Life’s too short to stay sober

I caught a movie today on my day out.

Taking Pelham 123

In this time and age, we've seem too many movies consisting solely on hijacking. I mean, we had Air Force 1, then we had Speed 2 (no Keanu bahahaa) and basically anything to do with hostage taking can easily be a hijacking on whatever vehicle they're on.

The plot is well thought out, but it's not intense enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, the way Angels and Demons did. For both shows, they were running on a ticking clock but somehow you would have felt it more on A&D even if Taking Pelham 123 had someone dying every minute instead of every hour.

So then you'll be figuring out if I enjoyed the movie at all and I did, because of the two leads who will make any movie work - John Travolta as the baddie and Denzel Washington as the goodie of course. It can never be the reverse.

A rare mini movie review for ya!

In other news, Aaron Carter posted his number on Twitter and it's real. Not that I tested it. I only want candy.

In more other news, Thailand's H1N1 cases has twenty-folded since it's first declaration of the virus. I couldn't laugh more, even though I'm due to go there like next month. Just fuck it really. I'd do better to go there nearer to school reopening so that I can be responsible and isolate myself for 7 days and 7 nights the same way my friend's boyfriend, the HERO of newpaper (shittiest tabloid everrrrrrrrr epic fail X 793486378648967896757644) did.

He will be most commonly known by us as the boyfriend who isolated himself.

And even if I were to be sent to CDC or whatever, I've been preparing my computer for it all. Sims 3, Football Manager, Fallout 3, PES. That'll be enough to occupy me and keep me from boredom till the next millennium.

No actually. I need football. Live football. Live Arsenal football. The U21 Euros in Sweden has proven to be ultra bad substitutes. I want Gibbs and Walcott to triumph but I hate Stuart Pearce.

What conflicting feelings I have.

So apparently my dear country Singapore is expected to move away from the process of contact tracing and quarantining people since it's stretching our resources, not because it's completely stupid. They're treating all this H1N1 shit like SARS when it isn't that bad. Take the cue from your greatest ally on mother earth - US doctors just tell their patients to wear a mask and get well soon.

And so not torture people to the point of insanity by keeping them in isolation. If only the movie Moon was to be released in Singapore. Everyone should love Sam Rockwell.

The flu is coming, whether we like it or not. An imposed hospital stay should not be $400 per day just for the flu with no decent television and internet, as TTSH claims.

That's about all the dirt the Singapore media wants since they have nothing else to report on, after rape, theft and assault, rape being the hot hot hot hot favourite where the victim is left scarred for life.

Until Jet Li became a Singapore citizen.

Bwahaha.

srsly. We're the new Monaco of Asia I see. Is China's taxation that bad?

So. I don't suppose this is a football blog anymore. Heh.

Ah. Draft fixtures here.

Arsenal.com has already given the lo-down on it so I don't think I need to analyse or over-analyse because it is what it is.

We play at St Andrews only in March 27 next year so hopefully dudu will be flying already and can go there and no one gets all emo about it while we continue hating Martin Taylor yes.

Lastly, no one is going to forget Newcastle United. I think their progress in the Championship will be highly scrutinised with no good reason. That's a lot of unnecessary pressure really. Anyhow, it's going to be a premier league clash in the championship when they face West Brom on the opening day.

I can only laugh.

Labels: all things not football-related, dying from the lack of Arsenal football, Newcastle, one of my many theories, Theo Walcott

A Little Drunken Madness @ 8:51 PM

Drama drama.

First off, the results for today:
Blackburn 1-1 West Ham
Fulham 2-0 Man Utd
Newcastle 1-3 Arsenal
Stoke 1-0 Middlesbrough
Portsmouth 2-1 Everton
Tottenham 1-0 Chelsea
West Brom 1-1 Bolton

Did ya notice that Arsenal's the only team to win away today? Fan-freakin-tastic.

We didn't completely have it easy though. Newcastle had a penalty early on and it was given, Almunia the perpetrator. And then Almunia the saviour. Frankly, I thought it was rather harsh. He was going for the ball to get it between his gloves and was a bit clumsy.

I had my brother's friend watching the game with me. He's an Arse fan. Just no cable at home and don't think he has been to the Liz before. Someday huh. Aha. But yeah, good companion. And I was telling him about that night in Rome where both keeper cmi. So I didn't expect Almunia to save it. And he did. Sometimes we just have to do away with expectations.

And you would have thought that the team would respond somewhat after being so close to being one goal down. Apparently not. By then I was wishing half time would come sooner so they'll have 15 minutes to have urgency.

And it didn't happen again. Like blast it. When they played like this before they either drew or lost.

And Arshavin who wants to be the greatest Arsenal player, was the one with the terrific delivery from a freekick on the lefthand side. It is almost exactly the same as the one Toure scored. So credit to Newcastle for replicating the terrible defending. What's awesome was Arshavin's delivery and Bendtner's leap. And header.

The thing about Nicklas Bendtner is that he needs confidence. With the goal to his name he started playing with fire in his belly, making more forward runs and having for to his game. Unfortunately though, I have to cover the part where the defence went to sleep and Martins was given the chance to level terms and redeem himself for the bad penalty. What a dramatic run to the technical area.

Too bad it was shortlived.

We got a freekick where it was blown for Diaby's foul on Steven Taylor, who has been rock solid all day with 2 crucial blocks from Van Persie's goal bound shots. And Diaby's foul put him out to the sidelines and Newcastle without him in the middle just crumbled. And who stood to benefit? Diaby himself.

So here's the funny part. Facebook has been pumping out veins with quizes. They all back. And the brother started complaining that he got Diaby after doing the quiz, answering every question as truthfully as possible. His friend says Diaby is a defensive midfielder. I said he's definitely not and there he went thundering through the middle with that ferocious shot into the back of the net. 2-1. The brother, on the back of the Man U defeat just looked stunned as we celebrated.

BAHAHA.

Not so bad being Diaby now?

Definitely need to find that quiz.

Samir Nasri knew just how bad it would be to carry on the game at 2-1 and wrapped things up 3-1 and Newcastle never looked like coming out of it.

I screamed into my brother's face that Nasri scores goals and Hleb doesn't. He thinks we made a mistake letting Hleb go. Oh please.

Nasri = goals.

I think Denilson and Diaby in central midfield is bad. Song pairs better with Denilson for reasons I don't know of or can't fathom. More understanding maybe. So I don't know how Diaby comes into the mix.

it's going to be international break! I've got next week to settle the last bits of renovations for my place and I'll be all set to move.

Then I realised that there isn't any need to set up cable since all we've got to do is bring the box over. lol.

Tomorrow's pool-villa game should be interesting. Pool wants to close the gap on United who managed 2 losses in a row and many many suspensions from these 2 games. Villa would want to keep up with us for a Champion's League spot. So.

We'll see who wants it more.

Labels: Abou Diaby, Andrei Arshavin, Man Utd, Manuel Almunia, Newcastle, Nicklas Bendtner, one of my many theories, Samir Nasri

A Little Drunken Madness @ 3:58 AM