PBA Draft: Top 2 picks are Ateneans

I don't understand the fuss over Nonoy Baclao being #1 and Rabeh Al-Hussaini #2 in yesterday's PBA draft. Both are Ateneans. Both will play for Air21 and will get maximum contracts. No difference.

If it's his enormous pride and ego that bothers Rabeh that someone else went number 1, I hope he changes his attitude. Otherwise, he hasn't played a game of professional basketball but it might just be the start of his downfall.

Besides, it's his former teammate that was picked ahead of him so he shouldn't be upset and feel slighted.

Grow up, Rabeh.

Ateneo beats Adamson again

Ateneo stretched its win streak over Adamson University to 27 straight games with a 55-52 victory yesterday.

While Ateneo may have owned Adamson for the past 13 years or so, the Falcons have won the betting game the past couple of years. They've kept most games close thus having an excellent against the spread (ATS) record versus the Eagles.

Ateneo is now in solo 2nd in the UAAP standings with a 9-3 card. Adamson is third at 8-4.

Green genocide

The other day, a team of Ateneo Grade Schoolers massacred De La Salle Zobel kids 110-17 in the PAYA Midgets division. Talk about bringing humiliation to a whole new level.

Major props to the entire AGS PAYA Midgets team and to Jutes Templo, one of their coaches who is a good friend of mine. Keep it up!

So much for the future of DLSU basketball. ROTFLMAO.

Baby are you down?

I've been seriously considering watching the Jay Sean concert this weekend. Highly unlikely I will watch though unless I can get complimentary passes.

In any case, I have a few more days to decide.

Blog break

Can't believe I kept this blog idle for a month. LOL.

I guess I haven't been in the mood to update or there's not much going on to write about. Either way, I've been slacking big time.

Lotsa things happening soon so perhaps I just might get my blogging mojo back.

Blog backlog

I've been slacking on blogging recently. It's been a chaotic July to say the least andI haven't been in the best of moods to write anything.

Anyhow, I'll try to backblog and keep this thing updated.

Best pickup line ever

Quoting from NT's Approaching Women at Clubs thread:

I walk up to the girl, grab her arm and say, "Don't make me turn this rape into a murder."

Game over.

See you in Brazil 2014

I'm glad the World Cup is over. No more football posers masquerading as fans for the next four years.

An ode to Baccarat

You bring out the best and worst in me.

There's a reason I stopped playing you. There's a reason I keep coming back.

You are like an epic thrill ride, kinda like being on a rollercoaster without any harness.

"You've got the best of me but I just keep on coming back incessantly. Oh why, did you have to run your game on me? I should've known right from the start you'd go and break my heart."

2010 Singapore Grand Prix

I was supposed to watch last year's race but last minute plans didn't push through. This time, due to early and insistent peer pressure, I finally succumbed and booked my trip to Singapore this September.

I was never really a huge F1 fan plus this season has been rather disappointing and void of excitement or enthusiasm so it took a lot of convincing for me to cave in. Bottomline, my back was against the wall and I just couldn't say no. LOL.

Anyway, there's gonna be around a dozen of us who'll be going so it should be fun. And if it'll be anything like our HK/Macau trip back in 2008, then it will be freaking epic.

Beantown Meltdown

They were six minutes away from another championship. But when it mattered the most, they couldn't make any shot.

Boston lost Game 7 and the Lakers were lucky and happy enough to take what the Celtics handed to them - the Larry O'Brien trophy.

Game 7

One final game to end the 2009-10 NBA season.

Boston at Los Angeles tomorrow.

I hope it's a good one.

Stupid girl

I have zero pity for teenage sailor, Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old who got stranded at the Indian Ocean with her damaged yacht. She got what she bargained for when she decided to claim popularity and fame by being the youngest person to circumnavigate the world.

She's lucky she was rescued in time though I was secretly hoping her boat would capsize before help came so she can be taught a valuable lesson in humility.

Goalkeeping gaffe

I was a former goalkeeper so I know the feeling. Still, there's absolutely no excuse for a mistake like this, especially in the World Cup.




This blunder should keep English goalkeeper Robert Green out of any future international duty.

Familiarity breeds contempt Vol. Stupid maid

My mom had to fire our stay-out household helper for having gone AWOL on us for the past two weeks. This lady finally sent my mom a text the other day saying she was sick and stuff. My mom said, "Fuck it, the least you could've done was tell us."

Thing is, this lady has been coming to clean and do laundry for us for about 9 years now. I guess she has become so comfortable and complacent about her status that she thinks she doesn't have to inform us if she's coming to work or not.

Long story short, do not dare bite the hand that feeds you do not shit where you eat. You just might end up eating your shit.

Snoozefest in South Africa

Two matches. Two goals. Two draws.

Save for a superb left-footed strike to the top right corner off a wonderful counter-attack by South African winger Siphiwe Tshabalala, the opening day of the 2010 World Cup was such a bore.

It was a far cry from the high-scoring opening game during the 2006 tournament in Germany, where the Germans beat Costa Rica, 4-2.

I hope these performances are not signs of things to come. Otherwise, I don't know how I'll manage to stay awake while watching the games.

ID 112

Happy 112th Independence Day Philippines. That's bullshit though because we were under the Japanese and Americans until the 1940's.

Not gonna front, sometimes I wish we were still an American colony though.

Best of three

With Boston and LA splitting the first four games, winning one each on the road and at home, the 2010 Finals series is down to a thrilling best-of-three.

Like a lot of other people, I think whoever wins Game 5 will end up being the champions. That said, no team has won consecutive games yet and the Celtics will have to win two straight at some point to have a shot at the title.

I'm hoping they snag Game 5 at home so they have a little breathing room going back to Los Angeles.

2010 South Africa

You know it's World Cup time again when people who don't know shit about football start becoming 'die-hard' fans for about a month or until their 'teams' get knocked out of the tourney.

What's worse is that I see a bunch of these bums post World Cup-related stuff on Twitter and Facebook.

SMGDFH.

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I have the same sentiments as four years ago when I wrote this, World Cup fever.

Becoming Champion of Krynn

Finally.

After around 25 cumulative hours of gameplay, numerous deaths, and tons of save-load-save cycles, I managed to finish Champions of Krynn with no deaths to my party.

I could've finished sooner but I didn't want to leave any of my characters behind since I'm planning to carry them over to the game's sequel, Death Knights of Krynn.

I'm looking forward to starting that adventure soon and I'll bet it'll take me another week's worth of playing to finish that one too.