to claire: i thought you just said that love is a "high-risk investment", implying it to be full of uncertainty? then you tagged to say that it's a matter of "adopting the right strategies". HMM.
i don't wanna sound like i think i'm an investment guru, (although i'd love to be) , but investments should always have certainty about them. not that you'd always or even generally be right, but when you're wrong you should know how bad it'd be, worst case scenario and all.
i don't wanna sound like doctor love, (although i'd love to be), but i truly believe "love", or anything else people construe to be love, is not quite a matter of method or strategy. some people do it all but in vain, centering their lives and souls into what turns out to be a fruitless endeavour. for a few (very few i see) others everything just falls into place nice and sweet, effortlessly.
this makes being in a relationship or figuring them out more difficult than making millions of dollars. you couldn't have imagined that could you.
disclaimer: any resemblance of this post to the most dedicated tag reply, the one that i put most effort in, and the fact that claire has elicited the longest tag reply, is purely coincidental.
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more shoutouts!
jas: pretty natural i guess. life has a way of running away from us sometimes. catch up soon! ( i somehow think this reply is pretty smart too, if you get it. lol. )
tab: full of randomness, as usual. nice to have you back!
emiko: yes i have. and no, i didn't do it because he is YOUR king.
bestie!: i hate this "bestie" name. it's so cliched and overused. but love ya all the same! i can't quite guess whatever you're gonna do with your problem that you have, but let me know anyway yeah. date soon! just don't get yourself too down and all over him. go easy on the alcohol too!
Once in a while Maybe you will feel the urge. To break international copyright laws By downloading mp3s From file sharing sites Like morphous or grogster or limewire or kazza.
But deep in your heart You know the guilt would drive you mad And the shame would leave a permanent scar Cause you start out stealing songs Then you’re robbing liquor stores And selling Crack And running over school kids with your car
[Chorus] So Don’t Download This Song The record store is where you belong Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh Don’t Download This Song
Oh you don’t want to mess With the R-I-Double-A They’ll sue you if you burn that CD-R It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma Or a seven year old girl They’ll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are
[Chorus] So don’t Download This Song (don’t go) Pirating music all day long Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh don’t Download This Song
Don’t take away money From artists just like me How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee And diamond studded swimming pools These things don’t grow on trees So all I ask is everybody pleaseeeeeeeee
[Chorus] Don’t Download This Song (Don’t do it No No) Even Lars Urlich Know it’s wrong (You could just ask him) Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (You Really Should) Oh Don’t Download This Song
Don’t Download This Song (Oh please don’t you do it or you) Might Wind up in Jail like Tommy Chong (Remember Tommy) Go and buy the CD (Right Now) like you know that you should (Go out and Buy it) Oh Don’t Download This Song.
Don’t Download This Song (No no no no no no) Or you’ll burn in hell before to long (And you deserve it) Go and buy the CD (Just buy it) like you know that you should (You should get it)
many a times, sitting in a quiet corner and having a nice chat about practically anything with someone who understands, someone who's so similar, can be more rewarding than going to the movies, clubbing or all the razzmatazz that comes with anything else you can do with friends.
so hope you're happy now! (now that you've been mentioned -_-)
i now have something to rant about: this blogger beta thing lost my post that i have typed.
thankfully for you all, nothing life-changing there.
i've been on lull, with my mind kinda like going on auto-pilot. you couldn't have imagined it could you.
i don't know what's going on, but it seems like i'm really running on empty.
to say i'm pretty happy with army life doesn't exactly make for a "rant-and-rave", emotionally-charged blog post does it? but yeah, i've been, pretty much. i complain here and there, and it's something army has trained us all to do. but then again looking at things in perspective i have it better than many people.
right now, just for the record, i'm on a driving course, learning to handle a military jeep. at least i don't feel like my time is wasted. only thing is that i won't probably be driving a jeep much after the course. hmmm.
right now, i'm hoping for a life-changing, explosive something to come into my life. (they say you should be careful what you wish for)
and i'll be making my comeback in the big-time of the financial markets soon. just love it.
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note: the original author has quite ran out of things to blog about, thus he goes on about things no one wants to read about. he sincerely apologises, although he doesn't quite mean it cause it's his blog. love, draude.
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sorry for the interruption mates. some shoutouts:
tab: nice to hear, hmm i've been quite fine too. to the extent that things are getting a bit stale.
madflanker: i've been enjoying typing rubbish. debate's a bit too heavy for me at the moment, given my miniscule amounts of intelleccttual stimmulation. (i can't even spell properly now, shit.)
all cech well-wishers: we all love him. great man, even better keeper and all the best to him. just that he'll be out for anything from six months to forever. :(
i need, i need, i need to rant. really do. non-football-watching people, you have the right not to read this entry. but it's kinda interesting anyway i'd say, and i'll try to minimise the jargon.
so poor petr (cech, chelsea's keeper) was taken out by this reading midfielder steven hunt. he slid on the ground, and inexplicably bent down his knee, kneeing poor petr in the skull. it was a challenge that is, to put it most lightly, wildly reckless and at worst, blatant assault and an unmeditated attempt to cause grievous bodily harm.
draw your own conclusions but for me, biased or not, that deserved a red card whether he meant it or not. (clue: that prick was laughing and everything after it all.)
note: in this instance, the referee decided there was nothing wrong, and no card. (i can go on about the ref but i won't, for now.)
so poor petr, with a depressed fractured skull and out of action for up to a year (that's 365 days), you might think he would get some sympathy. let's see what the people are saying.
sky sports (who asked READING midfielder sidwell): no way was it intentional. i know him, and he wouldn't do such a thing. (so much for fair and reliable sources.)
teamtalk.com: cech is just making a meal out of it. (football-speak for "he's faking it")
professional footballers' association chief gordon taylor: hunt can sue mourinho (chelsea's manager) for saying that it's deliberate.
the daily mail: it is chelsea, not hunt, who needs to apologise.
now, i know people dislike chelsea, but this is getting a bit silly.
basically, everyone who thinks that it was an "accident" and just "tough luck for chelsea" (who, by the way, deserve the tough luck cause we are enemies of football) generally hide behind the lame reasoning that we cannot punish hunt cause it is too difficult to prove his intent.
and i say it's lame cause if you handle the ball in your box, your opponent gets a penalty, whether you meant it or not. if you tried to tackle and missed, catching your opponent, it's still a foul whether you meant it or not.
i cast my mind back to this tackle, a few months back:
yes, i would not deny it was a bad and reckless tackle. yes, i would not be biased and say he didn't deserve to get a red card, 'cause he did. and no, i wouldn't claim that he didn't mean to do it just because "i know him". (although i do, and he's an amazingly quiet and shy person who broke down in the aftermath of this incident amidst all the media pressure)
back then, everyone somehow knew for certain he deliberately intended to injure liverpool's hamann. the referee thought it was nothing too. but what happens? the newspapers, tv, radio, the vegetable seller and the pantry lady all roared in protest that such a travesty can happen without punity. so what does the FA (governing body of english football [my foot]) do? they "study the replays", and ban essien for 3 games anyway.
if anything at all, at least essien was closer to the ball than hunt ever got/could ever get. basically, in football, the further away from the ball you are when you make physical contact, the higher your culpability.
believe me, if it was john terry (england's and unfortunately, chelsea's captain) who made that challenge on a goalkeeper, we'd be seeing the replay daily and everyone will call for him to be banned for 20 games, his england captaincy stripped and given to gerrard (of liverpool, incidentally), chelsea to be deducted 5 points, fined 10 million pounds (roman can afford it anyway) and mourinho to be jailed for perjury when he said that terry didn't mean it. i would not be the least surprised.
flashing on tv mobile: "bangladesh's muhammed yunus wins nobel prize"
eugene: "who is that? greatest construction worker alive?"
shoot him.
anyway, yunus is the economist who pioneered the concept of "microlending" to lift millions out of poverty. he started his own bank, and lends out an average of US$200 per person, for them to like but a few chickens or cows to get started somewhere. it's a significant amount, considering people get stuck in debt, and sometimes even debt-slavery, for amounts as low as 5-10 takas (20 cents maximum).
worldwide, this concept has helped about 17 million people get out of poverty. cheers.
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shoutouts:
haven't done shoutouts for so long!
emiko: i would, if i can find ballack's blog. or of any other blue for that matter. you know it. nowwwww who's the biased one?!
tab: hang in there! or wait, is it already over by now? hahah sorry!
the five good men: 'nuff said really. :)
corinna: ok ok! lol.
katie: hey love! did i sound sad? oh i think i am, kinda. but whatever lah, one more year of moaning and complaining and it'd be all over! haha. i've explored PAD a good deal i think. AND, it's really hard reaching you. i can't even see if ure online, gotta guess. boo. date soon!
i was going to sleep. but felt a sudden, intense need to come here and get all mushy and everything.
anyway, for all those out there, today was posting day. wasn't much of a posting day for me or anything like a "new camp" to look forward (or dread) to, cause essentially i was gonna go back to the same place.
but, to my five best buddies down there. (it's damn obvious lah, we're always apart from the rest.) a short message of less than a 160 characters could hardly convey all that i wanna say. thus me being here. all the minutes and hours spent crapping away at the training shed, talking about life, money, games, girls and sex (actually it's just girls and sex most of the time) were there and made life so much more bearable.
all the "strife", sometimes childish but nevertheless endlessly entertaining, thinking of all the funny things we're gonna do but never actually get close to doing them.
the silly bingo games that we take so seriously.
THAT time when it was just four of us on a rainy friday in PAD.
trying to sneak back home early with the 'mission impossible' music playing in our own minds secretly.
all the times we laugh out loud in the training shed when the rest are relatively silent.
and us again, being caught for not surrendering our phones.
and us, as always, laughing through everything that they've thrown at us.
time to move on dudes. but please stay together. it's always the same words when people part, but not quite often do people actually follow up on the "stay in touch" thing.
okay i'm bored, so i have a little brainteaser for you people out there, who think you know your showbiz and entertainment industry stuff. here goes:
what do renee zellwegger, madonna, tara reid, owen wilson, bryan adams, half of depeche mode, half of the sex pistols, busta rhymes, geri halliwell, bill clinton and vidal sassoon all have in common?
don't be daunted if it seems difficult. it's not. answers on tagboard. :D
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shoutouts:
jajami: we'll try. although you know it's not easy. hah.
cori: we're only human. don't be that harsh on yourself. heh. (you should!)
tab: hmm, well, good luck? haha. not quite sure what to say. i bet everyone says that but yeah, it's the best i can manage so far.
Bad id: "cfced" (There is no flooble chatterbox with this id. It may have been deleted, or never existed. You can sign up for a new account if you wish.)
Chelsea FC
boss: avram grant
1. cech
3. ashley cole
4. makelele
5. essien
6. carvalho
7. shevchenko
8. lampard
9. sidwell
10. joe cole
11. drogba
12. mikel
13. ballack
14. pizarro
15. malouda
17. sinclair
18. bridge
20. paulo ferreira
21. kalou
22. ben haim
23. cudicini
24. wright-phillips
26. terry -c-
33. alex
35. belletti
40. hilario
48. woods Chelsea FC
