ken6199 wrote:As a Chinese studying in UK when Yao joined the league, I started following the Rockets. Steve, Cat, Maurice Taylor, Sura, Pagget, C Weather, Derrick Anderson, Bonzi...those were the first bunch of guys I knew. Highlights? 22 in a row, Landry's missing teeth, Rafer abusing Sasha, etc. etc.
With the time difference it's tough but I was doing my PhD back then so my time was flexible. Getting up 2am in the morning was doable from time to time. I was catching 30% of our regular season games, the important ones, and all of our playoff games. Remember the days when I woke up a 2am, watched the games, and went onto ESPN forum trash talking with Jazz/Mavs fans, and went to work with my Tmac eyes. Sadly we lost those series.
Life took a big turn when I ended up applying for a job in the Netherlands after 7 years living in the UK, and 3 years later the company opened an office in Houston and intended to relocate me here to find more oil(!). I was trying to act cool to leverage more but inside me it was like 'wtf u kidding me or not, just give me a boat!!! (yeah boat)'. The year I moved here was sadly the year Yao retired, well, can't complain can I?
Everything has changed since then. No more rugby, started following the Texans. Hard to watch Dynamo as I used to watch premier league so the drop off in quality is big. Hard time picking up baseball. Wife is still not here with me, she travels every month due to business reason spending half the time here and half the time abroad - already a huge Rockets fan herself though, except she constantly fall asleep in toyota center being dragged there right after landing in IAH - including WCF game 4 first quarter! Having said all that, life cannot be more perfect with Rockets being part of my everyday life, with Yao or not.
Do you work for Shell???
