happy birthday iker

At a time when players are changing clubs for more money, there are still those who value loyalty. This is what i love about Iker Casillas aside from his legendary prowess of making goal saves during desperate matches when his team mates thought they might have lost it all.

I'm never the sporty kind but football appealed to me at a very young age. I would watch game reruns after finishing school homework (La Liga 1996-97 is the first game i've seen), fascinated by the grit and toughness of a match ~ the triumph, the look of unbreakable concentration to outwit the opponent on one-on-one challenge, the despair, the anguish of loss, all of it. It's in the 2002 league that i've seen jersey #1's first game. Since then, he became my favorite player. I may have several choices for midfielders, defenders, and fowards but Iker remains my top choice for the goalkeeper.

Iker has been in Real Madrid since 9 years old and he wants to stay in Real Madrid until the last day of his professional career. His loyalty with the Los Blancos and the Spanish national team is firmly encrypted in his DNA. It's no surprise that they inaugurated an avenue in honor of him.

The famous Iker  and Arjen Robben one-on-one, FIFA 2010.

Happy birthday Iker!

I'm really going to cry on the day you retire. For now, let's enjoy two to four more years of you leading the whites. I'll see you at Santiago Bernabeu. :)

{images from google, videos via youtube}

Question No. 4: I will write non-stop and see how it goes okay?

*Pardon if this post will ramble until the end. Let me just idle and wrestle my thoughts away from too much work. (Warning: contains little GOT spoilers)  :)

Question No. 4: How "fangirl" are you? What/Who is/are on your current desktop screensaver?

Juan doesn't have an active screensaver. Well sometimes but not really often. Juan = is my personal notebook, hahah. I know it's so weird to name a gadget but i got used calling it that already. I have friends who named theirs - Rudy (tough looking notebook), Vanilla Sky (cute pink one), PokPok (you can just easily guess the contents of this laptop by the name), Yanyan (short of Marian, yes, Rivera-crushing ), O'Connor Junior (he named his Nikon DSLR O'Connor first so that's already a descendant), Chivas (for too much drinking), and Nebula (geek stuff alert). I chose Juan because it sounded so artistic and cool. Like Juan Luna, Juan Dela Cruz Band, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Manuel of Villena, Juan Sebastian Elcano, and Juan of Pokemon hahah. 

Anyway, back to Juan's screen. I recently loaded him with the same display stuff of my office pc (pampantanggal-stress photo collection hahah). Except for the wallpaper. I like my office pc clean so i just dawned it with a Music Regression design poster while Juan is kept active with stuff that interests me every now and then. For this month, i am a fangirl so i got these two lurking around my personal premises. 

1. Of course, Iker. :)

2. Tadaaah. The King in the North. All of a sudden, i fell out of crush with Ben Barnes - after seeing Richard Madden in his Robb Stark's anguished weeping when Eddard was beheaded at the Sept of Baelor (yes, Boromir died again #LOTR). 

I guess I own this soft spot for tough-looking boys who could blubber like there's no tomorrow. And Ben Barnes looked a little too soft for my taste (except for the Caspian), hahah. 

Speaking of Starks, I've seen the first season. I just finished A Storm of Swords (the third book made me throw myself to bed and roll like crazy when I read the Rain of Castamere; PLEASE if you have a heart disease stay away from the third installment hahah - the story is soooo intense). I decided to take a Westerosi break before I proceed to A Feast of Crows. The chapters are too much for me to take, hahah. Sometimes I think George R.R. Martin is brilliant with all his storytelling twist, sometimes I just gush at how I hate him for tormenting my emotions. That's it for a round of guilty pleasure then. 

As for Juan's sliding visuals, Iker is still ruling the caps followed by Richard Madden. Why not? After playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, he is also in UK's Sirens portraying an ambulance man attracted to the same gender. 

Tell me, how can someone play homosexual and still be as desirable as any straight hottie. 
And the accent --- *FAINTS triple time* King in the North, here's my fealty. You have my banners.  

*Getting up from the deliquium* -- so as I was saying, if i can fangirl let it be for Madden. I don't know how much should I rate myself and don't give a fuss either hahah. I haven't seen any episode of Sirens yet but I think it is enough that I blushed like a schoolgirl when I saw his torso in one of the trailers. Just like a normal girl, hahah. Seriously, THANK YOU SCOTLAND for giving us the utter perfection that is James McAvoy and now this. 

Congratulations on your face. I can't even . . . HNNNNGGGG. 

lovebirds tweet-tweet!

lovebirds #1

(plus the third wheel in the date :P)


lovebirds #2

This is supposed to be a photo of Marv & Jem. But since the husband's still driving around moa, i'm a willing substitute on his behalf, heheh. I missed Mommy Mawvie so much anyway.


lovebirds #3

On my working table, there's the photo of my Iker *swoon*. 
2014, i'll see you in Brazil. I'll be the one in red.