I want to watch the Champions League final!!!

Yes. It’s the first time in 9 years. 9 years since Manchester United last entered the Champions League final.

And tonight, we’ll find out the 2nd team in the Champions League final.

It’s going to be either the toothless Liverpool or the dirty Chelsea who is going to meet Manchester United.

Manchester United pushed Barcelona off the race to the Champions League trophy with a 1-0 win at home at Old Trafford.

Courtesy of a 14th minute strike by Paul Scholes.

Hey! Not any mother father son can win Barcelona you know!

Take a look at Barcelona. Lots of world-class players, with Lionel Messi as one of my favourite players.

Manchester United did it. Manchester United beat Barcelona.

Woohoo!!!

And it’s going to be the first Champions League final for Scholesy, since he was suspended in the 1999 Champions League final, where Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 2-1 after extra-time, with super-sub Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring a late winner.

Can Manchester United do it again this season?

Let’s wrap up both the EPL crown and the Champions League trophy!!!

And show the ever dirty team Chelsea who’s the boss around.

I will be watching this without fail this week.

I must watch this everyday to prepare for my TP.

Because I’m kind of rusty in today’s lesson. Damn.

By the way, it’ll be my 11th time watching this today.

Where are we going next?

Me and Elvis had a conversation on msn just now.

We were watching 爱在哈佛 and were ogling at the lead actress, Kim Tae Hee.

Soon, we were discussing on where to go next.

Where are we going next???

I want to go to Japan to see Erika Toda!
I want to go to Korea to see Kim Tae Hee!
I want to go to Hong Kong to see Shirley Yeung!

Mr Chua Boon Liang.

I received his email unexpectedly. And I was very surprised to receive his email.

It was a really pleasant surprise to receive an email from the teacher I respect the most.

Ask any Fuhua Secondary School people around and they’ll agree with me that he’s the best teacher around.

To think that he pang seh-ed us for NIE when we were in Secondary 4.

But we understand. It was really time for him to move on.

I remember how when I was just a tiny boy. We were all sitting in the hall. There was always this tall teacher with a very strict look on his face.

Soon, we learnt that he was the HOD of Mathematics. And we were praying hard not to kena him as he really looked very fierce.

In the end, he turned out to be our Maths teacher.

I remember the first Maths lesson. He gave us a worksheet for us to do. And he told us that it was a test for us. This is to allow him to gauge our standard of Maths better.

I remember scoring full marks for that test.

Then he told us on what to expect for his lessons in a very strict manner.

No fooling around. No sleeping. No drinking of water. No yawning.

I was thinking. This time I’m finished. This teacher is so strict. Confirm die.

And throughout that 1 hour of lesson, everyone was paying fullest attention to him. No one dared to talk. No one dared to drink water despite some of us are feeling very thirsty. No one dared to yawn.

After his lesson, everyone started to talk among ourselves.

Wah. This teacher so fierce. This teacher stressed me out.

And on his 2nd lesson, the whiteboard wasn’t cleaned.

And he asked for volunteers to clean the whiteboard before we were to greet him.

No one volunteered. And we remained standing.

Actually, it was not that no one wanted to volunteer. It was actually no one dared to volunteer.

You see a fierce-looking teacher with a fiery look in his eyes that threatened to eat you up. Of course no one dared to move or utter a word.

In the end, Justin decided that he should be the one to die and volunteered to finish off the job.

And that was the lesson Mr Chua showed that he wasn’t really that type of strict teacher we thought him out to be.

He jokes. He gossips. He speaks Singlish once in a while.

And at the end of the lesson, he walked out of the class smiling.

Mr Chua is known to be a perfectionist. Even the Maths file we used to file his worksheets are custom-made. And the design of the Maths file are kind of stylo as well.

Frankly speaking, only his Maths stuff are the neatest of all. All my other subjects’ stuff are in a total mess.

And in NCC. He was a fatherly figure. Takes good care of us whenever we go to camps.

And made sure we went to sleep before he did. He walked to the bunk and checked if we were asleep.

In the end, Jia Wei was scared by him when it was just nice he opened his eyes and saw Mr Chua looking at him.

Not only that. He brought along this superb leader of NCC, Eng Wee Hock. Who proved to be a real saddist and made so much empty promises that we gave up hope of him fulfilling any of his promises.

And of course, Wee Hock talked about him too.

He recalled how he forgot to go for range and was ticked off by Mr Chua in the HOD room in front of other teachers.

He recalled how the then-appointed CSM of his school failed his range and got ticked off. In the end, Wee Hock took over as CSM.

He recalled how Mr Chua psycho-ed him to go for the CLT course, which made him a better person and changed his life.

Mr Chua, a gentlemanly figure in Fuhua Secondary School.

Somehow, people don’t care to oppose to him. Because you don’t want an angry Mr Chua coming after you.

If Mr Chua gets angry, all the best to you.

He can simply make you cry by just yelling at you.

But we seldom see this side of him. Heng ah.

We almost did though. In Secondary 3. When we were all very rebellious. Copy homework.

And he found out and even knew that some of us even copy from 2 or 3 people and just combined everything together.

We tested this on many teachers. He was the only one who smelt a rat. The rest didn’t find anything amiss and assumed that we did the homework ourselves.

So later I told myself.

From now on, I’ll only do Mr Chua’s homework.

Oops.

Nah. In secondary school, I only do humanities homework. Because I know those are the kind of stuff I must memorise. So by doing humanities homework will aid me in this.

As for English, Chinese, Physics and Chemistry, we practised handwriting.

Don’t follow my footsteps. It is wrong.

Actually, in primary school, I wasn’t really keen in Maths, despite it is one of my best subjects.

But soon, Mr Chua made Maths very interesting.

And he decided to implement this lecture-style of teaching for A Maths because he knew that we must adapt to this kind of environment in JCs and Polytechnics.

I remember in Secondary 2 on how he brought all the NCC people out for canoeing and had lots of fun.

In the end, all got sunburnt.

He soon pang seh-ed us to teach in NIE. And Wee Hock was complaining about how they agree to leave together, one for NS, the other for NIE.

In the end, he pang seh-ed all of us.

Of course, he returned to visit us once in a while.

And we saw him in JJC while waiting for our lecture to start in the canteen. Still that tall and gentlemanly figure.

It is good to hear from him.

Apparently, he found my blog through a primary school friend of his who was searching for his contact on the internet.

And he emailed me.

Wow!

I’m sure you guys would like to know how he has been.

He is working on his PhD in University of London. And I guess he’ll be back in July.

So we can all call him Dr Chua in time to come.

Edit @ 11.33pm, 27 April 2008:

I suddenly remembered. He likes to ka jiao Kavin as well.

Once the both of us were playing in class while waiting for his lesson. And it so happened that he saw us struggling.

The 2 sumo wrestlers. Tatamo Aw and Nanako Seow.

Come to think of it. Damn funny.

Edit @ 12.23am, 29 April 2008:

Yes. We all missed all his lessons. So interesting.

We enjoy seeing him disturb Kavin once in a while. Actually, Kavin is always the target when it comes to disturbing people. Somehow, everyone likes to disturb him.

And Kavin likes to disturb Mr Lee Kong Wee.

Missed his trademark gel-up hair in side-parting. Always smartly dressed up.

And I think Yingwen made a typo mistake in her comment. Should be Dr instead of Mr, right?

Taiwan trip on magazines.

We are all in the magazines!!!

Of course, there’s always this limited edition. Only exclusively on Seow on the Run.

I’ve got this in the end.

I went to Queensway Shopping Centre after $200 came into my wallet unexpectedly.

I wanted to get Nike Court Force initially. But seeing the budget I had, I decided to include Nike Air Force 1 in my range.

In the end, I bought this pair of shoes.

I’ve checked and it appears that this pair of Nike Air Force 1 is released just 2 months ago. And somemore not everywhere sells this pair of shoes.

Like I care sia. I wanted something simple and plain. So I decided on this pair of shoes.

Somemore the price of this pair of Nike Air Force 1 is the same as that of the Nike Court Force I saw.

So using common sense, which would you get?

Got this at a cut-throat price of $118.

Woohoo!!!

So now I have nothing in mind to buy.

Taiwan Trip 2008: EP

I’ve created this slideshow on the Taiwan trip.

Enjoy!

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Meanwhile, you can also catch this in my About the Producer page.

We were robbed.

I’m sad. I’m heartbroken. I’m angry. I need 芒果冰 to cure myself.

Because 芒果冰 makes me feel like in love. And able to rid me of those negative emotions.

We had to thank these people all all these.

Didier Drogba, Alan Wiley and Nani.

Thank Didier Drogba for knee-jabbing Nemanja Vidic’s face.

Thank Alan Wiley for not awarding a card to Didier Drogba for knee-jabbing Vidic’s face. That’s an obvious dangerous play you know.

Thank Nani for being such a solo asshole.

Thank Alan Wiley again for awarding penalty in the 88th minute out of nowhere.

I was wondering why fouls were not given to Manchester United when it was very clear that Chelsea were playing dirty.

Ballack was pushing Ronaldo just minutes when he stepped on the pitch.

Nothing given. Play goes on.

Didier Drogba handballed in Manchester United’s penalty area.

Nothing given. Play goes on.

Didier Drogba pushed Darren Flectcher and made some filthy acts.

Nothing given. Play goes on.

Referee kayu. Referee is blind.

Tell me, Alan Wiley.

Did Ashley Cole or Didier Drogba offer themselves to you for the night?

Ask anyone on the streets and they’ll tell you how terribly bias you are and how you handed over the 3 points to Chelsea.

We all didn’t see any handball around.

Seriously. Chelsea won unconvincingly. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that.

Why? Did Chelsea give you any advantage? Why are you so good to the Chelsea players and yet you are flashing yellow card to Manchester United players like nobody’s business?

Remember Anders Frisk? Who retired after receiving death threats from Chelsea fans after the loss to Barcelona?

I think you deserve those death threats more than he does.

I think you should just retire and go back to sleep. And perhaps enjoy yourself with the gay Ashley Cole.

I want to rant at this Nani too. Why are you so solo when you know you can’t cross and shoot? And you call yourself a winger.

I think you suck too.

Anyway. Chelsea is a filthy team. Filthy to the core.

And Didier Drogba? He is a downright scum who gets away with all his filthy acts.

I think you are a snob.

I didn’t get it in the end.

So I checked my bank account and was very shocked at the amount inside after paying off my handphone bills and topping up this stupid medishield account.

I was so disappointed lah. I couldn’t get the Nike Court Force I wanted.

I told myself to wait for 30 April when the $200 GST offset package comes I’ll just go get that pair of shoes.

But hey! Call it a blessing in disguise.

This morning when I woke up, my mum passed me $200.

Let’s just forget about the reason.

Just take it as the $200 just fell down from the sky and since it bore my name on it, my mum had no choice but to give it to me.

So now.

Should I get Nike Court Force or Nike Air Force 1?

By the way, the more I look at this, the more I’m convince I made the right buy in Taiwan.

Anyway, I forgot to upload this 2 pictures.

From this, we found out that actually 西门町 is so ulu, practically a ghost town in the morning.

I want to go to Taiwan again!!!!

Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 5: Singapore

We made our way back to Singapore at 6am in the morning.

Really sian sia. We wanted to stay longer.

Anyway, here’s one picture I took on our way back.

And soon, checked in our luggage and went to slack in one corner of the Tao Yuan International Airport.

Desmond suay suay stepped on this sticker. And his shoe is heading to Jakarta.

And one picture of the CJ7 soft-toy Jeremy and Aik Siang bought.

Of course. Elvis is a King of Buayas. And the King of Buayas needs lots of sleep to continue his buaya acts.

Just look at how he sleeps.

And Zi Cheng carefully removed his spectacles and placed it on his head. And now he has 2 pairs of spectacles.

One last look at the Tao Yuan International Airport.

And another last look in the plane.

We have reached Singapore. And it is back to reality.

Bought duty-free alcohol. I owed Junda one bottle of alcohol since I lost one bet to him.

I’ll make sure he finish all 1 litre of that absolut vodka.

And I (we) really had a hard time carrying all these back home.

All of us, except for Kavin, who got his parents to come and fetch him.

So STWC, what’s next?

Japan, Korea, China, USA, Australia, Iraq or Israel?

Anyway, back to this boring Singapore, back to reality, back to everything.

Really sian.

Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 4: 西门町, 士林

Before I really start this post, I actually forgot to talk about something that me, Zi Cheng and Luis encountered in the wee hours of 西门町 while we were on our way back to the hotel.

We were on our way back to the hotel after shopping at 士林.

And on our way back, there is this uncle on a motorbike.

Spoke in Hokkien to us.

Handsomes. Want some 美眉s for you guys to play around with?

Of course we wouldn’t want to risk getting HIV. And we aren’t those type of guys, you know. We only reserve it for our wives.

Me and Zi Cheng could understand what that uncle meant. Because we knew Hokkien. But not Luis.

Later Luis asked and we explained to him.

And Luis exclaimed that we should have just stopped and talked to him.

Uncle. Wait hor. I call back and ask my mama. She say can means can.

LOL!!!

Anyway, time really flies and soon it was Day 4.

Just early in the morning Jeremy and Kavin were playing pranks.

While Zi Cheng was bathing, Jeremy used a coin to open the bathroom door.

And Kavin placed a fire extinguisher in front of Elvis‘ room.

And Elvis is really a bastard by putting the fire extinguisher in front of the room next to my room.

Actually, I kind of pity those people next to my room.

We were creating a din most of the nights. With Kavin around, all sorts of shouting surfaced. Plus the loud GOAL!!! Zi Cheng shouted when Manchester United equalised through Carlos Tevez.

That was at 2am in the morning.

Later, we went to shop at 西门町. And had 鹅肉面 for lunch.

Super delicious. Especially the soup.

And soon we were off to buy clothes.

This picture clearly shows the buaya side of Elvis.

Just look at the ti ko peh look on his face.

I think if he were with me, Luis and Zi Cheng that night, he would have agreed to play with those 美眉s and kena HIV.

I saw rows of motorbikes. Seriously, I wonder how they are going to get their motorbikes out.

I don’t see bicycles parked like this before here in Singapore lor.

Later we really cheonged all our shopping. I needed to bag badly otherwise I really couldn’t bring everything back to Singapore.

Didn’t really have time to eat.

Finally, when we reached our hotel, I got Elvis to get 阿宗面线 for me.

Seriously. Another die die must try, don’t try will die stuff.

And cheong our remaining shopping at 士林 that night.

Yeah. 士林 is a must go in Taiwan.

Really had no time to take pictures here and there that night.

And we managed to finish whatever we want to buy.

Bought 鸡排 back to the hotel.

We ordered 太阳饼 in the afternoon. And the shopkeeper said they’ll make the 太阳饼 and send to our hotel.

We waited till 2am for the 太阳饼. But we understand that there were many 太阳饼 to be made. So we don’t blame them.

But it’s super nice to eat. And worth the wait.

And the dreaded time came after 3 hours.