GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (PART 1)

Heres my most serious attempt at writing non satirical crap to date hahahaha, inspired by Liverpools ugly loss to Everton last night....FUCK YOU Lucas Leiva! hahaha.

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (PART 1)

By: Jeremy Adam

"Someone said 'football is a matter of life and death to you' and I said 'Listen…. it's more important than that'." — Bill Shankly.

Back in the day, when going to the stadium to watch Malaysian football was at least exciting, Bill Gates was just some street punk trying to make a quick buck, BIG hair was still in fashion and owning a 14 inch television was considered a luxury, live television telecasts of international/foreign football matches were somewhat scarce, save for the really big events.

There was no daily ESPN Sports Center Live, we had Gillette World of Sports that was usually reporting sports news a week or two too late.

There was no Soccernet.espn.go.com, Eurosports.co.uk or Goal.com to keep us updated. We had Match and Shoot magazines with pull-out posters of the top and up and coming players and teams.

There was no Sky Sports Super Sunday or Nokia Football Crazy. There was however, the legendary Dunhill Road to Wembley, whose introduction theme song will be forever etched in the minds of football fans of that era.

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Even though resources were limited, this did not keep us from pulling all our material together. The admiration for the valor, intrigue and glamour of the footballing world was too much for us to do without.

We regularly snuck our copies of Match, Shoot or whatever football related articles to school to be swapped or traded among each other as buying each and every weeks issue was a daunting task for a 7 year old, hoping it didn’t get confiscated by the class teacher or goody-two-shoes class prefect. We would then compare all the data we managed to fathom and debate on who was our favorite player, usually for reasons that we thought made sense back then.

Clubs, teams, strategies and tactics meant nothing to us at that stage, it was the individual players skills and quality that left us idolizing the likes of Ian Rush, Diego Maradona, Roberto Baggio, Juergen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus ,Franco Baresi and many others that we’d nickname ourselves after during recess period as we kicked a tennis ball around the school court.

I myself, even though usually played as a goalkeeper back then (and still do until now) had an admiration for Roberto Baggio and his somewhat magical exploits in Italy, even if I only got to see glimpses of his magic in clips and highlights shown on the news and the aforementioned delayed for what-seems-to-be-forever telecast of Gillete World of Sports.

As I had finally ‘matured’ enough to understand the concept and importance of the footballing Club or team, day by day I would grow fonder, not only for the game or player, but also for his club at the time, Juventus, which I diligently researched through magazines and news articles, and sometimes, sneakily going through each an every of my Dads VHS tapes in hope that he had recorded some of the odd live matches that were shown on TV back then.

This however, would all soon change.

……………………to be continued.

HELLO!KUCHING & SATOK FEST!

its about time i typed something other than assignments and googling nonsense out of boredome :)

had a busy weekend this week, played in two seperate bands on saturday and sunday, both at the Kuching Waterfront.

the first was an event called HELLO!Kuching organized by a funky group of dudes which can be found at ilovekuching.com

played in a band called funkarama which is made up mostly by my college mates, played songs from sheila majid,estrella,alter bridge and FERGIE...yes....G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S! muahahaha.

was a fun event although we were caught in the middle of a thunder storm, but as they say, the show must go on.

and another fun factor was that it was, what i believe to be the first time that my mom ever saw me on stage.

*sob*

hahaha.

on sunday night we played in front of an older crowd that were glued to their seats, most of them waiting for the bands to be over and done with so they could commence their little karoeke competition that was held at the same venue. big sux to all you's who didnt even lift a finger to applaud the hard working bands such as Libretto ( WHO KICKED ASS BIG TIME!, managed to grab their EP titled DISC:LOSURE which is fucking awesome!) and Guru who showed bucket loads of energy on stage.

my band for the night was named Rona, a local sarawak malay slang meaning "colour" which comprised of Azrena on vocals, Azmil on 2nd guitar, Azri on drums, A-a on bass, and me with the flamethrower :). notice how all the other band members name starts with the letter "A"..i feel so misplaced hahaha.

we played songs such as, ternyata - estrella (again), Hilang by Garasi, an indonesian ballad by Ari Lasso & Bunga Cita Lestari(donno how to speelll haha) which i have no idea what the song title is. and Wild world by Cat Stevens/Mr Big!

noticed how i failed to mention bands such as TOOL, A perfect circle, sepultura etc............

thats probably the first time when the closest thing i played to a heavy song is one by Cat Stevens. lol.

will get pics up once i get them!


AS for my own band, redqueen.....well...................its still dormant for now, waiting to be revived.

hopefully the new vocalist can kick ass and were still searching for a temporary replacement on drums for wak who is in K.L for now. The good news is, original band member, Mark has agreed to make a comeback on bass, now that hes back in kuching!

what weve planed for redqueen so far:

A QUALITY recording for dear departed and mirrorwall.
recording of a few new songs namely 'aeroplanes'.
also working on some instrumental stuff and dont be suprised if some of the poetry here end up reincarnated as songs.



p/s: If you like Radiohead, Mogwai, Sigur Ross, Explosions in the sky, YOU MUST check out libretto, they can be found here. Dont be fooled by the low quality of some of their older recordings posted on the site. The tracks on their DISC:LOSURE EP is pure CLASS.

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHA........ a big WELCOME TO ANFIELD to MAncHester UNiTed!!!! Yes..i know how youre going to say that we were lucky, you didnt have Cristiano ROnaldo bla bla bla bla.....matter of fact is, We didnt have our two 'best' players on the pitch till Gerrard came on for the last 20mins or so...yet we outplayed you for a good 60 minutes on the field. But thanks to Van Der Sar and Wes Brown anyway, saved our boys from having to waste their energy to blast the ball in.

Suddenly im supporting Chelsea for the next match against M.U. maybe finally i can see M.U in the bottom 3 of the league hahaa.


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Ive been having a good laugh reading the local newspapers recently.

For those who are about to/or have brought up 'racially sensitive' issues about others. think hard. have you done anything that might offend others yourselves while it being the norm for you? Remember, when you point a finger at others, there are 3 of your own fingers pointing back at you.

Sekian. Selamat Berpecah Puasa.

being controversial is fun...being dramatic is just plain shallow.

haha im back!!!! its been a while. first of all happy fasting month to all my muslim family,friends and enemies.

yes i acknowledge that alot of people hate my ass. so what? its only fair, i hate alot of ppl too..i cant have all the fun now can i? hahaha...

i find that too many malaysians...and people in general live in denial.


see...youre denying it right now. point proven.

:D



anyway, like ive mentioned a few posts back, i still find some people around me being overly dramatic.

I on the other hand prefer to be controversial. yes...i like to light the spark which leads to a good burning.

drama kings and queens only see a little smoke and act like the whole forest burn down.

where have i been all this while?

well....medication has made me....normal...dull...just like the next guy...bleh.

thats why i didnt take em these few days!!! and look where it landed me!! haha...



actually along the way ive found a new hobby. or at least a new way of executing the hobby.

ive always been a sucker for d.i.y scale models and R.C models, but after my ex-maid destroyed most of my collectibles by stacking it all in a box, i sorta gave up.

well...ive sorta started again, and this is what ive ended up with...

DRIFT SUCKAZZZ!!!!

well...cant afford to buy a flashy turbocharged rwd japanese import.....so had to settle for this:

no its not a toy....well...technically yeah...hehe

my first 2 bodyshells...

Well yeah...im into RC drifting nowadays...its kinda fun...and it kinda stops me from being too anti-social in a way. Joined a competition recently which was held at THE SPRING.

now that day was way fucked up.

originally the comp was set to be held on saturday. but somehow it shifted earlier to friday. without anyone informing me proper.

I hadnt slept the whole night,had a few errands to run in the morning and i was having lunch at the spring and stayed on till evening where i met a friend who was a co-organizer of the event. He looked at me, somewhat confused at my 'selamba-ness' and asked

"ey, you tak jadi join ka?".........

"WTF!!!!!TODAY KA!?!?!?!"

" MR X didnt tell you meh?"

"HELL NO,....... SONUVABITCH!!!"

then i had to race back home, grab my gear was almost disqualified for being late AND my car just had to have PMS on that day...my battery wasnt charged enough, and my pinion gear was loose. fixed it barely in time for my qualifying run.

well..overall i got 9th. not bad for a fucken NOOB.

but im proud to say that i was the first and only contestant to crash and break through the track barrier haha...

maybe ill do a post on drifting,both RC and real drifting some other time

i better stop now before i get too long winded like some people i know. ciao.

i didnt take my sleeping pills hahaha.....

celaka itu John ak Riise....oh well..shit happens to the best of us mate. we still have the next leg in Stamford Bridge. hmmh. You'll Never Walk Again Alone.!!!!!!!!!!

been in and out of the hospital so much these few months i actually memorize the damn floor plan and how many CCTV's they have on each corner....soon id be able to memorize all the nurses bra-sizes. haha.

dont ask why.


i hate being a year older.

especially when theres unfinished business.

i hate my sleeping pills. they make me sleep.i hate sleep. hahahahaa.

but i need them.

but i hate them.

its a love hate relationship.




i do love these tho...yum yum yum yum....


this is not an ad you moron.

this post didnt make sense. i think i need a dose now. bye.

And I won't breathe so you can recover

listening to the same three songs over and over again.
thank you chris corner,
for taking"this will make you love again", "spit it out" and "missile".
out of my head.


now im staring at a blank screen. empty.
just like my mind.

pictures of that gun inside my mind slowly fades away.
but the feelings stay the same.

the demons finally showed their faces, after 10 years of taking a back seat.

they're both saying to me now -

"push away your fears
cos this will cure you
just push away your fears
cos this will kill you."

over and over again
just like the songs in my head

maybe somethings weren't meant to be changed.
but what if we could?
would we try?

feelings never make sense.
so does making metaphors out of similes.
or letting someone else argue with your demons.

going postal!!!! kaboom baby!!! KABOOOM!!!

Ive been told i suffer from post-traumatic stress-disorder. pffft...whatever that is. I think im more borderline bi-polar.

but id rather go POSTAL on your candy ass! haha.