shop till you drop...

It's that time of the year again, when the prices go down and people go crazy. Yes, it's the post Christmas sales again. I really don't know what the fuss is, like ok, you do get excited because everything is so cheap cheap cheap, but really? What extent would you go to, just to save a few dollars? Ok maybe more then just a few dollars, but is it worth it? I worked the overnights before the sales this year; that opened at 6am, and you see outside people lining up all night all in the means of finding that bargain!

For me personally I don't really get a thrill of it all. Usually the things I want aren't on sale and I don't particularly enjoy going through crowds of people to get from one point to another (except for when I'm in Japan). Actually on the subject of Japan, that's a place I wouldn't mind to do all my shopping!

so that was christmas...

Christmas this year to be honest didn't feel like Christmas at all. I don't think it's the fact that the older you get the less festive you become, because if I had the opportunity I think I would get into the festive spirit! Rather I didn't get the opportunity to.

Usually Christmas is suppose to be the time you spend with your family and loved ones, well I only got to see my mum & dad for less then 1/2 hour. This year I finished work at 7:00am on Christmas day, and had to start work again at 07:00pm that night (for a 12 hour shift). So in between all I really had time for was, well sleep and not much else.

My Ci did make my Christmas though by leaving my present in her office for me to open, but besides that, I haven't really had much of a Christmas feel this year. I didn't go to any Christmas partys and the only Christmas service I went to was almost two weeks ago. 

Anyways, so I've tried to 'save Christmas', well somewhat, by organising a belated family Christmas dinner tonight, with the complete "collection" of people (partners included). Hoestly speaking, I'm looking forward to the dinner tonight!

A belated Merry Christmas everyone!

a place called koorong...

After a few years of not going, today marked my return to Koorong. For some reason or another it brought back quiet a few memories. For those who don't know what Koorong is, it's a Christian book store here in Sydney. So back in my younger years, the items I had bought there consisted of alot of CDs & DVDs, plenty of books, a handful of bibles plus many more other things.

I remember when I use to go there just to read. When I didn't want to buy the book, I'd just go there, sit on the sofa and read the book. Actually back then it wasn't I didn't want to buy the book, rather wasn't able to afford the book (joys of being a teenager!).

Today really did bring back memories, and how life seemed a lot more simple back then!

sleeping in...

I don't know if I like it or not, but either way I do it. My first train of thought it is a waste of time, I could be doing soo many things instead of just laying there in bed. But when you are laying there in bed and there's really nothing you got to do, then you just stay in bed! Most of the times that's exactly what I end up doing.

Don't like it how today is kind of my day off but not really as I'm working the overnights, so it ends up feeling like I sleep all day. I sleep in till about 11 then normally head back to sleep at 4pm to "get ready" for work. If I did wake up earlier I could have...

and it's finished...

So I guess that is it then, the end of the season has finally arrived and now we all can relax as this will be my final post on Urawa in this blog. So from here on in I don't really know what I can blog on, maybe I have to start blogging on other stuff, like non-Urawa stuff eh? But at times it feels that Urawa is my life; ok that does sound sad.

So our last game of the season was against Kashima, who needed to win to guarantee the championship, and they did just that. They won one-nil thanks to a 77th min goal to Koroki. If we would have tied the match then the championship would have gone to Ci's team, Kawasaki, but it wasn't meant to be. Kind of felt like we let them down. But by saying that a big congratulations to Kashima on their hat-trick of championships!

From all accounts though we did put up a good fight. The only downer would have to be the boo-ing from the fans. Not good way to send of the players because overall we did imporve from last year. Either way.Here are some photos from the match.

So now from here on in, all of my Urawa Red Diamonds update can be found on my blog especially dedicated to my beloved team.

URD | BLOGGING RED

abit of this and that...

You know I can't believe it's already December! As the saying goes, time does fly when you're having fun; in the case of 2009 it has flown by quick! For me at least it has. I still remember going to see the NYE fireworks like it was only a few months ago, but the next NYE is only a few weeks away!

Looking at my blogging activities, November '09 has been the least active month since I've started blogging here. I wont count April '09 because I only started to blog on the 23Apr09. So am I less enthusiastic in blogging? Maybe. And moving on to next year, I can't promise I'll blog as much as I have done so far (not that anyone would care anyways). Like mentioned previously I will not blog on Urawa here after this season of the J-League as I plan to start a Urawa specific blog. I aim to blog here at least 10 times a month, so that means blogging roughly every three days. Yeah I think I can do that.

On the topic of the Urawa Blog, there's only one more game in the '09 J-league season, so I think I got to get a start on that soon eh?

Well 2009 thank you for a great year, but here's to 2010; the best is yet to come!

getting sidetracked...

Well my task I have set aside for myself today, was to do some research on Hong Kong. Not to say I didn't do that, I have done my research on HK, but for some reason or another I keep on getting sidetracked.I really don't know what it is, well firstly I got sidetracked because the internet wouldn't start up, now that wasn't my fault. So it took a while before the internet decided that it would start up, so while I was waiting I watched some TV, ate and well waited. And after it did get started, I got cracking on my HK research; plus some other things like reading some Urawa news, SF Giants news, did some banking and now blogging.I should do some more research, but alas it's almost my bed time (working the overnights again tonight). I'm soo worried that my plans for HK wouldn't be up to scratch that I think I just distract myself. I don't know what it is, but today has been a pretty sidetracked day for me.