Friday, December 4, 2009
Life is a contact sport
Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday
I don't know what to say really.
Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
Either
we heal
as a team
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.
Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.
You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the freaking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.
I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.
Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.
That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?
This post is dedicated to firebrands floorball club and riders flag football club. Taken from the show any given sunday.
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 6:11 PM
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Christmas present comes early
The latest member of the family.
So far i got a 500d, tripod, green light filter, and the latest, canon zoom lens ( 55-250mm)
woot woot. Im loving it.
Need a macro lens and a good flash to complete what i want.
So far im very satisfied. hmmm
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 6:34 AM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
SPM ( day 5 )
HOW WILL YOU FACE YOUR GREATEST FEAR?
Tomorrows the day ive been dreading the most for spm.
ADD MATHS
i seriously hate it.
I failed my trials and i wonder how will i do tomorrow.
Il try my best
I ask myself sometimes when im face with these situations,
How will i face my greatest fear?
Will i face it like a coward?
give up?
Or will i do my best and leave the rest to God,
fight the questions insanely even though im writing rubbish.
Words cant tell you how nervous i am right now really. lol
But hey for you spm-ers,
I opened the bible last week before exam and guess what i found.
Psalms 83 : 15-18
' So persue them with your tempest,
And frighten them with your storm.
Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name O Lord.
Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord,
Are the most High over the earth. '
Ive been reading that every morning before exams ever since.
Hopefully it helps.Labels: nervous like shit
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 5:54 AM
Sunday, November 22, 2009
SPM ( saya pasti mampus )
Okay so spm feels like this.
Lets just say the executor is spm,
The person that is going to be executed, me.
i have successfully explained what spm is about.
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 6:32 AM
Friday, November 6, 2009
Bapa borek anak must rintik too
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 7:22 AM
Theres a reason, no?
While i was studying,
Many thoughts ran through my mind,
They went on about how i was so dead beacuse im so unprepared,
How im so cold because of the stupid aircond blasting in mcd,
How im so unlucky because spm is only days away,
How sejarah just wont go inside my head.
Then when it was about 12 am,
some malay lady, in mcd uniform,
diligently walked from table to table, wiping them clean,
arranging the chairs and wiping the floor.
Just to earn some money,
She has to do all that and she isnt that young.
Sad sight to see.
Then i thought to myself,
hey studying isnt so bad after all.
the aircond keeps my coke cool
and yeah i only have a few more weeks before sejarah goes out the window forever.
no more nabi nabi stuff and how we have to respect the way malay people handle things.
God never fails to teach me lessons in interesting ways.
- posted by Daniel Tan,
at 12:18 AM
I don't know what to say really.
The latest member of the family.
Lets just say the executor is spm,
Bapa borek anak must rintik too
While i was studying,