Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Playing Coy

First off,I must congratulate Liverpool on their fine 2-1 win over Juventus this morning.I didn't watch the full match.I think it's probably too much to expect a non-Reds fan to lose sleep over a match that he doesn't really have an interest.I did,however,watch about eight minutes of the match...from the 37th minute onwards until halftime.At that time,when I woke up to go to the TV to just check out how the match was going,I must admit I was a little shocked that it was 2-0 in favour of the Merseyside club.Two things then went through my mind.

First,it could go rather well for the Reds in the second half and they could hold onto the 2-0 lead or even increase upon it (very unlikely) so that they'd have a comfortable lead in the 2nd leg in Turin.If this was the case,they'd have a good chance of progressing since the Italians rarely win anything more than 1-0.

Second scenario (which came true),was that Juve would pull a goal back to go back to Turin at 2-1 down...or even worse,they equalise at 2-2 (which is more likely than Pool increasing their 2-0 lead).

So they pulled a goal back to return to Turin with a 2-1 deficit.Good luck to the Reds.Please take a look at the Grand Old Lady's group matches and 2nd round legs against Real Madrid to see what Juve can do.There's something binary about their scores...1-0,1-0,1-0,1-0.And of course,they did the exact same thing to the Galaticos in the last round before snatching a win in extra time.No reason to think they won't do the same to Liverpool.I think the Reds will have to play the game of their lifes to even draw the return leg.Good luck.

Ahhh,now that I got the task of writing about football out of the way,let me talk about a colleague...I haven't talked about one for months.I mentioned him as Tom Cruise in one of my previous posts,an old colleague who came back into the fold after spending some time away in another department.He's now come back and is still his usual self...seriously crappy.

You guys know that I have a moniker for each colleague that comes into the office,right?A superhero alias that I will use in place of the actual person.Unfortunately I have run out of X-Men characters to use so I have to use to name this new colleague as another superhero...

I dub him...*drum rolls*...AQUAMAN...

Aquaman is pronouned A-GUA MAN.In Chinese,it is written as "阿官男人"

Now as we all know,there is a reason behind why I name each colleague/friend after a superhero.Ok,most of them.The reason why I call him Aquaman is because he seems to be living in a world of his own where he's King Of The Ocean.Every other superhero is living on land...but this weirdo,he lives in the ocean and has only logic fishes understand.

Also,I think because of the way water tends to distort/reflect lightwaves,people might look better underwater than on land since their features get distorted.This is certainly the case with Aquaman who seems to think he is better-looking than he really is.He isn't.

The thing about Aquaman is that he is in his 30s and is obviously slightly desperate,if not more but he plays coy and acts holier than thou.Like he is 冰心玉洁 or something.Oh please,I think he has a volcano in his pants.He acts as though he only deserves the best looking specimen womankind can offer but always tries to deflect that he doesn't go for looks.

Anyway,recently,Jubilee has tried to ask him about whether he is interested in meeting her cousin who is single and available and according to Jubilee a very nice girl.Aquaman,of course,then starts playing coy and retreated into his Ocean Kingdom and started babbling fishspeak that no humans can understand.What a cock!We (Jubilee,Colossus and me,your truly magnificent Cyclops the Bra-ve...emphasis on BRA...I like the garment) even had to tempt him with a photo we downloaded from the net (ok,it was a prank) that we passed off as a fictitious pic of Jubilee's cousin.He then got interested in one of the cha-bos in the picture (there were three girls in the pic but we wanted him to guess which cha bo is the cousin) but continued to act uninterested...even though he did betray his thoughts about who he was attracted to.

And then holy cow,despite NOT being interested,he started asking Jubilee stuff about his cousin.Hobbies,work and other stuff.RUBBISH.If you are NOT interested,you ask for what?Conversation topic ah?Chao A Gua.Interested but don't dare to say.What kind of a man is this?I know...A GUA MAN.

I am leaving out a whole lot of disturbing behaviour from this most upright of superheroes.If I were to put everything down,he would seem like an outright villain.Or gutless SOB.Whichever might come closer.

I just have one thing to say to guys.If you guys want to meet a girl,don't deny that you want to.Be a man and own up or at least say you don't mind.That's the least we can do.And when you like a girl,be brave and tell her...that's the least we can do as well.Don't be like Aquaman.