bye bye england brazil argentina and ermm ukraine

Watched three of the four quarter-final matches over the last two days. Add in some basketball and a long trek to east coast to.... hmmmmm.... relax. Then steamboat at marina.

And also reminded myself that my talent lies in spilling my drinks wherever... whenever.

Result : 10 hours of sleep today. It has been so long since i slept for so long. Song4.

World Cup 2006. As someone puts it aptly... it can be renamed to Euro 2006 now.

Germany-Argentina was dubbed as the match that should have been the final. Overhyped in the end. Boring match. Stupid substitutions. One great knock-back (or knock-down depending on how you interpret it). Four ultra-confident penalties. One not very confident defender taking a penalty. And a goalkeeper that won it for them. Germany through.

But probably the image that people will remember and talk about will be the kahn-lehmann handshake and encouragement. Sportmanship?? Or for the cameras??

England-Portugal. Not very exciting also. Not much chances at goals. But truthfully england played much better in this match than the others. Especially when rooney got sent off. Owen Hargreaves was great. And he wears no.16. I like. Maniche shoots a lot from long range. Seems like he takes a lot of confidence from his goals earlier. Must have felt like he could do anything. But he couldn't. Haha. Beckham cried. So sad. I quite like him.

On first look the red card seems very harsh. But after watching the replay maybe it is just about justified as it looks like he did stamp on cavalhro. But cristiano ronaldo is also an idiot. Running so far to protest. Read article in which he claimed his innocence that he did not ask the referee for a card for rooney. Then why was his stupid hand moving. And his whole performance was about diving and acting. With his undoubtable talent and pace and ability why does he have to do this again and again. And when the foul on him was rightly not given... he complained like there was no tomorrow and looked ready to fight. Stupid. Idiotic. Disgusting. Don't really like him now. Perhaps it will be better for him to leave man utd now or else sure kenna whacked.

But england really sucked at penalty shootouts. Paul Robinson is not a good penalty saver as he shows us. Even gerrard and lampard who take penalties for their clubs don't even look like scoring from the moment they stepped up. Similar to ayala. Ricardo was good. Good to see viana miss. Petit's penalty was terrible. But they were lucky as england really sucked even when they have a chance to go 2-1 up. Perhaps they deserved to win the match in normal and extra time. But portugal deserved to win the shootout. As an england fan puts it: we always lose at penalties.

Brazil-France. Boring first half. Much much better after henry scored. Zidane was immense. What a player. Brazil was super disappointing. No ideas no nothing. Started to play and work hard way too late. Not their year. But take nothing away from france. Some of their play were magnificent and flowing. Passing much better than sorry brazil.

Then thanks for the ride home mh.

My prediction is that the winner of the Germany-Italy semi will win the big prize. Not that my predictions are ever accurate.



My friend put up pictures of his work place. I thought i might do the same. If so just to show the differences in working environment.




Know my work area??

Yup... thesorry "table" on the left of the picture. Hastily assembled on my first day of work with 5 used pellets. At least the room is air-conditioned.



There... a closer look at my table. Great isn't it. A temp table for a temp worker. Idea.



The warehouse where we take our stuff from. Only boxes and more boxes. But the big trolley is fun to manuveur.

Yeah... back to this place tomorrow. Work again. How to watch the semi-finals when they are all at 0300hrs??

Sigh.... shag.




But if one day you call...
And there is no answer....
Come fast to see me.
Perhaps I need you.