Sunday, July 02, 2006

Adventure training. Yea. Watching them run around for "Cat and Mouse" was pretty fun. Especially the one where Carmen had to run from-I-forgot-who. The rest of the games were boring shit. Those facilitators did a pretty crappy job. Man, wasted most of my morning. The Pushball competition at the end was much better. Got a kick of getting all physical and violent. HAHA. Got an elbow to the face for my efforts. HAHA. Well, we won in the end, and thats all that matters. Jen's comment that he found my team overly-physical made me proud. C155 rocks!

Played football with Sheng Yang, Leonard, Jen, Jovin and William. Damn fun man. Good to get out there and play like there was no tomorrow. Flicks, steals, tackles, shooting, cutting in and out, chips, lobs. The works. HAHA. Gotta do that more often. Fridays people! After school on Fridays!

Had decided to skip the England-Portugal game. 2 defensive sides, not gonna get much outta them. But I did wake up. Just as the second half of extra-time kicked off. Don't know why I did; I just did. Portugal sorely missed Deco's cutting passes, and Figo was showing his age. They just couldn't break down a boring, insipid England, an England reduced to 10 for Rooney's stomp on Carvalho's groin. Ouch. England weren't very threatening, with the substitute Lennon their biggest threat. So, with two teams unable to take the other apart, the dreaded penalty shoot-out had to be used to decide the winners. Only this time, the penalties were a merciful end to what had been a dreary game. And once again, England lost their nerve from the spot. Portugal thorugh to the next round, deservingly so for their mental strength, to face a fluid France on Wednesday.

Speaking of France, their game against Brazil I did see. Jovin was right. Singapore Pools was helluva dumb to put down $4 plus on France. Fluid in attack, solid in defence. They showed that their victory over Spain was no fluke. Brazil just lacked the self-belief. No imagination, no creativity. Deserved to have their behinds kicked. Watch out for Ribery. He's got loads of the creativity for France that Brazil so sorely lacked. Possible United target? I certainly hope so.

i heard the crickets at 12:08 pm

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