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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 , 10:16 AM

On Italy vs Australia:

Watched the Italy vs Australia match, was pretty boring for me. If Spain's labelled the under-performers, then Italy's the let-downs. Italy didn't impress me much yesterday, they played like an entangled mess of spaghetti.

Hence, most of the time I was distracted by the oh-so-clean and blemish-free soccer pitch of the Fritz-Walter-Stadion. Ahh see the benefits of using synthetic grass? Expensive but low maintenance. Poor Aussies they really didn't deserve to get kicked out so soon, they should last like a couple of rounds then make a glorious exit home. Given away that costly penalty kick just seconds before the final whistle. Otherwise, they'd have made it to official 30 mins extra time. By then, it'll be Aussies' flag waving in the stadium skies instead of YUCKY Italy.

Totti looked so different with short hair, can't get used to his clean look. LOL. Prefer his long, shaggy do though, pretty alphamale. I like~ LOL. His penalty kick was good but not great, I mean penalty kicks aren't the most respectable way to score goals, right?

On Mum & Dad:

Mum & Dad's all lovey-dovey all of a sudden, hey it's beginning to get on my nerves. They are 40+ for God's sakes, give us a break, or take it to somewhere private( in our house, it's pretty much impossible). LOL. To hell with mid-life crisis. Now, WE'RE suffering from their mid-life-lovesick crisis. They asked me if we wanna join them on an outing to HarborFront, and there's me picturing them together holding hands and stuff, and it's a definite NAH-UH! LOL. Over my dead body. Haha. I can't understand why we think it's sweet and you go awwww when you see OTHER middle-aged(old) couples doing this, and when it's ya mum and dad, you go YUCK? LOL. Enlighten me people!

For now, I'm happy that my mum and dad's still so much in love, I mean with high divorce rates being the trend now, I'm really glad. At least, if they do( touchwood) enter mid-life crisis, they'll have each other. ; )

On Yellow Cards & Commentators:

I know you're prolly wondering why didn't I tie this in with the World Cup section, but I didn't want the paragraphs to get too chunky. I wanna cut them down into bite-sized portions. Ain't I sweet, readers? LOL. *yuck* moving on...

There're so many yellow and subsequently red cards issued this year, FIFA might as well pass down a decree that teams are to play 9-a-side football in the Quarter-finals onwards. I think this year's World Cup will prolly enter the record books with 'most no. of cards slapped on players'.

Hate the refs( if they issue cards on my fav teams) this year but I absolutely ADORE the commentators this year! Remember how commentators in the past? How they seem to mumble in BBC english, merely telling you which player passed the ball to which player, and give you some boring stats about the players? Fast forward into the 21st century, and you have your interactive commentators! Boy, do they make soccer matches more interesting and fun to watch for first-timers. For old-school soccer fans, it simply adds a dash of flava~ They're funny and witty, PLUS! They give you some snippets of gossip about players here and there. I like~ Heh.

On Maple:

Call me a late-bloomer or simply call me slow. I'm beginning to be hooked on Maple just when everyone's fizzling out on Maple. Hah, oh well btw I usually play on Bootes or Aquila. : ) PM me, ask for my nick if you intend to offer me some free mesos or even better coupons! LOL. Otherwise, other PMs will not be entertained. : )

Maple is a whole new virtual world by itself, the characters and monsters are so cute, even when they're being bashed up! How cool is that? And there's even marriages and match-making sessions on maple, aren't they weird? Whoever came up with this idea?? LOL. And the NPC's names are pretty quirky too, there's Mr. Moneybags, Cai Shen Ye, Tang San Zang and fellas. LOL.

In the meantime, spread love and laughter around peeps!