holland

i'm now blogging during the half time between france and the netherlands. kuyt scored and the dutch are leading 1-0. if it stays this way the dutch will qualify for the quarters! haha. they play nice football, as do portugal, which is the 2nd country i support. i like the style that both countries play with. it's a pity the dutch jersey this time round isn't as nice as the one they had for the last world cup.

work has been such a bore. late nights caused by staying up to watch euro 2008 hasn't helped my cause. sometimes i just while time away by walking around and chatting with the other staff to while time away. the other day i took a 2 hour lunchbreak just to waste time. haha.

the other day me and nana went out and happened to drop by at the convert's association at geylang. a place that she wouldn't feel out of place i told her. haha. in any case the bookstore has alot of interesting books, so i got myself a teach yourself arabic book. haha. there's a high chance it might end up rotting away on my bookshelf, as is always the case with me and books purchased. and the book is quite thick. but i should really pick up arabic. jerome says it's a waste that i don't since it would really be an advantage for me. so i should probably start somewhere then. haha. even if teaching yourself a language is quite hard. but hey, apparently raffles did that in his youth. haha.

just now i dropped by the pc show at suntec. i ran into fahmi and he accompanied me in getting the asus pc eee 900 laptop. i got it at 798 bucks. it's that cheap because its small (the screen is 9 inch) and it has minimal functions. just enough for me to bring it around in my sling bag to do work anywhere in school. haha. so now that i have a laptop, i don't have to go around doing work on other people's laptops or just wasting 4 or 5 hours away straight at the computer lab in school. i'm trying to resist the temptation of installing msn on my laptop, although fahmi says that's impossible. let's see how. haha.

recently people have been in the mood of holding my hands for no reason at all. at work all i do is promote the exhibition there, and when i point to the tickets in their hand some actually reach out to hold it, as if i wanted to shake their hands. hallo people! who shakes hands with their left? i was really using my left hand to gesture. haha. 2 people in succession reached out to hold my hand thinking that i wanted to shake their hands when i wasn't. haha. just now was even weirder. i was crossing the road to suntec, and then there was this family crossing too. there was this granny, and she mistook me as one of her two male grandchildren. without looking she unwittingly held my arm, thinking that i would hold her arm and guide her to cross. haha. when she turned she exclaimed eh! then she moved away in embarassment. haha. i was stunned for a while. really weird.

oh and one more thing - thanks to those who flooded my tagboard. the thing is it's not i'm giving up. i'm not. i will try again so don't worry. it's ust that i'm fatalist in a way, in the sense that i will try even if i think i will never be good at it. but well, we all wouldn't know what's up for us in the future. so yes i will pick myself up and try.

okay the match has restarted and it's really end to end stuff. france are really piling on the pressure. come on netherlands!