SoccerTalk 1

It's the world's most popular sports.
The most popular sports in 128 countries around the world.
22 men chasing a ball on a 120yd by 80yd pitch.
Yes. That is football.
And this is my very first post on football after 34 entries...

I will like to kick-off with this well known cliche:
"Football is a gentleman's game played by thugs while rugby is a thugs' game played by gentleman."
Certainly true.
Cos' the moment you step onto the pitch, you are in a battlefield.
And by all means, you are going to win it - unless of course kelong la! (Discuss more about kelong next time - too abstract.)
Off the pitch, we will not have any shortfall of actions and drama.
Cos' football is anything under the sun.
We have sex scandals, corruptions, racial discriminations, riots, dressing room brawls, match-fixing, football bettings and any other things you can imagine.

Filthy, dirty and ugly, yet beautiful.
It is the art of football...

Recall~
The very first football match that i watched was the 1996 FA Cup final between Liverpool and Manchester United.
I remembered that match for my whole life!
Cos' after that match, i am a Liverpool fan!

Yes. "You'll never walk alone."

As of now i am a fan of Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Germany!
and i fancy Chelsea and Newcastle.

If you were to ask me which was the most memorable match that i had ever watched...
it's definitely this one in 1999...! Classic!

"Wa that's really the most cruel way to lose!
And the most Tai Ko way to win!
Sibei Buay Tahan la...nabei like that also can...他妈的！
You see Samuel Kuffour dua buay tahan until he kneel down and cry la...
Lothar Matthaus diam diam chui tak lan lo...
I will remember 1999 Champions League Final in Nou Camp forever!"

This is what soccer is all about...
Love it, hate it, swear and curse...

It's a wonder how much a simple ball can bring to our life...

"Let our feets do the talking!"

10 is The Number!

Yes!
This coming 31st December 2007 marks the cracking 10th Anniversary of our friendship!
Quick, twiddle your fingers and do the countings!

Why not just take a moment and think back...
When you first stepped into class 106...till the moment you read my blog now...
You wouldn't dream of this prodigious day come true, would you?
But it is happening right now!
10 years of legend has unveiled.
Clasp your fist and execute an UPPERCUT blow into the air to exalt this remarkable brotherhood!
This picture above is the hallmark of our friendship.
Believe me, i have this picture framed up on my desk.
It will be a priceless memento in many many years to come...
Imagine your grandson ask you: "Gong Gong, how was your secondary school friends like?"
*Cough Cough...
"Nah, there you see...AHYA~ we all dua bastard one la..."

Somehow, I got this nutty or stupid or childish (whatever you call it) idea...

One of these days before the end of this year, we shall all go back to BPGHS (the same place, same people, same position, same post) and snap a similar photo as the one above.

So what you guys think?

On bo~?

“其实。。。我是真的很爱你们的。。。”- New Year's Eve cry...

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Odyssey of Life

Sometimes we just wished that we can go back in time.
Back to the time when we can change things or start things all over again.
Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of doing so.
We can only grow older.
Time sails. Time flies.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
I really do miss those days when i was a kid...

Remember those good old days...
~When we had our game of marbles at our primary school's backyard.
~Polishing those 'exquisite' silver and chromatic coloured marbles in class.
~When i tore my shoes over the game of 'Pepsi Cola'.
~Jumping from one sit-up plank to another, in the game of 'Crocodile'.
~The renowned game of 'Block Catching' after school, where i hid in my friend's house.
~Burn Laterns during Mid-Autumn Festival.
~Puffing bubble-like balloons using a small yellow straw. Comes along with a tube of gluey-gummy-like paste. (Cost around 5-10 cents, don't know whether they still sell them now?)
~Saturday evening WWF (Hulk Hogan, Diesel, Razor Ramon, Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, The Undertaker & Paul Bearer, Shawn Michaels...)
~Also saturday 6pm(if i am not wrong), my favourite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
~Then we also have all the wonderful cartoons. Captain Planet, G.I. Joe, TailSpin, Batman, Spiderman, Pinky and the Brain, Popeye the Sailor, Tom & Jerry...etc
~Not forgetting those wacky gadgets!! We have Digimon and the Tamagotchi! Where we have to cut off a small rectangular piece of plastic film from the back cover of our school file, just to execute the cheat codes to spawn our ultimate Teddymon/Slugmon...

Gone are those days...

then come another chapter...
~My Pink IC turns fucking green.
~SBO, Helmet and Fullpack became my best friends.
~I had a wife name M16. Clean her from day to night, hug her even when i am asleep.
~My favourite cosmetics were the black and green camo creams. Fuck.
~Where there is no end to toilet cleaning. (It will never be clean)
~Forced to remove fucking pubic hairs from the fucking choked urinals with my fucking bare hands.
~Mosquito bites over my ass even when i shit.
~Dig foxholes that were worse than digging my own grave.
~"Chao Jibuy", "LanJiao", "Kan Ni Na", "Fuck" were just formalities of greetings.
~Bo Dai Bo Chi change Smart 4 to Long 4 to Admin Attire to PT Attire to FBO to Civilian Attire like nobody's business! (Yes, we still have change parade now!)
~ SOC, IPPT, Range are premium 'annuities' to our life.
~Wild boars drank my '100 plus' - my only source of luxury outfield.
~Everything summed up in 2 words - Fucked up.

Got my Pink IC back!
Salvation...phew...!

Chapter - Present Day...
~Snoozed my alarm clock for the 10th time.
~Wake up. LATE!
~MRT
~Fucking Bus 179. (Feels like dispatching captives to concentration camps)
~Lecture. LATE
~Tutorial. Copy answer.
~Eat (Can't even have a proper meal - Canteen packed like Hungry Ghost Festival)
~Tests. Fail.
~Exam. Panic. 'Tabao'
~GPA 2.1. Sibei Buay Gan.

what's next?? Ahya~
Our lives go on as the chapter continues...
In life, there are times when we smile, cry (Chinese get B3??), laugh, 'stone'...and there are some things that we chose to forget.
Life is like a journey. A journey through wonders.
From birth, the only thing that we know for certain is death.
Seperating birth and death is a boulevard of dreams.
Along this road, we will meet Fate-Lady Luck, Karma-Miracles, Love-Hate, Joy-Grief, Peace-Suffering...and many more others yet to come.
Setbacks are inevitable, it is the wisdom that we gained from these lessons that make us rich.
As the saying goes “潮起有潮落”, there are times when things don't go our way, but we have to move on, and hope for the better - which is yet to come.
“人生七十古来西”.
Life is short.
“既来之，则安之”.
Make the best out of it and i will see you at the end...smiling.

"也会怕有一天会跌倒。。。” - 海阔天空

Reminiscence - Part1D

1998 BPGHS Secondary 106:

As i was searching through my wardrobe, i stumbled upon this very 'aged' jersey.
Somehow it elicits the emotions in me and i was triggered to write the final part of our secondary 1 accounts.

~The First Jersey~

The jersey above was discovered in one of the compartments of my wardrobe, possibly discarded and abandoned for ages at the bottom of the compartment. Sounds more like a fossil entombed in my wardrobe, this ancient artifact has been buried for close to 10 years! Its existence was dated back to 1998, where we marked our inaugural chase for the inter-class soccer tournament.
It was our very first team jersey
- Blackburn Rovers.
The jersey was bought from a night market at Choa Chu Kang. As we were not able to afford the genuine stuff, we had to settle for imitation. But why a Blackburn Rovers jersey? That's simply because there were no Rovers supporters in our class team. We have Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle supporters all over our team, therefore to avert any arguments, it was a wise choice.

~Inter-class Soccer~
Our soccer campaign kicked off with great intensity and zeal. Everyone was anticipating a great start to the tournament.
The preliminaries consisted of 2 groups.
Our group consisted of class 1A, 102 and 107.
We beat 102 1-0, drew with 107 1-1, and lost to 1A (not sure about the score).
Sad to say, we did not made it through the group stages.
We will be back next season!

* I recalled Siong Chie scored a goal against 102. My goal-bound shot was on its way in, but he pounced onto it and slot the ball into the net, with much ease. A classic example of FOX - in- the box!
{But FOX + PIG = THOMAS, unfortunately he is just a PIG away from being THOMAS.
" jibye eat until so big like a pig still play dis type of childish thing.. " (Quote from: http://siongchie.blogspot.com/, Thursday, September 6, 2007, 12:18 AM, paragraph 2, line 7.)}

~Runaway Schoolboy~
This account was a rather short one.
It happened during one of our english lesson.
For some reason, there was this uppersecondary student trying to clamber the school fence just outside our classroom. Obviously trying to skip school.
But before he could accomplish his remarkable feat, he was duly spotted by Gimson.
Gimson reported the incident to our teacher Miss Ng.
She was quick to react to the incident and the student was subdued in a matter of time.
The student's fate was sealed when he was turned over to our discipline master.

~The Film Container Saga~
I shall not elaborate on this particular incident in order to protect the privacy of some personnel involved. The title speaks for itself. And i am sure many of the readers know what i mean.

#
Secondary 1 was the year when things were still at its build-up state, or we can say adaptation. It was the time when individual personalities started to unfold, where various small groups were established within the class. Turmoils were inevitable. We often had strifes and a little bit of hassles here and there which i did not mention. Ultimately, we were just a bunch of raunchy and mischievious kids trying to break free into the realm of the earthy world.
No doubt our nonsense will continue and there are more to come in subsequent years, so there won't be any shortfall of "entertainments". Wilfulness is our mastery, but every teacher's nightmare!
It is our trait!

Stay tuned for more drama in secondary 2...

"Wa! Eh 你看我们的sec 2 form teacher 是谁？是那个Sim Sai！”

国家兴龙，李所当然！

'369' (Sa Lak Gao)
'303' (Sa Kong Sa)
'18' (Zhup Pueh Sio Kun Tong)
'24 Ghee Hai Kim '

相信很多人都很熟悉这些名称。
他们都是新加坡败坏风气的秘密组织。
在1950s~1990s，他们曾经是在新加坡猖獗一时的Pai Gia。
可是如今却分崩离析，四分五裂。

不过，我们都不晓得，魔高一尺，道高一丈！
而现在新加坡最壮大，最雄壮热情的Pai Gia却另有其人？
他们手下不留情，拔刀如雷，见钱不见泪，让我们流钱不流血。
简直传神极了！

看看我们的邻居们。
偷吃‘巧克力’，吃完了后忘了擦干嘴，满嘴都沾上了‘巧克力’，还敢说自己是无辜的。想要隐瞒，反而愈加暴露，罪名跟深，一切的辩论都不攻自破！

但是我们就不同了！
偷吃‘巧克力’后，嘴巴擦得干干净净，光明正大的说：“我没有吃！”。
就算有人敢抓，他们会说：“吃太多巧克力对身体不好，我们是为你们的身体健康着想，这样你们身体强健，才能做工做到67岁，你们反而应该感谢我们才对！”再说，如果有人敢抓，他以后连巧克力都不用吃了，他可以去吃黑米饭啦！
要偷吃也要精灵一点。
你看我们的邻居们，一吃就把整箱的‘巧克力’偷吃掉。没留一些给伙伴儿，难怪会闹到鸡犬不宁。纸是包不住火的。
我们还更加厉害！每一样东西偷吃一点点：车费，消费税，ERP，水电费等等。。。
每天吃一点点，每年加一点点，吃到来都比一整箱的‘巧克力’多几十倍！
取之不尽，用之不竭。
这才是真正的厉害！

Pai Gia要你死，一刀砍下去，速战速决。

这样哪里爽？

要每天吸一点你的血，让你还有一点生存的希望，其实你始终还是会死，只是死的比较慢！
一次把你干掉，太浪费了，你还有利用的价值。
为国效劳，活到老，做工做到老，做到死。
国家才会兴隆！

“新加坡最大的Pai Gia就是。。。”

Tang Bo Hu ~dot~ Chiu Xiang

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Makes your day on a bad day.
Enjoy!

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