NUFC is on the rise again!

Newcastle’s win against Plymouth made it 5 home wins for my team, equalling the record set last season. Was it that bad last season? Don’t remind me.

Goals from Steven Taylor, Kevin Nolan and Andy Carroll secured a 3-1 victory against a team we last faced in the 91-92 season.

That, and a 5-1 thrashing from West Brom(?!?) against Middlesborough brought us up to 2nd place. However, Danny Simpson, the young defender loaned to us from Manchester United, came off injured in the 30th minute. We are seriously lacking in numbers at the moment, and if the next league game produces yet another injury, I think we’ll be screwed.

Howay the lads!!!

 

JUMP!

My birthday treat from dear wasa pair of tickets to see the last show of JUMP!, a comedy-cum-martial arts presentation from a group of South Koreans. From the programme booklet which I purchased at $6 (painfully expensive initially but now worth so much more), it seemed that we would be in for a laugh… and I sure as heck wasn’t disappointed by it!

Laugh I sure did… and to the point that beads of perspiration replaced the cold air that my skin felt. Amazing techniques, these guys sure could perform!

At the end of the show, dear went to queue up to get the programme booklet autographed.. by all 9 cast members!

I’ll try to post some photos up tonight. Till then. 🙂

 

Swiss Roll

Dear asked me a question today.

Why is a swiss roll called a swiss roll?

As a matter of fact, I didn’t know! So I told her that I would have to check it out. I then went through Wikipedia and this is what I got;

Swiss roll is a type of sponge cake roll. The thin cake is made of eggs, flour and sugar and baked in a very shallow rectangular baking tray, called a sheet pan. The cake is removed from the pan and spread with jam or butter cream, rolled up, and served in circular slices.

The origins of the term “Swiss” roll are unclear and the cake originated in Central Europe and not Switzerland. It is a traditional German, Hungarian and probably Austrian type of cake. The shape of the Swiss roll has inspired usage of the term as a descriptive term in other fields, such as in optics.

Just food for thought for those of you who ever wondered about it. 🙂

 

Busy dad-to-be

It’s been quite hectic for me these past few weeks, in terms of workload, family life and the Church. Family life, as some of you might be aware of, is about to get more hectic in the coming months.

There are plenty of things happening, and about to happen. One is to get the darn contractor to come back and repair the shoddy workmanship to the house. One is to finally paint the baby cot. One is to start re-learning all my basketball tactics, so that I can impart it to the kids at Church. One is to clear up the enormous mess that is called my workstation. One is to lose weight. One is to save money which isn’t really there.

So many things to do, so little time.

But I’m loving it (“,)

 

pet

adopt your own virtual pet!

 

Stressed!

Tomorrow is supposed to be the day that we’re supposed to select our choice HDB unit. That plan, however, is to come to nothing.

Reason being, with the bloody good computation thing that HDB’s got, we’re ending up giving $10, a lot of wasted time, and pent-up frustration for a lack of a choice. That’s right. A lack of choice. Out of all the )&*@# flats that were on sale, there’s only a few 4 room flats in Sembawang left. Talk about choices. Equlity. CRAP!

Think it’s kinda stupid, rather, great that HDB thinks of such a thing. $10 for balloting. Great.

4000 ballots.

400 flats.

4000 x $10=$40000.

Just like that, they earned enough. Great tactic. Nuff said.

 

My gf asked me to blog this

Stupid managers! I hate them all!!!!!!

 

Ouchie

I just made the single most expensive purchase of my Neopets life. A 600,000np purchase of a Baby Paint Brush that made my Kau into a Baby Kau.

Ouch, painful! Though it’s not real cash, that 600,000np is kinda like equal to 60 days of np earning. Sigh…

 

A lesson to be learnt

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45
years old highly educated son.

Suddenly a crow perched on their window.  The Father asked his Son, “What is
this?”

The Son replied “It is a crow”.

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, “What is this?”The Son said “Father, I have just now told you “It’s a crow”.

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?”
At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son’s tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff.

“It’s a crow, a crow”.

A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, “What is this?”

This time the Son shouted at his Father, “Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times ‘IT IS A CROW’. Are you not able to understand this?”

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old
tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening
a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the
following words were written in the diary :-

“Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a
crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and
I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly
each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I
did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child”.
While the little child asked him 23 times “What is this”, the Father had
felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when
today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt
irritated and annoyed.

So..

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a
burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and
kind to them. Be considerate to your parents.From today say this aloud, “I
want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I
was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.
They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to
make me a person presentable in the society today”.

 

Year of the Pig

Hey… Happy Chinese New Year to all Chinese out there in the World.

Boy, am I tired.