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Monday, June 02, 2008 - 01:27 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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"Singapore Super Sad Story"
- from Chemical Engineering friends


More than a little sore after blowing the opportunity to win my first S-League title in Hattrick, which to y'all not in the know is an online multiplayer football management game, in the vein of a very simplified Championship Manager (which coincidentally has also gone the online route). So now I'm still stuck on two national cups, but no top division ones, after almost twenty three-month long seasons.

I suppose it's a matter of perspective, though, since at the start of the season I would have been more than happy with a second place finish, which appeared not all too realistic given the crop of challengers. But after leading the table for a period, it became slightly hard to take. A win against the only other team left in the running in the second-to-last match would have done it, but after scoring my striker had to get himself sent off, making it easier for the opponents to equalize.

Still, all I needed was a win in the last game due to superior goal difference, and after playing a 4-5-1 due to a lack of personnel, my other striker managed to get himself sent off - prime hairdryer treatment material. It ended in a draw.

SSSS.

Can't say that I have been unlucky or anything over the course of the season, and being 2nd/600+ Singaporean teams isn't that bad, but still... I was quite certain that I would be able to strike another line off my Planned Achievements list today. Well, it will just take a little longer. I don't believe I have quoted this yet, so here goes:

What if the bird will not sing?

Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!"
Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing."
Ieyasu answers, "Wait."

 When neither blunt application of force nor measured wisdom works, it may be prudent to just look towards a better day in the future (not fully passively, of course). Hey, if Ieyasu took all Japan with this philosophy, it's good enough for me. That and repeat a modified Litany Against Fear:

I must not (get pissed).
(Getting pissed) is the mind-killer.
(Getting pissed) is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my (pissedness).
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the (pissedness) has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

A plug for two freeware apps that may come in useful. AutoMouseClicker (74KB) lets users script continuous clicking, which happens to be very useful for Dragon Court play and Clickclickclick.com if they didn't already have a Turboclick button, and appears to be written by a Singaporean guy. Notepad++ (1.98MB) is a text editor with built-in highlighting for tons of different programming languages - cool!



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