On Saturday, 14 June 2008, we won SAFF Championship 2008! 1-0! Against India! Yay! Woo! Whatever.
So the Maldives just found some excuse to celebrate and become patriotic that we won at some obscure SAFF Champion games that the international body couldn’t be bothered about.
Now everyone is told to wear red. Which is alright coz it's patriotic. This is from the same people who condemned people being asked to wear yellow because it is haraam. People wearing jersey to office. Female TV news presenters wearing the jersey. But then patriotism over-rides law, order & religion. So this is quite alright.
On the brighter side, it softened the blow – in fact, got everyone to totally ignore the fact that the MMA all of a sudden had to give a news conference around the time.
So we are over budget. So we are not gonna be getting the anticipated accrued moneys upon which the Government budget was based. So what now? Sell Treasury Bills to the banks of course. Since there is only 1 bank in Maldives, the plural form of banks must refer to the foreign banks as well. So we sell the T-Bills to them. As if we ever have managed to recover any money, we are gonna be dragging the money out of our reserves to pay for it. If the T-Bills mature, that would be well and good too. Drop in reserves equates to drop in value of Rufiyya I suppose? That we still have a huge amount of loans unpaid to the Central bank? That our budget is deficit 33% (MRF 4 billion)?
But they the hell? WE WON SAFF! Yay! Let’s celebrate! We can barely put food on our plates. But we won SAFF! Yay! We should play Holi! With red colour! Just to show off to India! I hope that this redness doesn't get caught up and make Maldives a "red nation" that its friend China is.
Champions of football we are, that I hope, one day we will actually celebrate qualifying for World Cup too.
We won SAFF! What? SAFF! Washing liquid? No, championship games. What? SAFF!
Hail the Red Devils! Viva la Maldives.
So the Maldives just found some excuse to celebrate and become patriotic that we won at some obscure SAFF Champion games that the international body couldn’t be bothered about.
Now everyone is told to wear red. Which is alright coz it's patriotic. This is from the same people who condemned people being asked to wear yellow because it is haraam. People wearing jersey to office. Female TV news presenters wearing the jersey. But then patriotism over-rides law, order & religion. So this is quite alright.
On the brighter side, it softened the blow – in fact, got everyone to totally ignore the fact that the MMA all of a sudden had to give a news conference around the time.
So we are over budget. So we are not gonna be getting the anticipated accrued moneys upon which the Government budget was based. So what now? Sell Treasury Bills to the banks of course. Since there is only 1 bank in Maldives, the plural form of banks must refer to the foreign banks as well. So we sell the T-Bills to them. As if we ever have managed to recover any money, we are gonna be dragging the money out of our reserves to pay for it. If the T-Bills mature, that would be well and good too. Drop in reserves equates to drop in value of Rufiyya I suppose? That we still have a huge amount of loans unpaid to the Central bank? That our budget is deficit 33% (MRF 4 billion)?
But they the hell? WE WON SAFF! Yay! Let’s celebrate! We can barely put food on our plates. But we won SAFF! Yay! We should play Holi! With red colour! Just to show off to India! I hope that this redness doesn't get caught up and make Maldives a "red nation" that its friend China is.
Champions of football we are, that I hope, one day we will actually celebrate qualifying for World Cup too.
We won SAFF! What? SAFF! Washing liquid? No, championship games. What? SAFF!
Hail the Red Devils! Viva la Maldives.
7 comments:
Those issues from the MMA conference are very worrying indeed... And yet this championship has spurred money wasting as if there's no tomorrow!
That said, watching Maldives play was a real pleasure and I share in the pride of this national win. This win *seems* to have united us as a people and, even if it lasts only for this brief period, it is quite a refreshing sight...
a single capsicum costs close to 50rf (even the red ones)
wait, do monkeys eat capsicum?
Hail the Red Devils indeed.
Number 1 player is running for elections this time, and as team mates others are suppose to assisit and as supporters rest are to cheer. the funds wil drain more in donations, will only know when the stampede is over and the dust clears where we stand. We may have to start from scratch. May ALLAH almighty protect us and our nation from such ill fates.
indeed, nass :)
i think govn spend next years budget as well for the celeberations and may be they plan to go to SAAF championship next year in a Bokuraa...
Spinning.... still spinning..will fall soon
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