ITALY SUCKS!!!!!!!

Italy has been knocked out of the World Cup!!!! What's more, they won it the last time. STUNNED BY SLOVAKIA!!!!! Slovakia!!! What crap!! Slovakia has a population of only around 5 million and are participating in the World Cup for the first time since their independence. AND they managed to beat WORLD CUP HOLDERS Italy. This is the first time in World Cup history that both finalists in the previous World Cup have been knocked out in the group stages-champions Italy and runners-up France.

The match between Italy and Slovakia was called 'epic'. 3 goals were scored after the 80th minute, 2 by Italy and 1 by Slovakia including an Italy goal flagged offside by the referee for the 'tightest of decisions'. The match finished Slovakia 3 Italy 2.

Slovakia next face Dutch masters Netherlands in the knockout stages. This will probably end Slovakia's miracle round. The Dutch have so many stars to call upon, including star striker Arjen Robben whom I believe has justreturned from injury. His electrifying pace will trouble anyone any day. They also have Andrea Pirlo, Fabio Cannavaro, Antonio Di Natale and many more. That's why the Dutch will probably win Slovakia

Trip to Malaysia

To celebrate Father's Day, me and my family went to Johor Bahru in Malaysia on Saturday, one day before Father's Day. It was a long trip to Malaysia even though we set off from our flat in Punggol in tehe afternoon when it is usually not as crowded as in the mornings or evenings. Probably because most of the Malaysians working or studying in Singapore probably go back home today. Hence it was very crowded at the Singapore and Malaysia customs. Eventually we reached our destination, some hotel which name I don't even remember. We reached there at about 2, I think.

2 o' clock is around lunch time for us on weekends and therefore we ventured to Mc'Donald's. Mc'Donald's in Malaysia isn't the same as Mc'Donald's back in Singapore, I later discovered. For starters, the McValue lunch in Singapore is just for Fillet O'Fish while the same thing in Malaysia is for a lot of stuff, like McNuggets, cheeseburgers, chickenburgers, Mc Spicy and so on. I ordered McNuggets Mcvalure meal, since that is my favourite. They were in a packet. However, McNuggets in Singapore are in a small box. The Mc'Donald's in Malaysia do not even have the curry sauce which I usually have with my nuggets in Singapore. The chilli sauce in Singapore is the delicious garlic chilli sauce while in Malaysia the chilli sauce is just some weird chilli sauce which doesn't contain garlic. Disgusting.

Anyways after we finished lunch and consumed our ice'creams, we went to some electronics store where my dad bought some programmes for me to learn like Photoshop Cs4 professional and so on as there was a problem with oneof the programmes. We were in there for I don't know how long and it was VERY, VERY boring. Luckily I had brought along my PSP and I squatted in a corner and played earnestly.

After that we drove to City Square Plaze as there was a cinema there. We planned to watch Karate Kid. However, when we went to check at about 5.50, we realised that we had just missed the 5.40 movie. The only seats available for the 6.40 movie were at the 2 front rows. If you wanted to sit there for more then 2 hours I guarantee you'll get a sprained neck from gazing up for so long.

So in the end we decided to go for the 8 o'clock movie. So we had about 2 hours left before the movie and hence we decided to go shopping. We went into ' Inner City', which is like a shopping mall within the shopping mall we were alreadyin, City Plaza Mall. We found an electronics store and therefore stopped there to upgrade my PSP and also to buy some new games for it and my sister's DS.

Finally 8o'clock was drawing closer and therefore we went to have a quick dinner and then went to watch Karate Kid. It was quite interesting and also humourous-is that how you spell it?? Anyways it was about this kid, Dre Parker who moved from Detroit to China. He likes a girl but then another guy who is quite an expert in martial arts beats him up everytime he gets near her. One day he angers the guy by throwing dirty water over him. The guy and 5 other people chase after him and nearly kill him of not for Jackie Chan, who beat them up. Jackie then teaches Dre kung fu and in the end Dre beats the guy in a kung fu competition.

After the movie we went home and reached at about midnight. I bathed and then fall asleep immediately.

Class Gathering!!!!

WOW!!!! I had such a great time yesterday!!!! Me and about 17 other pupils from my Primary 6 class arranged for a class gathering at Kovan Melody. One of my friends, Ryan Tan stays there and he helped us book the multi-purpose room. However, you need a card to enter the condo. Only residents have this card. So, we arranged to meet at the passenger service at Kovan MRT station.

My father and mother have to go to work. Sad, right? Boo hoo... Anyway, they leave the house at 7.30 and so I tagged along with them. I'm too lazy to take public transport... So, in the end, I reached the passenger service at 8.10 and NOBODY from my class was there. I had to sit... , or squat, in a corner of the station and wait for them. That didn't matter, since my phone has lots of games and I also brought along my PSP with me. At 8.25 or so, Ryan Tan and Kerwin FINALLY arrived. Interestingly, Ian, one of the organizers and the head prefect in my primary school, was still sitting and feasting in Mc'Donalds' at Heartland Mall. Despicable..

Ok, let's just skip to where all the fun started. When the girls went about arranging everything, all the boys grabbed both basketballs Ryan brought down from his flat and went to the court to play basketball. It was real fun but very strenuous at the same time. When we got back to the multi-purpose room, (let's just call it MPR. It was the function room I was talking about earlier) we started one of the games that the games organizer, Emily, and organized (duh...). It was wacko but more interesting. All of us formed pairs, one sitting and one standing. All the pairs formed a circle and one person stood in the middle with a rolled-up magazine. It would start a standing person shouting out a sitting person's name. The person in the middle would then run to the person whose name was called. But before the whacker whacked that poor person, the person standing behind the person whose name was called had to shout out another sitting person's name. If the person sitting got hit, he/she would become the whacker, the person standing would become the person sitting and the previous whacker would become the person standing. The ones who became whackers 3 times and above would have to perform a forfeit later. So it's basically based on your luck and reaction. If the person(s) standing behind you are blur ding-dongs, then you would be the one performing the forfeit.

Actually, the forfeit was not that bad. It was just mixing all kinds of food and drink together and the forfeitees would have to gag it down. In the end, the forfeitees drank Coke mixed with Pepsi mixed with Sprite mixed with Mamee noodle crackers mixed with the seasoning which came with it and strawberry flavoured whipped cream.

After Wacko, we headed to the playground but it was out of bounds. So, we decided to just play around in the pool behind the playground. It was ver shallow, reaching up to between our knees and ankles. There were also rock platforms around. You could jump from one of those to another. Ian, the daredevil, jumped from one to another, gaining momentum, and finally attempted to leap a distance of about 3-4 metres from a platform to another. He failed and splashed water all over his clothes. I tried too. The problem was the water between the 2 platforms in question were divided into 2 levels, one reaching up to my ankles and the other between my knees and ankles. I landed in the deeper one. Actually, not landed. More like fell. The result was me dripping all over from head to toe. However, Ian was worse. He did about 5 pushups IN THE WATER. No mean feat??? I think not. Later on, me, him and Jerome Kwok did about 10. We then went on to slide in the slide into waist-high level water.

Luckily by then it was afternoon so we three went to sunbathe in the deck chairs by the deep pool. Pius was fooling around with some tennis balls. One flew near his right foot. He kicked it. It rebounded against the plastic of the karaoke room and flew into the pool. None of us wished to get our clothes wet some more and therefore nobody went into the pool. Furthermore, we had to take off our shirts before doing so and of course the boys didn't dare strip in front of the girls and the girls didin't dare strip in front of anybody. In the end Ian had to ask a woman swimming to get it for us. We killed Pius for that. His funeral was today at 3pm.

After that wasn't very interesting. We just played a lot of basketball and ate lunch and played hide-and-seek around the whole condo. Me and Jerome Kwok hid in the carpark. We went home at about half past 3.

The result?? Today my hands and feet are aching like mad and I discovered in the morning that I had sunburn on both my shoulders as I wore a singlet yesterday. Sigh...

World Cup

For those who don't already know, here are the groups for the 2010 World Cup:



(As of Tuesday 15/6/2010)



Group A: South Africa Matches Played: South Africa 1 Mexico 1

Mexico Uruguay 0 France 0

Uruguay

France



Group B: Argentina Matches played: South Korea 2 Greece 0

Nigeria Argentina 1 Nigeria 0

South Korea

Greece



Group C: England Matches Played: Slovenia 1 Algeria 0

USA England 1 USA 0

Algeria

Slovenia



Group D: Germany Matches Played: Germany 4 Australia 0

Australia Ghana 1 Serbia 0

Serbia

Ghana



Group E: Holland Matches Played: Netherlands 2 Denmark 0

Denmark Japan 1 Cameroon 0

Japan

Cameroon



Group F: Italy Matches Played: Paraguay 1 Italy 1

Paraguay Slovakia 1 New Zealand 1

New Zealand

Slovakia



Group G(Group of Death): Brazil Matches Played: Brazil 2 North Korea 1

North Korea Portugal 0 Ivory Coast 0

Ivory Coast

Portugal

Group H: Spain No Matches Played

Switzerland

Honduras

Chile

WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

World Cup is finally here!!!! Which team do YOU support??? I support Spain!!! Not because I'm crazy about them, but because I think that they are the favourites to win this World Cup!!!
XDXDXDXDXDXD

I think Spain has the greatest number of fit yet great footballers such as star strikers Fernando Torres and David Villa, star midfielders Andrea Iniesta, David Silva, Fabregas, Xabi Alonso and Xavi and so much more other stars in other positions.

Spain romped through their qualifiers, qualifying for the World Cup with 2 games to spare, dismantling Poland 6-0 and crushing Estonia 3-0.

Argentina have lots of stars and are quite a good team. However, their stars, like striker Carlos Tevez, are erratic. Another problem is their coach Maradona. He is also an Argentinian and played for Argentina before too. He is famous for his infamous 'Hand of God' goal over England. A team mate crossed the ball to him from behind and he and the England goalkeeper were rushing toward each other. The 'keeper raised his hands the fist the shot away. However, Maradona raised his hand and puched the ball into the goal!!! The referee did not see what had transpired, and hence the goal was counted!!! However, Maradona's second goal was perfect and beautiful, skimming around defenders like Twinkletoes, fooling the goalkeeper before finally tapping the ball home.

BUT..BUT..WAIT!!!! HE MAY BE AWESOME AT PLAYING SOCCER, BUT HE'S CERTAINLY RUBBISH AT COACHING!!! THAT IS WHY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ARGENTINA TO WIN!!!

Brazil is a brilliant team who have won the World Cup a record 5 times. In comparison, Spain have not won the World Cup even once. The Brazil football team before boasted all time greats like football legend Pele, Rivaldo, Ronaldo and so on. However this year, the Brazil coach Dunga has taken much flair out of Brazil and they have lost much of the flair from the old times but are still a formidable team. Anyway, they shouldn't be too sad if they got eliminated. They are hosting the World Cup in 2014 and therefore automatically have qualified for it already. Brazil are also in the ' Group of Death ' this year. The group consists of heavyweights Ivory Coast and Portugal. North Korea completes the group of 4. Don't underestimate North Korea, though. I don't know much of their players but in the newspapers it says that North Korea are one of the dark horses to win this World Cup. Portugal boasts of the most expensive player and possibly the best winger, in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo but are missing another star winger, Nani. Ivory Coast originally boasted of top scorer on the EPL this season, Didier Drogba, but are now in trouble since Drogba broke his arm but he seems to be recuperating quite swiftly. However, they still have stars like the experienced defender Kolo Toure.

Originally, I was voting for England but now them winning the World Cup is not a possibility anymore.Rooney and Ledley King, who I think broke his ankle, are sitting out training sessions, Rooney needs to cope with his temper. He has been using vulgar language at referees very frequently. I also don't understand why coach Fabio Capello is using Emile Heskey as striker and I agree with a quote from the Strait's Times. It says"If the World Cup was won by trying, Emile Heskey would be the Player of the Tournament." But since it's won by scoring, Heskey should be dropped. Capello, which a particular newspaper article describes as 'the Angry Italian', also stubbornly sticks to his stupid formation of 4-4-2 which leaves midfielders Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard exposed in vast areas of space. Therefore, they were often outmanouvered when the Americans were in possession.

The rest of the heavyweights are all missing star players. For example, Germany are missing captain and star midefielder Michael Ballack.

AND THAT'S WHY SPAIN WILL WIN!!!!! XDXDXDXDXDXD

Twinkletoes continued

Hi guys. I haven't much time left to do this so I'm going to make it real quick. Well, then Leandro was doing his homework and juggling his football at the same time when a monk suddenly appeared. He and the monk then began to play a game of juggling. The monk began breakdancing with the ball and never even let it touch the ground once. He even performed tricks like crossover, shoulderstall and rainbow.



The monk accepted Leandro as his pupil. It turned out that he was just a drama teacher who had been an extremely good footballer in his prime. Big clubs like Manchester United all wanted to sign him but he unfortunateky could not get a work permit in England and thus had to work as a drama teacher.



In the following days, Leandro began to receive special training from his teacher. The drama teacher came in all sorts of outfits. He came as a ninja, a policeman, Rambo and even The King of Rock and Roll-Elvis. Leandro learnt, through the charesteristics of the characters his master came as, a lot of stuff. From the ninja, Leandro learnt stealth and accuracy. From quite a distance away, out of 10 soccer balls, the drama teacher could hit the crossbar of the goal ten times out of ten with the right foot which was his dominant foot and eight times with his left while Leandro could not hit the crossbar even once with either feet.



From the policeman, Leandro learnt toughness and how to tackle and slide tackle. He also learnt that defenders would sometimes play dirty and trip him on purpose. He then had to pick himself up and combat fire with fire.



From Rambo, Leandro learnt how to head balls in any direction he wanted without fear. his master could crack a watermelon using his head.



From Elvis, Leandro learnt stamina. After 20 laps around the track, Leandro could not run any longer while his master was not even breathing quickly. He was even wearing the hot outfit of Elvis and holding a guitar and strumming it while running.



Because of these skills, during the clash with giants Woodvale Secondary who have already won the championship four times already, Morrison High avoided being given a sound thrashing.

5 minutes into the game was all it took for Leandro to make his mark. He scored beautifully, teeing the ball up with his left foot and letting fly with his right 30 metres. It was so fast and yet so accurate the goalkeeper hardly moved. It was a bullet of a shot. This was because he had followed Chen Long's instructions and had been tirelessly been practising shooting at the crossbar. Now, he could already hit the crossbar 5 times out of 10. Now with the entire goalmouth to aim at, it was a breeze directing his shots.

However, Woodvale were not idiots. They were a great team. They regrouped and attacked. Their star striker, Roslin Musa, had a stinging shot of his own and the moment he found space, unleashed a stinging shot from the edge of the penalty box. The ball flew past the keeper but Leandro kept it out by heading it away.

Despite, Leandro's hard work, Woodvale managed to score 2 goals through star striker Roslin and star midfielder Sundram.

Morrison appeared to be losing but they fought on. And, as good luck, perseverance and hard work would have it, the equaliser finally arrived. Donovan Ho who had been nicknamed 'Beckham' because of his beautiful and accurate crosses, curled a free kick into the penalty area and Mani Ram, standing at 1.8 metres tall dwarfed the Woodvale players to head home the equaliser.

And that was how the game ended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XDXDXDXDXD

Twinkletoes

As you can see from the title of this page, this post is going to be about a book that I read. Twinkletoes is a, erm... i think it's a four part series about the football team from Morrison High. I have just read the third book in the series and I think it is very very interesting as well as humorous. Naturally, since I'm crazy on soccer.

The first book, the other book I have read, was how Leandro, of Chinese and Brazilian parentage was born. Both of his parents play soccer, in fact, his Chinese father was a renowned goalkeeper and his Brazilian mother was the captain of a renowned women's soccer team. As a result, Leandro became very interested in soccer as well. When he entered Morrison High, coach of the Morrison high soccer team, Coach Ramsey, spotted his unusual talent and as a result, Leandro quickly became part of the Morrison High soccer team. Leandro has brilliant dribbling skills, dazzling everyone with his quick feet. Everyone thinks he can be the next 'Twinkletoes'. In the 1950s, Chia Boon Leong, the best winger Singapore ever had, was also given that same nickname. At the end of the book, minnows Morrison High defeated heavyweights Ang Mo Tan Secondary. Principal Billy Chin and coach Ramsey are extremely proud of them.

In this third book, the story kicks off with captain of the Morrison high soccer team, Tan Hock Ann, studying hard for the test which was on the next day. Normally, Hock Ann would not give 2 hoots about any exam and therefore he always failed the tests and remained rooted to the bottom of the class. His mother was single and worked as a hawker in a hawker centre. As the stall could not bring in too much money, she had to double up as a seamstress in a free time and therefore life was very hard on her. However, she was still very happy and proud that her soon had turned over a new leaf and began to take schoolwork very seriously.

The next day, the day of the test, Hock Ann was very nervous as he did not want to get lousy grades and disappoint his mother. He went through his notes once more while on the school bus. After the test papers were given out, Hock Ann looked at the questions and was very surprised. He had expected the questions to look like Greek but instead, they looked quite easy. Hock Ann's pen flew through the papers. After he had completed, he checked through one more time to check for any careless mistakes. Then, he handed his paper up to the teacher. She was shocked as he was the first to hand up his paper when he was usually last. What was more, the answers to every question had been neatly filled in when usually they were left blank except for the multiple choice section.

After thhe test papers had been marked and brought in to the class, the teacher announced that 2 of them had scored full marks. One of them was the smartest girl in the class. Then, she called out Hock Ann. Hock Ann thought that she was going to berate him in front of the whole class for getting the lowest in the class again but he was wrong. He had actually scored full marks! After school, he raced to the hwaker centre to tell his mother the good news. All the other stallholders were also very proud of him and treated him to a lot of food from their own stalls.

The rest if the story will be in the next post. Goodbye!!!

Wayne Rooney

One of my favourite players is Wayne Rooney. He is playing for my fav club, Manchester United. I think his most valuable asset is his powerful shot. He is renowned for his stinging shots. Rooney has endorsement deals with lots of companies, such as Nike, Nokia, Ford, Asda and Coca-cola. Recently, he also appeared in a Tiger beer advertisement. This year, he has been awarded the PFA Players' Player of the year and the FWA Footballer of the year. Ths year, in an interview with former team-mate, now at Manchester City and Argentinian forward Carlos Tevez, Tevez said that Rooney "the best in the world, it is a privilege to play with him.".

Rooney's full name is Wayne Mark Rooney and he was born 24 October 1985. He began his career at premier league side Everton. You can tell he is talented as he joined their youth team at age 10. He began his professional debut at the tender age of 17 and his first goal made him the youngest goalscorer at that time. He quickly became part of Everton's first team and spent 2 seasons at the Merseyside club, also the city rival of top-flight club Liverpool.

Before the start of the 2004-2005, the battle for his signature between Manchester United and Newcastle ended with Manchester United signing him for 25.6 million, a record which still stands for the highest amount ever paid for a teenager, that is, for a player under 20 years of age. Rooney was 18.

Since then, Wayne Rooney has been called upon many times to the England squad for World Cups and is a key player in M.U's first team. He has also won the Premier League 3 times, the 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League and 2 League Cups.

An embarrassing moment for Rooney was in September 2005 in a Champions' League clash with Villareal of Spain. The match ended in a goalless draw. Rooney was sent off for sarcastically clapping the referee who had booked him for an unintentional foul on a opponent.