Sunday, July 09, 2006

Gli italiani calceranno dell'asino francese stasera!

Aaah.. My Liverpool/England supporting friend Tariq left to England a week ago or so, he's doing his Masters there.. He's also watching the world cup from there.. He sent us this email which I thought was really hilarious!


TEN REASONS WHY ITALY MIGHT WIN THE WORLD CUP..

1) Fifa worked very hard to promote fair play and anti racism in the world cup.. as we all saw.. there were banners and slogans all over the place and in the latter rounds team captains were given little notes to read out.. but Fifa were apparently also promoting homosexuality.. and in an effort to stamp homophobia out of the beautiful game.. they decided on helping the team with the biggest number of homosexual players win the tournament.. so congratulations to Gigi, Pippo, and Gattuso.. your sexual orientation might just win your country the world cup..!!

2) As part of their preparation for the world cup tournament, the whole Italian team had been subjected to long hours of hypnotic therapy, their conditioning was to try and get all the players to change their attitudes from playing really badly, losing, and blaming everyone else for cheating and being unfair to playing good football and winning.

3) Italy scored a lot of goals, due to the fact that 15 out of the 23 players selected for the squad were strikers.

4) They have a really cool team doctor.. the skinny guy with a little moustache and protective glasses.. check him out in the final.. hehe..

5) Ukraine player Andrey Schevshenko’s family were entertaining some guests when Ukraine and Italy met in the quarter finals.. The friendly mafia mobsters decided to watch the game at his home in Italy with his wife and son.. just to make sure he didn’t do anything stupid during the game.. like scoring against them for example..

6) Instead of spending a large number of hours training on improving certain skills and techniques the Italians are good at such as ‘falling over in agony’ and the ‘I didn’t touch him look’ and ‘he was pulling my shirt’.. the Italian coach decided it was time for a change and introduced new skills and techniques for the players to adopt.. such as heading, shooting, and passing.. midfielder Gattuso missed that training session..

7) Match fixing can be done internationally as well as locally.. as the world will discover in a few months..

8) The real Ronaldinho stayed at home to work on his modeling career.. and sent his twin brother (who was shit at football) to take his place in the Brazil squad..

9) Ghana, United States, Australia, Ukraine, and Germany are all crap at football.. and the Czechs didn’t have any fit strikers for the game.. so I suppose the Italians were just simply very lucky..

10) Well.. maybe it was just because they played really good football.. good attacking positive play originating from a solid group of defenders.. good squad selection and rotation.. good ‘keeper.. and a good team doctor.. THERE.. I said it.. Happy?
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'sigh'.. Tonight is the big night.. Tonight, the dream either begins or ends..
Stasera, il sogno si inizia o finisce..
Ce soir, le rêve commence ou termine..
I can't wait.. Viva Italia! :D

Friday, July 07, 2006

A Pedestrian NO MORE!

I suppose you all know by now that I got my drivers license. Innit cool?
Yeah.. No more hitching rides, begging to be dropped off places, or just being stuck at home because I don’t have a car and there’s no one to drop me.. sigh.. Finally I guess..

I FINALLY AM NOT A PEDESTRIAN ANYMORE!
Well.. I’ve said this before, when I got my license in Jordan, but I didn’t have my own car then..
And I still didn’t drive here, so technically I was still a pedestrian! :P

Anyway, now I can finally I’m not anymore.. Sure I use my brother’s car, but he’s not complaining since I always fill it up!! :s Erm.. Yeah, well I’m always afraid I’d be short on fuel!

Anywhooo... Yesterday was like “Driving day” for me! I actually drove all around Muscat!
Not that I meant to... But I kind of got lost in Madinat Al Ealam, MSQ and Al Ghobra … lol!
I drive to work in Al Ghobra... so yeah I took a wrong turn there and got lost…
Got lost again later that afternoon looking for my friend’s place (TripleTee) in Al E3lam as I was supposed to pick her up and go meet the sabla gals… We were late of course.
After leaving the gathering, I dropped a friend living in Wadi Htat... So yep that was quite a drive! Tee & I then headed off for some Starbucks Frappuccino at MSQ, it was crowded so we decided to go to Shatii’s branch.. Got lost trying to leave MSQ...
Sure.. Laugh all you want. I can assure you it wasn’t funny yesterday!!

Finally had Starbucks, dropped Tee home and headed home myself, it was 11 pm.. I realized I’ve been driving around since 5pm ... Hmm.. And for some reason, I still hadn’t had enough.. Went home picked up my bro Solidus for a drive… Again, the same “circle” – MSQ, Shatii then ended my night with McDonalds…

This day was just packed.I think I did everything a driver could possibly do!! Let’s go through it…
1- I drove like a psycho, hit the horn a lot. (Basically I drove like a Jordanian!)
2- I was speeding before entering main roads.
3- Speeding on roundabouts and almost lost control of the wheel.
4- Hit the bottom of my car at a speed bump (I didn’t see it!)
5- Ran a stop sign.
6- Ran a red light (Solidus said I’d make it! – obviously I didn’t)
7- I fueled the car up twice.
8- Drove while talking on the phone.
9- Ate fries while driving.
10- Changed lanes without indicating
11- Used the hazard button just for the heck of it.
12- Started driving and forgot to let down the hand brake!

Sheesh! ... so… umm.. Anyone up for a drive??? :D No I'm serious..