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Monday, Oct 16, 2006 - 22:53 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Was There Ever...

...such a team as this?

Man U, that's what. Went one down to Wigan, struck three back. Just when I was lamenting that they never appear dangerous at corners, up stepped Vidic to thunder in a header. Just when Saha's wastefulness made me wish that he could morph into van Nistelrooy whenever he was in the box, he made it two with a stretch that a gymnast would have been proud of before hooking it in off the post.

And just when I was prepared to accept three points, who other than Solskjaer made my two-goal virtual wager true too. You are my Solskjaer, my Ole Solskjaer, you make me happy, when skies are grey, and Alan Shearer, was f**king dearer, so please don't take my Solskjaer away... Woohoo!

Giggs was the difference, though. Man U need either him or C. Ronaldo to provide the penetration. Rooney came in a close second best, for even bereft of any special skill, his never-say-die attitude alone would have made him a worthy addition to the squad.

... more Minor Updates?

changelog v1.03
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* RSS XML feed fixed. Again. This time the issue was with nested HTML tags. So it's alright. Until next time.

* Chatterbox spam removed and suppressed like unruly protesters. Hard block of the strings "url" and "http". Don't knock it, it works 99% of the time for 1% of the effort.

* The little Back to Top links don't involve reloading the whole blardy page now. Yay.

* Preliminary Daylight Savings Time fix.

* Graphical pageview historic statistics - Click Site Statistics (the green box), then the all-time page views number. Yes, the presentation is a bit buggy, but that's a job for v1.03b or thereabouts.

* Easter egg official release - It's near the mouth area. Happy talkberting™.

...time to burn?

Finishing my Psychology Research Programme guinea-pig participatory requirements. Chanced a visit to the Central Library with an unsightly gap in my timetable, and polished off Nanz Chong-Komo's (of One.99 Shop fame) One Business, 99 Lessons. The most striking anecdotes were on how it is easy to hire but hard to fire, and also on how some customers actually protested when prices got rounded up from $1.99 to $2.00. How many establishments even accept one-cent coins? There have been forum letters on how stallholders do not even take five-cent coins lately.

Also got a peek at Singapore Burning, a recent release by Colin Smith on WW2 Singapore, and a bunch of Mr. Kiasu and related local comics - where have they gone? Don't recall any new ones coming out these years. To think that he even had his own magazine in my Primary school days, along with Megazone or somesuch and The Student Today. Publishing is indeed an uncertain business.

...a whimsical quote in pencil on S16-431's now-unused blackboard?

我并不喜欢太多假动作

Have I ever mentioned the legendary white underpants dangling from an upper staircase railing on that block for goodness knows how long? Give it some time, and perhaps it can earn itself a place in NUS's heritage. Imagine, students fifty years later going "Wow, those underpants? They were already there in my time!"

...a joke from The New Paper that really hit the spot? (Paraphrased)

Two middle-aged women dragged a young man before wise King Solomon, each asserting that he had promised to marry their own daughter. Solomon heard their pleas, then remembered a similar case some time ago.

"Cut the youth in two," he ordered. "since these ladies will not renounce their claims to him, and give half to each to be husband to their daughters."

The first woman was satisfied with the judgment, while the second woman immediately fell upon her knees and pleaded that she was willing to forsake her case and allow the young man to leave, whole and unharmed, with the other woman.

Whereupon, King Solomon immediately confirmed the verdict. "Young man, go with the first woman. She has proven that she is a true mother-in-law."

 ...a terrain to traverse?



Third Computer Graphics lab assignment, got to say they're among the most satisfying I've done in Uni. They appear hard at the beginning, but get a few footholds in and it gets easy quickly. Download the stand-alone executable (160KB).



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