Another nba post! Look back and Update…

OMGEEE I MISS NBA SOOOO MUCH!!! AHHH only like…. 40 more days till the first game!!!

So I’m going to look at my post for the 2010 season and see how well i figured things out…

“it’s 2:06 am, im dead tired, yet i can’t sleep…… GAH!!!!! so imma write about nba cause i already checked my twitter, tumblr, fb, hotmail, and all the other pages i read. im also gonna make some predictions and i wonder how theyll turn out by the end of the season…. be warned this whole entry is riddled with typos and grammatical errors and a good helping of nonsense”

lol pretty much the same except it’s 1:37 am and now add to the list: gmail, basketbawful, slamonline, espn, nba, slickdeals, woot, and dramafever. My gosh, it probably takes over an hour easy just to run through all of these.

“Man….. I’m SOOOOO excited for this nba season! the top teams are HELLAA loaded!! so there are gonna be some epic games this coming year! thing is, lots of the worst teams got worse so lots of blowouts tooo… this lends to many tiers: the top teams, the almost there, the single-stars, and the rest. the rankings are how,i predict, the season will end”

Man! If I only knew what lebron was gonna end up doing! There are still tiers and somehow the rich still got richer (in exchange for some of the players from good teams) but the ultra poor got better (looking at Sacramento and Warriors)

“the top teams are:

1) Lakers, 2) Celtics, 3) Spurs, 4) Cavaliers, 5) Orlando”

I did decently well. I didn’t think the spurs would lose to suns tho

“I think lakers have a good chance of repeating this year (assumming odom doesnt go sugar crazy and ron ron doesnt kill the chemistry…… i miss Trevor Ariza!!) but it’s going to be a lot harder if every other teams stays healthy, espessially kg and the spurs. as a lakers fan, im looking forward to lakers vs spurs while as a basketball fan, i’m looking forward to celtics and the spurs. i guess i really like the spurs this year considering their offseason roster changes.”

I thought richard jefferson was the answer for the spurs and i was wronngggg. and ron ron ended up being irreplaceable in our championship run. As for the rest of the teams, I guessed pretty well except I didn’t think the thunder would have made the playoffs since they finished with such a bleh record in 2009.

Alright I’m going to make this simpler and just rank em for how far they are going to go in the playoffs.

1) Lakers: Champions! Best record in west. Like the better bench but a little irked by Barnes. Hopefully ron ron isn’t a nucklehead (basketball-wise) anymore

2) Celtics: This was a tough call. I can see how heat may have the better record but in a playoff series, I think Celtics win. So predicting a Finals rematch! They proved last year they don’t care so much about record but they should still finish in the top half so at least a 4th seed.

3) Heat: I’m going to guess they have the best record overall. End up losing to Celtics or Bulls in playoffs, one year away from title contention.

4) Thunder: Last year was suppose to be them almost getting to the playoffs, instead it was them almost getting the 6th seed and took the Lakers to 6. Not only did they get valuable playoff experience, Kevin durant and westbrook lit it up during the FIBA world championship. They are going to be a tough team to beat and the one I’m most scared of! I predict a Western conference battle of Thunder vs. Lakers with them getting the 2 seed.

5) Bulls/Orlando: Now it’s drose, noah, boozer! Fun team, I predict top half of playoffs for both. Bulls over Orlando.

6) Dallas/Houston: To round out the top 4 seed in west. Yao will improve Houston greatly i think.

To round out playoffs in some order:

West) San Antonio, Phoenix, Denver, Portland

East) Not gonna even try. Don’t know teams well enough.

Biggest Surprise (Sleeper Team): Just for fun, last year would have been Oklahoma City Thunder. This year if there is a team that jumps from the bottom I’m guessing it will be…..   Sacramento! They will get at least the 9th seed. Just a feeling.

New year resolutions!

I looked at my last year new years resolution and i thought i did reasonably well!

-”get my gpa to a 3.25″ done!! i totally forgot about this resolution! :X and the bulk of the work was in the 2nd half……. which is a sign that resolutions are best forgotten? but i think i got over my studying slump! now i can study the way i did for ochem for any of my classes although not sure how much good that will do for me since i only have a year of school left

-”read the bible” wow….. i failed….. so i guess this resolution will carry over to this year! this time around, i actually have my bible! that’s a good first step :X hahah

-”work out 5 days a week” ehhhhhh i think i did something better tho…. train and run for a half marathon! weeeee! but yea…. working out is always a must but I don’t need a resolution for that

New ones!

-be awesome at my internship so that i can find another one (or maybe work!!!) closer to my field of study

-be happy!

a nba post….

it’s 2:06 am, im dead tired, yet i can’t sleep…… GAH!!!!! so imma write about nba cause i already checked my twitter, tumblr, fb, hotmail, and all the other pages i read. im also gonna make some predictions and i wonder how theyll turn out by the end of the season…. be warned this whole entry is riddled with typos and grammatical errors and a good helping of nonsense

Man….. I’m SOOOOO excited for this nba season! the top teams are HELLAA loaded!! so there are gonna be some epic games this coming year! thing is, lots of the worst teams got worse so lots of blowouts tooo… this lends to many tiers: the top teams, the almost there, the single-stars, and the rest. the rankings are how,i predict, the season will end

the top teams are:

1) Lakers,

2) Celtics,

3) Spurs,

4) Cavaliers,

5) Orlando

I think lakers have a good chance of repeating this year (assumming odom doesnt go sugar crazy and ron ron doesnt kill the chemistry…… i miss Trevor Ariza!!) but it’s going to be a lot harder if every other teams stays healthy, espessially kg and the spurs. as a lakers fan, im looking forward to lakers vs spurs while as a basketball fan, i’m looking forward to celtics and the spurs. i guess i really like the spurs this year considering their offseason roster changes.

the almost there are:

6) Nuggets,

7) Blazers,

8) Mavericks,

these teams are the best teams to beat any team in the top five in a game or series and a REALLY good year could give them a championship but at the least, they’ll give a fight.

These teams simply dont have the depth to go past the first round in the playoffs, but they are at least there?

9) Jazz, (boozerrrrrrrr)

10) Raptors, (Bosh and turkulu(?) this could be raptors year going beyond the first round)

11) Hornets, (chris paul and chandler)

12) Suns, (nash and stoudimire(?))

13) Heat, (d-wade and beasley)

14) Bulls, (d-rose, but no ben gordon i think hinrich is still there? haha that was one epic series last year)

15) Hawks (i have no idea who is on this team but there always in the playoffs….)

and then theres the rest….. most of these teams will face blowouts from the top 5 and tough competition from 6~15ish. i dont know these teams all that well so im not even going to try to rank them.

photo diary of the happiest race on earth!

so the day finally came! finals are over, everyone’s going home, and 2 weeks of break! before i could start break though, i had one more thing to check off my to-do list. after weeks of training and a full week of carbo-loading, race day was upon me and p!

plan: get a good night sleep, leave sd at 4 am, race at 6 am, finish ~9am, tastea, home!

i epically FAILED at getting a good night sleep, heck i didnt even get much of sleep. i ended up just taking a 30 min nap and staying up till p picked me up. i was so out of it that when i first saw p, he scared the heck out of me!

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SUCCESS! we leave a little earlier than 4am and off we go!

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pit stop at IHOP! (hey that rhymes!) cause we got hungry. we shared 5 regular pancakes for 10 bucks and we didnt even finish it cause we had to go. so sad, feels like such a waste… but my half filled me up!

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we try to find our way around to our group. you can start to feel the excitement in the air! so many people! omgee! little fact: 63% of racers are girls, a great ratio for the bachelor!

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race is about to begin!! now people are getting REALLY excited. i start feeling like we’re going to a rave rather than a race! they had mickey and minnie to send us off!

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and we’re off!

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first, we went through some of california adventure! they had lots of HSM3 stuff on the way, people were stopping taking pictures with them!

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then we got to run through dland!!!

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suddenly we’re outside dland and running through anaheim!

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we hit the 5 mile part without a hitch since we do that all the time and things looks good. (btw we started the race ~10 mins late)

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hula dancers!! we start seeing lots of cultural stuff including a little fiesta!

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anaheim stadium! unfortunately i lost p at one of the water stations. things got narrow and he fell a bit behind. i started worrying and taking lots of breaks. started losing my pace

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mile 10! as the way p said it HUGE wall! started taking longer walks and eventually p caught up!

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mile 12! p and i were hella dying and aching, he had his knees and i had my feet but we powered through it!! jogged the rest of it for the most part through the pain. hella annoying near the end cause people on the side were like… finish line is behind the corner… but it isnt! GRR GRR!!!! that happened like 6 times, hella owned

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FINISH!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOH!!!!!!!!! time: 2:37ish life is good! randomly met one of my hs classmates at the finish line! apparently apo volunteers at this event

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MEDALS!!!! they were huge and gold and… awesome!! got some super plain bagels and banana right after this which tasted like food from heaven

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TASTEA!! p is such a boba freak

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and now got back home, ate hella food, took hella naps, and watched hella tv. =D

pictures courtesy of p

when being wrong is awesome

i tend to think of the worst of people, im glad that i have been wrong every time

WOW i love this book

during this summer, i decided to read a wide barrage of books ranging from the nonfiction to the fantasy. for the past week or so, i have found something nicely in the middle. it is called The Time Traveler’s Wife. at first i thought this book was about a scientist’s wife as she goes through life while her husband is off at these missions or endeavours. very much like cliched story of the wife of the soldier/sailor/astronaut with the twist of time travel.

i was very pleasantly surprised! it is simply a jumbled story of dealing with life. it is not quite the coming of age tale (it might be, i have only read through about half the book) but a journey as these two people adventuring through life with the love they have for eac hother. it is a very pleasant read after my books of lightsabers, lakers, and wide worlds of fantasy which all cumulatively turned my brain into a sludgy literate from reading way too many guilty pleasures.

this hasnt happened in awhile…

you know as you go through life, you set yourself little goals or the big ultimate goal i.e. getting a 4.0 this quarter and getting out of school with a gpa higher than 3.8. they keep you focused and you have an eye on the prize. today was one of those miraculous days where the planets decided to allign and all the animals in the world decided to look up.

i set my goal today running 8 laps, 2 more than my usual 6 laps. i go out and start running. the first lap was REALLY hard! i kinda sorta threw up in my a few times and my running technique was a little off (ive rested three days) at that point iwas thinking maybe i can only survive two laps. but the most amazing the happened, after the first two laps. things got a lot easier! i started running with a good pace, felt great, and i started knocking down laps one by one. before i know it, im at 8 laps, and i think hmmm, dont feel tired at all ill keep going. i ended up running 4 more! yea afterwards, my calves wanted to kill me but i felt elated, i have not destroyed my goal like this in a LONG while, for some time now, ive been thinking that my goals have been too limiting i.e. after i attain it, i simply stop working hard. its just great to know that i dont limit myself to my goals as much as i thought.

fyi. 1 lap=2/3 mile