Monday 4 May 2009

A Trip to the Apartheid Museum

Try to come up with the worst idea for a pre-match excursion with the rest of your IPL team.

If you came up with going to the Apartheid Museum, you're clearly VB Chandrasekar's soulmate:
Prior to that game in Jo’burg, we relaxed with trips to the Apartheid Museum and the shopping mall.
Let me say that again. They relaxed with a trip to the Apartheid Museum?
Only thing I can think is just how awkward would that have been for everyone involved? Especially Albie and Makhaya Ntini. Oh yeah, awkward. For more reasons than one which I'm sure you could imagine if you thought about possible scenarios at the museum for even a moment. That's a nightmare of an idea.

"After this, we're having a 16th Anniversary Post-Isolation braai!"

12 comments:

12th Man said...

That's real cool I would dare say.

Better than doing bunjee jumping from Auckland tower before the start of a test match.

Amy said...

I really wonder at what is actually on display inside the museum. It can't be anything good, and it'd be so awkward for the saffas on the team.

It's like taking a bunch of tourists on a trip to a museum where the abuse of Aborigines through the ages has been documented. Yes, we feel for them, but it's also an incredible guilt trip.

12th Man said...

Taking Ntini to Aperthied museum reminds me of what Harsha Bhogle asked McKenzie about "What he thought of KP?" Awkwardness to the heights.

Amy said...

Haha, Harsha Bhogle is awesome. I love him creating extremely awkward situations with other commentators when he asks how they deal with Geoffrey Boycott being, well, Geoffrey Boycott.

Anonymous said...

Poor Albie! When you go there as a group they will devide you into 2 smaller groups. Whites one side and the rest on the other. (Setting the apartheid atmosphere) Then 2 guides will take them through the museum. Yes, one white and the other black.

Amy said...

Hahaha, who are you anonymous? You're my favourite person in the world.

Anonymous said...

Ssshhhh! a Saffer who finds your blog quite amuzing, even when you diss some of my favourite players. It's refreshing reading things from a differnt point of view.

Amy said...

When you say I diss players, are you referring to AB?

Thanks, though. One of the last South Africans who commented here kept making Amy Winehouse jokes. It was painful to read.

madiha said...

hey amy and anonymous u guys r gr8...ur blogs really cool amy...another fav.timepass added in my list...

Anonymous said...

He has won a lot of games for us and he is a favourite(I am South African after all), there has been times when I would love to have punched him in the face. I like reading honest criticism and always stay open minded. You are inspiring me to start my own blog.

Amy said...

I can't say there's very much logic in my decisions to hate or like players. It's all just crazy rantings, really, but that's how I roll. I bring the unrealistic emotion back into cricket.

If you do start your own blog, do comment with a link.

Anonymous said...

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