NBA Asia Challenge.. A Fun Night! =)

I love volleyball more than basketball.. I got torned between an invitation of a friend to watch NBA Asia Challenge (her treat!) and to play volleyball with my previous students. Well, from my title, you know which I chose and I didn't regret it. Like what my friend said "it's not always that you'll get to watch NBA legends play against our own PBA legends, plus you'll see Alvin Patrimonio! "(he is my ONLY crush in PBA.. haha!)

So, after work last Friday, September 11.. I headed off to Gateway to meet Kitty. We met at Taco Bell and had dinner. I really got full with the belly heavy burito that I ordered.

Then we went to Araneta Coliseum.. By the main entrance, we saw the Gatorade Challenge. They give out free taste of Gatorade lime and you can fall in line to shoot some hoops and get some freebies depending on the score you'll get. Kitty and I went in line and waited for our turn. While waiting...

• We asked what are the prizes for every range of scores. Kitty wanted the towel so she's aiming to get 61 points. I wanted the bag so I need to score 50 points.
• I went to the baggage counter to leave my umbrella cause I need to even though I don't want to. The guy kinda annoyed me cause he was taking so long trying to figure out how he'll stick the masking tape on my umbrella that won't confuse him of the number.. For Pete's sake! The number I got was 69! I told him that no matter how he sticks it, it will still be 69!
• Going back to my line, Kitty and I just keep on counting the people ahead of us just to make sure that we won't be late for our game

It's our turn! I went first and sadly just scored 45 points, but yey I got a bandana.. hehe..=p .. Kitty's turn! She got 75 points and went to a 2nd round. Her final score was 121! (I forgot to take pictures of her while shooting.. sorry.. hehe..=p) ..She got a tumbler! Comments we've heard while we were shooting..

• For me.. The pectus of my ball is makulit.. it's side turn. (Dude I'm a volleyball player, shooting a basketball is just a kulit game for me.. hehe)
• For Kitty.. "ang galing, basketball player yata 'to eh" .. "tama ba yung score nya?!" (her score then was 99!)

We got our picture taken after the game and then time to go inside!

We got Upper A tickets seats E 309 1 and 2.. We had a nice spot!

We spotted right away Alvin Patrimonio during their warm up. Then I was surprised to see 2 of my 2nd batch anakis, Karl and Carlo!

Kitty and I took pictures of the players and had some vain shots of ourselves.. Kitty can't believe how big Horry is as well as Divac.. And I think Hardaway is familiar, but I can't really recall.. And the game starts..=p

Our team was on fire with Allan Caidic scoring triple-3 and even more! We led the 1st quarter 26-25..=p But as the game continued.. and ended.. NBA won over the PBA 109-86. It was a fun game and we didn't realy care who wins but just really enjoyed watching them.

In between the game was a TVbreak and the New Jersey Nets dancers graced the court with their moves and other tactics.. The fox was so cute too! (the mascot.. hehe..=p) I was owed with their dunk segment and liked their final dance to the song single ladies especially when the fox joined them.. hehe..=)

We didn't go right away after the game and just wathched the happenings on the court. Kitty wanted to take a picture of the empty Araneta but wasn't able to cause there were still some peolpe inside before we left.

We checked the souvenir stall and wanted to buy a shirt, but there's no size small anymore on the design we liked.

I got my umbrella and the guy who handed it to me kinda annoyed me cause he doesn't wanna let go of my umbrella. hmp!

Going home, I told Kitty that we just take a cab.. But she wanted to take the MRT.. It was already past 1o.. But then she was so convincing so I said yes. When we got to the station, the other side already had 8 trains when our train came but we weren't able to go in cause it was really full already. When one of the passengers asked what time the next and last train will come, the driver said after 30 minutes! Oh well, I blamed Kitty that we got stuck there. We just then bonded and made kulit with each other. Shared some laugh and serious talk once in awhile. Then when the train is nearing, i told her to stay near me so we can squeeze in. When we finally got in and I got home, I said to myself, I had a fun night! =)