Vuvuzela.. Whaddup?

[caption id="attachment_172076" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Vuvuzela at World Cup 2010 (www.doordebenen.nl)"][/caption] At the opening of World Cup last weekend, I switched over the tv channel coz I thought something wrong had happened with the tv retriever due to the noise. As I turned over to another channel, the noise persisted. I turned on another channel which didn’t broadcast the World Cup, and the noise was gone. So I wondered around, couldn’t Indonesia retrieve the broadcasting from South Africa adequately?

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The noise persisted in each match. I began to be curious that South Africa was inhabited by some certain hard-eradicated bees or flies, and there were lotta of their populations around the stadium. I sympathized the official of World Cup, coz I thought they couldn’t provide insecticide for a dense insects--populatedarea like South Africa. I had just awared after I read Hedi Novianto’s tweet, that those “insects” actually were vuvuzela.

Certainly, vuvuzela is a custom horn instrument of South Africa, a long plastic pipe. It was named vuvuzela, coz if we blow it up, it will reveal voice “vuvuu..”

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It’s a unique experience to watch World Cup at South Africa, coz this is the first time of an international football match which its spectators bring instruments which potentially annoy the players’ concentration. Lotta players have complained that the vuvuzela sound spread to the whole stadium, and it make players on the field can’t shout to their partners coz the players’ voices are covered by vuvuzela’s sound.

If you think vuvuzelas make noise on the football match that you watch on tv, you don’t need to condemn that the tv channel is uncool. Almost all station complain that the vuvuzelas inhibit the sound that they broadcast. Though actually they’ve put their camera mics far from spectators who bring vuvuzela.

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The World Cup officials complain that vuvuzelas trouble them to manage the spectators. It’s hard to announce if someone’s car stand in some others’ way, or warn the spectators to be careful from thieves, coz the official’s announcement are covered by vuvuzela.

For the 2010 World Cup, official wanted to ban spectators from bringing vuvuzela. But the banning is cancelled. Coz, vuvuzela have been longing as Southern Africans custom instrument; forbidding vuvuzela is same as banning local cultures. It’s unfair if we approve the World Cup to be held at South Africa, while we ban the local spectators bringing their traditional instrument. Finally the official decide to allow spectators bringing vuvuzela, if it’s not more than one-metre length.

Maybe any other football organization can learn the lesson well. If we wanna hurd up a city to hold a football match, we just don’t have to find a city which has big fine-cut-grass stadium, or field which is adequate for pre-match exercise. But make sure that the local spectators aren’t noisy enough to bring sounds which may annoy the players’ concentration.

If you watch the matches right in South Africa, I hope you have completed yourself with immunization. Coz, flu virus and bacteris can spread by droplet which revealed out from vuvuzela’s mouth which blown by the infected person. It’s only one person who blows the vuvuzela, who’s caught flu, but the whole stadium can be communicated by the disease.Perhaps South Africa must release some regulation that someone who wanna blow vuvuzela should have free-flu certificate!

Have a great match! If your favorite team loses the match, don’t be sad coz it doesn’t mean that your favorite team isn’t good enough. Maybe, your favorite player has got confused in the field coz its team’s voice have been covered by vuvuzela..

A few people have said here that vuvuzela is annoying. :)