if i should choose one writer, then this lady intrigues me the most. she is an english writer despite the fact that she is indonesian like me. in fact, she is a real english writer! a professional one. i admire her courage to pursue that! and if i could point out one thing i like the most about her writing, it is her choice of words. she seldom uses those big words although, i believe, she has them in her disposal. if she uses them, she will use them wisely.
actually there is one more thing about her blog. her tidy blog! whenever i came back to my own blog, i realized how messy my blog is. this page seems like a sequence of me blabbering from one time to the other. i guess i should learn how to arrange this blog. perhaps, those skills will be useful in the future.
enough about my little reading journey lately, i am actually more psyched to talk about olympics! i guess everyone is very much into sports lately. and as usual the expertise syndrome strikes again! now we all have become sport experts already!
and for the last few days, i have actually turned to japanese teams' fan. i sacrificed my supposed to be reading hours to watch their matches. from football to volleyball and back to football again.
yesterday, i think i already watched one of the best football matches ever. if you have been football fans for the last few years, you must have been used to all the cheats and divings and protests and disgusting tackles in football pitches. the most disgusting? it was when the referees helped certain big teams that we do not need to mention this time.
but yesterday was different. it was the women football final between USA and Japan. it was a great game boasting different aspects of each team. USA boasts their individual skill and physicality. meanwhile, Japanese came with their teamwork and silky smooth passing game ala spaniards' tiki-taka. it was depressing to see whenever the asian has to sprint against the american counterpart. asians were always outmuscled and outpaced. however, that did not switch off the japanese. they fought tooth and nail.
87 minute of 90 that we have in a football game. the japanese was one goal behind the american. a japanese player stole the ball from the american in US' penalty box. the japanese was then one on one against the keeper. she tried to bend the ball to the far post for the equalizer. the ball seemed destined for the bottom corner of the goal only for Hope Solo to parry it out. Hope Solo was the USA keeper. and she was really the solo hope that USA had for a few of brilliant chances that the japanese had yesterday.
5 minutes later, nothing really happened. in fact, USA had some half chances that went wasted. that 87 minute chance was really the last for the japanese. the final whistle was blown and USA side went crazy for the early celebration. the tsubasa's dream was shattered. neither the men nor the women achieved that feat of tsubasa.
yet i am still proud for these japanese men and women teams. they had done us, asians, proud. they showed that physicality is not a limitation. they fought their way through. it seemed like they want to show us that it is possible to live that anime dream! and later on, japanese men team will face korea fighting for the bronze. hope the best team win! and if japan wins, japanese football team will be the most successful football team for this olympics by bringing two medals home!
and why particularly i admire the women football final? it is because you can see that role-model game there. it was a great game. there wasn't a single disgusting tackle. no protest went overboard. one apologized to the other when she had gone too far in her challenge for the ball. simply and ironically, sports(wo)manship at its best. this is olympics. a great event indeed!
2 comments:
OW YEAH :)
and the japanese men lost. :(..
ow yeah for olympics? it ends today. and so does our free youtube broadcast. :(
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