Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
so in the euro2008 knockout match results so far, 3 from 3 of my picks have been incorrect, and if spain don’t beat italy, all 4 will be wrong.
so now one semi is germany vs turkey and the other is russia vs spain or italy (decided by tonights result)… so, because my pick is germany, you should go and put your money on turkey… and similarly, i pick spain for tonight, you should bet on italy, then, assuming italy win you money (count on it), i pick russia and germany for the final because i dislike them the least, and guess what; it’s a turkey vs italy final, (with italy winning of course, because i dislike them the most).
such is the power of my predictions.
oh and, yes i’ve been watching the daily highlights show on SBS, it has been brilliant. for sheehans benefit, croatia were desperately unlucky and can maybe even feel a little hard done by; what with scoring at the 119 minute mark, then wanting to make a sub to wind down the match… but the ref wouldn’t let the sub go ahead claiming there wasn’t enough time left, and then proceeded to add 3 minutes of injury time on, allowing turkey to score an equaliser… but yes, if after that, the croatian penalty takers had put their shots on target then this might be a different story… oh well, that’s probably what they get for having my support.
something else to note is the complete lack of diving by a ruud v.nilsterooy (sp?), what happened? he has seemed to have develop some sort of work ethic in his time at madrid… weird.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
so we’re off for some holidays on friday and as i’ve said before, we can’t wait! …heading up to qld for a bit to catch up with family and what-not… so… the blog might be a bit quiet because of limited inter-tubes access and disconnecting for a while, which probably isn’t a bad thing.
i might mms the occasional pic to the tumblr because i can.
in other news, work has been really good, quite challenging (and good). liam has been a little bit sick the last couple of days, and seeing as now he can stand himself up, he has been quite difficult to settle to sleep, kim even resorted to sleeping on a blow-up mattress with him, in a separate room, to make things a bit easier last night…
the euro2008 football highlights show on sbs has been great to watch, and hopefully while we’re up in townsville there will be cable TV, even better!
ok, gotta go find some summer clothes… laterz
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
just quickly,
watching alex frei limp half the length of the pitch crying his eyes out was horrible to watch. it actually was so moving, i even shed a tear for him at the time… this happened 44 minutes into the swi vs cze match, it was jokingly described to me by a friend as a “precision strike” on his knee… funny, but not cool.
even more so if you read what the poor guy has been through in the season just gone.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
well, how slack have i been; just realised a lot of football has gone past and you haven’t been subjected to my insightful commentary.
so, just quickly, the victory lost 4-1 to juventus in a friendly during melbourne’s italy week… i only saw the highlights, adrian caseras’ goal was very good, juve scored a pen and a couple of headers… even from only seeing the highlights kemp looked way outclassed… how much longer will he be around? damn.
the socceroos have played and won some matches, a friendly against ghana and a world cup qualifier against iraq, both one-nil wins, very decent results against much better oppositions on the night, we need to get back to playing possession football, we were very lucky against ghana towards the end…
this weekend the euro2008 competition starts, even though i don’t have cable tv, i’m very much looking forward to the highlights and matches sbs has promised to show… i guess the favorites would be germany and italy, but i think portugal has a decent shot at winning it…
can you believe it has been four full years since c.ronaldo bawled his eyes out at the hands of greece! ahh memories… 
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
i’ve been thinking, after those two tweets earlier this month:
so there’s some pretty messed up ‘art’ in the degraves underpass this morning…
08:15 May 01, 2008
that “art” has been covered up! yay, no more full frontal nudity on the way to work!
08:57 AM May 19, 2008
so what is art?
umm, pretty big question, i guess this month i’ve been trying to define it for myself…
is it just stuff i appreciate?
maybe stuff i couldn’t actually create myself?
i mean, you read about people “pushing the boundaries” and challenging us with their art…
…but as a viewer, can being subjected to sometimes horrific scenes be considered art?
hmm, i should explain… i walk through the campbell arcade every day on the way to work and the exhibit in one of the display cases was probably 60 photographs lined up in a grid. each of the photos showed the top half of a shirtless guy wearing a executioner style hood, but in each of the photos the hood was made of different material. materials like zebra print velour or hot pink something… and it went on and on…
btw, seeing as everything i know about S&M i learnt from CSI, i couldn’t help but feel like the other exhibits in the arcade contributed to a very S&M slant (the artist was probably trying challenge me or push boundaries **groan** ) and then in the bottom right corner of the case was a bigger photograph of the model, but full body, so full frontal nude guy, wearing a hood/mask thing.
consider the boundary pushed.
in a gallery, maybe that exhibition would be ok, but in a walkway to a train station? not so much.
you only have to watch a couple of episodes of epic-fu to see new art is alive and well (and it doesn’t even lower itself to trying to shock you)…
so yeah, my opinion?
unnecessary photos of nudes smacks of no-talent clowns looking for attention.
make sense? i guess it doesn’t matter.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
…here is it 10 days later, and finally another update.
firstly, bebe the cat. once the dust had settled from shane, wendy and sarah leaving, i noticed some red in the litter tray, so yeah, pretty concerning… kim took her to the vet and she said that bebe had an infection and it was mostly because of an environmental change and stress.
we can only guess that having two babies in the house wasn’t a pleasant experience for the poor thing… the vet gave her some painkillers, antibiotics and some special food for us to feed her… and hopefully she’ll be fine… she has perked up a bit, so hopefully she’s on the mend.
the weekend just gone really wasn’t.
i worked on a seperation project till 2200 on friday, then 0900-0130 “saturday”, then 0900-1700 sunday… crazy huh. i could really do with a days rest but no life goes on. overtime money is good though!
obviously all three of us can’t wait for the upcoming break in queensland, hopefully we’ll get to see the new babies and everything!
oh also, in the time between posts here, i did write a post, but couldn’t bring myself to finish and publish it. you’ll understand why later this week hopefully.
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