砂漠のJeffire

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Ahahaha, i'm both happy and disappointed at the same time now, having lost in my ever gaming tournament. It's the XBox360 Gameon Tournament which was held in my school and the game I played in was FIFA 2006.

I picked Sweden for its well balanced qualities. Played against some Indian foreign student, who like me, is also a first hander at the game. Actually I had been practising at the stations for almost an hour as I was waiting for the tournament to begin. But of course the practice didn't help much as my team faltered to the French team. I actually took the lead through a penalty and subsequently gained control of the game for long periods of the match until he turned the tide and equalised with a defensive error I made. Subsequently he took the lead as my goalkeeper made a mistake, palming the ball to an unmarked Henry, and finally I lost the game in the 80th odd min when the ball bounced off Henry again to put out the Swedish's flaring determination. I only have to blame for forgetting all the time that the SHOOT button was the 'B' button! Hahaha. Anyway I got a free XBOX bag which I think needs some cleaning at some junctures, but it looks pretty good as an pre-example to how i should carry a Le Coq Sportif bag (which i'm still wondering to get or not). Saw it with the rabbit gang yesterday at Bugis Street..$41 after discount. Wonder if it's worth it. Oh, regarding the ball, anyone who won consecutive 2 games would get the ball as a quarter-finalist and then another 2 to go into the finals of the Xbox360 Gameon Fifa 2006 tournament held at Suntec City..haiz.. why didn't I get the ball.. (it's a green Addidas ball. quite nice..)

Yes, as mentioned, yesterday the gang was out again to scout for dear Ah Gong's birthday present. As usual food is a never shirkable subject and we had 328 Katong Laksa at the Rockery, outside OG Bugis. It was marvellous though not estacy-inducing. Speaking of that, due to Grace being unhappy (albeit for a short moment only) we ended up missing her favourite TEMPURA store. We spent some time at Bugis Junction, and subsequently moved to Suntec to hunt for the right present.

The first stop was at Giordano where Pika displayed his modelling astuteness by trying out some polo-tees, pink, light green and pink-gray. The group was split over which colour suited him, so eventually he did not get any of those at all. Hahaha. As we walked around somemore, the girls complained of tiredness and hence we had to find somewhere to sit and perhaps have dinner (though Eileen, Pika and me had yoga class and couldn't eat much anyway). Again the choice selection was Xing Wang HongKong cafe. The thing with the cafe isn't its price nor its offering but the ambience it brought. Supposedly if you shared shared shared, the bill wouldn't cough up much even though you might had tried probably around 4-5 items? Haha. And we took some group photos there! Maybe here's one for you.

Half the Rabbit Gang!

Time flew past quickly and we were soon rushing to return to Khatib for our yoga class. Despite the rush, we still stopped by the watch shop and had some scouting doen as the item we were picking for Ah Gong was a watch. Due to the lack of time, we just had a quick spot and then yeah, off we scooted for the train. We had a frantic time value-adding our cards (Grace and me) as the train was only a minute or so away. We ran down and caught the train in good stead. Haha. We were running late for our class! And my shorts were in danger of falling while we ran to the CC from the station because it didn't velcro properly. Fortunately, Pika got his sister to bring over the stuff and she rode a bicycle to the community centre. Phew.. need to give our million thanks to her. We had an enjoyable session at the yoga class, revising many poses which we had done before. After that, we had some light stuff to compensate for our half-dinner earlier on, followed by the usual walking to the station(Eileen) and bus-stop (me) to end the day in a jubilant mood.

Hmm..what else should I write?

Birthday celebration... yep, I'll have the first run at my home on Friday with the 7Seas as brother is departing back to school again on Saturday. Hopefully we will have an enjoyable time even though I predict that it would be quite a short gathering. Not too keen on having people going home late with the lunar seventh month starting tomorrow. Moreover, this year we had a repeating lunar seventh month! So not much opportunites for night activities even though I'm not really a very superstitious person.

The second run will be outside though, as I plan to have a buffet outing. The venue is the dim sum house of Lao Bei Jing (Old Peking) at Novena Square. Since Gerald says it's good, I guess it means it is really good! We shall see...

Finally to end off this post, let me concede defeat as a toothsayer, since my world cup predictions were entirely off the mark. Haha. However, here I offer my analysis on why some of the bigger teams failed:

Brazil: Mentally tired players
Czech Republic: Lack of strikers and over-reliance on an aging midfield
England: Wrong selection of tactics and players..and I say Beckham and Gerrard played well.
Germany: They were unlucky to meet a cheating team on fantastic luck
Portugal: Lacking penetrative players and strikers were not up to the mark
Argentina: Overconfidence, players were not down to earth.
Holland: Can't they just ditch their 4-3-3 which doesn't work without a Total Football system..

Ah well, my humble opinions are open to your debate and criticism.. haha.

Alone but smiling in school
Jeffire

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