daily ramblings of a 20-something yuppie who wants to be a bum. nonsense babbles about working, missing college, basketball, the seattle storm and life in general.

9/27/2004

BEE HAPPY!
33
yowza!







title page ng powerpoint namin wachaaa!
'm scared na...ilang oras na lang...
brrr...


long overdue na pic from the 2004 nestle cheerdance competition.
biggie sis-it carabellebelles, ako, lowla tj amidst all the USTE fans in one of the lower sections in araneta.
thankies to nikki for the pic.

9/26/2004

wnba.playoffs.2004






WESTERN CONFERENCE






Game 1: STORM 70, Lynx 58
(Seattle leads series 1-0)

Game 2: Sept 27 at Seattle
(9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
(9:30 a.m. Manila Time Sept 28)

Gm. 3: Sept 29 at Seattle
(10:00 p.m. ET, Oxygen)
(10:00 a.m. Manila Time Sept 30)*
*if necessary









Gm. 1: SAC 72, LA 52
(Sacramento leads series 1-0)
Gm. 2: Sept 26 at L.A.
(4:00 p.m. ET, ABC)
Gm. 3: Sept 28 at L.A.
(10:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2)*
* if necessary




EASTERN CONFERENCE






Gm. 1: WAS 67, CON 59
(Washington leads series 1-0)
Gm. 2: 9/27 at CT
(7 p.m. ET, NBA TV)
Gm. 3: 9/29 at CT
(TBD)*
* if necessary






Gm. 1: NY 75, DET 62
(New York leads series 1-0)
Gm. 2: Sept 26 at N.Y.
(12:00 p.m. ET, Oxygen)
Gm. 3: Sept 28 at N.Y.
(8:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2)*
* if necessary





yayness! storm against minny, storm came out on top! woohoo! and what's sweeter than that? sacto beating the hell out of the sporks! :) nice!



lauren jackson vs. nicole ohlde




sue bird tries to find some single coverage on lj


pic sources: stormfans.org

9/20/2004

freakin' pakshet



MUSIC PLAYING: the buzzing of my tired computer
KILCHER MODE: bangag, asar, inaantok, ano pa?
QUOTE OF THE DAY: bakit may harmonics yaaaaaan?




the storm lost to the pakshet sparks yesterday by 3 points. bummer. hope they get fired up for the playoffs.




been awake for 20 hours now. three of the groupmates had dropped like flies at around 530am. only toots and i are up and about and still in front of the pc trying to form coherent sentences to no avail.

letch, wala pa rin kaming conclusion! we haven't even finished our results and analysis and we have to email the docu to docm at noon today! aaaarrrggghhh!




i miss my bed. :( just went home the other day at past 7pm, i used the phone (for once makatelebabad naman pero ala pa rin, daming epal), faced the lolo pc (pc pa rin kahit rest na daw), tried to write something not about rf communications and whatever pakshet things there are that keep me awake at this hour. i tried to write but i just sadly realized that i think i've lost my drive for that. i couldn't even form an entire coherent paragraph. . siguro next time i'll try to do short stories na lang para di ako masyadong mafrustrate lolz.

anyway, yun, and then sleep. of course no. pag nasa bahay dapat hindi mawawala ang tulog. got up at quarter to 11. pakshet game nga pala ng storm! so yun talo nga. i was getting antsy in front of my computer while waiting for the flash play-by-play. pucha talo. grr.

slept some more and finally decided to take a bath and head out to UP...once again.

hay, when will this ever end? boarder na lang ako sa bahay a!


9/16/2004

Storm Surge at Key Arena



MUSIC PLAYING: rain...rain...more rain...
KILCHER MODE: sick and lazy
QUOTE OF THE DAY: aaargghhh!!



After clinching a playoff spot during a three-game road trip, the Storm returned home Wednesday and defeated the Mercury 73-58 to clinch home-court advantage. Lauren Jackson scored 25 points and Betty Lennox chipped in with 10 for Seattle, which hit the 20-win mark for the first time in franchise history...source: storm home

take a look at the box score...... a big shout-out to LJ...25 monster points! woohoo...and tully, who got 2 for 2 three-point buckets! :) printable play-by-play for those people who weren't able to witness the game, like me boohoo. this game is awesome. too bad for DT though. what can i say, go storm as they locked the second seed and earned home court advantage for the 2nd and 3rd (if needed) game of the first round of the western playoffs.


9/14/2004

storm makes the playoffs



MUSIC PLAYING: silence...once again...
KILCHER MODE: bondat
QUOTE OF THE DAY: freakin pakshet


PICTURE OF THE DAY

Janelle Burse of the Storm battles with Kelly Schumacher of the Fever for the rebound





if the WNBA playoffs started today, this will be the picture...




the seatle storm came back up after falling straight twice and won their second game since the olympic games. birdy had 17 points and 7 assists while lj came up with 20 buckets and 9 boards...

the got a sure spot in the playoffs despite the loss to minny yesterday (manila time) because the sporks had won over the monarchs. i know it's kinda bad when you have to root for them freakin sporks but then again, salamat na lang hehe....

the storm will have to win over the mercury next to secure the number 2 seed.




who will be the likely ROOKIE OF THE YEAR?

(a) Alana Beard of the Washington Mystics
(b) Nicole Ohlde of the Minnesota Lynx
(c) Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury
(d) Lindsay Whalen of the Connecticut Sun
(e) anybody else

my pick would DT.'nuff said.




as for the MVP race, i'm praying for LJ to make it although it seems like La Diva has already locked it. no no no no no no!!! Lauren Jackson pa rin! Aussie, aussie, aussie oy oy oy! :) LJ MVP Watch






images from : getty images

disappointed...



MUSIC PLAYING: silence...
KILCHER MODE: bummed out...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: pakshet kang module kaaaa!


PICTURE OF THE DAY
no, no picture of the day. i hate this day. this day doesn't deserve any pictures to remember by.





WTF?! our modules are in haywire over in receive mode. they work well in transmit mode but how the heck are you gonna have transceiver modules when they won't work in the receive mode.

now toots is resigned in finding some applications that can be done with a measly 2.4 kbps data rate. hahaha. super low-end naman nun. what the?! why bother constructing such expensive project when you are only able to receive at such low-end data rate? pardon me for the geek talk. i'm just utterly frustrated right now.

15 days left. 15 big days before our doom. we may have to start finding witty answers to whatever pangangarneng questions our panel will throw at us. darn!




Team EEE garnered three 3rd place finishes (men's basketball, men's volleyball, women's volleyball). we hafta thank our freshman philippine games team (let's go ERG!) for showing up and eventually securing two top place finishes hehe. not a bad season, considering last year we weren't just there at all.

my shoutouts:

beng: for all the great motivational talks and your calming presence during the games. we coulda won them though. you and the other girls still have next year hehe.

elai, mignon: for forgetting about the thesis everytime we have games.

my preciousssssssssssss: for being there and showing up and everything. saya nung last game no? hehe

reezaboy: for being the scary presence at the net, although it was me who got scared everytime you try that risky lifting thingie...

toots: for showing up in our games kahit na 8am malala sa aga yung laro hehe.

yan na lang muna...masakit na ung tummy ko wahehehe....




the storm dropped to connecticut, after dropping to minny before that. wtf?! seattle shouldn't be just "lj-birdy" show! other people should step up. b-money could score but she's not very consistent. and whaddaheck happened to kamila? she was like the living dead center.

good thing for me i didn't try to stay up from 2am to 4am yesterday to catch the play-by-play, baka nabwiset lang ako. was feeling sick kasi so i just slumped down on the bed and fell asleep.




cheerdance competition:

UST won. so what? same old moves, same old uniform. the only difference is that they have almost perfect execution. i'm not gonna be sourgraping about this coz they really had that confidence oozing out in massive proportions during their turn.

UP came in second and i was so relieved we even got second place. who the hell thought of those crappy uniforms?! anyway, we weren't really able to see if their formations and other whatchamacallits were enough to compensate for their lack of creativity in the uniforms. baba na kasi bandang likod pa. some say UP's routine lacked the "oompphh" factor. oh well. better luck next year.

other schools. i am bored na. next time na lang pag feel ko hehehe. dlsu and admu improved. feu had uniform problems. adamson should have worn darker uniforms. etc...etc...etc...




logging off from blogging for the meantime while i try to do the rain dance and pray to whatever deities that our modules pepay (my pet module), bebong (jop's module), utoy (erol's module), potpot (toots' module), and chunke (elai's module) behave come the final defense.

utang na loob nawa gumana na kayoooooo!!!

9/09/2004

storm rushes past shock




Storm wins over Detroit, Birdy has a monster game again, 23 points and 8 assists. LJ is back and made 15 buckets, as well as B-Money, also with 15 points.

recap...

post-game quotes...

box-score...

play by play...


9/07/2004

day of the bugnutin



MUSIC PLAYING: tamia | i'm officially missing you
KILCHER MODE: tired
QUOTE OF THE DAY: no quote of the day




i'm TIRED! semis na bukas. so what? i'm TIRED! ang sama-sama-sama na ng pakiramdam ko last night. ang kati ng nose ko tas feeling tatrangkasuhin pero buti na lang natulog kaming maaga (2am) hehe. woke up at around 830am though. too early. elai and i had to run to pnb to process that whole salary account for the student assistant sweldo haha. good luck sa yo jayrald, ako pa kasi ginawang proxy eh hehe. :)




team EEE games tomorrow:

men's volleyball: 10am @ yakal vs MMM
men's basketball: 1pm @ narra vs GE
women's volleyball: 230pm @ yakal vs CE

good luck na lang sa ming lahat. wachaaa!!! sana matapos na tong gwakanangshet na enggcup na to. thesis na, thesis na. which reminds me, yung halfway docu po namin, asan naaaa?! pusanggala magkacram na naman kami niyan eh...daming nasasayang na araw o..

isang malaking OH WELL


9/05/2004

losses...one more time




The UP Fighting Maroons lost to the DLSU Green Archers yesterday, ending their bid for a Final Four slot this season. bummer.




The Seattle Storm dropped to the Phoenix Mercury for the third time since Lauren Jackson was put to the injured list. They lost a thriller game to the LA SPORKS 81-82 despite Birdy's monster 25 points (5 of 6 three point shots) and B-Money's 4point play to tie the game @ 81 apiece. hay. bummer.




i'm home and it's been so long since i languished on my bed for countless hours. man i missed my room. i certainly have no desire left to do overnights at the lab but what can i do? oh no we have 24 days left. oh no. OH NOOOOOOOO!!!




carabelles finally got to her senses and decided to cheer for her own school now that UP's out of the gunning for this year's UAAP season. kaya ayun, she was bugging me about the directions how to go to Philsports Arena (formerly ULTRA). eh susmaryaginoo, isang beses lang ako nagcommute noon papuntang ultra. it was one of the earlier matches of the 2000 World Women's Grand Prix. at ako lang mag-isa nun ha? astig no? :) yun, matagal ko bago nahanap yung sakayan ng jeep sa may shaw. as in.

the rest of the time that i went to ultra (grand prix and my fencing nightly trainings, we were either too tamad to commute or someone else has a car so yun. tapos parang may fx thingie pa ata dun sa may labas ng grocery ng megamall or something but i can't remember. hehe yun pa ata yung may sumingit sa min sa pila and guzy had to restrain me or else i would've whacked those stupid imbeciles with the foil sword i was holding or better yet, yung mas matigas na lang na mask. hehe. archiboy was more irate than i was siguro. nagdadadada siya nun eh hehe. funny old times.




so for a couple of hours today, i was alone, and then umuwi na si jakey. bummer. well at least hindi siya nang-iistorbo. i thank whatever deities there are that i have a brother who almost thinks the way that i do, yung may sariling mundo minsan. pero not too much. at least alam niya when to leave me alone no. not some demony person who just barges in your room while you're having a much needed sleep, complaining about his missing flip-flops. if i wasn't too tired i would've thrown the whole bed to him. bwiset. ang laki-laki nung tsinelas niya, pano naman kukunin yun nung kungsinuman dito no. puro kasi bibig umaandar eh. harhar, i yelled at him, threw him out of the room and locked the door. buti nga sa yo.




PICTURE OF THE DAY

Taken during the 2004 UP EEE Alumni Homecoming (Feb '04).
Counter-Clockwise from the only guy: MAGGIE (Ariel), Kathy, Ako, Nas, Ann



9/02/2004

wins and losses



MUSIC PLAYING: wala
KILCHER MODE: Oh. My. God.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ang galeeeeng!



UP WON against ADMU


Oh. My. God. UP actually has chances of going into the final four. Oh. My God. sana matalo UE sa saturday. hahaha. sana matalo namin La Salle. Sana. Sana. Sana




EEE def CE


EEE Men's Volleyball team clobbered the Civil Engg spikers in three sets.




CE def EEE


CE Basketball team won on a last second shot against the EEE cagers. bummer.




Storm Lost


aaw..LJ's injured and the remaining post players sucked. Sue Bird, Betty Lennox, Tully Bevilaqua stepped up but di pa rin kinaya. :( oh well...