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| At last I'm posting in here again, well, being so crazy lately. I had a small lateral ligament tear in my left knee last weekend (f...k...)
But yesterday I had one of the most wonderful afternoons, I met with a friend that I haven't seen for so long, I feel so connected to her. We went to Santa Monica, even with the clutches, the walk was so very nice. We sat down to watch the sunsent; I hugged her to protect her from the wind and the cold but it wasn't enough to make her stay. So if you really want to understand, please watch "Before Sunset" (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy).
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Well, this is the first week of the Spring quarter so there's nothing special; the good news are the I got into the honor list of 2003 and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi www.phikappaphi.org (ex-president Jimmy Carter and best-seller writer John Grisham among others were member of the fraternity) offered me an invitation to join  . I know that I should be humble, but this is the first time I can brag about something good @ school  , and yes, I don't sleep anymore in class  .
I couldn't slept tonite so I have been searching about Chinese basketball players. The one who catched my eyes with all the hype from the scouts is "Yi Jian Lian (profile), a 7'0" 240 lb. left-handed 17-year old (playing for the Guangdong Tigers), who has his own shoe - NIKE SHOX JUMP OFF AF. Here is the Chinese NIKE commercial (lackadaisical half court, perimeter shooting, old school v. sonic speed ankle-breaking, crossover, toss-it-up, ally-oop, free-style). Also, if you can view simplied Chinese, go to Yi Jian Lian's page on NIKE China (from www.morganchiu.com). Here's an in-depth article: TIME Magazine: What's Next?"
Strenghts: Unlike other Chinese big men like Yao Ming or Wang Zhizhi, Yi is extremly athletic ... very good body type, long arms and big hands ... hasn't stopped growing yet, is projected to reach 7-2 ... great stamina ... nice ballhandler and passer, some say he's able to play all 5 positions ... he has great speed at running the floor, jumps really quick and can dunk 360s ... amazing rebounder, anticipates well ... great defender, excellent shot blocker ... left hander with decent range ... developes more and more lowpost skills, like a jump hook ... intelligent player, knows how to use his physics ... battled fellow Draft prospect Ha Seung-Jin to a standstill, although Ha has almost three years, three inches and 70 pounds on Yi ... at the age of 15 he literally dominates 18-19 years old players, as he did at the Junior World Championships in Greece ... he's one of the top 2005' Draft prospect.
Weaknesses: Still raw, because he didn't play organised basketball till the age of 13 ... has to learn the fundamentals of the game ... unpolished yet, especially on the offensive end ... needs to refine his postmoves ... too thin to hold a place in the paint, needs to develope muscles ... questions about his real age, some say he was born in 1985.
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| Sony Entertainment has announced the PSP portable entertainment platform is scheduled for release no later then March 31, 2005. This platform will target early adopters and teens, by utilizing some of the most powerful and fastest hardware for gaming we have ever seen, the PSP may very well take over the mobile gaming market, bad news for Nintendo.
The PSP system consists of a 4.5-inch 16:9-format TFT LCD screen with dual microprocessors (two 32-bit MIPS R4000 microprocessors to be exact) and will run almost ten times faster then current PS2 console systems. That's a heck-of-a-lot of power to be carrying around in your pocket. One of the MIPS CPUs will be dedicated to just graphics and media decoding, and an additional 166MHz 2MB VRAM graphics core for 3D rendering. The system has 2MB of on-board eDRAM submemory and another 8MB accessible memory, but will support Universal Media Discs (UMD) which are mini 60mm disc cartridges with a 1.8GB storage capacity and 11Mbps transfer rate.
Sony's plans are to keep the PSP on the market for 10 years, hopefully it will be that good or users will dis-N-gage it.
 
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| Hi people, I'm enjoying my break, but seems that everyday I have been getting to bed until 8am in the morning  , I'll have to change that.
Since I watch a load of movies every week, I'll begin recommending them for you. The 2 movie recommendations this week is:
 'Something's Gotta Give' I really enjoyed the performance of Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, this is my choice for a romantic comedy.
 'The Last Samurai' OMG, this is one movie is full of emotions, gorgeous sceneries, and the acting is very good. Probably I'm a little bias toward this movie because I always been attracted toward Japanese culture but who can tell me that samurais aren't cool. It gave me a deeper understanding of 'HONOR'. This is my choice for a drama/action.
Well for the intellectual part, I challenged myself to read a least 3 books a month. I'm now on 'The Fast Food Nation', very interesting book showing the dark side of this growing sector of the economy, and I haven't get to the part of the meat processing business; are you still eating that Big Mac? 
"This is awesome! This came from a Rig Manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. Johns, Newfoundland. They actually have to divert the path of these things away from the rig by towing them with ships!
Anyway, in this particular case the water was calm & the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and click this picture. Clear water huh? They estimated the weight at 300,000,000 tons. And now we also know why they say one picture is worth 1000 words ... And now we also know why Titanic Sank!"
I hope the ladies don't take any offense on the next pic, it's stereotyping but is quite funny in a way:
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