The Cricket, again...

I went to the cricket again this last Sunday. Tickets...I love ING. Anyway...on with the game.

Unfortunately, NSW lost. They played a really good innings (batting first) - they scored 275, with Phil Jacques scoring 152 (not out) off 141 balls, as well as getting 22 (6, 2, 4, 2, 2, 6) runs off the last over of the innings. That could be because Brett Lee made him run 2 runs three times, when they were pushing it a little bit. :) But it was good to see. Dad didn't think that the NSWelshman had made an unbeatable score, but I thought that it might be good enough. It wasn't.

Matthew Hayden did some very good damage to the great bowler Glenn McGrath's opening overs. Ouch. Really, really bad. He was going for 9 an over after only 4 overs. However, when he returned later in the innings he got 2 wickets (one was a good bowled), but he still went for 66 runs after 10 overs. Hayden, though, was in very good form, and hit a wonderful 80-odd in a short time. I don't have the stats right here...they are in my room. Perren was also a very good batter for the team, scoring 90-odd, so, thank goodness they finally got him out. However, the damage had been done. Brett Lee, though, was on a hat-trick at one stage, and it looked as though, with 9 or so runs to get, the Queenslanders might be in a bit of trouble, losing about three or four wickets for thirty runs at the most.

Anyway, the Queenslanders got the score with 5 overs left to bowl. So, NSW lost pretty convincingly. However, it was a really good game to have seen, and well worth sticking around until the end, even for the loss being confirmed. NSW is still going well in the points scoring, and hopefully will continue that way throughout the summer. Same in the Pura Cup matches they have played so far.

The Cricket

I am a fan of cricket. I love the game. I am just not very good at it. But that doesn't let me not enjoy watching the cricket on the tellie or live. Like when NSW versed SA in a one-dayer last Sunday at Bankstown Oval. I got a ticket for the game and so I went.

The game began with the NSW-men putting the SA in to bat. Mr McGrath only got one wicket, but that was alright. He went off after the 10 overs, being super-subbed (don't ask me by whom, though...I can't remember). Mr McGill, Mr Lee, Mr Bracken and Mr S Clarke did very well in getting the wickets. However, I was disappointed when Mr Blewitt (of SA) got out when he wasn't. A pity, but good for the NSW-men, as he was scoring very well. In the end, NSW had SA out for 245.

The NSW innings began brilliantly after the batsmen got their eye in. I thought at one stage that NSW would get the score within the 40 overs to gain the bonus point, but, unfortunately, with wickets falling a little quickly in the middle of the 50 overs, NSW had to bat a little more conservatively, and only made the score with a ball to spare. Mr Bracken, in the third last over, helped the score balance with the number of balls to be faced by hitting a wonderful six. However, with a wicket falling in the second last over, it stopped the runs coming so freely. 'Dizzy' Gillespie did well in his bowling, getting a wicket as well as taking two catches for SA. However, that couldn't stop out team winning.

Well done to NSW. I hope that this weekend they can do as well against the Tassie Tigers at the SCG. And I hope that this weekend when I go to watch that I don't get suburnt like I did at BO. That was the only disagreeable thing about the day.

Finally another post...

Yes, I have finally got my act together to post another comment.

I went to two 21st birthday parties. I enjoyed myself immensely at both. One was really good because I got to catch up with some friends I hadn't seen in quite some time. The other was cold, except around the HUGE bonfire. That was good.

Mum and I went on the trip around North Eastern NSW and South Eastern Qld. We went to the 21st that was really cold while on this trip. It was fairly cool in Qld while we were there (expecting it to be a little warmer...but there you go...). However, Mum and I had fun on our trip. We were thinking of going out to Dubbo and Parkes to visit 'The Dish', but decided to give up on that idea, due to having had enough away from home after ten days of living out of a suitcase.

Apart from that, life hasn't been really exciting around here. Dad, Mum and I went to a 50th last weekend to celebrate the birthday of my Uncle's wife. That was good - got to catch up with cousins, and wish on in particular a good wedding for this weekend coming.

Anyway...enough for now. Will post pictures of the trip up here some time, after I have learned how to do it. :) Still not good at it.

21st Birthday Parties

This last weekend I attended the 21st birthday of one of my good friends, Kirstyn. She actually turned 21 about two weeks ago, but because of everyone finishing off Uni for the semester, and things like that, she didn't have it until now.

Her family are really nice. They organised a home DVD of pictures of her growing up (that ran for about 75 minutes) set to music, I thought was a really good idea. Mum has done portfolios of photos for the three of us, but a DVD, that is really inspirational. They collected photos from friends and relatives and set them to a song or two for each year of her life. It was done in a slideshow arrangement, and really well thought out.

I had to travel to up to Lake Macquarie for the birthday, which is about two hours away from where I live in Sydney. It was a good trip, though, because I didn't have any rain. However, there was a lot of wind - those isobars were really close together. :) The Mooney Mooney bridge, though, wasn't too bad, it was other areas where the wind could get in and be annoying which was more difficult. Also, the other drivers on the road! Grrr...some of them can be annoying. Maybe they have French ancestors (j/k).

Anyway, all in all, I had a good weekend, staying overnight at some relations living up in the area (only five minutes from the party house, too), and having an enjoyable time catching up with some friends that I haven't seen for a couple of years, since they finished uni and moved away. I hope that I have as much fun at my next 21st birthday party that I've been invited to. :)

Home again, home again, jiggidee jog...

No, I don't care if I have spelt that word, wrong, either. :)

I am home again in Sydney. Hopefully, all is well on the Uni front, and I will definantly be graduating in October. Will find out on the 18/19th of this month for sure.

Prac finished well, I received several Highly Commended, and one Very Satisfactory from my teacher, making my report look very good. But the kids seemed very easy. I did let them go a little bit the last day of term, but that was only Year 9, and they had nothing better to do. Not really, but I had already set up to change rooms, and so...Year 8, though, were on a sugar high from the previous class, so I had a fun time trying to get them to sit down and listen and learn about World Poverty (no, not World Peace). Which, of course, they aren't totally interested in. But it was their last Geography double for the year, so they were overjoyed...which I can understand. I think, though, that they should make Geography and History run for the whole year, not for one semester each year for the first two of High School. Oh well. I guess it works best that way.

I got back to Sydney last Sunday. Life is alright. I haven't done much since I got back. I got in touch with the person that finds me casual work during the holidays, and hopefully I'll be able to get some work through them until I am approved by the Dept.

I have a twenty-first birthday to go to tomorrow. That is up on the central coast, around L. Mac. area. Staying with relos overnight, so I don't have to travel home, or impose upon the birthday girl's family tomorrow night after the big do. Also, it means that I get an early night and get away early from there the following day. I have another twenty-first to go to in Dorrigo on the 13 of next month. I get all these invitations from people at Uni, and I don't know how I will sometimes get around to getting to them. Mum and I, though, are planning a trip away from Sydney, which will take in Dorrigo at that time, so that's alright. :)

Anyway, got to go. Seeya' round!