OK...so wednesday of last last week, technically called January 31, 2007.
In the morning I went to the National Stadium with Waterloo* Akheil and collectively, we purchased 8 tickets to the first leg of the Singpore Lions vs Thailand Tigers Asean Football Championship. After class, I went to the swimming pool at Clementi with UCLA Arye and Malaysian NUS Jason. It was great...refreshing and lovely. After swimming in the evening, I rushed back to PGP, got ready to go to the game and met up with Western Zohara, Akheil, and Queen's Clare and caught a cab to the National Stadium. It was wild. A huge sea of red shirts(Singapore) and a small pond of yellow shirts(Thailand)...The crowd was intense and sooo full of energy, I was just overwhelmed by the buzzzzz(and the cursing in multiple languages). It was beautiful. The quality of the match itself, however, was comparable to watching Naomi's high school soccer games(no offense) along with 5 injuries involving stretchers, numerous uncalled fouls, and referee stalling. Hilarious. Singapore won 2-1(thank goodness for no shoot-outs, it was close). After this, we wandered over to McDonalds, then to Dbl O because we can't help it, then to St. Jame's Power Station, another huge club with Ladie's night. And here we danced like crazy until closing. Mosied on to 24 hour Cheese Prata...the usual plan of action on Wednesdays, then on our way back to PGP at around 5am, Holland Leonardus pops out of a dark corner and mentions going to the Thaipusam event the next morning at 8:30. Wow...To think that I went to sleep at around 6:15AM, woke up around 8, and jetted to meet three people, all who were not Leonardus, and went to Little India to watch the Hindu festival, check it Wikipedia-style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaipusam We(UNC Matt, USC Katie, USC Evan, and I) got caught in the procession, found ourselves taking off our shoes and entering the temple. I was about a meter away from a possessed man, who I'm guessing was embodying some kind of Hindu monkey god...not sure, but he certainly looked and acted like it. I was actually afraid for my safety for a while, but he recovered quite well.




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*People mentioned are labeled by their university or where they're from.