Why Brazil Should Win the World Cup

Why Brazil should win the World Cup – so that we can all see more of those samba girls dancing in the victory parade.

Why England should win the World Cup – To stop them going on and on about 1966 and Alf Ramsay and Geoff Hurst and was-it-wasn’t-it-a-goal and.. (but then they’ll go on and with the class of 2006…)

Why Australia should win the World Cup – bragging rights over those arrogant cricket, Aussie-rules and rugby fanatics back home.

Why France should win the World Cup – Because Djibril Cisse isn’t playing.

Why Italy should win the World Cup – Just only for their tight jerseys.

Why Holland should win the World Cup – Marco van Basten is such a nice guy.

Why Sweden should win the World Cup – to prove that at least ONE Swedish football coach CAN win the World Cup…

Why Serbia Montenegro should win the World Cup – Just to see if they can fit the name of the country on the engraving plate on the trophy…

Why Togo should win the World Cup – because the Hong Kong bookies calculated that they’d make the most money if Togo won due to the lowest amount of bets on them.

Why Saudi Arabia should win the World Cup – to ensure this current coach doesn’t get his @$$ fired after two games.

Why the United States should win the World Cup – oh, come now, let’s not get carried away here, shall we?

Why Japan should win the World Cup – so that Asia gets another automatic slot for the 2010 World Cup.

Why Portugal should win the World Cup – I’m sick of hearing the phrase ‘golden generation’. Plus, Luis Felipe Scolari looks funny celebrating goals.

Why Argentina should win the World Cup – To shove the golden trophy up Brazil’s…

Why South Korea should win the World Cup – to improve the image of South Korean exports around the world (e.g. footballers, Kia, Hyundai, Goldstar, Daewoo, Winter Sonata, Jewel in the Palace, etc)

Why Spain should win the World Cup – so that we can all stop seeing the miserable look on Raul’s face for the next four years.

Why Germany should win the World Cup – To prove the theory that Brazil can’t win again in Europe.

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Some Probable Conversation Between Husbands and Wives During the World Cup

Some Failed Asian Versions of the Popular CSI Series

CSI is darn popular. Even here in Malaysia. They run the shows endlessly on AXN, and even the papers can’t stop talking about it. But i’m curious… what if they extended the franchise to Asian countries? interesting thought…

Some Failed Asian Versions of the Popular CSI Series

CSI: Singapore
Gurmit Singh, dressed in an immaculate Armani suit, goes round with his team of hot investigators (played by Bernard Chandran, Fann Wong and Stephanie Sun ) investigating high profile crime cases like a MRT station flasher, a serial criminal who (gasp!) leaves chewing gum all over public parks, and most recently, the case of decapitated cat owned by an eccentric woman who lives alone in her HDB flat with 15 other feline friends… Theme song played by Ferhad.

CSI: Johor Bahru
Set the steamy city called the ‘Haadyai of the South‘, Ng Choo Seong (of Sepet fame) stars as the CSI leader who investigate gruesome gangland murders, illegal DVD pirate killings, car-jackings, Singaporeans littering and speeding in the city. The team consists of a multi-ethnic cast, with a good mix of Chinese and Malays (plus the single token Indian comic relief character, played by Acappan). Their biggest case so far was the murder of the crooked bridge… Theme song played by Love Me Butch.

CSI: Hong Kong
Andy Lau plays the detective who assembles a team of good-looking, porcelain skinned, TV-friendly investigators who work on murder cases in the bustling port city of Hong Kong. Chinese triad murders provide endless intriguing cases for the team to work on, interspersed with multiple stories of the characters PG-13 love affairs. The season ending finale focuses on the discovery of a mole in the CSI team planted by the triads, who threatens to exposes a similar police informer who was planted in the triads… probably the most promising of all the new Asian CSI series, there are plans to release it as a trilogy of movies with confusing plots and time-lines to befuddle viewers. Andy Lau sings the soppy lovey-dovey theme song.

CSI: Seoul
Starring Bae Yong Joon (of ‘Winter Sonata’ fame) and Lee Young-ae (of ‘Jewel in the Palace’ fame), this edition of CSI surprising does not focuses much on crime scene investigation, but rather on the drawn out romance between the two good looking leads. There are intricate love story plots, like love triangle, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends, parental objection, jealousy, etc. The slow pace drama is set in the scenic South Korean countryside winter landscape, all cars in the show sponsored by Kia and Hyundai, and are either white, black or silver. Love theme is a K-pop ballad, sounding strangely like Winter Sonata…

CSI: Bangkok
CSI team scoots around in designer tuk-tuks to beat the massive Bangkok jams. Theme song = 80’s pop classic ‘One Night in Bangkok’.

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School Holidays Blues

School holidays are here and the shopping centres are swarming with kids and teenagers. Oh, wait, the teenagers are there regardless whether it is school holidays or not. Only difference is that during holidays, they aren’t wearing their crumpled school uniforms.

There are some places you should avoid during the school holidays. My friend goes swimming twice a week at a public swimming pool. During school breaks, she skips the pool laps and goes jogging. Unless, she get’s herself ‘invited’ to any of her friend’s private condo swimming pool.

The public swimming pool is full of splashing kids in the shallow end and their shouty parents (‘Don’t pee in the pool! Watch out for the broken tiles! You don’t know what disease is floating in the water!’) and the pimply schoolboys gawking at the girls in their unflattering swimsuits (‘Lenglui! Lengui! Three o’clock! Walau! She goes to my add maths tuition class one…!’).

Another place my colleague told me to avoid like the plague is the zoo. I haven’t been to our local zoo in my life, so I can’t vouch for the crowd situation there, but my colleague tells me even the animals have complained to the zookeepers about the schoolchildren – littering all over the place, screaming and running havoc, taunting the animals when sign clearly says ‘Jangan kacau haiwan-haiwan di sini’ (or something to that effect). It’s no surprise it is during the school holidays coincide with the period that the animals take the most number of medical leave days…

The same rule applies for any amusement park like Sunway Lagoon, Genting Highlands, funfairs, bookfairs, PS2 shops, tourist destinations…

But there are a lot of up sides to it – the roads are relatively jam-free (I said ‘relatively’). And another bigger perk – my boss is on leave for 2 weeks…