The Career Makeover Test by Tickle

And so... I stole a few minutes to amuse myself by taking a test to find out what I'd be profiled into... and it turns out that I'd be best suited to be what it says down here:

You're a Physicist!

The Career Makeover
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You're the type of woman who believes that everything is reducible to facts and figures. When you live by logic, as you do, and are challenged by a search for truth, unsolvable queries are the bane of your existence. You're a true data head. You're the brain the world calls when it needs to pad a case with facts, get the numbers to add up, or explore some scary, uncharted place like your hard drive or outer space. You're an independent thinker, and because you contribute viable solutions without wasting eons in collaborative brainstorming sessions, you're smart to keep on the payroll. As long as you're free to retreat to your library or lab to ponder in peace, you can unravel life's darkest mysteries.

Who's like you:
Marie Curie (famous scientist of radioactivity)

Likely careers:
Physicist, computer engineer, lab technician, astronomer, mad scientist

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...now ...if only I had a degree in rocket science... everything would be hunky dory... or maybe I should aspire to be a Dana Scully (as in X-Files) of sorts.

The Short-Term Checklist

Watch Disney Pixar's Cars	-	check
Watch A Walk to Remember	-	check
Read JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	-	check
Read Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada	-	check
Take a week of to chill out, doing nothing	-	check

FIFA World Cup begins!

Let's get the party started

...said the official WC website. Back home, we have the Star showing us photos of the opening ceremony in print... including one on Il Divo & Toni Braxton (accompanied by an orchestra) performing the official WC song, "Time of Our Lives".

BBC shows us the World Cup Opening in pictures while Expatica (Netherlands) describes the opening ceremony in words.

And it begins with a GOAL FEST!

Germany 4-2 Costa Rica. This match will go down in WC history as the first match with the most goals since 1930 when France won 4-1 against Mexico. The 1934 Italy 7-1 USA is not being counted it was 1 of 8 first round matches that were being played simultaneously.

Disclaimer: This information is a result from a little bit of reading... I'm no walking encyclopedia on football.

The most impressive play in this game must definitely be the run up to Germany's 2nd goal where Bernd Sneider (the acting skipper while Michael Ballack sits out on the opener on account of injury) used some fancy footwork to find his way out of a corner and fed the ball to Bastian Schweinsteiger in the area on the right. The ball was then crossed over to Miroslav Klose who had sprinted up to the left side of the post and GOAL!! And what a fantastic one it is to bring up the score to 2-1 in the 17th minute.

Birthday boy, Klose, later went on to celebrate his birthday by scoring another goal in the 61st minute... and setting his pace in the race for the WC 2006 Golden Shoe (overall top scorer).

For those who remember Rudi Voeller's team of 2002 - you will definitely notice a huge difference in the Mannschaft of Jurgen Klinsmann. Attack vs. an effective team with boring play. Yet danger looms for the German-side who have been rather slack in their defence.

The 2 goals scored by CR's dangerman, Wanchope, were the result of a huge slack in the German defence line... and a close-up of the expression on (German goalie) Jens Lehmann's face at both occasions shouts out a frustrated, "What were you guys doing when I needed the extra support?!"

But above all, the German team has done well and set to give an even more interesting show when Ballack returns to the fold. Can the host find their way to the Final again? We shall all wait and see.

Updates (in a nutshell)

Hmm... going down the list:

Books I've completed reading in the last 2 weeks

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown Angels & Demons, Dan Brown the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mike Haddon All are interesting in its own way. Regardless of what people say about Dan Brown's work - I believe that we should just allow ourselves to read it as a fiction although there are elements of the real world being thrown in to colour the landscape. Mike Haddon's book on the other hand was interesting in the sense that it was written in a first-person account - through an autistic teenager's eyes.

Movies watched in the cinema within the last 7 days

Over the Hedge - is not something I'd say something I'd remember in the long run... hardly a match up to Shrek and Madagascar... but if anyone is wondering... the funniest scenes hover towards the end of the animation. The Da Vinci Code - the movie wasn't as bad as the critics put it. The cheekiness portrayed by Audrey Tautou as Sophie at the end is reminiscence of Audrey in the French hit movie, Amelie. My only complain is that one portion of the puzzle had been left out. X-men: The Last Stand - like the first 2 movies, the audio-visual effects put into the movie is best enjoyed in a cinema.