Football? Soccer? Same same, no?
I'm used to calling it soccer but the English calls it football, soccer is American. So, since we were once British colonized, we have to call it football then.
This is what happens when u have an English boyfriend who will try to correct the terms, grammar, vocab bla bla bla. But noooo, now I have managed to corrupt his English with my S'porean slang. Eyes were glued onto the plasma screen during ENG v PAR match when Daddy Long Legs Crouch missed a goal opportunity, Suddenly, I heard someone shouted, "ALAMAK" at that precise moment. Turned around, thinking there was a Malay bloke beside me, but nope, it was Dom. He seems fond of the 'alamak' expression at the moment. And I didn't even teach him that. He learnt it by listening to conversations between me and my friends. Plus, he was cursing someone the other day. We all knew he knows what 'cheebye' (chibai, cibai, howeva u may spell it) is. But he did not only cursed using 'chibai' but using the whole 'kanninna' (not sure of the spelling again) term. Whoah. Shocking. Like a mother to a child, I told him sternly not to use that swear word any old how if possible never. This angmoh just ha a very sharp ears. Hmmm.. I wonder what else he had learnt from listening his kaypoh ears. Anyway, "Pandai, Domdom".
World Cup so far had been great. Though I am on stanby mode this month, I had proper days off in between flights. Last nite, managed to catch at Long's Bar- Sweden v England. It was a fantastic atmosphere. Imagine watching the games in the bar with the actual people from the respective nationalities playing. U get what i mean? The usual gang attended. Henrik and Anders are Swedish. Dom and Andrew, English. So in same group, we have rivalries. Haha. Chaos. 3 Asians - Me, Yendy and Jenab. Yendy wearing matching jersey top as the ENG team since he is their no.1 supporter (he collects their tops). Me supports England coz I know no one in the Swede's team except that Ljundberg (spelling not sure) guy who is the Calvin Klein model. Jenab, she is currently pursuing a Swede guy and thus, the enthusiasm of cheering in Swedish and wearing their national colour. I was jumping up and down and eeeking away when Gerrard scored the 2nd goal. I had predicted 2-1 and I almost got it right till that last minute goal fm Sweden which came out of nowhere! If only Campbell was fat enought to block the damn ball. Issh. Crushed. But then again, it was a great game. We all had fun and we shook hands with each other after the match (macam kitorang managers/player, apa je).
Tonite is another round. Argentina v Holland. Hmm. Haven't watched any of their games so why not. MF, if you are reading this, guess u should be wearing that bright orange Netherlands jumper and watch the match tonite. Bro, I wish I can enjoy the kopitiam's atmosphere too - prata, rojak, sedapnya...
This is what happens when u have an English boyfriend who will try to correct the terms, grammar, vocab bla bla bla. But noooo, now I have managed to corrupt his English with my S'porean slang. Eyes were glued onto the plasma screen during ENG v PAR match when Daddy Long Legs Crouch missed a goal opportunity, Suddenly, I heard someone shouted, "ALAMAK" at that precise moment. Turned around, thinking there was a Malay bloke beside me, but nope, it was Dom. He seems fond of the 'alamak' expression at the moment. And I didn't even teach him that. He learnt it by listening to conversations between me and my friends. Plus, he was cursing someone the other day. We all knew he knows what 'cheebye' (chibai, cibai, howeva u may spell it) is. But he did not only cursed using 'chibai' but using the whole 'kanninna' (not sure of the spelling again) term. Whoah. Shocking. Like a mother to a child, I told him sternly not to use that swear word any old how if possible never. This angmoh just ha a very sharp ears. Hmmm.. I wonder what else he had learnt from listening his kaypoh ears. Anyway, "Pandai, Domdom".
World Cup so far had been great. Though I am on stanby mode this month, I had proper days off in between flights. Last nite, managed to catch at Long's Bar- Sweden v England. It was a fantastic atmosphere. Imagine watching the games in the bar with the actual people from the respective nationalities playing. U get what i mean? The usual gang attended. Henrik and Anders are Swedish. Dom and Andrew, English. So in same group, we have rivalries. Haha. Chaos. 3 Asians - Me, Yendy and Jenab. Yendy wearing matching jersey top as the ENG team since he is their no.1 supporter (he collects their tops). Me supports England coz I know no one in the Swede's team except that Ljundberg (spelling not sure) guy who is the Calvin Klein model. Jenab, she is currently pursuing a Swede guy and thus, the enthusiasm of cheering in Swedish and wearing their national colour. I was jumping up and down and eeeking away when Gerrard scored the 2nd goal. I had predicted 2-1 and I almost got it right till that last minute goal fm Sweden which came out of nowhere! If only Campbell was fat enought to block the damn ball. Issh. Crushed. But then again, it was a great game. We all had fun and we shook hands with each other after the match (macam kitorang managers/player, apa je).
Tonite is another round. Argentina v Holland. Hmm. Haven't watched any of their games so why not. MF, if you are reading this, guess u should be wearing that bright orange Netherlands jumper and watch the match tonite. Bro, I wish I can enjoy the kopitiam's atmosphere too - prata, rojak, sedapnya...
