Brasil(jogabonita) ;Botakgang!!

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

~~3:56 PM~~

I think when du starts writing about religion, it means he really has too much time at Stagmont. Anyway, don't start thinking so much about the great beyond that you lose sight of the present and tangible. That's all i have to contribute to the religious debate.

Good to see that the blog is revived. Yeah Choo, where are you ah? Got such a good life at Paya Leba and still never appear. Nich, take care ok? You've survived for so long already, you will make it through and life will improve once you aren't a trainee, just ask du (then again when he was training at signals...)Good luck with your air grading isaac and jian an, must organise soccer before you leave for taiwan.

- Andy

Monday, August 30, 2004

~~9:10 PM~~

hey guys I'm back home on a monday EVENING... haha cant ask for a better start in my new posting as PS. Since I'll lead an army life without pride or honour, I guess the next best alternative is to lead a slack life in which I have the time to develop myself.

Reading our recent enteries, I came across an interesting insight on religion submitted by Mian. On this subject of religion, I differ in opinion and would lke to express my thoughts. I feel that there are 2 ways of viewing religion,and these views results from the consideration of the roots of the religion, whether its mortal or divine. The "mortal" view is based on the fact that the roots of religion came from man. Thus religion is view as a set of moral principles or a way of life that was formulated by Man, for example Buddhism is based on the writings of an Indian prince Buddha. The "divine" view is that religion is the set of teachings passed down from God.

Thr mortal viewpoint sees religion as man-made, God is purely man's creation. All religion even those normally perceive to be divine can be mortalised. For example, Christianity can be judge to spring out from slaves who imbued their hopes for emancipation into a promise made by God to free them. Subsequently, by adhering to this mortal view of religion there is no explicit need to be a staunch believer. One can be like the boy in the book Life of Pi and start absorbing the essences of different religions as ultimately religion is just a way of life set by mortal thinkers. One has the free will to choose what principles and ideas to follow and thus each person who adhere to the mortal viewpoint inevitably creates his personal religion.

On the other hand, if one follows the divine viewpoint, there are implications that makes the staunch following of religion a requirement. Religion is now seen as the words of God, thus following the teachings would mean being in line with God. It is now obvious that in order to be true to the teachings of God one has to be a staunch follower. People who believe in divine religion should therefore be compelled to be staunch believers, whether by pure faith or by fear of divine intervention. Thus its is not wrong to be a staunch believer, neither is it wrong for people to assert that the validity of their religion, e.g. Christians assert that their God is the only God. Furthermore if following the religion encompass the feeling of positive supernatural forces one is all the more likely to spread the religion around to one's love ones.

In conclusion, its not wrong to be a staunch believer, we must not constrain ourselves to the myopic view which is against the passionate and dutiful following of a religion. Religion is not a matter of black or white, its a grey area and by looking at it objectively from the 2 above viewpoints which I mention would enable us to move another step forward into the "greyness" of religion.

CYA GUYS!
du

Saturday, August 28, 2004

~~11:33 PM~~

allo choo!
u bastard say wan to play soccer in the end bang seh n off ur fone u bitch...
as a consequence of being irresponsible and poor performance in recent weeks, you'll be officially kicked out of botakgang until you fix ur fone and be contactable...
cos here at botakgang, we muz always be operationally ready, but u have shown that ure incompetent and lacking the fire to excel. this is a serious matter and we hope u understand the gravity of the situation
THUS, YOU ARE OUT!

sincerely,
the botakgang management

Sunday, August 22, 2004

~~6:03 PM~~

I don't understand why
See it's burning me to hold onto this
I know this is something I gotta do
But that don't mean I want so
What I'm trying to say is that I-love-you I just
I feel like this is coming to an end
And it's better for me to let it go now than hold on and hurt you
I gotta let it burn

It's gonna burn for me to say this
But it's comin from my heart
It's been a long time coming
But we done been fell apart
Really wanna work this out
But I don't think you're gonna change
I do but you don't
Think it's best we go our separate ways
Tell me why I should stay in this relationship
When I'm hurting baby, I ain't happy baby
Plus there's so many other things I gotta deal with
I think that you should let it burn

When your feeling ain't the same and your body don't want to
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpin' like it used to
Even though this might bruise you
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

Sendin' pages I ain't supposed to
Got somebody here but I want you
Cause the feelin ain't the same find myself
Callin' her your name
Ladies tell me do you understand?
Now all my fellas do you feel my pain?
It's the way I feel
I know I made a mistake
Now it's too late
I know she ain't comin back
What I gotta do now
To get my shorty back
Ooo ooo ooo ooooh
Man I don't know what I'm gonna do
Without my booo
You've been gone for too long
It's been eleven days, um-teen hours
Imma be burnin' till you return (let it burn)

When your feeling ain't the same and your body dont want to
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpin' like it used to
Even though this might bruise you
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

I'm twisted cuz one side of me is tellin' me that
I need to move on , on the other side I wanna
break down and cry oooooo I'm twisted cuz one
side of me is tellin' me that I need to move on
on the other side I wanna break down and cry
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Oo Oo Oo
do you feel me burnin'
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Oo
So many Days so many Hours I'm still burnin' till' you return

When your feeling ain't the same and your body don't want to
But you know gotta let it go cuz the party ain't jumpin' like it used to
Even though this might bruise you
Let it burn (let it burn, let it burn, you gon'learn)
Let it burn (gotta let it burn)
Gotta let it burn

Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

~~4:22 PM~~

hi guys
yes i agree we're rotting our lives away..life seem so aimless oso dunoe wtf we going thru all this
n we shud really have some soccer soon before i go taiwan in 3 wks time
scad
anyway congrats to shaun who will crossover tmr
as for me...book in blues man

jain

~~3:28 PM~~

hi fellas
wassup wit u guys now eh?seems like a fucking eternity before i saw anyone of u guys..i just booked in on this lovely sunday morning at 7-fucking-am.
wat the fuck u say?
i've got COS duty on the Sabbath day when everyone's not supposed to work or else it's kinda a sin u know.
why's that?
cos u're supposed to rest and worship on sunday.
so why am i here alone in the company line on this warm beautiful sunday with only the magnificent toilet for company?
beats me.

oh well..army is a cesspool of shit.wait tt's like repeating myself.ok army is just plain dumb la.deprives me of all the happiness in my life.dont worry guys i'm not suicidal yet.this is depressing let's talk bout sth else.

hey how often do u guys visit this forsaken blog?i agree with the mad teoh(who had to post his wonderful entry like six times just to get his point across haha we get ur idea teoh)to revive this dead dog and get it started again.the old times beckons invitingly.no use resisting something we know is so close to our hearts aye?

too bad i had to miss the match today.oh well everyone has to do their fair share of duty so i guess i just have to resign to it.but it's so unfair..first they send me to taiwan and take away three weeks of my freedom..then i get really sick there and they poke me for a grand total of six times..then i've gotta stay in the stinking(literally)med centre(not tt going outfield to the stinking jungle and mountains of the great R.O.C would be any better but at least i'd have something to do..u dont know boredom till u stayed in a taiwan med centre for 5 whole days..sick.)..then all the shit had to happen when i came back then this..as if taking away 3 wkends wasnt bad enough they had to assign me for wkend duty.am i starting to sound like a girl?

think huang jian just had some live firing for his old cock haha but dont quote me on this ok.sigh should've met u guys last night sia..oh ya i'm gonna start my airborne course tmr so i dun think i can play soccer for the next 3 wks in case i injure myself and drop out..cant drop out now not after i've waded through so much shit..a bit more to go then i'm there..with the silver wings upon my chest and the red beret sitting proudly on my head. AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!

u know wat?fuck all of that.they dont mean nothing seriously.i dont give a fuck if a fail to achieve all of tt.i wasnt born a soldier and i aint gonna be a soldier.they dont mean nothing if i've got to give up so many other things for all that.and i've given too damn much.for what?i'm still a stinking corporal and the money they give isnt enough for anything.u guys might say it's good money but i've gladly trade places with any of u anyday.and u know wat the worst thing is?

that the real nightmare is yet to begin. EXERCISE GREENWOOD. 20 days of unforgettable hell in the royal ass-republic of brunei darrussalam.fuck tt.everyone says those 20 days would change u as a person totally..physically emotionally and mentally.i'm lucky i've got God on my side so my spiritual stays intact.but make no mistake..it'll leave an indelible mark on any- and everyone.just hope my feet dont rot too bad.

alright that's long enough..my first entry in a millenium.dont worry guys i'm still wit all of u.next wkend.be sure about it cos i am.

FOR TONNER AND LORRY!(supposed to be for honour and glory..but i aint got any.)
nich-11

Sunday, August 15, 2004

~~11:18 PM~~

Allo. Teoh here, got nothing to do on a sunday night downloading some goals as usual and while waiting went to look at the long forgotten blog. Think that we shud start writing in it again, keep each other updated on our miserable lives.

Read wat mian had to say bout staunch people. Dunno wat to say bout it since I dun have much depth to my knowledge bout anythin, but seems like one by one the botakgang members are becoming victims of religion if u get wat i mean. Anyway mian english too cheem la as usual like writing novel, actually feel quite jealous sia cannot seem to articulate myself as well as mian. Maybe shud start reading more and expanding my limited vocabulary.

Anyway, if anybody with match contacts reads this please organise a match. Especially Huang Jian and Choo. Botakgang has been stagnant for too long my jersey goin thru oxidation becoming brown liao.....Lame......

Wah lau damn xian wat are we doing in army!!!!!!! I want to disrupt forever and go study and have fun and work and get attached and married and have kids and retire and have fun again ( in any order ).At the start of our JC lives all of us were ji mo nan hai, then one by one we got attached or romantically engaged in one way or another ( although Du is belly good at concealing it Muahahahaha ). Now one by one becoming ji mo nan hai again so we mus once again lead the ji mo nan hai life-style. Come on my brothers!!!!! Hear my call for weekend partying. Mian stop going for your father's numerous birthdays and Nich you can pray to God even when singing karaoke and Choo....... Nvm think of something to suan you about next time.

Ai ya but at the end of the day I think after everyone books out will be damn shagged and can only think bout K-U-N (sleep). Jus like how Dillion, Jain and I played Mian out tis morning by choosing sleep over some street soccer action. Wateva the case guys tink bout wat I said and lets hope that the next weekend and many weekends to come will be filled with more fun and laughter and vulgarities and talking cock and suaning Choo........ Bye bye till next time......

~~11:18 PM~~

~~11:05 PM~~

Allo. Teoh here, got nothing to do on a sunday night downloading some goals as usual and while waiting went to look at the long forgotten blog. Think that we shud start writing in it again, keep each other updated on our miserable lives.

Read wat mian had to say bout staunch people. Dunno wat to say bout it since I dun have much depth to my knowledge bout anythin, but seems like one by one the botakgang members are becoming victims of religion if u get wat i mean. Anyway mian english too cheem la as usual like writing novel, actually feel quite jealous sia cannot seem to articulate myself as well as mian. Maybe shud start reading more and expanding my limited vocabulary.

Anyway, if anybody with match contacts reads this please organise a match. Especially Huang Jian and Choo. Botakgang has been stagnant for too long my jersey goin thru oxidation becoming brown liao.....Lame......

Wah lau damn xian wat are we doing in army!!!!!!! I want to disrupt forever and go study and have fun and work and get attached and married and have kids and retire and have fun again ( in any order ).

At the start of our JC lives all of us were ji mo nan hai, then one by one we got attached or romantically engaged in one way or another ( although Du is belly good at concealing it Muahahahaha ). Now one by one becoming ji mo nan hai again so we mus once again lead the ji mo nan hai life-style. Come on my brothers!!!!! Hear my call for weekend partying. Mian stop going for your father's numerous birthdays and Nich you can pray to God even when singing karaoke and Choo....... Nvm think of something to suan you about next time.

Ai ya but at the end of the day I think after everyone books out will be damn shagged and can only think bout K-U-N (sleep). Jus like how Dillion, Jain and I played Mian out tis morning by choosing sleep over some street soccer action. Wateva the case guys tink bout wat I said and lets hope that the next weekend and many weekends to come will be filled with more fun and laughter and vulgarities and talking cock and suaning Choo........ Bye bye till next time......

~~11:05 PM~~

Allo. Teoh here, got nothing to do on a sunday night downloading some goals as usual and while waiting went to look at the long forgotten blog. Think that we shud start writing in it again, keep each other updated on our miserable lives.

Read wat mian had to say bout staunch people. Dunno wat to say bout it since I dun have much depth to my knowledge bout anythin, but seems like one by one the botakgang members are becoming victims of religion if u get wat i mean. Anyway mian english too cheem la as usual like writing novel, actually feel quite jealous sia cannot seem to articulate myself as well as mian. Maybe shud start reading more and expanding my limited vocabulary.

Anyway, if anybody with match contacts reads this please organise a match. Especially Huang Jian and Choo. Botakgang has been stagnant for too long my jersey goin thru oxidation becoming brown liao.....Lame......

Wah lau damn xian wat are we doing in army!!!!!!! I want to disrupt forever and go study and have fun and work and get attached and married and have kids and retire and have fun again ( in any order ).

At the start of our JC lives all of us were ji mo nan hai, then one by one we got attached or romantically engaged in one way or another ( although Du is belly good at concealing it Muahahahaha ). Now one by one becoming ji mo nan hai again so we mus once again lead the ji mo nan hai life-style. Come on my brothers!!!!! Hear my call for weekend partying. Mian stop going for your father's numerous birthdays and Nich you can pray to God even when singing karaoke and Choo....... Nvm think of something to suan you about next time.

Ai ya but at the end of the day I think after everyone books out will be damn shagged and can only think bout K-U-N (sleep). Jus like how Dillion, Jain and I played Mian out tis morning by choosing sleep over some street soccer action. Wateva the case guys tink bout wat I said and lets hope that the next weekend and many weekends to come will be filled with more fun and laughter and vulgarities and talking cock and suaning Choo........ Bye bye till next time......

~~10:50 PM~~

hey guys.... juz feel like typing something now.... haha....

tmr going to arty camp at khatib... jian wei (from ri that plump plump one remember?) say that it's very run down and lousy, that the canteen is like those 1960s hawker centre.... oh man.... gonna spend the next 23 weeks there leh.... dunno how man.....

anyway.... i always feel a sense of anxiety before going somewhere new..... juz feel that something is not right..... i don't know..... too many uncertainties await me..... i guess you all feel the same way some time or another right??? yeah... hope my life there will be slack......

going SOCJOT at lancer next sat... which means 2 weeks i won't be at home..... will be out of touch with the world...... kinda nervous about it..... but looking forward to coming back and meeting all of you for a game of soccer.... trying to organise a match with my platoon mates, see can or not...... ok thats about all i go sleep now...... cya guys in 2+ weeks time!!

~~10:50 PM~~

Sunday, August 08, 2004

~~1:13 PM~~

hello everyone!!! how's everyone doing so far?? i think you guys hardly visit this site anymore... well, that's the sad fact about humanity now isn't it? that one can be so enthusiastic about something initially, then in no time begin to neglect and throw aside that something. i would call this the freshness factor (of cos this term is not new and NOT coined by me)... and once this wears off... well... everything else just follows and dies off.

i'm not writing this today because i'm bored, but because i'm doing CDO duty in my camp and its a sunday duty and everyone's out and i'm the only bugger in here with my CDS, and my long national day weekend is burnt and my long hours of enjoyment and sleep is disrupted and......and.... and many things about the sunday duty that is prompting me to submit a new entry in our withering blog....

let me just say that writing normal english doesn't come as easy as it did before... easy enough... but i'm experiencing troubles phrasing simple sentences. i believe this is a side effect of being in the military. you think in terms of commands and vulgarities, where essential grammar and sentence structures do not matter as much. maybe its the lack of practice on my part, but ultimately i feel its still the army's fault. haha... risking a charge saying what i just said... but who really cares??? democracy is partly about the freedom of speech (expression) now isn't it?? Roosevelt would have been proud.....

anyhow... i happened to have had a rather lenghty discussion about religion with my bunkmate the other day. funny how talking cock before bed time (after lights off) can acutally lead to topics like that... but we meddled with this subject for a while. i asked about religious extremism, about being a staunch believer in something.

i've checked up on the word "staunch" from dictionary.com, and incidentally enough, there are 2 definitions to the word.

1) firm and steadfast, true. (i would say the most common use of the word staunch)

2) to check the flow (of blood, tears etc.)

my buddy and i both feel that there is nothing wrong with being a stauch believer of anything. i do not see any wrong in a monk's pilgrimage to obtain enlightenment, even if it means total devotion. i do not see the undesirable side in doing prayers 5 times a day.

in fact, i think that faith is the most powerful thing in the world. not necessary faith in terms of faith in god, but faith in anything at all. its something which you can hold on to, even in the darkest of times, and hopefully it will see you through. a person who loses his faith could very well be described as a ship that has lost its bearings. never will it be able to return to the harbour.

however, a good religion should not impose itself on others. it should not come across to others as the one and only CORRECT religion to believe in. to me that's not being very humble, for you expect others to follow the same path that you do. it is clearly chauvinism exemplified. so if someone actually tries to impose their religion on you, it could be said that they are the stauch believers of the second kind. one with the 2nd definition of stauch, in which it stops all flow of things, ultimately becoming rigid and inflexible, fading away with the tides of change.

isn't religion for the love of god??? Yann Martel, in his book, "the life of Pi", actually stated this. the book had a rather humourous scene, about a boy who is of indian origin, who goes to the church, and also the mosque for friday prayers and reads the Qu'ran. when the respective preists of all three religions meet up, verbal pyrotechnics broke lose and arguements amongst them heated up, but only to be silenced by the boy's innocent sentence that religion is for the love of god, no matter in what form.

i have actually many more things to say about this topic, but it would be too lenghty to type and i'm too tired. so i shall go and take a little nap and try not to let any instructors catch me..... muahaha.... maybe you guys should try to post comments on what i've just said? get our brains working a little, its good for us..!! haha...

---mian---

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

~~3:56 PM~~

Monday, August 30, 2004

~~9:10 PM~~

Saturday, August 28, 2004

~~11:33 PM~~

Sunday, August 22, 2004

~~6:03 PM~~

~~4:22 PM~~

~~3:28 PM~~

Sunday, August 15, 2004

~~11:18 PM~~

~~11:05 PM~~

Allo. Teoh here, got nothing to do on a sunday night downloading some goals as usual and while waiting went to look at the long forgotten blog. Think that we shud start writing in it again, keep each other updated on our miserable lives.

Read wat mian had to say bout staunch people. Dunno wat to say bout it since I dun have much depth to my knowledge bout anythin, but seems like one by one the botakgang members are becoming victims of religion if u get wat i mean. Anyway mian english too cheem la as usual like writing novel, actually feel quite jealous sia cannot seem to articulate myself as well as mian. Maybe shud start reading more and expanding my limited vocabulary.

Anyway, if anybody with match contacts reads this please organise a match. Especially Huang Jian and Choo. Botakgang has been stagnant for too long my jersey goin thru oxidation becoming brown liao.....Lame......

Wah lau damn xian wat are we doing in army!!!!!!! I want to disrupt forever and go study and have fun and work and get attached and married and have kids and retire and have fun again ( in any order ).

At the start of our JC lives all of us were ji mo nan hai, then one by one we got attached or romantically engaged in one way or another ( although Du is belly good at concealing it Muahahahaha ). Now one by one becoming ji mo nan hai again so we mus once again lead the ji mo nan hai life-style. Come on my brothers!!!!! Hear my call for weekend partying. Mian stop going for your father's numerous birthdays and Nich you can pray to God even when singing karaoke and Choo....... Nvm think of something to suan you about next time.

Ai ya but at the end of the day I think after everyone books out will be damn shagged and can only think bout K-U-N (sleep). Jus like how Dillion, Jain and I played Mian out tis morning by choosing sleep over some street soccer action. Wateva the case guys tink bout wat I said and lets hope that the next weekend and many weekends to come will be filled with more fun and laughter and vulgarities and talking cock and suaning Choo........ Bye bye till next time......

~~11:05 PM~~

Allo. Teoh here, got nothing to do on a sunday night downloading some goals as usual and while waiting went to look at the long forgotten blog. Think that we shud start writing in it again, keep each other updated on our miserable lives.

Read wat mian had to say bout staunch people. Dunno wat to say bout it since I dun have much depth to my knowledge bout anythin, but seems like one by one the botakgang members are becoming victims of religion if u get wat i mean. Anyway mian english too cheem la as usual like writing novel, actually feel quite jealous sia cannot seem to articulate myself as well as mian. Maybe shud start reading more and expanding my limited vocabulary.

Anyway, if anybody with match contacts reads this please organise a match. Especially Huang Jian and Choo. Botakgang has been stagnant for too long my jersey goin thru oxidation becoming brown liao.....Lame......

Wah lau damn xian wat are we doing in army!!!!!!! I want to disrupt forever and go study and have fun and work and get attached and married and have kids and retire and have fun again ( in any order ).

At the start of our JC lives all of us were ji mo nan hai, then one by one we got attached or romantically engaged in one way or another ( although Du is belly good at concealing it Muahahahaha ). Now one by one becoming ji mo nan hai again so we mus once again lead the ji mo nan hai life-style. Come on my brothers!!!!! Hear my call for weekend partying. Mian stop going for your father's numerous birthdays and Nich you can pray to God even when singing karaoke and Choo....... Nvm think of something to suan you about next time.

Ai ya but at the end of the day I think after everyone books out will be damn shagged and can only think bout K-U-N (sleep). Jus like how Dillion, Jain and I played Mian out tis morning by choosing sleep over some street soccer action. Wateva the case guys tink bout wat I said and lets hope that the next weekend and many weekends to come will be filled with more fun and laughter and vulgarities and talking cock and suaning Choo........ Bye bye till next time......

~~10:50 PM~~

Sunday, August 08, 2004

~~1:13 PM~~