1+1 = 2

Ah we have all been pretty silly.

Like Mr Rodney King said, "Why can't we all just get along?"

Think about it before you open your gob.

IMU Cup is finally over. It was a great event spanning around 2 months, and I am glad that I was a part of it, winning 2 medals and gaining lots of experience. Then like every event will come the complains, some legit, some bullshit. Some people and batches who don't have much or any experience in the sporting scene just want to make a big fuss out of something pointless. Unfortunately my batch is the one with the most complains. Again. Now don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY want my batch to win - heck I was totally bummed when they announced the cheerleading results and it dawned that our batch couldn't win the overall IMU Cup. However sometimes we just have to draw a line when taking sides.

Table tennis is one of the issues here. M107 (my batch) fielded an illegal player in the team, and hence we were demoted to 4th place instead of 3rd. From a sports point of view, any team with an illegal player should be disqualified and given 0 points. Agreed? A 4th place is already a good enough agreement but apparently not. Now the team comes, however, saying that they didn't know that the girl couldn't play for the team. This after it was already made clear to everyone by the IMU Cup committee which batch of bMed can play. Only the people in table tennis didn't know about this rule while ALL the other sport captains knew. It's pretty obvious who is to blame then huh. Furthermore, ignorance is NEVER an excuse in sports! There was an incident during an Olympic under-23 football qualifying match a few years ago, and a team fielded a 24-year old player. The entire team was DQ eventhough the players and the coach were not at fault. It was the football association of that country that made a mistake in registration. So coming back to M107, how can we not be DQ stating that we were ignorant??

True the fact that the older batch of bMed cannot play in the IMU Cup was not written down in black and white. The President of the SRC - whom I think with all due respect is wrong - thinks that everything must be in black and white for it to be legit. So in that case, I guess we can all write our answers down on our hands, foreheads, ass cheeks, tissue paper, handkerchiefs and stuff 'em in condoms which in-turn stuffed up our anus, and bring them into the exam halls, because it is not in black and white that we can't cheat with those methods. Seriously, I think we all need some sense of verbal agreement and common sense. Which the President thinks is lacking in us. Yes he said that. Pity, guess we are all going to be shit doctors.

Mind you

Let me relate to you an interesting event that I happened to witness this afternoon when I went to Carrefour with the gf. I had to buy my badminton grip, and she wanted to get some biscuits for her bro who is going overseas next week. So we were queuing up and talking about lunch when suddenly a middle-aged chinese man starting yelling at the malay cashier, who was trying her best to ignore him and serve the next customer, a young chinese man. To cut the long story short, from what I gather the man was yelling at the cashier because he couldn't find his credit card/BonusLink card, and he thought that the cashier didn't give it back to him. The yelling got quite bad, and the cashier couldn't stand it and stormed away in tears to her manager's office. During this 2-3 minutes, the younger chinese man, totally amused and bemused by this whole situation, started searching for the card everywhere around the cashier's area.

And he found it in the man's trolley.

By now all of us (ok maybe just me) were thinking what and idiot this older chinese man (let's call him A and the younger one B) is. B then told A that maybe he could be a little more careful and search properly before accusing others. A then snapped and started to yell at B saying that it was none of his business, and just stormed away. Talk about gratitude. B then started yelling at A calling him a coward and asked him to come back and face him like a man. By the way 2 malay security guards were there the whole time chilling by the side. B then started to comfort the cashier, who came back in more tears.

Moral of the story? You decide. Me? I was, for those few minutes, ashamed (and then proud) to be a Malaysian chinese.

Uno

It's been a year now that the gf and I have been together.

=)

=D

But cannot go out celebrate. Too damn busy and tired thanks to IMU Cup. Roar. But it's alright. My batch is top of the table so far! Hopefully we can keep up the good work and win more gold. Starting with this Saturday and Sunday with futsal and badminton respectively. Woo the pressure. =\

Bad-minton

What a terrible disappointment. I don't know what happened and I can't offer any explanations. Let's just be thankful that we are in the semis and that I can play better this Sunday, though our opponents will be tougher. 

4 weeks have just blown by just like that. The endocrine system is done and today starting on repro. Talk about fast. 

Tell you where you need to go

Tell you when you'll need to leave

Tell you what you need to know

Tell you who you need to be.

But everything inside you knows

Says more than what you've heard

So much more than empty conversations

Filled with empty words.

Give me one more time around

Give me one more chance to see

Give me everything You are

Give me one more chance to be near you.

Cause everything inside looks like

Everything I hate

You are the hope I have for change

You are the only chance I'll take.

Light My Fire

IMU Cup continues. Despite the weather being as terrible as it can ever be thanks to global warming. See people it actually exists. Since when did we have rain and a monsoon season in September?? The North-east monsoon - which is the one that affects us - is usually from November till February. I hate global warming.

Anyway, my batch M107 doing quite ok so far. Gold in netball and squash, silver in male basketball and scrabble, 4th for football. Bowling and chess were also played already but I don't know the results to those. All I know is that we didn't win the gold. It's ok. Badminton later on in the evening. 7pm. Nervous. Badminton is the only sports that can get me nervous. The gf said last night that it is because it is my primary sport. I guess so. We really must get into the finals this year. After all we do have the best male badminton player in IMU. Marcus, in case you were wondering.

Watched the US Open tennis till 5am last night/this morning. Great games. Federer looked like he is finally back to his good old dominating self, while Andy Murray was brilliant and now holds a 2-set lead over Nadal, and their game was postponed till further notice due to - don't hold your breath - rain.

Ok I need my lunch.

what next?

There are times I don't know what to think anymore. There are times I don't know what to say anymore. There are times I don't know what to do anymore. Nothing seems to work, nothing seems to help.

Ah what's the point. Concentrate on the future I guess. Badminton on Sunday. PBL in 20 minutes time. Things like that. If there is a one-way train to Never-neverland 'll be the 1st to hop on. Question is, will you stop me and ask me to stay?

Death

Metallica set to release their first studio album since St. Anger in 2003 on the 12th of September! That is like 9 more days only! Hopefully it is much better than St. Anger which was full of crap and commercialized rock music. Early reviews are good, so....keeping my hopes up.

Basketball finals are tonight, this time we want the gold medal. On the other hand I should start studying my endocrine. Maybe just 1 or 2 notes. Lazy though. Lazy even to type in full sentences.

idle mind

Just a little more to the right. And the bronze medal could have been ours. Unfortunately it was not to be. Terribly sorry guys.