Comments on: Bundesliga Offside Rewind 19.04.08

By: diana

diana — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:19:57 +0000

‘during a Drivers Safety Training.’
I see…and looking at that photo, now the personal tug-of-war of getting a driver’s license is bugging me again.

Over where I live, owning a car means like you have ‘arrived’ or something. But the fact that this country is that small in the beginning, it’s almost a daily affair to hear of traffic jams on the expressways (it’s like the Autobahn but, we have speed limits here) and how the government had tried ways to minimise this. Always a hot-topic issue. Yes, though I had read about how cities like London have the congestion charge (in fact, I used to read officials from London coming here and look at how we do it with the newspapers back then making a fuss out of it somehow) and Stockholm having a similar system, the fact that it has been some time since we started this here (1998 was when it started), there has been controversy (the whole plan being backfired somehow and there has been changes a few months back in a major transport review) given partly down to the fact that…we love to own cars here.

Trying to tell Singaporeans not to own cars…it’s almost unthinkable (given there are also those who have to own one for working reasons). In fact in the beginning, the Electronic Road Pricing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Road_Pricing) was implemented here was as a result of trying to control the number of cars on the road.

There are a few things I noticed Singapore and Germany have in common and cars is one of those. Being football-mad is another. And with all the talk of saving the environment as well, it’s a tug-of-war for me of whether to own a car in the future.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:18:46 +0000

Crud, I have no idea… Hertha’s Pantelic? (with apologies to Abby if I’m wrong)

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:35:59 +0000

Diana: Yup, it’s Mladen Petrc. during a Drivers Safety Training.

By: diana

diana — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:20:31 +0000

I will just give a shot then…I’m guessing Dortmund’s Mladen Petric.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:03:14 +0000

Yes he is Croatian.

By: diana

diana — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:43:02 +0000

Replying this all the way from Singapore (it’s almost Sunday evening here!) – Congrats to your team, Luke. FC Bayern, the now 14-time Pokalmeister! Wow. And people had been buying you drinks? Whoa…

I could have stream this match but then the kick-off time was very unconvenient for me – 3am on a Sunday. When I found out the final score, I actually almost freaked out at first given for some reason, that scoreline actually appeared in my dream. It didn’t specify the 2-1 refers to which team though. LOL!

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:45:43 +0000

Let’s correct that, FC Bayern. People have been buying me drinks since 1pm here

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:45:05 +0000

Since there is not a Pokal story, I just want to add. FC Bsyern, Pokalmeister!!! An entertaining match for all I think, and certainly so for the brood I was with, but the quality shone through in extra time, even if we never should have been there. 120 minutes to glory in Berlin!!!

By: diana

diana — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:19:18 +0000

Jan, the caption you have in the photo got my attention at once (even all the more…well, I do support the England national team as well despite how they had been these days). I have a few names in mind actually but I want to confirm this first – does he play for Croatia? That is the only question I have.

‘Twice the fun I hope.’
You have just achieved that.

‘Kuranyi in love’
I swear I almost vomitted whatever I have for dinner (it’s already Saturday night over where I am) when I saw that. Not really. Rest assured I never made a mess out of the computer I’m using right now.