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Friday, Nov 25, 2022 - 23:58 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Go Teams!


Put on hold pending the World Cup
(Sources: footballkitnews.com, footballshirtculture.com)


I guess it was the antibiotics that finally fixed the persistent cough, and it took putting my head through a glass cabinet door in the midst of a particularly bad fit to get them. Well, that's something to scratch off the bucket list, and it's all fine now, save a messed-up sleep schedule and another backlog building up - but one thing at a time.

A lot of significant events have taken place over the last month or so, beginning with the U.S. midterm elections (in which Team Red Jumbos clawed back the House). Next was Biden and Xi having their face-to-face on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia (touted by The Telegraph as the "first of Cold War 2.0"), though of course there weren't 999 red balloons released from the ceiling after the wayang, as explained in March; more on that next time. COP27 has also concluded with "an agreement to agree next year", because if one thinks about it, if these meetings were anywhere near effective, would they need to jet in every single year to renew the P.R. messaging?

And then there's Imran Khan continuing his (expected) comeback in Pakistan after what has been popularly recognized as an external Coup there, which has seen him shot in the leg in a failed assassination attempt (Lone Gunman already played), as the former political outsider refused to back down against an entrenched and corrupt establishment. Speaking of which, Anwar - a leader in much the same vein - has finally achieved his dream of becoming Malaysia's (tenth) Prime Minister, joining that pantheon of legendary persecuted-but-prevailed political giants alongside Mandela, Wałęsa, TRUMP (and possibly Khan next) etc. As for his former mentor-turned-adversary Mahathir, the grand old man of the Malaysian scene is finally out - after losing his first election in over half a century - and will be retiring to write his memoirs. Eh, the chap's 97 years old, he deserves a rest, hopefully he cranks up the Philippian trolling while he has his wits about him.

While we're on bigotry, I have got to apologize. I had thought the accusations of such in the U.S. being exaggerated, but witnessing the absolute rancor being raised against a hardworking African-American immigrant in the corporate media, has had me re-evaluate my estimate of inherent bias in the current American cultural milieu. Not only that, there has been a distressing tendency towards election and voting denial, with a majority of American voters supposedly of the belief that cheating affected the midterm results, and throwing a huge hissy fit over the principles of free speech, universal amnesty and polling sanctity on Twitter, which has expectedly seen GEOTUS returned to the fold after a democratic vote.

And then, there's the World Cup. The hype feels reduced from previous editions, possibly due to the non-traditional end-of-year scheduling, a protest/boycott against the Qataris and a general pandemic hangover, but the first couple of rounds have hardly disappointed. Team Blue's England had their satisfaction with a 6-2 over Team Red's Iran (with both wearing the appropriate colours), with sport possibly being an ideal avenue to settle certain disputes and blow off some steam. On that, the Saudis have pulled off arguably the biggest upset in the tournament ever, a 2-1 over Messi's Argentina, which has won Saudi citizens a public holiday. Japan then came up with another 2-1 against Germany, who apparently were distracted by other causes. Perhaps Asian footy is on the up after all!

Finally, as for the renovations, moving-in will be next month, with any luck. Some final sneak peeks, then:


View from the new roof terrace




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