L’Italia vinta.

10 Jul 2006 2:47 pm

Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

What a tremendously exciting match it was as I stayed up at Shawn’s place with Shawn, Heng, Ding, Andy, Jon and Shawn’s dad glued to the television. Both Italy and France played well, and for the first time in the 32 matches, the match felt like an absolute climax as there were plenty of what the commentators called as “high drama”.

Of course, my eyes could barely sustain itself as it kept shutting itself randomly and intermittently that at most I slept was between the 85th and 95th minute of the match.

Obviously there isn’t any point going on and on about the match since you would’ve watched it like any other like-minded people would, or caught it all on the news in the final free TheStar World Cup pullout today or on the Internet.

And how Zinedine Zidane head-butted Materazzi in the chest in the moment of fury was a huge shocker that belied his reserved apperance.. apparently it wasn’t the first time he head-butted someone (the previous time was a headbutt to SV Hamburg’s Jochen Kientz). An end to his international football career with a red card is something any football legend wouldn’t ask for.. although with that crazed action, even though he might be incited to do so, he probably just asked for it. -__-

Funny how the commentators were going, “That action will certainly make him miss out on the Golden Ball award” resulted in quite the contrary.

Again it’s probably one of the best football matches I’ve ever watched, this coming from a casual football fan. :)

I drove back home at nearly 5am and had to wake up 2 hours 40 minutes later. My eyebag probably sagged and made me look like an impatient, sleepy panda and I had to attend two classes in all which was pretty alright, since they weren’t heavy subjects like accounting.

I slept from 2pm till 7 the moment I reached home, and even the alarm I set on my handphone for an hour later didn’t rouse me one bit. :(

And I’ve uploaded that silly You Are My Sonia song into my musicbox (you probably need to clear your browser’s cache and refresh to see it appearing in the musicbox’s list) which was pretty interesting to listen to.. maybe your typical Indian songs but it sounded pretty rad and addictive. <_<

There are times that I wonder whether it’s worth it for some people to strain relationships just for their inexplicable and irrational extreme seriousness on football when it’s simply a game like any other, or whether it’s ridiculous for me to take to heart to what people blurt out thoughtlessly without meaning what they say.

20 Thoughts to L’Italia vinta.

koekoecrunch

July 10th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

the italians r celebratin it like idiots :D if u watched how they celebrated it (took off pants) but i supported italy since 2002 waahahahaa!!! until ilhan showed up n i forgot about italy.. for a few weeks +..=”

*do some hand gestures p(’..’p) point point poke poke n say “tut-tut-tut-tut-te” so ppl from afar might think tht i speak italiano =..-”

clem

July 10th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

haha!! bet you like it when the italians celebrated that way huh? :p

i remember last time in 2002 my friends and I will do some WC betting with one of my friends becoming the illegal bookie.. collecting bets and all LOL. youngyoung already a bookie in the making.. wahahaha.

surprisingly this WC didn’t see many bets between my friends and I.. probably just overgrown it huh. Or boh lui. XD

I like the Italian accent.. very funky. Like the Cars movie punya Luigi.. damn cute character. :p

koekoecrunch

July 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

not that type of celebration D: D:

anyway, i can’t really celebrates for the winners because today my french friend nudged me n said “what do u said about the italians? O..o” pai seh nia… block him :x (joking)

koyuuken

July 10th, 2006 at 7:15 pm

I support Italy all the way! Damn excited man that match! but Zidane….. is my super hero! LOL!

Angela

July 10th, 2006 at 9:11 pm

i was neutral till i watched what zidane did and started supporting italy. you r my sonia is nice yeah i like it too. u watched that movie? there’s another nice song..kal ho naa ho….very sentimental song…n the movie is soooo touching.

Angela

July 10th, 2006 at 9:48 pm

erm..i changed my mind after knowing what that italian said to zidane.

clem

July 11th, 2006 at 11:01 am

koekoe: LOL got French friend? Chunlaa.. now teach some French words! XD

koyuuken: Yeah it was a pretty exciting match. :) Zidane is a good fella.. too bad he lost his cool.

Angela: I didn’t know what Materazzi said to Zidane.. haven’t read newspapers yet (just got back from college) but according to this Singaporean friend, he insulted Zidane’s religion and mother and called him some other names? All this through some expert’s lip-reading?? Dunno believable or not..

Nice hor You Are My Sonia.. send that song to me when you get back.. if you have it la :p

kaitzin: :D

Angela

July 11th, 2006 at 11:56 am

the italian said “ur mom slept with me last night. ur mom is an albanian whore”...something like this i think.

sweat

July 11th, 2006 at 12:14 pm

i thought he called zidane a terrorist? wtf.

woi i support France!!!!!!1 :’(

clem

July 11th, 2006 at 12:30 pm

Angela & Suet: I think he said something about a terrorist too.. dunno lah, the sources like still unclear now. Wait until Zidane speaks up hehe.

koekoecrunch

July 11th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

my paper said it’s “u forgetful dog, u were fed by italians”

but who knows? maybe it’s like “zidane, u r too old la” or “zizou, don’t touch me!!” nobody knows except for them… maybe lip readers should be hired in this case.

daniel

July 11th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

“As I stayed up at Shawn’s place with Shawn, Heng, Andy, Jon and Shawn’s dad glued to the television.”

you forgetful dog,
I am there also leh.
where is my name?

koekoe:
i think he was discuss with uncle zizou some hair issue. :X

BBC Radio Five Live asked for help from a deaf lip reader, Jessica Rees, who read the words phonetically to an Italian translator.
She deciphered the insult as being “you’re the son of a terrorist whore”

BBC’s Ten O’Clock News
also called in experts to study the television footage of the incident and determined the following:

materrazi said?
I wish a ugly death to you and all your family .
F_ck yourself !
in fact, zidane’s mother had been taken to hospital ill on that day.
.
.
.
2 hours ago said by Marco Materazzi :”Zidane looked at me with super arrogance… it’s true I shot back with an insult”

...

he should be holding that

but not this dickhead

sigh, goodbye zidane
forever my hero.

daniel

July 11th, 2006 at 5:01 pm

bloody ad that make joke of that incident

LOL

clem

July 11th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

koekoe: Lipreaders were actually hired/obtained you know, and god knows if they are accurate at all.

ding: eh.. sorry lah missed out on you.. I’ll put it in soon kakaka. blurblur a bit cause a bit tired from college and all.

kesian lor zidane. whattodo. things happen. and it’s football so anything can happen.

but the fact is Italy still won the 2006 World Cup and nothing can change that.. unless FIFA wants to withdraw their victory (which is impossible lah).

OKAY 2010 SOUTH AFRICA!!!

clem

July 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

eh.. I don’t get it. What ad is that? Apa benda itu?

koekoecrunch

July 11th, 2006 at 6:49 pm

he gave the italian a botak thrust becoz the italian cursed his mom? D: any cancerian/ppl also angry la

hmm? really hired pro to read his lips? ahahaha i nvr catch the news…

maybe tht’s for 2010.. who knows what’s ding up to

clem

July 12th, 2006 at 11:45 am

lol I think cause he hotlinked some picture, so the webmaster is angry and re-link hotlinked pics to some other obscene pics. huhu.