If you play for Brazil, What would your name be?

Faith sent this around work spam this morning. Good procrastination tool =P



"Kincha shoots...AND SCORES!! Kincha with the clincher for Brazil!!" Hahaha...

Generate your Brazilname HERE

On an unrelated note, Harry Kewell missed the Italy game because of gout. Cool, I now have a gout buddy...

Aight, back to cramming...

Italy 1 Australia 0

Totti (p) 92' (Italy 1-0)

What was that?? Fabio Grosso clearly tripped himself over Lucas Neil to milk the penalty...Correct me if I am wrong, but did I see a little smirk on Grosso's face as he went down?

I would rather a penalty shootout loss than have this kind of crap.

And so it's all over. Well done to the Socceroos. Will we see them again in South Africa in 4 years time??

Australia 2 Croatia 2

Srna 3' (Croatia 1-0)
Moore (p) 39' (1-1)
Kovac 57' (Croatia 2-1)
Kewell 79' (2-2)


Source:SMH

WHAT A GAME!! Feisty at times (ALOT of shirt-pulling any why not with so much at stake for both sides), this game was well worth watching. Australia clearly should have been given two penalties, the first one when Josip Simunic held back Mark Viduka in the penalty area early in the first half and the second one when Stjepan Tomas hand-balled during the second stanza...Tomas should consider playing in the AFL with his performance (2 handballs?!?!).

And what about the goals?!? Srna's blasting free kick shocked the Aussies I'm sure, Craig Moore got us back with the penalty (What if Viduka had taken it?), Kalac must be one relieved man after his howler against Kovac (Did he play because of the significance of the match?) and Harry Kewell...well...has to be the most important goal of his international career since the one against Iran 8 years ago when the Socceroos failed to qualify for World Cup 98.

Interesting post-match analysis would be the performance of the ref. He did alright but was probably caught up with the mayhem in the final 5 minutes. Did he really give Simunic 3 yellow cards? Emerton's send off could be bad for the Aussies because I think he has been our best throughout the tournament but we'll see.

So, Guss Hiddink has another crack at the Italians next Tuesday morning. 4 years ago, he led South Korea past the Azzuris. I haven't yet seen the Italians play in the tournament so can't say too much of their performance but it'll definitely be an intriguing match.

Ok, gonna take a quick nap before going to uni to study.

GO SOCCEROOS!!!

Sidenote to Simon Hill who commentated the match: Does Josh Kennedy really look like Jesus? :P

Brazil 2 Australia 0

Adriano 49' (Brazil 1-0)
Fred 90' (Brazil 2-0)

Oh well, I thought Oz was gonna get at least a draw but they looked shaky at times during the second half and Brazil caught them out. Still, it was a pretty good performance. I think they did alright containing Ronaldinho. Aust's passing game was good for most of the game and probably a bit unlucky with a few of the shots (Kewell, Bresciano). So it's all down to Friday now against Croatia. You bet I'll be up for that too. No exam that day.

So I woke up at 10 this morning (after hitting the snooze button about 5 times) and went off to my Project Management exam. It was pretty straight forward which was good. The case study question was something along the lines of: "Imagine you have been asked to organise and manage a friend's 21st birthday party...". What a question! I actually half organised my sister's 21st party last month so it was just thinking back what happened and waffle as much as possible....lol

After the exam I was feeling thirsty so stopped by Town Hall Easyway to get a pearl milk tea. $4 NOW!! a 50c hike!! Damn.

World Cup dilemma

Ok, I can sense the next few posts will be World Cup related...anyway...got a bit of a dilemma at the moment.

Monday 2am - World Cup: Australia Vs Brazil
Monday 2pm - Project Management exam @ Randwick Racecourse

Not so concerned with the exam itself because I think it will be relatively simple (simple means I can waffle on and on and should still do ok) but rather whether I can make it to the exam at all. Post thesis + World Cup meant I've been waking and sleeping at weird hours of the day (The other day I woke up at 3....pm) so there is every chance I could miss this exam...or cutting it very close (catching a cab from the city which will cost around $15)

Taping the game/watching highlights are out cos it just won't have the same feel...

I like my cousin's approach. He's doing his HSC this year and has some chem prac tomorrow at noon (as well as school in the morning). His MSN nick reads:

| Phase 1:sleep 9:30-1am | phase 2: watch Aus Vs Brazil [2-4am] | phase 3: sleep 4- 6:30am | phase 4: school |

World Cup trivia question #2352

Serbia and Montenegro.

As you can see, there's no 'c' in the name. So why is it abbreviated to 'SCG' on TV?

*confused*

The mentos and diet coke experiments

Our TELE4363 lecturer showed this to us last week.
Warning: Video loads with the page.

Australia 3 Japan 1

Nakamura 26' (Jap 1-0)
Cahill 84' (Aust 1-1)
Cahill 89' (Aust 2-1)
Aloisi 90' (Aust 3-1)

Ohhhhhhhh yeeaaahhhh!!!!!

Source: SMH

From my point of view, I think in the first half, Australia's execution let them down (as always). Then in the second half, with the introduction of Cahill and Josh Kennedy (what a hippie), the Socceroos played much better. Oh, I'm sure the heat played a part as well. Looks like Guus Hiddink's fitness torture in the lead-up to the tournament paid off :)

Bring on Brazil @ Munich!

World Cup

Just when I thought I can get back to sleep in a normal manner i.e. actually getting decent sleep at night, the World Cup is here...boooiya!

Germany Vs Costa Rica starting in 10 mins...hmmm...ok, maybe just one more month of abnormal sleeping :P

All over!

10:36 yesterday morning I handed in my group thesis report. So relieved. After getting 7 hours of sleep Saturday-Monday combined, I slept for 13 hours last night, even skipping dinner.

Yesterday's 4363 presentation in front of the whole class was funny. For 15 mins, I had absolutely no idea what I was saying, except mentioning the words "wireless stations" and "access point" alot. Total gibberish if you ask me. I even imitated my lecturer's water sipping antics (He always takes a sip of water in his lectures cos he talks so much). But I didn't care, I was so tired.

Aight, one more assessment to go - Project management report.

06.06.06

Ok, thesis is about to be sent to the printer after all night editing and stuff. We are SO trashed right now. Still need to go to Kinkos or Kwik Kopy and bind the thesis and then take it into uni. Should be able to do all that before the deadline which is in 5.5 hours. Hope the printer don't stuff up...or a power outage.

While Lui can relax a bit, I now have to prepare for a group presentation at midday. Our group was yesterday randomly selected for a 20min presentation on an assignment due Sunday night. I don't even have a clue on what to say since I didn't contribute because of thesis. Why is our lecturer making us do that? Why Mr Moors?

Thesis rush

EDIT 10:55pm
Home Sweet Home after leaving 36 hrs ago. Gonna grab a shower and then straight into it. Wonder how far I can last tonight...

EDIT 10:30am
Powernapped from 9:30-10 while Lui went and got breakfast. 2 Bacon and Eggs McMuffin + 1 Hash brown + 1 coffee. Back into it!

EDIT 9:18am
24 hours with no sleep but the andrenelin is pumping! So want to hit the sack but always just want to finish off a section. Why didn't I write the theory bits earlier?? >_<

Lui's been sleeping for about an hour now. Need to wake him soon so I can get my power nap.

EDIT 7:42am
I hate Excel.
Starting to get a few yawns now but still holding up. Might get some shut eye when I get back to Lui's.

3:52 Sunday morning...eating cup noodles at Tommy's place (Lui's friend). Only me, Lui and his gf in the house...surprisingly not tired, prolly from the 2 cups of coffee I had at Lui's during Saturday...

Thesis...going ok...had major major boo-boo(s) with our main analysis during the day but think we are back on track now...we think...still gonna have to do alot of write-up before Tuesday...

Haven't been at home since 9am yesterday and not sure when I'm going back...am I even gonna get a shower?

Ahhhh, stupid electric meter box has been making AK-47 noises non-stop since we got here...too much stuff running at the moment, using so much electricity...That thing is gonna blow soon...

New RICE uniform

The new uniform for our basketball team arrived tonight and they look pretty snazzy. I'll get a shot of it later (my camera is broken, need to get it fixed after thesis) but basically it's white on the front and back with green and a shade of red down the sides. Got matching shorts too :)

We played a team called 'The Bulls' tonight and well, they were pretty average. I didn't play because I hurt my lower back at my sister's 21st and it's still a bit stiff. But the team did well in my absence :)

Final score: RICE 49 The Bulls 4. I think we kept them scoreless in the 2nd half too.

The price to pay for a 10% assessment

Arrrggghhh, so annonyed with myself for what happened this morning. Apart from getting a parking fine, I can't say my handling of this morning's madness was very godly >.<

This morning was my turn to do the project management presentation and it was a 9am tut. Guess what time I woke up? 8:30..Eeepppp. After brushing my teeth, I grabbed my bag and bolted out of the house. The initial plan was to drive to West Ryde station, catch the train to Central and a cab to uni. But as I was driving, I thought I may as well go all the way to Strathfield where there will be more trains. So I got to Stratty, parked my car and made my way to the station before I realised...I FORGOT MY WALLET (But with $1.80 for the train fare). It was quarter to 9 and I was panicking. WHAT TO DO??? At this stage I think I had 3 options:

A) Go home and forget about the whole thing (and get 0 for the assessment)
B) Go home, get my wallet and head to uni where I would be ultra ultra late
C) Continue driving to uni without my license.

I went for option C (bad choice) and headed down Parramatta Road. Traffic wasn't bad at all and I got to uni at 9:30 and parked on Physics Lane (2hr parking) and ran to my tut room.

Apparently I was the first person called up to do the presentation so I made a real arse of myself coming in half an hour late. Ended up doing the presentation last after the other 8 people but at least it turned out alright (from my persepective, not sure about the tutor's). No stagefright or anything. I think given the non-technical aspect of the course, you can make things up as you go along and having worked at a project management company last year, I was able to draw from the experience and put it in the talk. Feeling quite happy with myself at the end of the tut, I returned to the car and found a white piece of paper on the windscreen...a $75 fine for not displaying a parking ticket whilst parking on uni premises. Noooooooo......that's right, you have to purchase a ticket when parking inside uni. Hmmm, should of parked on the street instead. Crap.

Alright, off to the post office to pay the fine...