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  • ANELKA - I'M LIKE CANTONA 2002-11-22 09:36:58 http://www.football365.co.uk/All_News/Premiership_News/story_47902.shtml


    I had a good laugh before i actually read the article
    But now..THIS

    http://www.soccernet.com/england/news/2002/1122/20021122cfcgallas.html


    IS LAUGHABLE 
  • The Returner 2002-11-22 07:58:54 Today was a touch of nostalgia....I've returned to the table tennis table after 10 years..( yes it was that long since i last played table tennis)at last!

    The estacy lasted 5 min. Geez i haven't realised how bad i've become!
    I was literally torn to pieces by the swiftness of ZW's and Robin's Bro's (who i'd later find out was a school team player for his sec school and JC) strokes.


    Flashback to 10 years back-- Victoria School
    ======================================

    Those were the days when the terrible quartet (namely... VJ, Ah Liao. ZX and me) used to play table tennis outside school almost everyday. I really miseed those days...we really had a lot of fun and passion for the sport. It started out as a lame excuse for an ECA. Somehow we heard that once we joined the eca..all we need is train for an hour every week and at the end of the year ..we can have our eca card happily and presto...we have an eca record!!!
    However after a week of training (and getting trashed) , we found to our dismay that an ECA record equals getting into the school team. With our current standard of play...no FRIGGING WAY!!!!
    Nonetheless..we've developed an unquenchable interest for the game and its like a totally mutual feeling ...an unprecented camaderie (for me)..
    I really really missed those days....we were shite...but we played and improved together...by graduation..we were at the top of our game and considered ourselves above average players. Or so we thought :(


    Back to the present : Tampines sports complex
    ==================================

    Its sad that i haven't really played TT ever since. The terrible quartet split and other than ZX...i haven't kept in touch with the other 2.
    Speaking of Ah Liao...now with the unbeatables III being currently shown ...i rmred the day when the 2 of us waited patiently at Parkway 10 yrs ago to catch a glimpse of ZOE TAY (who was promoting Unbeatables I)no less!! Those were the days when TCS was named SBC and Zoe Tay was SEXY (i think i need a bigger drink).
    Well anyway...10 years of not touching a TT bat (and all i did then was play with them 3) and i had to face ZW (who seems to be good at every sport I can think of (dammit :)) and Robin's bro ( i can't seem to recall his name) who's a school team player and pratices every week. The result is erm...nothing short of humiliating..hehe but i had fun.... I think i'm going to call up AL..ZX and VeeJay (big bro) ..its time for THE REUNION (hope we dun end up like terence chao...Chew chor meng and Tay Ping Hui though :)


    Nostalgia....the sweet rememberance of old times can only be equalled by the realisation of lost innocence..(ok..thats bullshitty logic)




     
  • "I think i need a bigger drink.." 2002-11-20 03:57:00 Just came back from the horror fest that was my exam.
    If u wanna know how i feel.... think of the day ur dog pissed on u and amp it by a 100 times.
    Ok that's an exaggeration...and i really don't want to be reminded of it anymore..


    but GOD I JUST HATE THOSE EXAMINERS WHO TRIVES IN MAKING STUDENTS FAIL....WHAT'S THEIR PROBLEM???? I understand that sometimes papers can be tough but this...is just ..i can't think of a mean word to say right now....darn

    For one thing its ten times harder than the tutorials and u can't find any of the answers in his damn lecture notes.

    Ok..so much for not wanting to remember abt it and here i am whinning and groaning...

    ..i think i need a bigger drink






     
  • Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? 2002-11-05 10:58:20 It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world's most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon — the blueprint for celebrity. Unfortunately, for all of their inspiring morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

    A lot of people forget or never realize that I started my band as a criticism of these very issues of despair and hypocrisy. The name Marilyn Manson has never celebrated the sad fact that America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. They just created two new ones when they plastered those dipshits Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' pictures on the front of every newspaper. Don't be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols.

    We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president's brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Does anyone think the Civil War was the least bit civil? If television had existed, you could be sure they would have been there to cover it, or maybe even participate in it, like their violent car chase of Princess Di. Disgusting vultures looking for corpses, exploiting, fucking, filming and serving it up for our hungry appetites in a gluttonous display of endless human stupidity.

    When it comes down to who's to blame for the high school murders in Littleton, Colorado, throw a rock and you'll hit someone who's guilty. We're the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we're the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them. I think it's terrible when anyone dies, especially if it is someone you know and love. But what is more offensive is that when these tragedies happen, most people don't really care any more than they would about the season finale of Friends or The Real World. I was dumbfounded as I watched the media snake right in, not missing a teardrop, interviewing the parents of dead children, televising the funerals. Then came the witch hunt.

    Man's greatest fear is chaos. It was unthinkable that these kids did not have a simple black-and-white reason for their actions. And so a scapegoat was needed. I remember hearing the initial reports from Littleton, that Harris and Klebold were wearing makeup and were dressed like Marilyn Manson, whom they obviously must worship, since they were dressed in black. Of course, speculation snowballed into making me the poster boy for everything that is bad in the world. These two idiots weren't wearing makeup, and they weren't dressed like me or like goths. Since Middle America has not heard of the music they did listen to (KMFDM and Rammstein, among others), the media picked something they thought was similar.

    Responsible journalists have reported with less publicity that Harris and Klebold were not Marilyn Manson fans — that they even disliked my music. Even if they were fans, that gives them no excuse, nor does it mean that music is to blame. Did we look for James Huberty's inspiration when he gunned down people at McDonald's? What did Timothy McVeigh like to watch? What about David Koresh, Jim Jones? Do you think entertainment inspired Kip Kinkel, or should we blame the fact that his father bought him the guns he used in the Springfield, Oregon, murders? What inspires Bill Clinton to blow people up in Kosovo? Was it something that Monica Lewinsky said to him? Isn't killing just killing, regardless if it's in Vietnam or Jonesboro, Arkansas? Why do we justify one, just because it seems to be for the right reasons? Should there ever be a right reason? If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

    America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality, and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain. It's comical that people are naive enough to have forgotten Elvis, Jim Morrison and Ozzy so quickly. All of them were subjected to the same age-old arguments, scrutiny and prejudice. I wrote a song called “Lunchbox,” and some journalists have interpreted it as a song about guns. Ironically, the song is about being picked on and fighting back with my Kiss lunch box, which I used as a weapon on the playground. In 1979, metal lunch boxes were banned because they were considered dangerous weapons in the hands of delinquents. I also wrote a song called “Get Your Gunn.” The title is spelled with two n's because the song was a reaction to the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was killed in Florida by pro-life activists while I was living there. That was the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being “pro-life.”

    The somewhat positive messages of these songs are usually the ones that sensationalists misinterpret as promoting the very things I am decrying.

    Right now, everyone is thinking of how they can prevent things like Littleton. How do you prevent AIDS, world war, depression, car crashes? We live in a free country, but with that freedom there is a burden of personal responsibility. Rather than teaching a child what is moral and immoral, right and wrong, we first and foremost can establish what the laws that govern us are. You can always escape hell by not believing in it, but you cannot escape death and you cannot escape prison.

    It is no wonder that kids are growing up more cynical; they have a lot of information in front of them. They can see that they are living in a world that's made of bullshit. In the past, there was always the idea that you could turn and run and start something better. But now America has become one big mall, and because of the Internet and all of the technology we have, there's nowhere to run. People are the same everywhere. Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. I've always tried to let people know it's OK, or better, if you don't fit into the program. Use your imagination — if some geek from Ohio can become something, why can't anyone else with the willpower and creativity?

    I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. I didn't want to contribute to these fame-seeking journalists and opportunists looking to fill their churches or to get elected because of their self-righteous finger-pointing. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom. Everyone will agree that nothing was more entertaining than Clinton shooting off his prick and then his bombs in true political form. And the news — that's obvious. So is entertainment to blame? I'd like media commentators to ask themselves, because their coverage of the event was some of the most gruesome entertainment any of us have seen.

    I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so most people choose Doom, The Basketball Diaries or yours truly. This kind of controversy does not help me sell records or tickets, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue — it's been happening every day for a long time.

    Brian “Marilyn Manson” Warner
    (May 28, 1999)


     
  • ENGLAND WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2002-06-07 09:28:42

    REVENGE , REVENGE ..OH SO SWEEEEEEEEETT REVENGE

    Quote of the day:
    Crasspo: "The english are imbeciles."
    *from someone who onli touched the ball twice in the entire match


    HOW THOSE WORDS WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU :)


     
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