NBA Finals
NBA Finals starts earlier this morning with the celtics taking game 1 lead series 1-0.
Kobe Bryant will try to redeem himself to lead the Los Angeles Lakers for another possible championship, taking a look back from the Detroit Series in 2004 why the HECK they loss in that series? Detroit didn’t even win another championship after that!
Anyway, Finals starts earlier, sports and basketball fans will witness another classic match-up, rematch of Celtics-Lakers rivalry as their legacy continues, the most Winn ingest basketball clubs in history of the NBA. Who do you think will win the series? I’m a Laker fan; I can answer that at my sleep. L.A.K.E.R.S ! ! ! Of course, do not under estimate the Celtics, they have the best record at the regular season and they were favored to win the championship as early as the start of the season because of their so called big three in Garnett, Pierce and Allen. Maybe the lack of experience will be their weakness? Bryant and Fisher are the only members left of the 3peat in ‘00, ‘01 and ‘02 so basically they lack of experience too.
So where do we go with this?
Good News!???
There’s news regarding no tuition fee increase in all private and public state universities and colleges according to Commission on Higher Education Chairman Romulo Neri. The one I posted earlier.
According to Neri, CHED officials are still reviewing the petitions of state and private universities regarding tuition fee increase. Well its good news to hear that there will be no tuition fee hike for every average Filipino family. We are still suffering from side by side increase of basic commodity needs like rice, flours and breads, weekly increase of oil and recently the poultry and hog products, veggies and sea foods, effect by recent tropical depression Cosme, we can no longer absorb another increase in form of tuition fees. At least sophomores, juniors and seniors can continue their studies without hard thoughts. Increase was good for the development of facilities of the school establishment, but does the teachings and trainings improves? For some known colleges and universities yes, but how about some schools that doesn’t even passed the CHED standards?
Is it really good news? Well Neri however said colleges and universities do not need CHED permission to increase fees for the incoming freshmen. Whoa, how about other students who wants to get a degree courses or even associates. Survey says many average Filipino families are considerable to be poor these days. What if theses families can no longer afford to take their children to schools? The main reason of poverty here in our country is education, so how can we arise these problems if education it self were too much of the costs. Only in the Philippines, education is a business and not an institutions, you be the judge. Rodel.
Not Enough
Approves 5.5 pct minimum wage rise in Manila, May 16 – The Philippine wage board for the Manila area formally approved on Friday a 20 pesos (47 U.S. cents) – MANILA, May 16 – The Philippine wage board for the Manila area formally approved on Friday a 20 pesos (47 U.S. cents), or 5.5 percent, increase in the minimum take home pay of workers.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had announced the 20 pesos wage rise on
Thursday and the central bank has said the size of the increase was within its inflation assumptions.
Ciriaco Lagunzad, executive director of the National Wages and Productivity Commission, said the increase in the Manila minimum wage, seen as a benchmark for the country, would comprise a 15 pesos increase in wages plus a 5 peso cost of living allowance.
Another Season of Great Movies
Ok I admitted it – I’m an addict…in movies! This season we will witness great line up of movies such as comic book movies including The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Hellboy 2. Then there are the TV adaptations, like Get Smart, Sex & The City and Speed Racer. And of course don’t forget Indiana Jones, Prince Caspian, Wall E, Kung Fu Panda and The Forbidden Kingdom.
Based on an international reviews, the most anticipated are Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; The Dark Knight which features Heath Ledger as The Joker; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Wall E; Iron Man; Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian; and the return of Agent 007 in Quantum of Solace.
And the Winner Is…
Lakers – wins its series against the Jazz and went on to the Western Conference Finals. Kobe Bryant led his team with 34 points and the rest of the team contributed as 6 Lakers is in double figures. The Lakers will face the winner of Hornets-Spurs Series.
Someone forgot to tell Kobe Bryant and the Lakers that the road team isn’t supposed
to win this postseason. Especially when playing in the unfriendly confines of Utah’s EnergySolutions Arena, where the Jazz were 4-1 in the playoffs before Friday and a staggering 37-4 in the regular season.
Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport
OTTAWA, May 13, 2008 (AFP) – Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby … oops.
A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media said Tuesday.
The 23-month-old boy’s family had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines, but they were forced to repack their overweight bags before catching a connecting flight to Winnipeg, causing them to run late.
In their sprint to the gate, the family became separated.
The boy’s father Jun Parreno, told local media he had thought his son was with his wife and the boy’s grandparents, who ran ahead. They thought the boy was with his dad.
On the plane, the family members were seated separately and so did not immediately realize they had left the child behind.
China thankful for RP’s help on earthquake victims
MANILA, Philippines – The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Wednesday expressed gratitude to the Philippines for its support and assistance to the victims of the earthquake that hit Sichuan province last May 12, where some 12,000 people had perished.
“On behalf of the Chinese Government and people, we would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Philippine leaders and people who have expressed their condolences, sympathies, concern, support and willingness to help,” the embassy said in a statement.
Barangay Ginebra Kings On A Lump
I am one of thousands Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings die hard fan_so i am very disappointed of our team’s overall performance in the ongoing 2008 PBA Fiesta Conference Eliminations. We already have seven losses and only a win to show in our win-loss report card. Here are some points and views of some pinoy fans that they think are the reasons why Ginebra is on a slump:
Proud To Be Pinoy
Newly appointed Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said yesterday he is thrilled to become the first Fil-Am named to the high-level position in the NBA and being “very proud of my heritage, this is a great honor.”
Spoelstra’s mother Elisa Caridad Celino is from San Pablo, Laguna. She is a UP Diliman journalism graduate and taught at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City before leaving for the US in 1966. Spoelstra’s father Jon is of Dutch-Irish descent and used to work in the front office of the Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets.
A bachelor, Spoelstra has an older sister Monica who is involved in advertising and graphic design.
“I am currently the NBA’s youngest coach but not the youngest ever as Lawrence Frank was 33 when he was named head coach for New Jersey,” said the 37-year-old Spoelstra in an e-mail to The STAR. “As the league’s youngest coach now, though, I am extremely honored to have been promoted to this level with the Heat.”
Powerful Earthquake Rocks China
MIANYANG, China – Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China’s devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found.
Rescuers worked through a steady rain searching wrecked towns across hilly stretches of Sichuan province that were stricken by Monday’s magnitude-7.9 quake, China’s deadliest in three decades. Tens of thousands spent a second night outdoors, some sleeping under plastic sheeting, others bused to a stadium in the city of Mianyang, on the edge of the disaster area.
Street lamps were switched on in Mianyang on Tuesday night, but all the buildings were dark and deserted after the government ordered people out of them for fear of aftershocks. Security guards were posted at apartment blocks to keep people out.
The industrial city of 700,000 people — home to the headquarters of China’s nuclear weapons design industry — was turned into a thronging refugee camp, with residents sleeping outdoors.
