Merry X'mas and a Happy New Year to all

Just before the year ends, I would like to enter my final 115th blog entry for the year compared to the 9 post I made from 2004 to 2007, I guess I made quite a progress.

This has been a tumultuous year for me, losing some good friends and going through tough experiences which only strengthened my belief that "What doesn't kill you only makes your stronger". It also marks good things such as the start of many new found friendships I made from attending a Singapore Slingers game and shooting a free throw amidst a drunkard state to win some $ to treat a bunch of bloggers.

Blogging has open many avenues of expression and I am just glad my name is briefly mentioned by my fav blogger Mr.Brown whom I have faithfully followed since my army days back in the 90s when his SNEs were downloaded on my PDA.

It was a year which I managed to travel quite a bit, start a new venture and recharged my soul and even gotten myself a great new job.

So I hope despite all the impending financial meltdowns and possible loss of the many things in such turmoil times - we could all sustain kinship and friendship. These are things which should mean something to all of us and not material wealth.

May all be blessed and stay tough in the darkest of times and may 2009 prove to be another refining fire which we would all walk away from - stronger we will emerge. I will be on leave from X'mas to New Year, so feel free to contact me for some hoops or food.

Slingers vs Darwin All Stars

This season's Slingers are doing very well. Unlike the other seasons, the current squad of Singapore Slingers are doing very well defensively, they are also consistent with their offense. They have stamina and results in a better second half team. Almost all their games at home so far for 2008 have seen them erupting offensively which resulted in convincing wins.

Likewise vs the Darwin Resort All Stars in a Christmas special, a close 1st half of 37-35, ended up with a 91-65 win with Slingers going for 22 unanswered points in the 4th quarter. The All Stars were lacklustre in the 4th quarter scoring only 9 points. I believe is the lowest quarter seen so far with Slingers scoring 31 points, mostly from Darren #8 Doc getting hot from beyond the arc. Darren scored 33 points shooting 50% from 3 point territory, draining 5 over the opponents. Darren has video clips covering the match and his signature, dribble, fake, pull up shot.


Al Vergara was doing his damage with 5 steals that night.


And here's a no look "Jason Kidd" back pass to Darren after a cut to the hoop resulted in 2 All Stars closing on him.


And Hillary who couldn't get my kiss cam debut tried to get one on her cam instead!

More pictures from me here; and Andrew's amazing sports photography here. Thanks to Nic for the courtside passes, but couldn't join us for the big win as he was overseas again.

Slingers then gave the All Stars another chance as they flew to Darwin for a return leg match. Wrapping the match by the 1st quarter, Slingers were up 17 points at half time. The match ended 106 - 77 with Eric in turn hitting the big 30 while Darren took 18. More coverage here by Darren and Slingers website.

Gaming Consoles

Pictures shamelessly stolen from here

During my childhood, my dad tried to get me exposed to all sorts of indulgence, from music to even gaming. Back in the 80s, my dad bought me a set to get me hooked onto gaming. The Atari 2600 was first released in 1977, but probably only reached the shores of Singapore in the early 80s. It is the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges, and I could have so many game choices to change. It was well built and survived until the Computer PC AT/XT series came about and I was playing 5 1/4 floppy disc games which were under the 360kB the Double Density (DD) disk can hold.

Next came in the early 90s, where the graphics on the PC paled comparing to dedicated gaming consoles. And I was addicted to the Nintendo Famicom System (The Nintendo Family Computer aka Famicom was first released in 1983) which I purchased from a friend as I dabble back into game consoles again. It was tough convincing my parents as the focus for me now was studies. Thus pocket money saved bought me this wonderful console.

But then PC made its debut of improving medium from FDs to CDs and now DVDs, and the slew of graphics card, sound cards made it more worthwhile and enjoyable to be able to play using the computer. You can have controllers, keyboards, wheels to play FPS, racing, strategy games. This brought me to the present time where gamers can choose between consoles or computers as game developers release titles across all platforms.
What makes it interesting is, why should the game consoles survive?

Well I have previously mentioned that game consoles these days are value for money as the makers actually lose $ for every set they produce. I made my decision based on many other factors which I will explain now.

I currently have a PS3, 2 PSPs, a DS Lite and a Wii, besides the PS3 for local warranty, the rest of the devices are bought from Japan with no supporting warranty but have not much issues so far - it's been more than a year. These Japanese gaming toys are well built and provide a lot of entertainment for myself and my family and lately Rainbow Six on the PS3 has given myself and my girlfriend a lot of collaboration time. The only mishap so far was my 1st generation PSP (Black 2004) which has the button dropped off after much aggression playing the NBA Live 2008. 4 years and just a button drop off, that shouldn't be too much to ask right? Even my battery is made in Japan and is still the same one that came with the portable.

My first semiconductor engineering job was with a Japanese company which instilled quality in my workscope. They are very stringent with reliability, quality - it is shown in their attitude towards work, design etc. I used to manufacture Non-volatile memory (NVMs) otherwise widely know as Flash, the memory cards you used in your cameras and DS Lite, PSPs etc. The NVMs I built was tested with many parameters, going through many stages which explained why they used to cost so much, but I tell you - they last. I managed to perform reliability tests on my devices which showed a memory retention of about 200 years! But that was probably on your 32mb card which is probably obsolete right now.

With the Koreans, Taiwanese and Chinese coming into the memory business and slashing costs such as test, reliability monitoring etc. It is why memory is now a commodity business which is now so cheap, it can be considered as a Harddisk option. The price you pay now, is the price you pay for less reliable things. You pay peanut, you get monkeys. Everything comes at a price.

But saying that, who now still uses a 256mb memory stick? Within a year, everyone will be clamouring over a 16gb SDHC card or double that next year. There should be no issue with losing your pictures, as the memory card would be sitting around collecting dust.

That saying, I hope Jase is happy with his PS3 as the Microsoft Xbox 360 is making headline news on its quality and reliability. Apparently, this disc scratching issue was known before Xbox 360 was launch in 2005 and could have been avoided with a USD$0.50 solution. I remembered Microsoft rushing to release the console while Sony was having delays and prefer to lose market share rather than release a bad console.

Lately from the impending economic depression, I have observed that greed over integrity is the root cause of what is happening to the world. But let's not get depressed and enjoy life in some way or another.

Do check out this game console website covers the entire history of game consoles.

Slingers vs Satria Muda Britama

The game vs Satria Muda Britama on 7 Dec at the Singapore Indoor Stadium was disappointing. I expected a lot more from Satria given they are the #1 team in Indonesia and judging from the videos found on youtube about them, I thought there would be some challenges.

Well anyway Slingers started 10-0 run with Eric scoring mostly and Slingers went on to win convincingly 75-46 with the locals doing very well especially Pathman #15 who was a starter in this game and ended up again with 6 points consistent with the previous game.


Spotted a fan of Pathman #15 who is an ang moh and seriously is more fanatic about Singapore Slingers than Singaporeans. So far many jerseys have been sold out, so do grab it as I heard from this Pathman fan, the way Pathman is going, the jersey might be worth something in 20 years time!


More of my pictures found here. Did not take much as Andrew returned for round 2 with try out of photos which produced amazing shots and Daniel also tag along to try his new Canon 5D Mk II as he heard from Andrew how exciting live basketball is.

Anyway Jase and Doc Ng has more coverage and full stats here.



I leave you with Mr. Chia's video highlight of the night with Darren throwing Eric an alley oop!



This is Andrew's amazing digitally sequenced shot of the alley oop.

Too much

I believe people should always have just enough - too much of anything is bad.
Too much KFC ice lemon tea gives me tummy aches. Too much chocolate gives me pimples. Just as if a person has too much money, he might indulge in more sins and in turn get into much more trouble like getting drunk.

Too much money drove NKF and many other Singapore charities to improper handling of finances, which eventually led to first class air travels, golden toilet bowls and the unforgettable "peanuts". I bet if their finances are just sufficient, there won't be any money to mismanage or abscond with.

I believe just as our town councils and many more government bodies who have excess cash will all start to behave like mini-funds, mini-Temaseks and mini-GICs and play the role of fund managers wanting more and more {I am sure they do not personally gain from this, but then again I bet KPIs (Key Performance Index) of their performance is part of their annual bonuses}. Would we have blamed them if they had grew the S$2 billion treasure chest instead of losing S$16 million? My only finger pointing is with S$2 billion, why am I still paying SC&C? Why are the subsidies such paltry sums? Are they really subsidies? Or like NKF, the cost of $3 medicine is sold at $4 and is subsidised based on market rates of $6?

The solution to having too much of a "good thing" is accountability and transparency.

1) Be transparent, show the cost of maintaining the Towns - do we really need S$2 billion in reserves? The recent national propaganda media has been showing US universities losing huge sums of investment and are saying it is acceptable in these times to lose lots of $, so we should accept our town councils' mistakes but the US universities have been transparent in their accounts which are published online and made available.

2) Let's be honest, if the government came clean with what they have been doing and apologized for their mistakes then perhaps it would have been easier to swallow. As we all learn from mistakes when we acknowledge them. Not just put on a defensive front and tell everyone to move on. I have been guilty of this many times as it is probably a guy thing but then again it is no excuse. But hey I am not paid millions by the people thus I am not accountable to the people.

I believe our government, town councils and many other GLCs have forgotten who pays their salaries and who gave them money to invest in the first place. I bet my grandfathers/parents and my tax/ERP/SC&C/CPF dollars have contributed some sweat into it and I should have every right to criticize any wrong doings.

Asshole

Was returning to the car after watching "Bolt" at Vivocity this evening,this totally peeved me off as I don't understand how an inconsiderate person could have just walked off after parking like this.



Has to be an asshole to learn how to park like this. I hope the TT owner open the door "forcefully" in order to get into his ride. And I've decided to be a lazy ass and not bother to black out the ass's car plate number.

Singapore Slingers vs Smart Pampanga Buddies

First of all, I would like to say, welcome back Eric. Sandrin was hot scoring 18 points and he proved he was back from the dunks he was having all night.

Here are some of my pictures of the great 2nd match of the double header last Sunday - Photobucket.

Slingers overran Smart Pampanga Buddies 100-72 in what was an exciting first half but as I remembered telling Andrew, this season's Slingers are a great 2nd half team. They have more drive, endurance and consistency. They started routing the Buddies once 2nd half started. Frank Arsego is doing a good job taking over Gordie McLeod from what I can observed, though he does take a longer time-out, often needing the referee to pop over to chase them into the game.

What was also interesting there were 3 ejections on the opposing team; and 3 of our local boys did a great job. Pathman, Desmond Oh and Tan Chin Hong combined for 11 points with fearless tenacity, stood up to the rough plays, taking charges and chasing after their men.



Check out the video highlights of the match with Sam Harris's cap of the game making it to a 100 and his first 3 pointer of the season, he does look like he has been training!

Official match report on Slingers' official website.

San Miguel vs Talk N Text

Talk N Text Tropang Texters beat favorites fellow Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team San Miguel Beermen in the first-ever PBA regular season game held in Singapore Indoor Stadium. This was the first match of a double header in record crowd of about 8500 basketball fanatics. Talk N Text edged out San Miguel 85-80 in an exciting match between two closely fought teams.

Thanks to Nic who gave Jase, Andrew and myself courtside media passes to capture two great games.



This was Andrew's first time being introduced to live professional basketball in Singapore and being seated at courtside, is now an addict. Seriously there is no better experience than to watch a live basketball match. I got hooked from catching my first NBA game in Staples Centre watching Vince Carter lose by a point.
Anyway do try to catch this upcoming Slingers game on Sun 7th Dec vs Satria Muda Britama (Indonesia)- Don't play play, Satria Muda Britama is the champion of IBL (Indonesia Basketball League). Tickets available at Sistic.

Andrew is a great photographer who has amazing photos of nature, animals, portraits and other sporting actions, and this time he did captured some great pictures of the Slingers in action. Do check out his pictures and these are mine here(Please do not compare - I just started for a few months!).

Will upload and blog about the ensuing match between Singapore Slingers vs Smart Pampanga Buddies. In the meantime read Jase and #8 Doc Ng's entry first.

Slingers double header on 30 Nov

Oh just in case you are a Slingers fan or a basketball crazed Filipino.
We have a double header match on 30 Nov 4pm at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Last I heard the tickets are at least 75% sold!!

Talk&Text VS San Miguel Beer (PBA)

and

Singapore Slingers VS Smart Telecom National Selection (Philippines)


Get your tickets fast here. Or are available at the Smart Wireless Centre at the Lucky Plaza Mall in Orchard Road. Ticket prices are $35, $25 and $15 with a free phone card.

I missed the last exciting game against Malaysia...quited pissed..had to travel to Taiwan for work. Go Slingers! Hope Eric is playing!

Accountability

I hate to account to anyone. Seriously I hate to report to my mom, dad, girlfriend on what I am doing. I may do it out of concern or love, but don't make me do it like I have to. But...it is a totally different matter when I have to report to my bosses. Why? Cos they put food on the table and pay my bills and shoes I wear. I get paid, that's why.

I pay my town councils or management to take care of my place every month, it was rather shocking when I read in the papers that my town council has lost money on minibonds. But when you have Town Councils imposing fines on those needy people who make late payments on conservancy charges at 2%; and they have excess of S$1 billion dollars (16 town councils managing more that S$2 billion in sinking funds) to have investments in stocks and minibonds/notes- This is getting ridiculous.

I thought we just have 10k odd unfortunate people losing money. Now doing some simple maths I realised a lot more people have lost, given the fact that those millions in our town councils treasure chests do belong to us.

Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council has about 85438 HDB households covering Pasir Ris and Punggol 21; Sengkang's Compassvale & Rivervale precincts; and some estates in Hougang. Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council has about 31921 HDB households covering Buona Vista, Bukit Timah, Cashew, Ulu Pandan and Zhenghua. (These information are found online, just need to know where to find but I am not 100% sure if its accurate, so don't quote me).

Our government charges a wide varied of S&CC to the different households. I will simplify the calculations and take each household as an entity instead of segregating into 1-room, 2-room, executive etc. Pasir Ris-Punggol TC lost about S$4mil of the ~S$154 mil it holds; per household lost S$46 in the minibonds/notes saga.

For Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council, they are listed on Creative Technology as one of the majority shareholders with 530,000 shares currently valued at about S$1,245,500 based on today's share price of $2.35. I understand they were bought back in many years and back then the value was hovering around $25-15 a share? Now at under $3, I guess long-term investment is the way to go (~$7million poof)..wonder who will ever be able to see returns on that, maybe my great-great-grand kids(Will Mr Sim Wong Hoo be still alive?). For more on that please check out this Mr Biao site.

While Holland-Bukit Panjang TC (manages ~S$120 mil) lost about S$8 mil in the minibonds/notes saga and minimum of S$7 mil based on recent pricing of Creative shares and estimated lowest buy price. So per household in Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC lost about S$470!

Seriously, I don't see condominium management committee making such decisions. And the lucky fact is opposition town councils are making 6% returns annually (I beg to differ how the media would react if they lost $$). To think we pay our PAPPY gahmen million-dollar salaries. I say Mr Low Thia Kiang should run the CPF board, town coucils, oh hell maybe even GIC/Temasek!! - given the racking losses observed on the papers recently. I fear to see many more life savings evaporated in their treasure chest. I guess we postponed many many years of calls to distribute these hard-earned citizens money during bad times, only to find them funding lost causes/long-term investments.

Would accountability be able to solve this issue of taking citizens' money to do investments when the finances were meant for washing, painting, general works and upgrading, etc? Why wasn't the coffers used to stop payments for the needy or reduction in conservancy charges for all? Seriously...when will the mad obsession to have huge treasure chests of money by government agencies stop? Our opposition wards have very little budget/sinking fund to work with, and they have been prudent in their spending, likewise in the last oil spike scenario, where people stop buying huge tanks to drive to work - do we need a wake up call before we can reduce unnecessary wastage and lack of accountability and imprudent investments? Those individuals who have lost investments were made a mockery by the PAPpy gahmen. How about these supposedly savvy government servants who are taking citizens' monthly charges into high-risked investments? Someone has to pay or answer for this. I just hope it's not me.

Entering into another subject, would a recent talk about 2-political party system be able to stave off this debacle?

Missing

Well it has been a long time since I blog about the government, or social issues. But just a observation that our leaders seem to have lost touch with the citizens and might be suffering from EDD (empathy deficit disorder). From all the minibonds fiasco and loss of investments on our SGD185 billion treasure chest, we are seriously missing empathies and common sense. For more thought-provoking thoughts - check out this site.

Serendipity~1

I remember watching this movie starring Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack and somehow it blew me over. It was a crappy romantic movie which normally being a logical analytical person I am, it was impossible and totally out of this world.
But somehow it struck me, that I wish I could have that sort of love where you meet someone totally out of the blue and fall in love within hours of meeting that person. That somehow you felt that fate brought you two together; that somehow you knew that cupid pulled that magical tiny bow driving an arrow through the heart and logic became nonsense and ridiculous all at the same time.

This blog entry was to come after I had time to write about my US trip which I put off for way too long. I came back from New York with a job and the jobscope was what I needed to fill my mind. But New York besides got me started on my career, it somehow cleared my head and I found my soul back. If I had time I will want to blog about how it came about, me finding my soul back. Because without a soul, noone can love or should fall in love. Anyway to cut a long story short, I saw this very cafe which the movie Serendipity was filmed - It was called Serendipity 3 where movie stars, celebs hang out, do check out the website. It passed me by so fast as I was on top of the NY city tour bus. But I knew it wasn't a mistake or just a movie prop, it was indeed for real. The movie was probably spurned from this cafe as it was filmed in 2001 and the cafe was founded in 1954 at 225 East 60th Street. Hope I can visit it the next time I head to NY for work again.

Save the NBL!

Saw this from Darren "The Doc"'s blog. I think it's hilarious. Have to share it with die hard NBL fans! (It was made to mimick the Make Poverty History Click Video)

Slingers go Chinese!

12th Oct Singapore Slingers vs Beijing Aoshen

This has to be the most exciting game so far. It even made my babe become a fan of the Singapore Slingers; and me almost peeing in my pants!

Thanks to Nic and Bob Turner (Owner of the Slingers) who got us bloggers up close to the game. To have a corporate box for live basketball action has to be the greatest thing you can have, especially with Brewerkz beer and wine served.


Coach Frank taking over the helms. Try to spot Nic and Hillary!

The Slingers were without head coach McLeod as he had to return down under for personal matters thus Coach Frank took over and he did seem cool and was handling the game well.

Slingers were strong in the first few minutes of the game, roaring to an early 10-2 start. But Beijing Aoshen's Huo Nan #10 did an amazing job scoring from all angles to bring the game close and managed to top scores with 21 points.

Got to take a pee break and come back with part 2 of the game post. In the mean time, please check out Darren's #8 post on this. He was our top scorer with 21 points as well!


More of my photos here!

Slingers losing to Spirit

Sorry for the late post, as my schedules fill up and time became a scarce item.
Singapore Slingers played Sydney Spirits on 5th Oct, which is the only team left in Sydney after Sydney Kings dissolved. To match up a NBL team, it's always exciting and to be wondering how much we have improved since they last met in the last NBL season. We have won all 3 matches with the Filipino Teams in the Singapore Challenge Cup, unfortunately we lost Kirkland and Sandrin to injuries sustained over the previous games - you can catch Sandrin's nasty fall in my previous post. Without the two's presence, you can obviously see our defence collapsing as Sydney brings it to the hole.


Jamal Brown taking over the reins and Jersey from Eric who is out for 10 weeks suffering from broken ribs as we heard.

Slingers began well with the scores closely matched in the 1st quarter but Sydney Spirit has the inside presence which grabbed both offensive and defensive rebounds early in the game and made changes to their offense and started going to the hoops. They teared away for a 46-37 point lead at halftime.


Janev #21 going in strong - high man of the game with 22 points.



Liam Rush #13 going strong to the hole!


The game started to widen in the 2nd half but full court pressure defence strategy by Coach McLeod led to a close 2nd half with both quarters evenly matched in scoring. But it was a case of a little too late, as Slingers were unfortunate to have lost the game 90-81 as well as $10,000!


Nic and Jase on the floor.

Thanks to Nic for scoring Jase and myself some court side media passes to capture some great shots!

Clearly the Slingers would have won if we had both Kirkland and Sandrin on the floor. But it was still a great match and I can observe Slingers being more team-centric - Head Coach McLeod has progressed the team well and I applaud his efforts.
Slingers may have lost to Spirit that day but their spirits have strengthened in leaps and bounds from my observations.

Check out more pictures from my online Photobucket!

Slingers vs Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants - Pictures 1st

First time ever, snake queues to get into the stadium to watch Slingers take on Filipino PBA team - Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants!

Been busy at work lately. So I shall upload the pictures first on the Tenderizer Slingers who juiced Purefoods on Sunday 92-84 and going 3-0 in the Singapore Challenge Series! Thanks to Nic who scored myself and Jase some media passes which enabled us to take some courtside pics!!

More pics at my Photobucket!

Due Respects to a Great Man

Rest in Peace Mr. JBJ, you never gave up for this country- one of the greatest fighter, Singapore has ever seen.



My grandmother can write better condolence letter than this - utterly disappointed, graciousness and respect seems not needed as forte of our leaders these days.

Big Scare

The new Singapore Slingers are making the game so exciting, it's hard to contain yourself these days. From high flying dunks, to ground breaking falls, the game never seem to be boring and there was even 2 big scares which will be elaborated. Especially when Air 21 came back with a vengeance after falling 38 points in the last game. They started early with a 12-3 run, and Santos #29 going strong to the hoop.

Air 21 led through all the way, scaring us with an impending win. But the Slingers slowly but surely narrows the lead, at the 3rd quarter, we were closing up 38-45. Here are some hits to the floor pictures of our very own Shane #7 and Air 21's Cruz #12.



Eric Sandrin aka "Rodman", Janev and Kirkland led the team with double digit scores and we managed to even the scores into the 3rd Quarter.



This is a sight for sore eyes, an absolute waste of Box seats next to the court and wasted booze and food! Safra, next time please invite some people! Bet a lot of people will be killing to get Brewerkz beer and nice Chilean wine!


Sight for tattoo.. it's some tiger thing. Wondering if anyone knows the exact chinese words on Eric?


Though Darren started slow compared to his previous 28 points attempt, he turned deadly in the 4th Quarter!

Eric giving some defence and love to Homer Se for trying to kick him last game!


More floor spills..




2nd scare of the night is when Eric came crashing down after an attempt for a high flying dunk met with Ocampo #33!



Concerned fans looking on. Hope Eric is recovering well and staying tough!




The Slingers won 98-85 with Darren chalking up 2 late 3 pointers scoring 9 pts and Eric was the high man with 24 points, and wrapping up the series 2-0.

Actual game stats

Next game Tues 30th Sept, 740pm against another Filipino team Purefoods! Go get your tickets here, as you know with all Filipino teams, confirm got action one!

So far so great

It has been a great week so far since last Wednesday. I realised sometimes doing something crazy might actually give you something great. Call it fate, call it Serendipity.

Serendipity 奇缘 is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

New bad boy Sandrin - Good for Slingers?

I totally enjoyed myself at the inaugural Singapore Challenge match between our Singapore Slingers vs Air 21 which hailed from the Philippines Basketball Association (PBA). Though it was a blow out 124-86 game, it was filled with excitement throughout the match. And the reason will be Eric Sandrin #14. Let's not forget "Doctor Ng" (Darren Ng #8) - whom we heard the teammates shouting out his new Nick on the court, akin to Dr J (Julius Erving) but this one here is a real doctor, who scored a whopping 28 points. Dr Ng started slow, with misses, but the faith by his teammate showed a different side of the new Slingers roster.


For the past seasons, I now see a different cohesive side of this newly form team.





Dr Ng push forth with his shooting and started making the big shots, threes after threes he rained just as the Filipino side did from the start taking a 17-11 lead at the start of 1st quarter. The game was face paced, which is known when taking on the Filipinos, they are fast, sharp and rough. Which leads us to the Dennis Rodman of Slingers - Eric Sandrin who had a double double scoring 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.


This Korean American actually looks good (Eric, could you please raise your hand to identify yousrelf?) and plays a kick ass tough game. We saw him get hit, hacked, roughened by the Filipinos which many a times the Referees couldn't catch. And from our great courtside seats which Nic got us, we saw all the roughing of the match. But he never relent and gave his own sweetness.

Check out Eric's monster 2-hand Jam and watch where one of his feet lands!

With great Brewerkz beer served now, and Chilean wine as well. The game just gets better. In case you fans out there do not know, we're the only sport allowed to serve alcohol indoors!!


Later on in the fourth quarter when the lead was already horrendous, Air 21's Homer Se#16 try to make things rough and took it out on Eric, taking him on to the ground and trying to kick him!


Check out the Air 21's fans reactions.

Well I enjoyed myself so much in this game and because I lugged my DSLR over, I just did not cover the game, for more match reviews go to Slingers' official website, Jase or the best view from Darren himself..yes Dr Ng has a blog!


Game 2 against Air 21 will be played on Sunday 21st Sept at 4pm. So do come and soak up the atmosphere! And catch a glimpse of Eric before he does turn into Dennis Rodman! But Eric seems to get more girly screams of his name then Dennis!

Tickets start at $6-16. Tribute to Darren, 1st #8 comments I see here, get free tics from me at the indoor stadium before the match!

Other cute bloggers seen at the game are Precious and Daphne and a first-time-watching Sharon.

Ok to end with my great fun shot of the night, by Daniels #12 who had a Shaq like dunk! Daniels had 23 points for the night. We had 4 Slingers with double digit scores.