Pippi Péo 's Blog

There were not many struggles in my 2015, so summarizing the journeys I made during the year is a good way to review it. Long An, June 13rd - 14th This trip was not prepared well. I planned to go just the night before. Tan An city, the central of Long An province, was nice with a lot of bridges. It would be interesting walking alongside the river banks. Actually, It rained from late in the afternoon to the midnight. So I had to have my dinner in a supermarket.  The meal was a pizza which costed 23.000 VND - about $1 Then I bought 4 comic volumes and spent the rest of the night reading them. Later the electricity was cut until the next day's afternoon. Singapore, July 17th - 19th This trip was also not prepared so well. Last July, Arsenal FC came to Singapore for some friendly matches. I booked the match tickets, the flight and hostel bed just a month before I departured. I stayed Bunc @ Radius , a hostel was managed by chinese guy...

Last Sunday, my favorite football (soccer in the USA) team Arsenal won 3-0 against Manchester City and got their 13rd FA Community Shield ( Charity Shield before 2002). I was happy and spent my time on reading a lot about the club honours, the matches ... and I found interesting things. First of all, as the title told, please be informed that Leicester City is one of the FA Charity Shield winners and they won the trophy in 1971. How is it possible while they have never won any domestic cup ( the FA Cup ) or domestic league ( First Division / Premier League )? 1971 Charity Shield is the first and the only Shield that Leicester have won in their 130-years history Back to the date May 8th in 1971, Arsenal won their 4th FA Cup and completed their first double in the history. But the Champions did not take part in the traditional pre-season curtain-raiser in the next season 71-72, because previously they had set up theirs friendly matches, 2 with Benfica (home / away) and...