arsenal 1 - 0 blackburn (bergkamp)

great, the gunners are top of the table now. catholic high too, big guns blasting into the vjc invitationals semi-finals with an amazing 110 odd points difference! saturday was a long day. woke up at seven thirty (on a saturday mind u!) and made way to vjc. it was to be my first time judging debates at inter-sch level. not an enviable task at all. i've always detested judges who are unable to justify decisions, or justify it with lame reasons or are just simply biased, met a couple myself during the sec 4 campaign, olive goh, vickram nair.... and at the end of that day, i'm proud to say that i did not dissent for either of the 2 debates i judged. yeah! the first was pretty much a clear-cut victory, 'THBT conscription has outlived its usefulness', ri vs swing team, then its was a slightly less obvious result for the debate between ri and anglican high..'THBT teenage romance should be discouraged', arguments aside - both were pepetually assuming, ri came off sounding dead serious as the opp, agreeing teenage romance is bad, but dun think discouraging it's gonna help. ahs were at the other end of the spectrum, too sexually-charged. 1st prop disagreed with pre-'martial' sex (who doesn't unless u're into S&M), 3rd prop (a female) suggests having sex in front of parents if opp wants teens to have an above-board relationship.....youngsters nowadays ah...sigh..... even my vice-chancellor's shield policy of chemical castration and state-sponsored genocide of homosexuals to prevent them from adopting appear to have been outdone by these promising youngsters..... the passion for debating is probably still in me, my tongue may be blunt, my brains may have rusted, but that passion, however subdued, still burns inside me. and i guess it all boils down to the unfulfilled dream......oh yes, and in between the 2 debates i judged was the great bishan derby, prep round. THBT universal values should take precedence over local beliefs. RI prop, CH opp. CH WON! unanimously (albeit by a very very tight margin per judge), with Mark coming in as best speaker. it was a good tactical switch with mark being the second and amoz third. and if amoz can improve more, the unfulfilled dream might not yet be that unattainable after all. Xander's the man! kao4 ni3 le4!
the whole thingy ended around six, then took a cab to town to meet bq before murali's birthday function at room full of blues. it was a pretty decent place though their rendition of bourbon coke tasted weird. then we had the free jamming portion where bq, murali and kurt went up to play about 2 songs, with or without you and wonderwall. then was the cake-cutting, luckily swensens dun close so early, if not it would have been a carrefour instead.....then unfortunately, murali got drunk and me and bq sent him home first, not exactly the best way to end one's 21st birthday, sigh.... that can be a qian2 che2 zhi2 jian4 to me. after making sure murali's safe, we then bia cab back to prinsep and played some pool.....then me wilson, teo and bq went to the prata shop near my house for supper.....what a long long day......siong sia, clear off also so siong.... what to do, that's how civilian life's gonna be, and with barely 6 months more, i might as well get used to it!