We Believe! Warriors! 103-99

Emily, Vho, Owen and I went to Game 4 of Warriors playoff against Dallas last night. We arrived so early hoping to get the free t-shirt, but we only got a small towel. We were kinna mad at first, but our mood changed 180 degree as soon as the game began.
Emily and I both are not a big fan of basketball, but 4 of us cheered with thousands of people in the coliseum. We sat, we stood, we jumped, we sweated…the towel is pretty useful after all.
“Let’s go Warriors!” “Barkley Sucks!” “Air-ball!” “Defense!” “Yeah!” “Boom!” "MVP!"
Our hands were hurting from clapping and our voices were fading from yelling for three straight hours. We had so much fun watching the game. To me, not only the Warriors won, but also let all my frustration out from yelling and shouting like crazy. Perhaps, this is a good psychological therapy.

Hiking @ McDonald Park

Eight of us went hiking on Saturday. It was a very nice day, but super hot. After about 3000 turns, we finally arrived @ the park entrance. Our first visit is the restroom which was FULL of bugs…bugs…and HUGE bugs! Scary!
Christina – our leader…from the beginning to the end; Emily – our potential leader…trying hard to catch up to walked side by side with Christina; Patrick – his body scent left lots of space betw him & the people behind him, but he attracted the unwanted snakes and slugs; Owen – our navigator to go thru the woods yet left no instructions how he got to the other side; Vienne & James – feeling itch the whole time and tried to avoid the poison ivy because they wore shorts; Vincent – our other navigator for alternative route which possible maybe a dead-end.
It’s was fun, yet exhausted. We burned lots of calories from the hike and gained double from the tea time snack afterward.

MJ - 贏家

Under a great pressure, I had to give in. I played 4 rounds of MJ with Emily, Owen and Vho last night. 99% of our games fell into the 3, 4 "funn"catergory. Very peaceful! We took 2 and a half hour to finish...cuz Vho kept "numb john" in the very last game. We were so concentrated in our game and 大毛 once became ‘lie si moe’ again. Thanks for Emily’s support cuz she’s my 上家. I reached the biggest combination in MJ of my own record. I think it’s called ‘自摸清一色’…WOW! I won enough to buy a pineapple bun for breakfast after my rule of 除四.
Aiya…what’s up with me? Bragging about playing MJ…NOOOOOO…I think I got contaminated by the ‘MJ-holics’.

Snake King

Owen went to his Concord office this morning to pack this cube due to renovation. He finished early and just came by my office for lunch. We went to Stacy's cafe in downtown Pleasanton. I had a special risotto and he had a philly cheese steak sandwich. It's over 80 degree outside...so warm...with a nice breeze. It's so comfortable. I love the sun! We had a great time sneaking out from work this afternoon. Too bad we have to go back and continue to work... Life is wonderful!

"Dog House Crank Call" - 賤格

I heard this news from the radio in my car on the way to work this morning. This news made me so 奮怒 and very 激動. CBS radio has a show called “Dog House Crank Call”. This time they called a Chinese restaurant. The operators were trying to take order from them over phone, yet they were making some sexual jokes. The crank call lasted 6 minutes. The two DJs were sexually harassed and insulted the operators. 下流! The background is full of laughs during the call, and I am about to explode. How come the media never learns? Recently Don Imus got fired from CBS because he made racist comments against African American woman basketball players. The two DJs are now suspended by CBS. I tried to search this news online as soon as I got to the office, yet I cannot find anything from the search engine. Is it because the Chinese community did not unify and voice out our frustration like the African American community did? How come the two DJs are not fired? Is the media waiting to see if the community will give them a stronger pressure for them to take REAL ACTION? AHHHHHHHH!

My narrow mind?

Will you reject a friend because you share a different set of value? Since Friday, I found out something that my friend does which I totally can’t accept. This has bothered me since…I tried to tell myself it’s only a rumor, but more facts have proven. I can’t act like I don’t know anything. I am the kind of people who you can tell how I feel from what’s on my face. What he does have nothing to do with me, it is his personal choice in his private life. However, he lost all my respect for him, and it bothers me even more when he and some of my other friends think it is acceptable and has no shame of it. Is it the cultural conflict or is it different perspective between man and woman? Who knows? Maybe I am too narrow-minded. I really can’t be a true friend to him anymore, just because his value is way to far from what I can handle. I wish I had never known that side of him. I once treasured our friendship very much, perhaps higher expectation results bigger disappointment.

Virginia Tech

It’s been two days since the tragedy happened in Virginia Tech. The Korean student (Cho) shot 2 students first in the dorm, then he went back to his own dorm, reloaded his gun and wrote a death-letter…and he went to another hall with his fully loaded gun and chain to lock the doors in the building. He went in classroom after classroom, just non-stop shooting. 33 people confirmed dead and over 15 were injured. He killed himself afterward. No one knows his motive. But the media are trying to dig up everything about him.
I think I need to stop following all the upcoming news about the gunman and the victims. It is just too disturbing. Imagining the scene, innocent people were killed, blood all over the wall, the floor in the classroom. I don’t think I can handle it anymore.
We don’t understand why God will allow this kind of evil thing happened in the World, but God has a plan and everything happened for a reason. Let’s pray for the gunman’s family, the victims’ family and the survived people. God will do the job and ease their sorrow.