OK ... sorry for the delay in/time between posts!

I know, I know ... I head back to Oz, and all of a sudden I forget everybody (again)!? Not true ... I promise!

Yes, I am back in Sydney, and loving it! Clean air, clean food ... all the good stuff, and my little sis on her way. (I'm waiting at home for her ... late to work today, what a shame!) not that I didn't enjoy HK, I think it's just nice to be at home again for a change ... HK was good for work, etc, but it was always living in a one room apartment, and never really feeling settled. Home is nice!

Work is proving challenging back in Oz again ... I spent the first afternoon at work listening to all of the conversations going on around me (which I'd gotten usd to not understanding because they were all in Canto) and realising that, although they were in English again, a lot had happened while I was gone and so I have some catching up to do!! Need to relearn some stuff, and catch up with some of the things that have moved on in the past 4 months. All good challenges though, and I'm looking forward to the next 6 months.

Kristi and I managed to catch the inaugural A-League Grand Final last Sunday afternoon, at a pub in Glebe with Chris and his lovely lady ... good to see Sydney get up and win, although having watched a lot of football while I was in Asia, it's pretty easy to see that the game has got some growing up to do in Australia. Having said that, the stars seem to be aligned (PLEASE!!!??) so that the game can finally take off here. World Cup qualification in the same year as the A-League kicks off (putting to rest a lot of the local ethnic issues in the game) and the same year as Australia moves out of Oceania and into the Asian Football Federation ... as I said, the game has some growing up to do here, but I think the groundwork is layed for it to do that now. Playing in Asia will mean more games and more exposure for the local players, giving them a chance to play against better opposition and therefore get better themselves. It will also (hopefully) see Australia play more games as a unit. All good things!

Am thinking about heading down to Melbourne for the Australia v Greece game in May (just before the World Cup kicks-off) ... will just depend on bank accounts, etc!

Anyhow, must go ... should check my work email and gets a few things done before Laura gets here and I have to actually head in to the office.

Chat again soon!!

D.