The USA Basketball Team

Presenting the USA Basketball team headed for the Beijing Olympics..... The say their mission there is Redemption.. goodluck and put on a good show, just like the good old days... It will be tough.... very very tough....

WANTED...... Im Sorry.....

Last night I had the chance to watch the movie WANTED, and it was worth the time!!! Why??? 'coz Angelina Jolie Rocks!!!!! I dont know what with Girls with guns, but Angelina Jolie I guess would be the largest female action star....

Now for the story, this is not for those who are into logic and reality.... The Mythbusters have their hands full in proving every unbelievable stunts and scenes made in this movie... If I were them I'd leave it as such... UNBELIEVABLE.. .... Want an example how about curving the bullet or may be another one.. a machine that not only makes textile but tells who is next to die......

The slow motion sequence, the gun fights, the rats with bombs... there is no dull moment here, its really action packed.... Its a must see films for guys, it has all the elements of a guy film..... girls, cars, fights, explosions.. and Angelina Jolie (ohhhh I envy you Brad Pitt)...

As for James McAvoy, your one lucky prick getting the chance to smooch the girl....

For some they would say the movie is the new Matrix..... less the plugs on the head.....

The movie really is about getting your life back and you being in command.... The plot is really for those tear jerker film but they really made an interesting way to send their message across.
One line did stick to me... What the fuck have you done lately???

June 29, 1975

Its my date of birth, June 29, 1975, I did some research, because, as far as I know, nothing remarkable happened on that date, except that I was born on the said period.....

Now here are the result, courtesy of Google.
I was born on a Sunday..... dawn of June 29, 1975

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year. (source: Wikipedia)

Events

• 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
• 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
• 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
• 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
• 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
• 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.

Births

• 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1803 - John Newton Brown, US American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1849 - John Hunn, US American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals, US American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 - William Mayo, US American physician (d. 1939)
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale, US American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 - Harry Frazee, US American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
• 1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1893 - Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy, US American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 1908 - Leroy Anderson, US American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 - Frank Loesser, US American composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, US American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, US American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 - John Toland, US American historian (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick, US American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Slim Pickens, US American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 - Lloyd Richards, US American director (d. 2006)
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, US American filmmaker
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman, US American composer
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
• 1925 - Hale Smith, US American composer and editor
• 1925 - Cara Williams, US American actress
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, US American actress
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1931 - Ed Gilbert, US American actor (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Robert Evans, American film producer
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
• 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
• 1935 - Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, US American baseball player
• 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 - John Boccabella, US American baseball player
• 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 - Little Eva, US American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 - Gary Busey, US American actor
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley, US American Roman Catholic bishop
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
• 1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
• 1948 - Ian Paice, English drummer
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1949 - Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 - Don Rosa, US American ilustrator
• 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
• 1953 - Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, US American baseball player
• 1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan, US American activist
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, US American astronaut
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, American baseball player
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, US American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1960 - Evelyn King, American singer
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, US American actress
• 1961 - Greg Hetson, US American punk-rock guitarist
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, US American actress
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 - George Zamka, US American astronaut
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen, US American musician
• 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 - Jeff Burton, US American racing driver
• 1967 - Murray Foster, Canadian musician
• 1967 - Melora Hardin, US American actress, singer
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, US American actor
• 1969 - Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
• 1970 - Mike Vallely, US American skateboarder
• 1970 - Emily Skinner, US American actress and singer
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, US American pornographic actress
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 - Samantha Smith, US American activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 - George Hincapie, US American cyclist
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-US American poet
• 1978 - Sam Farrar, US American bassist
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, US American singer and actress
• 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, US American singer
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, US American drummer
• 1985 - Quintin Demps, US American football player
• 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
• 1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 - Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1992 - Adam G. Sevani, American actor
• 1993 - George Sampson, English dancer 2008

Deaths

• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
• 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
• 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
• 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
• 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1960 - Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
• 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1997 - William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
• 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - l-Imnarja
• Saints Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers

source: Wikipedia.org

Now, I am more relaxed that during the 29th of June lots of stuff happened.

Your the Man Jesus!!

Here's an old joke, I never get tired telling....


Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer.

They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.

Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job."

So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.

They moused.

They faxed.

They e-mailed.

They e-mailed with attachments.

They downloaded.

They did spreadsheets!

They wrote reports.

They created labels and cards.

They created charts and graphs.

They did some genealogy reports.

They did every job known to man.

Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.

Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off...

Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.

Jesus just sighed.

Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers.

Satan started searching frantically, screaming:

"It's gone! It's all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!"

Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work...

Satan observed this and became irate.

"Wait!" he screamed.

"That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?"

God just shrugged and said, JESUS SAVES...

Shag Disses Kobe.. True dat, True dat

Call Center Life

Now, how am I gonna start this..... I know we will go back way way back in my life ala Guy Ritchie film (flashback, flashback) for the kids born in the late 70's or in college during the early 90's its a flash back style of Wayne's World (turururot, turururot, turururot) with matching waving of arms and hands.

circa 2002: Me: I ain't gonna work in a call center company........ Period.

Now back to reality...... guess what??!?!?! Im workig in a call center...need not mention the name , its not famous.....

Now for the things I hate working in a BPO company.

1. The elevator. Can stand the long lines going to the elevator, the wasted minutes waiting for a silly ride.. Now here's the best part.. having to stand for like eternity with agents griping about their work... A word of advice if your not happy with your job quit!

2. The food. Before I love the silog foods.. tapsi, longsi, bangsi... now just the idea of eating one makes me want to go on a diet... same goes for the burgers.... Even if you would notice one thing new from me..... Sorry... "di ako mag papa-cheese burger.

3. The get-ups. A question to all call center people... do your clients get to see you????? If NO.. why the hell dress up like you guys are going to party.... Wearing those silly Muslim/Arabic style scarf around your eck, as if you know what arabic country each color represent (hint.. read about Rachel Ray's Dunkin Donut commercial) Just plain clothes will do guys.... your boss is no fashion critic.

4. Coffee. Im not a coffee lover so dont make join the bandwagon like its a f*&@ing religion...... Tea please.........

5. Drinking Sessions...Now Imagine this.... your drunk as early as 8am.... reminds you of the "siga" in your place........ Its just not right, you piss drunk, trying to walk straight, smelling like you took a beer bath... thats just wrong.

The good thing about call center...... its a decent job... just take away the circus and I'll just be fine....


And as for you.... "City and State please,.... I really have to put you on hold, " nyeta ka!

Additional info... I work i a call center.... I never mentioned Im a call center agent... Just making things clear....

Predictions and Opinions

I'll try my hand in predicting sports and others stuffs
people like to argue about...

Let me see.

1. Manny vs David
I'll give my nod to Manny Pacquiao on this fight, not because his Pinoy but because of History, the only Diaz that I knew who won is Gloria Diaz.. and she is not even Boxing..... How about Paquito and Romy? Yes they get to beat up the protagonist but would still end up losing at the end of the film, .... Seriously know... Diaz never fought convincingly.. he has the belt but he never knockdow someone with the caliber of Pacquiao... only one caution to Pacquiao... avoid distractions...

2. Presidents
I think Obama would win.. if all the black people would vote... they should stop whining and wailing and put their dreams on paper.... Mccain is too old to run for office, he should just walk or take a cab to office... The deciding factor here... the guy who would put a stop to the war will win.....

3. Celtics
Have fun till it lasts guys.... your just going to be the next Miami Heat, your fairy tale story is over.

4. Kobe.... Stop hitting your teammates and blaming them if you guys are losing, Admit it Black Mamba.. you have the Scottie Pippen Sydrome.. your no good unless you are with someone greater than you.....

My Silly Birthday Wish

My Birthday is near, I may wish for great stuffs, but I know my love ones wont afford those, I would like to wish some thing different, something that would make me a better person, It may sound funny to some, but this time I am serious..... I want to lose weight, My ideal target is by Christmas I must get rid of 40lbs. Is that hard to achieve, help and advise would be greatly appreciated. Plus the gifts as well..... hehehehe

What Kind of Father am I???

The title is just fitting since it was just father's day yesterday....I asked this silly question to myself.... Because of the following scenario... Please bear with me....

First, I missed my youngest kid's first day of school.. Now here I am very much uneasy, while my wife is texting me of the antics of my youngest in his first day of nursery, so much for the master card and Kodak Moments. Boo-hoo...

Second, Im not good with discipline, yes some would say my work has something to do do with discipline and order, well let's just say Im not the practice what you preach type of guy........ Im much rowdier than my kids when at home... Im always the trailblazer in messing up the house, I hate being beaten by my kids in silly games in playstation.. A bad case of Peter Pan Syndrome....

Third, I dont know where Im going, its the fear I think every parent fear.. like at night you would blankly stare your ceiling, or you facing the wall or you staring at the faucet while taking a crap... thinking real hard if you could provide the best for kids and not sure of your answers,... I guess like is really unfair, Its how we make the most out of it.....

Fourth, who would admire a father who's , motto in life is "di baleng tamad, wag lang pagod"........