Synod friendly games

yesterday was the synod friendly games, organised by our church. many thanks to shawn quek who did lots to make it possible:)
had to lead PLH worship first though. playing the guitar and leading at the same time is really hard work. cos u have to keep ur timing on the guitar and stuff like that. so u're focusing on it more than leading the people. oh well.. good learning experience i guess. heh dad was right abt it being hard, although he makes it look so easy. eee.. cheat my feelings.. LOL.
anws my new DG is pretty cool. uncle shih kiat's pretty nice. his lessons are quite fun and effective as well:) AND we end on time! hahaha...
so after lunch we all made our way down to kuo chuan for the games. football actually had a lack of people cos we submitted two teams. each team had only 8 players and since it was 7-a-side football, we only had one substitute for each team. i make it clear the teams were split evenly and there was no reserve team.
well our first game was against true way presbyterian. during the games in may last year we had trashed them 10-0. but this time they were playing a stronger team. we managed to control most of the game though, but only got the breakthrough after joe got hacked down cynically in the box. i put the penalty away for me first goal of the year!:) it looked like it was right above the cone and some referees may have not given it cos it may have been out but our referee gave it and that's football. we had plenty more chances to score but their defence was keeping it real tight. i managed to score a second with a well-drilled shot from long range into the bottom corner. made it safe with my hat-trick after a burst from midfield onto a loose ball. took it down on me chest and volleyed past the keeper. 3-0 and that was it. heh. not bad to get a hat-trick in ur first game of the year, but i must say the team played excellent. joe with his hard work upfront as always. i say, i think he works harder than me now. and i think he's the best example of a team player that i've ever played with. never complains who's in his team or what's his position but just gets on with his job.
and jeremy played real composed in the defensive midfield position. bear in mind he's only sec 1 and was playing against ppl much older than him. and the way he protected the defence and spread passes was amazing.
luke keeping the team well defensively as always. he really can help in making sure we keep our positions. sensible guy. he's a much better captain than me i think. and with my tendency to run run run and burn out fast, he's always reminding me to pace myself. and also cos i always focus on my own game i forget to make sure the other players are ok but he's not afraid to let it out that "where's the defence!!?? this is YOUR man!! YOUR man!!" haha. he shouted that after having to clear the ball with an onrushing striker coming. i think he'll make a great manager if he ever becomes one. LOL seriously.
our second game was against living praise pres. heh. sorta meant they were the home team since we were playing at kuo chuan. lol. think they played better most of the game but we managed to hold on to a 0-0 draw. they were playing ppl who looked around 20 so i think it was a good result for us. game got kinda heated up as well, but hey, that's football. could see our team was really tiring so we had to make some substitutions. luke was really screaming in that game cos we were defending alot and he had to make sure we were on our toes. haha.
well after that it started to rain so the games got stopped:( but since it was already 6pm it was just nice i guess.
had to go gramma's house so couldnt join the PLHers for dinner. afterwards went upstairs to uncle danny's house to try out his Fifa08 game. haha. it's pretty fun:) he used brazil and lost 1-0 to greece LOL. some more it was giannakopoulos with a last min goal hahahaha xD. e-sean used italy and lost to hungary 3-2. i used england and probably had the toughest game against germany. stupid ashley cole got sent off after 2min. LOL. so i played the rest of the game with 10 men. after a topsy-turvy game with both sides taking the lead several times, i managed to win 5-4! lol. rooney with 4 goals and owen with 1. i think the game made rooney and robinson better than they actually are. haha.
ok sorry to bother u with football haha. but what else can i post about now that i'm stuck at home? hahaha. peace out