Sunday, August 27, 2006
How to counter Aran's team
By aran's team, i mean zhengwei,kaiye,aran,iype and a goalie. These 4 people often team up together and manage to burn the street unless another team with 4 considerably strong players come up. Even then, there is no guarantee which team wins.
Firstly, they have two styles of play. One is to have the two defenders iype and aran to stroke the ball around, waiting for the forwards to move into an opening. They then pass the ball to the forwards who hold the ball up who either wait for the defenders to push up or have a go themselves. Second one is where iype is in charge of playing the ball and aran moves up and they attempt a longball of sorts.
They use the first style most commonly and here's how it works. The two defenders wait for an opening before passing. The forward who receives it can usually hold the ball enough to let the defenders push up, and then passing it to the defender. The defenders freely try shots at goal and if they are unable to, can pass off the ball as they move continuously.
This series of continuous movements work because all 4 are decent passers and have decent first touches. As they move about, openings are created as defenders unconciously start to manmark and are drawn out of position. If the defenders are not pressured right at the start, aran can then dribble through the middle, forcing the other team to run towards him and drawing space for the forwards, while already near the offensive half of the court. Otherwise, he drills a shot in the middle
The forwards are the most important part of this as they are the ones who hold the ball up and move around to draw space. Both iype and aran have dangerous shots from range but only if they have the space to do so. Hence, if one can pressure the forwards enough to make them give it up, the play fails.
Kaiye plays best at holding the ball up and waiting for the defenders to push up. He tries to flick the ball sometimes but 99% of the time its ineffective and he does much better simply holding the ball up. Most of the time he can do this well enough, so putting an average defender to hold him there is sufficient. The forwards of the team must double back to doubleteam kaiye, whilst keeping the defenders nearby as to be able to take them on if kaiye manages to thread a ball to them.
Zhengwei likes to dribble the ball around and sometimes gives it off cheaply so a good tackler should take him. Again, the forwards must doubleteam him whilst keepng the defenders nearby, otherwise no doubleteam should occur.
The forwards must hassle aran and iype for the ball, but not let them dribble past them. When aran and iype give away the ball, the forwards must go back to defend but only if they can keep the defenders in check. Keeping the defenders in check > double team.
Lastly, there should be no man-marking. Every player should stick to his area, but improvise when the situation calls for it. If aran's team has more players to the right, move along to even up the numbers. This way, aran and iype will not be able to take the many long shots they often get to take, defenders do not get drawn out of position and lesser openings are created.
When attacking, good dribblers should focus on iype and beat him through the walls as he is slow to react there. very few tricks work on iype, but pace does. Kaiye and Zhengwei are pretty aggresive in closing down, hence the forwards should take advantage of the space given when they push forwards to harass defenders. Through the walls, defenders can then pass the ball to the attackers. The attackers must quickly maneuvour for room to take shots at goal.
Individually,
Iype is prone to making careless mistakes and vulnerable down the sides (walls) as he is often slow to turn around. Although his first touch, passing, shooting and defending are good, he rarely ventures forward and plays the defensive role of the team.
Aran is gay for two things: a very fast turn-shot and his long-ranged shots from rebounds, or otherwise. To stop him from taking so many shots, players should be aware of where he is and quickly close down his shooting angle. His turn-shot is devastating but here's a counter to it.
The turnshot works this way: The moment aran pushes the ball lightly to oneside, his other foot starts to swing. As he has done this a lot of times, he swings his foot very quickly and by the time you see him turn, he already executes the shot. The crux of this counter is to look at his pivot leg. To execute his turn-shot, he relies on one foot to pivot himself and the other foot to shoot. He cannot change the direction of where he shoots. Hence, whenever one sees aran shifting, the defender should move to the direction he shifts immediately. There is no way in hell he can execute a shot in the opposite direction when moving into one, hence there is no danger in shifting to guard one direction when aran turns.
Zhengwei can get into shooting positions and dribble much better than kaiye. Kaiye holds the ball up better. Hence, the stronger defender should take on zhengwei. He should not commit easily, but whenver a shot is attempted, the defender should quickly cover the angle. A simple, average defender who can hold off kaiye is sufficient, since a good defender might not be able to take the ball off him either ways.
However, when zhengwei and kaiye switch positions, problems occur. Best-case scenario is both defenders are good enough, however if that doesn't happen, the stronger defender should cover the weaker one, and put less priority in marking kaiye.
OKAYENDFAGBORING
I think street soccer is very similar to basketball in terms of positions! Here's how.
Point Guard- Develops the play, brings the ball forward and looks for opening. Requires decent ball control and vision of the game. Useful to have good dribbling skills. The street soccer equivalent is the defender who brings the ball up from his half. Pointguards are players like: me, iype, aran.
Center- Physically strong is a must, must be good defensively and its useful to be good offensively. Must be able to hold the bal up. Sort of like a ballwinner, but unlike basketball, height is not much of a requirement in street. Centers are players like: Wincoln, Zhenghao
Shooting Guard- Has to have a good shooting ability as its name suggests. Players like: Fabian,
Small forward- Usually quick with good ball control. Able to manoevour in tight spaces and shoot accurately. Runs into openings to get space. Players like: Zheng Wei, Yujie
Power forward- Can hold the ball well and be able to play with their backs to the goal. Usually more aggresive, and requires decent levels of passing and shooting. Players like: Yiming, Kaiye, Yujie
Many players are versatile and can switch between roles...Ok done.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 4:38 AM
Friday, August 18, 2006
3n seems to be becoming the next 2M.
You know, some people from 2m went to 3n, most of the funky people from 2O and 2n went to 3n as well, turning it into a pretty bonded class.
So what does our class have.
I think the only people who can be on friendly terms with everyone is me and mogie.
A group of study-elitists sorta distance themselves with those on the bottom end of the spectrum, the slackers keep away from the study-elitists, there are a few who mostly keep to themselves (unlike me who will randomly move up to a guy and go,"why are you looking at me? fuxch00!"), a few who keep to themselves a lot and love speaking negatively a lot about others...and some people who are really strange and if i may say so, pathetic.
I shan't name names, on the whole the class seems to be friendly enough with one another, but there lacks the link between mates and acquaintances, the bond where both sides can be natural and speak with no fear of incurring the other person's wrath.
"life is never fair", that seems to be something many people around me are unable to grasp or accept. recently we had a physics test, where there was a sudoku puzzle which would unlock an alternative, easier question in place of a harder one. So, before the test, some people were taking the sudoku in their stride, feeling it is but another, possibly easier path to take. Some people who haven't done a single sudoku like me, resigned ourselves to taking the harder question. Some people were proclaiming their amusement at the inclusion of sudoku, but nobody vehemently protested.
There was no basis for protest, because it could simply be ignored.
However, a few people who got the sudoku puzzle wrong which effectively killed off 4 out of the total of 35 marks, and there began complaints. Why should we lose marks over something which has totally nothing related to physics? A few people who got a single sudoku number wrong, were penalized but stil awarded marks, because all the other numbers were correct, and since if the person had thought the wrong answer was in fact, the right answer, ALL the numbers should have been wrong. Hence, it is clear that the a person who had 1 number wrong is obviously careless. But no, complaints of double standards were raised on this as well.
Why do people choose to look from every possible negative perspectives? A neutral perspective (like me) would look at the situation this way: The sudoku puzzle is a possibly, easier route and alternative to the harder question. If you do not know how to do the original question, the sudoku is there to help you. If not, ignore it. It's actually a very fair system, but mr tan views it as "life is unfair" when in fact, he was being fair, and also helping the students.
Another incident was the...erm our monitor chose the people who did not vote in the polls as the ones who would put up the performance, it being some form of punishment. While i think that it isn't entirely fair to push everything to other people because they didn't vote, people are being too harash on him.
All of a sudden, they criticise his blog. they seem to be extremely disturbed by the "dictatorship style" alan's message seemed to be written in (imo, it wasn't..), and of course, protest fiercely to it. They go "wtf, fuck la what is this! okay lor, u choose us don't blame us if we put up a shit performance"
I don't really know how they feel, because i do not know whether they experienced it before. I've experienced numerous times where i felt like going "fuck this, screw it all." 1 example is IRS in sec 1. The day before the semi-finals, guan yu wanted me to come up with a "website" format through microsoft word. Chris eng had gym to attend, edward was sick. In truth, me and guan were the only ones churning out the semi-final ppt.
I did up the work, staying up till 1. i realised i had no medium to store the information. I had no thumbdrive, internet cldn't be used to access as it was done on MWORD. Could i email? I didn't think so, because that meant i had to attach many multiple attachments since for every link, the link led to another mword document, and it was extremely unfeasible.
Last option, floppy disks. I tried to scrape whatever floppy disks icould. All could not be used, until i inserted one in. I saved it in the floppy disk. During the saving process, the com seemed to hang.
I had to reboot the com. I tried to eject the floppy disk. It was fucking trapped. I checked to see whether the document was saved in it. no response from the disk. I opened up mword, and found a recovered version which lacked a shitload of links, meaning i had to start creating the mword documents, then hyperlinking them to the main table of contents. The time now was nearing 2 am.
I completed the recovered version and saved in on the desktop. I took another floppy disk and wanted to test it out. The previous floppy disk was stuck inside. All that time spent doing the "website" went to shit.
I lost it completely.
I hammered the eject button, my frustrations and anger causing me to breath loudly and furiously. I felt the frustration building up and started screamin and shouting in anger to myself. my fingers slipped into the floppy disc drive and i tried to forcefully pluck the disc out. My anger channeled all my strength to my arms as i pulled mercilessly, knowing that it would damage the floppydisk drive but i ddin't give a fuck to it all.
It was near 3, i was extremely tired, drained. And all for nothing, i was frustrated, angered at this piece of crap life handed to me. I just wanted to go"fuck semi-finals, fuck chris eng and edward" and throw myself to bed.
A high beeping sound started emanating from the computer. The loud curss and screams to myself, coupled with my violent tugging of the floppy disk trapped in the drive awoke my mother and sister. They tried to help me, but i had made a possibly removable trapped floppydisk into something completely unsaveable. I actually managed to rip out the frame out of the drive, but there were still some bits and pieces left. When i tried to insert another floppy disk, i couldn't even slot it through halfway. The whole drive was damaged.
I wanted to slam the computer down and not give a fuck anymore. But guan yu had given me this responsibility.
I tried to do the best i could then. I saved whatever i had into my email, planning to tell guanyu to retrieve them and put it in a folder tomorrow. Hopefully we would have time...
And thankfully, we had a break before it was our turn to present. We quickly saved it in the thumbdrive guan yu had.
I don't know how you make out of it. Life certainly made a fool of me, it pushed me to my mental and emotional limits. It wasn't fair that it was up to me and guanyu to complete the semi-finals presentation but we did. It wasn't fair that the job of making a website was pushed to me at the very last moment (chris eng was the..leader..he being a slacker).
But i still did it and pulled through. The floppy disk drive is still damaged.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 9:32 AM
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Here's what you have to do to request. Add me on msn at letalswordhero@hotmail, speak to me on msn to put forward your request.
Heres wht it must contain:
-the email address of the person you want to annoy
-how the person is related to you
-the topic you want to tease him on, or just allow me free access
-how overboard you allow me to go
Here's a sample.
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i never call you at all..Chocolate is good for the soul. guess our hearts are made outta chocolate then. says:
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u just now say elloc'mon we can do this says:
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silverletal [Simple and Clean] 9:03 AM
Monday, August 14, 2006
Topic of the day: Singapoe is super boring
I'm not the kind of person who goes out very often. I do get sick of staying cooped up in the house all day, but going out doesn't seem much fulfilling either way
Let me try to summarize the activities available to the regular Singaporean teenager.
-Lan Gaming
-Movies
-Walking in circles at Orchard road, glancing at clothes, buying whatever appeals
-Kbox? (never done that)
-Pool?
-Bowling
-Do the worst thing possible. neoprints.
And other possible, but fast-tiring places like
-Escape theme park
-Swimming Pool
-Zoo
-night safari
For those over the age limit,
-Clubbing
Clubbing blows. Inhale that smoke, guzzle alcohol, dance liek a fag, That's all. Unhealthy, I guess it's acceptable every once in a while to relax. But not a place you find interesting after going there repeatedly.
Escape theme park, maybe you get a few thrills for the first few times, but it dies off after a while. Plus, it's expensive.
Swimming, quite fun actually but no one seems to take it intensely. I suppose the over-chlorinated water, mixed with the dirt of everyone who jumps straight into the pool, turns people off. I think this is quite a cool activity actually, i remember last time when i swam i always managed to get into some stupid invented game like "Shark".
Zoo, night safari = smelly = uncool + fast tiring. Only for family outings.
And now we move into the regular activies the average sg teenager takes part in.
Lan Gaming, enjoyable, does not tire out easily. However, it burns a big hole in the wallet, and at the end of the day, doesn't accomplish much, especially if you suck at it rofl.
Movies, ahhh it seems every week a cool, must-see movie appears. Many a time i feel like watching but in the end, can't find the time to go for it. Well, it's a extremely repetitive process but the fact that every show is different and most hyped-up movies are actually decent enough to enjoy numbs the $7-$9 paid. Once in a while, i'm cool with that. Watching 1 movie per week = minimum of $28 a month. Two months = One PC game or GBA catridge which provides muuuuch better entertainment if you choose the right ones.
Whenever i go out, after movie+food, we get walking around aimlessly and we see plenty of people doing that too. Windowshopping = walking around aimlessly, admiring cool-cookie shoes/clothes = walking around aimlessly, only if you already have the intention of getting a gift or buying at the start, does it count as not walking around aimlessly. Why? Either there's nothing to do, or the entertainment is too expensive. Sigh.
KBOX = no comment, haven't done that although i suspect it would be quite fun in a large group.
POOL = no comment
Bowling is corny and for people who rarely bowl, it is but a HUGE waste of money, and gets boring very fast.
neoprints?!?!??!?! no, omg, neoprints.are.the.retarded.shit on earth. There was once john wanted to take one with the other guys. Everyone joined except for me. I thought it was retarded and still do. Having a low-quality picture with puny resolution and some retarded flowery things at the outlines spells gayfag, girlywhiny, to me.
Waaaow, so the only decent activity that seems interesting and not too much a waste of money is swimming. Can you blame people who spam computer games everyday? People who go out everyday aren't doing much better since they normally stick to their own friends, and to make things worse, they splurge lotsa $. Lotsa $ gone to waste.
Does going out often give you better social skills? Maybe it helps, but it depends much more on the person. Take me for example. I hardly go out during the holidays (track/soccer trainings don't count plzzzz) but i have better manners than i think 70% of all teenagers out there. Actually, i think 70% is too low a number, probably distorted by the circle of friends i have who are actually pretty dam polite when you compare em with the avg sg teenager.
And, i have 0 problems talking to people of either gender, actually more like i keep to myself, because i'm not the extremely social person but when strangers ask questions or speak to me, i give 90% dam bloody better replies than the retarded "i donno haha," because i actually keep silent and think of a good reply instead of shooting out whatever comes to my mind.
btw i also very, super rarely talk to girls. Like er, once every 3 months? More during holidays when people meet up, but as i said i don;t go out often, so not by much. msn convos don't count btw, you smirking nerd smiling to yoursel who only knows how to sms and speak online but comes up with a shit convo when face-to-face (super-plenty of idioticcc puhleese questions and statements i've heard, even from our white knight angst punk, player casanova kyle, the one and only fabian.)
I come up with a decent, interesting conversation which the nygh girl karen can 100% be my witness and some idiots will doubt me and actually ask her or get friends to ask her, or try to know her or..er. whatever.
I know i went offtopic but yeaa, sg is too boring a place. expensive entertainment blowssssplsssss
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 6:08 AM
Friday, August 11, 2006
LC has a nice blog. www.cameh.blogspot.com, i think it surpasses mine it a few areas. It addresses a lot of problems with our Singaporean teenagers.
Anyway i agree on his latest post. About dice with life. And, fabian and minjian and other people might be offended, i won't tell you to look away because you'll look at it anyway.
You know, this blog by the girl called vera shaw and fabian's fatality. After reading the damn two blogs i just feel so frustrated and disgusted. I feel quite disgusted that some teenagers do not give a shit about splurging money excessantly, their parent's money by the way. Spend hours to waste their lives on nothing, nothing fulfilling, just cheap, superficial entertainment. And the worst thing? I don't splurge but i don't spend my time fulfilling either.
I don't get how someone can show, reveal so much about his private life/love. Openly expressing his sad/happy/heartbroken emotions, taking the effort to italicize them. I mean, c'mon how fucking fake can you get? You want to express your sadness, your disappointment, i won't care, i don't blame, but italicizing it? For? Drawing attention to those feelings? A true emotion expressed should be pure, vibrant, the words you use should be what people can truly feel and relate to. What's this shit about italicizing it, and claiming all those feelings are true.
Don't give me shit about how its your blogging style please, because if its about your blogging style, keep it to yourself because i ain't convinced.
It seems superficiality spreads. Okay, maybe during our primary school years we don't mind making fools of ourselves, shooting vulgarities in public thinking we're cool. But get real, in Secondary 3 you ought to have grown up a little and quit doing shit like that. Or, doing ridiculous things like buying condoms, underwear as birthday presents. Seems like birthdays are treated as a joke, meant to be flaunted and every cheap joke squeezed out of instead of the deep friendship and joy you feel when friends say "happy birthday" to you, meaning every word and not saying it out of courtesy. You know, i truly felt remorse at not greeting happy birthday when it passed but seeing how you seem to be happy with ridiculous gifts, forget it.
Oh, yea, say "fuck" to every child in the library. Amazing role models, tells me what fun means to you, incredible manners your parents taught you.
Buying shirts and pants at your whim and fancy, whenever one catches you eye. Then asking your parents for money. K, sure you can say that i say this only because i am not used to that or my family ain't that rich as yours, but hey, I still speak truth, i don't throw tantrums because parents refused to get me newest ipod/mp3, puh-leese i don't even have a handphone and i still have 100% confidence i have a much more fulfilling life than 90% of teenagers out there.
We all have superficial moments, selfish moments, moments of jealousy and envy, superiority, and reading that retarded nanyang girl's blog, taking in all that superficialty, excessant splurging of time and money, i swear to make better use of my life from now on.
Oh, if you think i'm pointing at you, it means i speak truth.
One guy i have much more respect for is Xingyun. At secondary 1 and 2, he was a decent guy but through plenty moments of stupidity, managed to get himself despised by nygh. He tried to be a poser, tried too hard to fit in, but through his blogs i've seen him change, seen him realise life is not about girls and fun. He can start to see from his parent's view, i quite admired how resolutely he swore off dota, and saw through his resolution despite my temptations and probably other people's.
Superficial people of this world, kill yourself or change.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 6:48 AM
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Hey
Instead of putting myself down like what many people seem to like to do, either because they truly feel that way or they want to seem modest, but whichever way it is still quite pathetic, this post shall be dedicated to how great I am.
You can choose to brush it off, acknowledge it, but i don't care because you know I speak the truth anyway. People call me egoistic, some say i'm delusional, but at the end i have evidence that i am definitely not the lattar, perhaps the former. And, there is not tagboard for you to flame if you wish to btw.
Should I put it there? There seems to be no point actually, other than increasing the interactivity between me and the reader. Probably anyone who bloghops and stumbles upon this blog will keep coming back for more unless he/she is an utterly enlightened individual, is full of activity in his life such that there are no bored moments within it.
Actually i want this blog to be famous, to gain attention. I don't know, attention seems to be something good to be gained, especially positive one. I am no desperado-attention-seeko but it is simply a normal human instinct. I do wish it be famous and be voted best blog instead of xiaxue's which i know pretty much pales in comparison unless you count putting photos in as good.
Reconsidering, i think i had better put both my positive and negative sides. Uh, yea.
Okay, i shall have the format, positve one, negative one, positive two, negative two, you get it? You must be retarded if you don't, and i don't serve retards.(actually i serve no one but myself, and perhaps my best friends)
So here we go
Positive trait one: Athletic/Sporty
Well firstly i am decent if not above average at soccer if you take into consideration the time i play and the training i received until the past 2 months. I stand out in basketball if you put me into a crowd of people who hardly play basketball, even though i next to never play it. I am above average in running if you take into account the whole population, but am one of the slower ones in track. Also, i have above average stamina as well. My arms are average-weak strength though, i do not know why others can be much stronger when they do not do much arm-activity like me.
Negative trait one: Concentration/Focus
I think i have average concentration but i count it as negative because i want to have excellent concentration. Meaning i can do well consistently in competitions, focus at least 80% and clear my mind away from distraction. I heavily encounter this problem during high jump, and sometimes soccer where my mind goes into a blank.
Positive trait two: Great adaptiblity/Fast learning ability
Dota, CS, advanced wars, i got a decent proficiency in all of these games within a considerable short span of time. I am probably one of the best advanced wars player around, and i picked up dota and cs fairly quickly. Of course, i hardly play cs except for those rare lan occasions so i still suck at it. Overall i pretty much learn everything and anything quickly although that sometimes varies according to my interests...
Whenever im in a new situation or school or environment i can adapt quite well, make friends easily, can see which situations i am right or wrong and hence, appear to be an excellent guy which i truly am anyway. I think most people who know me in reallife like me? Those who really interact with me (same class) anyway. Oh, and dota requires good adaptibility yea.
Negative trait two: Closed emotions.. (for lack of a better word)
Although i can make friends pretty easily, i keep to myself if i have no need or no desire to open up. Eg if i am going out with my friends, i'd rather keep to myself during that period than try to know more about people by taking the initiative. Anyway, people have no right to complain unless they themselves take the initiative of which i would say "rofl pwwnch00" and shrug off. Oh, and ex-class outings...no i don't feel the need to open up to talk to girls even though i know they are too awed by my greatness to take the initiative.
I hold my emotions to myself quite a bit, eg during track and field when everyone is cheering, i would be standing up to show my support but not screaming out. I rmb during the ri-hci shield when gino scored the winning penalty, everyone in the hci soccer team dashed towards gino but i held back, then jogged slowly to them with a huge grin on my face. Oh, and i try my best not to appear pleased yea, instead i prefer looking unfriendly since that means people are less likely to try to bully me and people asking for donations would be deterred. BTW i think it works quite well.
Positive or Negative trait: Straightforward/Unfeeling
Hah, okay, i'm quite harsh to people who i think bitch and whine about unnecessary things. Or are ignorant and yet try to be knowledgeable and talk tonnes of crap. Also, incompetency pisses me off but if i see the guy is trying hard i do hold back and give him the support he needs. Being straightforward depends on the person you talk to really, most people are turned off by directly negative comments, but some managed to acknowledge it. The rest, of which is the majority, made up of girls btw, cry/pine/whine turn defensive, fail to see the holy truth in my words, cry/pine/whine/bitch.
I can easily beat around the bush and talk to a person nicely, help him nicely, but i choose not to because it fills me up with joy to get the person pissed at me when i am speaking truth that would help him. (BTW I TORE MY TOE SKIN I CAN SEE THE RED IN THE FLESH). And, it would be a waste of my time! Some people get offended really easily though, so its negative to some, positive to me.
Positive trait: Mature enough/Thinks a lot about life/ Able to emphatize/ Put self in other's shoes
I can do put myself into other's shoes extremely well, its a gift i guess but most of the time its not needed. Why? Because 90% of the time people are crying about unnecessary things, although there is a small portion where when i put myself in their shoes, i feel sympathy for them. Although i dare not claim i am super mature, i think i am mature enough, to the extend that i see past material comforts, can control my desires (such as jealousy and infatuation), reasonable.
I think a lot about life actually. I think more than 99% teenagers. Therefore i am hardly depressed, can give 99% correct judgements in love, family, or friendship. I think about what i would do if i ran across a bunch of people beating up another, i imagine myself alone with two girls throwing themselves at me, i think about what would happen if people close to me died. A lot, so from now on you should trust whatever judgement i have, but most people are too ignorant to believe in truth.
I can emphatize. I am sensitive to people's feelings. That doesn't mean i don't offend people rofl, because most of the people i offend deserve it. Some people get angry over small things, i can't help with that but in the end, i know how much hurt my words will inflict and can control myself.
Negative trait: Egoistic..?
The majority of people who use this word on me are...girls. I think because every guy wants to appear nice and comfy in front of them, and my straightforwardness surprises them. Hah, i don't have a small ego but not a very big one either. I can take criticism no problem, i do get some things wrong and i admit my mistakes if i did make any. But if you claim i had and i flamed back nastily, it means I have not made a mistake. I hate apologizing btw.
Positive trait: Attractive/Hot
I am probably going to get pooned or burned by a lot of real-life friends by mentioning this, BUT I HAVE FACTS TO BACK THIS UP! Besides the natural attraction that comes about with being an athelete, I think i have a pretty damn cute/hot face as well. Well, guys being guys have a different criteria of what's hot or not, but only the girls matter so 100% facts from that gender. Actually, there are a few guys who mention i have my face have unique features..but nevermind.
Due to the horrible stereotype and social environment, very few girls would go up and tell a guy he/she is hot. However, i do know for a fact that when i was primary 6, a girl one year younger liked me. An infatuation 100%, but 90% infatuations occur to a hot person only. I have also received various sources from people close to this girl in my secondary years that she liked me, its not 100% sure but its pretty damn close because i think blushing on sight and keeping quiet/nodding head when people ask "do you like him" should be consent.
Oh, and one very iffy source, during the ny carnival kaiye was talking to cheang and then he suddenly turned around and told me that cheang thought i was hot. Well, he said it quite loudly, i do not know for sure if it was true or false but cheang didn't seem to have any reaction that objected to his statement.
What must be taken into consideration is that, unlike many others i do not make too much an effort to make myself look good. That is, no expensive shoes, no superlow ankle socks, no pulling down of shorts till their at my knees, no tucking out of shirts, no expensive haircuts, no handphones, no mp3 players, often sleepy look. At most i do is make me hair presentable (which don't take much effort), make sure i do not have corny high socks which i think teachers would oppose to, do not have superhigh pants which is already ridiculous because i find it impossible to wear high pants rofl, they drop down to my waist.
So to any resident hottie rding the blog, try what i did and see how many people you attract k.
Negative trait: Super-cocky look
I put on this look especially when i'm around ny girls because most of them think they are too hot for you. What i do is i keep looking up and my chin is slightly tilted upwards, whenever i catch the eye of a person i would look away with somewhat of a smirk. I did this in the mirror and thought it was 100% qianbian cocky. Otherwise, i put it on because i know i am superior to most people around me in terms of nearly..everything? Except maybe studies which i am not too hot in heh. Thing is, i have never been made fun of on the street by other schools as compared to some of my fellow hci busmates...I think many people do not dare approach me because of this look which is pretty damn fine with me.
Positive trait: ability to stand up for myself/friends
This applies only in serious situations where i really think it is necessary. My queue gets cut by people who allow their friends to cut but that isn't very serious. And some other minor examples i can't think of right now. However, during the serious situations where i need to, i do. Eg i remember i was playing street soccer with my classmates who don't play regularly and hence, aren't very good. Some people from other consorts came down and deliberately kicked the ball at one of my mates, trying to passs it off as a pass (amazing pun). I went up and told him to stop it, and he did.
Oh btw, there was one incident where me fab mj and mj were playing soccer at the void deck with 2 malay teams. Once there was a pretty skillful malay who tried to dribble past me, got tackled and started getting extremely riled up and hitting me. His hits weren't very pain, i was quite confused actually so i got hit for..er nothing. He tried this flying kick which er, missed but anyways it was an uncomfortable moment. There was a period of time when they gained control and kept ramming the ball to our keeper, until it reached the skilfull guy, i rushed up and blocked his ram and looked him in the eye. he seemed to leave me alone after that.
Negative trait: Procrastination
Yea even the great one can't escape from this one. However, i have procrastinated less than before and will probably get better so yea ^^
Negative trait: Sloppy/Lazy
According to weiling myattire, the way i carry myself, my sleepiness all make me seem sloppy. I'd say fuxch00 , because thats due to me being lazy and errr k sloppy lor. BTW its a bonus to my hawtness. Oh, and no sense of punctuaity. Which is true, sometimes in the morning i can't be bothered to wake up and go "who cares i'll jus be late for an hour!" This is especially true in track and field because I CANT BE BOTHERED TO WAKE UP SO EARLY JUST TO JUMP, but i do like soccer and have always attended trainings on time
Negative trait: Being an asshole
OKay, i do make fun of people, i do taunt them. I offend, maybe humiliate. I can be an asshole at times. But i think i know where the line is drawn.
Conclusion: This is not a complete list but i had fun writing it and i am sure you would have had fun reading it as well. as you can see, i am an excellent guy with minor flaws, hence, all of you bow down to me. Alternatively, see if anything happens if you drop your handphone into the toilet bowl.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 7:49 AM
Monday, August 07, 2006
This might be controversial.
This might offend christians.
This is a warning.
I'm going to tell you how i view God.
You see, the Bible, the church, are the socalled evidence of God's existence. Supposedly, if you do not believe in God, you will not end up in Heaven, even if you were the most virtuous of people. Since one has nothing to lose, why not choose to believe it?
God helps you in all aspects of your life, God loves you, when you are down and out, God will be there, a shining beacon of light to carry you on his back, out of the valleys of Satan, of darkness and corruption.
"I pray for God to give my strength"God has strengthened me, made me strongerI can feel the love God has for meThese are common phrases of a christian. I have an acquaintance who's blog i visited several years back, crying about her life, praying for God to give her strength. She says she realises how she has forgotten God, abandoned him, but now realises her fault. Often, the thread of hope that God is there for her is the few traces of optimism in her blog.
A few days back, i stumbled upon her blog again. The same sentences repeated throughout her blog, she thanked God for giving her strength, yet the number of difficulties she faced, the hardships and obstacles she claimed to face in her life did not lessen.
I tagged this-
"Don't you think its ironic that, judging from the blogs, a non-believer of God seems to have a much better life than a believer of God."
The non-believer, is of course me. God does not seem to have made HER stronger, she seems to remain...as she is.
I do not believe in God because I have not felt a clear presence of him. Christians cling on their faith, when in truth, faith is but...blind belief? Because your parents, your childhood has inclined you to God, therefore you believe him. Replace God with, let's say Racism. Because your parents, your childhood has inclined you to racism, therefore you believe in it.
Perhaps Christians have felt God's presence and hence believed in it. I haven't, and i would rather suffer than believe blindly.
Sometimes during competitions, i feel this urge to pray to someone, to hope that a higher being can bless me to victory. But i always held back. I want to do well, knowing i did well because of my own abilities, not because God blessed me. I would admire a person who takes charge of his own life, than pray for God to help him change it.
Much of my morals are on the same wavelength as that of God. To do good, not fall prey to greed, glutton, envy. Those sins are tempting but i believe in my ability to keep away, and as much as possible refrain myself. I have felt jealous of people, but i constantly hold mysel back, and try to erase the jealousy.
Tragically, i cannot be in Heaven, not because i do not adhere to his teachings, not because i do bad in this world, but solely because i do not believe in him.
If God really loves every human, if he is what christians portray him to be, he would accept me, because i make the effort to be a better person, i try to be true to my conscience and self, he would understand that i do not believe in him. Rather than being drawn in by words of preachers, one should believe in God because he himself has experienced God.
Yes, one could convince himself that the good things that happen around him are the work of God, the bad things because of the sins he created. I choose to believe the good in my life are a result of my good, the bad because of the mistakes i made. I would admire a God who rewards those who strive for themselves, than rely on him to pull them through life. I would admire a God who respects a person's personal thoughts and beliefs, looking at the character of the person than whether he is a believer of himself.
Some cynical quotes that speak truth
-A cult is a religion with no political power
-Is God so in need of an egoboost that he needs millions of people worshipping him?
Instead of the superficial "why should i belive in god?", i choose to address what i think of God. If he exists, he should be someone who comes to you aid when you are in desperate aid, not someone you pray for help, and expect him to run in to save you from everything without you lifting a finger.
I do remember there was an incident where i had not enough money to buy a 1-way mrt card. I turned back and somehow found myself looking into the eyes of a man. He seemed to read my mind and asked,"Do you have enough?". I took a dollar and thanked him, truly grateful and appreciative. He nodded, patted me on the shoulder and said
God bless you.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 5:34 AM
Saturday, August 05, 2006
People who don't know soccer should just shut the fuck up or play us.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 9:51 PM
fuck yeah i got over my 7 year crush all of a sudden!
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 10:28 AM
So...a post on the soccer friendly against ri
I think from a player's pt of view, it's much harder to see who is performing well so i'll just describe the match from my point.
So the day started off with frisbee, which is one of those simple games which is super fun if you really play hard. Even though i threw a lot of throws that went off, i still rofled and blamed my teamates pwn!
Then, ihe test. The day before i actually stayed in the library for around halfhour to study the plate tectonics and i do think i might be able to scrape a pass. Chinese test was gay, halfway we had a fire drill.
Soz. The real excitement started after school. I wanted to eat lunch because i feared i would be out of energy like last training where i felt awful the wholegame, being supertired after making just one run and not being able to focus...I prayed to myself for adrenaline to carry me through.
At 2 we gathered to put the goals in place. I really think the whole soccer team has bonded as a true team, everyone was joking as we carried the goalposts to position. Previously everyone was asking if i was starting and as much as i wanted to say yes, i couldn't. The past training wincoln played in centermid and darryl was pushed to leftback and i didnt want to lie to myself or disappoint the rest if i ddint start.
We saw mr tok coming carrying what would be our jerseys. Everyone was quite excited and eventually i got number 3. Ramesh came and we had our teamtalk, and i was i starting as leftback. Was a confidence booster, and he went through the basics of what we were supposed to do.
bx was keeper
samuel, yaolei central defence
me leftback, fab rightback
wincoln, aran central mid
darryl leftwing, kaiye rightwing
strikers guangyue and gino
on the bench was yujie, xy, mj, gino, iype, zhenghao, tobias
we warmed up and saw the ri team. They weren't as big as fab described ._. , but we heard they had 2 geylang youth players and their nat under 16 defender wasn't playing.
the conditions of the match were...wow. we had a ref and 2 linesman, plenty of waterbottles by the side and quite a decent crowd of spectators. Hon was watching, that we knew and i didn't feel too shaky when they match started.
The firsthalf kicked off and we immediately put pressure on their half. The first time i got into play was a highball and i was going to control it with my feet when it went under instead. Swore in my heart and felt myself cursing, also heard the jeers of the ri spectators but luckily the ball went to samuel.
Wincoln got a decent longrange attempt, thats all i can remember
Second time i got into action, again an identical highball which i repeated the same mistake. But this time the consequences could have been much more disastrous. The ball fell near the penalty area and 2 ri players were going to get it with none of our players near them. I rushed back and knew i wouldn't reach it before the ri players so i instinctively slid and managed to knock the ball just before the ri player reached it. I thought it was going to be a corner but bingxiang managed to get it just before it went out and kept it in possession.
I breathed a sigh of relief. Both sides kept putting pressure on one another, we did better, but their geylang midfielder was causing havoc on the rightflank. We put pressure again, and suddenly this longball was launched to my flank and i was slightly caught out of position. I got back in front of him, waited for him to make his move, saw he hit the ball too far and quickly nipped in to cut it off for a corner.
From then on i did extremely well on the ground but pretty terrible in the air. Kept challenging for highballs without really aiming but the right winger could not get past me once. Everytime he would keep the ball under his control, i would wait for him to make his move, he'd push the ball to the corner which i either cut out or tackled.
So- i was getting quite tired but i still felt i could keep on going. Wincoln was a tremendous help and often dropped out to shield the defence, ramesh's tactics of compacting the midfield allowed us to win the ball plenty of times. We had a few chances that might have resulted in goals if guangyue put more effort into bursting but it was still quite a good firsthalf where we played better.
During halftime we were made to lie down and have our legs raised perpendicularly, probably to let the lactic acid spread or something. Drank lots of water, and then ramesh started the halftime talk. He mentioned guangyue not playing hard enough, aran as well, and took off darryl for zhenghao. Also, he said their goalkeeper wasn't good, and the only player who could make things happen was number 11, the geylang midfielder.
Secondhalf kicked off
I did better, again their rightwinger had no way to get past me. Fab and kaiye linked up well and sent in a lot of crosses which their geylang defender did well to keep out. However, there were plenty of shaky moments for ri, while we remained relatively calm except when the geylang midfielder wrecked the right wing.
Yaolei and Samuel were solid, yao lei rarely missed a header whereas samuel provided great cover and was pretty much unbeatable. I didnt want to run up too much because i knew i was afraid i would tire out and get caught out of position, so i simply tackled and passed.
From freekicks and corners, there were quite a few goalmouth scrambles, according to xy there was an open goal but the ball went through aran's legs. Plenty of halfchances came in for us, whereas RI's only threat came in the form of number 11 who made quite a few mazy runs. One time he got past kaiye, fabian, yaolei but samuel was unbeatable and stopped his run.
Then cramps set in. Wincoln and zheng were the first two victims, wincoln wanted to play on, but 5 minutes later his cramp set in again and he had to be taken off. Gino came in for zheng and iype for wincoln. near the end of the game, samuel was down with cramps but he managed to hold out till the end, and aran was subbed off for mj.
There was quite a chilling incident where this substitute ri striker broke through the defence and attempted a volley which bx managed to parry into the air and collect when it came down. But it was a very late offside which the referee was late to blow for.
And then, the number 11 tried his luck at my flank near the end, he made to cut into the penalty area, i shifted to block, he decided not to cut in and turned outside, i followed, then he pushed the ball in front and i felt him trying to retrieve it by running behind me but i shrugged him off and got to the ball first, pushed it towards the corner for a bit while turning so that i would face the ri goal and hastily cleared it.
In the end, the game settled to a 0-0 and the match had to be settled through penalties. Guangyue, kaiye, zhengao, samuel, gino went to take it.
ri player stepped up and scored. 0-1
some ri students went near the goal and flounced about, trying to interrupt/distract our penaltytakers. it looked bad on them, everyone knew.
samuel stepped up and hit the crossbar. 0-1
ri player stepped up, bx got a hand but he still scored. 0-2
zhenghao stepped up, smashed it towards the right goalpost. 1-2
ri player stepped up and scored. 1-3
Samuel told us to face back and relax. It didnt matter if we won or lost, we played better and that was all that mattered. I didnt see any of the other kicks
Kaiye stepped up. we heard the whistle, we heard the hci cheers. 2-3
ri player stepped up. we heard the whistle, we heard the hci cheers. 2-3
guangyue stepped up. we heard the whistle. we heard the hci cheers. 3-3
ri player stepped up. we heard the whistle. we heard the hci cheers. 3-3
gino stepped up. we heard the whistle. we heard the HCI CHEERS. PAnDEMOnIUM! (my n button is spoilt, the only way i type it is by copying and pasting)4-3
The whole team rushed up to hug gino, followed by the our supporters, councillors, friends. somehow i didnt rush up, i held back, then jogged towards them with a huge grin on my face. I hold back my emotions quite a bit haha, even during jubilant occasions. The feeling was incredible, that i had played a part in this piece of hwa chong history. Every HCI student was smiling widely, we hugged, shook hands with everyone we met. We proved our worth, we did ramesh and mr tok proud, we did the team proud, we did the school proud.
Simply, incredible.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 6:31 AM