Saturday, as usual, I went to snyo, rehearsal was alright, but the guest conductor is a little hard to follow. Then bj asked me to go to watch basketball match at Toa Payoh Sports Hall at night. I agreed since I had nothing to do.
By the time I reached home it was already 6.30, I quickly chionged my dinner and left home at 6.50. Fast dinner hahax. Lucky Jeff bought the tickets already (5 bucks only!), and bj, zj and I managed to make it on time!
It is a aba (america basketball association) match between Beijing Ao Shen and American Texas Tycoons in Singapore, which is quite rare haha. The commentator is so funny haha, especially the America accent he is trying to make. He says ‘people please retreat to your seats’, and we were like wth? Haha anyway back to the match, both teams are cool, and the players are very tall. Of course, most of the attention is on Sun Yue, the controversial player who is young and talented, and tall haha. His shots are awesome and the gai maos rock la haha. Number 14 is zai also; breaking through the defenders is like piece of cake to him.
After a nice shot, the commentator will go ‘cool, yeaaa!’, 'did you see that?', or 'oh that number 23 magician!' and we will start laughing haha. Oh ya I like the music between quarters and time-outs, really bring up the atmosphere.
Back to the match, it was very intense and exciting. Ao Shen was leading by 17 points at one moment but was chased until 107:105. It is at this crucial moment that Ao Shen players lost 4 free throws and Texas scored 2 free throws, so the match went into overtime. Ao Shen totally lost their spirit and gave up, losing 110:117. The worst thing is that Ao Shen players were walking and not defending for the last ball, so no.45 from Texas dunked the last ball and Ao Shen just totally lost it. That is the only dunk in the game, (the other coolio attempts to dunk all failed haha) haha finally saw one dunk lolx.
But come on even if you know that you are going to lose at least try your best to defend and lose with honour! As the leader of the team, Sun Yue definitely did not inspire and encourage his team. Texas, on the other hand, is very united and played as a team, as one. If you lose, at least leave knowing that you have tried your best right? Team spirit is very important!
So we left the place rather disappointed. I am not on any side since I just tagged along to watch the match. But seeing the so-called 'stronger' side lose is just __ (haha fill in the blank) Anyway, on our way home, I do not know why but we started learning Cantonese from our new Hong Kong friend Huan Ran. Haha quite funny the passengers are staring at us and we just went on talking nonsense...
I watched a tense but exciting match today! Ok off to sleep going to play basketball tomorrow at 7am haha.
