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I'm kinda in a football mood right now--I don't know if this has anything to do with the Champions League final 3 hours later (which I've received invitation to watch with my brother and cousins; but nahhh no point staying up so late for two clubs that are not my favorites--a quick youtube playbacks should be sufficient) but I've been spending an entire day surfing through the net to mostly catch up with what had happened in Bundesliga this season; idiot me just realise that even if i can't watch Bundesliga on the silverscreen, I can very much check playbyplays online--shall do that next season if i have time.

Anyway, apparently the touring Bayern's having a blast in Jakarta--they tackled their worst adversary ever: the merciless climate of South East Asia! Jakarta's much like Singapore (although I don't remember it being as hot as now; my God, I swear a little bit of me melted yesterday in the heat), hot and humid and the Europeans couldn't really take that. Oh, and Herr Oliver Kahn is being treated like the king he is ;) Once Bayern's finished their Asia tour, it's gonna hold a farewell gift for King Kahn in the form of a match between the Bavarian giants and the... German national team itself (or in fangirl speak: Pretty Team vs Pretty Team EEEEKKKKK!!! *fangasm*--see below for more information, and just to clarify myself: i don't pretty much fangirl real human beings, unless your name is George Clooney). That would work out pretty funny I guess, since quite a lot of the Bayern Munich players are like the national players (what with Klinsmann taking over Bayern and Borrowski coming in too, making the team really much like the national team--at least during 2006). But nevertheless, interesting: can Kuranyi and Ballack and Schneider and co repel the attack of their very own arsenal: Klose and Poldi and Schweini with support from Ribery and Toni and van Bommel and more?

Anyway, I've stumbled across a group of mostly-hopefully-girls who are even crazier than me (yeah, I've no idea how that is possible either, but hey, impossible is nothing, huh?). The draw of the German national team and Bayern Munich are apparently largely the "pretty boys" that make up the teams--and you know, boys and soccer; once they score or win they'd go around celebrating with each other which would involve hugging or kissing. Yeah, so these girls pair up players and write fanfics about them, inspired by how Klose assists Podolski or how vanBommel grins at Toni etcetc.

I just find it disturbing to pair real life breathing people in flesh and blood. Fangirling is pretty okay I guess, seeing how many people around me fangirl about Jap/Korean guys or Jay Chou or Rain etc. But pairing them? Unless they're like representing characters (for example, I'd pair George Clooney's Danny Ocean with Julia Roberts' Tess Ocean), it's just a bit disturbing--especially since most are already in happy long term relationships with their own WAGs.

Schweinski--Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski pairing--is so popular to the extent that the press and football pundits treat them like a unit (for example, the very commonly-seen headlines on newspapers: Schweini and Poldi don't quite cut it this season or What's happened to Bastian and Lukas?) and Poldi's said in an interview that he is definitely not married to Bastian, and apart from being teammates, they hardly even go out together.

Then there's Miro/vanBommel, Miro/Poldi, Miro/Toni, vanBommel/Toni, etcetcetc (although one can't deny that Miroslav Klose is just so darn cute).

(And I can't deny that the interaction between the members is just really adorable--but I don't go towards the extent of interpreting it as something else).

I guess you can accuse me of being the pot that calls the kettle black since I'm a not-so-closet-fangirl too who pairs up characters from her favorite fandom and put them together in a fanfic/fanart. Well, it's up to you, though I firmly believe in shamelessly playing God to only fictional characters' lives. Look at it this way: let's say you're a celeb of some sort who stumbles across a fanlisting/an LJ community dedicated to a pairing of you and some other actor/actress you hardly know, and imagine that some of the works published are... shameless. You can laugh it off, but I guess you will feel at least a little bit of shock and shame or awkwardness and discomfort uncovering all that.

The good thing about fictional characters is that we can't hurt/embarass them with anything we write or draw as we expand our creative repertoire. At least that's what I believe. I don't want to cause the celebrities I admire any discomfort whatsoever by pairing them up in (especially explicit) fanfic/fanart; I draw the line at speculating and hoping what they'd do next (like whether George Clooney would marry me or not), but not real fanworks.

Anyway, Yang Xuan said that 4 German exchange students are coming by our school. Two girls with her and Natalie and two boys with Jackie and Yixun. Need to learn self control from now on before I embarass myself like how I did two years ago during the iPho.  That's really exciting! (And I won't like stalk them or anything; nah.)

Recap of self taught German since years ago: Gutten Morgen, Ich liebe Dich, Gott en Himmel and a few choice German swear words. Shit, that's horrible.

Then again, I can hardly remember what I'd learned for French. That's even worse: that'd be a real waste of time and money for two years. Maybe I can quickly run through my French stuff this holiday; I know it's somewhere in that drawer of mine...

But I think my French is better than my Chinese. Oh yeah, it's that bad.

yesterday Indonesia celebrated "1 abad kebangkitan bangsa"--that is: one century of the rising of the nation.

today, the indonesian national soccer team is gonna play my favorite club: FC bayern munich!

the reason why i'm not already in jakarta watching the match is that my favorite players won't be there--scheweinsteiger, klose, podolski, ribery, tony, lahm--they all have national duties due to the upcoming euro 2008. kinda a pity though, since oliver kahn would be there--and this is gonna be his last match for the bayern munchen before retiring for good.

it's like his swansong; and we know that he's gonna play well for this match--just like he almost always has, being one of the best keepers in the soccer world.

anyway, funnyman franck ribery has prepared a special something for oliver kahn. as the source of where i got this from, offside bundesliga, puts it: The roof of Bayern’s world headquarter + a bucket + Oliver Kahn + a camera filming it = excellent blogging material.





goodbye, oliver kahn. we'll miss you.

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i'm sorry, i just have to add this other video of franck ribery pranking his star teammate luca toni as well. bear with the german interview for a while (i also have no idea what they mean; note to self, ask yang xuan), and wait until towards the end, when a jet of water would just squirt out towards toni.