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My uncle who works at the indoor stadium always offers my family free tickets whenever he can and I had my share of enjoyment like the Mayday concert in April last year. Not that I am being choosy but more often than not, the tickets offered are of performances that I have totally no interest of; like Fei Yu Ching….

So about a month ago, my Mum called me up and said, “Eh! Got tickets for a show at indoor stadium leh. You want anot?”

“What show?” I asked.

“Er.. Yoga LIM or something like that lar. I cannot remember.”

“Huh? Yoga LIM? I don’t know what is that. I don’t want lar. Give Uncle my thanks.”

In my mind, I have this weird image of a yoga performance by some old dude called Lim Ah Kow or something like that. No way am I heading down to see an old man contorting himself into weird positions wearing clingy clothes that leave nothing to the imagination.

But something made me head to Sistic’s website to check it out and boy was I wrong. It was Yoga LIN (林宥嘉) ! The dude that won the 1st season of the extremely popular taiwan singing competition, One Million Stars (超級星光大道)!

I am a much bigger fan of Jam Hsiao & Aska Yang of the same batch but KKNN is quite a fan of Yoga’s boyish looks and his couple of hit songs. So, I immediately called my mother again to confirm my attendance of the concert.

So I am off today to watch the concert later in the evening with all the screaming teenage girls and hope that KKNN won’t join their screaming.

“YOOOOOOGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I LOVEEEEEE YOOOUUUUUU!!!!

“WAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Image from Jason.sg]

The last Singapore Slingers game for the Singapore Challenge Series was supposed to be last Sunday, but due to a no-show from Sathyabama Stars, the management behind the Slingers has organized a replacement match this coming Sunday! And they did more than make up by inviting the most popular pro-team in the Philippines, Barangay Ginebra!!!

Almost every Filipino team that has graced the indoor stadium for the Singapore Challenge Series has ensured near sell-out crowds and great atmostphere from the basketball loving Pinoys and the game this Saturday evening will be no exception!

Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Date: 17th Jan
Time: 7.30pm
Duration: Approx. 2 hrs

So do not miss the last opportunity to catch the Slingers in action this season. Grab the tickets from Sistic while it lasts!

For those who are too busy to watch the awesome Singapore Slingers games in the Singapore Challenge Series at the Indoor Stadium, I’ve got great news for you!

No more drooling at the stills above from Jason and his flickr site! (But you should always still check out his pics after the game. )

Watch the game live tonight at 7.40pm right here!!!

The last time a team won the Singapore Slingers in the series was when they faced off Sydney Spirits, so I expect a thriller for the game tonight against the Darwin All-Stars! Don’t miss it for the world!

Do point your browers to www.mogulus.com/slingers if you guys have any problems viewing the feed above.

7.40pm TONIGHT! (16th December 2008).

Don’t you forget!

Thanks to Nicholas, Hillary and Daphne, I was invited to watch the games of the Singapore Slingers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in the Singapore Challenge Series. Yes, I mentioned ‘Singapore’ 3 times in the last sentence. Sue me.

For the uninitiated, the Slingers is a Singapore professional basketball team which were founded in 2006 and have been playing in the Australian NBL for the past two seasons. In order to continue in their plans of playing in an ASEAN professional league, they have withdrawn from the Australian NBL in July this year and set up this interim competition held in Singapore to prepare them for the direction that they are undertaking.

I heard of the Slingers early last year through newspapers but being a football player, the news of such a local basketball club had me as interested as a lion with a plate of cabbage in front of it. After hearing about the team again through a few bloggers followed by the bugging invitation from Daphne, I decided to bring along KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) and watch the 1st two games of the Slingers against a Philippines team called Air21 which were played on 16th and 21st of September.

What can I say! After watching the two matches, I AM A CONVERT! The action on the courts were fast paced, the players were no amateurs and there were plenty of drama with many heated moments during the games. KKNN is totally attracted to a Slingers player called Eric Sandrin and during last game on the 21st, she was shouting at one point going,

“ERICCC~!!! I LOVE YOUUUU~~~!!!!!”

Eric Sandrin, if you are reading this, my girlfriend has never shouted ‘I Love You’ to me before. I want to strangle you if not for the fact that you are one of my favourite players from the team. Of course there are other factors like you being 2.06 metres tall and having all that strength but I shall not go into that…

Eric is a total joy to watch. Besides looking the part with his Korean-American heritage, he is a monster on the court with his defensive and attacking capabilities and I totally dig his aggresive style which rile up the opponents and that creates chaos on the courts when the opponents fail to keep their cool. There are many more gems in the Slingers team like the sharpshooter Darren Ng who is a doctor by the way and blogs over here. I shall stop talking about the players from here onwards before this turns into a 1000 word essay and turn you readers away.

Support the Slingers and be their 6th Man!

The thing that is apparent and very sad is that the turnout for the opposition team was much more than the people who came to support the Slingers. Do run over to Sistic’s website or Slingers website to find out how you can purchase the affordable tickets to their games. Trust me! You won’t regret it!

Or if you are a blogger, please email me using the contact form found here and I shall try to get you guys some complimentary tickets.

Next game is on the 30th of September (Tuesday) at 7.40pm! I can’t wait!!!!

[All images are from the Slingers Official Website]