2010 review...

its NYE... just like last year, i am at work.... at KNC.... in Korea....

i just read my blog for NYE last year...... i summed up 2009 as a year where i made no personal progress, and it was a pretty average year at best.... 2010 was almost just a continuation of 2009 where nothing substantial was achieved.... no money was saved.... havent really studied chinese....

i was looking on the daily telegraph at the images of the top 50 winners of 2010.... greatest achievements in sport for aussies i guess....

the one that really didnt mean much unless u really know the situation is lleyton hewitt beating federer in the final in Germany this year....

i think hewitt lost to federer like 15 times in a row or something, and that was the beginning of his fall from world no. 1, as well as the top 20 in world tennis.... even now, he's outside the 32 seeds for the grand slams, but he still fights on to match it with the best and trouble top 10 players....

i guess, he has his fair share of critics as well, but nobody can argue his will and mongrel.... maybe thats what i need in 2011.... more C'MON~!!!

the other winner that i was thinking of posting here today was geoff huegill.... haha.... went from olympic champion swimmer, to a retired 130kg fatso fast-food junkie... to return to a fit athlete and a gold medallist at this years commonwealth games.....

well... i hope in 365 days time, i wont be writing here that i had another "average" year....

the ashes.... GONE~~~!!!

in sports, there is the cliche saying... "it aint over till the fat lady sings...."

well... even sportsbet has already paid out the winnings that england will retain the ashes....

today was just a sad sad day.... ricky ponting.... looking desperate.... kevin pieterson.... played and missed... thru to the keeper.... given not out..... they call for the video review....

this photo is ricky ponting arguing that the video replay is wrong.... ah..... aussie cricket is looking very desperate.....

if only ricky ponting realises that they made 98 with the bat..... and he can still salvage the ashes if he makes 200+ in his next innings.... even if he made a 100 i would be happy.... 50?? please.... what is his highest score this series anyway??? 13??? cant remember.... he didnt score much....

cmon aussies.... u have 10 wickets still in hand.... just block the ball away for 2 days....

xmas eve.... @ work...

It's christmas eve...... last year, i was a "foreign" teacher at work, so i had a week vacation from work... and i went on a road trip with ruadhri around the south and west coast of korea....

this year... im a "gyopo" teacher.... and i dont get that week off.....

and since xmas and new years both fall on a saturday... i dont have any extra days off this year.....

just work today..... tomorrow is xmas, but saturday.... and back at work on monday for a FULL week....

if anything, next week, i dont even get my wednesdays off anymore.... wednesday classes begin next week.....

also tomorrow, on christmas day.... i have to play baseball.... for the middle aged men in korea, christmas is half as important to them as baseball is... so since we are still playing catch up games for the excessive rain we had earlier this year, we have to play on christmas day.....

to be honest, i dont have any other xmas lunch plans, so its a good thing for me i guess....

ah...... back to work now~

cold december, hot december...

its snowing in seoul... then i saw this photo on facebook.... i guess it was taken my stella nuna....

im really missing the hot decembers.... this chill and snow in korea is really driving me mad....

i guess i was just not born for cold weather.... i feel like im getting a brain freeze just standing outside.... the only brain freezes that i enjoy is taking a big bite out of an ice cream during the summer.....

the sky in this photo is so blue as well.... so clear.... unlike the so grey.... so dull.... and smoggy skies here....

xmas is fast approaching.... end of year parties.... xmas dinners..... new years eve....

lets all keep the alcohol under control~~!!!

2nd place....

last weekend, i had a baseball final.... it was a 5 week knockout tournament... and it was the 5th week... the final....

the team that i play for has been eliminated 1st round of this league numerous times before, including last years 12-0 mercy-rule thrashing that we copped in my 3rd week since joining the club last year...

this year was different... we had comfortable wins in the first 2 rounds, came back from 8-1 down to win 9-8 in the 3rd round, then the 4th round (semis), we broke open a tight game in one inning to win comfortably....

funny... coz everyone was in form, playing so well, yet in the final.... everyone played below par... maybe it was finals nerves.... coz i heard it was the first final for the team in its 12 year history or something.... we lost 11-6..... but 2nd place was also the best result in a knockout tournament for this team too...

well... we still have 3 more competitions left to complete in the next 2 months.... and we're fairing well in all of them so hopefully, we can win something soon....

im glad this tournament is over, coz it was so far from my house... and i had to catch a subway there~