Today was an eventful day for me. I woke up at 9.30am with the plan to go to red square today. Yes, UEFA finals are here in Moscow and they've set up booths and all sorts of games and free souvenirs to collect and knowing us Malaysians, getting freebies is what we do best. Even at Tesco or Giant or other supermarkets, when handing out free food, you know we'll go at least twice, taking two or three tiny pieces of cutlets on toothpicks at a go.
"This is for my brother, and that's for my mum, my dad, how bout my sis too, uncle, aunty, cousin, grandma, grandpa" and all sorts of other relatives you could think of at that time.
Anyway when I arrived there, the placed was already packed with people. I started off lining up to take a picture with The trophy that was in a glass box. Tell you one thing, it's good to know alot of people, and to be able to talk well, for it helps u in life. And that helped me alot today because I managed to bump myself and my friends all the way up to almost the finish of the line.Wee. In the mean time, we took shifts waiting in line, so we could walk around and explored the rest of the booths. They were giving away free pins, and bags and everything that I managed to take, I took at least 3 or 4. Hehe.
Ex players of Chelsea and Manchester United were there to sign autographs today as well. And it was my mistake that I didnt follow my friends to see him for they were giving away free t-shirts! But I did pass the bags that I had for her to get a signature from Graeme Le Saux which was good enough for me. I wanted one from Man U as well but my friend forgot to get it signed.
I did get a master card (fake one of course) that's in black, written with orange words, UEFA champions final Moscow 2008 with my face on the side, holding a trophy. All done thru a computer. But damn, we had to wait in line for more than 2 hours and I started growing impatient towards the end because blardee Russians at the back were pushing, complaining that they had waited for far too long. Ruffians. Everyone was tensed at that point. Even my friend at the back starting biting my shoulder. I thought she was just placing her chin on my shoulder, which I'm sure you realised it's painful (if someone has done that to you). Anyway, she did bite me, twice, which did freak me out a bit, but i guess under this circumstances, everyone's bound to get a little wild. I was standing next to this Malaysian guy which I mistook for a Russian girl earlier and had said to him "Blah la, pompuan" only to have him look back at me in shock. I quickly turned away. Hehe. He was trying to cut in front of me at that time but i forgot that he was the guy who had initially been standing in front of me. Befriended him later on anyway.
There was this playstation booth as well. And... they had a contest. A karaoke contest! I think one thing foreigners don't know about Malaysians are, they're artistic musically. Sort of in a tribal way, you would say.. Haha. You know we have syairs which is kinda like poetic reading i guess. Even reading their Quran, they have this sing song way of reading it. I think that's why Malays' are good singers. Anyway, the Malaysians (most of them were from my uni) were crowding the booth, beating all the high scores of others before them. All were singing with one goal, to win the PS3 which was the prize given to winner. And then, I step in.. muahahahahhaha. I had no intention of getting high points or anything. I just sang for the fun of it. All the more I was having flu and cough which made my voice sound very nasal. Singing to Mr Brightside, I suddenly came to an amount of 9528 points which is about a few points short of the max which was 10,000. Now, if they had they given prizes for the highest scorer of that day, then, that PS3 would have been mine. But unfortunately that is of course not the case and it wouldn't matter to me, except for the fact that I'm being pressure by my friends to go ahead tomorrow and sing in order to get the perfect score, because they heard that is what someone else had. Shall update you on that, and hopefully by tomorrow I can safely say that a PS3 is on the way. I'm not excited about getting PS3 anyway. Just excited about winning a contest, because as far as I can remember... I don't think I ever did.
K.O-ed from the day. And I've got very numb legs right now. Friggin hungry too. Gonna snack a bit and sleep. Gnite world.
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