared the worst when I accidentally stepped on someone's bare foot, but he just laughed it off. Heh.

Of course, the football on TV is certainly hotting up as well. Two weeks. Two matches in succession against two of the big four. Two points. And the players are disappointed. Well, the same can't be said for me. I think they played absolutely brilliantly, apart from the 1st half against Manchester, which I must admit was because Manchester stifled them. Against Liverpool, after conceding the goal we battered them and eventually...we did score the perfect goal. 2 players as decoy, and then Hleb played the perfect chip to Fabregas who toe-poked it past their keeper. We hit the post twice and really, with better finishing, we would have got a famous victory. Against Manchester, they were really clinical and took their chances...and that really looks like championship-winning form, so yeah Manchester are the favourites. I must say, their 2nd goal was brilliant, the reverse pass from Saha. But still, as always, the team fought back and FINALLY, a big ref. decision is right, and Gallas's whack was correctly ruled to have crossed the line (which is clearly did).

And football really is a matter of ifs. If we had not scored that late goal....
Ferguson would not be such a sour grape and complain about a foul that took place TWO MINUTES before that last-gasp goal went over the line. He would instead say

"We deserved the victory",

which will be of a similar nature to Mourinho's classic

"The better team lost"

when they were defeated by Barcelona and Liverpool. In both cases, they can simply be summarised as

"My team is better, your team is inferior", which can be further reduced back to...

"sour grapes"

It's a lovely phrase isn't it.
Well, my turn to be one.
IF van Persie was playing, surely there would not have been isolation in the first half against united, and surely he would have finished off the chances that were begging to be put away. Anyway, it's important we stayed top, and Manchester have been lucky. They played a Chelsea without Drogba or Lampard, us without van Persie, and very likely Liverpool without Torres. Let's see a Manchester without Rooney, Ronaldo or Tevez man. Too bad we didn't kick any of them bad enough towards the end. It would have been worth a red card. Or two. lol.