Can't Hide Away From Me...
Well... Uh,.. I guess it's been a while since I was last here.... almost fourteen months if I'm counting right. Um... sorry about the delay?... No, that's not right. Let's try again...
I never intended to come back and do more of this after my fiftieth post. But since about last month I've been thinking about the goings on in the world around me (mostly immediately around me) and decided that I have more to say and I kind of want to get things off my chest and that this is the perfect place to do it. Though this is a return to blogging I'm not exactly sure if it will go on for more than just this post, and that this post will NOT be as straight forward and chronological as just about all the others, I'm just going to try and stay on one topic for as long as I can because thats how I categorise things in my head.
Soccer: The last time I spoke of soccer I gave scores for Arsenal games and updates on the games I have been playing. Well if you want Arsenal scores you can go to some other site. There are plenty and the official ones can give you a better rundown of a game than I can. Though in my absence (from posting - in case you didn't get that) I did get an official Arsenal away strip - the white one with writing on it and a 'Fly Emirates' sponsorship. But I have continued playing soccer, though some particulars have changed.... The Wednesday game I was a part of got cancelled due to the city council worrying about the state of the playing surface due to the water restrictions and the stress of actual use. This forced me to join a Thursday night group in May or June or something (I started playing with this group initially) on a synthetic surface. But this booking also had problems.... we lost the Thursday night booking to another group due to a booking not being put through after one session (their fault not ours) and so we took a couple weeks off in February while this got sorted out. We had a couple of Wednesday games and have just finished a series of Friday night games and we now have two games on next week. But now I want to mention some memorable moments from the Thursday night games.... Because we play on a hockey field there is fencing up around it - just in case of any stray hockey balls - and this is quite close to the field, anyway one day, before the official start of the game we decided to start playing a game early intending to restart when our booking did in case anyone else arrived, and in chasing down a ball that was going out over the sidelines I ran as fast as possible and barely managed to redirect the ball back towards the center of the field. This unfortunately caused me to continue in the direction of the fence and before I could regain my footing I had run into it and hit my head. I felt fine for a moment and went back onto the field where I put my hand to the bump on my head and when I pulled it away I looked at it - I don't know why but I did - and it was covered in blood. I had hit the fence so hard that it broke the skin on my forehead. Needless to say I left the field and didn't make it to the official start of the game... A couple weeks ago, when we were playing one of our friday night games I managed to score a goal from a 2-on-1 with the keeper, now I know this isn't much of a highlight but its the start of something much greater. About two minutes later I got a pass from the same guy and dribbled it around the keeper for my second goal of the game, I had never scored more than one goal in a game and the more surprising thing was that i wasn't finished. I got one more goal to complete my hattrick and this is the best shot I've ever had. I'd got the pass from my keeper and was about halfway up the pitch (we played on half a hockey field) and intended to put the ball into the path of one of my teammates who was alone up front, but I saw a small gap behind the keeper - he'd moved a couple steps too far out - and had to go for it, I was confident after the first two goals and decided to put it up there. I put the ball into the air and over the keeper who was racing back to try and stop it but couldn't and the ball curled into the opposite top corner. I was as surprised at that as everyone else.
I will resume this post later... It's taking longer than I thought....and so did the getting back to the post...
There were other things I wanted to mention. Family and friends and stuff like that.... My brother K-Man has a girlfriend now... and he has moved house again and turned 21. He now works as a concierge and his girlfriend - Europa - has effectively, taken his job at the coffee shop.
Two of my cousins got married (not to each other) and now one of them has a baby girl. I continue to catch up with my friends... though that doesn't really mean anything. Blur is now working at another cinema and after dropping out of his Masters in Arts at Uni he wrote a book (as yet unpublished) and is planning on going to RMIT to do a journalism course. Kamel is doing a Phd in some chemical engineering thing... A lot of the people I was friends with at this time last year I am struggling to keep in contact with. One of K-Man's punk friends died of a heroin overdose, it was rumored that she had hung herself but that was a lie. I celebrated my 23rd birthday, the main point everyone who went to the party remembers is that the light hanging over the pool table fell. The past couple of weeks I've been going out drinking with friends and co-workers (not that my co-workers aren't friends, I'm just trying to be specific). And most of what went on was not terribly interesting. Just a lot of drinking really - but I did have my first Martini. In February I went to my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary and caught up with a lot of my family - anyone who wasn't there (and a lot that were) came to the Anzac day march to support my Granddad.
I'm not sure what else to add. Or if I have time to do so. If something interesting happens I'll try to say something. Maybe.
Until I write again, Uh... I guess I should've thought of something to say.....
Baltasar
I never intended to come back and do more of this after my fiftieth post. But since about last month I've been thinking about the goings on in the world around me (mostly immediately around me) and decided that I have more to say and I kind of want to get things off my chest and that this is the perfect place to do it. Though this is a return to blogging I'm not exactly sure if it will go on for more than just this post, and that this post will NOT be as straight forward and chronological as just about all the others, I'm just going to try and stay on one topic for as long as I can because thats how I categorise things in my head.
Soccer: The last time I spoke of soccer I gave scores for Arsenal games and updates on the games I have been playing. Well if you want Arsenal scores you can go to some other site. There are plenty and the official ones can give you a better rundown of a game than I can. Though in my absence (from posting - in case you didn't get that) I did get an official Arsenal away strip - the white one with writing on it and a 'Fly Emirates' sponsorship. But I have continued playing soccer, though some particulars have changed.... The Wednesday game I was a part of got cancelled due to the city council worrying about the state of the playing surface due to the water restrictions and the stress of actual use. This forced me to join a Thursday night group in May or June or something (I started playing with this group initially) on a synthetic surface. But this booking also had problems.... we lost the Thursday night booking to another group due to a booking not being put through after one session (their fault not ours) and so we took a couple weeks off in February while this got sorted out. We had a couple of Wednesday games and have just finished a series of Friday night games and we now have two games on next week. But now I want to mention some memorable moments from the Thursday night games.... Because we play on a hockey field there is fencing up around it - just in case of any stray hockey balls - and this is quite close to the field, anyway one day, before the official start of the game we decided to start playing a game early intending to restart when our booking did in case anyone else arrived, and in chasing down a ball that was going out over the sidelines I ran as fast as possible and barely managed to redirect the ball back towards the center of the field. This unfortunately caused me to continue in the direction of the fence and before I could regain my footing I had run into it and hit my head. I felt fine for a moment and went back onto the field where I put my hand to the bump on my head and when I pulled it away I looked at it - I don't know why but I did - and it was covered in blood. I had hit the fence so hard that it broke the skin on my forehead. Needless to say I left the field and didn't make it to the official start of the game... A couple weeks ago, when we were playing one of our friday night games I managed to score a goal from a 2-on-1 with the keeper, now I know this isn't much of a highlight but its the start of something much greater. About two minutes later I got a pass from the same guy and dribbled it around the keeper for my second goal of the game, I had never scored more than one goal in a game and the more surprising thing was that i wasn't finished. I got one more goal to complete my hattrick and this is the best shot I've ever had. I'd got the pass from my keeper and was about halfway up the pitch (we played on half a hockey field) and intended to put the ball into the path of one of my teammates who was alone up front, but I saw a small gap behind the keeper - he'd moved a couple steps too far out - and had to go for it, I was confident after the first two goals and decided to put it up there. I put the ball into the air and over the keeper who was racing back to try and stop it but couldn't and the ball curled into the opposite top corner. I was as surprised at that as everyone else.
I will resume this post later... It's taking longer than I thought....and so did the getting back to the post...
There were other things I wanted to mention. Family and friends and stuff like that.... My brother K-Man has a girlfriend now... and he has moved house again and turned 21. He now works as a concierge and his girlfriend - Europa - has effectively, taken his job at the coffee shop.
Two of my cousins got married (not to each other) and now one of them has a baby girl. I continue to catch up with my friends... though that doesn't really mean anything. Blur is now working at another cinema and after dropping out of his Masters in Arts at Uni he wrote a book (as yet unpublished) and is planning on going to RMIT to do a journalism course. Kamel is doing a Phd in some chemical engineering thing... A lot of the people I was friends with at this time last year I am struggling to keep in contact with. One of K-Man's punk friends died of a heroin overdose, it was rumored that she had hung herself but that was a lie. I celebrated my 23rd birthday, the main point everyone who went to the party remembers is that the light hanging over the pool table fell. The past couple of weeks I've been going out drinking with friends and co-workers (not that my co-workers aren't friends, I'm just trying to be specific). And most of what went on was not terribly interesting. Just a lot of drinking really - but I did have my first Martini. In February I went to my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary and caught up with a lot of my family - anyone who wasn't there (and a lot that were) came to the Anzac day march to support my Granddad.
I'm not sure what else to add. Or if I have time to do so. If something interesting happens I'll try to say something. Maybe.
Until I write again, Uh... I guess I should've thought of something to say.....
Baltasar
posted by Baltasar at 10:08 PM
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