the Thais' sportsmanship (or the lack of it) aside, the referee was even worse. he was utterly useless, as The Referee, he was the supreme judge on the pitch, he was the mafia boss, every player on the field and every person in the dugout listens to him, he has complete authority over anyone involved in the match. but what did the pudgy referee choose to do when the Thais were creating a hulaboo? stand around like some pub bouncer, clutching the ball and staring into space, letting the match officials trash it out. instead of taking charge and punishing the Thais for their reckless and idiotic behaviour, he choose to stone and hope everything would tide over. in my opinion, this guy shouldnt have been chosen at all. he was plain blur, not paying attention and completely clueless about his role as a referee. furthermore, how could he have been chosen in the first place, since he is a Malaysian? surely he will still harbour even the slightest shred of ill-feeling towards Singapore for dumping his Tigers out of the Cup? what is the Asean Football Federation doing? is this how a professional regulator operates? choose referees who may have a vested interest who do not know how to control a match and allow sore losers to suspend the game for 15 minutes, even threatening a walkout? AFF, listen to me, to redeem urself, cancel the Bangkok game, award the trophy to Singapore and ban Thailand for 10 years from the cup.
Asean football aside, i shall add to the speculation of the release of the O level results. i have some kind of logic to it. deductive reasoning, for those of you who take KI. here's how it goes: the O level results should be released before last year. the results were released on 10Feb last year, therefore, it should be from now to next friday. according to previous years' experience, they like to release the results on either monday or friday. it is unlikely it will be tml, so it will be next thurs or fri. since next fri is the 9th of Feb, it would not be much earlier than last year, so it will therefore be next monday! lol.
so im crossing my fingers and praying for the best. hopefully my results will give me an indication of where to head my life towards and what path i should take.
jiayou everyone waiting for Os to be released. God bless.
=)
Auspicium Melioris Aevi. LOL~
PS. read this article, it just shows how unreasonable some people can be...
JOHOR BARU — According to a senior Malaysian official, even the recent floods in Johor Baru are Singapore's fault.
Johor Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman told the New Straits Times that it was Singapore's reclamation project on Tekong island, close to the Johor river, that caused it to flood.
Mr Abdul Ghani claimed that this caused the mouth of the river to narrow and excess rain water could not be discharged. The river then burst its banks in Kota Tinggi, he said, submerging homes and streets.
Singapore has rebutted the claim and even Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak has distanced himself from his colleague's statement. "There are all sorts of allegations but we can't reach any conclusion unless a thorough technical study is done on the cause of floods in Johor," he said. "The actual cause of the floods is exceptionally heavy rainfall."
Meanwhile Singapore's Ministry of National Development (MND) said in response to media queries: "The comments are unfounded. This is confirmed by the results from the technical studies that were commissioned separately by both the Malaysian government and the Singapore government." The studies were carried out as part of the proceedings before the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to settle the dispute on Singapore's land reclamation works at Pulau Tekong and Tuas View Extension.
The MND pointed out that a study carried out by Malaysia's Department of Irrigation and Drainage in 2002 on the impact of the reclamation works should there were no appreciable changes to the water levels within the Straits of Johor for flood flows. "As such, the study concluded that there is no increased flooding due to Singapore's reclamation works," said the MND. Other studies came to similar conclusions.
Both governments then accepted that it would not be necessary for the flood impact to be assessed any further. "There is, therefore, no scientific basis to the allegations that the flood is caused by Singapore's land reclamation works in Pulau Tekong," said the MND. The Johor administration has come under increasing pressure in the wake of the floods that killed 17 people and left Malaysia with a massive RM1.5 billion bill — the cost of helping the flood victims and repairing roads and schools. About 30,000 people are still taking shelter at relief centres.
Until now the Johor government had not pointed fingers at anybody over the floods. In fact, it had been banking on visitors from Singapore to help bring its economy back on its feet
Our fault??!
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Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction - Klaus Dodds
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