::mindless blabber::

yes finally world cup season is on…yes yes yes i watch football. what is that look on guys face when i tell them that i do watch football and yes i know what is an offside. men generally think that MOST women watch football is to look at the good looking guys running in the field with short pants. well maybe for some but i watch footie becoz i like the game. my mom said it a stupid game with 22 guys chasing after one stupid ball. cant they all get one ball each??? hahahaha….

for those who did not know that i do watch footie becoz of the game, i started watching footie when i was 5. my dad used to play a lot of football until he got asthma and he couldnt run anymore. my dad also used to be a great fan of our local club Selangor. well that was then, but now looking at the pathetic state of our local football sport. it is sad to say football in malaysia back in the 70s and 80s were much better than now.

one particular game which i remember till now was in 1996 where i had the chance to go watch football live with my dad at the Shah Alam stadium for the Malaysia Cup finals between Selangor and Sabah where they draw 1-1 and it went to penalty and Selangor won with 5-3. it was crazy, all the selangor fans were crazy and so was i… at first i was just acting cool but looking at the excitement of the game, i couldnt help but join in as well. mind you, i used to be very very tomboyish. with baggy clothes and selangor ski cap to boot.

ya ya ya no one even believe it that i used to be a tom boy and never wore a skirt or heels in my entire teenage life. i only started to wear a decent skirt and heels when i was 20 when i started working. now i am absolutely obssessed with heels, boots, pointy shoes…. to date in my two months staying in penang i have gotten 4 pairs of shoes. hahahaha my mom is gonna kill me, she thinks that i have too many shoes. looks who is talking when she has like a collection of shoes herself llike abt 8 pairs which she bought never wear them at all. she always say it is for a special occasion. i wonder when is that???

anyway back to football. well last saturday, i finally met up with a net fren, Brendan (which i forgot how did we ever got acquainted sorry ah buddy?) also met with his lovely and quiet girlfriend Michelle. also not forgetting his frens : jason (reminds me of another net fren in singapore that looks just like him), brian (brendan told me he looked like jay chao… hmmm i wonder which part… hahahah P/S hey brian if u are reading this, FYI i dun like jay chao but his music is ok. and i think u look better than jay chao lar.. hahahah); zen (cool looking dude) anyway brendan thanks for bringing me out to meet ur frens. they are cool and so are u..

anyway back to football, ehem mr brian thinks that i was looking at the footballer’s butt when he was tackled down which i was not. i didnt even realised his butt. i do not know a lot of football trivia and facts which i dun think i need to memorize unless i am in a games show on football history. so u cant expect me to remember exactly which year a certain country won the world cup or which players are in which teams. i remeber back when i was still high school i used to buy manchester united mags (cost RM15-25 a month and i was on a RM50 a week allowances) but sad to say i am not an ex man utd fan (i know u are a man utd fan brendan!) i guess i graduated from football mags to girls mags and now i am addicted to novels. not love novels puhleaseee……i only read anne rice, james patterson, john grisham and occasionally stephen king. at the moment i am collecting books from james patterson, so anyone wanna donate pls donate.. dun mind 2nd hand ones becoz i am only concerned with the content and i normally keep my books in good shape (wrapped in two plastic covers and kept in sealed boxes and i will murder anyone who dog-ears my books!!!)

and i just finished watching japan vs australia match earlier and i cant believe that JAPAN LOSE 1-3 to the aussies… bummer…well i heard from my other net fren that USA are getting their butts kicked by the Czechs 1-0 at the moment… hahahaha i hope my team ITALY would win against Ghana later today! VITTORIA ITALIA!!!

May 25, 2006. Front top (L to R) Simone Barone, Andrea Barzagli, Marco Materazzi, Alessandro Nesta, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Luca Toni, Alberto Gilardino, Massimo Oddo, Cristian Zaccardo. Center (L to R) Gennaro Gattuso, Mauro Camoranesi, Simone Perrotta, Team Manager Gigi Riva, Coach Marcello Lippi, Vice President Giancarlo Abete, Gianluca Zambrotta, Fabio Grosso. Down (L to R) Andrea Pirlo, Filippo Inzaghi, Francesco Totti, Marco Amelia, Gianluigi Buffon, Angelo Peruzzi, Alessandro Del Piero, Fabio Cannavaro, Daniele De Rossi. WORLD CUP 2006 PREVIEW TEAM GROUPS REUTERS/Tony Gentile