It's Friday night!! Ping and Pei already had a plan – movie spree! We had always wanted to watch "無間道" (Infernal Affairs) from the first to the third all in a row since we had forgotten the first story line when the third one came out (which Ping actually haven't seen either). Ping was gonna take the 6.30pm bus home and have dinner before heading over to Pei's place with the movies and the cable so that we can hook up the laptop to the TV. But just as Ping was checking her email before leaving lab, Ping found out about Midnight Madness – a public event held by the Men's Basketball team to introduce the season's players and to start their first game at midnight (NCAA rules – they can only have official game practice after Oct 17). They were going to have an autograph session too!! So we decided to hold off on Wu Jian Dao to go to Midnight Madness.
Drove over to Pei's place just before 9pm. The Midnight Madness was held at the Breslin Center. They opened the door at 9.30pm but will not start until 10.30pm. We drove out around 9.30pm but took us a while to find a parking spot (too cold to walk there!). By the time we got to Breslin Center, all the lines for autographs from both the men and women's basketball team were super long. We really wanted to get the poster for the men's basketball team but we didn't want to miss the starting of the event. So we went to look for a place to seat – way up on the third tier. It was definitely the furthest Ping has sat and wish Ping could get hold of Tom's season tickets instead of the student session upper bowl tickets.
The best part of the night was watching the players dancing around in the 1979 uniforms (super tight jersey and super short pants). Tom Izzo (the coach) also came out in a hippies theme costume - pretty wild, eh. It was suppose to be a welcoming gift for Gregory Kelser – an alumni MSU basketball player and ex-Seattle NBA player who is currently a broadcaster for Detroit's Piston. After a bunch of performance from the MSU Dance team, MSU Cheerleading team, and MSU Marching band, the women's team played for 10 minutes followed by the men's team. Sparty is super cute!! It is definitely fun to see the guys play again although Ping kinda miss watching Drew Nietzel (currently playing for German's Artland Dragons) play. But, am pretty sure it will still be an exciting season with Lucas Kalin appearing more on court. Go Spartans!
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