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Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Celtics 118, Bulls 115
5 seconds on the clock, Ray Allen shoots a 3 with a guys hand in his face and scores. This guy is $$$$
Check out the shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXkgX-kjWY
Arsenal 4, Liverpool 4
Arshavin (No Idea who he was before last night) scored 4 times in a crazy crazy 4-4 draw against Liverpool.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Hermione goes to Brown... I suddenly like Brown a lot more
Hermione Granger studied at Hogwarts so can Emma Watson be far behind? Emma Watson, star of Harry Potter movies, is slated to move to the US to study, according to reports. Earlier in 2009 she had announced that she was going to go off acting for a while to concentrate on getting her degree.
According to reports Emma had applied to a number of degree colleges in the US and the UK but chose Brown University at Rhode Island finally. According to a source, “She looked at universities over here (England) but fell in love with Brown. She has a lot of friends there.” She had reportedly toured a number of universities, including Harvard before choosing Brown University. She was studying in Headington School in Oxford and in spite of an acting career managed to get three A-grades in her A levels.
Emma Watson is also being pursued by environmental group Greenpeace to be their global ambassador. She had previously said that her end of school project involved global warming and the Hurricane Katrina. She had also revealed that she recycles and prefers public transport. The eighteen year old star was approached by Greenpeace first when she had declared “I cannot not be green”.
Emma had also revealed, “My car is electric, I recycle, I take public transportation, I try not to buy and drink bottled water. I’m not perfect, but it’’s something I feel strongly about.” This lead Greenpeace to consider her as their global ambassador and a spokesman said, “Emma would be perfect for us. She’s posh, pretty, brainy and committed. She’’s also not too star struck to care if it’’s seen as vaguely controversial. She would really help.”
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
guess who's crying... again
Roger Federer cries again, but tears of joy this time
MONACO — The tears streaming down Roger Federer's face came not from anguish but from happiness, and the person standing opposite the Swiss star was his new wife.
The 13-time Grand Slam champion, who is playing this week at the Monte Carlo Masters, spoke about his marriage to longtime girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec for the first time Tuesday.
"A few tears here and there," Federer said about Saturday's wedding in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland. "It was nice."
Federer also broke into tears after losing to rival Rafael Nadal in five sets in the Australian Open final. As he was being awarded the runner-up plate in Melbourne, Federer said, "God, it's killing me."
Last weekend, it was a more joyous feeling that led to the weeping.
"I got very emotional, you know, yet again," Federer said. "It was just nice to know that she loves me so much, I love her so much. It was just a very nice day. We had perfect sky, perfect weather."
Ahead of his second-round match against Andreas Seppi of Italy on Wednesday, Federer spoke only briefly about tennis, saying he still hopes to finally win the French Open - the only major he has not won.
"I hope I can win the big one," Federer said. "That's what the focus is here."
Off the court, Federer said he is surprised how different he feels now that he has a wife.
"It's a very special moment. I thought it to be a bit more relaxed, because we've been together for so, so long," Federer said. "It definitely does change your mind-set, your life."
The pair married in a private ceremony, and they did a good job of keeping it secret.
"If you want to get married in private, you have to go to Switzerland," Federer said. "They don't actually care over there. They actually want to give you peace and privacy. That's why I love being a Swiss and living in Switzerland."
Along with chasing a record-tying 14th Grand Slam title at the only major he has never won and reclaiming his No. 1 ranking, Federer is looking for a name for his son. They are expecting their first baby this summer.
"We'll see. There's quite a few books around that are that thick, so we'll see where it takes us," Federer said. "But, no, we haven't decided anything yet."
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz-pNrj_MHY&feature=related
This guy's winning idol this season, although he's kind of gothhh.
This song is depressing, but simon like..
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Michael Jordan: 'The best there ever was'
DETROIT — Most people go into the Hall of Fame first. Then they get the statue.
Not Michael Jordan. Even as he stood in the ballroom of a downtown Detroit hotel Monday for the announcement of his election to the Hall class of 2009, the same snowstorm that swirled outside blanketed a statue erected almost 15 years ago in front of the United Center in Chicago - The House That Jordan Built - a few hundred kilometres to the south.
The figure cast in bronze atop a granite base soars toward the sky, a basketball at the end of its outstretched arm. The pose captures almost perfectly the illusion of Jordan: that he could fly. But down near the bottom, where the statue is affixed to the earth, is an inscription that captures the reality: "The best there ever was. The best there ever will be."
What made Jordan that, and more, was not the string of NBA scoring titles, regular-season and finals MVP awards, not even all the championships he won. A few members of the exclusive club he will formally join upon induction into the Hall come September boast accomplishments just as outsized.
No, the real wonder of Jordan is that he always kept score. Not just in his head, not just on a basketball court, and not just some nights, but every minute of every day.
In his front yard, against an older brother on a makeshift court of caked dirt ... at North Carolina, where he swished a last-second jump shot to win an NCAA championship ... in Barcelona, where he led the Dream Team to a second Olympic gold medal ... on the team bus playing cards, gambling in casinos, even wagering whose suitcase would come down the baggage shoot first at the airport ... in corporate boardrooms, where he helped sell more of everything - hot dogs, hamburgers, Wheaties, sunglasses, calling cards, underwear and the Internet ... in Salt Lake City, where another heart-stopping jumper swished through the net, securing his sixth title and sucking every last bit of air out of the state ... in Washington, when he came out of retirement the second time, age having diminished everything but his desire.
He is keeping score still.
"This is not fun for me," Jordan said during a brief news conference. "I don't like being up here for the Hall of Fame, because at that time, your basketball career is completely over. That's the way I look at it. I was hoping this day was coming in 20 more years, or that I'd actually go in when I'm dead and done.
"Because the way you always look at it," - or at the least way Jordan did - "you can always go and put on shorts on and play. Now you get into the Hall of Fame, what else is there to do?
"Look," Jordan continued. "It's a great accomplishment, it's great the respect everyone is paying. But for me, I always want to have you thinking that I can always go back and play the game of basketball. As long as you have that thought you never know what can happen. You never know what my abilities can do.
"Am I?" Jordan paused.
"No," he quickly added. "But I'd like for you to think that way."
His father, the late James Jordan, once said that obsession was what marked his son as special, even as a child. From the moment he started playing games, Michael had to win, and just as important, there had to be something riding on the outcome.
"He doesn't have a gambling problem," James Jordan said.
"What he does have is a competition problem. He was born with that. And if he didn't have a competition problem," his father added, "you guys wouldn't be writing about him. The person he tries to outdo most of the time is himself."
Once, Jordan travelled everywhere and anywhere to feed that competitive urge, a modern-day Ulysses roaming the world in sneakers and baggy shorts, Atlas holding up a globe with seams stretched across it. But Jordan knows his day has passed and that desire is not like a gene that can be passed from one generation to the next, no matter how hard he tries.
He recounted how after his younger son's basketball team won an Illinois state high school championship last month, "My kid comes back to me and says, 'Dad, I did something that you never did. You never won a state championship.'
"And my reply to him," Jordan said, "is that everybody that won a state championship didn't always win after that."
The room cracked up, but Jordan barely cracked a smile. His eyes were red and focused on something in the distance.
And it was in that moment, after chronicling nearly everything Jordan has done from the day he first turned up at practice 25 years ago in Chicago that I was reminded for better or worse, that whether it was a sublime gift or the cruellest sort of curse, he is still restless in a way the rest of us will never be.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
So, im not really even a blog person or so i thought..
Apparently i need an outlet for all my craziness and wacky ideas. The following constitutes my life right now:
1. GMAT studying, or trying
2. Alisha, although not as much as i would like
3. Roasting in a squash court
4. Food
5. Wondering what i'm going to do with my life
These 5 are probably going to constitute most of my posts (besides Kanye)
Apparently i need an outlet for all my craziness and wacky ideas. The following constitutes my life right now:
1. GMAT studying, or trying
2. Alisha, although not as much as i would like
3. Roasting in a squash court
4. Food
5. Wondering what i'm going to do with my life
These 5 are probably going to constitute most of my posts (besides Kanye)
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