Finally back in Singapore. I've got a great time in Vietnam where it's football day in and day out! To make it easier for everybody to understand what I did and how I've been in Hanoi for the past 7days, I put them all down in point-form!
A) I watched 2 ASIAN CUP 2007 games in Hanoi, Japan beat UAE 3-1 and Vietnam lost 1-4 to Japan. Both games were played at a wonderful MY-DINH STADIUM.
B) While watching Japan vs UAE, Fay, Ben and I joined the "NIPPON ULTRAS", sang and cheered for Japan throughout the game under the leading of the drum-beat! There were approximately 400 odds Japanese supporters, majority travelling all the way from Japan.
C) For the game between Vietnam vs Japan, 3 of us were in RED, cheering for the ASEAN team! Stadium was packed full of "communist" VIETNAMESE!! Giant flag of Vietnam was passed round the stadium on top of our heads! Although Vietnam lost the game, the team managed to make it through to the Quarter-final with UAE doing them a favour by beating the Qatarians. After the game, thousands and thousands of Vietnamese fans filled the streets with bikes and Vietnam flags! They celebrated past midnight!! Fireworks were fired too!! You just couldn't imagine how wonderful the atmosphere was unless you were there.
D) It's always good if you do have some contacts in this football circle. Ben's contact put us to fame! Photo of Fay's, Ben's, myself and some Vietnamese fans was published in the Vietnamese Newspaper on the 17th July!! One of the Asian Cup's official photographer knows Ben and we're treated with EXTRA SERVICE! In fact, that photographer was the one who helped us purchased the games tickets and the accomodation arrangement!
E) There were Press from different countries gathered at Hanoi for the coverage of the Asian Cup games. A couple of photographers and writers from Japan's Football Nippon Magazine, stayed in the same hotel as us and naturally we got to know them as well. With my ability to speak Japanese, I did English-Japanese translation for Ryo Ito (Football Nippon) while he interviewed an Australian football fan at the hotel. After the interview, Ryo took a photo of me and Mr. Phil (Australia) and who knows, my face might appear at the next Football Nippon issue, haha! *Anyway, Ryo and me become friends and we have been emailing each others, exchanging news on football and etc*
F) Other then football, the favourite past-time of Fay, Ben and me, was sitting by the side of the streets, admiring at the Vietnamese pretty gals riding past us on their scooters!! Fay was always the one who couldn't concentrate on the meal. He's always starring at the ladies on the streets while munching his food in the mouth! Occasionally his mouth was always kind of "half-opened" if he's really focus on the bikers' fair ladies! Ben and me couldn't stand him though!
G) Got to know a handful of very friendly Vietnamese friends in Hanoi during our stay. We were invited to a Vietnamese family house for a feast. Special thanks to Hiep and his family! The family get-together dinner was excellent! Although my feets were pain (after hours sitting on the floor), I enjoyed every single moment especially wittnessing Ben and Fay sabotaging each other to sing in front of everybody!
H) Thanks to Namhoi Hotel which always kept me waiting for their staffs to finish playing their online game BEFORE I can get to use the com!
I) Thanks to the our favourite Taxi driver of all time, "Giggle-Non-Stop" fellow! He's the BEST FRIEND of Fay and he's the one who did all the driving for us, Hotel to Stadium, Stadium to Hotel, Hotel to Airport!! He's the best!!
A) I watched 2 ASIAN CUP 2007 games in Hanoi, Japan beat UAE 3-1 and Vietnam lost 1-4 to Japan. Both games were played at a wonderful MY-DINH STADIUM.
B) While watching Japan vs UAE, Fay, Ben and I joined the "NIPPON ULTRAS", sang and cheered for Japan throughout the game under the leading of the drum-beat! There were approximately 400 odds Japanese supporters, majority travelling all the way from Japan.
C) For the game between Vietnam vs Japan, 3 of us were in RED, cheering for the ASEAN team! Stadium was packed full of "communist" VIETNAMESE!! Giant flag of Vietnam was passed round the stadium on top of our heads! Although Vietnam lost the game, the team managed to make it through to the Quarter-final with UAE doing them a favour by beating the Qatarians. After the game, thousands and thousands of Vietnamese fans filled the streets with bikes and Vietnam flags! They celebrated past midnight!! Fireworks were fired too!! You just couldn't imagine how wonderful the atmosphere was unless you were there.
D) It's always good if you do have some contacts in this football circle. Ben's contact put us to fame! Photo of Fay's, Ben's, myself and some Vietnamese fans was published in the Vietnamese Newspaper on the 17th July!! One of the Asian Cup's official photographer knows Ben and we're treated with EXTRA SERVICE! In fact, that photographer was the one who helped us purchased the games tickets and the accomodation arrangement!
E) There were Press from different countries gathered at Hanoi for the coverage of the Asian Cup games. A couple of photographers and writers from Japan's Football Nippon Magazine, stayed in the same hotel as us and naturally we got to know them as well. With my ability to speak Japanese, I did English-Japanese translation for Ryo Ito (Football Nippon) while he interviewed an Australian football fan at the hotel. After the interview, Ryo took a photo of me and Mr. Phil (Australia) and who knows, my face might appear at the next Football Nippon issue, haha! *Anyway, Ryo and me become friends and we have been emailing each others, exchanging news on football and etc*
F) Other then football, the favourite past-time of Fay, Ben and me, was sitting by the side of the streets, admiring at the Vietnamese pretty gals riding past us on their scooters!! Fay was always the one who couldn't concentrate on the meal. He's always starring at the ladies on the streets while munching his food in the mouth! Occasionally his mouth was always kind of "half-opened" if he's really focus on the bikers' fair ladies! Ben and me couldn't stand him though!
G) Got to know a handful of very friendly Vietnamese friends in Hanoi during our stay. We were invited to a Vietnamese family house for a feast. Special thanks to Hiep and his family! The family get-together dinner was excellent! Although my feets were pain (after hours sitting on the floor), I enjoyed every single moment especially wittnessing Ben and Fay sabotaging each other to sing in front of everybody!
H) Thanks to Namhoi Hotel which always kept me waiting for their staffs to finish playing their online game BEFORE I can get to use the com!
I) Thanks to the our favourite Taxi driver of all time, "Giggle-Non-Stop" fellow! He's the BEST FRIEND of Fay and he's the one who did all the driving for us, Hotel to Stadium, Stadium to Hotel, Hotel to Airport!! He's the best!!
3 comments:
OMG wait till Siva sees him w LONG HAIR! =x
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haha.. i think he like it very much! cos he printed out an A4 side but dunno he put where!
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