teamboat was founded in 2002. the exact date is not known, but the formation of teamboat took place during a warmup
session before rugby training began. it all began when roland played a game of random team on battle.net
before training. relating the experience of the game to daniel, roland talked about him having a
horrible partner who referred to the unit "steam tanks" as "steamboats". daniel then had a brainwave, and
the two of them decided to create accounts called teamboat1 and teamboat2: the name thought up due to daniel's fascination with food and warcraft.
guanghao joined shortly after the formation of teamboat, due to the need for intelligence to balance out the
gluttony in daniel and good looks in roland. together, the trio have accomplished feats such as making
seoul garden move out of j8. armed with their passion for food and good recommendations from guanghao,
teamboat strives to test (and at the same time, destroy) all buffets in singapore.
currently, the strength of teamboat stands at 3: daniel, guanghao and roland. there is, at the
moment, only 1 associate member: clement.
layout and coding done somewhat by roland
best viewed in 1024x768
even though i use 1280x1024 =p
Monday, December 31, 2007
Maria Sharapova Live
GUESS WHO'S BACK!!!
Ok anyway I went to watch Maria Sharapova live yesterday @ Singapore Indoor Stadium. After getting holland-ed on the PIE and getting lost for around 10-20 mins, my dad and I finally reached the LOOOOONG ASS QUEUE to get into the stadium. Ohwell. What's new, queuing up in Singapore? I have to say, I was quite irritated at a disgruntled angmoh couple that commented "so much for Singapore's organisation". This was because alot of people were trying to move from the East entrance to the North entrance, and vice versa. Well if everyone had the sense to open their eyes and go to their respective entrances instead of following the crowd like typical Singaporeans do, there wouldn't be such a problem! But oh well. What can I dew?
So after a good half an hour of queuing up, I finally got into the stadium. Nice air con, comfy seats... and I fell asleep. Ok no I didn't but the wait was boring because the match was delayed due to inclement weather (wow that's a term that I use ONLY in NS hahaha). The match was OK lar. Maria won 6-0, 7-6 (12-10). The scoreline flattered her I think -- Anna Chakvetadze (impossible to spell correctly sometimes) did play good tennis also but just made more errors than Sharapova did. I bought a nice Haagen Dazs belgium chocolate to enjoy the match. Mmmmmmm. For the desperate, here's some pictures to whet your appetite.
Here comes the 250 decibels!!!
Gearing up for the 4209138123km/h serve
I got tonnes of pictures should anyone want them. HQ. Just ask.
Anyway watching the match has reaffirmed that some Singaporeans are just not well cultured enough. Like hey, who shouts "KILL HER, MARIA!" in the middle of a tennis match? It just shows how immature some Singaporeans are, and it's quite disgusting to think that such people are allowed into such events. Of course, I don't mean that ALL Singaporeans aren't well cultured, it's just a specific few that present that bad image of Singaporeans. And after the event, most of them didn't have the courtesy to pick up their own litter, leaving the indoor stadium in a COMPLETE mess -- 7-11 cups thrown everywhere, burger boxes strewn about etc etc. Abhorrent behaviour. How can Singapore be the tourist destination of choice if our Singaporeans can't even have the simple courtesy to clean up after themselves? How hard is it to pick up your own coke can? :O Also when 8000+ people leave a certain venue at the same time, it's perfectly NATURAL to have long queues on the road. Some dumb people just refuse to acknowledge that fact and queue up -- they try to cut lanes forcefully and horn unnecessarily. Reflects well upon us eh?
Other than that, last night was very very enjoyable (thanks Eddy!). I'll end off with a nice picture of both Anna and Maria posing together for a picture. Ciaos!
