b4 you go on and label this loss against lituania game as a complete loss, i do wanna say that for perhaps for the 1st time, the US was playing this game right for about 90% of the time; rj finally started clicking offensively, even nailing a buncha clutch 3s... just didn't nail the last one. dwayne wade was getting into the action defensively, stayed in front, made a buncha steals. at one point he intercepted a pass to a perimeter shooter, then took it all the way for a dunk. carmelo anthony didn't play too much, but the time he spent in, he nailed every shot he took. basically, everybody on this team except for okafor has now proven that he can play the game the right way. okafor still hasn't gotten any real game time from the coach. while they aren't that good outside and their free throws probably killed them in the end, they're sharing the ball on the offensive end and passing more than dribbling to move the ball. and they're playing defense. i now think they have a legitimate shot at winning the gold. they just need to play hard all 30 seconds of the clock, for all 40 min of game time. otherwise, this is looking more and more like a larry brown team. defense will win it... but you gotta apply it for all 30 seconds, for all 40 min of the game. they had the lituania team on their heels when they brought it up close.

why must i get so uptight over the smallest things? it's like i've inherited all the bad traits from my parents, and none of the good. i bet i'm gonna lose sleep tonight again.

here's something that may make you laugh; google search "all_linkin_park_songs_sound_exactly_the_same.mp3"; don't forget the quotes.

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.

EWGF, b,f+2,1>2, df+4,4

sick...

right now, srk.com's down, but they had a clip featuring one of japan's best street fighter players, daigo, vs justin wong, one of the east coast's best. it was during a national fighting game tourney called evolution which is always held sometime in the summer around cen cal. daigo just frikkin came back from a virtually 0 pt lifebar against justin wong's 90% lifebar. when he started parrying the super everybody in the crowd started cheering so loud the mic started giving off distortion.

i'll link back to it when it goes back up...

doesn't take that much street fighter know-how to appreciate it; i was just going "oh s***!" the 1st time i watched it. comeback indeed.

koreans won in olympic handball over russia :D looked like a cross between soccer, polo and basketball