A Week of Ups and Downs
The past week has been realli busy and packed, but my apologies for not taking the time to write earlier, I actually just finished a run, so am doing entry up in between my circuit sets rest time. Anyways last week was awesome for a couple of reasons:
1) Finishing up work dueI finally ended the school term and I finished all my work on time, the last week, week 13 was crazy cos had 4 major submissions. So I decided to hand up 2 of them earlier, even though it was due on Friday. Which goes against my normal behvaiour realli, cos I usually have the habit of holding on to a piece of work all the way till as close as possible to the due date, never mind if its finished already. But somehow I decided that I wasn;t gonna make anymore changes so I handed up the first two. Friday came and I felt kinda satisfied that as everybody around me was rushing stuff, I was sitting back a bit, relaxing, perhaps knowing that I had already completed my work. I guess in the larger scheme of things I am just happy I didn't do things like I did during Bachelors, always leaving it to the last minute, then again, I had a bit less time in the past as well due to all the different commitments.
2) Winning the championshipAnd so it was, after 13 weeks of competition, we managed to win the UWA 5-a-side competition. We didn;t have our strongest team the other though, cos Soren was away in Korea and Darren had class, but we made do. Overall I think we did well, most imptly we produced results against all the big teams, beating all of them wherelse they cancelled each other out with draws and such. The team defended realli well in the final, and we were all over the opposition, everytime they got the ball they were covered by us, so I think all in all it was a deserved victory in the final and also a deserved victory due to the consistency we showed throughout the league period. The guys are already talking about defending the title in the summer comp, but I am a little reluctant honestly cos there are other things that I wish to do, like coaching, as well as the logistical troubles we had like interms of calling the people down and such.
But the end of the week was tempered with two bad things:
1) Injured during trgWe were scrimmaging during training when I jarred my ankle really badly against the ground. I could barely lock it after that and struggled a bit more before calling it quits. But overall, at certain angles my left ankle hurts, and it sux though cos I was finally achieving my goal of using more of my left foot during trg, and this had to happen. Oh well, what to do, anyways I think i'll be missing trg (for the first time in like 4 months) cos I realli need to rest the ankle. Running is ok, struggling a bit, but flexing it at odd angles is a definite no-no.
2)Man U LosingIts frustrating when we lose cos we just cannot seem to get into gear. The team never got out of second gear on Sunday and paid for it dearly. Rio looks like he lost about ten yards of pace, and yeah we look thin in MF as well as in attack. Not sure how its gonna turn out, the season I mean, but a loss against Pool never fails to hurt. And its the 3rd straight loss some more. Watching it at the sports bar was awesome, but it also meant that the Scousers were out in full force to taunt us after the match. Oh well, thats all part of sport lar, take it in our stride. But just hope Man U wakes up soon.
I think you know you've written one too many papers when u start bloggin in a proper, organised format. Oh well, I've spent most of today in the office doing work, and I thought abotu staying till later, but I think I'll head home and continue work at home, cos I wanna get some food in as well.
Will put one or two pics up from the match when I can. In the mean time, school's out, exams are coming!
Missing all,
Az
Finals Football
Alright well I am a little tired, but I am happy to say that finals football is on its way again. We played a great game today, although the defence was rather shaky, and won the game 5-3. It was a great game realli end-to-end stuff, so now its all about the 7 days to the finals. Hard to keep my mind off it, but because I have so much other work to do I guess time will pretty much fly and before I know it it will be the last wednesday of the season. Alright I will stop here for now, should go to sleep soon.
Missing all,
Az
Sweet Disposition
So we ended of the last game of the league with an empathic 9-0 win. The opponents were really sporting though, they never gave up and they just kept going at us. But yeah the football we played that day was really good, smooth, flowing and our passing was just spot on. So this coming week we are playing against the 3rd place team for a spot in the finals, crossing my fingers all the players will be fit and we play well against them. But I mean if we
don't and we lose, I wont be disappointed (well no longer than a day) considering we are a new team and all, we've done well to finish second with an 8-2 record. I managed to sneak in 5 goals also somehow so I'm pretty proud of myself, not exactly a goal machine in most cases.
Other than that, this week was crazy,
overnighted in school to study for the exam, which ended up being pretty tough and all. So I didn't leave it feeling too comfortable but the good news is that I am done with the essay, the presentation and one final exam paper down, so its all good I guess. I am tempted to start a bit of work after this but then again also feel like resting, I guess in these final fortnight of school the weekends gotta go as well, to make sure the work is done. Next week is alright, only one proposal due, which I am almost done with. But week 13 is super massive, just as bad as the past week 11.
Oh well
dats all for now, I will be going to
fremantle again tomorrow for some seafood with David and Lee, my soccer mates so
dats what I am looking forward to most.
I'm glad you guys got my video, as usual scruffy and stuff but
ok lar its the
msg that counts rite?
Sry my English is like quite cleaned up though, I din realise also until I played it back and realised I was
talking very prim and properly.
Missing all,
AzP.S. The title of this post is just a random song that has been playing in my head since lunch
The Buck Stops Here
What a crap fucking day. Itz amazing how events 3000km away can pretty much ruin your day for you, but its exactly whats happening here. Things are fine over here, I've been on top of my work, results are good, and I have a good place to stay in, and a reasonable social circle, enough for me at least. The sun's out, weather is beautiful, its just one of those days that you think "Hey, what a great day to wake up to!".
Unfortunately, I just gotta sound off about things at home over here, truth be told things at Lombardi arent good, I'm trying my best over here, but there really isn't much that I can do, cos the people who can do something about it, dont have that extra push in them to do it. Then again its not their fault, cos this whole thing is my idea, so the buck has to stop with me. Thats one thing I have to think about in 2010, find ppl who can actually be proactive enough to say the buck CAN stop with me too. I just feel very helpless and frustrated cos I wanna be the person who picks up the buck back home.
Its frustrating, doubly frustrating when all you can do is type in messages on your phone, or type a PM on msn in an effort to get across a msg you know you can only best say when said face to face.
Also, i think my friendship with one of my closest players has gone down the drain, dats for sure. Over football and Lombardi? One might ask, and might say its not worth it. And yeah I'll prob say the same, but its harder being said then being done, but talking online with her yesterday I knew in my heart things are already not the same. Realli crap, a few months ago, I would have pretty much given everything to make sure that she would be ok, just as I have over the past 2-3 years we've known each other. But now as much as I want to, I just can't look at her in the same light anymore. What a pity, I never thought it would happen but now that it has, let bygones be bygones.
Looking back at all these frustrations and such, sometimes I feel that its not worth it. Honestly, I know its fully in my power to stay off the charts and not make an effort, cos who can do anything about it? But I guess dats not my style, I hate buck passing, having seen it first hand for so many years in SPF and in VJ. So yeah it shall stop with me, as always. Whatever mess in Lombardi there is, I think that only I have the full mandate to claim responsibility over it and for dat I shall.
Alright, dats enough of dat, glad I got that out, just cos I mean thats the purpose of this place, to say whatever i need to say. I am gonna go for a long long run now (hopefully 15k if i have the legs, which I should). But yes, whoever you are, thanx for reading this far man.
Missing all,
Az
