technically speaking..

In DLSU's first game of the season, the Archers were slapped with a technical foul even before the game began. The reason? The coaching staff did not wear their IDs.

In DLSU's last game of the season, Rico Maierhofer was slapped with a technical foul. The reason? For giving a dirty finger. Then he got ejected. That was the end for me.

I suddenly remembered my earlier entry about excessive complaining. With season 71 over, I might just give the ball to my referees and tell them, 'you win.'

**buzzer**

It is now my fourth quarter.

i. bleed. green.

UAAP men’s basketball season 71 ended today, 62-51 in favor of the Ateneo Blue Eagles. Yeah, it was another heart breaking game, but thanks to NABRO, it doesn’t hurt so much. I can’t find the right word but i guess frustrating will have to do.

Ateneo deserved to win. It really did. Most of the special awards were given to their team. They had great players. They won all but one of their games this season. So season 71 belongs to Ateneo. Congratulations. See you season 72.

So where does my frustration begin? With all the calls NABRO made. And that no taunting rule. It was really screwed up. Bitterness much? Yeah, I know.

La Salle deserved to fight. Like hell. And they did as much as they were allowed to. FTW.

DLSU Green Archers ended season 71 at second place. I am very much proud of them. I feel sad too, especially for JV who played his heart out. He even had his game face on during the Mythical Five awarding. Thank you, King Archer JV, for playing all heart and keeping the animo alive.

On a personal note, I still can’t get over the fact that season 71 is over. O-V-E-R. It was more than just basketball to me. In my QLC mode: ON phase, thank you Archers for giving me my happy place. I can't wait for season 72.

ANIMO LA SALLE!! >>--->

NABRO..

if NABRO referees wanted to play basketball, they should've formed their own team and not actually joined one.

ANIMO LA SALLE!!

1:05 a.m.

my computer clock says it's now 1:05 a.m.

and i'm still online.

and i have work tomorrow later.

can you really sleep with a broken heart?

1:07 a.m.

game 1: admu def dlsu 69-61

can i be bitter? haha. i can't stop thinking about the finals game one. dammit we lost. gah.

game 2 is on thursday. though i am bleeding green, i am keeping the faith. i want dlsu to win this.. for jv because this is his last year, for rico and his acrobatics on the floor, for simon, period. haha. for simon's whiplash earlier this season. for coach jack surviving taking over two games. i just want them to win it.

truth be told, i don't want this season to end. not yet. keep the faith, animo la salle! play like there's no tomorrow..

game on.. ftw!

it will all begin in less than 24 hours, game 1 of the uaap season 71 finals, dream finals at that, the de la salle university green archers vs the ateneo de manila university blue eagles. i say, game on! animo la salle! for the win!

and the winner is.. araneta!!

sky cable cut off our connection, again. so i was relying on text messages to keep me posted about the dlsu vs feu game. dlsu won so we're in the finals!!

by some sort of miracle, we had our cable connection and i was able to watch the admu vs ue game, or rather parts of it. it was murder. admu won by more or less 20 points.

so sunday, september 21 is an extremely heavenly day for scalpers. i'm sure ticket prices are sky high. like i said.. ateneo, see you in the finals. keep the faith, ANIMO LA SALLE!!

what's your skycable story?

dlsu had it's play-off game against feu today. being the green archer fan that i was, i hurriedly finished all my work, unpatiently waited for 5:30 pm to arrive. while waiting, i'd call home and ask for the scores or updates. plus, aps would text me updates of the game from time to time. i knew that if i left right after work, i'd still get to watch about half of the third quarter. so there i was, rushing home to see if i'd still be able to catch the last quarter. lo and behold, we had no cable reception. ?!?@>$!? wtf?! it has rained hard for the past few days, but today's the lucky day skycable chooses to suspend their service in our area. as of 12:30 this friday morning, we still have no cable. grrr.. i wasn't able to watch the replay. damn you, skycable. i hope we get rebates for service we paid for but didn't get.

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on a brighter note, dlsu won 62-59 against feu. :) final four begins this sunday. man, i can't believe season 71 is about to end. call me crazy, but watching uaap is what has kept me sane this past few months. i'd have at least two games left to watch the archers in action. come october, omg. work will be all i'll ever think about. how will i ever be able to put up with three more months of torture?

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at the office>>

basket number 1..
t: alam mo, mvp ka.
b: anong mvp?
t: most valuable player.
b: bakit?
t: hilig mo magpasa eh. pasa ka ng pasa ng trabaho.

basket number 2..
t1: simula ngayon, tawag ko na sa yo, PG..
b : PG?
t2: anong PG, patay gutom?
t1: hindi, point guard, turo ka kasi ng turo kung anong gagawin..

;p ahlavet!

take it from coach jack..

in franz pumaren's absence in two of dlsu's games, one against ust and one against adu, i got to know coach jack santiago. there's always been a fear of pumaren leaving the green squad, but whoever was qualified to fill his shoes? these two games were not easy victories for the archers. dlsu's game vs ust is one of the best games i've seen, the game tied, at 5.5 seconds left, ball at dlsu's possesion. la revilla blazed by most of the ust defenders and made an unsuccessful lay up. maoui villanueva was at the right place at the right time and tipped the ball into the basket just in the nick of time. i thought i was going to have a heart attack. that game showed that our rookies have heart. dlsu's game vs adu was definitely not a walk in the park. they had to have an extra five minutes to settle it. in the dlsu vs ust game, studio 23 showed the green archers' huddle during the last few seconds of the game. tension was in the air, and they were all waiting for what coach jack had to say. dead silence. then he'd call out a player. james. james. la. la. (vs adu, he called out bader. badeer, really.) then he'd call out a play. form a line. screen. hard. go hard. as a result of too much nervousness, i actually had to laugh. i didn't really understand what the play was until they executed it. coach jack was the-la-salle-community-at-the-edge-of-their-seats-hearts-beating-out-of-their-chests personified. i had to give it to him, at crunch time, he had the best play. so boys, on tomorrow's play-off game vs feu: go hard. ANIMO LA SALLE!!!

**just had to comment: i couldn't believe there were rumors that jv sold that last game. to those who speculated that, how dare you? shame on you. shame on you all. keep the faith. **

my version of 'forks' under renovation.. but still 'forks' to me.

**in twilight, bella refers to forks as her 'own personal hell on earth'.. so, do the math.


we're on the third week of our branch renovation. i couldn't say i love it or i hate it.. it's just everything is different..

from this:

..my organized mess..

to this:

..pre-demolition..

and at present, ta-dah! :

..apparently my new turf..

i have been relocated, isolated from the rest of the world, harhar. i'm still adjusting to it, nothing i couldn't get used to, in say, less than four months. HAHA!

yeah we rock, we rock, we rock.. ;p

you're the voice i hear inside my head,
the reason that i'm singing,
i need to find you, i gotta find you..
you're the missing piece i need,
the song inside of me,
i need to find you,
i gotta find you..

i stumbled upon disney's original movie camp rock and watched half of it. i'm beginning to think my mind must be still stuck in high school, because i liked it. haha. not like, like though. i liked the storyline, although the execution was pretty crappy. i must say, sometimes, i'm too imaginative for my own good. so for now, this is me will be in my head until i get sick of it.. or not. ;p

the day i met my good friend marge.. admu vs dlsu 2nd round elims uaap season 71

after weeks of planning for the much awaited dlsu vs admu 2nd round eliminations game, we finally settled on not watching it LIVE, but opted to watch at friday's glorietta instead. as expected, tickets were hard to find, most sold at unreasonable prices and today was christmas day for the scalpers (damn you all..) at araneta. so there we were, watching the game as if our hearts were breaking for every shot jv didn't make. dlsu lost to admu, 65-57 in a game where dlsu didn't even get a lead, and jv casio's points didn't even hit double digit. franz pumaren coming home from iran didn't even seem to matter, because dlsu still lost. some time third quarter, it seemed like drinking a margarita was the perfect consolation to what was turning out to be a heart breaking game. so we said hello and goodbye to marge..

*sigh* all this frustration coming from what boom says is a no-bearing game. see, there is no such thing as a no bearing dlsu vs admu game. losing hurts like hell, but watching a lost game live is more painful than watching it on tv. nice game ateneo, see you at the finals final four.. ANIMO LA SALLE!!!

thank you. 9.3.08

watched just my luck a couple of nights ago and this dialogue hit me:

Ashley: What can i say, I am a pathetic disaster and i give up!
Jake: You give up?
A: I give up. I dont care any more. You know what? It feels great!
J: You know what? I gave up years ago. Its my secret to happiness.

well i thought, perfect. this is what i should do. but then again, how can you really give up? i've been pondering how to do this and today i finally get it. i give up. :)

today was a typical bad day. i've had worse. but because of you, i finally realized what i've been putting up with. today, i realized, i no longer have tears to cry. today, i realized what kind of a person i don't want to be. for that, thank you. i am not being sarcastic, i am genuinely grateful. last night, i didn't sleep well deciding what choice to make. tonight is different. i've made my choice. my only obstacle is to stick to that choice. i will probably never be able to thank you for this day because i'm sure it will be taken the wrong way, so i'll do it here:

thank you. you were the sign i was waiting for.

about to hit the bench..

if life was a basketball game and God was the referee, maybe it's about time i was given a technical foul for excessive complaining. ;p ¤ö¤