i spent more than an hour looking for a nice skin and finally decided on this one.. =)

had to change to a new tag board.. =(

but i hope that doesn't stop you guys from tagging huh? =)

watching the liverpool match later at 3:40am..

and my operation is coming real soon..

OH NO

special one: =) make up lor! waiting waiting waiting!

charles: haha.. LTP stands for Long Term Plan.. =)


i watched harry potter for EMMA WATSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

she's so darn chio!~

this post is dedicated to two people

charles because today is his birthday..

happy 17th dude!~

and..

cyndi wang xin ling!!!!

<3

special one: =) glad that you have finally decided on the course you want to take.. accompanying you that day was KIND OF worth it..

ah mah: lolx! no one will ostracize you just because of that mah.. at least you'll be unique! =)



i'm not studying! darn.. it's gonna be december soon enough and i haven't touched a single book! =(

and my op is really soon.. that will mean probably 2 weeks being stuck at home..

6D'2004 chalet coming up on 14th.. i wanna go!!!!!!!!

AND I WANT TO PLAY POOL! =(

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~
( LIVERPOOL 1-0 MAN C )

ahmah: yes yes.. my operation is coming up soon.. i wonder how it will turn out.. thanks for the concern my dearest ah mah!

shou chen: lol.. i'm doing fine.. after my operation then i'll feel better.. =)

peng yu: i gave up on maple long long ago! now runescape is my love!!! =)


o cool.. my doctor is so darn cool.. he just told me yesterday that he's gonna drill 4 holes instead of 3 into my left knee.. o dear.. one more week! one more week to 2 weeks stuck at home..

i had a super great time yesterday with my parents.. =) went to temasek club for lunch and then played pool! my mum andi against my dad and bro.. obviously.. with my mum playing.. we lost like mad.. =) but i indeed had the greatest time with my family at that point of time.. laughing together loudly when my mother mis-cued the ball..

orchard road now seems so boring for me.. went there with lewis and his classmates.. some of which i know.. had real great fun playing CS.. =) 5 on 1 knife against artic! yay yay yay!

i'm out.. being referee for a match tmr.. =)

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

i got back my runescape fever!!! been training my character like crazy.. 1000 coal ores and 500 lobsters! my strength is now 68! =)

i just broke my mother's favourite chinese tea pot a moment ago and by the looks of it.. she not the least happy about it.. i hope she goes to china soon enough and get a better one..

just one more day ya darling? one more day and you'll be free! ^_^

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

Emma Watson!!!

i dunno what's this feeling.. =(

just returned from the national junior squad chalet.. super super tired.. mahjong mahjong mahjong!!! i've renewed my love for mahjong.. played for like 30 hours of mahjong in 3 days! -_-

now.. my eyes are like so fucked up because i slept for only 3 hours in total for the past two nights..

the most significant thing that changed about the NJS members must definitely be the new relationships.. so many! -_- and the fact that i'm out of the training scene just makes me more unable to receive these news first hand.. =(

anyway.. i'm so tired.. nothing much to update about the chalet anyway.. mahjong was the thing! =)

oh yes! 17th! thierry's birthday! headed down to fish and co and met up with jon.. clement.. sista and the new 17 year old.. that place is really nice.. the staff are nice people and the live concert was great! =)

k.. now i'm gonna sleep

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

16/11/2005! ^_^

going for national junior squad chalet tmr.. i wonder who's going.. wei wen? will not be staying all 3 nights.. leaving probably after two.. =)

Oral presentation is finally over! cheers! hooooooray!!!!
kind of screwed up the Q&A.. augustine asked me a super tough question.. __

who cares! it's over!

and that also means that my J1 life in PJC is over.. it's been quite a ride i must say.. =)

where's my eye-candy!

15th november is her birthday.. ^_^

i'm out!~

i've solved the problem.. i'll be joining the primary school peeps for dinner only.. sorry taxi.. i dun think that this is the right time for me to see you.. so i'll ignore you for now.. =(
feel free to sms me if you read this..

i understand the meaning of addiction already.. 2 days without pool has taken its toll on me.. =(

planning to get a viking cue after christmas.. =) my break cue is kind of fine.. and i just gave it a good tip.. =) solid man!

Jocie Guo's face is out! SP released it on their website and the poster that they send to the O level students! -_- i dun wanna comment on her looks.. there's no freedom of speech anymore

finally! tmr will be the day that i'll be free from project work! cheers! celebrate! wohoo! once OP is done.. i'm gonna go for a GOOD LUNCH with someone.. even if anyone from my group can't go.. i'm so gonna drag someone for lunch! =)

out..

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

there's a primary school class gathering this upcoming wednesday.. =(
i seriously dun wanna go if taxi is going.. i'm not sure what will happen to me once i see her..

but i dun want to lie to sista and sonny boy.. =(

oh lord.. what am i gonna do? =(

update on my knee injury..

November 2: operation

november to december: rest

january to april : physiotherapy.. able to walk

april to july: start running

july to september : probably able to play competitive sports

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

i spent the whole morning reading blogs.. so boring.. spent like 2+ hours.. i actually bothered to read the archives

now i'm doing the OP in front of mr tay.. zzz

out

quite an eventful day...

went to BB macs today to meet the PW group.. darius has recovered more or less.. and we're doing our FIRST rehersal as a WHOLE group tmr..

anyway.. rachel got dengue.. so please get well soon ya? =)

went to Q shop with Lewis later.. looked around at the nice cues.. i still can't find my viking F-07.. ordering take 2 months.. and i think my cue will cost 1.2k.. ( wait till my father finds out that i'm eyeing this cue ) lewis changed his tip to a normal one.. apparently it is able to screw the ball better than his old hard one.. so confusing..

played at century later.. lost like 5-4.. =(

good luck to those who are taking their O's

GBY!~

so cute!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

well.. it seems that our class has the wierdest names for the people they dislike..

duck
monster
pon-stars (3 of them)

and the interesting nicknames:

retarded animal
charlies

but actually.. think about it.. our class does have some of the most colourful people i've met

andre is a natural born joker
jia quan's way of thinking just makes us laugh.. ( let's not forget the janice thingy )
the 5hahas ( used to 6 )

first there were scandals.. but that kind of died down when it came to exam time.. after which i think more and more friendships became strained.. =(

naturally.. people will come to dislike each other.. i guess the best way to settle the difference is to just settle it out with talk.. i'm sure that someone will be able to recognize that the other party is pissed off.. ( however.. in some cases.. this is difficult in the monster's case as "it" can't seem to sense other people being unhappy )

i dunno what inspired me to write about all these.. probably i felt that charles was a victim.. you should have seen how he looked on OP practice.. i dunno.. he had those eyes that wanted to kill.. -_- i dunno la.. kind of confused with this entry..


anyway.. today is shao quan's birthday.. went to the function room to eat and talk cock with shou chen.. then he came to my house to watch the liverpool-aston villa game.. we went crazy during the last 10 minutes laughing at crouch's play.. =) he kept falling down! but gotta give him credit.. he won the penalty.. 2-0!!! yay yay yay!

feel like asking westly out for pool tmr.. lewis is having O's so better not bug him..

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

taken from chessbase website..

Our proposed solution does not change the rules about draws by mutual agreement, which still can be offered and accepted at any stage of the game. Instead, we believe that draws should not be accepted as a final chess result. Automatically, whenever a game ends in a draw, the two players shall immediately draw colours for a blitz playoff.

Depending on the time control and other constraints of the tournament, one of several possible styles could be used. For instance asudden death game will be played where White has 6 minutes and Black, 5. In the case of a draw, Black will be declared the winner.
It will be up to FIDE to decide whether the rating system should still recognize draws or simply take the result of the playoff.

Even if these measures are implemented, there are still bound to be problems. For instance, in a tournament involving standard time controls, two players could agree to a short draw and then only fight it out in the blitz or sudden death games. This would enable them to save energy for later rounds. In knockout tournaments such as the World Championships, it is frequently reported that competitors engage in such practices, especially when they were even matches occur early in the tournament. Similar practices have also been alleged in other sports, especially those involving rackets. Whenever a match is played between two players of the same federation, suspicions that the two players have agreed prior to the game that the match will be decided in the first set often fly around. (In such cases, it is presumed that the players have agreed that the loser of the first set would throw all subsequent sets, again in order to save energy.)

An additional feature of our system would prevent this. We propose deducting a percentage of the prize money, say, 10%, after dividing the number of rounds. For instance, if the second prize of a 10-round tournament is $20,000, and a player had two draws (with a score of nine points), then he receives $16,000 ($2,000 x 8 wins) plus $3,600 for the two draws. A portion of the prize fund deducted may be used to give additional prizes which were unannounced (perhaps even unconventional ones like Best Fighting Spirit?). This may be slightly complicated but players are discouraged from taking short draws in the initial matches.

A legitimate concern about this is that players who have fought hard, but only to achieve peace on the chessboard, would be disadvantaged. However, it is important to note that the percentage of the prize fund here deducted would be small, although significant enough to cause those who wish to agree to quick draws to think twice. Moreover, in the long run, if we presume that the percentage of truly drawn games is the same among all players, then no player would be more heavily penalized than the other.

Some may question the assumption that the percentage of truly drawn games will not differ amongst players. Indeed, if our proposal is adopted, a specialist of the Sicilian Defence will find that his prize money is often higher than one who uses the drawish Berlin Defence. However, the point is, exciting play ought to be rewarded by organisers – spectators simply do not want to see a repeat of Kasparov-Kramnik, 2001. To draw a parallel with soccer, was it not a common rant in the press by sponsors and spectators that the Greek ultra-defensive style of play in Euro 2004 championship sucked the fun out of the game, legitimate as it may be? The point is that a protective method of playing chess will be allowed – it will just not be encouraged because it does not help chess.

To quote Mark Dvoretsky again, “many sports have, at some point in their history, reached a stage when people had to find ways to make those sports more popular and attractive for spectators.” Indeed, with increasing recognition as a sport at the international stage (Southeast Asian Games, Asian Games, and potentially others), and more and more National Federations becoming affiliated to their respective Olympic committees, and their measures to popularize chess in the developing world, the number of chess players has hardly ever been higher. However, these can only help so much – chess must become more sporting. No matter which teams are playing in a football match, the fans would rather see some goals than no goals at all. No matter how interesting a football match may have been played, a goalless match is uninteresting. Similarly for us, if we want to retain our chess fans, we have to make the game for exciting. After all, like it or not, chess will survive not because of just great chessplayers, but more importantly, how many followers of the game there are and henceforth, the media and the sponsorship.

We thus hope that the chess world will consider this proposal seriously.

being the former draw master.. i hope this won't be implemented.. =(

i got 17th!!! yay! =)

well.. it seems that there are many love stories for the national youth trainees.. =) i think i better not mention any of them.. but zhen chian is in love! =))) haha.. he's so innocent! whenever he gets an sms from the girl.. he'll go berserk! haha! so cute!

anyway.. this is wierd.. cause we were talking about the chess girls.. then we mentioned toh li cheng.. then i realized that she's really cute! oh man.. i'm a pervert.. what am i thinking?! she's from sec 1 only leh! but it's true.. i think she the best looking female chess player.. =) other than may li la.. i better not forget that she beat me in last year's national rapid.. =(

gotta present to mr tay tmr.. we're not presenting next monday because darius is in hospital.. get well soon dude!~

GBY!~

so cute!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

won a super exciting close game today.. will update once the competition is over..

now.. i just gotta go and sleep and prepare for tmr's games.. =) wish me luck!

Reina
Riise
Hypia
Carragher
Finnan
Garcia
Alonso
Sissoko
Gerrard ( Kewell )
Morientas ( Zenden )
Crouch ( Cisse )

Liverpool 3-0 Anderlect.. =)
this was probably liverpool's best performance so far this season..

out

GBY!~

so cute!!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~

Felicia Chin looks awfully great! OMG! *faints*

the competition so far has been OK.. won 2 out of 3.. i actually lost to christabel neo! gone case la!

cute girl!~ what's her name already ah? ____ yi.. that's all i rmb.. nvm.. i go talk to her again tmr.. =)

GBY!~

WE ARE THE KINGS OF EUROPE!~ YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!~
( ONWARD TO THE GROUP STAGES! )