Daily Lessons from Life 16 June 2010 - A bit of World Cup News ...

I decided to comment on something not so serious though some die-hard football fans who said: 'It is more than life and death' would surely disagreed with me!

Watched the game between Brazil and North Korea, the enigma of the world, not just the football world, at 2.30am to 4a.m. The North Koreans played very well and even scored a goal against the almighty Brazilians. Based on this performance, it can go pretty far. It is already marked as an achievement and earned world-wide respect, if not admiration, from many neutral, and even the detractors of their political situation.

Brazil looks good and play with flair and fluidly even if they could only scored 2 goals here. I rated them as the best thus far.

While waiting to complete my work, I saw the 1st major upset with one of the hot favourites, Spain, losing 0-1 to the bankers, Switzerland!! It is unfortunate and yet it showed that anything is possible in football.

This will keep everyone honest and cannot take things for granted. It really mirror life with its unpredictability, and possibility as long as we keep working hard and never give up!

For the sake of pure football fans, I hope Spain will recover from this shock defeat and qualify for the last 16. Otherwise, it is tragic and like someone has passed away!! It is life and death - sometimes!