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13 Saturday Sep 2008

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Okay, so, just because Joey tagged me, Imma hafta do this. So, here we go:

The rules are simple.

At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

September 13, 1998 – Senior year in high school (yes, Joey, senior year ang AY ’98-’99) and yes, since we were classmates, I think I was also studying for an exam or probably running around the covered courts or probably lounging outside the Comp Room away from everybody else.

2. What are the 5 things on my to-do list today?

Saturday 15:55: watch “Smart People”, wait for the delivery of my monitor (OMFG what the hell is taking you so long?), watch other TV series, read something, couch potato my way through the day, ya know, crap like that.

3. Snacks I enjoy:

I dunno. Uhm, Meiji regulars? Or Purin pudding?

4. Place(s) where I live:

Right now, I’m in Nagayama. Places where I lived would include several places in QC, Plaridel, Imus, Binalbagan (this one’s in Negros Occidental), somewhere in Cubao (although my memory cannot really be trusted), and Nakagawara (last year).

5. Things I’d do if I were a billionaire:

Be a bum. Go to Seattle and spend money watching ALL of the Storm games. Oh, and travel elsewhere pa pala ^_^

I’m. Not. Tagging. Anyone. In. Particular. O, 6 words pa :p

Ya Know … *That* Fear?

12 Friday Sep 2008

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It hasn’t felt like this before
It hasn’t felt like home before you
And I know it’s easy to say
but it’s harder to feel this way

And I miss you more than I should
Than I thought I could
can’t get my mind off of you …

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hX2lzy3cQ

I know you’re scared that I’ll soon be over it
That’s part of it all
Part of the beauty of
falling in love with you
is
the
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Sinusoidal Sunday

07 Sunday Sep 2008

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Well, I didn’t wake up in time for that Mt. Fuji-Viewing Grape-Picking Wine-Tasting Tour.

Boohoohoohoo.

I spent about 4 hours sulking on my bed (oh so comfortable airbed), which prolly was the main reason why I didn’t wake up at 4 freakin’ AM (the bed, not the sulking).

And then, at 1130~ish (JST), the Storm hosted the visiting Minnesota Lynx. And for most of the game, they were being massacred by Seimone Augustus, Lindsey Harding, Candace Wiggins, and Anna DeForge. But then during the 3Q, Sue Bird (0 for 4 during the first half) keyed in about 10 points in a heart-stopping run that chipped down the Lynx lead until eventually we got the game. Sue Bird dropped 22 monster points again. When will the dotcom people ever see her as a huge candidate for that prestigious award?

BTW, there was a scary moment in the game where Sheryl Swoopes went up to block Candace Wiggins’ shot and came down on the floor — and didn’t get up for quite a while. A stretcher was brought out and my God, the 9000~ish that attended the record-setting game (for most wins in a season in franchise history) fell eerily quiet. I just read from the Storm Blog that Swoopes was unconscious for a few seconds but came to and recognized everyone around her. Good thing it was just a concussion. I thought something happened to her back, or head, or neck, or whatever. Kevin Pelton reports that Swoopes is fine.

21 wins 10 losses – best conference record in franchise history. 15 wins 1 loss – best home record in franchise history (and prolly the league, I just haven’t checked yet). We’re atop the Western Conference and if we continue playing like this, the chance to win that trophy is looking really really good. And gads, LJ isn’t there. I can’t imagine what’ll happen to the Storm when she gets back from surgery. Freakin’ awesome, this team is.

Okay so the good things don’t end there. I now think that the universe must be conspiring to make me happy and feel better about missing the trip (that I was waiting for for weeks, mind you). I ain’t gonna diss Paulo Coelho today. Some other time maybe.

After the Storm game I had to figure out how to watch the 2008 UAAP Cheerdance Competition. I’ve always watched that contest since I was in freshman year (whoa, it feels like eons already). Last year I missed out on one of the best performances by UP in ages because I was stuck recuperating my lungs inside a hospital in Chofu.

So anyway, thanks to Lau who told me to get TFC so I could watch the competition (because I’m stuck here and not with the gang in the trip), I was able to witness the performances. And wow, I mean, wow. I admit that UP’s routine wasn’t perfectly clean but man, there’s only so much oomph that one can handle and the UP Pep Squad brought it, really brought it. The concept was just whoa, and I like the theme, and the music (pinikpikan) and aaargh, it feels pretty good to be a UP grad right now.

Why?

Because we freakin’ won, that’s why!

I’m saving the commentary for later when the fog inside my head clears. I’m just happy that the UP Pep Squad won. Here’s their routine btw:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkIfsBvvvac

So anyway, I glanced outside my window and it is raining hard (complete with thunder and lightning very very frightening) and I just thought that, okay fine, I feel a whole lot better already, universe. Thank you very much for this day. 🙂

ETA: A much much better view of the routine [ here ].

Playoffs, Here We Come

05 Friday Sep 2008

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Clinched a spot after winning this game:

Seattle 70, Chicago 62
Preview – Box Score – Recap

(20-10)
1 2 3 4 Total
Seattle 10 19 19 22 70 Final
Chicago 20 14 18 10 62

(11-18)

Birdy Statline:

Name Min FG 3Pt FT +/- Off Reb Ast TO Stl BS BA PF Pts
S. Bird G 35:25 8-12 3-5 0-0 +5 0 3 4 3 2 0 0 2 19

So freakin’ awesome and the game was even on webcast. Hope they archive it soon so I can watch. I only caught the last few minutes of the game (was travelling to the office during game time).

ETA:

Standings: 1st Place (WC)

Heureux

02 Tuesday Sep 2008

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… | originally uploaded by kilcher

The gnarly grimace and its permanence,
melted like wax under the sun, transformed,
The sneer and its annoying ever-presence,
seemingly gone but really just metamorphosed.

The ubiquitous dark gloomy cloud above,
ominous and irritatingly omnipresent,
faded, disappeared, looked like it’s gone,
but it’s still there, only now it’s translucent.

That dark brooding figure so often reminiscent
of dysphoria, of melancholy, of infinite sadness,
slowly and somehow grudgingly finally stops scowling,
finally accepts a concept as foreign as happiness.

17:49 2008/09/02

A Case for Birdy

01 Monday Sep 2008

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Apparently the W is now allowing fans to vote for MVP. Those daily votes would account for 25% of the total tally. Since when had the MVP award been turned into a popularity contest? We have the frikkin’ ASG for that, people.

I shudder to think that the award this year would go to a SpOrk (CP3 or LLL — I don’t care, I don’t like ’em both). Our previous candidate (pre-Olympics) had been reigning MVP Lauren Jackson, who actually had awesome numbers before we all took a break and focused on Beijing. But LJ decided to have surgery on her ankle and that made her unable to complete the regular season.

Right now, the bulk of the Storm’s scoring is being shouldered by (IMHO) the best point guard in the league. Birdy’s been scoring huge in the last few games (especially the Post-Olympic ones a.k.a. the LJ-less games). Sue sure is stepping up and bringing it big time (22++ points in the last three games, I think) and her leadership is still improving each and every game. I just hope she sustains the hot shooting for the remaining contests.

I know, I know, the CT Sun’s Lindsay Whalen is pretty impressive (too bad she’s injured) and is a frontrunner in the MVP race given that LJ is nowhere on the floor, and SASS’s Becky Hammon is also deserving of the award, and oh a host of other players that I’m too lazy to mention now, but Sue Bird actually deserves to be considered too. And not just because she’s popular or whatever. Because she’s carrying her team just like how an MVP should be.

5cm/s

31 Sunday Aug 2008

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5 Centimeters Per Second (秒速５センチメートル Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru?), subtitled “a chain of short stories about their distance.” is a 2007 Japanese animated feature film by Makoto Shinkai. The film was finished on January 22, 2007. The first part of the film was debuted on Yahoo! Japan as streaming video to Yahoo! Premium members from 16 February to 19 February 2007. On March 3, 2007, the full length featured film had its theatrical premiere at Cinema Rise in Shibuya, Tokyo. The film consists of three segments: ŌkashŁE/em> (桜花抁E, Cosmonaut (コスモナウチE, and Byōsoku 5 Senchimētoru (秒送Eセンチメートル), totaling about an hour of runtime. As in Shinkai’s previous works, Tenmon composes for this film’s soundtrack. The DVD was released on 19 July 2007.

Makoto Shinkai had expressed that, unlike his past works, there would be no fantasy or science fiction elements in this film. Instead, the feature film would attempt to present the real world from a different perspective. Makoto’s film gives a realistic view of the struggles many face against: time, space, people, and love. The title 5 Centimeters Per Second comes from the speed at which cherry blossoms petals fall, petals being a metaphorical representation of humans, reminiscent of the slowness of life and how people often start together but slowly drift into their separate ways.[1]

[ Source : Wiki ]

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Nang nabanggit ang tungkol sa pelikulang 5 Centimeters Per Second kagabi:

[=] Wag mo papanoorin yan, madedepress ka ng isang linggo.

[~] Eh, ayos lang yun. Minsan masaya maging malungkot.

[#] Ano nangyari sa yo, bakit melancholic ang tono?

[~] Wala naman. Di naman lahat ng bagay may dahilan.

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