Yet another heartbreaker

That's it for San Miguel Pilipinas in the Olympic qualifiers. Sad to say they didn't get pass through the preliminaries. But hey they did their best and that's all that matters. They worked hard, just sad that it all came short. Maybe next time then.

I say more pure pinoys in the national team. And the F**K with Chot Reyes, I never liked him. Danny Seigle didn't get much action, but nevertheless I'm still a big fan. Lol.

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After exactly one year, I finally had a haircut. It's always hard for me to go and have my hair cut when I'm loving my long hair. But I coulnd't manitain a long one anyway, and short hair looks cooler. Lol

Let's support team San Miguel Pilipinas in the FIBA-Asia!!

** Sings: "Hawak kamay..." Corny. lol.

Pottermania still

So I decided to make my wordpress account a sports blog – well mostly about Philippine basketball. So check it out if you’re a basketball fan. And there was this guy who posted a comment in my ‘UAAP season 70 fearless forecast’ saying that I should look at the current team standings and make a logical guess. Kainis. That’s why it’s called fearless forecast right? Lol.

Anyway, haven’t read the final Harry Potter book yet. But I’m now re-reading the Goblet of Fire. Also had a Harry Potter movie marathon. Total Pottermania for me – I didn’t read the newspapers for three days now and no watching of news on TV also, but I’m no Potter freak ok.

FIBA-Asia starts on Saturday. I’ll be supporting team Phillipines. Hopefully we’ll get this - even though basketball isn’t the best sport for the Filipinos, anything to stop seeing Pacquiao in the boob tube right?

So different

Here are a couple of HP OoTP premiere pictures I got from Pex. I was quite surprised actually.

Katie Leung and Bonnie Wright, both looking pretty - if Katie looked like that in the movie, I will not complain.

Matthew Lewis with a hot date. Yep that's Neville alright.

Random HP quotable quotes



My Mum always said, things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end… if not always in the way we expect. I think I'll just go have some pudding
– Luna Lovegood, OoTP

Young love! [sigh] How...(long pause) stirring. If everything goes unfortunately today, you two may even make the front page!
– Rita Skeeter, GoF

Ahh, hello, Harry. Long time, no see. (looks suggestively up out of the toilet she's peeking from)
– Moaning Myrtle, GoF

Which one of you can tell me the difference between an animagus and a werewolf? (Hermione raises her hand)No-one? How disappointing
– Severus Snape, PoA

Gilderoy: Harry, Harry, Harry. Can you possibly imagine a better way to serve detention, than by helping me answer my fan mail?
Harry: Not really.
Gilderoy: Fame is a fickle friend Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.
– CoS

Allow me to introduce you to your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher; me. Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him.
– Gilderoy Lockhart, CoS

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to bed before either of you comes up with an idea to us killed - or worse, expelled.
– Hermione Granger, PS

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I have to say, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was, so far, the best. So I finally got to watch it yesterday with my sister and I was not disappointed. Cinematography’s changed but it turned out pretty good.

OoTP was not my favorite book but the movie was super!!

I was impressed with the girl who played as Umbridge, very effective. I really want to kick her ass and break her cat plates or whatever you call that.

Luna! I always liked her in the book and now I love the character. I don’t like Ginny for Harry, she looks so much like Lily. I think she likes Ginny because of that. I think Luna and Harry would make a great couple. Lol.

I always liked Cho – in the book that is and I was disappointed when Katie Leung was chosen to play the role of Cho Chang. She’s supposed to be “extremely pretty” but the actress is extremely the opposite. Joke lang. Katie’s fine, just disappointed because I like Cedric and Cho together so yeah. I was looking forward seeing a swan patronus, but in the movie Cho was the “betray-tor”, she was given the truth serum though. Anyway.

Tonks. She’s so cool. Too bad she didn’t get enough scenes. The last scene of the Weasley twins at Hogwarts, not really what I imagined but it was fine. Percy didn’t even get to say anything, Lol.

I was disappointed with the scene when Sirius died, I was expecting something emotional and all but it turned out short. Bellatrix’s one crazy woman, cool. Snape’s past!! Was looking forward to that too, but it also was short.

I didn’t like Gwarp. Good thing he was not given too much stories.

The battle between the Deatheaters and the Aurors, super cool. As well as the scene with Harry and the gang in the Ministry. Oh and the prophecy, the shinning ball thing, I was expecting something more dramatic.

Trelawney cried. Aww.

I love the movie. Can’t wait for the next film. I might cry in the scene where Snape killed Dumbledore. Lol.

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Before I watch the movie, I bought a Harry Potter poster at Powerbooks. The girl at the cashier gave me an invitation to the grand launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have no plans buying the book though - at least not this time, I have no money. And I won’t go to the grand launch thing, maiingit lang ako!!! And I have no plans going to Makati wearing a Harry Potter costume. Lol.

Anyway, she was also kind enough to give me this piece of paper called “Powerbooks Pensieve”. Milano, I emailed you a copy of it and I wanna see your answers. Lol.

Here’s mine:

Philippines end 29th Jones Cup with bronze, prepares for the pre-Olympic qualifier

After their consecutive big wins from Iran, Chinese Taipei and last from Qatar 88-80, lady luck slips team San Miguel Pilipinas from her hands as tailender Kazakhstan slammed a vicious 90-107 victory in the last day of the 29th William Jones Cup International Basketball Tournament held in Taiwan.

Jordan, defeated by team Japan in the last day, got their first taste of the gold, meanwhile Lebanon received the silver and the Philippines with a 5-4 record tumbled in fifth for the bronze to tie with USA, Chinese Taipei, Iran and Korea.

In their last match, James Yap injured his right ankles after a bad fall in the second half with 5 minutes left in the regulation. He was carried by Asi Taulava out the court.

Team Pilipinas started out strong but after Dondon Hontiveros and Jimmy Alapag both sank two triples in the third half, the game was tied 55-all for the last time. The “Filipinos” (or should I say Fil-Ams) then lost their spark failing to catch up to Kazakhstan as they stab a shooting fest.

SMC-RP should have won the silver but team Kazakhstan denied it.

Though they failed to end the tournament in a winning streak, SMC-RP proved that they have learned from their mistakes in their games against silver holder Lebanon and the young team of Japan, both of which they should have won.

They have managed to take advantage of their speed thus creating effective combinations in the court, this shows a great foundation on July 28 for the FIBA-Asia which will determine Asia’s representative for the Olympics.

But before the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in Tokushima, the Filipinos will get an appetizer of the said tournament as the Philippines will host a four-nation invitational with China, Syria and Lebanon from July 12-15.

Team Philippines will face China, Iran and Jordan in Tokushima, thus the road to the “Olympic Dream” begins.

** Danny Seigle was seen sitting at the benches along with team Philippines in their last two games at the 29th Jones Cup. It seems that he had recovered from his injury. If he will take part in the FIBA-Asia, we will have higher chances.

Sports update

29th Jones Cup

Team San Miguel Pilipinas ruled the court gaining a big victory over team Taiwan in their in own land 82-64. The team finally took advantage of their speed as well as delivering a solid defense. Mark Caguioa was unstoppable ending the game with 20 points.

There is still hope.

** While watching the game with only three minutes in the regulation, for some unexplainable reason ESPN suddenly stopped airing the game. Same goes with ABC5. What the f**k, so I have to search the web for the results and I’m still searching for the video. Lol.

UAAP season 70

The UE Red Warriors got their revenge on the team that eliminated them in the semis last season and defending champion the UST Growling Tigers 73-60. The Tigers felt the impact of losing one of their key players Jojo Duncil who will take part in the PBA draft next month.

The Ateneo Blue eagles clipped the Adamson Falcons in an overtime victory 69-63. The Eagles is not as good without Escalona, Intal and Kramer. I’ll be waiting for their match against the Archers and I have a feeling the latter will be victorious.

Sports update

29th Jones Cup

SMC-RP managed to get back on track as they slashed team Iran in a 89-79 victory.

Finally we get to see more of James Yap in action as he delivered a decent amount of points in the ball game.

There is hope for team Philippines in the 29th Jones Cup. It’s great that they managed to come up with an effective strategy, to use the team’s only advantage – speed. SMC-RP is probably the fastest in the tournament. They are improving in terms of their offense. Slowly they’re getting used to international basketball.

We can just hope that undersize team Pilipinas could give the same result against taller Iran team in FIBA – Asi Taulava look like Jimmy Alapag next to the Iran players. Lol.


UAAP season 70

Suspended in the previous season, the returning DLSU Green Archers proved that they are to be feared as they ripped the young team of the UP Fighting Maroons 82-61 in the opening of the 70th season of the UAAP tournament.

In the other game, the FEU Tamaraws folds to the NU Bulldogs 70-73.


I didn’t like the opening number of the Salinggawi Dance Troupe, and also their uniform. Lol.


** I started this sports update thing last year. Here I am again. There’s nothing good on TV so I’ve been watching a lot of basketball instead.

** I just found out that UE’s Bonbon Custodio will not play this season, so I’ll put Marcy Arellano in my top 5 instead. Sorry. Lol.

Blurry

A Philippine basketball team in the upcoming Olympics seems hazy. Team Pilipinas has a 2-3 standing in the 29th William Jones Cup held in Taipei.

Though the team whipped a sweet victory over Korea, they bowed to the bigger Jordan team the following day. SMC-RP struggled throughout the game against the latter team and failed to gain momentum finishing with 70-74 on the score board.

The SMC-RP line-up seems ineffective. Erik Menk, Mick Penissi and James Yap couldn’t contribute anything to the team. I don’t know much about Gabe Norwood and why is he part of the line-up.

Coach Chot reyes even said that if Danny Seigle was there they would have less trouble. See. So I don’t know why he isn’t there.

I just hope we’ll be luckier and better in Japan for the FIBA-Asia Men’s Championship. And hope that Seigle will be playing for a higher winning chance so the “Olympic Dream” wouldn’t be just a dream.

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Andy Roddick lost to Richard Gasquet who’ll be in the Wimbledon semi-finals. *sigh*

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66 hotdogs in 12 minutes? Sounds like INDIGESTION to me. But hey, congratulations to Joey Chestnut for setting a new world record at the Nathan’s Hotdog eating contest, and also for beating the previous champion Takeru Kobayashi.

Heartbreaker

1-2 for SMC – Team Pilipinas in the 29th William Jones Cup international basketball tournament.

Though the team defeated defending champion team USA in the opening, they suffered two consecutive defeats to Lebanon and Japan. And the thing is that SMC –RP should have won but the loss in the last two games was all due to an error made by the same cager, who happens to be one of my favorite cager, Dondon Hontiveros.

My sister and I couldn’t believe the lost to Japan. I mean the Japanese were young, age ranges from 21-24 – they are like UAAP players!

I’m not blaming Hontiveros or what but it was really his mistake. Nevertheless he still played well. The loss was just heartbreaking. I mean there we were, defeating USA in the debut, Team Pilipinas soared… but then crashed.

Well, hope we win the succeeding matches.

So much for the Olympic Dream.

I can’t believe they did not include Danny Seigle. He’s one of the greatest players. Anyway, at least my other favorite cagers are part of the line up: Hontiveros and Helterbrand.

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The UST Tigresses made a successful comeback in the Shakey’s V-League sweeping the SSC Lady Stags. Champions again! The Tigresses skipped the last conference because the team’s key players graduated.

Too bad I forgot to watch game 2 because I was watching Star Wars Episode II. Lol.

Fearless forecast

Only a few days to go and we’ll get to see college sports at its best – whoo bias. Lol.

UAAP season 70!!!

Last season the UST Growling Tigers got a Cinderella finish by finally capturing the senior men’s basketball championship after a 10 year title draught. Aside from that, UST was also the overall UAAP champion for the nth time and the Salinggawi Dance Troupe won the cheer dance competition for five consecutive years. Super Cool. What a great way to graduate and exit the school with those bragging rights eh? Sorry, just reliving the great past. Hehe.

The aftermath of UST-Ateneo game 3

So yeah, here are my senior men’s basketball final four teams:

1. UST Growling Tigers – the team is pretty much the same and I assume that they have a great drive and spirit to defend the title this season.

The biggest lost of the team will be the absence of Jojo Duncil, the season 69 finals MVP. Why is he leaving? There are some issues regarding his eligibility to join this season because of his age, but that was cleared a few days ago. But then again, he decided to drop his supposedly last UAAP year and has his eyes set for the PBA draft in next month (same thing with UP’s Marvin Cruz and AdU’s Ken Bono).

On the other hand, the team still has Jervy Cruz, who is obviously the main man of the Tigers. Plus there’s Cuan, Ababou and Espiritu. So nevertheless the group is still intact.

So they will be pressured, I just hope they can handle it. And yes Geno, I do hope they will miraculously defend the title.

2. DLSU Green Archers – they were suspended last season so they probably want to redeem the name of the school. The team has always been a strong contender anyway. And yeah I’ve always been an Archer fan. They still have good players like Jv Casio and Ty Tang (not sure if they will play, but if they will getting the Archers to the finals wouldn’t be a problem. Lol).

3. Ateneo Blue Eagles – Like the archers, this team was always part of the final four. But without Kramer, Escalona and Intal… I don’t know. Not sure if Tiu will still play. Nuff said.

4. UE Red Warriors – I’m quite impressed with this team actually. They have a solid defense plus a number of great players. I’d go for the UP Fighting Maroons but the team is still young, and the fact that Marvin Cruz will not play this season, that would cost them big time. I don’t know about Nestor David though, but if he will play I don’t think he can lead the team to the finals.

My top 5 players:

1. Jervy Cruz (UST)
2. Woody Co (UP)
3. Jai Reyes (ADMU)
4. JV Casio (DLSU)
5. Bonbon Custodio (UE)

Random UAAP season 69 pics

Aces outlast Beermen

NO!!!

The Beermen lost!! They were so close!!! And yeah, Purefoods won’t be playing in the finals as well. Grrr.

I don’t know why Villanueva was drafted to Beermen. I don’t like him. He should return to Red Bull and rather put Fonacier to San Miguel. Yeah!!

If Danny Seigle was playing Beermen should have defeated Alaska. I don’t know the reason why I don’t see Seigle in PBA - a reason why I don’t watch SMB games often, obviously my favorite PBA cager.

Anyway, I’ll stop watching PBA in the mean time.

Next up, my forecast in the upcoming UAAP season 70 (senior men’s basketball of course). UST will be the host for this season - I miss my school *sniff*.

Random things

** Bea was named PBB season 2 big winner, another girl pbb winner. sigh. I was rooting for Mickey. I thought Bea would get the fourth place. Wendy should have won the second place - for controversial reasons. Lol. People were actually shouting 'boo' when she came out - that's what you get for being a total biatch.

** UAAP season 70!! Can't wait. My senior men's basketball forecast next - feeling sports writer, lmao.

** UST is the host for this season. I miss my school *sniff*

** The Spice Girls are back. Now Posh Spice is the hottest one. Move over Pussycat Dolls. Lol.

** Loving Mommy Elvie's Problematic Show. Really Funny.

** Created a wordpress account. Cool.