Its week 12 of uni, assessments and exams are just around the cnr. Just got back from monday night touch. We won both games!
First game:
- Quek our standin capt'n lost the toss. First few minutes neither side looked like scoring. We were getting down to their end of the field but lack much needed offensive capabilities to convert our efforts into tries.
- Defence was pretty good. Bob was patient on the wing shutting down many of their tries. Jacq and Ellen played awesome on defence. Quek, Tone, Christine and i play our game down the middle with a generous number of calls made on defence.
- Tone dominated the attack with his brilliant speed and guile, 2 tries to him. Personally i had a really quiet game. I couldn't get any plays going, felt sluggish so just took the simple straight up hits and controlled the ball. One assist to tone, only resulted because we've played so much together we know where each other will be. Tone took the first run up field, then i think christine took another. We were on the right side of the field and the most obvious play was to send the next phase left. Instead i sensed tone was charging up the right, outnumbered the lazy defence.
- Bombed a tried due to poor hands, was in the open but couldnt catch! Bad habit developing!
- We won 3-0, good defence for no subs!
Second game:
- No subs, we were buggered. Quek won the toss.
- Since we had no subs the plan was to control our ball and not to make any simple handling errors. The opposition were sitting fourth on the ladder so they knew how to attack.
- Defence was exceptional, quek and bob saved quite a few tries. I know tone scored the last try, speed and footwork put him through for a 30m run.
- Personally was another quiet game. Picked a gap and ran but was too slow!! Supported another play and was open for the break but the pass was intercepted and what resulted was a near try by the opposition but bob saved us. Ran thru as dummy half into their zone, tone was sheparded(sp), he got open, passed and grounded but apparently i was touched on the shirt...
- We won 2-0. Not bad for no subs :)
Saturday, Linda and i went to Carlyn's 21st. This was at the Clock Hotel located near foveaux st on Crown St. The function room was rather swish and mod. looking, Tone, Matt Wong, Ben and Adi were there from North Sydney Boys, the rest were Carlyn's science friends. It was a pleasant evening. Linda and i headed off to the Wallaby bar located in Darling Harbour. Leon was celebrating his 19, what a youngen!! Not a massive fan of the Wallaby as it reminds me of The Steyne in Manly, the dance floor located on the ground floor (a sesspool imo!). Otherwise a good night.
It was pretty late, i was low on petrol and time (no money) so i wasnt in a good position to drive linda home! Consequently, she came back with me to Frenchs Forest. We sneaked into home, grabbed a minpeeh (a chinese quilt) + pillow, ducked back to Ben's car and thats were she slept for the night. :) what a tough cookie :) 2am.
930am. Went to work, Linda came and looked around at the shops and did some of her readings for her Greek Mythology assignment. We had lunch together at the mall. Took her home. She met the parents :) Mum was pretty cool, but unexpectantly dad was rather odd - asking the embarassing questions. Typically asian in nature: 'what does ur dad do? ur mum? siblings? age? what do u study? where do u live? how far away is that from here? etc etc. Linda stayed for pizza. Drove her home. Had an incident in the car, drove the car back to Bens place. Dropped it off (thanks x 10^6), got home and sorted of some of my financial issues.
To do from here:
Structures assignment (nov 6)
Water assignment (tba)
Chinese speaking assessment (monday)
Chinese essay (friday)
Chinese written assessment (tuesday)
Thanks for reading :)