As much as I like watching football, there seems to be an overload of World Cup related exposure everywhere I turn these few weeks. It’s everywhere – on the idiot box, on radio, in the papers, incoming text messages, on the billboards, every available space is filled with it. Football translates into money, even in a country like Malaysia, which isn’t even remotely participating in the games (at least Singapore has a few referees there…). With non-football fans and the everyman on the street going ga-ga over Argentina and Brazil (“Brazil sure win one, I only support Brazil!”), there millions of bucks to be made. Here’s who I think makes…

June 23rd is Project Petaling Street’s (PPS) birthday, and this year it’s the third. Most bloggers will remember the big birthday bash last year at Charlie’s Place in KL, I remember there were plenty of postings about it, and not to mention the many pictures popping up everywhere… including The Star’s In-Tech. PPS has changed a lot in the last one year, least of all the look of it. When I first joined PPS some time in March last year, it still had the ‘classic’ black and white look. I know it’s really the right usage of the word classic, but it my first impression of it back then… then…

A friend of mine, who has been following this blog from day it started, has decided to start her own [tag]blog[/tag]. She’s using the popular [tag]Blogger[/tag]‘s blogspot platform, which I would say is a good way for newbies to start. (Side note: She has since migrated to [tag]Blogsome[/tag]. Hmmm…) She actually didn’t tell me about the blog, I saw the incoming referral link on my sitemeter, it sort of shocked her I tracked her blog down hours after she set it up, without her telling me about it. As you can probably tell, I’m hosting my own [tag]Wordpress[/tag] 1.5.2 (i haven’t upgraded to WP2.0 yet). But long ago I used…

Her: “Hello is that Mr. Simon?” Me: “Yes, who’s this?” Her: “Hi, Good morning, my name is Chia, calling from XXX Cards. How are you today?” Me: “Oh, no. Well my day was fanastic right until I picked up this call… What is this regarding?” Her: (showing no signs of understanding my slight at her company) “Mr. Simon, we are pleased to let you know you’ve been selected as one of the lucky few cardmembers to receive a special RM25,000 free insurance coverage.” Me: (sotto voce) “Oh wow. A telemarketer AND free insurance? This IS my lucky day…!” Her: (again, no change in chirpy coffee-filled voice) “First of all, let…

The media isn’t going to let you forget that this Sunday is Father’s Day, not when they want you to buy the latest massage chair or spend RM88++ for a buffett lunch. I saw this funny posting by our own millionaire recluse Viewtru, so i’m nicking his idea (eheheh…) for this post… Dads Are Like Moms Except… …they can watch Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans with you and find them hilarious. …they can drink a can of Coke and eat a bar of Snickers and call it ‘breakfast’. …they won’t say anything if you wear the same T-shirt or outfit 5 days straight, or if your dress doesn’t match your…

[tag]Jogo Bonito[/tag], The Beautiful Game. The other day, driving home in one of those gnarly KL traffic jams, just a few days before the the World Cup started, I saw one of the many buntings flashing the words ‘Jogo Bonito’. I believe Pele used those words to describe football (‘soccer’ to you Americans), but I doubt he was the first to use that phrase. I remembered back when I was in primary school in a small town, [tag]football[/tag] (and to a lesser extent, badminton) was the primary sport all of us knew and played. I wasn’t all that crazy about football, but we played it all the time, nonetheless. We…

I’m sick of my job. I’d rather be in a sunny beach. Bleargh. Somebody tell me a joke to cheer me up. No jokes about nuns or elephants, please.

Read in one of the PPS blogs last week where this guy listed down the worldwide top 100 movies in the [tag]IMDB[/tag] website. I took a look at the list. (I’ve reproduced it below this article). I starting marking out all the movies that I have watched, but after about 20 movies, I realized it would be much easier to cross out the movies I HAVEN’T watch before. Anyways, out of the 100, there were 13 that I have yet to watch. That’s quite a lot considering that the ease of access to movies we Malaysians have (if you catch my drift…). The 13 I HAVEN’T watched are: [tag]Harry Potter[/tag]…

Why [tag]Brazil[/tag] should win the [tag]World Cup [/tag]– 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 [tag]Alf Ramsay[/tag] and [tag]Geoff Hurst[/tag] 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…

Honey, where’s the remote? Please tell me you didn’t hide it again…? The World Cup match is starting in 5 minutes time… (wife to husband) Other wives complain that their husbands sleep-talk about Angelina Jolie in their sleep, my husbands talks about Rooney in his sleep! No, honey, the team in blue is Italy, the team in yellow is Brazil… honestly, EVERYONE knows that…! Hey, wait! Where are you going with the potato chips…?! (wife to husband) My 4-D bookie called me today. She says to tell you that you owe her RM800 for last week’s matches. And also, if you’re still interested, she is offering half ball for Brazil…