just a mirage

hey i've created the blog with the christianity stuff.. it's @ http://chunkk.blogspot.com

Yankees

hmm... i see my name appearing a lot of times eh?dont know if that's a good thing or a bad one.

THE WORST CANDIDATE TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA IN JYM HAS:

Lawrence's build
Lawrence's height (strictly no personal attacks here)
Ivan's old hair
Radius' awareness (what game are we playing now ah?)
Joshua Ger's charisma
Joshua Ger's energy
Joshua Ger's mouth (saliva)
Caleb's Singing
Clement Chua's belly
Jason's Toys
Derrick's stomach
Joel Pang's Humour
Junxu's Laughter
Brenda's temper

that's two of us who think we should create a new blog for it. any more? if anyone with more experience in starting a blog template than me wishes to do so, he/she should...

any suggestions for the blog address? any votes for funkk 2? Personally I would like something more... creative.

I hope we can all go to Stadium Kaimina to watch the final... if circumstances permit...

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THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN JYM HAS:

Ryan's brain (Creativity)
Caleb's height (Heading)
Caleb's eyes (Vision)
Caleb's mouth (Communication)
Jeremiah's build (Strength)
Derrick's body structure (Agility)
Junxu's lungs (Stamina)
David's hips (Dribbling)
Caleb's heart (Passion)
Hsin Qin's temper (Composure)
Justin's sixth sense (Awareness) - "I've got it covered..."
Kenny's thighs (Acceleration)
Gabriel's calves (Speed)
Ryan's toes (Control)
Kenny's left leg (Duhh)
Kai Min's right leg (Duhh 2)
Justin's image (Coolality)
David's musicianship (To Sing National Anthem)

THE WORST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN JYM HAS:
Some of it is very mean. I know. All in the name of fun.
_________'s brain (Too cruel to put anyone's name)
Kenny's height
Ivan's eyes
Joel Chua's mouth
Lawrence's build
Ivan's body structure
Kai Min's lungs
Junxu's hips
Hsin Qin's heart
Caleb's temper
David's awareness ("Watch where you're going!")
Radius's thighs
_________'s calves (can't really think of anyone very slow now)
Ivan's toes
Ivan's left leg
Brenda's right leg
Ivan's image
Caleb's musicianship

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I'll talk about baptism in the Spirit more after I check my Bible awhile...

I'll just try to make this short and sweet. Haha.

I don't mind movin' the heavy stuff to a lighter blog..ah mean, this guy has past 100 man. Aha.. ..yeah i think we leave this blog for lighter stuff. but please, that does not mean we avoid talking about God..we are youth leaders.

so i shall save my "continued entry on apologetics" for the other blog. It shall be named funkk 2. Haha.

Anyway, i'll just say a line or two about the Holy Spirit thing..i don't know how accurate can this get, but when we do receive the Holy Spirit, do look out for these stuff: you are filled with inexpressible joy. you are filled with reason to give thanks to God for everything, you look at everything from God's perspective, you feel prayerfully dependent on God, feeling the need to pray at every breath u take, u hate the sin and not the sinner, you no longer fear death, and lastly, u realise the urgency to share the Word.

Nothing tangible, I'd say.

And, of course, repentence then submission is the way to be filled with the Spirit. Don't take those 2 words for granted man. If we do not take up our cross and follow him, it's goodbye. That means if we love soccer, love music, love US, love maths, love our friends, more than God, it's goodbye.
And I think being baptized with the Spirit is simply the receiving of the Spirit.
About tongues..let's wait for a sermon on it.. Haha.
"And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."
"no one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit"
The Bible.
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and, To JCs'ians: All the best for this week...

-ryan-

Anyway, Sam Phun, as I think is so spelt, made quite a mistake in his sermon. Haha. It's nothing about me acting as Jesus..haha, It's about the greatest commandment, to love God with all of your "heart", "soul" and "strength".
It's not "strength", it's "mind".

Love the Lord your God with all of your mind. That's why I really think apologetics should not be chucked aside, you see.. Sorry if I'm irritating everyone by keeping on talking about apologetics..I just think it's really necessary take a greater interest in studying christianity more..

we all say we still love God.. well..
WHAT WOULD WE DO IF WE FOUND OUT THE RAPTURE TAKES PLACE TOMORROW?! Do we believe in the coming of Christ in the first place.. ..would we be ready..or does the Jesus story sound too much like a fairytale..would we be able to profess our love for God then..WOULD WE?? we're walking on the narrow road man, hello, it isn't supposed to be so easy..wake up..
a billion "christians" are still on the wide path, I MUST say..and I must admit i've been on it very very recently..

meanwhile, are u a christian.

sorry if I'm really irritating here..u ol' can kick me outta funkk anytime..but I just want everyone to know that you crucify Christ all over again when you chase him out of your life.

heya, yeah I can't believe I forgot to wish david a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! well i did in church haha but might as well let everyone know... my brotha from the rafflesian community, haf great fun in your two years in RJ man... cos after that you're gonna have to follow in my footsteps and serve the nation. and in the army, having your birthday is not a good thing.

juz wanna make a suggestion, do you all want to move the "heavy" spiritual stuff to another blog, and leave this one for light-hearted chat? do reply...

and about your query, david, yeah, I'm not too sure exactly what being "baptized in the Spirit" entails... but I think you can be filled with the Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues. tough topic, this one. any opinions?

ivan

how did it go so wrong?

how did it occur that i didn't post anything for so long... i guess it's just me being too lazy to come here to post.. i thought our blog was dead but ivan and ryan certainly kept it alive.. i'm too tired to read ivan's or ryan's or junxu's talk about apologetics, though i'll have something to say.. i'll air my views on tuesday, when i have a bit of time to rest and relax.. anyway, it's now back to studying for common test tmr.. hope Caleb has fun in poly.. and really wanna thank ryan and junxu for the baseball stuff.. really cool
Anyway Ryan.. do you think you're filled with the holy spirit, or do you think you have been baptised with the holy spirit? i mean you don't speak in tongues right.. to all : do we need to be baptised with the holy spirit? to me the answer is quite obvious, but then how do you know when you're baptised with the holy spirit? is tongue a definite sign? no right, but why is it that all the disciples spoke in tongue when they were baptised with the holy spirit.....

NEW YORK YANKEES
David Lim

how did it go so wrong?

how did a post about my fantasy soccer team lead to four other posts that start the same way?

well, that's one thing that hasn't changed. the other: my fantasy team is still struggling badly. while savouring the exciting England-Portugal match, my fantasy players performed as such:

Campbell let in two, and had a goal ruled out.
Scholes got substituted on 55.
Rooney got substituted on 27.
Deco got yellow-carded.
Nuno Gomes was as ineffective as Pauleta before him. D'oh.

Just want your opinion on these, and my own opinion after that:
- was Campbell's last minute goal really an infringement? No.
- did Beckham slip when taking his penalty? No.
- is sending your penalty down the centre a good idea? Yes.
- were Portugal the worthy winners? Yes, by a very small margin.


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but yeah, been thinking about apologetics for some time... time to test my faith and things related to that. and here's a great topic to talk about! unlike ryan, i'll try and cover this thoroughly, and trust that your natural interest in the most important thing in your life (your faith) will encourage you to read on.

First I'll post my response to the student.

What I do agree with his post: that religion can be a security blanket, and that without religion in the world, there will be chaos, as people will see no need to be good. Agreed?

What I find irrelevant about the post: the need for religion to be restructured, adapted, etc. religion does not need to be shaped, if it cannot be decided as true or false in the first place.

What we can talk about: Religion is man-made. That is, of course, that the deity created by religion is the creation of humans; idols and ideas of our own fashion instead of the actual belief in the one who created us. I'll get to this later.

His other point: Worship is man-made. This one is a little tricky: I actually agree with it, in that if we are to worship a God, then the worship WE give to HIM is man-made. How can God create worship, unless He worships Himself? however, worship is not man-made in that if God exists, he is the FOCAL POINT for worship, giving us the reason to worship. in that sense, it is not man-made.

Now, Junxu, or whoever posted that, is absolutely (or perhaps I can't say that! I'm not absolute!) right in saying that "religion is man-made" is actually the argument as to whether God exists or not. and the student is just saying he doesn't, and therefore he gets to talk about religion as an institution, a blanket, and blablabla.

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So let's take a look at Ryan's response to this, a very insightful one. He gives us three possibilities:

1. Religion is man-made, i.e. God does not exist.
2. Any assertation as to whether religion is man-made or not is man-made, i.e. there can be no specific answer.
3. Religion is absolute, i.e. God exists.

Prof Kam then goes on to demolish the student's assertation that religion is man-made quite brilliantly, I'd say. The student's statement obviously comes from his own belief that God does not exist, which has not yet been proven. Therefore his statement has no proof either.

What Ryan has got wrong, however, is that when Christians say that "Absolute does exist", this is valid simply because they believe in the absolute. we Christians, unfortunately, do not have the absolute wisdom that God has, either; therefore our stand that "Absolute does exist" comes from our own man-made mouths, and our own belief in absolute-ness is rendered imperfect by our own imperfect knowledge. In short, unless you know everything, you can't say anything absolute.

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This argument, therefore, has developed such that we have now the two possibilities of religion being man-made or absolute still valid, yet not proven. This has been the case for the longest time. God created man, yet man turned sinful; God came with the flood, yet people disbelieved; Jesus came to Earth, yet was not accepted. I seriously don't think that we can prove anything about God, if when God Himself came down to earth in human form, people still had doubts.

This is the point of faith, isn't it? Faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1) If we try to find God with our own eyes, and with our own wisdom, we do not see. We cannot prove God using logic, and we cannot persuade others to accept Him with such.

It's good, then, that we start off what I hope will be a continual discussion on apologetics with the knowledge of what it's for. It's not to prove God exists, but to help us be sure of what we hope for- to help us make a case for Christ to anyone who asks us what we believe in.

For me, it is seeing the natural order of creation and how everything works harmoniously with each other that leads me to the idea of a perfect Creator who has sculpted everything with His loving hands. Don't tell me Earth got a perfect mixture of gases such that life could exist here and on no other known place by chance with the Big Bang. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Romans 1:20)

And it is from my own conscious choice, when I accepted Christ into my life, that God showed Himself to me; for, God intends to show Himself to us and not to the world (John 14:21-22). That, then, is why our student here, with the wisdom of the world, believes religion is man-made.

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Lastly, I agree with Ryan about posting your thoughts on this. You can claim to have no knowledge or interest in soccer, London, music, and such like, but you should have enough interest in what you are living for to take part in a discussion like this. I'm sure you'll find something to talk about from the three posts about apologetics here. If you know something, say it; if you don't, ask it; if you agree, state it; if you disagree, argue it!

Heh, do I sound a little harsh? Perhaps I do. It's just that I'm tired of seeing people living out a dead faith, praying without conviction, worshipping without truth, living apart from the Spirit, yet still professing to be Christian. And that's me included. It's time to thirst after the Lord once again and renew that faith in Him man. What are YOU believing in?

how did it go so wrong?

how did a post about my fantasy soccer team lead to four other posts that start the same way?

well, that's one thing that hasn't changed. the other: my fantasy team is still struggling badly. while savouring the exciting England-Portugal match, my fantasy players performed as such:

Campbell let in two, and had a goal ruled out.
Scholes got substituted on 55.
Rooney got substituted on 27.
Deco got yellow-carded.
Nuno Gomes was as ineffective as Pauleta before him. D'oh.

Just want your opinion on these, and my own opinion after that:
- was Campbell's last minute goal really an infringement? No.
- did Beckham slip when taking his penalty? No.
- is sending your penalty down the centre a good idea? Yes.
- were Portugal the worthy winners? Yes, by a very small margin.


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but yeah, been thinking about apologetics for some time... time to test my faith and things related to that. and here's a great topic to talk about! unlike ryan, i'll try and cover this thoroughly, and trust that your natural interest in the most important thing in your life (your faith) will encourage you to read on.

First I'll post my response to the student.

What I do agree with his post: that religion can be a security blanket, and that without religion in the world, there will be chaos, as people will see no need to be good. Agreed?

What I find irrelevant about the post: the need for religion to be restructured, adapted, etc. religion does not need to be shaped, if it cannot be decided as true or false in the first place.

What we can talk about: Religion is man-made. That is, of course, that the deity created by religion is the creation of humans; idols and ideas of our own fashion instead of the actual belief in the one who created us. I'll get to this later.

His other point: Worship is man-made. This one is a little tricky: I actually agree with it, in that if we are to worship a God, then the worship WE give to HIM is man-made. How can God create worship, unless He worships Himself? however, worship is not man-made in that if God exists, he is the FOCAL POINT for worship, giving us the reason to worship. in that sense, it is not man-made.

Now, Junxu, or whoever posted that, is absolutely (or perhaps I can't say that! I'm not absolute!) right in saying that "religion is man-made" is actually the argument as to whether God exists or not. and the student is just saying he doesn't, and therefore he gets to talk about religion as an institution, a blanket, and blablabla.

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So let's take a look at Ryan's response to this, a very insightful one. He gives us three possibilities:

1. Religion is man-made, i.e. God does not exist.
2. Any assertation as to whether religion is man-made or not is man-made, i.e. there can be no specific answer.
3. Religion is absolute, i.e. God exists.

Prof Kam then goes on to demolish the student's assertation that religion is man-made quite brilliantly, I'd say. The student's statement obviously comes from his own belief that God does not exist, which has not yet been proven. Therefore his statement has no proof either.

What Ryan has got wrong, however, is that when Christians say that "Absolute does exist", this is valid simply because they believe in the absolute. we Christians, unfortunately, do not have the absolute wisdom that God has, either; therefore our stand that "Absolute does exist" comes from our own man-made mouths, and our own belief in absolute-ness is rendered imperfect by our own imperfect knowledge. In short, unless you know everything, you can't say anything absolute.

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This argument, therefore, has developed such that we have now the two possibilities of religion being man-made or absolute still valid, yet not proven. This has been the case for the longest time. God created man, yet man turned sinful; God came with the flood, yet people disbelieved; Jesus came to Earth, yet was not accepted. I seriously don't think that we can prove anything about God, if when God Himself came down to earth in human form, people still had doubts.

This is the point of faith, isn't it? Faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1) If we try to find God with our own eyes, and with our own wisdom, we do not see. We cannot prove God using logic, and we cannot persuade others to accept Him with such.

It's good, then, that we start off what I hope will be a continual discussion on apologetics with the knowledge of what it's for. It's not to prove God exists, but to help us be sure of what we hope for- to help us make a case for Christ to anyone who asks us what we believe in.

For me, it is seeing the natural order of creation and how everything works harmoniously with each other that leads me to the idea of a perfect Creator who has sculpted everything with His loving hands. Don't tell me Earth got a perfect mixture of gases such that life could exist here and on no other known place by chance with the Big Bang. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Romans 1:20)

And it is from my own conscious choice, when I accepted Christ into my life, that God showed Himself to me; for, God intends to show Himself to us and not to the world (John 14:21-22). That, then, is why our student here, with the wisdom of the world, believes religion is man-made.

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Lastly, I agree with Ryan about posting your thoughts on this. You can claim to have no knowledge or interest in soccer, London, music, and such like, but you should have enough interest in what you are living for to take part in a discussion like this. I'm sure you'll find something to talk about from the three posts about apologetics here. If you know something, say it; if you don't, ask it; if you agree, state it; if you disagree, argue it!

Heh, do I sound a little harsh? Perhaps I do. It's just that I'm tired of seeing people living out a dead faith, praying without conviction, worshipping without truth, living apart from the Spirit, yet still professing to be Christian. And that's me included. It's time to thirst after the Lord once again and renew that faith in Him man. What are YOU believing in?

How did it go so wrong?

Haha, I'm not in an apologetics state of mind right now. And I really forgot a lot of apologetics. Anyway, I'm writing the 100th entry of Blog Funkk. ..yes yes..i know..such an honour..

Can't figure out who posted the 99th entry.. think junxu..haha..

Camp was really boring without david and junxu! u fools. if u were there i might have considered stayin' up all night in sentosa..that's if both of u stayed up of course. so i was the first in my tent to sleep and allow the mosquitoes to have the feast of their lives. By the time the rest came into the tent, those tiny fools have already had their 3rd helping, and were full. so ivan, for one, has no defiency in blood at the moment.

England and Portugal later. A dream day spent today would be to head to david's house after breakin' camp to celebrate his b'day, then adjourn to Stadium Kaimina at night. But music prac and tired bodies came in the way. So anyway, i'm wagering on an England win, of course. But I'm really nervous..portugal is cheeky, especially deco. Gerrard, u better mark him like a camel in the pacific.
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Atheism is the most profound religion..no one can grasp it..cos in the absence of a concept of "God", everything's just thrown into abyss. As LT puts it, it takes more faith to believe that there's no god, than to simply believe that there's a god around somewhere.

Mr. student claims that Christianity is just an invention..and man is his argument rather convincing.

---..wrote a whole chunk here regarding some of the things Mr. student said, but decided to cancel it..it's a bit of digression..and if i make this too long, no one would bother to read this entry..haha--

So I'll just get to the point. Mr. student claims that religion is an invention. But then he goes on to say "one must first of all understand the basic notion that Religion is man-made." So he's saying that while religion is man-made, the idea of religion being man-made, is man-made as well! So now we have 2 possbilities -
1. religion is man-made
2. the idea of religion being man-made, is man-made itself; in other words, "i don't know whether religion is an absolute truth or just some fallacy"

Erm, now can u see that his argument that "religion is man-made" is gettin' a lil' weaker..because a whole lot of people would choose possibility 2 over possibility 1.

Now we the christians throw in a third possibility here.
3. religion is not man-made

In my opinion, we are part of the human race, so we cannot find the correct answer of the 3 possibilities ourselves. In order to find the correct answer, we need to get the verdict of someone "absolute", someone aloof from us all. By choosing to get the verdict of someone "absolute", we have to believe that someone is "absolute" in the first place. So now, if we believe that someone is "absolute", are we not believing in a God?

Mr. student, u believe there is no God, so u believe there is no absolute being, so u believe there can be no absolute knowledge. Mr. student, it takes absolute knowledge to believe that there is no absolute being, so u're claiming that u have absolute knowledge. by claiming u have absolute knowledge, u're believing that the existence of something absolute is possible.
..now u're believing a God does exist.

I can anticipate ur reply, "what about those christians who are believing that an absolute being does exist? are they too not claiming that they have absolute knowledge?"
Christians are making the absolute statement "absolute does exist". so they believe that "absolute" can exist. Their statement, which is an absolute statement is valid because they believe that "absolute" does exist anyway.
Whereas atheists make the absolute statement "absolute does not exist". What warrants them to make absolute statements, when they, in the first place, do not believe that "absolute" can exist?

Erm,

I'll leave u with this first..haha, i've got a lil' brain clot now so I'll leave it as that for now...i'm sure everyone has something to say on this. otherwise, haha, u're living ur faith blindly..heehee.

-ryan kam-

(erm, one last comment..i've been keepin' this comment locked up for some time now..but after some lil' time of reflection at the southernmost point of asia continent yesterday..haha, i think i'll just say it: i think a number of us are not filled with the Holy Spirit..meaning, well..we're only Christians by name.. do check ur faith one of these days, is it real man..)
=)

How did it go so wrong?

A student's take on religion.
Religion: Man's controversial invention
Until such time that Man defines Life, there has to be the concept of Religion to function as a security blanket for Man. Religion, being an entirely man-made idea, serves not only to put to ease Man's understanding of life, but also provides him with the comfort that he seeks in Life. If one day, someone were to prove that God did not exist, can you imagine the social hysteria that would be wide pread across the world? People will find no meaning to living. People will no longer see a need to be good, since the incentive of Heaven, another man-made concept, has been proven against. There will undoubtedly be too much turmoil for anyone to handle. But one must first of all understand the basic notion that Religion is man-made. Even if there is a God, the idea of us having to worship this God is man-made (i.e. Religion). Is there a need for Religion to exist Today? Or has the concept, together with its doctrines, become archaic? Does the institution of Religion need to be restructured and revised to adapt to the world today? Wonder Wonder...

Copyrighted, someone's blog. haha

Well well, some food for thought here. Questions like these arise all the time, but actually, it all boils down to one thing - can we prove the existence of God. Please post your views on this, and ryan, LT jeyachandran junior, im looking forward to yours. haha

How did it go so wrong?

After a 4-match unbeaten run, our team is tumbling towards the old days as our players fumble, trip and get substituted after cramps and injuries, thus depriving us of a full-strength team for 90 minutes.

It is time for a major revamp if we want to catch Outram who are something like 16 goals ahead of us.

First 11 (er, I kinda forgot who started, but anyway):

Derrick, 6

So-so I guess..sure gotta work on those long balls man.. and he's gotta make his presence felt a lil' more in the box..And communicate with his 4men a lil' more. Decent catches here and there.

Junxu, 8

His stamina really showed this time round. Couldn't really out-ram them, but man did he out-run them. Good pestering, improved positioning, did excellently well in reminding the team to fall back.

Clement, 7

Made his presence felt in the second half.. Sprayed decent passes from our third of the pitch, overall, good, not bad. Sturdy. Still can't beat dear Jeremiah though.

David Koh, 6

This guy sure gotta work on his fitness. Haha.

Kenny Khairon, 5 (to his standards)

Didn't provide thAt spark today. A lil' quiet, surprisingly. Maybe his form depends on Thierry Henry's.

Au Kaimin, 6

Left the centre a lil' hollow..could've been a lil' more commanding I guess.. Decent passes here and there.

Caleb Chua, 6

Did fine in those tackles.. It's just his knee.

Justin Hong, 6

Was he on the right flank? Kinda forgot.. Anyway, made some good darting runs..

Ryan Kam, 4

Never really got a grip on the game.. Didn't connect well with midfield.. Didn't hold up the ball well enough. Much room for improvement if he wants to play forward. (Good assist though!)

David Lim, 6.5

Got a goal again..reminiscent of Maniche's one last night. Struck it softly but out-of-reach. Played with heart, like a Josephian. But..then again..never really got a grip on the game..

Subs:

Joshua Chua, 7

I have no idea what gave me such a good impression of him today. It just felt a bit more steady when he came on. Think he held the ball well and played those passes well. Good runs here and there.

Timothy, 7

This guy's good man. Linked up well with the attackers, always running into positions where he can receive passes. Not sure whether he answered Junxu's "Team, fall back!" call frequently though..

Jesse Tan, 6

He was playing right-mid? Questionable technique with the ball. Did some good runs though.

Henry Yeo, 8

Held the ball superbly, something we couldn't do for much of the first half. Injected life into the midfield as playmaker. If only he was a lil' younger.

John Goh, 5

Haha, sorry John. Costly slip-ups as Goalkeeper..although he started off quite brightly. As defender, wasn't wearing boots, a lil' dreamy off the ball, and on it.

Think I left some out. But nevermind, these were the main players anyway..the rest probably just came on for a lil' while.

All in all:
Defence: Relatively tight for most of the match. But lost focus a lil' after the 1st goal. I guess if it were not for some goalkeeping blunders, we could've got a better scoreline anyway.

Midfield: Sorry if I come across a lil' harsh here..It's tiring to be a midfielder, but I've gotta say it was kinda malfunctioning in the first half. Kinda porous..gaps here and there..didn't really link up well with each other..lacked tenacity.

Attack: Sorry if I come across a lil' harsh here too.. It was quite ridiculous..maybe should've had a lil' more confidence in what we can do with the ball..should've shown a lil' more audacity too.

I kinda knew this was comin'..cos we played like this against ACS and it got worrying..though somehow managed to come away with a draw..
But as they say in Gunbound, Good Game.

-ryan-

How did it go so wrong?

Leading the table after Day 1, my team is tumbling towards relegation as my players fumble, trip and get substituted at 59 minutes, thus depriving me of a point.

It is time for a major revamp if I want to catch Caleb Chua who is already 29 points ahead of me.

Substitutions:

Kahn for van der Sar

Solely on the basis that Germany is facing Latvia, and Holland is facing Baros, Koller and co... just hope Verpakovskis doesn't come to spoil the party.

Gallas for Stam

Ditto the above, I think Croatia can't score against France.

Jakobsson for Mellberg

Mellberg is a rock, that's for sure, but his points can be garnered by any member of the Swedish back four, so why not put in someone cheaper? ahaha

Helguera for Tudor

Croatia's facing Henry and Co. Spain is not. I don't think Greece will beat Spain.

Deco for Rosicky

After Portugal's dismal opener i think Deco will start for Rui Costa, and do perfectly fine against Russia. Looking at the Czech match, most of the moves came from Nedved and Poborsky... Rosicky's not a good pick.

Hargreaves for Stilian Petrov

Thanks to Butt getting injured, I get a cheap starting English player... just hope Scholes doesn't recover in time. And I don't trust Bulgaria no more.

Poulsen for Zanetti

Just get a Dane in, in case they rampage against Bulgaria. See above. Zanetti's freakin' lousy... ahaha.

Hamann for Mostovoi

He might score one against Latvia, don't you think? Sigh... another deluded pick in Mostovoi. He's now sent home from Euro. Russia are in a mess. If Portugal weren't in a mess too, I'd pick the entire Portugal team to face them.

Podolski for Rooney

I was pleasantly surprised when my changes gave me enough money for a striker worth 9. Rooney's a good bet against Switzerland.

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Why have such animosity against le French, le Kam? Was it not ze Man U that let ze Barthez school out Monsieur Becks? hee..

My word, England won it for 90 minutes, lost it in 93 minutes. Well I was blessed enough to have my dear ManUtd strip bayern off their champs league trophy in similar fashion..pay back time i guess.. son of a zidane.

I'll vent my frustration on outram. Ahaha..
I hope the game will be peaceful man...just pray things don't flare up..and can we try to shake hands a lil' before match starts..and smile a lil'..and laugh a lil'..after all we're not playing france.. Chill.

Peace out.

Chill out.

Well Ryan you ain't much of a prophet when it comes to England my man.

But how did you pick Larsson as your captain dawg... woah that's 26 points straight off. And my form now is starting to resemble Blackburn's this season, leading on day one before fading. Darn it.

This is my last chance to rally support for mighty England.

SUPPORT ENGLAND!

..Had quite a hell of a time at sentosa with Ivan dawg and Jesse..

..and i think Ivan's night activity's gonna be a blast man.. Anyway, i hope my worship was fine today man..hope that the singing was not unbearable, and i'm glad no one left halfway. please give your opinions (criticisms) about today's worship.

Think the video was good..except for mine and ivan's parts..darn..couldn't really hear..and the people didn't really get it..and it got a lil' laggy towards the end.. But other than that, it was good. Really Good. I must salute ivan for the smooth ideas, justin for the intriguing skill with his cam, kaixin and caleb for..being themselves..Ahaha..

yeah..and ah must say today's post-jym soccer game has been the most fun thus far..well..maybe not for caleb..hope u're fine by now..and i refuse to believe that france will win 3-2.

Finally, most importantly, this thursday's the day. Do keep yourself free from injuries, and free from stomach flus.

To Brenda: Get well soon!
To some of the rest: See you later at Stadium Kaimina.
Stadium Capacity: 7 people + 1 dog.
Oh i mean, 5 people, 1 monkey, 1 donkey, 2 dogs.
To the rest of the rest: Have fun watching England thrash France, wherever you may be.

Kam out.

Well excuse me! If I were a mean, nasty guy, I'd probably type something like this to you, Ryan:

"before I proceed insulting you, Kam in the middle, let me explain why I go by my moniker instead of one of us. Because when i log in with blogger I automatically use my individual login rather than the funkk one... makes sense rite? yes.

Me, a Judas Iscariot? Did I sell my football allegiance to the devil, as all Manchester United fans have done? No. Perhaps you should look instead to the most recent Man Utd signing and decide on who is a real betrayer... and take out that piece of wood in your eye. It's hidden behind your left cornea.

and what sort of evil spirit can there be in Blackburn? Besides the scoring affliction affecting Cole and Yorke that Ferguson probably implanted before sending them over, I can't detect any, no. they are probably all hanging around in old trafford, manchester.

And if I were to harbour any ulterior motive, it wouldn't be very smart to announce it to dimwits like you by making me seem different from the rest, now does it?"

but since I'm a nice guy, I won't.

To add to the euro league thingy, anyone from jym can join (nods head). it'll be fun engaging in the thrill of contest... watching as the players in europe eagerly display their skills, waiting for that long-hoped-for contract offer from Blackburn Rovers Football Club after an impressive tournament. nope, I didn't accidentally name my team wrongly... if anything I purposely named my team wrongly, wait, I mean correctly.

Ah, finally, David my man, you're back!

I'll say..Caleb posted that..and I'm sure I'm right. Haha!

Ivan, why are ur entries posted by "Kaellstar" and not "one of us"? You Judas Iscariot! You who eateth ur meals at the same table of brotherhood with the rest of us but who probably harbours certain ulterior motives! Be gone, evil spirt of Blackburn inside you!

David is back from ENGLAND. Oh he just smells like a London cab..

And I do want to take this opportunity to invite Kaimina, Gabriela and Junxua to the Euro fantasy thing..which Ivan will surely lose because he has accidently named his team wrongly.

Kam out.

Can't identify who juz posted that... well we're not exactly a dead blog ahahaha... not yet.

I have created my fantasy team for Euro 2004 at uefa.com, called signin' 4 Blackburn... representing the people I would like to see signing for Blackburn. Yup. I propose we all join a private league for competition... so I've created one. when it prompts you to join a league just type this code: 23749-4987. It's quite safe to post it... right?

I'll now unveil my team to the adoring public (heh heh)

GK: Casillas (5.5), van der Sar (5.5)

Casillas and van der Sar are, in my opinion, the best there are currently. they are also less under threat for their position than others: James, Barthez, even Kahn. Buffon (7) is overpriced.

DF: Tudor (5), Campbell (6), Stam (6.5), Mellberg (5.5), Puyol (6)

Generally for defenders I like to go for those occasionally pop up for a goal, usually worth quite a bit in fantasy football. Hence defenders that play in midfield positions are usually welcome, like Tudor. And he's worth it. Campbell likes to score headers for England, so he's in, too. Stam and Puyol are quality defenders in teams that don't let in many goals. Has anyone realised, too, that no one scores many goals against Sweden? Mellberg's my man. Of course I shy away from the overpriced Nesta, Lizarazu, Thuram etc.

MD: van der Vaart (9), Vieira (8.5), Pirlo (8), S. Petrov (7), Alenichev (6.5)

Couldn't do without the first two. van der Vaart is the only one of two midfielders rated 9 and above that I think is at the top of his game. The other is Pires (10), who really isn't worth 10 (The others are Beckham, Figo, Zidane, Scholes, Nedved, Ballack, Valeron, Rui Costa, and Camoranesi). Vieira's my captain, and rating him so low is pretty much criminal. Pirlo is a gamble, but I think he'll come good this Euro. Also it's a good idea to look at the less popular teams. Petrov is the star of Bulgaria, and I liked Alenichev's play for Porto.

FW: Morientes (8), Vryzas (6), Podolski (7)

A bit unorthodox here. Morientes has been too good this year, he'll do fine in Euro 2004. Being short of "money" at this point, despite all my saving, I searched for some low priced gems, and Vryzas, the leading man of Greece, caught my eye. I think with Germany doing so badly with their frontline Podolski might get his chance as well. I don't know how people can fit Henry (12) into their team, and I wanted him too, but I think my team will do fine.

That's a wrap!

Dropping by to say hi to the world! this blog is just like an aging man, once active in his younger days, now being comatose, awaiting the angel of death to remove him from the face of the earth. ha! Come on guys do carry on blogging to sustain this old man maen!