IIHF World Championship | Day 12 | May 10th, 2011

A night without hockey now seems very boring. With the Championship coming to a close soon, I better get used to it. Not to mention I have nothing much to write about for Day 12. I even tried to involve some friends, trying to figure out what one does on days like these, but we did not get much further than:

• working
• managing a boys football (aka soccer in some regions of this world) team
• testing a cryo-chamber (must find out more about this)
• eat a lot, and
• like me, watching the Eurovision Song Contest lol

The latter is probably only funny if you are in fact European. For non-Europeans, it is a very old European Song Contest, filled with cheesy songs from many European countries. Lets just call it part of European folklore. People either love it or love to hate it. But I digress, had no clue what to write about today so thought I would go with a list of things I learnt the past few days.

Polar Bears is the nickname for the Norwegian team. And that also explains why one my FB mates has many a photo of himself in a bear suit :D

Artyukhin is a mean mother ... watch your language! ... hockey player. But with some polishing would not mind having him on the Flyers ;)

Team USA is underperforming. Why? If nothing else, you would think they would do it for honour

Finnish hockey commentators (or maybe it was just one, hard to tell) are very crazy. The way they get into things gives me a heart attack, probably even more so because I have no idea what the hell they are talking about

The IIHF site is a dark, evil dungeon that makes it almost impossible to find useful data, such as an overview of the standings. Sure it is there and eventually I found it with some help, but it is nuts how they hide one of the most important aspects of the tournament ;)

Finland sent in the worst ever entry to the Eurovision. The dude cannot sing at all. Beware of a dude call Paradise Oskar singing Da Da Dam. What? Wait! Paradise Oskar? No bloody wonder. Wonder how well he will do, the show is that crazy that even the most awful songs can come out on top. But I digress again, back to hockey ... at least the Finnish hockey squad is alright ;)

Thankfully we will have hockey tomorrow! Yay!

*goes back to watching some awful singing, dreaming of hockey*