just the days in perspective...
it's been a long june/july - world cup has come and gone. isn't it amazing the feeling that the world cup can inspire and when it is no longer around, the sudden lack of motivation that accompanies it?so my first teams - Spain and Czech Republic - both didn't make it to the finals. I threw my bet between Brazil and they failed to make the cut. Has anyone seen the graphics in the TNP about Roberto Carlos supposedly kelong-ing when Henry ran in to goal-scoring position? Crock or bull, you decide. next i took a look around, and decided to root for Italy. poor Azzurri had their backs against the walls cos of the match-fixing scandal back home. bringing home the World Cup wasn't just to emerge triumphant and look like champions; it was a way to safeguard their future against being fined, sent to jail or worse. judges were commenting (opinion-ing?) that if they win, that the win should be taken into account for leniancy as they were heroes. against that backdrop, i felt that the Italians had more to overcome mentally and internally then the French who just had an old team and who wanted to sent off the elderly with a big bang.
The French team won the Cup in '98. You can only have your 15mins of fame allocated; everything else is someone else's glory.
Again in the TNP, this guy's theory seems spot on - he somehow calculates a number from different aspects of a competing team and predicts whether that team will be a champion then. wonder whether there will be a follow up story on whether that guy won shitloads of money? seems too good to be true...
went for the COLDPLAY concert last monday!! super-stoned after watching the World Cup in the morning and NOT having a morning off to recuperate..got the tickets courtesy of Nokia. the concert was great! i am not an advocate of paying shitloads for concerts but this time round they really rocked. and i was within 10m of Chris Martin!! not the whole show, just that one time he ran the lenght of the hall and climbed up to the box i was seated in. of cos, all the girls turned violent and swamped him. poor guy...
was at the Hilton KL just this week - they have a very very nice pool and pool area...
work-wise (note the priorities here), had the global nokia connections, a number of product launches and a business mobility press briefing here and in KL the weeks gone by. inbetween the usual stuff, numbers crunching, report churning, analysis writing, plan/proposal creation...and also just trying not to get sucked up into the whole "game" machine of A vs. B. i am so tired of that...couple of pictures from Nokia Connection 2006.
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