Friday, June 25
Oh well.My England are out.All thanks to a certain David Robert Joseph Beckham who alw loses his footing n kicks e ball HIGH.Anyway my Michael James Owen has ended his goal scoring drought when he scored e game's opening goal in e 3rd min against Portugal's Ricardo.Wat class he displayed.So e match droned on n on until e last 10 min when portugal scored.SHITTIFIED.Den it wasin to e silver goal n portugal scored first b4 lampard equalised nxt.It's getting exciting as e game progresses into penalties.N stupid becks misses again!My owen was nxt n of course he scored,followed by lampard,terry,cole..den vassell had to miss his penalty n Ricardo scored e winning goal for Portugal.Wat an idiot.But e biggest idiot was still Becks.STUPID BECKS.STUPID BECKS.England capt somemore.IDIOT.Hmph.
amanda @ 6/25/2004 03:12:00 PM
Thursday, June 24
Ok i haven been updating for qt a long while now.So.England lost to France n won Switzerland n Croatia.However,Boy Wonder Michael Owen has not been scoring.Stealing his limelight is 18 yr old pig Wayne Rooney who has scored 4 goals now n is the tournament's top scorer.For now only.Sigh.Owen has not been scoring for only 3 games n ppl r complaining.Wat abt Scholes who had not scored for 3 entire yrs?!It is soooo unfair.Anyway I hv been coming to school continuously for 4 days liao.On Monday it was flash, Tuesday Gamemasters mtg, yesterday e trail trial n now flash again.Sighhhh.Super boring lors.Except for yest mayb coz i finally bought my ZIDANE Real Madrid jersey. I hv Owen to thank for nt popping into my mind saying I had betrayed him. Well,although e jersey looks qt fake, it is still cheap. Very well. So today I woke up at 630 to come to where I am now. Slleeppppyyyyy.N flash realli sux. Stupid ang ku kueh.
-Waiting for portugal vs ENGLAND tonite-
amanda @ 6/24/2004 08:22:00 AM
Monday, June 14
Beckham: We didn't deserve loss
England skipper David Beckham shouldered the blame as two last-gasp goals from Zinedine Zidane doomed his side to heartbreak in the Euro 2004 clash with France in Lisbon.
David Beckham: I don't believe it.
England were leading 1-0 when Beckham saw his 72nd-minute penalty saved by Fabien Barthez after Wayne Rooney had been brought down by Mikael Silvestre.
It was a costly miss as Zidane levelled with an 89th-minute free-kick and then hammered home an injury-time penalty after David James had brought down Thierry Henry following Steven Gerrard's mis-hit back-pass.
Beckham said: 'We were sat in the dressing room wondering how we lost it in the last two minutes of the game.
'But I've held my hand up. If we could have gone 2-0 up the game would have probably been over but that's football.
'I'll move on and we'll move on. I am going to prepare for Thursday and we have to lift ourselves for Switzerland.
'I don't think I could have struck the penalty any better but I think the goalkeeper had read where I was going to put it and that was unlucky for me.
'I've definitely had lower points in my career and I've been through some worse and the 1998 World Cup, when I was sent off, was worse.'
Beckham insisted: 'It was one of the best teams in the world and we have outplayed them for 90 minutes. We can take a lot from that game.
'I think we have to win the next two games to reach the quarter-finals after losing this tonight. Obviously losing tonight doesn't put us in the best position.'
Goal-scorer Frank Lampard felt that Silvestre should have been sent off for the challenge on Rooney which led to the penalty.
Lampard said: 'Wayne got the penalty and the man (Silvestre) should have probably been sent off as well if you go by the rule-book and that would have changed the game again.
'They were also singing a lot afterwards and that has made the lads even more determined to come back and get the right results and try and meet them again.
'There is a lot of disappointment in the dressing room. We had virtually won the game so it is double disappointing. Even at 1-1 we were disappointed.
'To lose that way, to a free-kick and a penalty, is devastating. We defended well from the back four through to the front men and when we broke we were dangerous at times.
'We have to take the positives out of the game. We've done ever so well against what has been probably the best team in the world for the last four years.'
Meanwhile, England coach Sven-Goran said: 'We were very unlucky. Tactically we played very well and we were in control.
'I thought they had run out of ideas in the last 10 minutes and they never got beyond our back line. I thought we had won. Then to not even get a draw is unbelievable.'
'I think we played very good football considering we met France,' he said. We defended well, we created chances and we could have led 2-0.
'By the end we were in control as France didn't seem to be too dangerous,' he added. 'We were very happy after 90 minutes with our performance.
'We did what we had to do but we had bad luck today. I think that you will see England in the quarter-finals. I don't think you can have bad luck like that twice in three weeks.'
Eriksson said it should not be too hard to lift his players for the next match against Switzerland on Thursday.
'Of course the players are down tonight but if we had lost 3-0, not created any chances and France had had 10 chances that would have been very difficult.
'Our players did an excellent job, hopefully it will not be too difficult to lift them. If I played it again I would not do anything different but the last three minutes what can you do? Put the ball into the stands I suppose.'
amanda @ 6/14/2004 06:44:00 PM
Friday, June 11
Hey hey!With Euro 2004 ard the corner,i thot it would b appropriate 4 me to post some England pics(mostly OWEN however)!!
Look at the 1.96m of Keeper David James!
Owen in casual wear wif half of a half-naked Paul Scholes at e side!
Owen wif Liverpool teammate Stevie G rite behind!
Is dis wat u call FIRE in ur eyes?
Mikey in his realli cool England kit playing wif e realli cool Euro04 ball!
A peep into Owen's private life!
So cool!
Clapping for England wif his boots!
The England lads of Euro 2004!!!
Heya!How abt more inspirational pics of Owen?Hee hee..
Topless Owen juggling wif a BEACH BALL!
He can make a gd model, can't he?
Is dat shirt meant for Gemma?
Poor Owen!Wateva happened to u!
*heart beating rapidly*
Hao CUTE!!!
Relaxing by e river wif his er-kit on?!!
Ok dat shall b e last.i hv given u so many pics to contend wif during e Euro04 season.N i feel very accomplished as i am almost done wif my mid yr papers!YAY!!!
amanda @ 6/11/2004 04:23:00 PM
Saturday, June 5
Hello!I'm back!Didn't u miss me?Just woke up aft 5h of sleep on my beloved bed(how i missed it!)n cannot wait to tell u all abt the China trip.
Day 1 Saturday
As u can see frm my previous entry,I was very very excited abt e trip on dat day.Arrived at the airport at ard 7.40pm n saw Nanabel the moment I stepped inside.Waited a while for Steffi Chan to come n den,upon seeing dat jisao was late we decided to take skytrain a few times b4 finally stopping at Terminal 2.Bought chocs dere n Stef paid seven ++ for some chocs.She looked qt shocked when she saw the price.Ahaha.Den we went to the viewing gallery to look at the airplanes.So romantic ahh.(note:all dis while a certain jisao still hasn't arrived though we were supposed to meet at 8pm)FINALLY jisao arrived at NINE pm-ONE hr late leh!!!So we had to rush to Swensen's for dinner n met dat MIMIYAN!(for further details on MIMIYAN n wat happened,pls go to Steffi's blog whose link can be found in dis place)Ok,so we were soon off on the lousy Air China plane.I was sitting nxt to e cat high tchr who looks like fei yuqing.Argh!I had to sleep beside him k!!!
Day 2 Sunday
Thanks to fei yuqing I was VERY sleep-deprived today.So here we were in Beijing.The weather rox man!So windy-shiok!!The China ppl brought us to dis very lousy hotel for breakfast.The food was so pathetic man.N ex leh.So I bu gan yuan n ate qt a lot of rice-e only nice food dere.Ha..so much for my KIP FIT policy.Aft dat we went to some Beijing Planning Exhibition place.Super boring can.But I suppose dat was e last of boring places in China,because we went to dis place called hu tong which is full of si he yuan.Dat place was very near to Forbidden City which was like so nice n grand n all dat can!Took a pic of it n put it as hp wallpaper.Hahas.Den jisao n I sat on dis trishaw thingy to tour e hu tong place.It was so shiok can!My fav part.Everybody wanted to sit e trishaw again aft dat which we did aft eating lunch at e si he yuan.We went to dis wangfujing street in Beijing which was dis shopping place.We could do wateva we want dere so we had so much time to shop for sports stuff!At first we thot e tour guide had cheated our feelings when we couldn't find e nice sports shop he was telling us abt so we wallowed in self-pity(refering to eating ice cream)at baskin robbins.B4 we almost left e place,we finally spotted dat sports shop!So many brands inside dere!SHIOK!!!I bought a Nike jacket n Puma wristbands which e other 2 boings(jisao + stef-sorry ah lu)oso have.Act wanted to buy dis damn nice Puma jacket but soooo ex loh.Argh.Finally I got my sleep aft a very boring dinner coz it was wif some alumni ppl who gave looong speeches aft dat at dis cheena styled hotel.Jisao n I were at dis room very far away frm e rest of e world.So spooky can.N i found out dat jisao snores!Haha.
Day 3 Monday
We went to Huijia private sch aft e best breakfast of e entire trip.E sch's damn nice can.I wanna study dere.E football field is like-whoa!So envious of dem.Oh well.Nxt we went to qinghua university which realli puts lots of emohasis on sports.E uni rox too!Den we took airplane to Harbin.E weather is oso very shiok.However e place is not even DAT cold.Qt hot most of e day.N China's sun rises very early.3 something only alr bright lohs.N e yummy food dere is ba si di gua!
Day 4 Tuesday
We went to dis Russian church which had lots of Harbin history inside n looks like e castle in Van Helsing.Den we went to Harbin Planning Exhibition n dis da dou factory.Err...
We arrived at song hua jiang via zhongyang da jie soon aft n played chapteh dere wif some cat high guys.N it was Steffi n I who started dis trend!Aren't u so proud of me?Hahahas.N jisao had fever dat nite.I took care of her.Ahhh...
Day 5 Wednesday
Today we visited dis 731 Germ Team place-which was where e japs did experiments on humans n stuff.I realized dat the japs were so sadistic loh.So cruel.Eg.Dey placed dis woman's hand in boiling water n took it out ltr n peeled off her flesh!Dere was a video somemore.Could see e bones n she was screaming n stuff!Eek.Somemore chen jiayu bought vcd on it!Sadist ah.Den we went to tai yang dao(Sun island)to see e ice sculpture thingy.Not as cold as I expected though but nevertheless it was fun!We played on e slide thing n it was too short I tink.It would be very fun if it were longer lohs.N Steffi stlyed my hair wif water inside!Ltr it became ice!On my hair!So aft dat we went to slack.Ate ice cream again loh!Shitt.KIP FIT ARH!However my KIP FIT programme was a success dat nite.
50++ situps
100++ judo pushups
ran around hotel room abt 2.4km
leg thing... 5mins for each leg
It is too bad dat some jisao who wanted to eat n play truth n dare didn't participate.Aww...
Day 6 Thursday
Today we went to 113 Secondary Sch for lessons.My first lesson was yu wen-some language class thingy.We learnt a poem called su wu mu yang.I realized China students DAMN ENTHU loh.EVERYBODY wanted to answer qns.Siao ah.Anyway we were surrounded by e China students who wanted our contact details.Felt like a big star.HAHA.We had bio lesson in Chi nxt.Dey were talking abt AIDS n pronouncing HIV in a weird way.Dots.Den we had super cool PE lesson!Boxing!I fought wif e tchr n hit his stomach a few times.YES!!!!During lunch break we played soccer wif e PE tchrs n their principal was their keeper.Dey very friendly n enthu loh unlike our sch's ahem-ahem.Den we presented our dumbo projects to e ppl in English n dey didn't understand.Ltr went back wif my buddies n jisao.My buddies are twins.Dey live in dis condo n it was very modernized-wasn't it jisao?We ate jiaozi again-save me!-n den went to zhongyang dajie to shop.But den again e shps dere close at 7.30pm!Sigh.So we ate e Harbin special ice cream which was extremely nice!n went back to their house to sleep.Zzzzz...
Day 7 Friday
Ok.I can't believe dis was only yest.We went to sch wif our buddies n learnt e sch's morning exercise which was so super fun!Den we had PE lesson-boxing-again!However we had a lesson aft dat.I tink China's lessons very propaganda loh.Cannot stand it.Den I met Shuxian's buddy who happens to be an OWEN fan!Going to get her contact details frm Shoes soon I hope.She wrote to Owen n he replied loh!I'm going to do it too!OWEN!!!So we said a rather emotional goodbye n went to Harbin Science Centre which has FREE DDR!Danced wif Stef n lost wt!!YES!!!!!!!!I love their sci centre loh!Aft dat took plane to Beijing den back to Singapore.I went back in a taxi wif Sut Yee n into my mom's open arms.N of course,my beloved bed.
HW!Shitt.
amanda @ 6/05/2004 06:21:00 PM
