Conspiracy theories in Cricket

So... A little bit of a saga going on in the Cricket World Cup.

Bob Woolmer DIED.

So who was he?

Well, I had a very high opinion of him. He moulded the South African Cricket team to quite a forceful unit in the late 1990's. He was the coach of the Hansie Cronje era. (and.. Hansie Cronje died pretty mysteriously as well...)

How involved was he in matchfixing schemes? Was it possible that someone thought he fixed the Pakistan vs. Ireland game, and killed him for it. The plot could get quite juicy.

But honestly; it does look sketchy that a man of 58 mysteriously dies less than a day after Pakistan is out of the world cup. However, I am not really someone who believes murder mysteries in real life.

I liked Woolmer. He tought guys like Cullinan and Kallis to sweep. Jonty was the guy who most took to that shot however.

May his soul rest in peace.

Yokohama...

So, I've been sponsored to go to PT yokohama. (full sponsorship) ---Magic the Gathering...

It is 20-22 April and I'm flying on the 18th 7:30 in the morning to JHB (where I have to wait about 2 hours so 4hrs total), then to Hong Kong (20 hrs) then from Hong Kong to Narita (8 hrs)...

Hang on... I forgot to take the time zones into account... well here is my flight plans...
Getting there:

CX 7312 18APR Cape Town / Johannesburg 0730 0930 (this is 2 hrs ,I know that)
CX 748 18APR Johannesburg /Hong Kong 1245 #0755 (this is 20 hrs ,but I'm wondering if it's absolute)
CX 504 19APR Hong Kong / Narita 0910 1435 (5 hrs)

Getting back:
CX 509 24APR Narita/ Hong Kong 0945 1325
CX 749 24APR Hong Kong / Johannesburg 2345 #0655
CX 7313 25APR Johannesburg /Cape Town 1030 1240

Oh and then take a taxi/bus/train to yokohama. 27 km. Not too bad.

It seems like japan is GMT+9 and hong kong is GMT +8. (and SA is GMT+2)

So it's either 32+7 or 32-7... I think it's 25 not 39 hrs. Still 25 hours is still 2x to europe.

I'm surprizingly nonchalant about this. It's not nearly the same excitement I had when I went to Paris. I'm not sure why.

World Cup Cricket...

So... The world cup's opening game was yesterday and the Windies won it.

South Africa... We must win this one. We are ideally situated to win this one. We'll almost surely reach the semifinals...

Question is: Where will we land in the Semi's

Personnaly I think the Semi- finalists are going to be, South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka, and New Zealand.

I've put it in writing now.

K

2 months... :)

So, Nicola and I have been going steady for 2 months today. I am eating lunch with her at a restaurant called le spoon, and tonight I'm treating her to a fine dinner at Steffenie's place. It's an awesome restaurant with a view of the entire Helderberg Basin.

And of course, she'll be receiving flowers.

I was contemplating going to her work this morning and greeting her with bubbles (but I've done that before and I don't like repeating myself too often)... An sms she sent told me she anticipated it... And was slightly dissapointed at it not happening. But once you get predictable, you should change :)