Logic needed.

It's 3:25 a.m. on a chilly Monday morning and she's lounging full-length on the couch, staring into the television.
The television is flashing frames of yellow, black and men running after a silver ball.
The stairs creak and she hears someone descending into the lower portion of the house.
Footsteps ring out in the stillness of the wee hours of morn.
A figure emerges at the doorway from the corner of her eyes and she turns towards it.

"Why are you not asleep yet?"
"I'm standing in for Batman...he's watching Brazil trash Australia in the World Cup."

Why ask the questions when the answers are blatantly obvious?

. . .

I've been ever so productive this time around though. It's only been a little over 1 week that the matches have started and already i've won myself a cup of hot chocolate, a trip to Passionflower and dinner+drinks which i WILL claim when i return home.

At the beginning, i put it down to beginner's luck (i know, i've been brain-washed by The Alchemist) because i've never really been much of a gambler...teehee...and so when i won my first bet, i credited it to being beginner's luck. but when i placed bets on Brazil the other night...i began to have my doubts.

The situation was this:
1. i can hardly be considered a beginner anymore, seeing that i've won my first bet. you can say, i've been broken in.
2. the Brazillian team was DEFINITELY not the 'beginner' of the match...if anything it would've been Australia...so the universe would've sided with them... if the Alchemist theory held true.
3. the person whom i was betting with would've gotten the nod from the universe because she was the bigger 'beginner' than me.

So..throughout the game, i was chewing my fingernails...damned Brazillians didn't score during the first half and i was about to throw in the towel. lo-and-behold...WHAM. first goal. then WHAM. second goal. i guess the Universe was still on my side.

Which brings me now to another question.

Do i debunk the theory that was propounded by The Alchemist? Do i continue with, what is obviously, a lucky streak that i have in hopes that the universe messed up and still thinks that i'm a beginner?

ooh..doubts doubts.

BUT the biggest question now is this:

Do I fall back upon my kind, sweet and considerate nature and just suggest that we go to Murni's or do I utilise whatever power that has been invested in me by the Universe and go all out by choosing Tamarind Springs?

To sympathise with the fact that we are, after all, poor students alike or to turn a blind eye and hope that you'd made enough money throughout the World Cup season to cover the expenses?

ooh..decisions decisions.

Don't you just love winning? i know i damn well do.