The Opening Ceremony for the FIFA WC South Africa was amazing.
It started aroung 5:30 pm GMT 5:30+ (India Time. I was siting there waiting for my buiides to show up. So far, Shakira came on and now the africans were literally dances their way around the stadium. If you don't already know, they have developed their own Diski Dance. How much these people love to dance I smiled. Thankfully, Zoe, Diana, Dave and Rhett rang up front. " That's for me!" I called out as I sprang to get the door. "It's about time!" i said, as if I were in a TV Commercial. they nodded and plopped themselves on the couch. " Did we miss anything?!" Dave asked, "Yea! you came 45 mins. late" I asid dryly. " Johannesbugh looks pretty nice. too bad we didn't win the tickets." that was Rhett. He always commented somthing like this. this is just soo him, I thought. Dave tried to win tickets for 5 of us over the net....but um.. lost to a Ukrainian girl :P Rhett was such a girl somtimes, bringing up "sentimental" issues. "Rhett, we're already past that. Stop talking about it!" dave muttered and burried his face in a pillow. Rhett saw his oportunity. "That Ukrainian girl must be here somewhere...Dave can you spot her?!" "Would you guys quit it!" Zoe said sheepishly. Zoe. Dave could never stand him, cause he never liked football. Dave always tried to get him to. But it never worked. He tried to prove that he was just lazy to play or even watch. But that didn't work out either! Now, he tring to prove he's gay! There's no way a Guy would never like Soccer. well,No Comments. We spent the rest of the evening talking about different stuff, like all friends do when they've met after a while. Finally the match begun, and we always draw slots for the tema to win. this time we got South Africa. Okay, RSA work you're magic!!! But to our horros, RSA dnt seem to be stepping up to anything. They were like school children playing for fun. I looked at Dave, he crossed his fingers. God! This was begining to look liek a Friendly...Mexico has most of teh possession till 30 mins into the game or so. Damn I really hoped we would win this, otherwise it was free dinner for Diana, Zoe and Rhett..from us. Nothing happened till Half time. This was terrible. I'm gonna go outside Zoe told us. Which immediately sparked a conversation between Dave and Rhett about how they once spent and entire 4 days watching marathon movies @ Rhett's DVD center at home, without even getting a shower. Yea, cool talk we girls always get impressed with the amazing feats the boys compete. "It's not easy!" Rhett tried to flirt Diana. " oh! yea right. I'm so attracted to you right now!!" she said sarcasticly.
Finally, Zoe was inside with us again and the match continued. "Popcorn" rhett passed the bowl over to Zoe. He was alseep. "hey! we can use him as a popcorn stand!" Rhett shouted out! " He doesn't move much" he explained, answering our puzzled and "are-you-completely-wacked" look. The finally at 54:48 South Africa had scored a Goal. He was clear out of any defenders and was approaching a defenceless Gollie. as the RSA Player flew down the field, Dave was so excited that he would score, "It's Open! It's Open!!" he kept shouting. lol. "Yea! Atta go! braided hair guy!!" When tashabalala ( hope I got that right! lol ) veered the football in the top right corner. Dave and I sprang up. High Fives. YEAH. You can imagine the rest of the faces, except Zoey's who was now um...awake. But still no emotion there.
From then on the game just Fired up..ike lightning. RSA was quick and light on the feet. Midfield was tight and the number of Free kicks and Offsides were mounting ( usually Mexico doing the offside blunders). Dave and I were now relaxed. Dave and I actually did the dance along with the RSA players after their First Goal. 
Rhett tried to act indiffernt. but Dave kept teasing him untill.. 64:06 when Mexico too secured a goal! :O Now the socre was 1-1...nothing changed after that, sure there was tons of opportunities and yes they all slipped past 'em. The game had gone into overtime before the close of the first half and did again. But that dnt help change anything. The score was 1-1...and that meant a split dinner bill between us all. " Off to yoko's Maa!" I said. "Ok, take ur sister with you!". I did. At the end of the day,to sum it all up, I met up with good friends of mine, which I hadn't in a long time. At dinner, when we all spoke, it seemed like we were never apart, that's the funny thing about Friendship. You feel it, even thoguh sometimes it isn't there! I couldn't even remember why we had a fall out last year, and I didn't want to remember anything. But it's funny how I remebered this one thing at that particular time, Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a mystery...Today is GIFT..that's why it's called the present. Good Night Sweet Dreams,
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