Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

The Month Of June - July Story Period (AKA The Sonny Bill Williams/Euro 2012 Tribute Show)

Last month, went to Uncle Brian's to watch the All Blacks but almost lost the match against Ireland in the 2nd test at Christchurch 22 - 19, then the next day, had to be ready in time to watch the Avengers movie (My favourite Avengers movie characters were but a bit over the top are the 'Black Widow' Natasha Romanoff, 'Captain America' Steve Rogers, Tony 'Iron Man' Stark, Dr Bruce 'The Hulk' Banner & of course, Thor, which is the Norse god of thunder from Asgard which is a planet) which I now saw it before but was a great movie + some funny bits, nek minute on Thursday, got sick because it was bad for me, did not go to Uncle Bryan's 2 days later but stayed home instead when we watched the AB's pummel Ireland 60 - 0 (There was 1 openside flanker (Sam Cane) who bagged 2 tries, 1 blindside (Messam), 1 reserve flanker (Thomson), both wingers (Ben Smith & Hosea Gear), a fullback (Israel 'Izzy' Dagg) and a second five eighth (SBW (Sonny Bill Williams), who played his last game as an AB (All Black) before going to Japan after Super Rugby to join a Japanese club & returning to the National Rugby League (NRL) next year playing for the Sydney Roosters once the Japanese rugby season is complete (SBW's rugby union career will end on a high note as the Rugby World Cup 2011 winning player as well as scoring 6 tries for the AB's (4 at a RWC, his one & only debut tournament appearance so far) but SBW is now known as 'Sushi Boy Williams, Land of the Rising Sonny') who also got 2) in the 3rd & final test match over in Waikato Stadium, Hamilton (AKA the Tron); Not only because the match was just a demolition as the Irish were scoreless (Never conceded any tries, conversions & penalties scored).

Then 6 days later, just only came here for 1 night only, but Dad, Jans & Bernard came here for dinner we had like chicken thighs with roast veges & peas followed by the apple ginger cake for dessert, had to watch tv like the news before my father & step-brothers just left, but a few hours later after reading a bit of ROTG (Rules of the game), had to watch Super Rugby after taking a 3 week break of test rugby previously held, and I only just watched the 1st half before I went to bed as the Chiefs were on the verge of winning by beating the Highlanders, then next morning, had breakfast which was great (It was pancakes with sausages & apples), went over Uncle Brian's farm to assess the situation that we needed a new home & we checked but came back here for lunch by having a stir-fry which tasted nice & lovely because of the flavour then had afternoon tea that I cannot remember now & saw Nan emailing Leon that I was going to watch the Euro 2012 final on Monday morning but was going to have dinner but left for home (which is 43 Rimu Street).
Then next morning, went to the farm of Uncle Bryan's once again to analyze the house that we are going to live @ Uncle Brian's farm but I was unfair about it living because it was disappointing and it needs renovation by master builders & licensed building practitioners (or should I say, the LBP's), then the following morning, I just got up early & had breakfast before heading over to the command center (AKA 15 Alexander Street) to watch the Final between Spain (known as mejores del mundo of the futbol world) & Italy (4x FIFA World Cup champions like '34, '38, '82 & 2006), but in the end, Spain (AKA La Roja, captained by the goalie of Real Madrid, Iker Casillias) proved to be a perfect match as they retained the European Football Championship title (as well as winning 3 straight major championships from Euro 2008 to FIFA World Cup 2010 & now recently, Euro 2012) because they were able to beat Italy (The Azzurri squad consists of Andrea Pirlo of Juventus (formerly of AC Milan) & that self-proclaimed Afro-Italian (Who plays for Man City which is David Silva's team/club that he plays) of Mario Barwuah Balotelli) by scoring 4 goals (David Silva of Manchester City (Balotelli's Spanish teammate), Valencia's FC Barcelona bound player Jordi Alba & 2 Chelsea players, Torres & Mata) to nil as well as currently utilizing the quick passing move dubbed as the 'tiki-taca'.

But then last week like now, went to a swim like every week, had leftover stir fry with noodles for lunch, got a haircut while pops brought new clothing & had roast pork for dinner & watched police ten 7 but then on Sunday, Dad took me to Palmy (actually, Palmerston North) for just a day (we had pies @ Sanson) & been to shops like went to whitcoulls & bought a drawing tool kit like pens, papers & felt pens for use before going to the plaza (Saw a Chevy Camaro from the Transformers movie AKA the Bumblebee (Dad just took a pic of both the car & skating rink) as well as a ice skating rink) & having lunch at BK (Burger King), then also went other shops before heading back home.

Two days later, me & Dad just had an homemade pie for dinner that looked awesome then next day, had that leftover from tuesday night for lunch and had that sphaghetti bolognaise for dinner because the pasta is indeed my favourite food for like 12 years!

I got up this early morning to get ready to go to splash centre to refresh myself off, then got here in time, did my jobs as well as reading newspaper & the ROTG, then deciding to rest before Pops woke me up for lunch and we had that great antipasto consisting of cheese, 2 salamis, olives, dips, a single savoury muffin, carrot sticks, walnuts and baguettes that Pops just made and had mandarins after that before going to bark & boulders @ Murray Street & just came back here in time to complete my blog by doing a brand new updated material that i'm doing now since I stopped editing last week but now it is time to wrap this blog up about the June to July timeline period which is a great story to write.

P.S. Shane 'Mountain Warrior' Cameron knocked out Monte '2 Gunz' Barrett in a epic boxing match because not only the bout was simply but indeed gangsta because Shane Cameron won the fight, taking the boxing titles from Barrett as well as reigniting his boxing career (David 'Tuamanator' Tua won against Cameron in the fight of the century and took the titles from him but 2 years later (David Tua 1st faced Monte Barrett in 2010 which the bout ended in a draw), he lost to Barrett in his last fight, surrendering the titles before Tua formally announced that his boxing career would end like this) but come on, do not forget to say sayonara to the Sushi boy, land of the rising Sonny Bill Williams (The greatest man but the best Rugby & League player in the world of all time).

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).