ok, i promised i'd put up daigo's amazing comeback vs east coast's justin wong, here it is:
http://media.shoryuken.com/srk-daigo.zip

watch it and be amazed...
(if you absolutely don't have a clue as to what daigo's ken is doing going all blue flash and stuff, i'll give a quick rundown; he's parrying justin's super; in street fighter 3, parrying is done sorta like blocking, but you have to tap forward on the joystick RIGHT before you get hit; obviously if you don't tap it RIGHT when you're about to get hit you're going to take the damage of the attack, but what it has an advantage over blocking is that you take no block damage(so the opponents can't kill you with block damage if you parry properly), and you suffer no block stun, ie you can punish the opponent right after you parry, sorta like they threw out a move right in front of you and it just whiffed; basically, it's easy to parry 2-3 hit combos, but VERY hard to parry a 15 hit super at a national tourney when everyone's watching you and the pressure's on; also, because chun-li's lightning kick super starts up so fast, you need to tap forward BEFORE the super flash occurs)

man, ppl really did stop caring for the olympics a long time ago. i still watch it, but somehow, it's lost its luster. and i think ppl w/cable watch it even less. it's only now that the us seems down on its luck that ppl start caring. is anyone else irritated that this attitude of ours may have led china(grr, gotta hate this, my taiwanese blood's boiling deep inside) to be leading the gold medal count, let alone the medal count?

if team us bball wins this year, it will be because of the greatness of tim duncan and the combination of some of the best coaches in the nba(poppavich as assistant coach and larry brown as head coach), not cause these guys were the best team assembled. however, give credit to allen iverson for being a very close 3rd reason that this team is in it, as the best guard on this team, and lebron james for starting to really play ball the right way and not caring how many minutes he gets. i am still hoping they win gold, but i'm not too sure the nba committee will learn its lesson unless we go medal-less.

watching olympic swimming has rekindled some fond memories of me being on the swim team:
-the electronic touch pads
-watching the guys in hats walk close to the starting blocks with stopwatches behind their backs to record times; i could never get why ppl did that; supposedly for double insurance, in case the electronic touch pads shorted or something, but really... why?
-the fact that some ppl act like cheering is going to help the swimmers because they'll hear you; i couldn't hear s*** when i was swimming... and it's not cause of the swimmer's ear i got... ok, cheer i guess, nothing wrong w/it; crowd should be having fun too, but in the actuality, i couldn't hear anybody... admittedly, i did see my coach waving me on, alongside of me a few times though.
-i did NOT have a sunnyvale swim team parka; i wore my bro's monta vista water polo team parka instead.

i will be back late thursday afternoon next week. if you absolutely still need a lead guitarist for retreat, please gimme an email by wednesday night.

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