Bad Games

April 26th, 2008, 3:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

I missed the Lakers game and we got smashed by like 90 something. No Kev, no Eugene. Tuan and Tom played.

Boxscore: Click here.


April 26th, 2008, 5:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

This game was close and shouldn't have been. Tom played. No Kev or Levi.

Boxscore: Click here.


April 27th, 2008, 3:50 PM PST @ Banning HS

LBC 72, God's Army 74. We were up by 10 points with about 6 minutes left. I'm not sure what happened but I think it was Tom's fault. A couple of turnovers leading to direct layups was our undoing. Tough loss.

League Website: www.sbleague.com

We are in the Silver division.

Time For A Quick Poem

Don't Leave Love Behind

I cannot leave.
I want to leave.
I try hard to leave.

The truth is..

I'm not going away from here.
I will always be here.
My love is here.

The truth is..

I won't leave.
So please don't leave.
Love me and don't leave.

4th Season Sucks

April 23th, 2008, 7:30 PM PST @ LA Fitness Hollywood

LegalZoom 62, Blazers 61.

This is the worst league ever. The league coordinator, apparently, has not been collecting money from the players who joined the league so teams are dropping like flies. There are now only 5 teams in the league. Our first two wins no longer count. Wednesday night's win is our first official win. I believe this is the fourth time he has sent me a revised schedule (no lie).

As for the game, 3 of our starting 5 players were terrible and we still won the game someway, somehow. I missed the first half of the Lakers' game for this garbage!

Places I Go, Things I Buy

Fresh & Easy:
Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream Bar Julies' - $3.25

Office Depot:
AAA Batteries 8 PK - $7.49
No. 2 Pencils 72 PK - $12.99
Notebook Paper 150 CT - $1.99
1 Inch Binders 2 PK - $1.89

Food4Less:
Tupperware - $2.00

RiteAid:
Birthday Letter - $2.59
Air Freshener - $6.99

Target:
Northern Toilet Paper 24 CT - $12.79
Purex Detergent - $8.84
Downey Fabric Softener - $9.00
Colgate Total Whitening - $3.99
Angle Broom - $3.99
Arrowhead Water Bottles 24 CT - $4.00 + $1.20 CRV
Bounty Paper Towels 12 Rolls - $13.00
Black Socks 3 PK - $5.99
Basketball Shorts - $7.99
Boxers 3 PK - $6.99

Fluctuating Market

Recession.

Northgate Market (4/13/2008):

Los Periocos Tostada: $0.89
Green Onions: 3 for $0.99
Brown Onion: $0.99/5 lb
Cilantro: 4 for $0.99
Fuji Apples: $0.99/lb
Tomatoes: $1.39/lb
Cucumbers: 2 for $0.99
Gala Apples: $0.99/lb
Bell Peppers: $1.69/lb
Granny Smith Apples: $1.29/lb
Strawberries 1 lb: $0.99
Garlic: $0.69/lb
Heinz Vinegar 32: $2.39
Broccoli: $1.39/lb
Limes: $1.99/lb
Navel Oranges: $0.99/4 lb
Bananas: $0.69/lb

A WEEK LATER..

Northgate Market (4/20/2008):

Bananas: $0.69/lb
Brown Onion: $0.99/5 lb
Tomatoes: $1.29/lb
Cilantro: 4 for $0.99
Fuji Apples: $0.99/lb
Navel Oranges: $0.39/lb
Limes: $0.99/lb
Gala Apples: $0.69/lb

Best Start Ever

April 21th, 2008, 7:30 PM PST @ Pan Pacific Park

LegalZoom (2-1) pounded the Cougars big-time. I can't believe there's at least two teams in this league that sucks more than we do. They suck so bad that I am officially a left-handed batter. Fun Fun.

Double Check That

April 19th, 2008, 2:00 PM PST

Believe it or not, there is a team worst than NotGuilty in China Baller's B-Division. NotGuilty (1-4) got their first win of the season on Saturday, winning by 26 points. We win!

Boxscore: Click here.

April 19th, 2008, 4:00 PM PST

Crookedstraight.com had no problem versus Ninja 2.0. I think we won by 20 points. We were up by 26 with 7 minutes left.

Box Score: Click here.

Note: LegalZoom's basketball had a bye-week last week.

Random Stuff: My fantasy baseball team is in dead last place as the first month closes to an end. Here is the link to the league. I am "Long Beach."

http://www.customstat.com/2008/sun/kirbypu.htm

Study Start

After work last night I went to the UCLA Library for a little actuary studying. I was barely able to stay awake during the study session. I ended up only logging a solid full hour of studying. I was actually there for an hour forty five or so. Anyhow, I left around 7:45 and drove home traffic-free in 30 minutes.

The only reason I'm blogging about my study session is because I ran into someone familiar outside the library who has the greatest smile. Love her.

Poem Time

As promised in a previous entry..

Whisper Not Gone

On a hot, cold night.
I am silent, all tears.
A whisper, cries right.
Gone are, my fears.

I miss you so much.
Whisper me again.
I can hear your touch.
Whisper me again.

Thunder, then rain.
My mind, racing.
More tears, same pain.
My heart, pacing.

Life goes on.
You're no longer here.
I will from hereon,
Know you're here.

Dai Tri Nguyen, June 11, 1990 - June 30, 1990

Ba Ma Va Anh Chi Luong Luong Nho Con

Good Game Us

April 14th, 2008, 9:00 PM PST @ Pan Pacific Park

We got rocked. Please check out the boxscore below. I think we just found Left-Glove Number Two. Or Left-Glove has reappeared in a different form.

Production Weekend

Friday..

I hate the internet. I stayed at work late Friday night facebooking for an hour or so just waiting for traffic to die down and 7:45 to roll around. It was actually a pretty smooth drive over to Alhambra.

I meant up with some old college friends: Pamela, Melanie, Liz and Daniel (a fourth friend, Karen couldn't make it). We all met up at some Japanese restaurant called Yama. The food was okay at best. I wouldn't recommend this place. However, there was this place across the street with some pretty good drinks called Tea Station that I went to to grab some boba while in wait-mode. I also called up Pitou for some scores (my Lakers were playing the Hornets).

I had a good-time at dinner listening to the girls talk about their movies and whatever else have you. I realized that I really do miss them. It's been almost half a year since we last seen each other. Wonderful people, they are.

After dinner, we headed down to the corner of Main and Atlantic for the theatres. We watched the 10pm showing for Leatherheads. I actually heard that this movie wasn't very good so I thought I was in for a long one. It ended up not being too bad and not because I'm a big sports fan; there really wasn't much sports in it. There were also very little conflict in the movie which usually is a cause for a terrible movie. I guess the dialogue was just good enough (witty and intiguing) to keep me awake and entertained.

After the movies, I stopped by Pitou's house around 12:45 AM to find Rady, Toukna, Nara, Myke, Pitou (all already in that good mood after who knows how many drinks). Wendy and Richard were also there. Mortal Kombat was playing on the PS3 and Counterstrike on the monitor. Rady was whoopin' everyone and everyone kept saying that Rady is a loser for being so good.

Anyway, I chilled there for a little bit and decided to call it a night at 2:15. I got home around 2:25 and heard my little brother say something in the dark. I was like "What?" He said go check the kitchen I heard two mousetraps popped. Nice.

Rodent Problem: I'm not sure when these little suckers invited themselves to live with us but my brother and I have been hearing scratches within the walls lately so I invested in a couple of Victors from Home Depot (4 trappers for $1.99). Not a bank-breaker.

Good thing I still had my shoes on (Asian people take their shoes off when they enter homes and we're no different) so I walked into the kitchen with no fear. I turned on the lights. Three of the four traps had popped. One small mouse with his nose and eye separated by Victor's metal piece. The other two mousetraps were disabled but there were no fur things attached. In the middle of the kitchen floor was a loooooooooooooooooooong mouse lying like he was dead. No blood or any signs of injuries. I kicked him with my shoe and he didn't move. I looked back at the small mouse and he was fidgeting (reminiscience of the movie The Rock - the feet thing). Anyway, I grabbed a paper towel and picked the huge thing up by the tail. Then I went to the bathroom. I dropped it into the toilet and hit the flusher. Damn toilet was out of order. So I had to pick the rodent up by its tail again this time with my bare hands cause paper towels and water do not have good chemistry. I couldn't think of any other place to put it so I just put that long mouse into the bathroom trash bin and went to the kitchen and got the small one also.

I relined all four trappers and made sure I washed my hands a 2nd and 3rd time. I brushed my teeth, threw on my retainers and crashed.

Saturday..

Surprisingly, I woke up pretty early around 11. I checked the kitchen and all four mousetraps were still in tact.

I did a little tour of the house to see who's home and only my little brother and Dad were. For those of you who don't know, my Dad suffered a stroke back in September 2004 in Vietnam and has yet to recover to regain mobility on the right-side of his body. He can't take care of himself.

By the time I finished washing up, it was already approaching 12 noon. This is the time we (usually either my Mom, my brother or myself) wake up Mr. Nguyen. I was the lucky guy on this hot Saturday afternoon.

I went inside my parents' room and the odor was disgusting. I knew right away that he had pooped. Jackpot haha. I went straight for a couple grocery bags and a brand new roll of paper towels and then went back to my Dad's bedside.

I wake up him, walked him into the bathroom, took his clothes and diaper off. There were poop all over his pubic hair and down the backside of both of his legs. Sweet.

I realized that I forgot the air freshener so I went for that and a T-shirt that I tied around my face like this. With my uniform on, I went to work and got everything down to just some brown stains. I then got him into the shower and cleaned him off with a sponge. There was no way for me to shower him this time without getting wet so I took a second shower with my shorts on.

After brushing his teeth and getting him dressed, I ate a quick Kim Chi Noodle Bowl (the blue kind) and headed out to Alhambra for some basketball games. Results are posted below. In between the games, I met up Kendy, Alan, and some of their friends for a little softball practice. I brought some lunch and just chilled in the dugout. On the menu: 2 Chicken Thighs, 1 Sausage Hot Dog, and Fried-Rice and Chow-Mein. $13.

After the second game, I drove all the way back home and napped for an hour or so. I got a couple of loads of laundry in and went out around 10:45 PM to some stupid bar called Library Bar in downtown L.A. I only went to meet up with Van and Vince. It's been a while since I've seen them last.

The spot was so weak. The girl-guy ratio was decent but the girls weren't very attractive. We left around 1 or so to go eat in Little Tokyo at some place called Kouraku.

I got home around 330AM and didn't have my keys so I had to jumped the side fence and entered through the back. The dog started barking and I told him to shut up. I went to my bed and shut myself up (after brushing my teeth and putting on my retainer of course).

Sunday..

I wake up around 1030 to the voices of my little brother asking me if I wanted to go to the Dodgers' game. It was hot as heck and there was no one else home to watch over my Dad so I figured I'd pass. I went back to bed for about half an hour and then got my lazy butt up around 11. I opened up the screen doors and whoof, a hot, humid breeze nearly knocked me out.

I took a shower and then gave my dad a shower per usual. I fed him and then threw him on the massage chair. I caught a little bit of the Lakers', Dodgers', and Angels' game (they were all playing at the same time), while finishing up my laundry and cleaning my room. Then I fell asleep around 2-3. I wake up and gave my dad a little therapy. Then I did the dishes, changed my oil, washed my car, ate lunch, made rice, swept the backyard, cleaned up the living room, and cleaned up the kitchen.

Our sink is always filled with dishes and I do them at least twice a week. The trash can outside was surrounded by a kazillion flies (ie those 2 rodents must of been in decaying-mode especially with the blistering sun coming down; record temps in LB that day, 95 degrees).

By the time I was done, it was already close to 8pm. Finally, my sister and brother came home around 8:15 allowing me to leave the house for some grocery shopping. I went to Northgate Supermarket with my little sister where I spent a grand total of $54 and change for a bunch of produce and random stuff. I also bought 10 tamales at $1 each off a van outside the market. They're actually pretty good.

I came home, made ceviche, ate a lot, stretched my dad one final time and then went to bed around 11:30.

THAT ENDS THE WEEKEND SUMMARY.

I'd like to conclude with a little thought (from a sportsbetting forum):

"Please remember to help those less fortunate than yourself. And be sure to let your loved ones know you love them."
-LL

I was fortunate enough to hang out with a lot of good people this weekend. It's funny cause I've been in a little bitter mood about some things. But I try to remind myself that there's no point in being bitter and upset/angry. There's really no point. You're only gonna pull yourself down. There are some things that you can't control and so be it. What you can control is yourself. Just think positive and try to keep happy even if things aint going the way you want it to. Keep grinding and I'm sure you'll eventually see results. Holler at me if you need a friend. =) Speaking of results..

Here are the game results from Saturday, 4/12:

April 12th, 2008, 2:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

Our team sucks.

Boxscore: Click here.


April 12th, 2008, 5:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

No Kevin, no Sereywath, no problem.

Boxscore: Click here.

Be Happy and Keep Smiling

This is a random entry. Well, not really, let me explain..

In an effort to write more to keep my brain juice flowing and the mind sharp (staring at the computer screen kills so many brain cells, I hate it), I have decided to expand my blog entries to outside of just writing about sports. To date, every single of my entries have had some kind or form of sports. The average person may not necessarily be into sports and possibly be easily turned off from reading. Some of my friends have told me straight up that my blog entries are plain boring and that they simply don't care about my sports' stuff. I really didn't care too much at the time (and I still don't) because I was practically just using this blog page to keep track of scores and stats. The primary purpose was to have an archive history of all my games logged into one secure place.

But over the past couple days, I've been doing a lot of thinking (this is what happens when you're stuck in traffic and you're tired of listening to the radio) and concluded that I need to find a new thing, a new passion. I love sports but life just isn't about sports. I don't consider myself a great writer at all (I majored in Math if you didn't know) but I do love to write occasionally (especially poems). I'll definitely post some poems in the near future.

I'm not sure what that new thing is but I promise myself I will discover it before my time is up.

Things change. Some times for the better and some times for the worst. Some times in order to get better, it has to turn for the worst. People can also change (and so can blog entries of course hah) but I don't think they should unless it's for the better. You are who you are.

I'm gonna end this entry now before my thoughts start to go jumbo and contradiction ensues.

My friend Pitou gave me a solid song to listen to here. I'm on to the Mary J. No not the weed. =)

Mary J. - Not Gon' Cry
Mary J. - We Ride

LegalZoom Games

April 7th, 2008, 9:00 PM PST @ Pan American Park

First game of season number three was a solid success. We're still not very good but it was actually a pretty fun game. A guess it's pretty fun every time you win.

I only walked one batter. Too good.

Here is the link to the new season scores:

http://www.laparks.org/dos/sports/softball/spr_sum2008/M-191-8S.pdf

Gamenote: Kendy brought three of his friends and they didn't impress. They're decent at best.




April 9th, 2008, 7:00 PM PST @ LA Fitness Hollywood

I didn't attend this game but I heard we won by 2 points.

LegalZoom (2-0).

Two Bad Losses

April 5th, 2008, 2:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

NotGuilty (0-3) lose to a terrible team, 72-71, dropping them to 0-3


April 5th, 2008, 5:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS

Crookedstraight (2-1) lost. There were some terrible calls made by the officials but we still should of won this game. We blew at 10-point lead with 12 minutes left.

I have concluded that my brother should only shoot the basketball when our offense is stagnant and should stop going 1 on 5.

New Seasons

Softball:

Hitmen: Season ended March 28.
LegalZoom: Season starts on April 7 (Mondays 730PM/900PM)

Basketball:

LegalZoom: 1-0 (Wednesdays 700PM/800PM)
NotGuiltyB: 0-2 (Saturdays 100PM/200PM/300PM)
CrookedStraight: 2-0 (Saturdays 400PM/500PM/600PM)
LBC: Season starts soon

The Fourth Season - Game #1

April 2th, 2008, 7:00 PM PST @ LA Fitness Hollywood

LegalZoom 54, Black Birds 34.

It was a sloppy game. We sucked but they're even worst.