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| Wallpaper at The Last Man Standing Brewery at 67 Castlemaine Street, Brisbane |
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| Australia's story ends in heartbreak against Egypt |
4 is considered a number of bad luck in Chinese culture, and even though I'm not Chinese, getting up a 4 o'clock in the morning to watch Australia kick off in their sudden death match against Egypt on the 4th of July, didn't seem like a good omen to me because, according to Wikipedia "the number 4 (ε, pinyin: sΓ¬; Cantonese Yale: sei) is sometimes considered an unlucky number particularly in Cantonese because the way it is pronounced in the Cantonese dialect is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (ζ» pinyin: sΗ; Cantonese Yale: sΓ©i).
And in the end, it wasn't a good omen for my country in the end, going out of the World Cup in a penalty shootout 4 goals to 2.
My Aussie Rules team the Brisbane Lions won on Thursday night, keeping them in a good position on the ladder for the finals, so the only game left I had to worry about was my team the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, who were playing a team from my hometown that I love to hate, the Brisbane Broncos (who did a Steven Bradbury and won the competition last season).
He asked me where I wanted to sit in the stadium and I told him to buy them where we usually sit over the years, with the Sharkie fans in the fan block.
He told me that those tickets were $135 each and I almost spat a mouthful of coffee out of my mouth in disbelief ... and I said, "what's the best seats near them, but cheaper" and he said that there was so just above them for $40 each, so I told him to buy those tickets.
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| The view from my seat on the night |
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| Blue Mustang |
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| Round 18 - Saturday 4th July |
