It never crossed my mind that I will have the chance to fly to Africa, nor dream to see myself stepping into this continent. But amazingly, this dream was materialized by Sony Ericsson. I learned a lot through my journey while documenting my World Cup stories in Cape Town, South Africa. I go through in my mind very often, with a passion, the hundreds of miles I’ve travelled between Jakarta and Cape Town. I was also very happy to be able to get to know my new friends, Tashia and Defanie...

It has been such a long journey from Cape Town back to Jakarta and I can't believe that I had actually gone through with that!  My gratitude goes out to Sony Ericsson, for giving me the opportunity to watch a grand world-class match in person. I have kept close to my heart the uniqueness of South Africa. To me personally, this has been my first and longest trip ever; I did not regret it at all because I was very happy to be there.While I was in Cape Town, I met several supporters who had watched...

 Friday, June 18, 2010 was the highlight of my trip with the Sony Ericsson entourage. I woke up at 8 o'clock in the morning and felt the cold of the climate there. I didn't think one piece of jacket would suffice. I was fortunate that a mother and her child from Australia had lent me a pair of gloves to warm my hands. All of the journalists, bloggers and flag bearer teams from Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Korea and Australia was gathering at McDonald's – a meeting point for all...

On the evening of June 16, 2010, I left home for the Sokearno-Hatta airport where I met my journalist traveling-buddy Fanie for short or Defanie Arianti. Well, it was quite fortunate that I quickly warmed up to her. We even sat next to each other in the huge Emirates Airline. Since there weren’t too many passengers, we took over the empty four-seater in the middle of the plane just for the two of us. Fanie said that there was a famous and seasoned Indonesian actor, Didi Petet, who was flying with...

  Recently, many fellow bloggers and online friends have been asking us how we initially became novelists. We always say that we prefer to be called bloggers! When they ask why we prefer to be called so, we just smiled and answered, Because of blogging, all of our dreams have come true. Back then, it seemed impossible, even laughed at by friends, when we announced that "We want to write a blog so that one day we could become a harry potter writer". Everyone must have thought we were out of...

(From Jayson Biadog's blog) Every time i play and feel the presence soccer i always remember the movie Goal, Invictus, Nelson Mandela "Leadership:Rainbow World" and Shaolin Soccer. http://soccerfiesta2010.multiply.com/ SOCCER FIESTA 2010 World Cup ticket up for grabs - SPORTING CHANCE By Joaquin Henson | The Philippine Link: http://www.philstar.com/ArticlePrinterFriendly.aspx?articleId=564576 World Cup ticket up for grabs SPORTING CHANCE By Joaquin Henson (The Philippine Star) Updated...

”Victory is a given opportunity, while defeat is a delayed expectation.” Agnes Davonar. It has been one month since the very wonderful Sony Ericsson ExtraTime Football contest became a part of my life. I never expected before, my writing titled "Indonesian children’s dream about football" (Impian anak Indonesia tentang sepakbola) would finally be selected as the winner after competing with other wonderful writings from Asia Pacific countries. Indeed, this event is most exciting that it really...

You’ve voted. You’ve had your say. And…we’re pleased to reveal the grand winner and lucky blogger of Extra Time…It is Agnes Davonar! Agnes, who has shared this football story with us has garnered the majority of votes for this contest. Because you said so, we’ll be sending Agnes to South Africa to watch the FIFATM World Cup ‘live’! (She’ll be watching England vs. Algeria on 18 June.) From now till then, Agnes will be blogging about her win, her experience in preparing for the trip and sharing...

The voting phase of the competition has come to a closed. We are in the process of validating all the votes. We'd like to take the opportunity to remind you that votes may have to be adjusted for fairness. This may include filtering out dubious or invalid votes. Please read here for more info. The final results will be made via an official announcement on 16 April 2010 here. We will also inform the winners of the phones via email. Good luck to all!

We are now very close to identifying the lucky blogger who will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to head to South Africa to watch the FIFATM World Cup ‘live’. Over the next two days, we are anticipating a rise in the number of votes as fans and voters do their part to help their favorite blogger win. As the voting draws to a close, we would also like to take the opportunity to address a couple of matters early: • The number of the votes on the web site is indicative and by no means final...