Hallo.

Saturday, December 31, 2005//

disappointing..disappointing..disappointing.. that's all i can say about arsenal's away performances at the moment. they're playing a total different game when they're playing at home and when they're playing away. they have numerous wasted chances and limitless bad luck. need i say more..

BUT - arsenal's a transitioning young team. WATCH THEM NEXT SEASON! may wenger crack his brain and make great buys during the transfer markets!

AND - arsenal's playing very differently in the english premier league and in the champion's league. how un-typical !

brandon--
10:50 PM

Wednesday, December 21, 2005//

hello again. k i know my holidays will end in a nick of time. time is really passing damned fast! it's already the 21st of december and i have not settled into my holiday mood yet. o levels next year. argh.

arsenal's having bad luck these days. they've lost 3 games in a row already. they have not been outplayed though. that's why they're having bad luck. henry has hit the post for about 4 times i guess. van persie's goal was ruled offside. stupid assistant referee. haha. replays clearly showed that it wasn't offside! haha. and i really hate chelsea. even the fifa president Blatter is unhappy with chelsea. that's because of roman abramovich. that guy who doesnt know anything about soccer. he bought over chelsea about 2 seasons ago. since that guy's a multi-billionaire, he has splashed millions of money on world-class players. that's like a cheat-code haha. like when u play warcraft or something. u type this code and u get a lot of resources. argh. abramovich has ruined the transfer market over the past 2 years. now, if any other club wants to buy a world class player, they'll have to fork out around another 5mil pounds.

never mind.. this is football. just give arsenal a season or two and they'll be back. they have so many impressive youngsters like van persie, fabregas, eboue, lupoli, quinsy owusu-abeyie and senderos. HAHA. chelsea can buy all the world class players they want because they have to face reality. people grow old! and so will the world class players.

and i think arsenal's main rival is now chelsea, no more manchester united. in fact, i feel that arsenal and manchester united have become friends! that's because patrick vieira and roy keane have left their respective clubs and arsene wenger backed ferguson when manchester united were in a crisis a few months ago. everyone hates chelsea. i still wonder why chelsea has so many fans.

the players i dislike the most at chelsea - essien, drogba, makelele. essien's 1 of the dirtiest players in football today. he elbowed lauren and van persie. and reports claim that lauren has lost a tooth. so now lauren can't chew his food properly. stupid essien. he only got away with a yellow card. even worse, he didnt even get a card when he lunged into dietmar hamann's knee. essien acts innocent in front of referees too. why can't he get banned for about 10 matches. anyway, he can't play for both the legs for chelsea when they face barcelona haha. drogba walks as though his nose is being attracted to the sky. in every match, u'll see drogba trying to manipulate the referee or something. he's not bruce almighty and he should know that by now. anyway, he couldn't get pass young-boy senderos during that match. haha. makelele? well socceroos should know by now that he's another dirty player. i think he's essien's mentor. only thing is that makelele is better at talking while essien is better at injuring people.

and i don't think i have anything else to say. bye!

brandon--
12:27 PM

that regretful job..
Monday, December 12, 2005//

hello! now i know what's called CHEAP LABOUR. we worked so hard, tolerated so many F-words from our boss, worked about 7 hours overtime, perspired blood(not literally lah), tolerated even more F-words and curses from our boss, observed our boss doing the easiest job(cashier) while we had to serve customers, got more unreasonable scoldings from our boss AND still got such a pathetic pay of $3.50 an hour and $5.50 for the last 4 hours( because we really worked our hearts out). come on man. we all had to pack 1300 crappy bata shoes into about 145 boxes, count them, double-check by counting again, paste 2 bata stickers on each box and stack them on trolleys and push them to the lorry. and we did this for the last 4 hours. the 1st day was damned crazy too. 2nd day was quite relaxed as we just had to sell the shoes. in the end, we only got $102.50 for 27 hours. yes that's CHEAP LABOUR. really really cheap. none of us are satisfied. at least i know that it's never fun working at carnivals. it's easy to sell, the difficult part is bringing in the stocks, unpacking them, arranging them, taking them back, taping back the broken boxes, putting back the stocks in the boxes according to their types etc.

i've just learnt a very very valuable lesson.

brandon--
1:53 PM

Tuesday, December 06, 2005//

good morning! i was feeling bored so i went to surf the internet for basses. and i came across a very beautiful bass! here it is.

beautiful eh? it's ergonomically designed to the human body. this makes bass playing much easier! it's a warwick by the way. the name of this bass guitar is the Thumb Bass. so it's most likely a bass for slapping and popping. anyway, i still think that the best series of basses has to go to Washburn's XB series. my XB is a very old one lah so it isn't very good. but the newer models are simply the best!

doesn't look very impressive right? let me tell u the features.
FEATURES:
-Built in the USA Custom Shop
-Swamp Ash body
-Various rare wood tops
-Neck Scale 34"
-24 Frets
-Maple Neck
-Double truss rods
-Rosewood fingerboard
-Birdseye maple fingerboard (XB928)
-Bartolini® Custom pickups & preamp
-Bartolini® control knob
-Football chrome jack plate
-Grover® bass tuners
-Buzz Feiten Tuning System™

whoa... haha yeah and the cheapest model ( the 4-string XB bass) is $2199.90 US dollars. so u can imagine the quality of it. haha.

ok enough blogging already. bye!

brandon--
9:55 AM

Monday, December 05, 2005//

just came back from soccer training. tired! soccer training 3 times a week is no joke. it was raining today at the start and i thought we were going to use the gym. sadly, we used the field haha. the pitch is really slippery. fell down so many times today. anyway, we ran our 10 rounds around the field. had a long water break and then we had shooting. at least all my shots are not going over the goal now. most of them are of good height! just above the ground around waist level. but 1 of my shots was hilarious! i slipped a bit and the ball went flying over the whole fence. that shows how high the ball went. hahaha. after shooting we did some 1-vs-1 drills. my partner was muhaimin(that guy with crazy stamina). so we were running like mad here and there. i managed to score 3 goals. haha. after that we had a match. since only 12 people came to training today, the field was very empty which meant that we had to run like CRAZY. my team lost lah. that was because the other team had very fit people like haswari, sairi, barry and muhaimin.

after training, ali, kavinn and i went to eat lunch. and after eating, we bought our drinks from the shop just beside the food centre(because the drinks being sold there were cheaper). unfortunately, we were chased out by this middle-aged guy. haha.

at last! more pictures of bass guitars are uploaded on my blog! thanks to rachel. the 2 new pictures are great man. both are Fodera bass guitars. Fodera's the best brand! go to their website @ www.fodera.com. sadly, singapore does not sell any Fodera bass guitars. anyway, the cheapest Fodera bass guitar would cost at least $8000. haha. my favourite bass player, Victor Wooten, endorses Fodera basses! the tones of his basses can't be described. simply incredible!

i'm gonna sleep now. bye!

brandon--
12:44 PM

Sunday, December 04, 2005//

nooooo. arsenal lost to bolton yet again. they have a jinx lah. whenever they go to bolton's homeground, they can't play well. well, this time they were really playing badly. culprits - gilberto silva, pires, cygan. gilberto suddenly lost his brazilian flair. i don't know why. old age must have been taking its toll on pires. he has been playing like crap this season. his reaction's much slower, his passing isn't as sharp as it used to be, his vision has deproved and his speed has decreased. and cygan, forever the same. he always makes the wrong decision. i shall not elaborate more. it would only make me feel more disheartened! this coming week is going to be disastrous. imature people are going to pester me about this really unexpected result. nvm silence is golden. anyway arsenal's a team which consists of human beings. and to err is human!

i really need a new hp. my current one is really lousy. it's a very pathetic motorola c650. i'm never going to use motorola again in my life! a lot of coating has already been torn off from my phone. it's very very laggy. it restarts for no reason. my advice to everyone - don't buy motorola phones! that's the reason why the new motorola ROKR isn't selling well. they took the exact same design as the E398. actually i think all the functions of that phone are the same. the only difference is that the ROKR has more memory and it can play mp3 songs. it has been selling for about 1 month or so, and its price has already dropped tremendously! haha. so i'll think my next hp would be a nokia. nokia's still the best. it's the undisputed champion brand of handphones.

looks like my holidays would be a very repetitive one. soccer training on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. soccer's really taking a huge chunk of time from my holidays. work on mondays and wednesdays. oh ya. i forgot. i haven't bought my school books. even worse, i've lost my booklist haha. never mind. there're very nice people i know that can always share their booklist with me. hahaha.

and i think it's time to sleep already. bye! hail arsenal again!

brandon--
1:07 AM