Day Lockheart

I absolutely love it when people are online, either on Facebook or MSN. This is especially true on festivals which I don’t really celebrate for its intended meaning.

While Christmas is a christian holiday which celebrates the birth of Christ, consumerism has made me feel that Christmas is nothing more than a day with fun and joy. And that’s it. Technically speaking, it is not the actual date of birth of Christ, as some believers would tell me. Again, I don’t celebrate Christmas for its intended meaning =)

Now, back to where I started, why do I love it when people are online on festivals like that? It is much easier to send greetings. Since people hardly call up to greet, especially when SMS is the in-thing, staying online to greet/wait to be greeted is the best. Well in the first place, SMS-ing isn’t all that sincere, so what difference does it make to greet online? Facebook users are much more advanced than that, since the use of ‘what i’m doing’ is fully-utilized with messages like “Merry Christmas to Everyone!”

About today. I’d hate to talk about it. The reason being, the day sucked. Sitting in Starbucks for 3hours waiting for friends who are outright late, and watching people pass you by while drinking a cup of mocha is plain pathetic. I’m pathetic. And Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas. It is like any other day I spend loitering around the streets. And that brings me to a word I would like to explain - One.

Uno. Satu. One.

See, I thought I love company. But the truth is that I don’t. Being alone is not loneliness, and I might even call it a privilege. When Cat told me shopping alone by herself is… awesome (I don’t remember the exact word, but it’s there) like a year or so ago, I was skeptical. Now I will nod in agreement, yes, it is awesome.

At malls, I like to head to bookshops. I like to enter shops that sells gadgets. I like patronizing food-stalls/restaurants/coffee (yummm). I love toys (not adult toys…. but who knows in the future?). And those are the kind of places I like to be at, alone.

I will up the pictures later. The real fun of the day is perhaps watching the kids play by the fountain. Children are the true joy of Christmas, in every ways.

Since January last year, the national stadium at Kallang annouced that it’s closing down after that. And after every subsequent matches held there. I wonder how they really define ‘last’ =/ Lasting?

Just like last year, it was with the same bunch of people + a new few ones - a few people who can’t make it. I don’t really wanna write much about it, because it’s really just… soccer match. I’m like a shoemaker in a socks factory - I’m not that crazy about screaming and stuffs when watching soccer. Dominic would have alot to say though, so head down to his blog and read (it’s full-coverage of the screamings and things like that!).

Here are some of the taunts that we came up with.

When they go down, and stand up after a while,
“KANG KONG LEGS!”
“Go back to Vietnam!”
“Next flight to Vietnam one more hour!”

When having substitution,
“You going wrong way! Changi Airport not there!”

When they ask for stretchers,
“How many stretchers you want?!”

When they ask for first aid,
“It’s okay, Vietnam got no proper medical care so you use Singapore’s!”

One guy went down 2 seconds after he tackled a Singapore player,
“It takes 2 seconds for the brainwaves to travel through the nerves to tell him that it’s pain.”

Their keeper went down after falling on his own, then got up after 2 minutes and asked for water,
“You want water just ask lah, don’t need dive!”
“Singapore for NEWater, Vietnam got NO WATER!”

While waiting for the keeper to get up, a Singapore player picked up Vietnam’s bottles and drank the water,
“DRINK ALL!”
“SPIT INTO THE BOTTLES!”

While celebrating their win, a group of them were lying on top of each other,
“LIKE THAT PAIN OR NOT?!”
“People touch you, you pain. People on top of you, not pain.”

After a few deliberate swings from the Singapore side,
“NEXT TIME KICK THEM HARDER!”

-Excerpts from Dominic’s post

And moving on…

Some things to note

1. Vietnam players kept falling down on the field. I guess the grass is always green on the other side for them, hence explaining why they adore our field so much.
2. One guy from Singapore resembles Drogba. Really.
3. We witnesses a half-moon. (Winks at Dominic, Edward, Darren etc.)
4. Singapore lost to Vietnam. Vietnam. Pfffff.
5. I love sitting around uncivilized fans. They really heat things up.

Photos

To start things off, I shall mention that I have never watched Campus Superstar, Superband and such local programs before. So this trip to Mediacorp to watch CSS3, is actually for sheer experience sake.

I was late for an hour, but I thought I should have been late for another hour. It was really draggy and tiring. Good thing Jiacheng did not vomit (he’s ill), or it will be really hilarious if someone was performing. As audience, we had to support one participant so ours was Shelly, cause she’s Jiacheng’s friend! The hosts were really funny, so maybe readers might wanna check the program out when it broadcasts in January next year.

Yet, I’m probably not going to watch CSS3 again. It just ain’t my cup of tea.