*penang & football*
ok ok i'll update.... seriously, penang is not much of an island if it's not sunny. and yes, we are very good at lazing by the pool and doing nothing. we have lobster skin to prove it. the town was ok, except there wasn't really much going on. maybe it's not high season yet? maybe because it was a monday? maybe because it was raining? who knows, but it wasn't exactly hip hoppin'... the good thing was they have a free shuttle bus that takes you around downtown (georgetown), so we took full advantage of that. at one point we ended up in little india and it was pouring rain. so we ducked into the nearest restaurant, and had chai and sticky indian balls (what are they called?) until the rain subsided.
then we found the equivalent to lan kwai fong, which is in upper jalan penang, and there's this place called the garage which is a restored colonial building with a whole lot of bars and clubs under one roof. after walking around all afternoon and getting rained on, we got to this place and decided it was enough. it was like 5:30pm. we had a couple of drinks, watched a rerun of the boring japan-croatia game from the night before. then we had dinner and watched the togo-suisse game.
so here are derek's photos... i didn't take any of my own so i'm appropriating his.
i have to say that i'm really loving football. i think it's partly to do with being denied hockey (that's ICE, for you brits and oz ppl) for 6 years. but i think also because the game of soccer is quite similar to hockey, and i can get into it right away. it's also a pretty simple game. i mean, all you have to do is get the most balls in the goal... it's not like american football or baseball or cricket where there are a million rules and ways to score. and i really like the fact that soccer is actually a pretty physical game - although i'd have to say that these players are kinda wussy compared to hockey players. i mean, i understand that they have to get the ref's attention in order to draw out fouls and cards, but come on. i've never seen so many grown men be so fragile over getting tripped on a grass field. try getting tripped on ICE while going 10 times faster, with sharp skates flying around! that's why hockey will always be the coolest game on earth... but soccer comes close.
** more of my thoughts on the african nations later...
ok ok i'll update.... seriously, penang is not much of an island if it's not sunny. and yes, we are very good at lazing by the pool and doing nothing. we have lobster skin to prove it. the town was ok, except there wasn't really much going on. maybe it's not high season yet? maybe because it was a monday? maybe because it was raining? who knows, but it wasn't exactly hip hoppin'... the good thing was they have a free shuttle bus that takes you around downtown (georgetown), so we took full advantage of that. at one point we ended up in little india and it was pouring rain. so we ducked into the nearest restaurant, and had chai and sticky indian balls (what are they called?) until the rain subsided.
then we found the equivalent to lan kwai fong, which is in upper jalan penang, and there's this place called the garage which is a restored colonial building with a whole lot of bars and clubs under one roof. after walking around all afternoon and getting rained on, we got to this place and decided it was enough. it was like 5:30pm. we had a couple of drinks, watched a rerun of the boring japan-croatia game from the night before. then we had dinner and watched the togo-suisse game.
so here are derek's photos... i didn't take any of my own so i'm appropriating his.
i have to say that i'm really loving football. i think it's partly to do with being denied hockey (that's ICE, for you brits and oz ppl) for 6 years. but i think also because the game of soccer is quite similar to hockey, and i can get into it right away. it's also a pretty simple game. i mean, all you have to do is get the most balls in the goal... it's not like american football or baseball or cricket where there are a million rules and ways to score. and i really like the fact that soccer is actually a pretty physical game - although i'd have to say that these players are kinda wussy compared to hockey players. i mean, i understand that they have to get the ref's attention in order to draw out fouls and cards, but come on. i've never seen so many grown men be so fragile over getting tripped on a grass field. try getting tripped on ICE while going 10 times faster, with sharp skates flying around! that's why hockey will always be the coolest game on earth... but soccer comes close.
** more of my thoughts on the african nations later...
posted by jana* at 4:29 PM
