Awards For Good Husbands? What Do You Say?

Straying

Do you like anything that strays? Stray kites, stray shots by golfers or footballers are the pits. I have heard that to err is human and to forgive divine. From Edison Chen to David Letterman to Tiger, to stray is only being human as they have been portrayed in some quarters. If it were so, honesty is just impossible to be accomplished and would be rarely achieved. Cheating and promiscuity are on the rise and if these were to continue unabated it makes those who are faithful and working hard on being honest and responsible look like morons.

There are also women out there who does not appreciate their honest hubbies enough because they look like the morons I have just described. Some women are overly-suspicious and they even check on their husbands, check their smses, etc. like control freaks. If you are in this category, be careful as you may just unwittingly drive your moron of a good husband to the arms of another woman,worse, another man, haha. I told my friends few weeks back to be early for lunch at the restaurant before golf and they enquired why? I told them it's better to be early while the waitresses are still there before Tiger arrives.

Sorry, I can't help it because as I mentioned previously, I tend to read the newspapers from the back page to the front since sports are always at the back pages while the bad news are in the front. To read the papers backwards is one thing but to appear as a news item graduating from the back pages to the front is yet another. It's a quantum leap.

Awards For Honest Husbands?

I was thinking that since it has become so rare for husbands not to cheat (well, the wives too), we should come up with an approriate award for such faithful husbands or spouses but especially the husbands due to the "pig virus" that causes roving eyes disease. Don't you think it's a great idea? I'm just wary that it may be a bit too early. They gave President Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace before he achieved it. There is a danger he may not but one school of thought was that it now puts pressure on him to achieve peace regardless.

May be a clever thought. The only apprehension for goody two-shoes husbands to get an award now is liken to the advance Nobel prize for Obama because sometimes we read that at the funeral of some goody two-shoes hubby, hordes of mistresses and their children turned up suddenly. So the question for us to debate is whether we should give out such awards to the good husbands among us now or after we have gone to meet our Maker. To be very sure, it would be the latter but if that is the conclusion, then it should be a really grand affair - make that a "Lifetime Achievement Award"! You see, these spouses who are faithful did not happen by chance.

They faced the same stress and temptation like everyone but they have selflessly given of themselves knowing that when they first make a vow it was for "better or for worse". Modern day people only deal with the better end and the moment it got a bit worse they quit. Remember that doing the right thing is always not easy certainly more often more difficult than doing wrong ones.

Chiam See Tong

They say the name in dialect means to withstand temporarily. To me, he is one of our national heroes. I do not know him personally but I have the opportunity to have met him several times at High Street where he used to have an office during lunch breaks or in the lift. This guy has an awesome presence with his sincerity and if you have met him, his sincere presence would engulf you like a flame. He was the only opposition MP to have ever won settlement for libel and apologies with out of court settlement, won a seat since 1984 and the people of Potong Pasir love him because of his sincerity and humility eventhough he was no great orator. Even the MM has praised him. The people of PP love him so much and would not change him due to some veiled threats on lift or estate upgrading, etc. For this reason, I love Potong Pasir proving that love, respect and sincerity cannot be in exchange for material gain.

I learned from people there that he would attend to every wake and other concerns of the residents there. If anything, he has proven that ordinary people can contribute to make our country great. Salute!

Net Addicts & Work Addicts - Who's Worse

It has been reported that Internet addicts are those who spend six hours a day or 40 hours a week on the Internet for non-work or non-study related purposes. Are you one of them? Or are some of our children going to be like that or a whole generation. How about those work for or who are on the computer for up to six hours a day working? Are these considered work addicts when they do time for up to 40 hours a week. I suspect it's the same. Humans are creatures of habit, you keep doing the same thing over and over again and you get hooked - line, bait and sinker. If you are at work before the sun is up and leave only when the sun is down then you are no different from those people from New Moon, again not the abalone but the movie. If you are of a respectable age, pace yourself. Otherwise, after retirement, you keep coming back to the office. I am happy to report that you should fear not because many people that I know who has retired, they are busier then when they were working.

The World Cup

The World Cup in 2010 from 11 June to 11 July in South Africa is likely to again see a decrease in populating the earth. Well, this is a decrease in production of CO2 and offers temporary relief. The difference between golf and soccer is that in the current on-going golf tournaments in South Africa, during boring moments, the cameras would zoom in to some crocodiles gliding in the rivers or an elephant or two in their elements but in soccer, only the kaleidoscope in the stadium. I am already showing the effects of the World Cup as each time one comes around, I know for sure I'm 4 years older.

That's one of two things I hated about the WC. The other, being the usual ungodly hours of the televised live games as they are usually hosted in a different continent. In the last WC, I got myself a set of underwear that carries the designs and logos of a different country. If I could find them and still fit into them, I could potentially be a world champion. A world cup underwear champion. They used to have only 16 teams but fortunately now they have 32 teams - enough underwear to go around in a year. New and unused ones can be creatively converted for use as Beanies as they have the team logos stitched or emblazoned on. Just make sure you put on the one with the right team where you are seated. Or else the Shaka Zulus will chew you up an spit out the bones. Otherwise, stitched both playing teams into one and do a Tiffany show.

EPL

Sometimes, I would go to Fantasy Premier League online to predict the score just for fun and on Game Week 17 I got 50% prediction correct. Not only that, I was spot on choosing Aston Villa to win t Old Trafford. I was spot on with Liverpool losing 1-2 to Arsenal. On Game Week 18, I got 7 out of 8 games right in terms of win/draw/loose and was spot on with Man United's 3-0 win over Wolves and Burnley holding Arsenal 1-1. If you wish to you can join too. Don't waste your time punting. You will never win. Singapore Pools will take your money and donate some to Charities in their name. Why not donate the money to charities of you own choice in your own name? Better still, remain anonymous.

Crouching Tiger

Notice that I didn't talk about Tiger. Let lying dogs lie. Let crouching tigers crouch. My friend told me a new movie is in the making.