Play for Japan

and, as mentioned in my last entry, here is Seisho's post, with some pictures too, about our charity Futsal event on the Play for Japan website. LOOK HERE.

Nice one :)

(check out me being a REFEREE! with mask)

Campeones!

No, not Brighton and Hove Albion, but The Shack, winners of the Molly Malone's Charity Cup, played last Sunday.

In the end we raised ￥86,000 which was passed on to H.I.S. to be added to the money they raised at their International Festival which they plan to send to UNICEF Japan.

Many many thanks to Wayne and H.I.S. for the use of their gym and also to Yudai and Shohei who helped me get the teams together. Thanks also ofcourse to everyone who came.

I've also been made aware of a cool project in London called Play For Japan. One of Sunday's participants and my team mate, Seisho, has been in touch with them and has even done a write up for their site. Do check it out, you can read about their goals here. Apart from the practical benefits of the work they do and promote, the philosophy behind it is one a lot of us can relate to and is similar to what I hoped we could achieve, on however small a scale, with our little tournament.

As time slips by it's easy to forget little by little about the suffering still going on up in the North East of Japan. Projects like Play for Japan and anything you and I can do, big or small, I think, play a part in helping, encouraging and supporting those people. Our people. Afterall, who's bothered about differences in the face of such a disaster? If it does one thing, it shows us how we're all the same.

Molly Malone's Charity Cup FINAL STANDINGS

1st The Shack
2nd ST Braves 1
3rd H.I.S.
4th ST Braves 2
5th YMCA
6th Tartaruga
7th FC MAPS
8th FORUM

New Demo Track - Next Rhythm

My newest demo for anyone and everyone to have a listen to, over on my Soundcloud page or right below here, see? It's called Next Rhythm and I'd welcome any comments, particularly on the production aspects. どうぞ

新しい曲です聞いて見て下さい。あなたのコメントも聞きたいんですけど。。

Next rhythm DEMO by Windcheater

The Molly Malone's Charity Cup

Tomorrow we'll be having a small Futsal competition to raise a bit of money for those affected by the Earthquake and Tsunami of last month.

Hiroshima International School are kindly letting us use their gym free of charge. Many thanks to Wayne for sorting that out.

H.I.S. has already sent a ￥500,000 contribution to the Japanese Red Cross. Today, at their International Festival, they are collecting for UNICEF. All of the money we raise with our tournament will be included with the sum sent to UNICEF.

There will be 8 (hopefully) teams participating and each player will donate ￥2000 to play. The teams are : H.I.S. , FC TARTARUGA, FC MAPS, ST BRAVES, FORUM, THE SHACK, YMCA and a special mystery as yet un-named team.

Molly Malones have kindly donated a cup for the winners along with discount vouchers for the 1st and 2nd place teams. Many thanks to Mark and all at Mollys for that.

And now, without further ado, here's the LIVE (when I did it) draw for the cup. Let's see if I can upload it....