Day shot of the artificial field from my hall.
Night Shot (Notice the "thing" at the centre of this pic?)
to the left of this picture is the jetty with the BBQ pits, and where the rocky bay is.
After 1-2 months of slacking, i decided to make a point to wake up early and EXERCISE!
And i have chosen to play soccer because my Korean Roommate(Kang) is also a football fanatic, but sadly, he is a Red Devil...
This fine sunday morning, i pull Kang out of bed at 8am and drag him down to our school's artificial soccer pitch. It is very convenient as we have the elevator and the field is within a stone's throw.
We rented two soccer balls using our Student cards and practised some dribbling, crossing, passing and shooting. Kang injured his ankle one month ago and it was a recovery training for him. There were a few joggers in the early morning and they gave us some weird stares. ( i don't know why.)
After a while, the artificial soccer pitch was populated by a group of Hong Kong working adults. (They looked too old to be undergrads). We then decided to take our leave when one uncle wearing a England jersey stopped us and invited the both of us to play with them, 11-a-side soccer.
Wow! I was thrilled by the invitation, but Kang was injured so he sat by the side to watch us play.
I told him i wanted to play full back, so he assigned me to play at the left back. I hopei will not to make the same mistake as Ashley Cole did. Lol.
The game went very smoothly, the uncles want me to bring the ball forward whenever i have the ball. I feel that playing wing back is quite shagged, as i do not have stamina to do so many runs.
I guessed the opposition spotted my flaw and kept attacking my flang. I was beaten by the best uncle of the game(Ah Tat) twice, as he played one-two passes with another liverpool uncle. His cross were perfectly received by an Arsenal fan, and he puts the opposition 1-nil up.
White 0-1 Red.
On ya, the two teams were divided by the colour of their. It is red vs white.
The opposition were mainly wearing Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool jerseys while my team' uncles were mainly wearing the white England Jersey. As for me, since i wore a white singlet, so i was with the white team.
The uncles gave me many chances to perform, but i guess i didn't mean thier expectations. My runs on the flangs were intercepted by Ah Tat easily. My style is to kick the ball forward and sprint after it, but since Ah Tat has better stamina, and bigger body built, he wins all the ball.
In the middle of the game, our team captain wants me to stay front, Left wing, instead of left wing back. I did as what i was told, and the effect was immediate. After receiving a pass from mid-field, i lob the ball in for "Gao Loh"(mean tall guy), and he sliced the ball into the net.
White1-1Red.
Towards the end of the game, i was panting like crazy. My throat was very dry and i kept coughing. Seeing my situation, the uncles still pass the ball to me and wants me to bring up. I am seriously dying, but they don't play HALF TIME, so i have to suffer till the end. I don't want to faint, so whenever i receive the ball, i will just aim it at Gao Loh at "pump" the ball forward all the way to him, i won't run anymore!
We won a corner, and the corner was taken nicely. The ball was headed out of the opposition penalty box. One of our team mate tried to cross the ball in towards me, but instead of reaching my head. It went into the net.
We won the game miraculously....
I thanked them for inviting me to play this game. The artificial field was good, the weather was good, the players were professional. It's my best game ever.
Ivershing (HKUST)
Shadow (HKUST)
David (New York University)
Daniel (NUS)
After our hardship, we decided to go for some good food! i craved for Thai food, so we took a bus to Kowloon City, also known as Mini Bangkok because there were so many Thai restaurants there!
