I say, not bad. Put away the loss at Indy (which I completely didn’t wake up to coz I’m putting my health over basketball addiction nowadays), I think we’re on the right direction.

The team hasn’t still gelled that well but it’ll come in time.

・Tanisha Wright finally playing what she does best — awesome defense and not point-guarding. Now we can only hope PeeWee Johnson stays healthy to provide substantial help to Sue.

・Sue Bird — Bird, Bird, Bird, Biiiiiiiird is the word. Seriously, if ever she retires I would be really depressed. And lol at someone from Stormfans.org, if only we could clone Birdy and put Birdy1 at point guard and Birdy2 at shooting guard, that would be freaking awesome.

・I hope Swin stays healthy and finally free from the back and knee problems. Awesome defense against Augustus during the win over the Lynx btw.

・Lauren Jackson. ‘Nuff said. Thank you for staying in Seattle. ^__^

Game 1: at Sacramento Monarchs WIN 71-61

Game 2: vs Sacramento Monarchs WIN 80-70

Game 3: at Indiana Fever LOSS 66-73

Game 4: at Minnesota Lynx WIN 88-71

UP NEXT: at Chicago Sky 0500H JST

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Got tagged by Jed over at Facebook.

Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3.
d. Save the image and post it on this note!
e. If you’re tagged, pass it on. And tag me.

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The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your favorite color?
4. Favorite drink?
5. Dream vacation?
6. Favorite hobby?
7. What do you want to be when you grow up?
8. What do you love most in life?
9. One word to describe you?

Here’s the result:

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Bored. Can’t sleep. So I took an old photo (July 2008)
and just randomly adjusted some settings in Photoshop.

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via Kevin Pelton:

Storm Practice (5/19/2009) by SeattleStormOfficial.

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Can’t wait :D

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This is one awesome song by Bob Dylan and is included in his album Time Out of Mind. The song has been covered by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Joan Osborne, Luka Bloom, Josh Kelley, Timothy B. Schmit, Kelly Clarkson, Ronan Keating, Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan (from Solas), Emily Loizeau, Bryan Ferry, Mary Black, Jasper Steverlinck, Ruarri Joseph, Phil Keaggy, Taylor Hicks, Jon Peter Lewis, Adele, and Kris Allen.

I’m posting the one by Adele because it’s what’s stuck in my mind after I heard it during one of my long home→work or work→home commutes. I’ve heard the one by Kelly Clarkson and Kris Allen, but I dunno, I’m into the Adele/Duffy/Winehouse/Megan Corkey~ish voices lately so Adele it is then.

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you haven’t made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I’ve known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue
I’d go crawling down the avenue
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rollin’ sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain’t seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn’t do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love

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During the recent Golden Week while Toio was here, we found ourselves dragging our butts to Harajuku. Apparently everyone else thought the same thing. And so we found ourselves stuck between people even before we got out of the Harajuku station. Here’s a shot of the throng just after we squeezed ourselves out:

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‘Nuff said.

Source: 598th of someoneoncetoldme.com

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Title: Departures aka Okuribito
Genre: Drama
Director: Takita Yōjirō

Okuribito (Departures) follows the story of failed orchestra cellist Kobayashi Daigo who is forced to give up his 18-million JPY cello and move back to his hometown in Yamagata-ken. His wife Mika moves with him to the countryside to start their lives anew. While searching for a new job, he spots a newspaper ad from a “NK Agency” that says “Assisting Departures”. Mistaking this for a travel agency, Daigo goes for the job interview and finds out that the job is not really for a tour-guide type but instead is for assisting the “departed” (a.k.a. dead, gone, deceased, someone who will be pushing up daisies in the next collective amount of time). This is where the title of the film comes in — okuribito is roughly translated as the “departed’s assistant”.

Anyhoo, everyone around him, including his wife, hates this new job and the idea of handling corpses all day. Okay, we all get the Ick Factor there. But somehow, each and every death that Daigo handles for his job helps him discover how important life really and why people do what they do even if they will end up dead anyway.

What I liked about this movie

– Drama and humor seamlessly integrated in the movie. Each and every sequence is wonderfully transitioned into the next one. Awesome.

– Ironies of 運命 (fate) and destiny and all that jazz. Lots of symbolism here and there. I particularly like the part where it came full circle — from Daigo taking care of several dead people in front of those dead people’s families, he ends up taking care of his newly-deceased estranged father.

– Awesome pacing. I didn’t get bored. Must help, though, that I can sort of understand what they were saying and was not entirely reliant on the subs.

– Great soundtrack. Tsk :)

– It’s a soul-cleansing experience. ‘Nuff said.

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