Saturday, May 31, 2008
Remembering Cornelia
Friday, May 30, 2008
wanna do it...my way
Behind that door
LAKERS WON THE WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS...HEPHEP...HOORAY!!!
The Los Angeles Lakers star and his teammates, resplendent in caps and T-shirts honoring their Western Conference championship, were celebrating on the Staples Center floor as Jerry West spoke to the crowd.
The 70-year-old West, known as Mr. Clutch during a Hall of Fame career with the Lakers, presented his former team with the conference championship trophy following its 100-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.
“I’ve seen a lot of great players in my life, but you people in L.A. are very privileged to see this young man here, Kobe Bryant. He’s something special,” West said.
“A dream come true, the answer to a prayer,” a beaming Bryant would tell the fans a few minutes later.
West was the Lakers’ general manager 12 years ago when he pulled off a deal even greater than the Pau Gasol heist, acquiring Bryant from Charlotte for center Vlade Divac a couple of weeks after the NBA draft. Divac was expendable because the Lakers were about to sign free agent Shaquille O’Neal.
Bryant, the 13th overall pick in the draft, had just graduated from Lower Merion High outside Philadelphia and needed a mentor as he headed to Los Angeles. West was perfect for the job.
The two have been close ever since, even after West left the Lakers following the 1999-2000 season, so the heartfelt embrace they shared following Thursday night’s ceremony was sincere.
The Lakers earned their first NBA finals berth since 2004 exactly one year after Bryant called the team’s front office “a mess” on a local radio show. He would demand a trade the following day on a national show, ultimately saying he’d prefer to play on Pluto rather than return to Los Angeles.
A few weeks earlier, Bryant implored the team to call on West to help general manager Mitch Kupchak improve the roster.
How things have changed.
“Mitch has done a terrific job,” Bryant said Thursday night. “He has made some key trades, obviously the Pau one (four months ago), which when I talk to other people around the league and I say it was a great trade, they look at me and laugh and they don’t want to call it a trade. They want to call it … a donation or something like that.”
After Bryant demanded to be traded, the situation calmed down until Lakers owner Jerry Buss told reporters during training camp in October he was listening to offers for Bryant, angering the superstar once again, prompting him to leave the team for a couple of days.
Bryant heard some boos at Staples Center before the Lakers’ season-opening 95-93 loss to Houston, but now, all he hears from the home crowd are cheers and chants of “MVP, MVP.”
Bryant scored 10 of his 39 points in the final 3:32 of the Lakers’ series-clinching victory over the Spurs. They rallied from a 20-point third-quarter deficit to win the opener, and a 17-point second-quarter deficit to win the fifth and final game.
So, now, the Lakers are getting a week off before opening the NBA finals next Thursday night.
Bryant and O’Neal, one of the best 1-2 punches in NBA history, teamed up to lead the Lakers to three straight championships starting in 2000, but O’Neal was traded a month after they lost to the Pistons in June 2004.
What’s happened since that time boggles the mind.
Phil Jackson, arguably the most successful coach in NBA history, wasn’t invited back, and the Lakers signed Rudy Tomjanovich to a five-year contract. But Tomjanovich barely made it through half a season before stepping down, citing health concerns.
After the Lakers failed to make the playoffs in the 2004-05 season, Jackson was rehired.
Derek Fisher left after the loss to Detroit, signing a free-agent deal with the Golden State Warriors, where he played two years before being traded to Utah.
Fisher had three years worth $21 million remaining on his contract last summer when he asked the Jazz to void the deal so he could move to a city where his daughter, Tatum, could receive treatment for a cancerous tumor in her eye. He returned to the Lakers, and played a key role in their return to elite status.
Only in Hollywood.
“We all share in this,” Bryant said. “It is not me at the forefront. That’s just not how we roll.”
The Lakers have rolled their way into the NBA finals for the 23rd time since moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1961, and the 29th time overall. They have won 14 championships—nine in Los Angeles and five in Minneapolis.
“I think it is really a victorious point in time,” said Jackson, whose team has a 12-3 record this year in the playoffs, including 8-0 at Staples Center. “Never a dull moment with these boys.”
remembering up up and away....
Thursday, May 29, 2008
feed your mind
no matter how crazy & funny the scenes around u
,it is useless w/o that somebody who u want to laugh with...
so true right???
I AM SO FED UP
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
onion-galactika
Douglas Forian's
Comets, Stars, The moon, and Mars
The universe is every place,
Including all the empty space.
It's every star and galaxy,
All objects of astronomy...
Monday, May 26, 2008
Christian Companion
Galatians 5: 13
"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."
Gosh i am so into this...
mi mama es nag
my mom is a nag! i know such a cliche huh?though she has this kind of characteristic still she has this really soft part in her heart...she was like nagging at this moment but after the hand of the clock ticked believe me she'll be like an angel in disguise...lol...i love my mom...though sometimes we irritate each other...because of diff. opinions but i think that's healthy cause someone has to oppose someone, i mean that's how perfection works, someone has to be criticized and the other has to be the critics but that was just often because we almost agree with everything...ha ha! i know mum that those words are for me but maybe you would wanna chill sometime...lol..muah!!
Friday, May 23, 2008
CUISINES THAT IS LOVED
Tempura - Seafood and vegetables deep fried in tempura batter
Tempura was brought to Japan by the Potuguese. Today Tempura is a very popular Japanese food, and as well one of the best known outside of Japan.
Mae goreng- when i first visited Malaysia i freaking fell in love with this noodles...i wish i could have one again and again...
My Wish List:
2. Be able to go and slack in PRAGUE and JAPAN as my fave country
PRAGUE IN NIGHT
MOUNT FIJI OF JAPAN
4. Be able to have these kinda of eyes (contact lenses will do)
5. become a part of the Hillsongs australia (back-up singer will be very much appreciated...lol
Cost: $2,600 per pound*€2,173£1,491Can$2,992Aus$3,500Rs114,816 Where: Norwalk, Conn. Web site: www.knipschildt.com
Knipschildt Chocolatier was founded in 1999 by Fritz Knipschildt, who got his culinary education as a chef in Denmark. The most-expensive chocolate he sells--a $250 dark chocolate truffle with a French black truffle inside--is available on a preorder-only basis. It's made of 70% Valrhona cacao, which is blended into a creamy ganache with truffle oil. The truffle is then hand-rolled with a dark truffle on the inside and dusted with cocoa powder.
(COPY PASTE FROM FORBES)
8. to meet and kiss the lakers esp. kobe one kenobi (^___^)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I SMELL VICTORY
DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE IDOL IS COOKING!?
hooray! and yeah my cook cooked archie...lol..congratulations David Cook...Did Simon Cowell know David Cook would win? Or was he — gasp! — just being nice?
Right before host Ryan Seacrest announced Cook as the next "American Idol," Cowell issued an uncharacteristic apology to the sincere 25-year-old rocker for skewering him during Tuesday's final performance show. Cowell went so far as to say that the remarks he made the night before to the future "Idol" winner were "verging on disrespectful."
"When I went back home and watched it, it wasn't quite so clear cut as we called it," he said to the final two.
but i still adore cowell, yeah and i LOVE cook! i like archie too lol...Good Luck!
(extracted from Associated Press)
GOT SO SICK
Monday, May 19, 2008
i'll miss you guys
BETHANY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION
BOUND TO MANILA
Saturday, May 17, 2008
CELEBRATING MAHAL NA ARAW
hais puo late update ko...anyways guys this is how me and my cousins celebrate our mahal na araw...uhmmm ala lng..photo blog lng..ha ha!
si tonio...crizilu,,,misua..erik,,ako...
tonio c sua at ken,ako,c erik
lunudan kmi s two feet pool...ha ha!
malalim na dito ten feet malulunod nko..png five feet lng ako!
Friday, May 16, 2008
I, ALL OF THE SUDDEN REMEMBER IT ALL
A LATE FAMILY REUNION UPDATE
~gKkk~
hell yeah! we had a blast!finally my cousins (close one...lol) met again!
like we had fun together...go to the carnival fiesta and uhmmm....lol
yeah we had a two day pool party...actually it was more like a not so party but swimming lesson
cause coach "M" (lil' kid) give us some swimming lesson 101 (would you bLiv we cnT swim?)
well me either but not until the last 5 hours on the pool...yeah like me and jhel wouldn't wanna go home cause we already have an idea how to swim..lol..it was fun and Gosh i miss them so much!
lols...actualy the LAST YEAR'S REUNION is far more crowded than this year's though i am much happier this year because just like what i've said we just had a blast...like a big one ha ha!
that's mom...ate cynth...ate che...baby tyrese...uncle fen...tita elvie...kuya eric...and yours truly and the one who took this pix is jhel...omg where is coach?
jhel...me...t'cynth...bhebhe...and kuya eric
me...hooohoooo...ha ha!
ohh this is when we,cousins (ella, eric, tito and ariel become godpaerents to Chris)
would you bLiv dat?hhaha...like okay fine...just wanna share...lol...peace!