UCLA FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

Just got back from the football game, UCLA Bruins vs the CAL Golden Bears. What a russssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh......wooohooo! UCLA beats CAL 30-21 ! And we were expected to lose all the more. Since our quarterback and our reserve quarterback was out, and we just lost to the worst-ranked team coming into this game. HAHA.

Got up early in the morning to take the shuttle from UCLA to the Rose Bowl. Talk about Singaporeans being kiasu, the ticket said that the bus was supposed to leave 2 and a half hours before the game, but the queue started from 9am onwards!

It took a really really long bus ride to Pasedena, to the Rose Bowl, Home of the UCLA Bruins. Filled to a capacity of 91,000, the stadium was incredible. There was no track surrounding the stadium so everyone was close up to the action. YEH!

There was a huge crowd at the stadium when we got there. There were alot of people setting up barbeques and drinking beers, setting up tents outside the stadium and their TV screens, all intent on having a good time watching the game outside the stadium.

The UCLA Fight cheer never fails to resound, but first it was the Star Spangled Banner played by the marching band, then the 8 claps, which is the fight cheer. woooo! It's great fun to be in the crowd, when strangers all around get starting high and high fiving everyone and cheering with everyone hahaha! There was this girl in the crowd, who was wearing a Cal tee, and everyone was going, "Take off that Cal shirt, take off that Cal Shirt..." And she was teasing taking it off. HAHA. Very interesting.

To be honest, in spite of the kickass crowd, and 1x old spirit squad leader alumni calling for "every man woman and child" to not be a "slacker", the game was quite boring. I mean American Football is really, tactical and by play, and there are stoppages all the time, unlike footy where its non-stop action from start to finish. But it was still a nerve-wracking and exciting finish though! Cal with a minute left on the clock, needing only to score a field goal to win the game, but we managed to intercept the pass and score a TOUCHDOWN. Talk about the whole stadium erupting. wooohooo!

Well, I'll start uploading pics as soon as I'm feeling motivated to put the pics into my laptop hahaha. Wait up. GO BRUINS.

(Seriously, this school has a really good way of making you feel part of the Bruin Family, think I never felt a sense of allegiance to a school other than DHS, when I still remember Mr Kiw saying, once a Dunmanian, always a Dunmanian.)