As The Season Draws To A Close...

Yet another English Premier League season will end tomorrow night. While Starhub will make history in Singapore Television by showing 8 out of 10 final matches LIVE at 9.55pm, the title race is still on between Chelsea and Manchester United as well as the "Survival Series" among Birmingham, Fulham and Reading, not to forget the fight for the 5th place/final UEFA Cup spot. It is one of the most exciting season with such a thrilling end for honours. Meanwhile, it is disappointing to see Liverpool settled for a 4th place and just fighting to qualify for Champions League once again despite the emerging of Fernando Torres and losing just 4 league matches this season. No Thanks to the boardroom catfight between those Americans and a number of draws against the weaker teams.

Here's a lookback on this season as well as my life for these past months since August 2007.

August 2007

Manchester United won the charity shield in the curtain raiser of the season. Liverpool started brightly and looked like they can really challenge for the title. While Torres scored his first goal for the club against Chelsea in a 1-1 draw. Meanwhile, Man U had one of their worst start for the season... but all these had changed!!! For me, it was the month where I was promoted to LCP but things started to go wrong in my one-sided relationship. Yeah... I shall call it One-Sided... since she did not even give me a simple chance afterall. Also, I regretted dropping out from NDP 2007. Don't ask me why I drop out... What was past was past... same goes to that one-sided relationship... The worst was going to come in the following month...

September 2007

While Liverpool thumped 6 goals against Derby County, on the very same night I thought things got a turnaround when I "thought" I was invited to her birthday party "last minute" via a SMS... I WAS WRONG and I WAS FOOLED !!! Seriously, it was a moment where "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing!". While I made my way to drop by her chalet to send her my regards and wishes after attending another friend's birthday nearby, little did I know that that very first sms from "her" was a SCAM. A Scam which got me humiliated... A Scam which got me have a thick skin like an elephant... Meanwhile the prankster who did all these dirty jobs just scot free by just saying a few words of "Sorry", a sense of injustice? It was a day where I will always remember... when things just happen to be a false dawn.

And it took some days to get me overcome this birthday incident... and months to overcome the thoughts on her. She was not meant for me afterall... After some time, I realised and awakened that this incident did spur me to do my human revolution and my determination to show real actual proofs in my life. It was also the month where SSA announced the formation of Sengkang Zone, and my district was transferred to one of its chapter... a start of the new beginning for everyone ? Most significantly, my life.

Care to share about this piece of story...it was exactly one week after that Birthday Incident, I attended the OG of ITACSD at Sentosa and truly enjoyed that day despite my struggles and heartbreaks at that point of time, through this event I got to know more friends and the start of forging new bonds and friendships...and a return to the Student Division.

Meanwhile, English football saw the departure of a very colourful character in Jose Mourinho. He was fired by Chelsea despite bringing them 2 league titles in a row, 2 league Cups and 1 FA Cup. Goodbye Jose, we love your words, we love your body language. You make football very colourful, very funny, very interesting.

October 2007

While I struggled to overcome yet another heartbreak in love, and struggled to move on... the month also saw the passing of my grand aunty. On the brighter side, I made a trip to Bintam with the Vanguard group and had an wonderful exchange with the YMDs over there, as well as the climbing trip.

In football, Arsenal showed they were not going to be underestimated despite the sale of Thierry Henry at the beginning of the season by constantly topped the league as well as shoning in the Champions League, most notably the 7-0 drubbing of Slavia Prague. Liverpool, started to fizzle out with some undeserving draws against the likes of Birmingham and Portsmouth despite being on an unbeaten run, while they flopped in the Champions League. Man U finally showed their colours in the league, same went to Chelsea.

Another disappointing team in Tottenham Hotspurs, sacked their Manager, Martin Jol, who led them 5th places in the previous 2 seasons. An undeserving sack, but they replaced him with a UEFA Cups winning manager in Juande Ramos from Sevilla.

November 2007

Went on a Cruise trip with a few NS mates and made some shopping in KL. It was also the month of Study breaks, where I prepared for my ACCA debut in the December Exam. Sengkang Zone was officially formed later in the month. However it was also the same month where one of our favourite lecturers in NP, Mr Michael Sng, passed away all of the sudden.

Liverpool started to overcome the odds in the Champions League by winning 8-0 against Besiktas and 4-1 against Porto. They eventually made it through to the knockout stage. England, however, once again led me and other England supporters to disappointments as they failed to qualify for Euro 2008. Steve mcClaren proved to be a poor manager for that underachieving footballing nation after losing 3-2 to Croatia at home in such an important game.

Here comes Fabio Capello. A veteran with Champions League, Italian League and Spanish League honours.

December 2007

Took my papers at Expo on two different days. Management Accounting looked tough (Perhaps I was late at that time) but Accountant in Business looked chicken feet? Right after my exams, I was given a role in my (ex) Zone-organised Mentor & Disciple (M&D) festival drama concert and started rehearsals for the January's actual day. But I had to miss SD kenshu a miss, while I failed to perform for Chingay's performance. (I don't know about the audition?)

At the end of the year, I had graduated from the Vanguards and ready to contribute more in ITACSD, as well as my new chapter and district in the years to come.

It was also a month of KTV sessions with my pri sch friends and sec sch friends... even on Christmas Eve...

AC Milan is WORLD Champions and Kaka is WORLD player of the year. But they failed to impress in their domestic league. Liverpool meanwhile, lost their unbeaten streak to Reading, a club plagued with Relegation-threat even till now. They also lost to Man U at home in the same month, an undeserving loss where they failed to convert their chances in front of the Kop. In League Cup, they were knocked out by Chelsea but who cares about this CUP? Most importantly, hopes of the league title and such a 18 year wait seemed to be fading away just like before.

But at least, Fernando continues to score, just like what Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler used to do in the 1990s and early 2000s. At least Reds finally had a good buy in a goalpoacher after Owen left.

(Highlights of January 2008 - May 2008 to be continued in the next post...)