HOCKEY GAME

3rd November 2006

It's a public hol today (Culture Day) so I wanted to do something rather than stay at home and "nua"... Managed to ask Mandy out for boots shopping. In the end, I didn't manage to find suitable ones. Most were expensive & not practical at all. Ended up having lunch at a curry place on Route 45. It was good coz apart fr nice food, had a nice girly talk with Mandy, esp abt Jap dramas... This gal is drama-crazy!

In the afternoon. I recieved an invitation via cellphone email from Wade to watch a live hockey game with Russell and himself. It was a game between Daiichi JHS and Minato JHS. Russell teaches at Daiichi while Wade teaches at Minato. Upon hearing that we would bike all the way to the indoor ice-rink, I was really tempted to just give it a miss and stay at home. But on second thoughts, I've never watched a live ice-hockey game before... so was kinda interested to take a look.

And so after a gruelling 40mins or so, we reached Niida ice-rink on bike. I felt so hot & tired from biking... I would say I'm pretty comfortable with riding the bike now since I don't crash or lose control of my steering anymore (unlike few months ago!), but the Piado & Hach BOE is the furthest place that I've biked to so far. Well, at least I surivived this time!

We entered the rink and went to the spectators side. Now Russell and Wade were pressing me to say who's side i'm on, Daichi or Minato... I maintained that I'll be on the losing team's side. Heh, talk abt sitting on the fence! I saw some boys who looked familiar. Later I realised they are students from one of my schools, Choja JHS ! These boys are part of a team called Hachinohe United, consisting of players from various schools that do not have an ice-hockey team as there are too few members.

The game started and very soon, we could identify the star player of the game. The captain of Daiichi is amazingly skilled! Was very impressed by him inspite of his young age. The game was really exciting but according to the guys, this game is really mild coz apparently these Japanese ice-hockey players are not that rough, they don't slam their opponents into the wall... Canada's ice-hockey is very very much rougher... Nevertheless, I really enjoyed watching the game. I ended up supporting Daiichi and they won! Woo hoo!