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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 , 1:20 PM

Got antenna, and we were in a finding frequency frenzy. Alas, found the Indonesian channel SCTV! It was sheer joy man I tell you. But the images are a bit distorted, there're these vertical lines cutting across, like a kueh lapis. And most of the times the words were 'dancing'. Heck. I guess it's better than nothing. Haha at least I got to watch the S.Korea vs Togo and Brazil vs Croatia match. Shiokaroo~~ Will keep trying to look for better frequency. Peiyu's SCTV is perfect, so it's like watching Ch5 or Ch8! Envy envy!

Went Bugis with Ru&Co, the curry bento at Corokkechan was superb. Then again, we were prolly just hungry. Yu asked if I wanted to go watch the World Cup at her place, haha but decided not to cuz we wanted to try out the new antenna at home. My mum is pretty against the idea of me watching outside, cuz she thinks there may be riots/fights, especially among the rowdy ah peks. LOL. Talk about stereotyping. Anyways, bought a top from 77th Street, pretty punkish, I like.

In the meantime, my TV has only: Channel U, ChannelnewsAsia, SCTV. I know. Pathetic huh? LOL. Shingyeen's gonna get her antenna today I think, good luck bud! Haha but must be really patient. Hmm no worries though, cuz you live on the 10th floor so reception should be perfect. Envy! Haha remember it's SCTV, cuz TV1/2/3 don't show all matches, for SCTV it's an entire channel dedicated to World Cup. They even have World Cup themed gameshows when there're no matches. All in Bahasa Indonesia of course, haha but it's pretty interesting to watch. If you receive SCTV must tell me k? Haha.

On Brazil vs Croatia:

As Ru said, their jersey really resembles the F1 flag man. Haha. Brazil has a FIFA world ranking at no. 1 and Croatia no. 23, hence I didn't expect this match to be a goals galore. Brazil won 1-0 against Croatia. To me, it was a safe scoreline, nothing too flashy, a lil underperformance really. It was a pity that the Croatian captain got sent off. Croatia's defence did really great, and they were really causing some trouble at the penalty box. Luckily for Brazil, most of the shots by the Croatian strikers were aimed directly at Dida( Brazil's GK) and not the back of the net. Kaka got the winning goal that sealed the game. What was interesting was that Cafu( Brazilian captain) has played his 4th consecutive Worl Cup, isn't that a remarkable feat? Over the span of 16 years! Man whata whopper! And there's so much hype over Ronaldo being overweight, he's NOT fat just stout. Look at Maradona, he isn't exactly slender then. Overall, I was just glad that Brazil won. It was a narrow win for me. LOL.

And I guess Ronaldo's gonna need all the matches he can play to get back his sharpness. Give him some credit, he's faced so many major injuries that threatened his sporting carreer and everytime critics declare that Ronald's not gonna bounce back, he comes back with new surprises. Phew. For now, I'm just thankful for Kaka's 44th minute goal! : )

The man with tt winning smile AND GOAL! Man of the Match.

Cafu(4th World Cup) with Kaka!

Haha I expect more amazing stuff from this man Ronaldinho!

And from this guy too...Ronaldo! The 98' Golden Ball winner.

Lastly, I wanna complain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How is it that Indonesia a country that is financially weaker than us can afford to have live telecasts of ALL LIVE MATCHES? And Singapore a country that is world class this and that doesn't have that? Restricting this privilege to cable viewers only totally sucks! Hmph. To hell with pay-per-view! : (