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Finally had my experience of the kallang roar during last night's soccer match at the national stadium. 50,000 people, mostly dressed in red, standing up for wave after wave, all cheering. Head over to the straits times to see pictures, note they only have a 3-day archive.

It helped that the lions (singapore team) won against indonesia 2-1. Thanks to johan's little bro, who is with the cheerleading team, we got super seats in front opposite the grandstand. and right in the middle of die-hard fan territory - our seats had this sign - reserved for die-hard lions vocal group. We did a pretty good job i think, making a lot of noise and waving our inflatable signs (in between lots of mock fights star wars and zatoichi style) - they look like the inflatable sausages that divers use. Only in singapore will you have a mat swearing in hokkien and a malaysian (okay, singapore pr) cheering the same team. And both of them knew the singapore national anthem better than i did (although all of us were wondering why the tempo was so fast).

A bit of history: Going to the national stadium to see a match was a really big thing 10 to 15 years ago, when singapore was playing each of the malaysian states. Then we won and they kicked us out of the league (my patriotic recollection) although match-fixing was whispered on both sides. So we started our own league but it was never the same because singapore is so small, suburbs don't have enough of an identity to play against each other. Interest just waned, in favour of EPL, until a few weeks ago.

Have discovered the Bob Awards, best of blogs, and there are some gems there, like

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