I just realise that blogger do not have web stats. So I got no way of knowing for sure that no 1 ever comes in. So I go and subscribe to some free web stats service. It looks cool. It can tell me how many unique visitors, return visitors, total page hits, most popular link, what browsers my readers use, the os, the monitor resolutions, etc. So far all the hits registered in the service are all due to prompting from me. Still waiting for my 1st impromptu visitor....

No, I do not know michael jordan, nor jordan knight of nkotb. This jordan is my fren from back in GESS days. I've forgotten exactly why the nickname, except that it got something to do with the regular basketball sessions we've had.

It's his wedding on Saturfay, 29th Jan 2005. We stayed over at his new house on friday nite. We had some games and beers. But sadly, no gers. :P Anyway, his house is conveniently located beneath his parents'. So we do not have to travel much. Unfortuantely, his wife's place is at the other side of the island. We set of at abt 7.

On reaching the bride's place, the bridesmaids called for him to shout his request from beneath the block to the bride, in front of a busy road with alotta pp walking by. So there he was hollering "I love you" to his bride in the 6th floor before we took the lift up. Getting the gers to open the door isn't really difficult. He gave them 1 ang pao, they complained too little, he gave another 1, and they serve us some desserts and in we go.

Unfotunately, it doesn't end there. The door to the bride's room is locked as well. They wanted him to sing to her before opening the door. Since my fren say he can't sing, we ask the mother-in-law for help. and she gets the girls to open the door. Phew. Seems like this wedding is easy on the brother gang. Not much that we can do. We can't be shouting "I love you" up 6 floors with him. It will be weird. And we are not contributing to his open-the-door-ang-bao. We only got to share his morning desserts.

Then it's back to his parent's place for the tea ceremony and some buffet. On the way there, Justin said that he got craving for sussage McMuffin with eggs. So we stop at King Albert Park Mcdonald for some drive-in takeaway.

After the tea ceremony, it's back to the bride's place for more tea ceremony. As he has no use for us anmore, we excused ourselves and go visit Jiafeng and his newborn ger. She's cute, though i thought she's abit skinny. Jiafeng says she likes to cry, but she seems quite peaceful while we are there. Later, Jiafeng told us that she cries after we left. One of them must be having a peacful effect on her. I think it's Jinfeng. :)

We set off for the hotel where the wedding dinner is to be held, and where we got a room to freshen up at about 2. And it's mostly sleep. We even missed the solemization. But Danny was there to represent us. :P

And it's dinner time! The food is quite nice. And I was quite impressed by his wedding photo shoot. There's 1 shot of them underwater in their gowns. Coolz. And then it's the toasting ceremony. The bunch of us went up to do the shouting. Apparently we were quite loud. I think it was partly due to the hall not being too big and the sounc can bounce back thru the walls. And my, his guest are really out to get him. He got much more alcohol toast than Quanming. It took 5 of us to help him.

We managed to keep him sober to thank the guest as they leave. And then it's to the hotel room. There, it's out turn to make him drunk. :P Well, i think he's hold his alcohol quite well. He can still play finger guessing games and wins despite being intoxicated. We stopped after he vomited. And home we go.

He's the 3rd of the gang to be married. There's 9 of us. Someday, it may be my turn. We shall see.

It's been a long time. And much has happened. I shall attempt now to cover them... :P

Firstly, the hottest topic, the Asia Tsunami. I had briefly touched on it in few earlier posts. It's dreadful and more than 150,000 pp had died from it. There were a few tales of survivals and a few of tragic deaths. The poor lady who had to let go of the elder son in order to save the younger. Jet Lee who hang on to both his mum and wife/child (not sure which) and refuses to let go any of them. The man who floated in the sea for 2 weeks and found instant noodles, coconuts and a hoe to cut the coconuts floating to him. His companion who tried swimming to shore and was never found. The baby that floated on a mattress back to his family. The richer countries rushing to render aids. This will continue to be the topic of many for a long time to come...

Next is the taupok incident. In a nutshell, a father wrote in to straits times forum to complain abt the dangerous game taupok, where guys all pile on top of a victim, played during orientation. His surname is Situ, which makes it easy to identify his son. Wonder what will happen to the son in school. Anyway Taupok is now banned in his sch. You can go Mr brown to read more about it.

Anyway, I have 3 main views about the thing.
1), If the son is not comfi playing it, he should not blame peer pressure and then complain to his dad. He's not a child, for goodness sake.
2) Whatis the father trying to achieve by going public? Fame? His tone carries a very arrogant feel to it like his top class citizen and the others are second class.
3) There are other more dangerous game. The "pole" game where a guy has his leg separated and rammed towards a pole is as dangerous. And I believe soccer, basketball, rugby are much more dangerous. Why not ban those as well? We have all become so soft. So afriad of injuries.

Thirdly is that Liverpool has lost to manure again. at Anfield. Sigh. Jerzy dudek let in a stupid goal. He later claimed that he was unlucky with it. While I dun really hold it against it, but he lost some respect when he go crying abt being unlucky. should have jus stand up and accept responsibility for it, unlucky or geniune mistake. And I spent alotta money on that game. It was supposed to be a gathering at Bern's place. But I chosed to go watch the game at the club. Spent $20 on beer, $15 on the taxi fare to Bern's place, $10 on taxi home. Thats almost $50 extra spent on nothing. this is shitty. And I am broke... :(

Fourth is that I've just watched Meet the Fockers. It's quite funny. But maybe it's cos of higher expectations, I found the 1st part, Meet the Parents, to be better.

Ok, thats the rants thus far. Hopefully I can find more discipline and update this more often.

Liverpool 0 - 1 Chelsea

This is so sad. After bombarding the Chelsea goal for the majority of the game, Chelsea managed to score 1 from their limited chances. And off a deflection. And Alonso got a broken ankle. Talk about being unlucky.