Archive for March 28th, 2009

Post – Hong Kong Sevens Match + Earth Hour

Posted by Wilson in rugby, Samoa on March 28, 2009

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So what was different this year about Earth Hour and the Hong Kong Sevens compared to say, last year? Hmm, not much.
Lets do a checklist shall we?
(1) Earth Hour and Fiji playing in the hong kong sevens to be around the same day, same time? …check.
(2) Some enterprising soul at the FEA powerplant deciding to honour Earth Hour and forceline a couple of neighbourhoods into it as well by shutting off their power for about 40 minutes? …check.
(3) My immediate neighbourhood not giving two hoots about Earth Hour and all its hype? …check.
(4) My immediate self not giving three hoots about Earth Hour, instead resigning myself to the more urgent situation that was our country versus Samoa? …sorry Greenpeace…but Fiji pride before the conservation of the world. Slightly guilty check.
(5) The more urgent situation of our country versus Samoa resulting in us coming to a 12-all draw? Not a check on this one, though that doesn’t make the pain any more bearable ><
(6) The increased stress and worry now that Fiji is finally into the Quarter Finals? Check.
Coming up next tomorrow for the Cup Quater Finals, Fiji vs England. To be honest I have no idea how this game will go…

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Stranded fiji citizens finally rescued from island!

Posted by Wilson in funny on March 28, 2009

(/afk)
As of late I’ve been finding it harder and harder to get back onto the blogging bandwagon due to lack of err mostly the need to write. Call it writers block, or in my case, writers slack/block. As a blogger, the way I blog is that unless I’ve got an actual proper article to post, I won’t post anything. Awesome cake, in his usual persistent mode, wisely said that when that happens, it’s usually good to keep a verbal deluge (or as he put it, a verbal ‘diarrhoea’) going, so you don’t lose out on (a) your readers and (b) your own writing mood/skills.
Fair enough.

(/afk mode off)

The Onion, home to all that is fake and funny, has this ‘in other news’ segment about the grand and epic rescue of the 800,000 or so people who have been ‘stranded’ on the island(islands?) of Fiji for…quite awhile now (thanks for the link Thrashor!).
Favourite part: “…many are quite reluctant to leave their homes and towns behind, but we will get them back to civilisation…”
Jonathan Segal observed that now that Fiji is in The Onion, we are now (dare I say, officially) mainstream*. I concur.
*Fiji Water not counted.

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