It's funny how my body clock has been acustomed to waking up at 8 in Singapore.
Then I come to Seoul and I wake up at 8 here too, which essentially is 7 in SG. I still don't get how it works that way even when I'm in a different time zone.
I was at Myeong Dong yesterday and at one of the underpasses, there was this shrine for Man Utd. I obviously did not photograph it since I don't like them but you get that Park is on every corner. The funniest thing though, is that they chose the most unflattering shot of him and reproduced it many many. Looks more like a fuck face more than anything.
I met a gooner though!
I didn't walk up to him but it is always heart-warming to meet someone in an Arsenal shirt in a foreign country. He was wearing the Nasri kit. A gooner amongst all the United cunts is most welcomed.
We should sign a Korean.
Speaking of which, the transfer window is closing, like, tomorrow. It's pretty quiet on the Arsenal side of things and we all know quite well that no one else will be coming through. I'm not too worried, except that we all feel that we could still deal with a few reinforcements. If no one comes in and no one goes, I'll be pretty glad that Senderos is staying. I'm still a fan of him and I believe his future should be at Arsenal. Who knows, he could do a Flamini, only that he has more than 1 year on his contract. Besides, Gallas will be ageing and at some point Djourou and Senderos will be fighting for that place beside Va Va Verm. He is first choice, with good reason. We all love him already.
He so totally looks like a blood drained vampire.
Add me on Facebook (just search junichiarsenal@hotmail.com) if you wanna see my Korea Pics. There aren't a lot thanks to the non-stop shopping which is irritating my uncle. It's pretty funny. He thinks shopping is stressful (like all men) but it's a complete form of relaxation for me and it makes me feel oooh so good yeah. Nothing like retail therapy to bounce back from a stupid shit defeat.
Off to bathe and then I'll be bouncing to Namdaemun again because the aunties haven't bought enough. Trust me to tell them they didn't when we were at the shop and they didn't believe. It's how amazing that I managed to find the same shop I went to last year to bring them to. Namdaemun is as frantic as Bangkok's chatuchat. A pity I don't appreciate BKK at all. It's so hot there. I'm enjoying the best shopping weather of my life at 22 degrees. I have raided The Face Shop 3 times already and it's still not enough. I guess it's pretty smart to give out samples for us to try on the spot and go back to buy. Singaporeans and freebies is an equation that works.
Ta~
Me and my Rabbit!
Ancient Korean history is pretty tied with Chinese History so there are quite a bit of Chinese-y stuffs around, like the zodiac. Hence rabbit. The brother took with the snake. He totally loves it.Labels: Korea, Thomas Vermaelen, transfer window hoo-ha
A Little Drunken Madness @ 8:51 AM
My laziness is epic.
Evidently.
So the first game of the new season has kicked off. Due to certain unforseened circumstances, yours sincerely has swung from being unemployed and enjoying it to being over employed and utterly important for reasons I wished never materialise. Hence the working every damn day except when I managed to steal an unlikely weekend off and all I did was play Maple Story and watch football.
That in my books, is an ideal weekend.
Yes. I've started playing Maple again. I know. I understand your disbelief. Hah.
Anyway, I caught all 5 of the live games. First being Chelsea vs Hull, then Blackburn vs City followed by the awesome 6-1 win at Goodison where the most important team featured. Then yeah, those 2 on Sunday.
With the exception of Arsenal beating Everton, all the teams I wanted to get at least a draw or a win against were on the losing side. First Chelsea, then City, Man U and then Liverpool. When you get a match up between Sp*rs and pool it's obvious that I'll root for pool. I don't get how people can draw parallels with Bassong and Vermaelen who both scored on their debut. North London triumphed over the Merseyside but there's that part of North London that I couldn't care less about.
Media predictions each year write Arsenal off and play up Sp*rs and I can't figure out why.
Anyway. What a cracker of a game the Everton one was. I expected a closely contested hard fought game but it was anything but. The boys are raring to go and are so ready to take the upcoming challenges head on and it's fantastic.
I blame my stupid friend for falling sick and hence I didn't make my trip down to the Liz. So. She prolly owes me like for all the rest of the games this season ahaha. I can't believe I'm going to Korea on holiday again during the weekend of the 28th meaning I won't be around for the Man Utd game. Like meh. Anyhow, I'll definitely catch it in Korea.
I've got great responsibilites bringing people around.
But yeah! I'm going to get more Spris and Basic House and prolly one more pair of Adidas Stan Smiths. They're magical for a complete flat footer like me. The Koreans are predominantly MU supporters thanks to a certain Park but who cares, I'm gonna parade at Myeong Dong in my red and white proudly. Might meet a K-gooner and that'll be fun when we don't understand each other but love the same awesome team.
I wish I was still busy slacking until school starts but bleh, it's work everyday. The good thing is that my work schedule does not interfere with Football, besides the midweek games. Oh Celtic. That's going to be a very good game and I'll contend with streaming it on my computer.
Starhub sucks.
I might try out their Football Channel on mobile and see. The problem with having a Samsung though is that the battery sucks really badly and I totally crashed my phone listening to mere mp3s. Other than that, it's Korean.
Here's to a great football season. It's all starting again.
P.S. I get all pissy when the commentators can't pronounce Rosicky, Arshavin and Vermaelen correctlyLabels: Korea, Sp*rs, Starhub sucks
A Little Drunken Madness @ 11:16 PM
I see many things happened during the night/morning I was asleep. Hmm.
First off, I bring you my first laugh of the day.
It's not directed at Xabi Alonso. It is however, induced by Xabi Alonso.
Reporter: Would be a disappointment for you to stay in Liverpool next year?
Xabi: *laughs* I can't... I can't answer that question...
Reporter: You already did...
Xabi:...
Cue the reactions from Pool fans.
i feel
1000 knives
in my heart
I hope that didn't bring you your first laugh of the day (since I start my days reaallly late) but you had a good laugh. I can't help but point out that it is grammartically wrong since a heart can't really produce 1000 knives since it's a heart pumping machine not an knife-producing one. I believe the correct preposition is 'to'.
That's about the lamest expression I've ever read about a douchebag leaving so far. That lame fuck Alonso kept Cesc out of the Iraqi game. Not playing that game though, gave him time to give a statement to Arsenal.com to reassure fans and ward off Madrid, who are going at every player they can. We always thought that Man Citeh would be the ones who would test the football world with their money but so far they've only got Robinho and PsychoBarry and Madrid's doing all the work and succeeding, with their reputation and all. Citeh really looks like a tiny club now bahaha. Just don't poach any of Arsenal's players thank you. I didn't understand why they would go for Sagna since they have Sergio Ramos but kudos to Bac for dashing the rumours before it started hogging headlines.
Cesc's interview.
After Eboue says he could leave, now he's staying.
There is no greater bad news than that. Just go already.
In commie news, North Korea has qualified for the World Cup.
I suppose the sportsmen are part of the well fed bunch while the rest of the 23m people die of starvation since none of the footballers ever made any attempts to defect while being overseas. They're probably royalty in the North.
The world should anticipate that Kim Jong il, if he were to want to support his team in South Africa next year, would have to start making his journey there by land and sea 3 months in advance since he is afraid of flying after shooting down South Korean civilian planes who weren't even flying over the North.
He is afraid of karma. One thing he doesn't know is that karma strikes when you least expect it, just like the Christian's belief in Jesus' coming.Labels: Cesc Fabregas, Comrade Eboue, Korea, Liverpool, transfer window hoo-ha
A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:51 PM
So the LA Lakers ended NBA season instead of allowing the Orlando Magic to force a game 6. That essentially means that they've won the title.
Being football starved forces you to get up at 8 am (having only fallen asleep at around 6) to watch some form of sports to feed the ailing heart.
Except that it didn't complete work since I'm still football starved because it's BASKETBALL.
Fundamental problem of every month of June unless there's extra rubbish going on. I mean, it's 2010 next year and there's the world cup. Nothing out of the ordinary, once every 4 years.
What's hilarious is Singapore's thrown-away GOAL 2010 dream. Never was close. Never will be. You get the feeling that football in Singapore will always be a total fail. Even our greatest pride in Table Tennis still loses hands down to China, keeping in mind that they're from China too.
Anyway, Kobe Bryant is some kind of awesome. To be at the top, and then hit rock bottom and make it back to the top again, is no mean feat. Phil Jackson kinda reminds me of SAF but I'm missing the point where he isn't a cunt, or that I would never know since I don't follow. He did publish a book branding Kobe Bryant "uncoachable". Look where they are now.
We'll never see this with Ferg and Ronaldo will we.
Not that we want to.
Cesc doesn't want to. He thinks United will crumble without Ronaldo, who has opened a crab farm in America. He might fail his Madrid medical because he lost his P.
Cesc has been talking a little too much to the media really.
But he has his points.
Whatever it is, he will stay at Arsenal player. However much he loves the Barca players and Pep, he loves the Arsenal too. Growing up in one place doesn't mean you have to stay there forever and not fall in love with anything else.
Our airport has slipped to number 3. Normally I would care, but I just don't. Incheon International is number 1. Maybe that's why. It's hard not to fall in love with Korea because it's Korea. South Korea to be exact. You'll never find another as cultured society elsewhere, with probably closest rivals being Japan. The only things different with Japan are their masked kinkiness and their penis God.
42% of South Koreans do not have a religion.
How marvelous is that.
There is football tonight. Theo and Gibbsy will be in action for the U21s. I'm definitely watching. Gibbsy as a utility player? That's something I gotta watch. Stuart Pearce pushed him to cover in the centre of the park the last game and he was superb.
I need to be clear that I'm not for converting positions because it's crap and we've seen too many people playing out of position last season and that totally did not sit well with me. Besides, Gibbs was converted once already from being an offensive lefty.
That's enough.
In boardroom shit, apparently Use-my-knob has came up with an ingenious plan to buy unsold shares and give it to the fans. Even a 2-year old can see that it's a bloody ploy. In his world, by accepting any little bit of his kindness would just inherit obligations from some numb shit. He never gets it that we don't need his help.
If there's anything to learn from what RM has done this transfer window, English clubs need to see for themselves that a billionaire's backing is unnecessary. You don't need someone to tell your manager that hey, I dug into my pocket and here, you have 10m to spend. Use it wisely. If you want more, you'll have to sell before you buy.
When Fans own the team, they can buy anyone. It benefits the stupid shit Ronaldo and his spread of herpes in Spain but at least he is out of England.Labels: A tag for cunts, boardroom drama ain't my thing, Cesc Fabregas, Kieran Gibbs, Korea, Theo Walcott, transfer window hoo-ha
A Little Drunken Madness @ 11:37 AM
I've been MIA for quite long aha.
Been really jaded from all the after exam stuff I have to deal with. And I forgot that the last game was on a Sunday so I didn't manage to go down to the Liz since Monday spells work for many people.
It was a good 4-1 win over Stoke and then football withdrawal came.
Thankfully though, there was the youth FA Cup final to satisfy it. Should be the last satisfying game to catch for a long time till August comes.
The lads were fantastic and they won 2-1 and so 6-2 on aggregate.
Silverware for the young guns and for Steve Bould.
This is why I love the Arsenal. It might not be the first reason I think off but it is a huge one. First reason could be just plainly Cesc Fabregas and the team because that's all we really think of. But truly, the way the club is run is phenomenal. Financially, we are sound. And when it comes to the academy, it's beyond phenomenal.
I laugh at the Liverpool youths because they're just a bunch of people there to fill those positions with no real chance of making the Liverpool team. Teams like Man Utd, Pool and especially Chelsea only know how to buy players conveniently without stressing development. Hence they're just a bunch of cunts and their fans are even bigger cunts.
They think their teams are all sooo great and whatever but they don't really dig down deep to the roots and how the teams come about. It isn't just about money and dipping into the transfer market to get whatever you need. It's just like shopping. Shopping that becomes human trafficking.
I prefer star-making.
And the star is obviously Jack Wilshere. He owns defenders.
Then there's Henri Lansbury. I am loving him.
Sanchez Watt? His pace is ballistic.
I also realised how tiny Arsenal is. They're all a bunch of shorties. It's like we get 10+ corners and never threaten. -_-ll Mao.
Do you think little Jack will grow taller?
heh.
I am going to watch semi final 2 of BGT. No more football, no more Grey's Anatomy. TV shows are all over. Gossip Girl is a sucky show. I got lost 3 episodes into season 2 and went to catch Boys Before Flowers. I think I took 3 days to complete that. It has renewed my great want to go to Korea again this fall. Except that there's the swine flu over there, but not as bad as other parts of the world I hope. The threat is very real.
P.S. I think I know the first person who has brought swine flu to Singapore.
Get well soon. xoxo. I'll send entertaining smses while they lock you up at ttsh cdc.Labels: Arsenal Youth, Jack Wilshere, Korea
A Little Drunken Madness @ 4:56 AM
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So. What's funny is rumours of Pat Rice retiring. The official club says otherwise. Hah. I thought that was funny. I've always wondered how anyone could play second fiddle for so long and be happy about it. That's our Pat. We all see assistant managers leaving to become managers but Pat Rice sticks around to support the boss and that's admirable. I don't get why people cook up stories about him leaving. What is their deal?
latest on Adebayor: Chelsea wants him
hahahahahaha. To replace outgoing Drogba. Wonderful. you can have him really.
And he says that at this stage in his career it's all about the moolah. Must be joking. We know it's about the money, but if you play football there's always something more, especially if you play for Arsenal.
So shit him. We'll all be too ready to wave goodbye. I don't think anyone is as stupid as Arsenal to offer him 85,000 per week to do shit.
I hate Adebayor and nothing's going to change. He can do a Cashley for all I care.
Anyway, I have a paper tomorrow, and I get a call to confirm I have to plan a Korea trip right around August and September. Nice. Should not put enjoyment into my head when I'm supposed to study!
But hell yeah I'm in, not to mention the need to master some basic Korean.
BB cream anyone?Labels: Emmanuel Adebayor, Korea
A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:46 PM
We should petition for Eboue to not wear an Arsenal shirt ever again.
I think these feelings will go on and on and on.
So.
Enough of that dumbfuck. More on Arshavin.
I suppose the people managing the official website sure knows what the fans are anxious about these days. Like they issued a statement in case people were going to put their money on an Arshavin debut against Cardiff come Monday. So he isn't eligible for the Cardiff game but could feature in the next round if we beat Cardiff. Which we should. It'll be interesting to see what squad marches out of the tunnel.
A little more on the sexist part which seem to allow opposing fans to pick on.
He has had his experiences. He can't really speak/understand English fantastically well. British tabloids like to make a big hoo-ha out of nothing. I'm not really bothered by it because sometimes, I do think that certain women shouldn't be allowed to drive. As with the perfect body, doesn't every male being think that way? We're not so different after all.
At least we don't have numb nuts like Gerrard, Robinho and Richards who are facing charges on counts of assault. Pick on those instead. The reports can't lie. They're released by the damn police.
And he's not a racist! Unlike one Miley Cyrus. This one is offensive because I'm an Asian with small eyes. Geez. Not all white people have large eyes either. Anyway. Ohnotheydidnt really rocks.
They have a mini Asian wave over there in the posting thanks to the above racist white trash. Enjoying it many many! It's like the Korean wave! You don't know how many people I know who would want to be reborn Korean instead of Chinese. Like Korea trumps Japan now.
More on Korea in later posts. It's just a fantastic place to be.
Back to Arsenal, Eduardo made the bench at Sp*rs as well. It's a fantastic sign and with Adebayor out for at least 3 weeks, he's a welcome boost. I miss him a lot. Also, Walcott could feature by the end of the month too. And then Mr Tomas Rosicky too, some time in March. Cesc is happily recuperating back in Cataluna and should make a come back soon. The team is suffering without these dude.
Anyway. If you're wondering what's with my Arshavin craze even before he debuts, I got a fantastic explanation.
He born on my birthdate!
Technically he's older so I'm born on his birthdate. 29 May 1981. Joyous. Cesc was born exactly 25 days before me on 4th May 1987. And owly (affectionately named by arseblogger and Gilberto Silver) is so goofy it's adorable.
Andrey fever is on. He should have chosen shirt 29 luh!Labels: Arshavin, Korea
A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:19 AM
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