Okay, so Spartak showed they were human and actually lost to TEO Vilnius in their previous game before this, but they bounced back — mightier and more imperious than ever.

The story:

Lauren Jackson with 5 out of 6 three’s. She’s back!

Stat Sheet:

Lauren Jackson :19 points, 7 rebs, 4 asts

Sue Bird: 10 pts, 6 asts, 4 rebs, 3 steals, 1 TO

Diana Taurasi: 14 pts, 8 rebs, 7 asts, 8 TOs

Sylvia Fowles: 18 pts, 11 rebs

Up Next:

Broker Kosice, Nov 5 2008, 1730H

well, i am leaving room for the gloom of the impending doom
that i knew all too well from the start. really this possibility
of my heart shattering into tiny parts can be such a painful art,
it stings, it prickles, like being rained on with pins and needles.
but you see, i should be more than able to adeptly reassemble
those that were wrecked, fragmented, broken when one’s fallen,
glue them meticulously, paint them thoroughly, fix them fully
til they’re shining and shimmering and splendidly spanking new
ready for more, ready for what’s in store, ready just like before.

12:03 AM 10/27/2008

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It’s not unusual for me to miss people. I mean, I also miss food and places and certain other things, so of course I also miss people. But see, what makes it not so bothering and emotionally-draining is the fact that I’m a pro at not getting too down because of it coz I can just fill my time with activities to get my mind out of missing a certain mass of matter wandering around somewhere else, somewhere not here. There’s photography, and sports, and the never-ending list of movies and TV shows that I have yet to watch, and photo-processing backlogs, and friends to talk to and trade insults with, and friends in far away places that I need to catch up with, and well, there’s the sleeping that I seem to be missing out on for the past, I dunno, couple of weeks. And oh — I still have books I have yet to finish (so sorry Terry Goodkind, you don’t deserve my slacking).

With that said, why am I suddenly feeling so unusual?

The answer is one word — ***

And it’s best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it’s bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

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And whenever I thought about the future I couldn’t see anything clearly in my head and that made a panic start. So Siobhan said I shouldn’t think about the future. She said, ‘Just think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.’

- Christopher Boone in Mark Haddon’s Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Finally, I finished a book. Halleluiah.

* 未来について – (mirai nit tsuite) (tr. about the future).

…and by that, I don’t mean the real marathon. I’m talking about movies, man. Eversince I finally completed my mini home theater*, I’ve been watching a lot of movies (aside from the host of TV shows that I still have to watch) coz I felt like I’ve been missing out on, well, movies in general.

Okay, the following items (in no particular order, coz I don’t really remember the order I saw them) are those that I’ve watched since Suzie Derkins (my CPU) and Kim Samsung (the monitor) came into being:

High Fidelity

This movie’s about a guy — a record-store owner, who’s also a compulsive list-maker. Throughout the movie he recounts his top five break-ups, including one that is ongoing. John Cusack plays Rob the record-store owner with Jack Black ocassionally stealing the show as his employee. Catherine Zeta-Jones is also there somewhere. The tagline (according to IMDB) is “a comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love and other pop favorites”. Despite the word “comedy” plastered in there, this movie was quite the trigger for an intense emotikon session (private, of course =))).

Anyhoo, this movie is alright. It also doesn’t hurt that it has an awesome soundtrack — of course it would have to be awesome, a movie with music geeks wouldn’t be complete without an awesome soundtrack.

Wall-E

Well, sorry, I really can’t wait for December (yes, that long) so I just scourged over the web for a copy. It’s been eons already since this Pixar film was shown in other parts of the world and it’s taking, like, forever to get here. Booo!

What did I get from the movie?

1. Last-dialog-syndrome. I’ve been blurting out “Eeeevvuh” and “Wall-Eeeee” in what could be passable as a robotic voice since that movie.

2. My sound card’s mic input is already making my voice sound like Wall-E. Drat.

3. A few minutes nap while watching the movie. Yes, I was half-asleep while watching Wall-E. Maybe because it was really late (around 330AM) or maybe I just got bored with all the “Eeeevuh” and “Wall-Eeeee” dialogs.

4. Aaaackk! All the fat people in space just lie around with screens in front of their eyes and just let the machines take care of their needs. I’m suddenly very very afraid, really afraid. I lie around all the time and I’ve made couch-potato~ing look like an art but I don’t wanna get bloated like that!

The Cinderalla Stories

[t] Hey napanood mo na ba yung A Cinderella Story?
[i] Ha? Yan ba yung may sumasayaw?
[t] Lahat naman ng teeny-bopper movies may sumasayaw!
[t] (Pause)
[t] Omigod, napanood mo rin yung “Another Cinderella Story”?
[t] Wahaha, yun may “Mary Santiagoooo”?
[i] Ahahahahahaha. Oo. Inferness ang galing niya magsayaw ha — yung Mary.
[t] Favorite ko yung nasa likod ng one way glass-mirror si vavae at parang mirror-image (malamang) yung steps nila ni lalake.
[i] Ay oo.
[t] “What’s your name?” “My name’s Joey Parker!” hahaha. Potek bakit ba alam ko yan?!
[i] Alam mo pa ang lines wahahahaha.
[t] Eh pero hindi yun yung tinatanong ko sa yo, tinatanong ko yung A Cinderella Story.
[t] Chad Michael Murray saka Hilary Duff nubuzz.
[i] Wahahaha.

Moral of the Story: Sadyang napakarami nang Cinderella stories sa panahong ito. Sheesh.

The Prince and Me : Trilogy

Yep, trilogy siya. Akalain mo yun? I remember watching the first one. It starred Luke Mably and Julia Stiles. Paige Morgan (Stiles) is a local farmer’s daughter attending Wisconsin University who falls for weird Danish exchange student Edvard (“Eddie”). Later on she discovers that he’s actually the crown prince of Denmark.

The second installment seemed to be released only in Australia and still had Luke Mably in its cast as the Prince but Paige Morgan is, well, not Paige Morgan anymore (or rather, Paige Morgan is not Julia Stiles anymore). It was about the royal wedding, I think. The third one was about the honeymoon in some remote European country covered in snow and ice. I suddenly couldn’t wait for snowboarding season to start.

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(Uh oh, I can’t continue this no more coz I got a lot of stuff to code and I’m already losing my head so, I’m just gonna list those movies that I’ve watched …)

→21 : Jim Sturgess+ Kate Bosworth+ Math = quite a viewing pleasure. Yeah, I know, nerd na kung nerd.

→Wanted: (for the nth time). One word = AWESOME!

→College: Three high school seniors visit a university and pretend to be college students.

→Garden State: Zach Braff (JD from Scrubs) plays a depressed brooding guy who goes back home because his mother died. He meets Manic Pixie Dream Girl Natalie Portman in a sort of hospital (forgot what kind coz I wasn’t really paying attention). And well, ya know, typical stuff happens. Guy meets girl, girl makes an impression and helps guy get out of his emo whatever shit, and they sort of live happily ever after. I dunno why but this movie didn’t connect to me better than Elizabethtown did.

→Don’t Mess With The Zohan: I’m 1/4-way into the movie.

… and others. I forgot about the rest. Might continue this later when I get home.

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*Mini Home Theater Specs:

[x] 22″ Samsung 2253BW widescreen monitor. Specs
[x] Logicool X-240 2.1 stereo speaker set. Specs
[x] Logicool wireless mouse and keyboard.
[x] A Frankenstein (read: assembled) CPU with the following innards:
[x.a] Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R motherboard .Specs
[x.b] Video card (on board — for the meantime).
[x.c] Intel Core^TM Extreme Quad-Core.
[x.d] 4GB DDR-800 RAM.
[x.e] 500GB HDD (wahahaha — for now).
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I have nothing else to do so I resorted to playing with these images. Thanks to my bro, Jakey, for that cute caricature that I *harassed* him to draw.  The “Green Moon” image is part of my Lunar Project set in Flickr.

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Den ganzen Beitrag lesen…

Via rein-kar-nation, found out that Spartak (Sue, LJ,  and Taurasi’s Russian team) already started their EuroLeague season.

First victim — Famila Schio. [ Game Notes ]

The Bird Watch — 15 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists in 35 minutes.

The Dee Watch — 12 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists in 24 minutes.

Up Next — 22.10.2008 vs. TEO Vilnius 18:45 (Russian Time)

For the first time in a long time, I have nothing to say, nothing in my mind worth blurting out, nothing, nothing, nothing.

What the hell’s wrong with me?

*** + ***

So I guess, I’ll just blame the following for the apparent lack of sensible entries in this blog:

①　Work. Work’s been draining lately. Never mind that we don’t seem to do OTs or whatever, it’s still draining just as hell.

② TV Shows. Bajillions of them. I’ve only been able to follow four series this season (How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Gossip Girl, and Grey’s Anatomy). I have to back-watch several other series (Pushing Daisies, Weeds, True Blood, Heroes, … ). It’s getting too tiring though.

③ Movies. I’ve been catching up on movie-watching coz I realized that I’m a little behind (only a little — oh come on!).

④ Chika time. Seriously — who would want to write when you can effortlessly just talk about what’s going on in your head? (But everything has an exception so …)

⑤ Sleep. Again, seriously — who would want to write when you can just sleep instead? :D

⑥ Sports. I’ve been dabbling with tennis, futsal, table tennis, and badminton for more than a couple of weeks already. My weekends are always cramped with game skeds >_< . But I like it though. At least now I’m not just couch potato~ing my way through the weekend. ETA: can’t wait for January — Snobo Season yeaaaah!

⑦ Looking forward to my trips. ‘Nuff said.

⑧　Plurk. Addicting.

⑨ Blogger’s Block. The default reason.

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Oi, it’s October 16 pala! Happy Birthday to my favorite Point Guard in the planet — Seattle Storm Guard Sue Bird. Yay!

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