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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 21:19 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Catching Up on 666

Let's see... tried my hand at wrapping dumplings about a week ago. Grab the leaf, make sure the stem-side is outwards, fold the bottom inwards to make a rough conical shape, scoop the rice in, bend the top over and finish off by wrapping the long remainder of the leaf-blade to one side.

Sounds easy, but the few I made ended up a bit mutated. Cranking out functional dumplings isn't hard, but the aesthetics just ain't there.

Last Saturday and this Sunday (why is Sunday the beginning of the week? It's the seventh day, no?) were mostly burnt on basketball and soccer respectively. Thanks to the 10am scheduling of the latter, I also got sunburnt. Amazingly there was zero sign of the slightest reddening an hour after the game - I was expecting a slight tan at least - and then the pain came. Sometimes, one has to be careful of what one wishes for.

Realised that I haven't been as physically active as I would have liked to be. And that stamina is the basis of just about any sport. Need to find a way to multitask. I don't believe no one has hooked an exercise bike up to a TV or PC, or alternatively some modified Uninterruptable Power Supply unit, for even more versatility. Judging on the way I do stuff if it is unavoidable, that would probably whip me into far better shape in good time.

Googling that is an exercise left to the reader.

16 days at most to my clearing leave (effectively ORDing), and here I am in camp after office hours, maximizing usage of SAF resources. Ironically about all of my bunkmates have become stayout personnel, leaving a resumed disruptee as keeper of the room.

Well, it sure is quiet for a change - no mind-numbing prattle on thoroughly mundane matters - and convenient. And I get some interaction with other, different lifestyles.

But of course, I can't wait to recover my pink IC.

Also, three days to the World Cup! I have a habit of setting mental checkpoints at such significant events, leaving a hook for my future self to latch on in the (not too) distant future. In 2002, I was still partway through JC2 and wondering how I would be come Germany 06. University appeared so distant, the promised valley after the hump of National Service.

Now I know.

Perhaps there will be no Korean rampage this time, entertaining as it was to see them humble the Italians and Spanish, and nearly Germany too. Probably England will flatter to deceive, and perhaps another Greece will spring the greatest surprise of all.

Sleepless nights ahoy. Maybe just once I should put something down, much as I dislike playing games with negative expectations. True, it is probably not pure luck in the vein of 4D or Toto, but how much can one read into forms and histories?

Especially in camp, I have seen too many flawed betting systems and over-optimistic punters, who put hundreds or even thousands down on a single match on a whim. Still, if they can spare the cash, it's their call. Myself, it'll be more the satisfaction of predicting correctly.

So, the big question. Who'll it be? The Straits Times proclaims, Argentina to beat Brazil in the final. An experienced friend in my current department concurs - it's Argentina's year. Brazil can never be counted out, and my heart says England.

Time to stick my neck out. The head on my neck thinks that there is no way to call it, with as many as ten teams having a realistic chance. The odds are just too tight. So, as often happens, the heart-gut lobby wins. England to emerge from its Crouching, hopefully with 'Wazza' Rooney. So, England 2, Germany 1 come 9 July.

A blind guess, but mine is as good as yours here. Game On!



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