when someone stuffs cotton in the barrel

Hmm, so fast, it's halfway through already!

Yes, the dumb thing that we have suffered for about 6 bloody years for. (4 in Sec. sch to get into JC, and another 2 all-action mugging years to finally get to it). And I'm not even excited.

Okay, I concede the papers were at least two notches harder than 2004, 2003 or even a few years before. But what'd you expect from a couple of old fogeys giving their last hurrah for the most obsolete and out-dated (or so the changes seem to prove) education system in Singapore? I thought I handled all my papers so far well enough, but due to certain sensitivities of others and my innate superstition about discussing grades, that would be all about the chase of paper qualifications.

I had this friend (note the past tense) who was a ManYoo fan, and I had always found him to be mildly distasteful, to say the least. Is it so much of a trend to lambast Arsenal for stupid reasons such as fielding a UN-team that plays like football should be? I know Arsenal fans are rare over here so that makes me feel proud to be one, and a long-serving one who wondered, back in 1997, what the hell this weird looking Frenchie was doing to my beloved team. Of course, who cares if they were French or not. Nobody complained that Eric Cantona wasn't British. Ian Rush wasn't born in England either. So what right do people have against Arsenal who fields so few English players cause i) those in Arsenal are not good enough and ii) those young'uns, because of anti-poaching regulations, are just too expensive for a poor club like Arsenal to buy. You see, last time we had an experiment called Jeffers. I remember, somewhat above 7 million pounds for the next Michael Owen, or something along those lines. Next I heard he went to Charlton, didn't playeven 5 games and was shipped off on a FREE transfer. Right. Remember Jermaine Pennant? Most expensive British teenager once. Now at Liverpool doing god-knows what. And Theo Walcott cost upwards of 12 million pounds.

The exhorbitant price of young English talent is just out of Arsenal's reach. The real English talent that counted - Wayne Rooney, for one - please remember Arsenal got the first taste of his prowess and Wenger could have tried to buy him - cost ManYoo 28 million pounds. Yes. Apart from the fact that Wenger declined Paul Robinson (the England Number One, not Almunia, who claims he should be) - something that still hurts, and Matthew Upson as well, ah, well, Arsenal are just not suited for most Englishmen.

As you can compare, people like Eboue, Toure, Fabregas, Clichy, Senderos, Hoyte, Gallas, Gilberto, van Persie, Rosicky and Lehmann were brought to the club at the combined total of less that what ManYoo paid for Juan Sebastian Veron. And as far as I am concerned, that's mostly the first team which achieved the oh-so-simple task of reaching the Champions League Final and take the lead with ten men.

And most of that team were the same ones who went 49 games unbeaten in the toughest league in the world. So that fact is also conveniently forgotten. Who really gives a shit whether the team is English or not? If you are unhappy, they could very well (the uncapped few, that is) apply for an English passport and take the place of, say, Ashley Cole, or Ledley King... ya'dig?
And 49 games is one statistic that only Arsenal possess. So if all those pissers want to diss my team, please try to hit 40 first before even talking to me. Thanks lots.

Hah.

Anyways, part of me wants to get a job for December at least, cause I need some cash for my life next year (I don't have to go NS) and I might probably go gallivanting overseas or something... ah.

Where's my Burny...?