MCFC Stumble Against Hermon 3-3

In a brave attempt to exact revenge on their opponents, Hermon came out of last Saturday afternoon's match against Carmel, the happier of the two teams. Despite being buoyed by the return of Left-Back, Mattheus, Midfielder, Marcus, and Striker, Aaron Lee, MCFC drew 3-3 against their cross-history opponents.

This latest result also came as an expected one, as Carmel were without their first and second-choice keepers, Joel and Andrew. Top scorer, Seng was also absent for the match. A makeshift keeper had to be drafted in, and evergreen Uncle Sam proved to be an able replacement when he kept the score reputable even though he conceded a penalty in the first half.

Carmel, at their homegrown in Lian Hua Primary came out strong in the first ten minutes with all guns blazing. Kern, Vincent, Aaron Chong and Aaron Lee pounded the Hermon defence shot after shot, but to no avail. Vincent broke the deadlock soon after with a brilliant strike past the opposing keeper.

Meanwhile, Zhi Yang and Marcus controlled their central midfield with aplomb, spraying balls to their teammates and protecting their defence, led by an aging Uncle Tai Wah.

Halfway into the first half, terrorised by the quick strikers of Hermon, confusing broke out in the Carmel box and a penalty was given for an offence committed. 1-1.

Boosted by the confidence of new boots, Right-Back, Mark gave one of his usual reliable performances.

The second half began in earnest and Uncle Sam was now replaced from his keeper position into an attacking player. The switch left rookie Uncle Sok Chuan in goal. The move proved to be a fatal mistake later on during the match.

Carmel's cohesion as a team was questioned when cousins Shawn Poon and Keith had a bust-up on the pitch. Keith's urging of his cousin to run and challenge for balls was met with dissent from the latter. Aaron Chong then replaced Shawn Poon on the left wing as Poon stormed off the pitch.

Uncle Sam soon allowed MCFC's lead to be restored with a spectacular solo effort as he rolled the ball into the Hermon net. But Hermon drew level after the Carmel defence failed to clear a loose ball off their penalty box. A Hermon player was on hand to rocket the ball past the aimless Uncle Sok Chuan. 2-2.

MCFC had to thank Uncle Sam as he scored a real poacher's goal when he sneaked near the Hermon keeper who had spilled the ball. The evergreen player was more than delighted to help himself. Vincent and Kern led Carmel's attack and continued to pound the opposing defence in a search to put the game beyond Hermon's reach.

Calamity for Carmel soon struck when the slow defence was outrun by Hermon's pacy striker Jia Yi, who had dribbled through the centre-backs and also the oncoming Carmel keeper. Hermon drew once more as Jia Yi grabbed the equaliser. 3-3.

Despite MCFC having an average game, the presence of a stable keeper and the speed of Seng was sorely missed.


Aaron, reporting inthetopcorner

Rants and Rumblings...

29/9/08,end-September.

It's been almost 4 and a half months, since mid-June that we even had a simple chat. As far I can remember, not even a word of "Hi" was exchanged. Good friends have now become total strangers.

Call it self-preservation, cos my outward appearance shows that I care little about our friendship. But deep down, how I yearn to have things the way they were before "THE MESS" was created. I know I was wrong last time, but why can't she forgive me? Any attempt of saving this friendship was met with indifference.

What more can I do? What more can I say?

Day by day, month by month, I'm slowly losing hope of salvaging our friendship. As the saying goes, "Lightning does not strike twice." God has already worked a miracle once. I really wonder if He can do it again...


Aaron, wishing he can turn the clock back inthetopcorner

My First Byline!

there it is! hard work finally paid off....


and...
MOVE OVER BECKHAM! HERE COMES MY NEW NO. 23!!!!
RAFAEL VAN DER VAART!!!!!!



There's a match later at 5pm against Hermon at Lian Hua. Feeling very confident about it. Finally am able to put on the Captain's armband again! Onward to victory!!!!

Aaron reporting inthetopcorner!

Journalism: At the mercy of advertisers?

Can news just get any more disheartening after I've completed my very first article, only to be told by my editor that the supplement may not be published due to the absence of any advertising?

W.T.H!!!!!

After two nights of slogging, I may most likely have to come to the conclusion that my effort was in vain.

With that said, this set me thinking. Are newspapers at the mercy of advertisers? Is it possible for newspapers to continue their operation without advertisements? Where has the true meaning of journalism gone to? By nature, journalism is supposed to education, entertain and inform readers, and not be a channel of marketers who want to promote their services!

Perhaps in today's day and age, we are truly living in a money-grabbing world...

Sad. =(

Aaron reporting from thetopcorner.

My First Assigned Article!

It's only the 3rd day of work at Internship for me, and already I've got my very first article to write! It's an article for the F-1 supplement of TODAY newspaper. It'll be slated for release on the 24th Sep, Wed.

I shan't spoil the surprise as to what I'll be writing about.

This assignment came as a very pleasant surprise. During one of the department's impromptu brainstorming sessions, we (colleagues and myself) shot out ideas as to how we were going to present the information in the newspaper. Thankfully, my editor loved my idea and gave me the go-ahead to write the article. Woo hoo! Thank God for that.

Will officially start working on the article tomorrow at work. I've got a week to complete this, and confidence is running high in me.

Cya soon readers!
Aaron out, finally reporting inthetopcorner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Internship Begins!

It's 7.50am. It's my first day of work today as an intern reporter at Today Newspaper. Work begins from 10.30am to 7.30pm. I'm rather excited about it. Will be getting my own cubicle, my own name cards, my own I.D tag and also the chance to write stories! Besides, lunch time is also another good opportunity for me to catch up with my good friends who work around the area too (Tim and Pam)!

Yesterday's movie outing with Tim, Pam and Sam was awesome! We went to catch Mamma Mia! It's a very good show, found myself singing to the familiar Abba tunes whenever the movie broke into song. For all your musical lovers out there, this is one show you have to catch!



Will be catching Babylon AD with them again tonight. Which means I only have half-an-hr to rush like a mad dog from my work place to the theatre. Wow!

Alrighty then, readers. I'm outta here!

Aaron starting work from thetopcorner.

I'm back!

Considering how long I've last blogged, I shall attempt to make up for loss time and provide you, readers, with a substantial entry.

These couple of weeks have gone by rather quickly for me.

First it was my birthday, and with a couple of my best buds, celebrated it at Shokudo. (Refer to Sam's blog, for the pics..). These days, I do watch quite a few free movies at gala premiers, thanks to my uncle who works in the movie industry... very fortunate to have him provide the tickets and the freebies.

This week, I just came back to S'pore from a family trip to K.L. Still suffering from a hangover from too much shopping and eating. Life's good there when you consider the high exchange rate S'pore has to M'sia.

And now I feel I'm wasting my last two weeks of hols before my internship at Today Newspaper starts. No one seems to be available, my good buddies are either not free or in army, or having their internships. It's getting very boring. Worse still, my feet are aching to kick a soccer ball. I can't remember the last time I donned my MCFC jersey. Besides, I also wanna try out the "Integrated Soccer Socks" that Pam and Lynette gave me for my birthday!

Readers, feel free to ask me out ya? I'm bored staying at home. Well, at least there's a possible fishing outing with Sam next tuesday...

Till then, here's
Aaron being really bored inthetopcorner.