Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Blind faith and the World Cup

There is no such thing.

From not knowing a thing about the World Cup and its teams to one tutorial on "seeds" and "groups", I have been betting with my boyfriend - sans success..twice!

So much for rooting for the underdogs.

Match #1: Iran vs Portugal
Iran - 0
Portugal - 2


i had a 1.5 ball-handicap (god knows if this is the right term...yes yes laugh insanely) on this game, which led me to buying breakfast on saturday. thanks, iran.

Match #2: Switzerland vs Togo
Switzerland - 2
Togo - 0


in a "never say die! but do put some handbrakes in place" fashion, i put another bet on this game..with a whopping 2.0 ball handicap. According to ns, 0.5 of that was already a "girlfriend premium" after much pestering (i.e. the handbrakes) as apparently NO ONE gives so much handicaps on a World Cup match (alrite, alrite, keep your hat on baby..)

Macam itu pun tak menang! Goodness, what does a girl have to do?

Oh well, considering i had to ask around like 5 times (togo vs who again, afti?) before getting the facts right for this entry (yes i forgot who were the teams playing although it was just yesterday)...maybe it's time to put a halt to this under-educated betting.

But it would just be you know, a real triumph to pick an obscure team out of the blue and have them win against all odds. Not so much in a diamond-in-the-rough-team triumph, but rather the unanticpated-wild-guess-wow!i won! type of triumph.

should have gone for america.

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