Sunday, May 13, 2007
Confuse-a-cop
Cops aren't the most intelligent beings sometimes. The coach of the Pakistan cricket team, Bob Woolmer, was murdered. Whether by strangulation or poison remains up in the air, but recent reports from *Scotland Yard* suggest they are going with a heart attack!
Take a small shred of the overwhelming evidence - an email allegedly sent by Bob Woolmer to the Pakistan Cricket Board just hours before he was found dead: "I would like to praise my association with the Pakistan team but now I would like to announce my retirement after the World Cup, to live the rest of my life in Cape Town. I have no lust for the job and I will not like others to make personal remarks at me. Professionally, I am open to criticism, I will be ready to continue the job if the president asks me for it."
Professionals are only now looking at this letter and thinking that it just may have been written by someone other than Bob Woolmer - someone whose first language was not English.
That's like issuing a press release stating that it is possible pink elephants may never have existed!
Take a small shred of the overwhelming evidence - an email allegedly sent by Bob Woolmer to the Pakistan Cricket Board just hours before he was found dead: "I would like to praise my association with the Pakistan team but now I would like to announce my retirement after the World Cup, to live the rest of my life in Cape Town. I have no lust for the job and I will not like others to make personal remarks at me. Professionally, I am open to criticism, I will be ready to continue the job if the president asks me for it."
Professionals are only now looking at this letter and thinking that it just may have been written by someone other than Bob Woolmer - someone whose first language was not English.
That's like issuing a press release stating that it is possible pink elephants may never have existed!
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Twenty five going on eighteen
Quarter of a century old today. And I still don't have any of the benefits of age like being able to sleep sitting up, long nose hairs, or looking good in a cardigan (Craig's a stunner in his; he turned 34 on Thursday!). So, ushj. But it's not all doom and gloom; I can still go overseas to the UK on a working visa until I'm 28, something I've been thinking about more seriously recently. I was talking to a girl from Aspinall Joel (Lawyers) who was there for four years working for a local authority with a very poor work ethic doing child protection law! Pretty much my ideal job.
All work aside, however, I celebrated my birthday by playing poker with Mix, Susie Q, Lana, Dom and Mon. And not winning. At least I know when Dom has two pair (he goes all in), but the problem is *everyone* now knows this. Later we went to "Perfect Stranger;" a very clever movie to say the least and not spoil it.
Unfortunately I have no pictures to show my readers, but I can promise you all I look no different at 25 than I did yesterday. Promise. The overnight beard and grey hair are cosmetic changes only.
All work aside, however, I celebrated my birthday by playing poker with Mix, Susie Q, Lana, Dom and Mon. And not winning. At least I know when Dom has two pair (he goes all in), but the problem is *everyone* now knows this. Later we went to "Perfect Stranger;" a very clever movie to say the least and not spoil it.
Unfortunately I have no pictures to show my readers, but I can promise you all I look no different at 25 than I did yesterday. Promise. The overnight beard and grey hair are cosmetic changes only.
