every 4 years...

...the mouth-watering prospect of the World Cup (of football) emerges...depending on who you are, there will be a massive outpouring of:-

1. illnesses, sick leaves, MCs from "sick unto death" employees (and some employers too)
   
2. eyebags and headaches from severe lack of sleep (way into the wee hours of the morning)
   
3. throat problems/issues resulting from shouting too much at TVs (no, they can't hear you through the TV
4. hysteria (from supporting your favourite team)
5. waterfountain talk (as men and more than some women linger over their drinks discussing the finer minutae of the matches)
6. lessened productivity (as employees and more than just some employers scan the internet incessantly for news of their teams)

personally, i am a little bit sick of football already...nowadays i can't sit through a whole match without flipping channels or dozing off...just not so much my cuppa java anymore...just doesn't float my rubber ducky...

i still follow the news and teams and scores, but i just can't be bothered to watch the matches...perhaps the semis and the finals but certainly not the preliminary group matches...and as a final proof, i couldn't even bother to subscribe to the pay TV channels telecasting all 64 matches plus a host of other commentaries and stuff...

well, my sentimental favourite is still england (having pretty much grown up on a steady diet of england foot ball...GO THE REDS!!!) but my head tells me they can't win (not with that pathetic display against paraguay in their opening match...bah...terrible)...i'd lay my bets on (1) brazil, (2) germany and my other picks would be argentina and the perenial underacheivers spain...

let's see what happens...*yawn*