I should have turned the television off after the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA finals. I was just too enthralled by the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers were demolishing the Boston Celtics. I wanted the Lakers to keep this intensity up and take their morale out. As it turned out, it was just a false sense of security the 24 point lead the Lakers had had.
The Lakers riding on all their emotions came out tremendously. Especially the once thought to be ‘confused’ Lamar Odom, came out going 6 of 6. Once again, the Lakers had peaked too soon running on all cylinders too early in the game. It went so smoothly that Kobe Bryant did not even have a field goal in the first half. Perhaps all that distribution made KB24 too passive and when it came time to require his rhythm, he could not shoot at all. (I got to give it up to the Boston defensive intensity and the never give up mentality).
Continue reading ‘Unconceivable collapse’
Starring an all-star cast with Jet Li (Hero, Forbidden Kingdom), Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers); this movie is set during the Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi ruled the lands of China. The story is about a lost general meeting local bandits to rejoin the army to find greatness and glory. Among other things, a brotherhood is formed like the three muscatels except due to selfishness and drama; it all gets broken down. Betrayal, control, obsession. All characters are developed well and acted wonderfully. I cannot find much complaint.
The film is currently available on YouTube and here is the first part to get you started: Continue reading ‘The Warlords’
Do you love to eat? Having trouble finding a good website with awesome recipes? What about those gourmet meals prepared you see on the Food Network in HD? Yeah, ingredients are fine but most websites offer dry articles and scarce directions. I found, however, that this site is just pure eye candy bliss for food. All types from steaks to desserts. I now just want to share it with you and make sure you are all aware of it.
Times like this, I am thankful for blogging because only this way we can see all these wonderful recipes and fabulous photos of the finished product all collected on a site. If you have any great recipes, share it!
Continue reading ‘Salivating at first glance’
I can hear it now. All over the world where people are playing basketball and someone gets hurt, the comment, “Don’t bust a Paul Pierce!” will be forever immortalized. I saw game 1 of the NBA finals and thought the Lakers were actually doing really well until Paul Pierce thought he blew his knee out. His injury unfortunately was not severe at all. It was so insignificant that his over exaggerated agony of display of pain and then being carried off court is so much drama that no one on this side can deny. He was carried off the court by teammates and trainer to the entry hall then wheeled away in a wheel chair. He sat in the locker room for maybe 5 minutes and came back out.
Now that was an unbelievable return! Came back and made two threes which pretty much changed the tempo and final outcome of the game; especially with the arena’s fans intensity rising. I am sure Paul Pierce was in an insane amount of pain but was all that drama necessary? Was being carried off court necessary? Several blogs even noted that if indeed his knee was blown; wouldn’t being carried off cause more damage than good? Shouldn’t a wheel chair been immediately carted out?
Continue reading ‘Don’t bust a Paul Pierce’
There were two interesting articles I found on Digg and you should give each a good read because if you are on my website and reading this, you will definitely want to know how the world wide web and internet can become in a very near future.
The first article I found was on IPower, it speaks about the importance of net neutrality. Basically, all the large corporations are making plans to make the web a new medium like television service. Below is an image taken from the website and it gives you an idea:
Continue reading ‘The net as we know it to end; end of the last frontier?’
I just finished reading this article on the New York Times called ‘Trolling for Trouble in the Red Light District’ which can be read here. It was an interesting read about how ineffective red light cameras at intersections were. At the same time, I have to agree with the article that these devices do not actually prevent accidents; whether it be running these red lights or making a right turn on red. So if it is not here for our safety, then what it is, is to gain more revenue for the city, the state, etc. After all, a red light camera is not intelligent, it cannot tell the different between a blatant red light traffic offender or an accidental one where a driver was caught and had to make a turn after the light turned red. An example would be during heavy traffic congestion or an oncoming driver trying to beat the yellow light thus making the driver trying to turn miss their opportunity at green and turning on a red.
The problem is not more enforcement or to catch more traffic violators. The problem is bad awareness in drivers. The logic in driving is that ‘one has the right of way’ which can cause lots of problems. Sure, the person going straight has the right of way but how often do you speed up because someone on the opposite side is making a left turn? Or do you speed up instead of slowing down to let a driver make his or her right turn? Education is key and people are driving without any awareness just knowing they have ‘the right of way’. Instead, people should just be overall more aware of what is apparently going on, on the streets. Surveying the road, checking traffic conditions and having some common sense of how another driver will react.
Continue reading ‘Trolls running on the streets’
So over the weekend, I started using some profile pictures of people to try to manipulate them, either from removing normal blemishes, losing weight, etc. I decided to go for a more extreme and found a photo online that gave me an interesting time trying to manipulate the photo in photoshop. How extraordinary is with a few filters, some skewing, adding some hair and color, a person can totally look different.
I think this gives a really good idea of how one should consider before going for an extreme make over. Take a look at what I did below:
Continue reading ‘Photo manipulation, practically is reconstructive surgery.’
Yep. I called it in the last post at half-time of game four of the Western Conference finals. I already knew that the Lakers were going to win games 4 and 5 and voila! We are back in the NBA Finals. Finally, I don’t have to hear any more about the Spurs.
As for who the Lakers will face? I personally think it would be an easier match up against the Celtics just because even though they got the ’supposed’ Big 3; they choke. Only when they are playing at their best, they are really good and quite a scary team. However, their inability to win on the road in the first two rounds gives me assurance that the Lakers can win easily in a NBA Finals match up with them.
Continue reading ‘Welcome back to the NBA Finals, Lakers!’
