The Goal Part …
It was fun and frustration to watch France snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the final minutes of the Euro 2004. It was fun because the match was a treat to match with both sides exhibiting quality football. It also made me feel that it wasn’t worthless (also read as senseless) to waste my precious sleeping hours and watch the live feed of the match at around 2:00 AM. I could have been dreaming about some princess in a far off land waiting for me and battling the pressures of life or probably the war of the solar system where my space ship would be engaged in a needless fight to destroy the bloodless aliens from the planet of morons!
It was also frustrating because it took away the opportunity that I would have had had England one. The opportunity to take a good-natured gibe at one of my friend who revels in supporting France! I also had to spend extra minutes in arriving at a counter strategy to mitigate the effects of hearing all the praises that would be showered on France and its players by that friend of mine. All due to Beckham and Victoria!! Probably the effects of personal life affected the performance of Beckham.
BTW… Who cares about the English!! The “Spanish Armada” or the “Azzuri” are going to rule!
The Bore Part …
In software industry boredom happens to be our lifelong friend. Just when we think that life is at its best, boredom knocks on our door and asks us …
“Buddy, isnt it long time since we were together! Would you mind if I joined you in your moments of happiness!!”
Even before we can say a loud “NO”, it jumps in and occupies a corner of our beautiful house and tries to make itself comfortable in whatever space available. Thereafter, it is a battle, a battle to get boredom out of our house. If we don’t get boredom out, we will soon find that boredom has entered our kitchen and is cooking something really fishy for us! Beware … tasting it would be dangerous and could lead to a romance with boredom. Once we begin to like boredom, we will soon find that its friend "Laziness" wouldn't hesitate to join us! (Does that lead to threesome !!)
Anyhow – boredom also provides us with opportunities. Just cleaned my mailbox today. Something that I wanted to do for months. It can also get the best out of us … who knows, boredom might just be cooking a new idea that could get me ignited (Ahem!! I meant it in the positive sense). Its Smoking !!
To conclude, just like Zidane’s free kick that turned the match in favor of France, I just kicked boredom out of my personal life (at least for some time). All my senses are now glued to Euro 2004. But there is much more to follow - Wimbledon, Asia Cup Cricket, Olympics and of course my trip to Coimbatore. It is monsoon time and time for me to take a Monsoon trail and recollect the good old memories that I have about Monsoon. However, boredom still exists in my office life! Probably what I need to do is try for another Goal and get it out!
“Hey, where is the damn football !!”
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