tHeKOPrAntS@9:06 PM
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@7:11 PM
It amazes me that people still only talk about whether or not the ball crossed the line following Luis Garcia's instinctive prod – and not that the referee later admitted that had the goal not been given, he'd have brought play back to send off Petr Cech and award a penalty. I'm sure even Jose Mourinho would have taken his chances at being just 1-0 down at that point in the game –– rather than facing the last 87 minutes starting with a Liverpool penalty and his team down to 10 men. And all in front of a raucous, baying Kop who were setting new decibel records. In other words, the referee did Chelsea a favour. To remind people, this is what referee Lubos Michel said: “If my assistant referee had not signalled a goal, I would have given a penalty and sent off goalkeeper Petr Cech.”Wednesday, April 18, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@12:14 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMyDfpxiSo4Tuesday, April 17, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@12:08 PM
it's been long..too many events to update on..life is just like soccer..take ur chances or regret..and more importantly, if u dun even try to create chances, then how are u ever going to win - as said by alex...anyway..i just wanna play street with the team of kenneth, weilin and alex..can't care less abt other things really..Friday, March 23, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@9:29 AM
started work 2 wks back..working in NTU for Singapore Computer System on this wireless project..basically my job scope is to gather some readings from the access points, make sure that all the data tallies and do some admin work..but it's really getting boring coz most of e time, especially after i've finished what i'm tasked to do, there's nothing much to do besides checking thru the documents again..but how many times do u want me to check? last wk was the worst coz i was so tired after catching the liverpool barcelona match that i was really struggling to keep awake while sitting in the office with nothing to do..just like what i'm doing now..nothing to do..boring..anyway Chinese New Year was pretty ok..i love my nephews man..haha..esp the one called brandon..he's so active and whole day wanting to play my psp..haha..super funny..hmmm..went back to Malaysia to visit my maternal side too..hasn't been back there for 4 years le i think..seriously i dun even know how to address the relatives over there...as in i recognise them but dunno what to call besides auntie and uncle..sad..guess it's due to the limited times i've went back to malaysia and the limited time i get to interact with them everytime too..wasn't really bothered in the past to ask my mum how i shld address them..only this time round did i really find out who was my mum's elder and younger siblings..haha..Monday, February 26, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@6:38 PM
as a lot of my friends have been lamenting, life's pretty still after ord-ing..but i guess we all rather lead a still life than an army life..haha..anyway, just had a field soccer match yesterday again..lots of ppl couldn't make it so in e end it was pretty much a mix of my friends and friends of my friends..haha..played against weilin's camp team..mer! won 3-1 in e end..pretty comfortable win as we had quite a solid defence with ak and my primary school classmate who was formerly yjc no.9 and played as a defender for his school..anyway there was this once when i went on a run down the right flank and got hacked down after going past the guy..was damn furious but i didnt shout or scold anything..heard a few ppl from the opposition team saying good foul though..wth..well, guess it was a good foul or i would have released the ball and hopefully some1 would have scored..anyway we scored from the free kick so their evil intentions of stopping me were in vain..haha..anyway after the impact of falling onto the ground i just couldn't play anymore..sorta having a stitch, can't describe it though..haha..totally not in the game anymore and i think i wasn't making space down the right at all for ppl to pass to me..but it was just too pain la..anyway it was a good match under the scorching hot sun..but a serious &*(&@#%&^@# to the referee for charging 140 bucks for the field and his services..the field only costed 50 bucks as we found out after asking the referee for the next match..so u mean this referee is so special that he charges 90 bucks for his services? -censored- ...i've decided to refrain from scolding vulgarites, something i can't stop doing after army days..anyway went home after the match, washed up then headed back to town to have a belated celebration for weilin's birthday..me, alex, ak, kk turned up for the event..other than kk, alex and ak both called me with the intention of cancelling the event..haha..the truth is i didnt want to go either cos i already felt like fainting when i was walking home from the mrt station, which was the same case for alex and ak..just too unfit and having to play under the hot sun earlier on almost killed me..haha..but it's to celebrate weilin's birthday rite? so how can we cancel the event? mer! haha..anyway we just treated him to manhattan's at plaza singapura before heading over to one of the pubs near paradiz centre to catch the newcastle liverpool match..wonder how newcastle actually managed to win but well..that's football..anyway hoeman turned up halfway through the match..the man had his reply from Middlebury College earlier on and he's been accepted in..haha..he was screaming over the phone when he called weilin to arrange and meet up with us..when he arrived everyone noticed that he was already having a sore throat..haha..congrats to him..finally realised his dream..Sunday, February 11, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@12:08 AM
2nd day since ORD..feels great to have completed my NS liability..really hope that all the friendships and bonds formed during NS won't fade away though..here's wishing happy birthday to my fellow PCs alex and lishun too..dun forget me man ppl..anytime u wanna find someone to chill with i'm always a call away..hmmm..went to Astons to eat yesterday again..can't stand it man..it's just way too good..value for money definitely..anyway been playing lots of tennis recently..gonna play doubles in some intermediate competition with my junior alex in april..gotta train up..forehand's pretty much there already..time for the rest of the strokes..volleying, smashing the ball, serving, backhand..so much to improve on before the tournament starts..anyway it's quite amusing that my fellow pc and junior are both called alex, both from hong kong..and while they dun look e same, they have similar type of face shape..lolz..maybe i shld get both of them to meet one day..long lost cousins probably..hahaFriday, February 09, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@2:25 PM
another 1 month plus has passed since i last blogged..i'm just 3 days away from ORD..incredible..as i was packing my duffer bag before i left camp, it just felt so...there was just this tinge of emotion running through me..2 years has passed just like that..from BMT to SISPEC to OCS and finally TAB/FDS..it's just unbelievable..so many friends made, so many unforgettable experiences in OCS, all the fun and joy in FDS and valuable lessons imparted to me by my superiors..while i'm glad that this chapter of my life is finally coming to an end, i'm pretty sure that many years down the road i will still remember the days that i led as a NSF..Sunday, February 04, 2007
tHeKOPrAntS@1:54 PM
25th december..Merry X'mas everybody! whole day yesterday was spent rotting at home..at least i managed to finish watching my date with a vampire 3..gotta get prison break from alex to watch next..haha..anyway had a great time on saturday night with ppl from my camp man..haha..can't disclose who though..those ppl shld know why..haha..anyway i've been playing this ps2 game recently..it's called the Shadows of Rome..quite a cool game..love the part of the game when the main character takes part in the gladiatory games and just go out and start bashing up ppl with all sorts of weapons..lots of blood involved though..haha..ok..gotta get ready to meet ak and kenneth in town at 3pm..i'm gonna be so late..lolz..Monday, December 25, 2006
tHeKOPrAntS@4:00 PM
been such a long time since i last posted..hmmm..so much has happened in the past few months..so here goes..the 2 new PCs who came in during September to replace Qiu and Kenneth are great man! haha..their names are Li Shun and Alex..Li Shun's just simply full of cock man..haha..the jokes and remarks he can make are really incredible man..they're just so lame! haha..and Alex who's only born in 1988 which is really young can talk really well man..same as Jonathan whose english's quite good too..anyway it's great to have the 2 of them ard..my understudy came in on 12th december too..but our S1 screwed up! cuz me and Jonathan are going to ord together in early Feb there shld be 2 new PCs coming in..plus now our base is holding a Field Defence Course which means mine and Jonathan's understudy has to manage a platoon over there..so the way things are going Li Shun and Alex practically have to stay in everyday until March when another PC comes in..haha..hopefully things will work out..anyway Jonathan was really funny when he went ard introducing the new PC as the next Bravo Platoon PC..haha..anyway we've finally got our PC/PS bunk sorted out so life's pretty good cuz we finally got some proper place to rest in..instead of having to sleep in our own office..anyway yesterday some interesting things happened in camp..i went back to camp ard 5pm cuz i was on leave and just wanted to go to the mess with my colleagues..ard 6pm when all of us were ready to go, suddenly the activation bell went off..at that point of time, i was hiding inside the office cuz flag lowering was underway and i didnt want to stand still outside u know? haha..so was really shocked when i heard the activation bell..i immediately went out of my office and saw one 3SG shouting 'Turnout Turnout!'..haha..then the RPs who were observing the flag lowering ceremony all ran back to the control centre..anyway what happened was we suspected ppl tampering with our cameras but in e end it was just contractors doing some repair works..can't disclose much information..anyway the whole thing was good cuz u could really see the urgency in all the men and commanders likewise..good training for our audit next month! haha..had an AAR ( after-action review ) with our S3 after the dust had cleared and he pointed out some observations that he made which really made sense..haha..hopefully when audit comes again we'll do a better job..after we made sure everything was in place i headed to the mess with one of the platoon sergeant, Ngiam while the other 2 PCs had to go and look for our OC..haha..more AAR? anyway when i was at the spec's mess it was brought to my knowledge by the other 2 PCs that there a cake waiting for Ngiam in the control centre..the cake was bought to celebrate the birthdays of those who were born in December from Charlie platoon..so i had to be the bad guy and trick Ngiam to go back by claiming that a fight had broken out between his men..haha..it was really sweet when he rushed in and when the people who were blocking the cake all spread out to reveal it..but the birthday celebration turned really sour in the end when the men spreaded black camo cream on his face which he was really pissed about..the whole atmosphere was really tense..u just have to be there to sense the awkwardness and all cuz Ngiam was really damn pissed..sighz..anyway what happened just showed that some ppl can stand these type of things while others can't..unfortunately Ngiam belonged to the latter..another valuable lesson learnt by me..really u can't blame the men nor Ngiam in this case cuz Ngiam had already warned beforehand that they shouldn't do anything funny but guess the men just wanted to have fun..but like what Ngiam said..u never know among all the men how many of them had been waiting for this chance to get back at him..well..*shrug* anyway after Ngiam had cleaned up our RSM messaged him that there was bar-top dancing going on in the mess..haha..so Ngiam me and the other 2 PCs went down to the mess again..anyway it was damn stupid cuz after buying a jug of beer and pouring it into 4 glasses, our RSM asked us who were on duty so that included everyone except me then he said those on duty shouldn't drink..so i'm expected to finish the whole jug!!! luckily everytime he went away the others will have a quick gulp..haha..anyway we missed part 1 of the dancing but there was still part 2 which was really hilarious..shall share it with u ppl next time! hmmm..let's see..past few months...ok..played 3 field matches ..won 2 lost 1..haha..the one that i lost was really stupid though cuz i was playing for my friend's team and it was really WEAK!!! anyway got revenge on the team that thrashed us 3 wks later when i formed a team consisting of some Scorchers members and other friends..anyway the team that i'm referring to is a track team and they even had Poh Seng Song on their team sheet..he's really damn fast man..anyway we won 5-1 in the end..which was a repeat score of the other match that we won earlier..both times we conceded first before shambalising the opponents..haha..really great to be playing field soccer again..did i mention that my team dominated the proceedings in the street court earlier today and that i scored 5 goals??? haha..that was one great soccer session..alrite..shall update more next time..till then, you'll never walk alone..Saturday, December 23, 2006
tHeKOPrAntS@10:56 PM
it's been barely 1 wk since i started to have a so-called appointment of Dy-OC and i'm already burdened with all sorts of sai kang to do..i'm not sure when or how, but somehow i just got dragged into this dinner that my squadron is organising for some big shots..something i had no idea abt previously coz it's only managed by the rest of the officers and not the PCs..in any case, had my TO turned up for the meeting right from the start instead of going to do some other things, i wouldn't have been tasked to take over him as the secretary..why did i even call my OC to ask whether i'm needed there in the 1st place????? argh!!! it's official : the more enthu u are, the more things u will be tasked to do..seriously, like what Jonathan say..there're lots of things that the training branch should be doing but all are been sub-tasked to us..really wonder what the people in there are doing sometimes..sighz..anyway on hand there are so many things i have to complete i dun even know where to start from..and most probably i will have to go into camp freaking early tmr just to finish up on this cue table that i'm been tasked to do coz my TO had this lecture to attend to..so in addition to the minutes, i'm doing the cue table for him too..what's next? in the 1st place i dun even know what the hell a cue table is..i dun even know whether it's spelled that way either..and according to what my CO had described to me..i'm never gonna get it ready by tmr morning which is what my OC wanted..argh!!! well..at least my TO's treating us to seafood for dinner tmr..hahaha..compensation!!! needa get some rest now and maybe wake up at 6 just to go back to camp to do something that i've no idea how to go about doing..and england lost 2-0..what a sucky day..Thursday, October 12, 2006
tHeKOPrAntS@6:47 PM
ok..been long since i last posted..haven't had the time to post often..partly due to NS committments and because of my PSP which i just can't seem to stop playing..haha..esp the game Monster Hunter Freedom..it's real fun to link up with other players and just go hunt monsters..hmmm..anyway the most important thing is that from now on i'm gonna work from 8-5! finally! no more shift system..no more staying in camp for around 52 hours and only get to come out for 20 hours..and that includes wkends too..not to mention public holidays do not apply for my job..really great to have such a change..more free time i guess..anyway i'm pulled out from the shift system coz we've got 1 extra pc now..so i'll be assisting my OC from now on coz he needs to cover our outgoing S3's duties too..hmmm..there are quite a few tasks that have been allocated to me already..a lot more than what i've gotten when i was still in the shift system..but at least all these tasks are gonna benefit the squadron so i should get a sense of achievement after completing them i guess..haha..Monday, October 09, 2006
tHeKOPrAntS@11:32 PM
spent a peaceful sunday in camp this wk..plucked rambutans at e same time too..we practically broke the branches of the tree by throwing a toggle rope over the branches and applying weight in all directions..haha..and all the while the RPs at the main gate were looking at me, Qiu and Kenneth..think the people who were ard when i went into the control centre to get a saw and a parang must have been thinking just what in e hell was i up to..anyway plucking rambutans seemed to bring back lots of memories of cadet days for Qiu and Kenneth..pity my batch missed e chance to go throught JCC..it would have been an enriching experience for all of us i'm sure..Tuesday, August 22, 2006
tHeKOPrAntS@11:19 PM
oh well..it's been ages since i last posted..my computer's been down for about 3 mths..at hoeman's house right now..caught the liverpool match earlier on and what a disappoinment it was..liverpool was nowhere near their top form at all..and once again they had to count on Gerrard to drag them back into the game..hope i wun suffer any more heartbreaks for the rest of the EPL season..pretty impressed with new signing bellamy though..truly believe he's the one who's gonna make the difference for liverpool this season in lots of games..just watch on..Saturday, August 19, 2006