New Sports Hero

Everybody should have a sports hero.

And I have plenty of 'em.

During youngER days,

Bball: You have the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, then Orlando Magic and Anfernee Hardaway

Then soccer comes along:

U have Man Utd and Eric Cantona followed by David Beckham.


Growing up, we stayed out of the sun and picked up snooker, falling in love with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Got the riding license and start paying attention to Yamahas and Hondas and the flamboyant young MotoGP champ Valentino Rossi, while i ride the italian machine.


Then we got hooked to EPSN and know how wonderful are Pete Sampras and Tiger Woods at their games as we try new sports entering mid-20s.


So when pple asked me who am i rooting for entering the 2007 Formula One season,

'OH, Kimi Raikkonen lor'

Fact is, i only found him cool as a Tag Heuer's endorser. :P

And just when every other sports hero out there seems to falter/retire, in comes a new kid:


He's the reason why I:

1) stayed up to finish the entire 71laps brazilian GP on sunday

2) stayed focused throughout the race

3) felt the immerse heartache when his McLaren failed on the gear shifts costing him 30 secs, dropping to 18th

4) heart kept pounding in the hope he will still make it to win the overall champ while he fought back to finish 7th

5) am bloody angry that K.R. won in the end



Nair mind... there's still 2008. And they are bringing him to SG.


I'm already looking forward to it.

:: Sunset Grill & Pub ::

Its only a 10 mins drive away from my place, why did i take almost 10 yrs to patronise this cool place?

The drive in is challenging thou, be sure ur headlights are working. HID helps :)

Heresay from gf the boss is the original founder of Jerry's @ Jalan Kayu, who sold it when it became popular for a neat sum of money and set up a retreat kinda joint here.

Sunset is located within Seletar East Camp, right next to a runway and hangars surrounding it. U get the world war feel, like pilots off-duties enjoying beer + beef in the officers' mess, and the deco inside justified every bit of the ambience. Also get the feeling that the place will kena bombed anytime also.

The buffalo wings are the highlight, we decided to test with the level 2 spiciness first before slowly working our way up to level 10, in time to come.

Gf's sirloin steak is good, almost on par with Hog's breath. My ribs has a funny taste thou, dont try it.

Otherwise, everything's fine.

Fried mushroom button

Bliss Cafe @ Ponggol Park

Gf wanted to try this cafe off Hougang/Ponggol road for the longest time. No wonder she's grinning when I suggested going there when she hopped into the car.

A nice cosy place camouflaged from the heartland noise within ponggol park, u get the waterfront feel ala brewerks/indochine along clarke quay.

They dont get much publicity with the cafe view shielded from its own single storey building. And that's the best part, cos across the road is the typical 24 hr kopitiam which would've killed off any ambience.

Food is passable and not too pricey for dining-by-the-river too.

麻将 and the vegetarian

Imagine u are a vegetarian and some1 in ur group started:

KIA LEH! JACK'S PLACE DINNER LEH!

Very sian half right?

Well, in mine, there was a:

KIA LEH! NERNG POK LEH!

That is the war cry telling all vegetarians to go find their own food.

As such, i couldnt understand what the craze all abt being carnivoral.

Thankfully, I get to find out when gf fed me a piece of meat.

'Its good, try it', she says

Am i glad i did.

And 4 mths later, i'm having a very consistent 5 to 8 poks per weekend, starting from fri midnight to sat morning, then sat night to sunday morning, followed by the final stretch from sunday evening to night before the monday blues kicks in again.


The poks went on in my backyard, so i think my neighbour should be damn pissed by now cos The King hosts his own regular premier league 3 poks there as well while we have the sunday sessions in the living room.


Now i have legs msging me for advance and immediate booking slots early in the week, ranging from bros, uni study-buds, NMC aluminis, to even primary school pals~~

No wonder they call it the social game.

And so far so good, no smelly legs that play but no pay.


Meanwhile, i'm on the verge of renaming the contacts in my phonebook to the following format:

Name.MJ

Name.noMJ

The extension behind denotes MJ player or non-MJ player hahahahahaha

Joking la~~ I think gf is going to kill me :P

Then again, dont think i will ever be the 'nerng pok' party pooper