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Bolton won for the first time against ManUre since December 1978. Nicolas Anelka, previous from Arsenal, scored the only deciding goal in the match. Anelka’s beautiful and impressive goal is the result of a Patrick Evra foul, which awarded Bolton a free kick. Ivan Campo crossed the ball from the right channel with his left foot into the left penalty area, in which Nicolas Anelka chested the ball, and then slammed the ball right low into the goal with his right foot. It is not often that ManUre is served the humble pie. Let us not forget the teams which has done so to remind them that they are not gods nor are they infalliable. It’s also time some of ManUre’s more irritating fans get a lousy day. May Bolton and Manchester City live long and prosper. (I said the same thing last year for Portsmouth and West Ham.) |
Category: Others
Glamor @ Tanjong Pagar
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Foxtwo told me he was feeling down and wanted to check out my usual haunt at Tanjong Pagar. Since I am available last evening after work, I told him I will show him the way to the place. We met at Tanjong Pagar MRT station control, and then went to Maxwell Market for dinner before we moved on to the pub. How did I find this place? One of my old secondary classmate brought me to Glamor – located opposite the road from ‘The 50’s Entertainment Pub’ near Fairfield Methodist Church – one evening. After that I had been there either to pass my weekends evenings or to watch EPL soccer matches. At times I went there to have some ‘quick fixes’ after work on weekdays with some ex-colleagues. It’s really a cozy place, where you don’t get a crowd too unruly or rowdy. There are no pesky or irritating ‘working gals’ imposting as waitresses. The waitress there are young girls from China (18 – 22 years old) who are really here to study at reputable institutions – Nanyang Poly, NAFA etc. So, if you are looking for another kind of action, then this is definitely not the place for you. Please go to the one next door or to one of those along Duxton Hill. And in fact, please go as far away as possible – like Geylang or Joo Chiat – and leave some decent places where people can have some drinks peacefully and girls don’t get harassed simply for walking about in the neighborhood. |
 A pic of waitress Wen Wen. She has quitted since… |
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Also, most of the people there do sing pretty alright. They might not competition or star material, but your ears generally don’t get tortured. You also won’t get certain people hogging the mike for long periods because each table is only ‘entitled’ to 2 songs each round. Of course you can choose as many songs as you want to sing, but after the first two, the pub will put the remaining on queue until the next round the mike comes to your table. For a better write up of the pub, read foxtwo’s blog post. Addendum Boss Kelvin of Glamor told me, if he finds out that his girls are prostituting themselves when in his premises, he will fire them immediately. He told me he’s just making a living and he has his partners to answer to. So if you have an itchy dick, really go elsewhere. Addendum 【July 2011】 I haven’t gone to Glamor for at least a year or even more. The reason I quit the place a few years ago was simply because it had failed to top up on orange juice, which is the best mixer for one of my drinks. It is also drawing a young crowd which is too rowdy and unruly to make me uncomfortable. On top of which, the service standards deteriorated due to the high turnover of waitresses. The new waitresses are more focused in pushing “ladies drinks” and on one occasion one of them even quarreled with my friend after she had one drink too many. The worst part of it all was that my friend had bought her a drink, and after she finished it she immediately left the table for a smoke outside the pub. That was fine, since we expected it. But when she returned, she thought she hadn’t finished her drink and down the entire cup which my friend was drinking. She then accused my friend of adding our own liquor to her drink and slammed the glass on the table, breaking it. She got so worked up that she end up puking onto my friend’s shirt. The reason why I am now putting this up even though this happened more than a year ago is because I realised that there are people who still read this post and I have a responsibility to provide an update. |
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Advertlets is NowHere
In between writing all those not so flattering posts about Nuffnang, I had not really paid much attention to its rival Advertlets. But after some consideration, I have decided to host Advertlets to my blog – www.nowhere.per.sg.
While it is almost certain my insignificant blog ‘would not even be a blip on Advertlets radar’ at all, I felt there is no point to continue flogging the carcass of a dead dog – i.e. the matter of Nuffnang’s ‘questionable’ practices – when its entrails has been seen flying all over blogosphere for the past few weeks. In fact, with the efforts of the blog Why Nuffnang Will Fail, it makes one wonder if there’s anything left on that carcass to flog at all. Above which, it is my personal opinion that we should let ‘Why Nuffnang Will Fail’ take matters to the brink and see who will blink first in this matter.
Meantime, it appears that Nuffnang has adopted the policy of not answering bloggers as a corporate entity. Personally, if advice from reputable bloggers and fellow entrepreneurs like Aplink, Cobalt Paladin and even Paddy Tan is not making any impact to Nuffnang’s behavior, then Die Endloesung ‘The Final Soultion’ for aggrieved bloggers with regards to Nuffnang’s contempt would simply be to vote with their feet. And as for new bloggers looking to host ads, it is best they use the services of its competitors until Nuffnang, as a corporate entity, gives a satisfactory explanation to their ‘questionable’ practices.
Simply put, let the free market play the role of natural selection and may the fittest survive.
被奸人 Aaron 所害… (Sabotage by the ‘kan’ Aaron)
* sigh * Kenna tagged once again and since I am getting writer’s block I might as well do this before my mind starts wandering again with some crazy ideas. To cut the long story short…
My most common mistake is mis-spelling the word separate as seperate.
Instructions:
To play this game, all you must do is explain what your most common writing mistake is. Then, you simply tag five individuals for the meme. Those five people will, in return, tag five more people. Ultimately, readers should see a tapestry of common grammar and spelling mistakes. Therefore, anyone that is feeling ashamed of their errors will feel a bit more confident and secure.
Copy the person and persons names who sent it to you and add your own at the bottom of the list. It really helps build community.
- Shine with Grace: Mixing the word “from” with “form” all the time
- Trinity‘s most common mistake : I sometimes feel confused to use past tense or present tense when I share my stories.
- LadyJava: typing too fast that sometimes I miss words in between
- Genie King: I type too fast too…always end up with “tot he”…when it should be
“to the” - Bobo: makes too many mistakes all the time. She tend to miss out the word “not”.
- Endoh: Can’t differentiate British or American spelling at times.
- Claudia: Although a teach I is, I could everytime made mistook when I wrote and spoke. (Got it?)
- Aaron: I used to always mix up than and then. It even sounds alike to me!
- Daphne: I always use ‘objectively’ and ’subjectively’ wrongly.
- FoxTwo: Tend to overuse the word “anyway”
- Xizor2000: Mis-spell the word separate as seperate.
And i tag… whoever reads this…!! Wahahahaha!!!