haha... i can't believe i'm actually reading this:

Article about a grapefruit tree that bears beef instead of fruit

... in a way it's humorous... in a way, freaky... i still have no idea whether or not it's ethical... "playing God" is not a very good argument that it's unethical though, as i'm learning in various medical-related philosophy classes... the fact that it could be dangerous to consumers is though... although the good thing is it might lower the cost of beef, whether or not you're a vegetarian... would it have the same types of nutrients though?

and God created meat... and he saw that it was good... but man sinned against God has forever to this day been rebelling against God... then man raised up within himself ingratitude towards the things God had given him, and refused to eat what God had created, even though he had given it to man for food... he caused grapefruit to bear beef, so that he could still follow his own philosophies and ignore God's will without depriving himself... and God saw that it was whack... in other words, you vegetarians are EVIL :)

personally, i think if you wanna eat meat, just eat the real thing... don't look at me and tell me you're eating fruit and give yourself the false sense of security that you're not eating a cow... what are you on, the atkins diet?

yes... spurs even it up...
the two highlights(amer express and speed stick) of the spurs were tight... ginobili to duncan for an alleyoop, and rose blocks bradley's dunk attempt... that was so sick... if you don't think that's impressive, consider this: shawn bradley is 7-6, and malik rose is 6-7... the closest thing i can think of CTCC wise was during our church retreat when i chased down hubert and blocked his layup :) (i still remember the moment, not too vividly though)... hubert's 6-3(or was it 6-1?), i was 5-11 at the time... ah memories...

you know the nba draft lottery's today... while i can't comment too much due to my lack of expertise, i'm looking at the list of candidates here, and my comments:

HAHA... you KNOW whoever gets #1 wants Lebron "King" James! go Lebron! well, we shall see whether all the hyper is justified when he starts to play...
and yet another chinese player... where's the taiwanese ballers representing yo?
2 ppl from internationals are 7-4... since when are the world's tallest players NOT olang?
speaking of olang... James Lang is on there... but i saw him during the MickeyDee's game... he seems kinda short, but heavyset...

forget ihatela.com... it's a laker hater site, but the forums are pretty much just filled with people with hate the lakers and ppl who suck up to the lakers who come in to hate right back... it's basically a kings forum in disguise... the kings fans sound more intelligible, but it's still pretty much bashing of each other... so i'm not sticking around there... as to my response to this year's lakers, all i have to say is:

duncan and ginobili OWNED you! i-i-i'm sorry, who just shot over you and outrebounded you? who just crossed your kobe and then shaq up?

something seems wrong with blogger lately... ah well... i'll just keep writing... not like anyone but bob from church and maybe steven from MVHS reads it...

here's something that sucks when you're a spurs fan or rooting for them in a live nba game: like the warriors, it seems that they always blow huge leads; they could be up by 20 points closing in the 1st half, and yet lose all those points right back somewhere in the 3rd quarter and 4th quarter... it's annoying

head hurts because i went to sleep too late, and didn't want to take any afternoon naps...

davis is so friggin hot recently... it feels worse than a cupertino summer, it feels like i'm in hell... shirtless as usual... i wonder if the guys in socal are feeling the same

eh... bible reading... chem study... maybe guitar...

i am not happy with the nba playoffs; both of the teams i am now rooting for(spurs for west cause of duncan and ginobili, pistons in east cause of ben wallace, even though they've beaten the sixers and warriors in crunch time) are now down 1 from the game 1... damnit, the spurs had it today too... part of the success to beating the mavs has to do with not getting carried away with their fast-paced offense and slowing it down to your level... in order for spurs to win they need to wait for when duncan isn't double-teamed and give it to him, cause he'll either draw the foul or make the shot... or both... you know the tall guys on the mavs can't handle him... also, work on your free throws duncan... you need to make every free throw for your inside game to be killer... i cringe everytime i watch you miss a free throw... also, don't get too carried away with double-teaming on defense... that's a big one... the point is, slow it down spurs, and you'll get it... mavs are nothing but fast-paced offense... imo they really are just that... whenever they're on cold shooting streaks you should be owning them... SLOW IT DOWN AND ABUSE THEM IN THE PAINT, THEN DON"T BE SO WILLING TO DOUBLE-TEAM AND MAKE SURE YOU SQUEEZE EVERY REBOUND OUT OF EVERY SHOT THAT TRICKLES OUT... and when they do double team you, look for the open man, cause there's your free shot, then get ready to rebound...
(i guess in theory that's what'll win, but it's hard... ykno, just TRY to do that... too bad duncan isn't faster, or this would be easier)

i'll post later... i'm not even done with my philosophy paper...

cross-up j.forward\/whiff b.s.jab,punch throw...
counter-hit c.strong,c.forward->hadoken...
c.short,c.short,b.s.roundhouse...
counter-hit anti-air b.s.jab/\air punch throw or jab shoryuken or VC...
rush them down with V-Ryu until they reach the corner, then look for an opening to VC the s*** outta them...
(man i wanna joystick, why so much? i keep screwing up my VCs in the corner)

Lincoln Brewster- Lord I Lift Your Name On High
Lincoln Brewster- Power Of Your Love
Joe Satriani- Summer Song(I LOVE THIS SONG! this was the original song that got me loving his works)

i better not lose my guitar skills... i should play more, but it's like laura's away message yesterday... stupid midterms and paper...

sometimes what is heard can't be put into words...

go watch the JRich highlights @warriors.com... tight stuff... props to my fave warrior!

I Hate LA DOT COM... for all you Laker and Dodger haterz... not surprisingly enough there are also Laker fans who try to hate right back... but the site isn't that full, so i'll pass...

haha... one of my fave replies from a laker fan somewhere on the web(i'll find it later) to try to look like he was talking smack to all the kings fans was that the best team is LA, located in CA's capital(or something like that)... where'd you go to school idiot?

but enough hate for tonight... they're dead this post-season, period, beaten by the san antonio spurs... and i'm happy... somewhat... still would've been nice to have kings live another round, but beggers can't be choosers... besides, the goody-goody christian team beat them, so... duncan did his work, and ginobili crossed up kobe, then shaq going in for a layup... so i'm happy
i can't believe how no Laker fan opens their eyes and notices how you have 2 good players on your team, 3 decent players, and then a crap-ass bench... putting jansen on duncan?!?!? and whatever-pale-faced-guy on whatever spur? when it comes to that i'm just predicting ownage until duncan gets a couple fouls slapped on him, but it didn't happen in game 6 did it?

i wish i could turn back time... so many wrongs i wanna right... yet, as a christian, we should actually be wanting to turn that clock FORWARD... there's more to life... i just wish i could be 100% confident and 100% hopeful when i say that... midterms and papers are bogging me down...

ok, so i guess it is texan pride this year for western conference finals... go spurs...
(man, i can't believe one of jon's friends want mavs to win because of what kings did to jazz... that pisses me off... "in the spirit of Stockton"... wth reason is that? that's like saying i want phoenix to die because my warriors didn't make it into the playoffs! who the hell cares?)

haha... ken rodriguez is hecka funny... he's a mySanAntonio.com writer who wrote a buncha articles on the Spurs-Lakers series... he's a natural comedian at heart... way too funny the way he disses on the lakers just makes me die... like the way louis would've made fun of them... here's a page full of the stuff he wrote(look for anything written by ken rodriguez):
Spurs 2002-2003

my faves are:
Ken Rodriguez: Well, Lakers fans, booo-YAH this(this is a response to the emails he got from the ER article)
Ken Rodriguez: Parker's breakthrough breaks Lakers
Ken Rodriguez: Inspiration all L.A. needed to get going
Ken Rodriguez: L.A. may want a great plastic surgeon
Ken Rodriguez: Hate the Lakers? Join the crowd

so angry at myself because i waste the oppurtunities that God has given me... he gives me a lump of clay, and i turn it into... a dried up lump of crap pulled and punched here and there, with cracks all over... that's what it's like, that's how i feel... pulled... punched... torn inside... i hate myself because i waste what is given me...

sixers lost... boo... damnit... in overtime... sucks when you know they've given all they've got and still lose...

i really think spurs are gonna get the trophy this year... even if kings win, they have a huge disadvantage, considering that their best big man is gone... oh well... they deserve it... they whupped the lakers out of the playoffs...

heh heh... brother's appreciation nite @fellowship... flowers for every1, heh heh...

God's kingdom is as much as you will let God be in your heart...

Whadda difference in viewpoints... i'm printing out both articles tomorrow...
LA reports on Lakers' loss
SA reports on Spurs' win

haha... the funny thing is the way the SA paper disses on the Lakers... ie "Somewhere in the rubble is Phil Jackon's Zen," or something like that

laura: i can't wait to see if the kings win
laura: oh when the kings win
laura: hehe
...
laura: what time is the game tomorrow?
laura: do you know?
me: 8 pm ET i think TNT
me: so that'll be around 6 i guess
laura: hmm
laura: isn't it 5pm?
laura: 3 hour difference?
me: yea
laura: oic okay
laura: sounds good
laura: i dunno i fi ca watch it
me: shuuuuure
laura: i'm going to watch the matrix
me: what!
laura: at 7:45
me: haha
laura: hmm
laura: we'll see
me: and miss rooting for your home team?
laura: haha
me: well, semi-home team?
laura: i dont live in sac
laura: hehe
laura: hehe okays i gg hardcore do hw
laura: so i can go watch matrix 1
laura: hehe
laura: peaCE
me: haha
me: waitaminute... matrix... ONE?
me: i would understand matrix 2... but... 1?
me: aw this is rediculous!
laura: yep
me: haha... i can't understand you so cal girls
laura: watchign it before matrix 2 so i get it more
laura: ya
me: haha
me: oh never watched it before?
laura: i have
laura: 2wice
me: ok...
laura: but i guess i didnt get it all
me: *sigh*.... i guess i will never really get you socal ppl
laura: hahah
laura: i'm not socal
laura: really
me: shuuure... are the friends that are watching matrix 1 socal ppl?
laura: no
laura: all norcal
laura: except 1
me: haha...
...
me: alright i'll leave you alone; go do your hw like a good NORCAL girl
laura: hahah okay
laura: i will
laura: i mean i am

boooourns! don't tell me my bass stereo headphones broke! or my bro's... uh oh(hope he doesn't kill me when he comes back)... man... this means i gotta look around tomorrow... so that means either a radioshack run or UCD bookstore run...

alright, now i know if jerm all of a sudden leaves during a CS game w/o saying bye to me it's cause he's alt+tab'ing it... not that he's actually leaving...

haha... so you guys know i like saying(or rather typing online) "tru dat" when i'm agreeing, something "shuuuure" right? haha... funny conversation clip between me and laura...
laura: truedat
me: haha... you're saying trudat!
me: no no no... you gotta omit the e
laura: hahaha huh?
laura: truedat
laura: ?
laura: trudat?
me: that's how i say it
laura: truethat
laura: true that!
laura: hahaha
me: haha
laura: does that make you angry?
laura: hahaha
me: well, does me saying 0hG00|> |\|3zz make you angry? :-)
laura: hahaha
laura: that's funny
laura: because if you did it.. i wouldn't have been able to get it at first
laura: oh goo
laura: hwat goo?
laura: hahaha
me: typical @Z|\| style
me: 0[-] g0o|) |/|3ZZ !
laura: oy
laura: see that's hard to really get
me: haha
laura: i thought asian style was
me: heh
laura: aZn oHgOoDnEsS
me: heh
me: T|^ (_) D@T!
laura: oy

yes... kings > mavs... looks like a game 7's occurring... although this is bad, cause it'll be occurring on mavs' home turf... good luck guys...

here's a weird thought... if mavs advance, the west conf finals will be texan pride... san antonio vs. dallas... last year it was cali pride; sac vs la, or nor cal vs so cal... interesting thought eh? still, i'm hoping kings win...

yyeeeeeeeaaaaaa! spurs advance! spurs > lakers, 110-82! go duncan! 37 pts, 16 rebounds! i saw duncan take it in against shaq, as well as put up his own miss after a rebound... in fact... the whole spurs team was clicking for the 2nd half...

to reiterate what happened, here are some highlights(some are cut and paste of the below):
ginobili takes it in for the layup, and fakes right sending shaq hopping in his direction for a block attempt, then goes left and gets the layup... in other words... GINOBILI CROSSED UP SHAQ! haha...
so much rebounding, offensively and defensively and point-denyage... and points... from the whole spurs team... that's for sure... how many times have i seen duncan put it up, miss, get his own rebound, and put it back in? or someone else gets the rebound? it was like God took the lakers' game and threw it out the window...
kevin willis with the put back... oh damn
near end of 3rd quarter, kobe makes a three... crowd goes up... get this... tony parker takes the inbound ball... and drives it all the way down past everyone to land a layup with 1.2 seconds left...

(i wonder why i keep mixing up willis with bowen?)

stupid abc sports up here in UCD cut to mavs-kings during the spurs-lakers game... and stayed there... damn you... i wanna see the lakers go down live... spurs are on a NASTY run right now 4th quarter, up 20 pts... everybody's just rebounding the crap outta the lakers... i love this... lakers could go down tonight... and you have to switch to mavs-kings!

highlights:
ginobili takes it in, and crosses up shaq! hahaha!
so much rebounding, offensively and defensively and point-denyage... that's for sure... how many times have i seen duncan put it up, miss, get his own rebound, and put it back in?
kevin willis with the put back... oh damn

the staples center is seriously SILENT when i was last watching... if i come back from eating and they have come back i'm gonna lose it... spurs are just clicking... duncan's got more than 36 pts, 9 rebounds!

of all achievements, i can now spin my pen around my thumb a lot better... it's not perfect though... the key's to keeping your thumb stiff and not moving it at all... all the action comes from the fingers

lately i've been shirtless whenever i'm in my dorm... indeed, UCD IS getting hot... summer IS coming... so sad... how time flies by so quickly...

A-Groove Bison = V-ism Akuma... i wonder if i should play some at the MU... i'm afraid to get owned though...

Ecclesiastes 11
my chapter of the day...

man... sixers < pistons... on GOALTENDING!

aaaannnnddd.... playoffs are once again bittersweet... spurs > lakers(so close near the end... good game, and good momentum build up for the 1st half... at least it looked like it was enough to cushion for a win), but mavs > kings(damnit! i thought the kings were on a roll the 1st half too! you guys have to finish strong!)

damnit... one of my sandals breaks RIGHT when i get back from showering... that is bull... nike you suck...

Switchfoot - Meant to Live (LIVE)

Brown wishes MJ would join sixers
Seriously, that'd be sick... AI DOES admire MJ... having him be VP of sixers would just be tight... for me, if he went to warriors or magic that would be tight too...

booo... nj sweeps boston... and the fact that it came from a double overtime in which walker fouled out the 1st one, and paul pierce missed the clutch jumper that sent it into 2nd OT didn't help either... because that meant that game was MUCH, MUCH too close for them... lakers and spurs tonight... go duncan and ginobili!

where'd time go? i feel like yesterday spring quarter began... and last week winter quarter began...

uh, gross, but meaningful lesson i wanna shout out below, read at your own risk, don't say i didn't warn you:
for my toenails, i usually let them grow about 2-3 weeks' worth before cutting them; this is much different to when i cut my fingernails every 1-2 weeks... because of this, long nails have a greater tendency to bend... thus, for my toenails, they bend towards the skin... so essentially, all the sweat and heat that comes up from the free skin below the nail gets trapped... it makes that area smell really bad, cause it's almost like anaerobic bacteria work on the coagulated sweat there... it's like smelling cheese that has a strong odor, but worse(don't worry, i shower, but since the nails are long, stuff gets not cleaned there, maybe i should)... so when i cut my toenails, it actually exposed those areas to the air... the very 1st cut i made with my clippers immediately made me smell the odor... that's how strong it was... and my face was a good 1-2 feet from my feet... i had no idea it could smell that bad... your toes can smell ok after a shower, and yet, you clip em, and the odor just hits you in the face...
you see, sin's a lot like that... you think you're ok, you're fresh and clean, you just came outta the shower, whatever... your cleaning has to come from the inside... God needs to expose your insides, the filth inside of you in order for you to be really clean... does the outside still matter? yes it does... but it's much easier to clean the outside than the inside... the inside is a 100x harder to clean... but it must be done... your very spirtual life and the act of God smiling upon you lies upon it... however the difference between a spiritual inward cleaning and hygiene inward cleaning is that the spiritual inward cleaning takes so much more time... you can't just whip out the clippers to clean the filth... it's like a lifelong surgery... without anescethetic... you need to experience the pain, to get over it in order to be really clean... and after the operation, you'll still have to fight those urges... like a urge to spiritually smoke... or to spiritually act like an anorexic or bullemic... you get the idea...

yes! sixers even it up... ai had some 30+ pts and 11 assists... team bball man!
ditto w/kings... man... they raped the mavs... YESSSS! i thought they were crap after cwebb left, but kings again prove to me that they are seriously the most versatile team in the nba... they have so many good players, that they could play with 3 injuries... unlike, say, the lakers, who would go down if shaq and kobe were injured... sam's right... your luck against the mavs pretty much comes down to whether their perimeter shooting is hot that night... that's all they are... perimeter shooting... they are NOTHING if they can't shoot from the 3 pt line

again, i can't stress how bad i feel for duncan and the spurs... he collected 36 pts, 9 rebounds, but he got into foul trouble, and that's when the lakers came back... he also missed 2 key free throws IMO, and the game was within reach of them, they just let it slip... one point they were +16, for the most part in the 4th quarter it was always -3 to +3

weird in the morning how when i glance right at my aim buddy list that i don't see bob's sn... prayers go out to you man

Rebecca St. James - I Thank You
Sonicflood - Lord Over All
Chris Tomlin - Not To Us

great when you have close friends who are switchfoot lovers... i finally got a GOOD version of "Meant To Live!" steven, if you want it(if you're internet connection is rather quick), feel free to aim me about it

dude... mandy just writes... and writes... and writes... and writes... in her site... crazy... if ppl like her didn't have online diaries, they would get carpal tunnel within the 1st page of a diary...

i feel like i'm always struggling between what i'm supposed to do and what i want to do... i hate this... my dad never had laziness genes... why me? maybe it's my mom... lagger... as it says in the bible, sin is punished to the 4th generation... i dunno how true this is... does God still punish sons and daughters just cause someone else sinned? i thought Jesus clarified that the blind man's dad or mom didn't sin, but that he was born blind so that God might be glorified in him. or does it mean that our genes for sin are passed down to the 4th generation, therefore we get the same punishment for those sins? i'm pretty sure israelites didn't have a word for "gene" back then, hence why they could've used simpler language. hmm...

how can you see what's good inside of me? all i see is soot, blackness, dust, ugly, evil thoughts and tendencies... how do you, the author of all that is good, see the good in me? (because i love you, son... i don't care how much you sinned against me, or what you've done... i want you just as you are... i can change you... i only ask that you give me your heart and soul)

eh... that's all from me this morning...

playoffs update:

sixers: 1, pistons: 2(sixers > pistons last game :D)
spurs: 2, lakers: 2(lakers > spurs last game... damnit, it was so friggin close; duncan worked so hard, they lost it on inbound passing and not passing to their open man)
nets: 3, celtics: 0(man... walker is just being abused by martin, it's not funny *sniff*)
mavs: 2, kings: 1(kings may lose this series just because cwebb got injured *sniff*... damn mavs, go down already)

i find this surprising, but i may end up supporting spurs more than any of the other playoff teams right now... mainly cause their playing against lakers, but i really respect duncan... he's arguably the best big man right now(and i like big men who can do a lot for their team, except for shaq)... i think he got the MVP award, so some may even think he's better than shaq... and unlike shaq, he's willing to give up the ball, acting like a team player. his bank shots are really good too. other than that i really like ginobilli... the guy's got style, unlike most of the other spurs... and bowen has a better 3 pt % than his free throw % :D
(basically, unless if kings pull themselves out of their slump, sixers come back, and celtics make a miraculous 4 win streak comeback, i'm rooting for spurs... well, i could support detroit, cause i like ben wallace, but they're playing against sixers right now, so that'll have to wait)