Thursday, July 01, 2004
//the fast and the furious
wokr-life balance is a must, and because it is a must, these are the things that i MUST do after office hours:
1. Play basketball: Mondays and Wednesdays.
2. Play badminton: Mondays and Tuesdays.
3. Hand paint masks: Mondays
4. Need for Speed Underground (THIS GAME ROCKS!) Every single day...
5. Watch the Ginebra-Red Bull champioship/melee.
6. Watch Alias
Need for Speed Underground is the current blockbuster in my Xbox console. My roomie, Volt, actually bought the game for himself, but during one boring weekend, I popped it into my console, and wham, i got hooked just like that. Now I've never really been good at racing games (I actually sucked at the Gran Turismo series...) but this game just seriously brings to life my fantasy of owning a car worthy of the nitrous oxide burning cars of the Fast and the Furious fame. I started with a stock Mazda Miata MX-5, the only roadster available in the game, and i've upgraded the engine, exhaust system, turbo package, transmission (it's now 6-speed), brake systems, wight reduction, and nitrous oxide package. The nitrous oxide thingie really rocks. And boy, the game is really, really challenging. Love the soundtrack as well. Plus, you get to dress up your car with pulse neon lights, gorgeous vinyls, bumpers, roof scoops, carbon fiber hoods and side skirts. Game modes vary from drag, to drift, to lap knockouts, to sprint. Well, this is the one thing that makes me feel like Paul Walker every single weeknight.
last night, i almost had a heart attack. right from the game's first basket, care of ginebra import torraye braggs' three point play, ginebra's unloading of points to take a 22-point lead with the help of mark caguioa's flawless three point shooting, jimwell torion and enrico villanueva demolishing that lead down to 6 at halftime, and up to vitor thomas' missed three point attempt to beat the buzzer, my heart was at the brink of arrest, as ginebra won game 1 94-92 of the best of five series.
after 7 years of drought, barangay ginebra is seeking another pba championship crown, this time, against bitter rival red bull barako.
i can still remember that last championship run so clearly. i was having dinner with almer, a ginebra fanatic himself, at project 6. we were both close to tears as the graphics showing a photograph of jaworski and the words "Finally..." were flashed on the screen.
last night, as the ginebra gin kings battled furiously for the w, i was led back to the time when bal david sent asi taulava crying a couple of years ago, by beating top-seeded mobiline in the semifinals a several of years ago.
save for bal david, this one's a completely different lineup from that championship team of gordon's gin back in '97. with david on the sidelines because of an injury, the team is led by a rag-tag pair of bandana-brandishing guards, called the fast and the furious: jayjay helterbrand and mark caguioa. watch them run the break and you'll know why jayjay is the fast, and mark is the furious. fearless and fast as lightning, they are the face of what ginebra stands for. along with eric menk, rommel adducul, andy seigle, rodney santos, sunday salvacion, this team could just prove to break seven years of waiting for the barangay's horde of fans.
and oh how sweet it is if it happens this year, because in that case, they'll be beating the red bull team i really really love to hate.
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1. Play basketball: Mondays and Wednesdays.
2. Play badminton: Mondays and Tuesdays.
3. Hand paint masks: Mondays
4. Need for Speed Underground (THIS GAME ROCKS!) Every single day...
5. Watch the Ginebra-Red Bull champioship/melee.
6. Watch Alias
Need for Speed Underground is the current blockbuster in my Xbox console. My roomie, Volt, actually bought the game for himself, but during one boring weekend, I popped it into my console, and wham, i got hooked just like that. Now I've never really been good at racing games (I actually sucked at the Gran Turismo series...) but this game just seriously brings to life my fantasy of owning a car worthy of the nitrous oxide burning cars of the Fast and the Furious fame. I started with a stock Mazda Miata MX-5, the only roadster available in the game, and i've upgraded the engine, exhaust system, turbo package, transmission (it's now 6-speed), brake systems, wight reduction, and nitrous oxide package. The nitrous oxide thingie really rocks. And boy, the game is really, really challenging. Love the soundtrack as well. Plus, you get to dress up your car with pulse neon lights, gorgeous vinyls, bumpers, roof scoops, carbon fiber hoods and side skirts. Game modes vary from drag, to drift, to lap knockouts, to sprint. Well, this is the one thing that makes me feel like Paul Walker every single weeknight.
last night, i almost had a heart attack. right from the game's first basket, care of ginebra import torraye braggs' three point play, ginebra's unloading of points to take a 22-point lead with the help of mark caguioa's flawless three point shooting, jimwell torion and enrico villanueva demolishing that lead down to 6 at halftime, and up to vitor thomas' missed three point attempt to beat the buzzer, my heart was at the brink of arrest, as ginebra won game 1 94-92 of the best of five series.
after 7 years of drought, barangay ginebra is seeking another pba championship crown, this time, against bitter rival red bull barako.
i can still remember that last championship run so clearly. i was having dinner with almer, a ginebra fanatic himself, at project 6. we were both close to tears as the graphics showing a photograph of jaworski and the words "Finally..." were flashed on the screen.
last night, as the ginebra gin kings battled furiously for the w, i was led back to the time when bal david sent asi taulava crying a couple of years ago, by beating top-seeded mobiline in the semifinals a several of years ago.
save for bal david, this one's a completely different lineup from that championship team of gordon's gin back in '97. with david on the sidelines because of an injury, the team is led by a rag-tag pair of bandana-brandishing guards, called the fast and the furious: jayjay helterbrand and mark caguioa. watch them run the break and you'll know why jayjay is the fast, and mark is the furious. fearless and fast as lightning, they are the face of what ginebra stands for. along with eric menk, rommel adducul, andy seigle, rodney santos, sunday salvacion, this team could just prove to break seven years of waiting for the barangay's horde of fans.
and oh how sweet it is if it happens this year, because in that case, they'll be beating the red bull team i really really love to hate.
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