Wednesday, 13 June 2012

An Epic 21st Birthday

It all began last week, the 7th of June AKA my epic birthday, I was falling asleep before Pop's came here to wake up & got the presents, had breakfast before heading off to Nan & Pop's for a birthday lunch, but I also had to clean up the driveway cause there are too many leaves, also read rules of that game but also cannot remember now until I put on that new gear of mine by getting ready to go to stellar's until now, like in a restaurant and here we are, Dad showed up 1st as well as Jansen & Bernard-Thomas, then it is Leon, Hanne, Uncle Brian, Aunt Viv, Ash, Charlotte & finally, Corinna, then Hera-Ruby & Cody Scarrow because they turned up late (Well, I had a orange then apple juice for drinks), then opened more B'day presents before having course no.1 (Breads & Dips), after our 1st course, we are into the main course by having a foul play pizza but was so full before having a chocolate cheesecake for dessert, and after the 1st dessert, I was originally but actually full, I'll admit it. And after all of the people sang happy birthday to me, I blew the candles of a legendary ice-cream birthday cake by making a wish, then had the opportunity to have a ice-cream cake but I was indeed excessively full but managed to finish it off twice, also met the Chihuahua dog of Hera-Ruby, Pickle to finish the night off.

Then nek minute (actually, 2 days later after my big 21st birthday bash), Dad dropped me off to Uncle Brian's to watch the AB's play the 1st of 3 test matches against the Emerald Isle of Ireland at Eden Park in Auckland (Host of the final at both Rugby World Cups like '87 & 2011) but Poppa wasn't there when I arrived until then, the game had just started, moments before the All Blacks newest superstar of Julian Savea scoring his 1st try on debut (And I will also admit, Savea's try scoring abilities remind me of showing you the Price of Justice, as planned + with Savea already made his AB's debut by playing for the Canes, there were 2 new players such as Chiefs lock Brodie Retallick & Highlanders halfback Aaron Smith), then he got another & finally deserved his hat-trick in the 2nd half. Before or during the game, we just had a pumpkin soup, chips, nuts and for drinks, a juice, orange juice. Then after Adam Thomson just gave the AB's another try, the funniest part of the match was Conrad Smith's shirt was pulled so a touch judge did signal foul play and the ref gave away a penalty to the All Blacks for foul play just moments before Conrad Smith scored the last try of the AB's in a epic 42 -10 victory, a perfect start to the international Rugby year of 2012 (And guess what, there is a fact, the All Blacks - Ireland game was the 1st match to have AB's coach Steve Hansen in charge as well as his 1st victory as the new All Blacks coach, taking over from the legendary Sir Graham 'Ted' Henry, who had been in charge from 2004 until the AB's finally deserved to win the William Webb Ellis crown after 24 years), but the most interesting part of the game was Fergus McFadden, the Irish winger, won the battle in a 2 man horse race against the most capped All Black captain, Richie McCaw before scoring Ireland's only try but not only was Richie McCaw too slow, McFadden was just simply, too fast. But after a spectacular but extraordinary Rugby test match, I went back home to end an epic 2 days it was.

PS. All Black flanker Victor Vito unfortunately cannot play due to injury, being replaced by Adam Thomson with another newcomer named Sam Cane who was named on the bench (who is also a Chief but plays Flanker, like his team-mate Retallick, who is also a lock which I metioned it before) for the upcoming 2nd test, back at the garden turned earthquake city of Christchurch at a new stadium near you (which is Christchurch Stadium at the moment), where the AB's have never played at the city for 2 years. But it all happened when the city had been plagued by a malfested twice, in September 2010 & February 22nd last year which AMI Stadium was damaged & closed as well as dozens of people died, a month before another earthquake and a tsunami happened in the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan) + New Zealand has a new Masterchef named Chelsea (The Blonde one) but her winning dishes was indeed the perfect match & the sounds of Chelsea Winter when her opponent, Ana Schwarz (Brunette haired kind of person as well as a mum of 2 or 3), was a great cook but missed out on winning the Masterchef NZ title like both Kelly Young in 2010 & Jax Hamilton last year (The legacy goes on with Brett McGregor in 2010, Nadia Lim last year & now, Chelsea Winter).