just passing by..

it's been a pretty emotional week.. deutschland hat das achtefinale erreicht!!! jawohl!! ganz spannend!!! the rest has to be typed in english coz my german is just bad yeah!! yupz, germany came out tops in group A and is gonna play against sweden tomorrow evening!! sehr interessant!! aber nicht so gut für das schlechtes herz.. and yes, klose is just so good!! and not to forget podolski!!! his goal was just beautiful.. 3 passes and into the goal post it went.. oh yeah, oh yeah!! but i still like that goal put in by frings in the opening match!! talk about pretty!! i can just go on forever actually.. but shall move on..

and i seriously think that it was mean to have eucador attacking ballack during the 2nd half of tuesday's match!! it was utterly ugly and plain blatant!! i mean, it's tough to lose but hey, it's all about fairplay here.. so get a grip man!!

but it muz have been a heartbreaking moment for england when owen was severely injured and had to be flown home immediately for treatment.. that left crouch aka 'mr giraffe', as good as without a mentor.. and definitely for japan as well.. it must have been more than a heartbreaking session.. esp. since they had the misfortune of that last 8 minutes of the match against australia.. and to have to play with the powerhouse, brazil, yesterday evening, which just confirmed their seats on the flight home.. it's even more painful to watch.. but one muz really give credits to kawaguchi for all his marvellous saves of the oncoming balls.. and yes, ronaldo finally came back from his pluto-planet and decided to put in some good play yesterday evening.. and eventually scoring 2 goals, putting him on an equalizing position with gerd müller, in the total number of world cup goals scored..

yupz, with s.korea as the only east asian team left with chances for the top 16 playoffs.. hmm, if my energy does permit me, you will still see me online at 4am..

but you know what? i didn't mean to go on and on about world cup on this post.. it was actually meant for something else.. but i digress.. and yes, you will say, what's new?

somewhat, i went past many places which have somewhat been a part of my memories from 2003.. hmm.. was making my way down to wei & cindee's place, when i had to take a long long bus ride to bedok interchange.. it then reminded me of that silly senior-junior bbq session at east coast park during o-week.. and in any case, it ended up as a dinner session for kel li, edwin, peijia and me..

simei seemed somewhat familiar, before i realised that i have been there twice!! once was to changi hospital to visit andrew with the rest of the ac folks.. and another was to the condo estate nearby for kel su's 21st.. and to think that, all of the above happened in the year 2003.. when a-levels were still fresh in our minds.. when freshmen orientation brought in so much fun.. when we started the nightmarish and stressful days of chem engineering but just to learn to get through these days too.. and to think that so much have changed over these 3 years..

so time flies yeah.. even 'passing by' seems so foreign.. and according to einstein, somewhere along the river of time, just somwhere behind that bend round the river, that scene still exists.. but we will never return to it.. jack finney's 'from time to time' is just all about imagination..