Saturday, February 27, 2010

Raptors Vs. Cavaliers Recap Fri, Feb 26 2010

First of all, I want to say thank you to the Raptors for giving away tickets via Twitter. Yesterday, I thought I was going to have a low-key night; stay at home and juggling channels between women's curling gold medal game, The Raptors game, and the men's semifinal hockey game. Turned out I was wrong. The Raptors had a random twitter contest; it was announced like 5 minutes (4:55pm) before the actual contest starts. Luckily I was sitting in front of my computer with my Tweetdeck up and running. At 5 pm, the Raptors asked "Name three players that have played for both the #Cavs and #Raptors. First correct reply gets a pair of tickets to tonight's game at ACC... " That question was so easy compare to Reggie Evans' trivia/tickets giveaway questions. The Raptors announced the winner by 5:05, then I got all the details by 5:10, left by 5:15 to catch the GO bus that leaves about half an hour later. Called my old housemate up to meet me at the ACC.

When I got to the ACC, you wouldn't believe who was waiting in the will-call line in front of me. It was Damon Allen, arguably one of the Toronto Argonauts greatest QBs. He was wearing a toque to keep it in the down low. I was going to say hi and asked for a picture but I didn't, because if I get a picture with him other people in line will start asking who he is and wanting their picture taken too and it's not like he has anywhere else to escape, because he still need to get his tickets. So when he turned around and looked at me I gave him the Man Nod.


Got my ticket and I eagerly checked where I'm going to be sitting; Section 307 Row 1 Seat 14 and 15, not bad! I love sitting in the corner area, you can see everything from there.


Here's Reggie Evans layin the ball. Last night was his best offensive game this season.


The Raptor and little Raptors pied a guy who's wearing a Lebron James' jersey in the face (obviously planted), great in game entertainment.


Halftime shoot around.

The ACC was quite loud in the fourth quarter; it gave me the playoff-game feeling. I also love the fact that 4Korners play Pump It Up by Danzel at the beginning of the fourth quarter; that song makes me fist pumping like a champ every time I hear it! I was so glad no one attempted to do the wave like that Saturday game against the Wizards.

I was so happy when the raptors tied the game at 111 (I think) and the Raptors called a time out for their last play. It must have been a really tough decision to call a play. Should you go attack the basket for the easy two and potentially draw a foul for a three point play OR to shoot it from downtown. They really did need a three-point play, because LeBron or AP are capable of nailing threes for a buzzer beater. I wasn't so happy after the time out when I saw Hedo handled the ball. I was saying this "No, not Hedo...Why coach? Give the last play to Jarrett Jack or someone else". Turned out I was right Hedo took a really bad three pointer, a very poor shot selection. I wouldn't care as much if he shot a clean three pointer (foot planted, etc), but the Cavs guard him quite tight last night and he could've just drove the ball to the basket and draw a foul like he did against the Lakers. That last play was really sloppy. The ball didn't go in, Cleveland called a timeout with one second left in the game clock. Ex-Raptor AP took the final shot for Cleveland but he didn't drain the ball. Overtime. The crowd went nuts.

I made a new friend during that 4th quarter/overtime break. This girl in sec 307 row 1 seat 13 shot a video and asked me how this game gonna end. I told her the Raptors could win this if they play tight defense and not allowing easy buckets in the paint. She then asked "they could win...but will they win it?" Then I told her that The Raptors WILL win the game.
OT started, Mo Williams scored first with two quick three pointers. My prediction was totally wrong, it wasn't really their defense that troubled them in the OT; it was their offense. The Raptors ran out of gas, it was really sad. Andrea Bargnani couldn't seemed to find the basket and the rest of the Raptors offense looked very disorganized.

At the end of the game, the girl in seat 13 recorded a video again and asked me "so what happened? I thought you said the Raptors would win this game?" I told her that the raps ran out of gas.

Although they probably lost because I jinxed them prior to the overtime just like how I jinxed Cheryl Bernard in her gold medal game by saying she has the gold medal in the bag already.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

A Message to All Raptors Fans

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

YouTube Video Supplement to College Application

Tufts University start accepting YouTube videos as a supplement from its applicants this year. About 1,000 out of 15,000 applicants submitted a YouTube video supplement; some of them are very nicely edited, some of them look like they have been edited by me. The New York Times have nicely compiled a bunch of these applicants videos. Check it out yourself here. Make sure you watch Betty Quinn's video application. That's the best one. She probably aced her media studies class.

With the technology that are available today, I'm sure there are a lot of other universities and colleges that would follow Tufts University's footstep. I could also see companies accepting video resume from their applicants since most of job applications are done online. This could potentially gives the organization a better judgement before giving applicants an interview.

What do these mean for YouTube? According to one of YouTube's well known users, Mr Chi City who exposed how YouTube generate their revenues, YouTube are actually losing money from casual YouTube users. Everytime a video is uploaded and not getting enough viewers, all it does is costing money for YouTube; they have to get a bigger servers to store these videos. For more information about this, check it out here.
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Top 15 Hottest Female Figure Skaters in The Olympics

Unlike curling, figure skating is a very popular olympic sport and loaded with great looking women. Making a top 15 list of the hottest female figure skaters in the olympics is not an easy thing to do. To make it easier, this list does not include any figure skater under 19 years of age.

15. Aliona Savchenko of Germany

She was originally born in Ukraine, but she's competing for Germany in the 2010 Olympics.

14. Jenna McCorkell of Great Britain

Follow Jenna on twitter.

13. Maria Mukhortova of Russia

She's like Aliona Savchenko 2.0

12. Emily Samuelson of The U.S.A

Nobody does that other than figure skaters.

11. Tugba Karademir of Turkey

She's studying business at York University in Canada

10. Joannie Rochette of Canada

Joannie is a real champ. Her mom died on Sunday Feb 21 and she's competing on Tuesday Feb 23. Details here

9. Christina Beier of Germany

She was born in Phillipines. She also serves in the Army. Yea, she can kick your ass.

8. Maylin Hausch of Germany

She's only 5' tall; super cute.

7. Sarah Meier of Switzerland

Besides figure skating, Sarah likes to snowboard.

6. Isabelle Pieman of Belgium

There aren't any interesting info I could find about Isabelle, not even on her official website.

5. Elene Gedevanishvili of Georgia

She was awarded the Order of Merit by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili for her achievements as an athlete and in recognition of her treatment in Russia, making her the youngest recipient of such prestigious award. Click here for more info.

4. Jessica Dube of Canada

It's amazing how she's able to come back and compete on the ice a couple of years after she accidentally got sliced in the face by her partner's ice skate. Still lookin pretty though.

3. Tessa Virtue of Canada

She trains up to 38 hours a week.

2. Kiira Korpi of Finland

She likes to cook chicken/minced meat tortillas. Source: here.

1. Tanith Belbin of The U.S.A.

It's very hard to find good pictures of other skaters, but it's hard to decide which Tanith Belbin picture to put here, because there are so many good ones.


Honorable mention:
Sasha Cohen of The U.S.A.

She's not in this list, because she's not in the Olympics.
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Top 10 Hottest Women of Curling in The Olympics

If you have never heard of curling before, I am not surprised. However, I seriously think you should try watch a game or two during this year's Olympics. When you see it at a glance, right away you would think this sport is boring and how is this even a sport? Don't change the channel yet, because the more you watch it, the better it gets. There are a lot of strategy involves. To make curling even more enjoyable to watch, you might want to learn some basic rules of curling here.

Still not convinced to watch curling yet? Maybe this list of top 10 hot curlers in the Olympics would make you change your mind.

10. Camilla Jensen of Denmark


9. Stella Heiss of Germany

She's only 17. Making her one of the youngest curlers in the Olympics.

8. Ludmila Privivkova of Russia

This 23 years-young Russian skip is currently studying Economics at Mati Russian State Technological University.

7. Nicole Joraanstad of the United States

A 29 year-old HR who enjoys working out at the gym, cooking, and shopping (usacurl.org, 2009)

6. Madeleine Dupont of Denmark

She's a smart girl, majoring in commerce at Copenhagen Business School. Apparently there are some naked pictures of this 22 year old curler on the web somewhere.

5. Eve Muirhead of Great Britain

She's only 19 years old and she's the skip of the Great Britain team. Her other teammates are 44, 28, and 39 years old.

4. Cheryl Bernard of Canada

At 43, she's quickly become the new Shania Twain for young men in Canada.

3. Ekaterina Galkina of Russia

This 21 year-old's hobbies include synchronised swimming, dancing, singing, swimming, partying and meeting people. (wcc.curlit.com, 31 Aug 2005)

2. Ana Sidorova of Russia

Only 19 years of age; she almost did not make the Russian curling team.

1. Melanie Robillard of Germany

She was born in New Brunswick, grew up in Ottawa, Canada; currently studying Law at University of Brussels in Germany. She speaks English, German, Spanish, and French. In 2005 she posed nude to promote women's curling.


That's all folks. Without a doubt, the Russians have the hottest and youngest roster overall in women's curling.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Raptors Vs. Wizards Recap

On Tuesday night @adamtheunlikely said he has an extra ticket to the Raptors game on Saturday night (Basketball Night in Canada). Without hesitation, I told him that I'd go with him.

Met up with Adam at Gate 1 at the ACC. We then went to the Centre Sports to trade in my old purple and green Ray Allen jersey that I've never worn. I don't even remember how I got that jersey; I've never worn it either. Centre Sports have this program that if you trade in your old jersey (it can be any pro-sports jersey), you would get 30% off your next jersey purchase. Your old jersey would be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Canada. This offer valid until the end of February. I ended up getting a Rasho Nesterovic black jersey; it's mint.

Before we head to our seat, we stopped by Gate 5 and said hi to Raptorspace Kat. We then took a picture of the three of us; Yup, that's me wearing my white Roko Ukic jersey. Too bad Roko is not even playing in the NBA anymore. Oh, Kat grew a couple of inches since the last time I saw her...nah she just got her high heels on, no black mini-skirts though(if you know what I'm talking about here, you've been listening to a lot of crappy music).

The first half of this game was really good offensively. Defensively it was pretty bad, considering The Wizards just got a lot of new players in their team via trade. The third quarter was bad. The Raptors lost the lead and played like their typical third quarter effort. They came back in the fourth quarter, played some clutch defense (Andrea Bargnani), Jarrett Jack took over the game by attacking the rim. Hedo got rid of his mask. Antoine Wright made some really important buckets for the Raptors. I wonder whatever happens to Marco Belinelli. I haven't seen him play in the last two games.

The crowd was pretty loud at the ACC last night. I lost my voice from cheering on the Raps. It was quite an emotional game. At one point the crowd at the ACC did the wave when the Raptors were down. Went around like three times. I didn't do the wave, because the Raptors did not have a blowout (they weren't even leading). Whoever started it was a tool; probably the same guy who started the wave when The Jays are down and it's the Jays turn to pitch. SMH.

I wish 4Korners would play the intro of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes during some critical time in the fourth quarter. That would really pumps the crowd and give everyone goosebumps.

I think that's about it... I'm outta here, gonna chow down this free pizza I got from The Raptors :)
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Raptors Red Party

The Raptors Red Party is going to be held on March 3rd this year at Muzik. The party will give you a chance to mingle with the Raptors players, coaches, and management, all in support of the MLSE Team Up Foundation which helps disadvantaged youth in priority neighbourhoods by giving, building, teaching and growing.

I have been wanting to go for the past three years but couldn't, because that's usually a busy time for university students and none of my friends want to spend $250 for a ticket. So who's going to The Red Party this year?
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Old School Flash Games

Do you remember those old school video games you used to play in computer class back in junior high/high school; when your teacher teach you how to use MS Office and you know all that stuff already? Yea, I'm talking about the helicopter game, curve ball, pacman, snake, pong, etc from addicting games or ebaumsworld. Whatever happens to ebaumsworld anyway, haven't visited that site in a long time.

Well, I found this website that has most of the classic flash games; it's called WhipFlash Games. It bring back a lot of memories, not to mention a pretty good site to kill time too.
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The Potty Putter

I was just browsing some site and somehow got to this site that sell a product called Potty Putter. Why do this product even exist? I do love playing golf, but practicing my putting skills in the bathroom while I do my biz is probably the last thing I wanna do. Why do you want to spend more time in the crapper than you have to? Apparently you can have this product for only $19.95+tax. You can get 10 Labatt Blue tall boys with that money.
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First Post

I have been on and off blogging for quite a while now. I deleted all of my old blogs because mostly I didn't like the design, the name of the blog, etc. This one would focus mostly on sports, but not limited to it. I would post a lot of interesting links/videos I found, write a review on them and then share it with you.

This blog would probably be the extension of my twitter account, because sometimes 140 characters ain't enough.

Finally, this first post would be dedicated to: "Ball"...I have nothing else to say.
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