Night outing with the princess. Guess where we're headed to???
Clue #1: A Christmas tree on a crane in a construction site
Ok. That was a horrible clue but we thought that its cute that there was a Christmas tree on the crane. Haha. Nothing better to deepen the Christmas atmosphere than a well lit tree I guess.
Clue #2: Beginning to look familiar to some of you? The princess tries to mimic the statue. Cute!
Ultimate clue: Yup we're headed to a live basketball match in the indoor stadium!
We're catching the Phillips Championship National Basketball League. Been going to the princess house to watch it on cable every now and then but now I get to see it live! Look closely and you'll see that the cost of the pair of tickets is $0.00. Wahaha! Managed to
kio this free pair of tickets courtesy of good ol Adelene. She's a cheer leader there and she got a pair of free tickets at every match she performs in. So I'm the lucky one whom she chooses to pass the tickets to. Heh.
Best of all I get to catch the better team in play. And I don't mean the so called 'local' team Singapore Slingers. I'm all for the South Dragons anyway. I just love a good shooting team. There's nothing to be proud of about the
Singapore Slingers as well. Firstly the team consist of only 2 Singaporeans of which only one is a local born Singaporean. Secondly both of them are bench warmers. Well they are basically there so that the team can be called 'Singapore' Slingers anyway. So I'm left staring at a team of foreign slingers playing instead.
Go South Dragons! Australian teams rock.
As you can see the stadium is quite bare. In fact most of the spectators, I would say a good 80% of them, are not local. Beer holding expatriates were shouting themselves hoarse in support of the Slingers. Haha. Guess they're more patriotic than I am. Oops.
Our very friendly Slingers mascot. Real cuddly.
We're there way before the game started and the stadium really looks deserted. It's a pity that not many Singaporeans enjoy playing or watching basketball compared to other sports.
The cheer leaders preparing to welcome the Slingers. Guess who is Adelene?
Here comes the Slingers arriving in style. I wanted to 'Boo' them loudly but I was surrounded by Slinger fans. So guess I had to keep my mouth shut.
Final warm up before the tip off.
And we're off! My favourite player is Shane Heal of the Dragons. He is the key player, shooting guard and also the COACH of the team. How cool is that? His blazing 3 pointers left the Slingers smelling smoke early in the game.
As mentioned, the South Dragons moved to an early lead.
That's Mike Helms on the line. The supposedly best player on the Slingers who was having a night off. Poor shooting, good defence by the Dragons and lack of coordination ensured that he has little chances to score.
The poor girls have to dance at every time out and every break. That's more than 10 times per match. But do not pity them. Adelene earns a cool $200 per night. That works out to $100 per hour. Sheesh.
This is the best picture I managed to capture of Adelene. She's the dancer facing the camera.
*She really looks like 石欣卉 in this hair do and smile. OMG. *
Their dance routine were quite cool. Lots of flips, cartwheels and splits throughout the show. The girls coordinated quite well. But why are they supporting the lousier team??? The girls then started throwing out free Harvey Norman shirts at the screaming crowd. And Adelene happily threw 2 of them right at me. Haha. Erm free toilet rags anyone? Muwahaha!
The mascot mingles with the crowd as the girls and players take a break at half time.
Time to start the second half! The crowd's pretty thin as its raining heavily. Guess the season ticket holders can't be bothered to make their way here in the rain just to see the Slingers get trashed.
That's the player that the princess fell in love with. Super cute dunno wadshisname number 14, point gurad of the Slingers taking a free throw.
As I said it was a one sided game. The Slingers never posed a challenge even though they were in their home ground and with clearly biased referees in their favour. But they were really outclassed by the better shooting team. SOUTH DRAGONS RULE!
Hmmm.... Good thing the picture didn't turn out well. Can't see my messy unstyled hair.
The best picture of cute boy basketballer dunno wadshisname no. 14. Kena forced to take his picture by the princess.
I really enjoyed my first ever live basketball match. Surprisingly the standard was better than seen on tv. Yes there were alley-oops and slam dunks as well. Not to mention some really nasty block shots and monster rebounds. Its really illegal for anyone to jump that high. Sigh why can't I even touch the rim...
We got a free lift back to Kallang mrt too! Haha. Thanks Adelene! Was really nice of her to go out of her way to drive us to the mrt. Saved ourselves a long walk in the drizzle. She also handed me another pair of tickets to another match the next day! Whee! How cool is that?
Yes the Slingers won the next day. Erm because of more fans I guess?
I so love watching a live basketball match. Only bad part of the game is that you do not get to see beautiful plays twice. No such thing as replays. Blink and you'll miss it. I must really travel to America and watch one live NBA game in my lifetime. Adelene was sharing about her experience in Newcastle Australia. Yes that lucky girl travels with the Slingers on their away games. She was saying that the sell out crowd there would really cheer the team they support and boo the opposing team loudly. Singapore(ans) is/are so dead boring. Arrgh!
2 great nights thanks to a great friend. Hehe. These few days are really meant for maximum enjoyment. Skool's starting really soon! And I'm going to meet up with army guyzos tonight at Seoul Garden. What happens when there's 10 growing up guys queuing up outside Seoul Garden?
Ans: Get those bloody refills ready!!!!
Pictures coming if I remember to bring the olympus!
