102. Football Spirit

Ideals/Personal

It's burning! It's your favourite team/club winning! It's a goal!

It's footballllllll. In the US, they call it soccerrrrrrr.

This post is an ideal concept conceived as perceived by me in view of the current style of supporting-your-"(favourite)"-football-team/club.

A fellow football sports fan/supporter once talked about something similar to what I intended to write on here. He talked about why certain people support or become fan of certain football clubs - one of the critical reason is seeing your favourite player playing in it. Fair enough, a lot of us football lovers have some kind of heroes in the game to look forward to in watching the games.

Here in this footballing post, supporter is approximately equivalent to fan. Fan is defined here as someone more loud and hardcore as compared to being a supporter who merely supports the sports and the games. I, myself is a football and an Arsenal supporter (slightly fan). I enjoy any football games but only reserved time mostly to watch my favourite club play. I love the footballing spirit. I genuinely find footballing is a great sports activity and a team-based game altogether.

Tell me what you know about footballing when you shout, "MANU ROCKS! CHELSHIT GO TO HELL!". Nah, don't tell me about histories or how the ball came into play.

And corruption spoils the game totally. Especially the spirit. People with money and power to manipulate games really put the game in the limelight of disgrace and disappointment. I believe most football players hate game fixing They may lost all the games they play in their life but buying your way up the podium is just not football. You may as well go to the casino and gamble or fix your way through to earn cold hard cash.

So do tell me about how the teams play strategies or how the player play the ball the next time you shout, "ARSENAL FOR THE WIN!". There must be a reason why they put up the banner, "Giggs has been tearing you apart since $%^&*". Sorry, fellow Arsenal fans I support football totally so any team which plays well I'd like to watch and savour.

Let me brief you on the types/styles of fans in my opinion generically. It's typically EPL teams or Barcelona.

(not in any order of atrocity)
1. Die-hard fans good version - These are the fans who support fully their favourite team since whatsoever age for whatsoever reason. They do not condemn other teams. They concentrate only in their favourite team.

2. Die-hard fans bad version - Ditto the first sentence of no. 1 description. They condemn the other teams because they only love their favourite team. They only support the other team when that team is playing to bring down an opponent team which is a major threat to their favourite team in the standing.

3. Bus-thirds - So-called fans who only expressed their support to show that they are supporting the correct team which is usually the team which wins a lot. Who does not really watch football. Non-sensical actually, omit this but situation exists.

4. Common bus-thirds - Fans who picked the best team which is usually the team which wins a lot - ok kudos for knowing the history and so you picked an all-time winner team. And watch not much of football. Reason slightly similar to no.3 which intention is to be "correct" in choosing a favourite team.

5. Footballer fans - This is rather a subcategory for no.1 and no.2. These fans they play football. They know football. They enjoy football. Their reason in choosing their favourite team depends on the no.1 or no.2 category they fall in.

6. Non-football fans - This accompanies no.5. They do not play football. They may or not know about football. But they enjoy football, because this falls under either no.1 or no.2 ~diehard.

7. Neutral creeps - They might still be analysing on which team to pick and make it their favourite. If not, then they are just enjoying the game. Good thing these people do not make a fuss when watching. Everything looks normal or cool if there is a goal.

8. Neutral creeps version 2 - They analysed and they picked the team which they think plays properly or skillfully or amusing. They join in the fun of supporting spirit. Other time, they remain nonchalant.

(this categorizing and condemning of fans are based on my observation opinionatedly - come on I don't have the right to say you don't have the right to support I just think your football spirit and mine are different)

I reserve no. 9 and no. 10 to be described shortly after this brief intermission. No.9 and no.10 have good football spirit but not necessarily the best because die-hard fans hold their spirit highest among all.haha. And no.9 and no.10 are description-modified versions of no.1 and no.2 die-hard categories. I mean they could be die-hard too but their reason are defined precisely.

9. Experience-based - One might have went to watch the to-be favourite team play before. Or met any of the players before. Or just that the TV somehow seemed to show the particular team play when it is switched on. This could be due to his/her die-hard fan father or brother. So this know-nothing person picks up from there. Or by playing video games. These are also basically results of luck.

10. Player/material-based - Handsome player. Handsome coach lol. Good samaritan player. Beautiful jerseys. Amazing advertisement. ok la super skillful player. Very subjective. Definitely not of pure football spirit but surely somehow or rather, develops into it.

Hopefully that's all. ~"bola sepak - raja sukan".


About my style of supporting: I'm a combination of no.9 and no. 10. A bit of this and that from them. This is how I come to supporting Arsenal FC as I can remember. On experience-based I agree with my brother claiming that somehow we just chose that team to play in a video game. Ok respect, Winning Eleven it's a good football video game. So from there, we learn the names of the players and associate with their football matches we watch occasionally on TV.

Let me recall, there are Pires, Kanu, Wiltord, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Seaman, Henry...a handful of great players which I can recall. Notice that these players I just mentioned are not in the club anymore.

Henry is great. And then before World Cup 2002 I heard that Zidane is great. So I became a fan of Les Bleus, the France team. This is no.10 style of football spirit.

These players are not performing anymore. At least not for Arsenal or France anymore but I still continue to support them. This has become a result of development of footballing spirit. A reasoned and seasoned one. I really respect people who tell me about how good Manchester United players play their spirit and their winning legacy and they are downright the most rightful fans of Manchester United. And because I was and still is partially a Red Devil supporter. How these people came about to support the Busby Boys are not generally important anymore. It's the spirit.


To be honest, I'm never die-hard. I just might sound like one because supporting becomes interesting and exciting during get-togethers for football watching.

ok there had been countless mentions of the word "football spirit". That is it.

Do you know who this player is? He is Jared Borgetti who plays for Mexico.

[photos taken from googling]

91. Foot to Your Ball

Personal

Well, let's see.

In need of maintenance.

Something for the World Cup football season. My amateur start-ups haha. Economical and simple.

The boots. It's a Topper. Model is Brazil..should be.

Nike T90 Classic keeper's gloves. No, not kitchen mitts.

Ah..something I wanted to get ever since my love for the football game was really conceived in year 2002. Then I get it 7 years later. At discounted price. With the colour I'd been eyeing ever since. And ever since, I didn't grow any much taller to be an efficient goalkeeper. A well-respected position. Supposedly incredible in reflexes and agility.

And this is the latest in the family. Mercurial Veer. Caps earned in Georgetown, Sepang and nilai.

This is actually my 4th football purchased. First one is red. It was bought like 10 years ago and it bears the emblem of Mexico football club...yeah..they just beat France 0-2. 2nd one in black, came 1 or 2 years after that. It was under Jon's care when he claimed his dog has caused the ball to rupture and rendered unserviceable. I didn't get to say goodbye. And yeah Jon, you're still keeping my Real Madrid Siemens Mobile jersey.wooo

Lazy to take them photos of the balls. 3rd ball in gold, is an imitation design (only the looks not the construction) of the Teamgeist of World Cup 2006 Germany official matchball.

Hmm..have been getting Nike products already. I'd always been against Nike products because they are too simple and they cost so much. Yer know..just a tick. But recently they have a lot of designs that are both simple and elegantly great.

I set a new target on a Nike sweatshirt. Termed combatant, with Rooney blazing in the promotional poster. Never mind. I might wana get it for my own birthday present haha.

Say, humans are easily materialistic. I'm easily one. As simple as this, I see it I like it I get it if I can afford it. Less research. Just wraps the heart in comfort. Then of course think of the usage.

Yer see I like sports a lot. Especially football. I adore and respect the sport. I like the gameplay and how the players are trained to play with the ball. Strategy playing of course is not my cup of coffee but it's also highly commendable. Well as for me physically I just like to kick it and see how it takes on flight. Of course teamplay is definitely very fascinating.

Kick it. Bend it some other day.

86. HTIAF EHT PEEK

Personal/Ideals

houh

hoho competent car driver's license here I come. My "P" just expired less than 24 hours ago.

I am the friendly and receiving kind. The homely and a bit caring.

Thus, the list of my friends as visitors to my rented house in Nilai as correct as of 7th of March 2010. [excluding uni-mates and parents/relatives]
1. T M J
2. Cyn
3. Wheen
4. Jason
5. NKY
6. Hooi

And the overnight hall of fame
1. T M J
2. Wheen
3. Jason
4. Hooi

They may sound gay because if any random female entry we'll all be in lock-up ready for 20 strokes of rotan. mmm

So far so good Arsenal FC. Show what these young players can do in the ultra tough competition of Barclay's English Premier League. Even without their Dutch shooter, Persie. arh..kita punya sebaya Aaron Ramsey patah kaki..sungguh sedih. Faith be kept.

85. Gun, for Fun

Personal/Ideals

[Picture from googling]

[of my closet, Home kit coming soon]

Keep The Faith

Guns N' Roses - Two revolvers pointing at each other with rose flowers coiled around

What is the significance?

Rock and roll.

For fun purpose, I brought up a some random defining thinking. @#$%^ Figure out what made the rockers and rollers think of the name which consists of guns and roses. oh right, I read before that it was the name of the members of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose namely, Tracii Guns and Axl Rose (almighty).

Think again, it's somewhat a great match. The logo is very beautiful. The colour of the gun and the red of rose also show some contrasted perception. A rose, so beautiful and static. The gun so powerful and dynamic, it can shoot. A peaceful idea in contrast to the violence-ridden invention respectively.

But they share something in common. Nothing "nice" lasts forever.

The rose portrayed some peace but it also has its thorns in which it symbolizes "war->engage" button. And so the gun is also used in wars. However it has 2 functions; pull the trigger to start the war/end the peace or to end the war/start the peace.

..Even though the metal of the gun lasts quite some time heh..

Anyway, gun can be seen as the hard and rose the soft elements of Guns N' Roses.

Pore over the words from the song Civil War.
"
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

~We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer~

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway
"

That is just as civil as our country. Sorry-asses.. no comments

I've highlighted on this song before 5 years ago in my friendster blog haha if you could find it.

Whatever it is, just carry on with life.

"The show must go on"~Queen

[No guns on this one, another one has]

65. Sound of Silence BROKEN

Break the sound of silence!!!

Barcelona 2 - 0 Manchester United

In my opinion, I'd give Man of the Match to Carles Puyol the Barcelona FC skipper. For the Barcelona fans/supporters and anti-MUs CELEBRATE THE DAYyyy-oh-eh!

I missed the first 20 minutes as we had trouble finding a place to watch. We came out from house at 2.30 it was too late then, every teh-o-ais outlet was fully patronized. Added with the heavy raining people crammed into the shops for shelter. Finally we found a spot, ah...at least I had my supporting part for Barca... I really participated in the cheering and shouting. kiss to the air..I mean ceiling. adieu

If it was Arsenal in place of MU, the score might be Arsenal 1 - 5 Barcelona. Because there's no Ronaldo =D so they could can score at least one despite conceding 5. Just a wild assumption.
~5.30am, 28-May-09
[photo from googling]

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Listen to YW, tune in to 89.9 FM frequency(only around KL area I think..) for great classics to modern 90s music in radio, at night you get sentimental Malay classics. And Manchester United vs Barcelona May 27 20:45 should be our May 28 around 3am. Do inform me for the precise timing.



at least Arsenal played a good game with Manchester United this time...

>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamE96KIkQI&feature=channel
nice and great, only for maggots. anti-maggots please don't approach.

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[Read: MDG + free food and Tuborg beer]

At The Curve on Friday night.
[Sound of Silence is a songtitle by Simon & Garfunkel - - enjoy the silence (Depeche Mode)]

63. 2nd Degree Burn

Personal/Ideals

Yeah I had burns on my hand. Burns from filing and sanding in the fabrication of my metal hammer. Like rubbing your skin on salt fast enough to feel the heat tearing off the skin. And my heart was burnt a bit...

Burning of 2 games in the Champions league. Arsenal lost 0-1 and 1-3 to Manchester United in the semi-finals. No, I don't consider myself a very supportive fan. Because I didn't stay awake to watch the 2nd leg, anyway I consider myself lucky. Because it would have been a massive heartache and more bleeding grip of finger-clenching tension through out the match. Imagine seeing Park Ji-Sung scoring so early then be followed almost instantly by Ronaldo and wtf another goal by Ronaldo wth. Fans and supporters were only given a small redemption ticket to watch a penalty score by Persie.
yeah man tear his face off..hahaha no offense, just joking. can't joke at MU too much..their fans are all around me

T.T

YW, this is the malignant cancer huh heh..

Let's see another fight on May 16 for EPL...

[photo googled]

62. Satisfaction + Sound Check

Personal/Ideals/Review

This is called a 2 in 1 posting. So everything's fine up till today. So far so good...

Huh...Arsenal lost to Manchester United 0-1. I was so tensed during the whole match..plus shivers sent by the midnight wind. Next leg, May 5th. Will Gunners step up?

So, it's good. I've been a good boy recently. heh it sure does feel good when you managed to complete tasks either at home or school. Accomplishments do always come with a reward, the most basic being satisfaction. ooh.. I will dedicate this time to some of my new daily activities. With added spice..

ya noe, i feel accomplished/great doing..
-wake up early (sleep earlier)
-jogged the neighbourhood
-have a hearty breakfast (nutritional)
-start efficiently on revision/study
-walked out to stock up on home food
-cook meals
-clear up the heap of laundry
-ironing
-cleaning the toilet (at least it's sparkling to my short-sightedness)
-have satisfactory fulfilling dinner while enjoying cuci mata
-abstain from regular self-entertainment
-play the guitar for at least 2 hours....huh
-found many good rock/metal classics
-read news and articles regularly (Yahoo! and theStar Online)
-etc

ah...that's not all. I also derive satisfaction from discovering new knowledge. When you're curious over a particular subject you go on to research and cross-referring until you achieve a self-understanding with it.

But I continue to fail in performing these simple objectives:
-clearing up the email inbox
-start reading my books (apart from studies)
-.....

Nothing much anyway..after this week there will be 3 study weeks left. A week of study leave will follow. Then some serious groin-massaging 7-subject busting exam.

Time for a review moment. This is the headphone I use everyday for orgasms through listening. No..don't get it the wrong way.heh

Altec Lansing AHS502i

My brother bought it for me some 2-3 years ago at around RM50. I think the price is still around there. Good reasonable price for a great handphone, but not top-notch of course.

Pros:
-Great surround
-Strong bass
-Clear and crisp treble, with good mid-range quality
-External noise-cancelling design
-Cool looks with a cool microphone

Cons:
-Bass overriding overall tone (overcome by adjusting equalizer through music player)
-Distortion at certain frequency and especially with too full sounding recordings (natural)
-Not so resistant to wear and age-foam pad gets its cover all cracked and torn after prolonged idling and dust accumulation (basically it needs care and maintenance)
-Definite shape of ear cups so they just press on your ears until it hurts and soars

It works well for me so far, in playing Ace Combat Zero where you get to hear the high definitions of the sonic booms, missile launchings and explosions plus wreckages airborne. Also, you get to experience almost real radio communication within the cockpit, "Bogey, two. Strike at will. Copy" or "I'm hit! I'm hit!".

And of course, essentially great for rock and metal music where clarity and feel are not compromised. You get the left and right or centre sounds accordingly. For movies, thumbs up as even someone talking behind the first-person is channelled accordingly so you feel too as if the person is talking behind you.

But note this, it's not top-notch product and it does not guarantee every fat high hopes of delivery of a good sound system. At my level of wealth and expertise, this headphone certainly satisfies me.

I will be saving up for either the next PC fair or a visit to Lowyat to get a 2.1 speaker sound system. I can't live on with headphones(deaf) and I can't bear with bassless missing midrange sound offered by laptop built-in speakers. heh.

As for The Rose (again), I stripped it again. Raunchy and bold looks.
Really considering fixing a humbucker to the neck pickup.

And thanks to Chong Yen's football blog post, I brought myself into the football wild scene again. Partly for the sake of competing against Hooi the MU supporter. Cheers.

19. The Zidane's Pride + Update

Personal/Ideals/Friends & Family

June 21/22 - YW's Crib Camp
ok, this is not exactly a new post. It's an update. Mere update, since people like updates.heh.
I had one my so-called farewell family big dinner at my suggested place, Chillis at G-Hotel. Expensive. Good. Satisfactory. Good blow to the stomach. Then I was dropped at YW's Crib 66. OhMyF*ingGuitar(OMFG). There's Playstation 3! There's Jackson Dinky with the mama, Roland Micro Tube. Equipped with built-in Distortion, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, Delay and Reverbs. Even though it's "micro" the volume can easily be used for a small gig. Actually if you want stadium rock, it's not volume it's output. Big volume from a micro to a stadium would sound like a rat giggling.

Finally, I JAMMED... not perfectly but at least it's a good attempt, with YW on Dir En Grey's Undecided. Tried pinch-harmonics. Not good. Oh ya, the overnighting members: Jonathan, Hooi and Jared. Jon came too but left early again at 11.30pm. Playstation 3 rocks big time. Is it Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas? It was our big hit of the night. Then we start worshipping, the Pick Of Destiny movie. Great. Jonathan and I started playing that Rainbow. At around 3am, we hit the sports channel. Holland vs Russia. OMFGoal! Holland lost 1-3! WTH. I'd been supporting every losing game ever since I started watching Euro08 that are 3 consecutive losses. In Astro, a movie caught our attention and it became a signal and impact..no, nothing.. A movie about Eddie/Gwen who is transsexual struggling to love and be loved. "She" was murdered.

6am in the morning, YW and Hooi had their shut-eye. Jonathan and I went on to scour the gaming the world. Yes!!! oh YES!!! We owned a number of maps. We got better and better and it's totally addictive. Plentiful of swearings and furiousness at playing it. Stopped at 10am. 4 hours in the morning. YW brought in tauhuay for breakfast. Then, everyone back to sleep. Until like 1pm. Pizza for lunch. Continued sleeping till like 3pm. The final. YW showcased his Avenged Sevenfold's Beast And The Harlot rhythm guitar part accompanied by the music. I'd say, he is good and has improved in playing the electric guitar. Me, finally, did the so coveted technique called pinch-harmonic. Sayonara. YW's going back in like another 7 days but we'll still be having outings with him until then.

And...i present you in public my first ever home studio recording. It's my final attempt on the pinch-harmonics. It's a video with audio only and no visual. Lame la but at least I try, it's not called shredding it's grating. So, click it load it and play it. I think the final 10 seconds is funny...

wth. what kind of update/post is this? diary-esque...doesnt matter..just fun..
22/06/08 - 1700hrs
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*Latest update at the versions and points of view of others of the steamboat dinner post. Lots of photos from those links.

*Latest update on the BBQ party post.

France is officially out from Euro 2008.

Beaten by Italy 2-0.

It's almost 5am now...and the match just ended few minutes ago.

Ribery injured.

Abidal sent off.

France performed really badly. They really need to buck up and seriously improve if they wanted to shine in the next World Cup or even at least survive. Or change strategy. There's no Zidane, Desailly or Barthez anymore so 4-4-2 might not suit the new players. I wonder why Trezequet, Pires and Cisse are not chosen at all to play, not even as substitutes. Zidane, try come back and help some coaching.

So, my next country to support is Netherlands. Yeah. Holland. Go!
[trying hard to keep my tears away....ah]

Merci.

17. Dejection

Ideals

Update: A baby lizard fell onto my head as soon as I walked into the toilet to wash my feet. I thought it was some droplet of water from the shower but after touching and feeling the object with my fingers and then sweeping it down on the floor I found it was that lizard. How cute. How fortunate not to have the tail detached and going into my ear canal.

France 1 - Netherlands 4
A loss. So far a draw and a loss. What next? With Italy.

Is France facing a similar fate to the 2002 World Cup group matches, the only difference is France isn't the defending champion(they were in 2002) but they are 1st runner-up. So, no huge humiliation.

Nevertheless, it's not good at all and really, France have to beat Italy. Seriously, to tie or to leave the competition early. Because Italy drew with Romania on the other side. So that makes 1draw 1loss to Italy and France and 2draws for Romania. France must win the next match and Holland beating Romania, then France will be into the quarter-finals. Must I pray and beg to God now?

Just finished watching the delayed show(which started at 5am) and ended at 7am. I am going back to bed now....had only like 3 hours of sleep just now. So much for a dejection. ..stress gila-gila supporting them..