nba: i love this game!

10- 19- 08. i will never forget this day. one of my long time dreams was finally fulfilled! alhamdulillah..

me and my co- UGRAD scholars went to see a live- nba game. it was not just another live- nba game. it was a game played by the 2008 nba champion- the BOSTON CELTICS!

i was in first year high school when i started having interest on nba. from then, i always watched play-offs and championship games. young and naive as i was, i kept on daydreaming that one day, i will see them play live. i always imagined that i would be sitting among the ecstatic fans and be one of them. meeting nba superstars, ordinary players and even bench warmers or just simply watching a live- nba game have become one of my fantasies. but never did I think that a tiny speck of these fantasies will soon become a reality.

a reality it became! prof. michael kilburn, dr. april burriss, xiaoting, max, victor and i watched a pre-season game between boston celtics and new jersey nets at td banknorth garden in boston. it started at 3:30 pm of 10-19-08 and ended at around 6:30 pm. obviously, the celtics crushed the nets with a 17- point lead. (83 - 66 in favor of celtics).

i saw the infamous nba players kevin garnett, paul pierce and rey allen. these three men are the dynamic trio that helped boston celtics won the 2007- 2008 nba championship crown. although they played for a limited time, i still had a chance to witness their skills and see theri faces for real. by the way, paul pierce is really handsome in person. the camera does not give justice to his looks.

anyway, i could not believe it! i saw them with my naked eyes. before, i could only see them in espn, solar sports and basketball tv. just hours ago, i was sitting inside the boston celtics home court with thousands of celtics fan. the feeling was euphoric! i was in cloud nine!

before the game started, i really wanted to scream because i could not contain my emotion. my co- ugrad scholars say, i looked so excited. excited only? that was an understatement. i was not excited. i was super duper to the highest level excited and happy.

i finally saw them. i finally watched a live- nba game. and not just an ordinary game. it was a game played by the champs.

T-G-I-F!!

i am a zombie. i have become a creature of the night. i go to bed at 12: 00 am at the earliest. my eyes are now bloodshot red. it's not because holloween is fast- approaching nor have i become a party animal. i just need to stay up late to do all my homeworks!

when i was in the philippines, the ONLY reasons i stay late at night are:

• movie marathon
• endless chikahan with my cousins and gal pals
• working on MAJOR papers at the eleventh hour

here, i always have to sacrifice my precious sleep to cope up with academic requirements. just like now. it's already 2:59 am and still, here i am inside the cyber cafe. alhamdulillah it's open 24/7. without it, i do not have an idea how am i gonna finish all my homeworks.

one of my tiresome homeworks that pump my eyebags is the shot- by- shot analysis in my media aethetics class. imagine, i have to describe shots from a movie in details. from the way they look on the screen to each body movement they make, i have to write them all in a way that my teacher is like watching the movie itself! it's insane man! i have never done something like this in my life. I end up, memorizing the shots on the bus scene (before Susan was shot) in the movie Babel because of my constant pause-rewind-play with it.

thank God it's friday. i am always looking forward for friday because it means REST. rest from being zombie and rest from academic requirements. it also means spending more time with my pillow and my bed and forgetting academic suicide. ALHAMDULILLAH ITS FRIDAY!!!! yahoooo!!!