Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010
NC Vice-Chair,PK gave me 2 grandstand tickets @ $30 to the YOG Football Final (Ladies) at Jalan Besar Stadium. Didi loved football but he said not ladies. I bought meimei along, we took MRT & after alighting at Lavender Stadium, we simply followed groups in YOG uniform. Went in after securty check, the place was packed with mostly students in school uniform from various schools. Managed to get 2 seats at the far end. It was half-time break & we were entertained by performers & freebies thrown to the spectators.
The match continued with Turkey winninng Iran at 1:0. The ladies players in Iranian team wore scarf, long-sleeves tee & knee-high socks. The students on my side cheered very loudly for Turkey. Watching matches live is exhilating & the crowd got very excited whenever the ball came near to the goalpost. The Turkey players were very happy to win 3:0 at closing time.
We went out, got a re-entry stamp on our arms, bought drinks, sweets & ice-cream from a Prime supermarket nearby but were stopped at the entrance from bringing food in, so we ate them b4 entering.
The 2nd match opened with players from Chile & Equaltorial Guinea players singing their National Anthem with pride. These ladies were very fierce & there were many injuries to both sides players. It was like pop, someone fell every minute. A poor girl fell in great pain when a ball was kicked hard at her chest. It was half time (40mins) at 9.20am with Chile wining 1:0 but we had to leave. The journey home is abt an-hour & meimei bedtime is 10pm for her school-day.
Reached home & told gege abt the many injuries at the match earlier, concern abt his Velocity basketball competition soon at Novena. He assured that he will play only for fun, not to win.
