Decision.

I hate it when I have to make a decision between two things that I want to do badly.

There’s going to be a football match between Hong Kong and Uzbekistan tomorrow, which Hong Kong must win to keep its hopes of going to Asian Cup 2015 alive.  The two teams played to a goalless draw in February and there is a genuine hope that the team could get a result against the Uzbeks.  Being an avid Hong Kong supporter, going for the match seemed like a no-brainer.

But my Toastmasters Club is also having a very interesting meeting tomorrow.  It is going to be a joint meeting with another club and I have always wanted to try a joint meeting.  In addition to that, the theme for tomorrow is rather interesting and I’d really want to be part of it.  The worst thing is that there is a clash in time between the two, which means that I could only choose to go for either one.

I’m sure if I don’t turn up for the match, my mates would be upset with me and I might miss an opportunity to witness history being made.  But at the same time if I don’t turn up for the Toastmasters Club meeting tomorrow, I might miss an interesting evening, as well as an opportunity to meet new people…

I’ve got a little less than a day to decide.  Ah, decisions.

Summer.

First of all, let’s do a summer thing first, since it has been summer since probably 4 months ago.

 

Anyway now that the summer is in full swing, that means there will be no more Hong Kong football, no more English football, no more European football, no more NBA… until the summer is over. And usually, the summer holidays tend to be my busiest period of the year. Not to mention that the summer is always very hot, and all of these add up to the fact that I really don’t like summer. I mean, as someone who prefer to play basketball indoors, go to gym and run on the treadmill under the aircon and the closest that I score with a diving header in football is on my PS3, summer is really not my season.

The Euro 2012 is apparently ongoing and as I previously mentioned on FB, I have caught a grand total of 90 minutes of the tournament – 45 minutes between Portugal and Germany, and 45 minutes between England and France. Somehow I just don’t seem interested in these kind of tournaments any more, unlike when I was a kid, during which I could either stay up to watch, or wake up in the middle of the night for these kind of football. Nowadays, maybe I’ve grown older, I think sleeping through the night is probably more important than that 90 minutes of football. Make no mistake, I still love my football, but I think there’s only so much football that you can be watching, there’s always a give-and-take scenario.

I think I will stick to playing video games for my dose of football and basketball during this offseason. Boring.

Plan.

I think I have been going around telling people that I’ll be going to Manchester next week. That’s one problem of me as far as my travels are concerned – they are never secrets!

Anyway as this is my first ever trip to the UK, I really do not know what to expect. The only good thing is that people speak English, so I think I could communicate without too much trouble. But I do have a bit of a concern – I haven’t really sorted out my itinerary yet! I mean, I know I’ll be going for a stadium tour at Old Trafford on Thursday, and then to see United vs QPR on Sunday, but basically everything in between – I have no idea whatsoever. I think I’d do well to research a bit more on Manchester in the next few days.

I would be heading out to Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground after work to watch South China taking on Kitchee (who?) in the Hong Kong Football League later. To be honest, I am always a pessimistic fan and in matches like these, I always go into the stadium thinking that South China is going to lose. No difference this time round – I guess when you have little expectation, you can’t get too disappointed when things don’t go your way. But for me, seeing your team lose is part and parcel of being a fan. If you can’t tolerate a team losing, then you can’t really call yourself a fan. A fan sticks with the team no matter what results they churn out, and gives his/her support no matter how low the team is. Too bad, Hong Kong is a place full of fairweather friends who seem to love the team only when they win. (That explained why there was suddenly an increase of Chelsea fans a few years ago, and now you also see more Manchester City fans). They hurl abuse at their own players game in, game out, and think that their team are only worthy of their support only when it wins. Sad low-life forms, if you ask me.

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