Rajon Rondo and the 2002 All Stars

From Kuya Earl:

Yup.  It’s true.
Rondo is playing with 4 other dudes who, come February, played in the All-Star Game 9 years ago.

Average age of non-Rajondo, Celtic starters?  35 years old.

And to make matters worse, take a guess who won the All-Star MVP that year…

Kobe Bryant.

Certainly, Ray Allen (Seatle Supersonics), Paul Pierce (Celtics), Kevin Garnett (Timberwolves) and Shaquille O'Neal (Lakers) all played in the 2002 NBA All-Star Game in the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. West defeated the East 135-120.

Who would have thought that these guys, who were superstars in different teams, would be playing in the same team after nearly a decade? Beats me. I was in the 4th grade during that game.

Four superstars playing for one team with another all star player. And all we complain about is three superstars who joined in one team.

Fact? No sir?

October 2010 had 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays all in a single month. Some say this happens only every 8 centuries - 823 years to be exact. Cool, man! My kids, grand-kids, great-grand-kids and great-great-grand-kids will never experience that.

Oh, wait. Think again:

 Let’s think about this, a year can only start on one of seven days, so there are seven possible basic calendar years. Add leap years, and there are fourteen basic calendars. Period. And one of those calendars only gets used every 823 years? How would that be possible? It’s not of course, all fourteen calenders get cycled through regularly, in fact 2010 uses the exact same calendar as 1999.

5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays in an October will happen again in October 2021. Now my amazement is gone. It will come again when I'm 29.

Here's the thing though: October 2010 had October 10, 2010 or 10-10-10, and it will not happen again until the next millenium. Now that's what I'm talking about!

Wrong move, Mr. President

Yesterday, all newspaper headlines in the country talked about the bus bombing in Edsa that killed five - two on the spot - and hurt 13 others. Terrorist attack? Most probably. I mean, who places a bomb under a passenger seat in a bus and sets it off using a cellphone and kill and injure innocent people? I know my Marketing teacher is a terror, but nobody can do and will do these things but the terrorists.


One thing disturbs the most, though: President Noynoy Aquino's statement during the news briefing. From the Philippine Daily Inquirer:

At a news briefing, Mr. Aquino said he received intelligence reports last year that “a Muslim secessionist group” was planning a “bombing” attack but did not have the resources to mount it. 

Wondering how the group was able to mount the attack, the President ordered a probe of the bombing.

“Everybody can be assured that in the soonest possible time, like many other incidents such as the bar exam bombing, there will be a solution to this situation,” he said.

Seriously? You received intelligence reports that this was going to happen?

The attack came two months after the United States and several other Western governments warned that a terrorist attack in Manila was imminent, and followed a bus hijacking in August last year that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead.

What? We were told?

Bombings happen in the Philippines. Terrorist groups exist in the Philippines. The President himself was warned on a attack, and DID NOTHING to prevent this happening.

Now this is what they/we are doing: 

The National Capital Region Police Office has ordered random inspections of buses in the wake of a deadly bus bombing in Makati City on Tuesday.

The authorities have placed the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on heightened alert in the wake of Tuesday’s deadly bus bombing on Edsa, deploying twice the usual number of security guards and increasing patrols by bomb-sniffing dogs. 

Guys, it has happened. While it is just right to prevent more attacks to follow, nothing we do now can save the dead. We should have done those inspections and stuff ages ago and should have them consistently. After all, we were warned.

It is said that "prevention is better than the cure."

Please. Let us all be proactive, not reactive.

Why blog?

Question: “Why blog?”

Here’s one answer: Start a blog is in my to-do list for 2011.

My father always lectures me about my eyes weakening due to stupid useless moments spent in front of the laptop - the laptop he himself gave me - and warns me of losing it unless I use it in a fruitful way. I thought writing would be somewhat productive. I will be able to keep the laptop, write about random things that enter my mind, have a good reason to request for a permanent Internet connection and more importantly, do something I would love to do. Reading blogs has always been a hobby of mine. Surfing the Internet will never be complete for me without paying a visit to Ball Don't Lie and Peninsula is Mightier. We can call that a win-win-win-win-win.

 Nuff said, here are the other items in my to-do list for 2011 (in no particular order):

•  Get a job
• Crash Ma'am Ngolob's list
• Attend a concert
• Drive!
• Enter a bar

Seriously?

I really hope these guys are paid actors or anything but real on duty police officers.

Because if they are, God bless the Philippines.