Do Not Touch

Chap Goh Meh for me this year was unlike previous years, somewhat weird and depressing. I had to wake up as early as 9.30 am ! (Lol.. is that considered early ? Anyway, I slept at 5am the previous night after watching the first half of Real vs Juventus) because I had to go to some kind of erm.. temple.

I don't mind going to temples when I'm the only visitor so that God can pay all the attention to one and only ME . But when I arrived there at 11.30, the place was swarming with fat aunties who simply can't wait to pray. Anyway, my mood brightened up a little as I spotted a cute gal wearing a sleeveless top with the words " Do Not Touch" right across her brea..I mean chest. Do temples really allow such clothes ?!?

However, the main reason I was there is because I'm 19 (Chinese Age). And according to those guys at the temples, the age that ends with 9, e.g. 9, 19, 29, 39, 49,....999, 1009..etc is a very sensitive moment and must seek "blessing" from the gods. Yeah right. So we start with this ridiculous ritual where we (around 12 of us) had to walk in a huge circle while praying. Guess what, we walked around the circle 9 times ( Is that a coincidence ?) Worse was still to come, as after that, we all had to kneel down in front of the altar and then be sprinkled with "holy water". My goodness....

After the 'ritual' I look foward to the Milan match. Hopefully we could nick a victory against a Milan side deprived of Shevchenko. We played quite well actually, but they played better. Their passing were simply too good to be true. Keane was simply outclassed. But we could have finished 0-0 if Carroll could just catch the damn ball properly !! Anyway, I still prefer him to the more nervous-looking Howard.

So much for the excitement. At least Barca won. Oh ya.. the oranges from the temple was sweet. But never eat them at 4am in the morning. It hurts. Honest.