The Electric Power Corporation’s public awareness campaign which suggests that we could save ourselves a whole lot of money if we switched off all electric appliances and lights is a clever variation which could have the same result as a law to ban staring. But it might not be necessary to pass any other ridiculous laws like the Road Transport one, or shut the television stations down for showing sex-crime-arousing images of skinny palagi women in various stages of undress, if the astronomical electricity price rises continue at their current rate. Only those of the “Inner Circle” and public servants on huge salaries would be able to afford to switch their television sets on and stare at the people in the Nivea, Lynx, Sudso, (aren’t you turned on by the sight of the guy with the rotating beer gut?) advertisements, and the oceans of bare skin in the music videos.

But with the Tri-Nations and Bledisloe Cup rugby games on, I would give up eating to pay for my electricity bill so that I would be able to watch these games if it came to that. The Saturday morning game between the Aotearoa New Zealand All Blacks and South Africa was just an incredible display of strength, stamina and skill from the All Blacks. I tried to go back to sleep after the game but couldn’t get rid of Billy Joel who was singing in my head. “You have no scars on your face/And you cannot handle pressure”! There was no doubt that the All Blacks handled the pressure much better than the South Africans could and came away with a deserved and valuable win. (And Graham Henry could have made another comment about ungrateful fans who did not deserve him.)

I am sure that Billy Joel did not literally mean that you needed scars on your face to be able to handle pressure and apart from Richard Kahui, I think this All Blacks team certainly got scarred and some from the last World Cup failure, to be able to handle pressure like they had to in South Africa. I just wish I had recorded the game so that I could play and replay it in the privacy of my own home and stare and marvel at the skill and commitment of a winning team on a roll. Robbie Deans and the Wallabies must have been watching very closely for any weak areas or chinks in the armor of the Black machine.

But what has become of the Sonny Bill Williams saga? Overshadowed by the Olympics? The NRL must be gutted! Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Valerie Vili, The Evers-Swindell Twins, all those Olympic champions who haven’t tested positive, and the All Blacks of course! When the Canterbury Bulldogs signed Sonny Bill Williams for $400,000 a year for five years, they must have congratulated themselves for a brilliant business deal that basically said they screwed him. (Mundine was reportedly earning a lot more than that years earlier!) It is strange to hear them squeal like a stuck pig therefore when SBW turned around and shafted them back! And how can you carry out a successful business deal which requires secrecy if you are required by a code of comradeship that happens only in the NRL to disclose your intended actions to your team mates? Have a nice one folks. And watch your back!

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