Clean Sweep

The Boston Red Sox win the World Series! WOOHOO! Take that, Yankees Rockies!

Four Reasons

Four reasons to celebrate the last weekend:

1. South Africa wins the 2007 Rugby World Cup
   
   
2. they beat England
   
   
3. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen wins the 2007 F1 Drivers’ Championship
   
   
4. he beats the McLaren drivers to it

MUAHAHA!

Apparently the Formula 1 gods have not abandoned us, and delivered us justice from the McLaren cheaters. Go Ferrari!

Congratulations to the Springboks. Congratulations too to the Argentine Pumas for their third-place finish. Condolences to the All Blacks, et Les bleus.

Freakin’ Stupid

I
I spent hours yesterday repeatedly reinstalling, updating, and repairing Acrobat Professional, and thinking that “Oh, shit!” my computer’s messed up when it turns out that it was Microsoft’s fault all along. Stupid Microsoft! It all started when I wanted to convert a Word document file to PDF when a message popped up saying “Missing PDFMaker files…”, suggesting that I repair Acrobat Professional.

So I did, again, and again, and again to no avail, until out of frustration I googled up the message: “Missing PDFMaker files”. Apparently, MS Office had automatically and discreetly disabled PDFMaker during one of the automatic updates. There was nothing wrong with my Acrobat Professional installation or the computer at all.

PFFT!

II
The McLaren F1 spy scandal has just got more interesting. Though I’m not a McLaren fan at all, the punishment meted out by the FIA World Motor Sport Council – forfeiture of constructors’ championship points and a $100 million-fine – appeared quite surprisingly harsh at first. I thought I would be happy to read about it, as it means that Ferrari is now the de facto 2007 team champion, but I wasn’t. Quite frankly F1 doesn’t excite me that much anymore and I can’t even remember the last time I watched a full race.

As more details of the affair are released, it is actually surprising that the punishment wasn’t heavier. While McLaren has to submit their cars for inspection in 2008, they are allowed to continue racing their existing cars this season, and the drivers escape any punishment when at least Alonso was also implicated in the scandal. The reason they didn’t impose the heavier punishment they should – a full two-year ban for the whole team including the drivers – was that they didn’t want to upset [British] fans hoping to see rookie Lewis Hamilton winning the drivers’ championship.

Way to go, FIA!

III
Defending champions England were defeated 0 – 36 by South Africa in the Rugby World Cup second Pool A match.

HAHA! HAHAHA! MUAHAHAHAHA!

Go Springboks!

Two Days

The tango, the candy

YESTERDAY: Watched Take the Lead with my sister; can’t really help it, I’ve always had a soft spot for dance movies. If only I could ballroom dance. The closest I ever got to dancing was in primary school, when I signed up for a dance performance for Speech Day. Tarian endang wasn’t much of a dance, though, but it was the only thing there was. The teacher didn’t believe me at first (why, I already did plays and choirs and instruments before?), and some of the other kids made fun of me, but we did okay after weeks of daily practice.

When we got home I cancelled my alarm clock setting for the 3am France-Italy semi-final match. Sleep. I like them, but not enough to lose sleep over.
TODAY: Woke up and looked up the Internet to see France won. YAY! Yes, I left the PC on, connected, all night. TM/Streamyx is not getting my RM66 easy.

We had a pot-luck party at the department today during lunch time. I was volunteered MC. We celebrated former office bearers Prof Mansor, Dr Rokiah and Dr Latifah; and bid farewell to Dr Hafsah. I ate too much, and got one terrible headache.