First 2 Weeks of Jan 2008

I have already attended 2 live Arsenal matches at Emirates Stadium - and i'm going to probably another 2 matches in February: Arsenal vs Blackburn (11 Feb) and hopefully Arsenal vs AC Milan (24 Feb). The Arsenal vs AC Milan one is a CL match, so prayerfully I can get a ticket! Oh yea, the Blackburn's match, i'll be seating at the 2nd row behind the goal! Hopefully able to take some good photos of the players as wel as catch some balls! :D

I've already blogged about the West Ham match - so i won't bored you all with that! I went to a even better match on 12 Jan - Arsenal vs Birmingham. The result was 1-1 :P I totally enjoyed the experience this time - even though we drew with a weak team - but the atmosphere in the stadium was really 'great', especially in the 2nd half after Birmingham scored the equaliser. As the gunners were pushing for a winner, the Blues defense hold on. The fans were getting so nervous and frustrated that every actions that Blue players and the referee that caused the game to stop - they jeered at them. It was done in 'unison'! I couldn't help but getting nervous as well, particularly during the last 10 minutes! It was sooo exciting! In the end, although the result was disappointing with a draw, i truly enjoyed the experience!

Emirates Stadium

A sell-out match at Emirates Stadium Players shaking hands before the official kick-off

I was so busy yesterday (16 Jan), sorting out the new church van (2nd hand)! A bigger van - with altogether 6 seats! Finally, after few months of lobbying and requesting - Pom, Herman, Kar Mun, Jessie and Esther do not need to sit behind the small church van as we come back to London from Hatfield. We normally put cushion and up to 5 people will squeeze behind for the 1 hour journey every Friday. Those days are finally over! :D

My journey started at 8.30am. I went to sort out parking permit at Finsbury Park - rush to IC to meet Prof. Duncan - went to Neasden to collect the van, which had to be delayed for few hours because the paint on the body has not dried - went back to Caledonian to cancel the old church van parking permit and renew its road tax - parked the old church van to the sister's ministry house - rushed back to Neasden again to collect the van - fetched Pom and Esther to Hatfield - met Chen Xuan and gang for steamboat dinner - had Hatfield core team meeting - sent Esther and Amanda home ..... reached home around 1am! Very tiring but very fruitful day. At least i do not need another 1/2 day gone jst to sort out these things!

And now, i present to you the new church van - Ford Transit crewvan! It's very very high and huge, compare to the tiny Citroen Berlingo that I've been driving for 3 years! I'm really really glad! :D Let's really pray that God will protect this van - as it was parked along the road. Also pray that this van will be a huge blessing to the church, to Hope IF Hatfield - bringing people to Christ! I am thinking, we should promote our church by putting some designs on the body. At least the church website and contact details, since i'll be travelling quite a fair bit! :D