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Saturday Tips!!

HOT Tip 1: Take England to win at sg pools.
HOT Tip 2: Sweden to win at sg pools.

Stay tuned for more winning tips!!

The opening closure

For the record, it's 2 Hits, ZERO misses. A 100% record is maintained. More divine tips ahead!!

Yea yea the good feeling is still in my bones.

Opening Match

Hosts usually go far on home soil. And Costa Rica sounds like easy meat.

For divine pick number 2, shade a Germany victory at singapore pools.

Alrite, so far so good. I maintain a 100% record. Strong mandate eh? For those interested in keeping score, it's 1 hit, 0 misses.

More good days ahead. I feel it in my bones~!

Liechtenstein vs Australia

In a warm up to the world cup, australia plays liechtenstein. Pick australia to win. odds may be low, but oh well, who ever complains when money is made anyway..

Heaven's gift to all punters

This blog will now focus on World Cup Germany 2006 soccer tips. My records will speak for itself. (wait until the wc starts b4 assessing my records, can?)

Introduction of a Byronic character

My name is Mr Provoski. I am a Russian Millionaire with money to blow and the recent deal with Mr Icepickles has left me with a sour taste in my mouth. The deal was an inconclusive and disheartening one. I was left disgruntled and frustrated as it slipped away from my hands. Friendship was a deal that no money can close. And I the Russian millionaire was humbled by it. I thought money could buy me everything but it bought me nothing. I seek to enlighten my fellow investors of this bad deal.

Mr Icepickles was a lonely and rebellious middle age man that was hard to please. Doing business with him was a displeasure and he often shot himself in the foot. A round of drinks would always begin the negotiations but Mr Icepickles hated drinking. He hated life. Mr Icepickles was indeed a close associate of mine and our business deals were often overrided by pleasure.

We fell out and now I present my side of the story. Mr Icepickles was indeed strange. I have never met a more brooding and depressed man like him and although he knows that people are pissed off with him, he continues to be an idiot that vehemently criticize everyone that is in his path. He does not understand the intricacies of human nature.

To put things into perspective, you get someone who is stuck in a mire. A stubborn individual who is unwilling to change his way of life, seeking instead to fall victim to it. He continues to be myopic and wallow in his own self pity, often refusing to progress beyond his deluded self. Choosing instead to make society conform to him rather than the opposite.

Of course, that is never possible. Thus he ends up as an individual that constantly seek displacement. He turns to different societies and groups just to seek assurance and acceptance. He has told me that he originated from Singapore. But he ended up in the USA. Unable to conform, he constantly uprooted himself and shifted to far flung areas like Poland and Ethiopia. By and large, he has travelled across various continents and this movement reflects on the desperation for an environment that can contain his non-conformist ideals. He is a sort of a 'free spirit' in the negative sense that is bounded by a liberal vision. However, a new environment would always be an ephemeral spark that flames out upon the revealation of his true character. This agains points back to his need for a sense of displacement.

Mr Icepickles is a vulnerable individual and is reminiscent of Hardy's character Sue Bridehead in the novel 'Jude the Obscure'. He has a tough exterior trapping his delicate inner layer that is prone to constant capriciousness. Mostly, this tough exterior was moulded to protect himself from the fierce critics of this queer behaviour. Unknowingly, this facade was actually a metamorphosis of his delicate inside which is showing frustration to the way of life. This unveils a small hint in him for doing what he believe is right and what is actually right.

His lack of consistency stems from the obvious sense for displacement, inner fractions and his vulnerable self. Unable to sustain this current behaviour, either to a lack of willpower or the overwhelming need to conform, he is thrown into confusion that further rub salt to his inconsistency.

It is never possible to discern if Mr Icepickles way of life is right or wrong. If he chooses to lead this life, he ought to show a sense of consistency. Yet he is unable to sustain it and in this, he is unable to seek a validation for this non conformist attitude. It may be probably down to the lack of similar minded individuals that are willing to live the life of his. And this half hearted existence brings him back to the need for some form of social acceptance that is never going to occur if he maintains this behaviour.

Mr Icepickles is a contradictory character of sorts that has clearly lost his direction in life. His complex nature is somehow too convoluted for even his own understanding. His believe to go down the path his heart leads him is not reflective of what his brain actually wants. And that is the need for social acceptance. This leads to a sense of frustration that he cannot be understood by society. If he chooses this normad life, I guess he has to live by his ideals or die by it.

Get Ready for a new and refreshing slant from a new ownership

For the faithful readers of this blog, you might have discovered two things. Firstly, your initial viewing of this blog may draw you to the conclusion that the owner has closed it down permanently. For you fans of his musing, you people may be nursing a heartbreak. Fret not, this blog was not closed down. It has undergone a change of ownership. Which brings me to the second point. A new "Russian Revolution" has taken place and under the cloak of confidentiality, with secret meetings and underhand exchange of roubles, the previous owner has passed on the baton to a new ownership that promises a newer and more refreshing slant towards the melancholy of life. The takeover was sudden and very much like the secret ops Temasek Holdings carry out. Our new ownership takes no responsibility for transparency and accountability and if you loyal readers demand it, go fuck yourselves. Just enjoy this new ownership as we promise bigger and better things because we pay good roubles for it.

As owners, we will highlight the new challenges and initiatives that would unfold in the coming weeks. Like a CEO that is presenting his stock report to his shareholders, we will not hide behind coconut trees in these reports that would be unveiled. We promise a full and complete report that challenges the mind and spark debates. We want the readers to have something to talk about and discuss with your loved ones over dinner tables and gatherings. Whether anot you love controversies or just plain curious, we strive to not disappoint. As readers ourselves, we know what readers want and that should be what a blog is about-entertaining and controversial.

In the upcoming weeks, you people can expect a more light hearted dive into the melancholic life that sums up our existance on this earth. Part humour and part artful, we put a refreshing slant that the previous owner may not be able to come up with due to his limited capabilities. But with our unlimited roubles(at least till the oil well drys up), we have the arsenal and firepower to literally create a bang. Furthermore, our secret stash of 'citizen offerings' that has been used on the pretext of investment also comes in handy. So we guess that even if the oil well runs dry, we could well be able to sustain this blog.

We aim to create views and topic conversations and that means we have to hire capable and qualified writers. With the market these days overflowing with psuedo 'journalist', who rant and rave how good their blog is, we find it very difficult to hire one that is both capable and loyal. So we said why not invest the money on material for this blog, instead of hiring individuals who drink more beer than they write. The owners would do the dirty work themselves. We would write, publish and edit. Before you readers shout 'Oi! then the money go where?' Rest assured, we are not pocketing it for our own personal gain. Although credible writers need to pay themselves high salary packets to deliver world class services, we will use the bulk of the cash on material that would create vibes in the articles to follow. 'What are these materials?' you say. Well lets put it as essentials that are vital for the very essence of this blog.

The owners being founding fathers have decided that we would run this blog like the way a CEO run a company. You can't blame us. After all it is business that got us this blog in the first place. With our brilliant acumen of the oil wells, we have derived enought to buy over this blog. And you people have all seen how the previous owner, who refuse to dabble in stocks, preferring to rant about how life is unfair to him, has failed miserably.

So the new owners will appoint high positions for themselves and pay ourselves super scale salaries to deliver what we think is best for this blog. We are an open and inclusive, so if you people out there have any comments, feel free to feedback to us. However, we do not welcome individuals who think they are an enigma, who think that they can take a loud hailer and shout their views across to us. We take blogging very seriously and if you people think that you can make this a farce, be prepared to incur our wrath. Because we have roubles and roubles buy us lawyers that will sue you for defamation at first sight. So feel free to leave us comments but do take note of the OB markers that is a strictly no-go area. We will update you of the OB markers in time to come.

Lastly, I hope your reading of this blog will be a pleasant one. One that you will leave with great memories. We demand world class for everything and that means unlike other blogs that are cluttered and convoluted, ours are different. We base ourselves on a clean and efficent managment that will never tolerate laspe in anything we do. After all we are paid that much. So sit back, sit tight and enjoy the ride that we promise. You will not regret it.


Your Proud Owners.

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