The Clockwork Orange: Relak one corner

"Wei Ji" - the Mandarin word that means 'crisis'. The first character on the left means 'danger', and the second one on the right means 'opportunity'. From this aspect, it is interesting to note that the Chinese saw a crisis as pregnant with potential for positive change.

Okay, English Premier League football season is finally over, and Manchester United are champions! Come on ES, come on ES' hubby, come on GK, let's all chant together,

"Glory! Glory Man United!"

Yes, celebrations and salutations all in tow, but still, the Orange men were facing a ball crisis. The suits were not happy that we were playing football at lunchtime on Fridays, and returned to work after 1.30pm, bathing till 2pm and eating our lunch while the rest of the Oranges had already hunkered back down in their cubicles to slave over proofs and manuscripts. In other words, the air in our regular football Fridays was being deflated. What were we to do?

See, depriving us guys of playing football is akin to torture in a Nazi concentration camp. We can't live without women, but we'll also die without football.

This ball crisis had opportunity written all over it, and RB Shevchenko saw the light at the end of this dark tunnel in a flash (trust a crafty striker like him to seize even a half goal haha!). To counter the suits' repressive regime of totalitarian barbaric overtures, designed to crush all forms of humanity and virile revolutionary tactics, RB suggested playing in the evening, after work instead. Hey, what a concept! So simple, yet so effective.

So yesterday we had a kick around after 6.03pm. Boy, it was fantastic! No hot scorching midday sun to make us feel like we were roasting in an outdoor sauna, a cool and refreshing evening breeze that languidly enveloped our sweating bodies time and again, cute office ladies going home for eye candy (what sights for sore eyes), a golden setting sun and cerulean blue skies that provided a relaxing atmosphere for us to let our hair down and hang loose, and finally... teh tarik and cold refreshments at the newly opened Indian cafe just down the road after the game.

This is what life's all about... C'est La Vie!

We are going to do this every week, When Wednesday Comes.

Relaking after the game...