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The Kop in Asia? I want my $$ back!!!

Gee! ... Looks like the ST editors really know how to tone down my story :(

http://www.straitstimes.com/ST+Forum/Online+Story/STIStory_409819.html

here is the original ...

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No! Not from Liverpool, but the organizers of the Kop's Asian Tour.

Seems like on match day, Profitable Group had offered the sole rights to Harry's to serve food & drinks at the Stadium. Aparently, Harry's only know how to serve beer in a pub.

When we arrived at the stadium, I vaguely remembered that we were not suppose to bring water bottles into the stadium. So as obedient Singaporesns, we did not. We thought that drinks should be available.

As it turned out, a friend offered to get some drinks before the match started. He must have left his seat at 5.45 or so.

More than 1/2hr later, I wondered if he had lost his way. After almost an hour, he turned up. Thankfully with drinks (water & isotonic drinks!). His response was that he was delayed because there was an order of about 40 cups of beer from someone in front. No problems with that except the beer is poured off a can into plastic cups! How slow was that? Only after that did the stall operator decided to split the line between beer & other drinks.

At half-time, we headed straight for the drink queue, to get water for the kids. Even when the match re-started, I hv not moved more than 10ft! I thought that water was more important for my kids & continued to stay in the Q. Seems like the beer & drinks queue have merged again. We were still in the Q at the end of 1/2 time.

More than 15mins into the 2nd half, did we realize that they had run out of soft drinks & water and only had beer to serve!

Why did they not:
1) mention/shout-out that they were out of drinks? Their answer - "we are too busy"
2) know that 45,000 fans needed water? This is NOT a pub, but a family event! Stock up on soft drinks & not just alcohol!
3) split the queue. Don't they know that not everyone drinks beer!

We returned to our seats, exasperated, having missed the 2nd goal. Worse still, I went home with 2 kids suffering from fever. Probably from the lack of fluid!

It was poorly managed by F&B operators who had no experience. I am sorely disappinted by the way it turned out.

Being a die-hard Liverpool fan, I was still thrilled to see the likes of Torres, Alonso (please don't go), and Carragher on the pitch playing football.

Unfortunately, it still leaves a sour taste in my mouth thinking ...
What happened to the good ol days when there were shouts of "Drinks, karri-pap, kuay-chee!"

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ok ... they edited it well ... I was really sleepy when I emailed this from my iPhone ;-) but still .... justice not done!

- chatboy

Number 15 at 16-14 in the final set! Go Roger!

Wow! What a marathon of a tennis match! Personally, I have never watch a match that lasted this long. Funny tho', at the point when the score was at 10-all in the final set ... I was begining to wonder if it was a live telecast or did someone put in the 2 service games from 6-all ;-)

The FedExpress didn't seem to have the answer to the Rod's service. Everytime, Roddick served, he'd win the game ... then again ... so did Fed when he served.

Only at 14-all did I finally realised ... the only time that Fed won the points was when Roddick faulted on his service! True enough ... the final started. I told my wife and said "Look ... if Rod faults on his first service, Fed will win that point.

And so it did! - Advantage Federer. Roddick serves ... FAULT! whooohoo! "He's gonna win it now!" I shouted.

2nd serve, and Federer makes history! He wins his 6th Wimbledon title, but more noticeably his 15th Grand Slam title.

Looking back ... Fed was not the best player that day, and Rod deserved to win ... but such is life .. till the US Open ... c ya!

Toa Payoh New Town!

.... was the name I grew up with 40yrs ago. The Toa Payoh New Town is the 2nd oldest new-town in Singapore! My dad used to tell me stories about how when we first moved in, I was only 3.

It so happened I was living in Tanglin Halt, before that. And when TP was ready my dad brought the family over. We moved in here. At the end of the day, I told my dad that I wanted to go home. No matter what he said, I still insisted that I wanted to go "home". :-)

Well ... a loving dad he was, he took me down to the swings at the playground and slowly explained to me that this is my new home now.

Recently, as I was driving to my dad's to visit (err ... not that I don't do that regularly) I had to slow the car drastically as an old lady was crossing the street. At that very moment, I thot - "Man! This is an Old Town! With all the old-folks walking along the streets."

Truely, it is an old town now. A generation has passed and Toa Payoh is no longer new and it had indeed aged. Gracefully ... I must add. A lot of the landscape has changed over the years. Many for the better. But, oh! How I long to view photos of the old New Town again ... Googled it ... but came up empty. :(

Cheers
chatboy

Fergie at his best!

A friend asked ... why is it that when Rafa ranted at Fergie, all the Kop was quiet about it? simply put ... it is true ... all true.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=628499&sec=england&cc=5739

so, here we go again. Fergie boycotts television interviews in protest of the Kick-off time!

This only supports what Rafa had said in his rant against the ManUre boss.

He essentially said that Fergie should schedule ALL the EPL matches and the rest of the teams will play by that schedule. Why? cos Fergie said so.

See http://fourfourtwo.com/news/england/23178/default.aspx ... I quote:

"Or there is another option. That Mr Ferguson organises the fixtures in his office and sends it to us and everyone will know and cannot complain. That is simple"

My say? "Sore Looser!"

is it a Shay day today?

Two Choices

What would you do?.....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one.. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.. After extolling the school and its

dedicated staff, he offered a question:

'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.

Where is the natural order of things in my son?'

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued... 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'

Then he told the following story:

Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball... Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.'

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the

plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.

The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over.

The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.

Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates.

Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first!

Run to first!'

Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.

He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!'

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.

B y the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball . the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.

He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.

Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third!

Shay, run to third!'

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!'

Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team

'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'.

Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:

We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate.

The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.



If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference.

We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.'

So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.

You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward

May your day, be a Shay Day. ;-)

PS: I'm not one to forward emails becos I think that is equivalent to a spam ... so do read it here if u happen to pop over my blog. Ok ... u may forward if u like ... BUT only as a link to this page :D

Holiday photos to ClubMed Sahoro ... shud be renamed ClubMed Singapore! ;-)

Here's the resort's webpage ... got virtual tour too!
http://www.clubmed.com.sg/cgi-bin/clubmed55/SP/villagesHeading.do?CODLSC=SAOC&PAYS=362&LANG=AE


A slideshow of the photos we took: