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Uncle Choo

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Preface It has really been awhile since I have last written and published an article on my blog with the last being in October last year. Before that I have been writing and publishing non-stop for 15 years since 2008.  I was not suffering from writer's block. They say running water never grows stale. So I have to move on to other things since the pandemic has ravaged and torn all asunder. No matter how passionate you are about anything, you will find that after an absence for sometime, the engine gets cold and you find it harder to start.  Just too darned busy and being too busy with one thing means one becomes lazy with the others. The law of compensation. A hiatus if you must.  Covid made it worse as there was no more travelling since borders were closed and eating locally and overseas were curtailed. So I could not write about these things. In fact, I laid out my travel luggage, sat down and spoke to them - "We are not gonna travel for a few years". They have since be...

Singapore Soccer Legends - Part 2

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In 2008, I wrote an article on Singapore soccer. It was simply titled Kallang and the Malaysia Cup: http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2008/10/kallang-and-malaysia-cup.html In 2011, I suddenly felt inspired to expand the topic and I wrote six more articles: The Kallang Roar parts 2,3,4, three other articles with the "Singapore Soccer Legends" garnering the most hits! http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/07/kallang-roar-part-two.html http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/07/kallang-roar-part-three.html http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/07/kallang-will-roar-again-part-four.html http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/07/singapore-soccer-way-forward.html http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/11/singapore-soccer-legends.html http://gforce-guru.blogspot.sg/2011/12/reviving-singapore-soccer.html Recently, a big local media company even used materials from my blog to feature Singapore soccer in a documentary or something and I did not even know what was used nor did ...

The Kallang Roar! (Part Three)

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Back in the good old days, we have four other national teams. Besides the National Team (The Lions), we also have a B team (The Cubs). Then we also competed in the Sultan's Gold Cup fielding a team called Singapore Malays. We have the Singapore Indians playing in the Bardhan Cup and the other being the Singapore Chinese team also competing aga inst Malaysian state teams in the same format and also the Ho Ho Cup triangular among Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In 1976, Englishman Trevor Hartley became responsible for the Singapore team at age 28. I can't remember which year Singapore beat Malacca 6-2 and Lee Bee Seng was sent off for punching an opponent who must have trampled on him. Here is Bee Seng with Brian Rozario. In the same match Quah Kim Song was sent off too for fighting. And I said wow! Malaysia Cup is like that? I like! (Pix - Lee Bee Seng with Brian Rozario). And can you believe this? Before all these we have Mike Walker who played Kim Song a...