My body has been aching all over since last week, ever since I lifted up my activity tempo with a series of consecutive hockey training, swim session and street-soccer challenge. It is always a good sign to have when pain invades my biological system, which in most cases, is accompanied by a slight sense of "euphoria" due to release of endorphins.



Yesterday's street soccer match was indeed an rejuvenation and soul-releasing session for me. The feeling of getting back to my kicking habit, striking the ball with the greatest possible impact, scoring multiple unstoppable goals, and adopting the grace and guile of the beautiful game, was simply beyond words could depict. It is simply amazing to learn of how football can actually bind communities together, hold primary importance over political and war issues, or in some cases, create intense rivalries. Football, in my perception, is a common language understood by all, played by all, watched by all. It is a game beyond imagination, a drama in its making. No amount of hollywood scripts can possibly craft out the most dramatic scenes of football, as we can see in last night's football match between Myanmar and Singapore. Who would have expected the burmese goalie to launch an assault on the referee, who was alleged by the Burmese to have made an unfair decision against them. This is yet another disgraceful scene in football, but being social creatures, we don't mind paying to watch 10 minutes of human conflict in its own making without a movie director. This is what I call real-life entertainment!

I suddenly thought of the date today..8 December. Well..no big deal on this date, but it is worth recording it down as my ORD anniversary. I don't even need to record it down! When can I ever forget this date when it is always running through my mind like a locomotive for 2 years?? The very bleak scene of a Friday, on 9 December, 2005 still hangs firmly on my memory wall with pins secured to it. 2 years on, one would have expected the extreme opposite scene of a Friday again, on 7 December, 2007, but it was rather a heavy-hearted one after all that had been gone through.