A World Cup Wish List
World Cup is less than a month away. I don’t it’s too early to put up my wishlist for the month-long footie fiesta, so here it is.
- Please don’t get Shebby Singh to be the guest pundit. Get Paul Masefield or Jamie Reeves. Heck, get Hasbullah Awang, I don’t care. I can’t stand that Shebby Singh.
- Stop spamming us throughout the whole World Cup month with all those advertisements of SMS goal alerts, 3G live matches, SMS chats, man-of-the-match contests… Look I know some of these companies sponsor the telecasts, but there is something as overdose or overexposure until the viewers are sick of it.
- I just hope there won’t be any domestic disaster like washing machine breaking down, toilet being stuck, car tyre needs changing, radioactive toxic waste leaking from nuclear plant next door, etc, that require my attention when I need to concentrate on the matches.
- My office closes down a month for termite fumigation / accounting irregularity investigation / acute office paper shortage and declare the whole month as a holiday.
- Don’t snip off the pre-match shows or opening ceremony where they have celebrities performing.
- Ban all cars with the registration plate beginning with ‘W’ or ‘B’ from entering the city during the day, so that I can come home in 10 minutes and sleep it off. Obviously, I don’t drive a local car…
- Somebody give me a free coffee maker. While I’m at it, get me a good one. Like the one they feature on ‘Living Coffee’.
- No boring, boring nil-nil draws. I know this is football, not basketball, but you don’t go to the World Cup and play ultra defensively for draws and hope to win on penalties. You may be able to win the Euro with that…
- I want to see Sven Goran-Eriksson lose his cool at any point during the World Cup. His reaction during that match versus Portugal in Euro was a classic…
- Not related to this list, but if you didn’t have cable TV, you’d probably have to put up with this on local channels: “Ya! Kami sudah terima isyarat dari Germany! Sekarang kita terus Zainal Abidin di Stuttgart… Apa khabar, Zainal…? Zainal…? Nampaknya belum ada ‘audio’…”
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May 22nd, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Hahahha… love the last one man, that’s a classic as well… Looks like I’ll be hearing those real soon as I don’t have satellite tv here…
May 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 pm
LOL at last one…
Another good post man!
Keep it up
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:01 am
hahaha, wtf zainal. i’m gonna get astro soon. btw you forgot that there’s no cable tv in m’sia other than the defunct metrovision or whatever u call it.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:30 am
oh well, not all wishes can come true but wanna watch it live on the stadium
that will be the ultimate, but since i can’t, i’ll just watch it over astro and hope to catch all the nice matches not the boring or uninteresting one. Cheers!
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:50 am
LOL…
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:54 am
LOL, I think I know why I don’t like football! Hasbullah, Shebby, Jeffrey (Ong) or whatever ex-atheletes who want to make it big as commentators.
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:06 pm
good one! esp the last one about no audio. ahaks!
May 24th, 2006 at 11:16 am
haha.. yes no shebby and no nil-nil draws!!
May 24th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Should also put on your wish list that there’d be no: power failures, floods, freak storms that blow off your roof and also your Astro dish, terrorist attacks…….
May 24th, 2006 at 11:52 am
ken - but i think the local stations will be giving full coverage also…
inevitable - so who’re you supporting?
ky - you’ve less than 3 weeks to get your astro installed!
joeC - but judging from that Stadium Astro ad, they’re making us believe that their telecasts will make us feel right in the stadium! yeah right.
din - i think i’ve that happen a hundred times on RTM!
lilian - i doubt hasbullah is an ex-athlete!
swee - aha! another shebby anti-fan!
sexymama - actually quite true. everytime it drizzles, my astro goes blank. i thought they’d fix this problem after 10 years!
May 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
A little late to the party here, but hey, good post!
Apparently good ol’ Astro’s gonna give us interactive features this time round, i.e. zoom, different camera angles, etc.
May 25th, 2006 at 5:49 am
pat - aiya all these features, you play with it during the first ten minutes of the first match, and then you dun bother with it for the rest of the tournament. unless there is a REALLY boring match…