Because.

For the past 4 days, I was on holiday. The Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese National Day were on the same days so we got a somewhat extended break. For the 4 days, I went for a football game (a crazy one, may I add), went for a movie, played some computer games and besides those things, I was basically just lazing around to catch up on some much needed-rest – the recent trip to Korea was a rest from work, but these four days were basically rest from everything!

Would be going for my Korean class after work today, and strangely, I am looking forward to the class. The class may be three hours long, but when I am in the class, it doesn’t feel that long. When I learned Korean at FTU, the 90-minute classes were always a difficult time to endure. I mean, I enjoyed the classes, but somehow I just didn’t feel comfortable. Maybe because the lessons at FTU really aren’t that serious comparatively – I mean, we have homework, tests and exams here in HKU SPACE, and during the class, our teacher would really drill us with the vocabulary and grammar, which I think are definitely useful.

I mentioned that the football game on Saturday was a crazy one earlier, and this was the reason for the craziness:

It was 7 and a half minutes into injury time for this early-season blockbuster match between South China and Kitchee (scum), and Dhiego Martins hit the winner with almost the last kick of the game. Scoring an injury time winner to beat Kitchee (scum) was crazy enough, but what was even crazier was Dhiego took off his shirt, ran towards the lot of us and before we knew it, he leaped into the crowd to celebrate the goal – I was the one he crashed into! So if you see that fat arm in the picture above – that was my arm! After he leaped into the crowd, I suddenly felt a lot of bodies around me, players and fans alike, all screaming and hugging one another. Everyone was ecstatic and the feeling is simply out of this world. I mean, the South China players are now developing a knack of running towards the fans after they score, but that was really the most outrageous of all player-fan celebrations.

For your information, Dhiego was subsequently given a second yellow card and was sent off. Not for leaping into the crowd, but for taking off his shirt in celebration – which until now I still think is about the most stupid rule in football.