The super spurs

There are many of Big 3 or any form superstars fusions in the league but most of them just manage to grab some limelight and don't actually deliver the expected performance and chemistry. However, the Spurs Big 3 is definitely one of the most successful combination of stars that went through the test of time.

First, there is no conflicts in the roles within the trio. The corner stone of the team Duncan is the leader of the team, he grab rebounds, the protector under the rim defensively. Offensively, he can be the one to post up in the paint and initiate a play, score himself or feed the sharp shooters on the perimeter, or he can play the supporting cast to set screens and scramble for offensive rebounds. Unselfish and calm he has been playing this role well consistently well for one and a half decade.

Tony Parker who now can be said as the leader of the team and handles the ball most of the time in offense is a explosive and quick point guard, his speed is a threat to most of the teams in the NBA, and with years of experience he has improved his game with his decision in passing. He can drive into the paint and score a floater on his own or feed the ball to the shooters when he is double teamed. With the aging of Duncan, Popovich has molded Parker to be the playmaker and offense initiator of the team.

Manu Ginobili is a very skillful guard who is willing to sacrifice his minutes for the good of his team. He is good in penetrating defense and his drive and layup is so unpredictable and not to mention his euro step, he is also a good perimeter shooter that makes him even harder to guard. Besides skills, he has also big nerves, he can often make big score when he is needed.

Unlike the other stellar teams like Heats, where D Wade's role is actually in conflict with James's, the role to handle the ball and start the plays, which was usually Wade's role in the Heats. When both of them are on the court, Wade can create space for James as he is not good at 3 pointer. I am saying that Wade is not good, but it is obvious that the Heats want James to take the ball. It answers why the better rally better when a bunch of shooters are on court with James.

In San Antonio, now most of the attacks start from Parker or from Duncan posting up and calling for ball in the paint, with smooth ball circulation they find the best open man to make the shot. But if both Duncan or Parker are encumbered by the opponents Manu Ginobili can be a third playmaker to bring some impact on the team, he has the characteristic and ability to handle that. In the normal offense system, he can be a static perimeter shooter who can create space for Parker and others.

Dream BIG and Live It

After all the inspiring stories that I read in the entrepreneurship textbook from I am motivated again, I think we should really dare to dream and take action to fulfill it with spirit, with tenacity and passion. realizing a dream is not a easy stuff. Besides, must have a very strong and determined mindset, just take initiative to change myself and start to take action, despite failure believe in what you believe in at the start. 

So that you will not have any regret in the later stage of your life, at least you try 

2013 NBA Final Game 6#

This is what a final should look like, I mean the second half and especially the last quarter, scoreboard is not adding points, lots of aggressive defense, turnovers from everyone, key rebounding and clutch shot. It is how it should be unlike game 5 which was just simply lopsided. It is so thrilling, the last quarter and overtime is really taking my breath.

I want to credit R. Allen for his astonishing equaliser at the final 5 second of the game even tough it is the only 3 pointer he made in the game. Who cares? We are talking about quality not quantity. Lebron has a great game, triple double and his burst out in the second half is detrimental to the result of the game though there are turnovers and missed easy shots, the rally to tie the game in the regulation is still attributed to the MVP.

Wade is quite silent tonight, no tremendous replays and no clutch performance but on the other hand he might sustain a injury from the collision with Ginobili.

The spurs is doing well in the regular time, persistence and stability, having the lead most of the time, Duncan is dominating the paint, neither Bosh nor Birdman can hold him.

Leonard is doing a pretty good tonight, showing fearlessness against Lebron and getting the ball in to the hoop when there is a turnover from the Heats, not fancy but effective. And his dunk in the face of Miller is just awesome.

Now what would happen in the determining final game of this season? Spurs of Heats, I hope it will be as thrilling and exciting as game 6.

lost in the jungle

There were a bunch of bothering stuffs that waited to be settled, plus there had been quite a long time I didn't  exercise a bit, so I asked my buddy to go for hiking in Bukit Jambul. It was a cloudy day, and after a rain the path became so slippery to walk in addition we were in our sanders only.

It was the first time he came here and I suggested him to use another route, a longer one, that I had tried once, descending, not going up. The air in the hill was so refreshing and may be because of the rain, the air was so rejuvenating and cool. The first half of the journey was just like the one that I used to take, lots of direction guide, nailed on trees and there were definitely fewer hikers we met.

Suddenly the path became ambiguous, the soil path was covered with fallen leaves and at some place there were even messy plants making path looked narrower, as if the path was abandoned  for long. This route was not a whole up, there were a few times we hiked up and went down hill before the destination. Then we started to feel some tiredness in our legs and I saw the grey sky, this was a usual sign of reaching the hill top.

But it happened to prove me wrong, and it surprised me actually we reached a top but not the one we wanted to reach. I asked every time when in doubt if we want to turn back, but he insisted me to decide, and I couldn't see worries in his face until we reached a steep down hill, it was even challenging with the fallen leaves and moist left by the rain. It was so slippery that we almost slid on our but for a couple of times. then the path became even more ambiguous, where it was almost sheltered by some plants and grasses. However we proceeded anyway.

Then we reached where there were some latex trees and banana trees around, and a wood shelter with a dog underneath. We hesitated a while and I equipped myself with used petrol container, just in case it chased us. Because I thought a dog with a master was usually braver. Then we proceeded with the dog did nothing but staring us passed by.

Then we came across a few junctions where we had to make a decision, and I chose on my instinct. Then the scene was becoming much worrying with the dusk was near and the path seemed like leading into a deep forest. We turned back to take another path at the last junction in haste. And finally, the environment became more familiar to me and thanks god we met some other hikers too and moment later we reached our destination.

What a horrible expirience

Two rules of being a modernPrimitive Man

There are two golden rules to become a primitive in the modern day:
 firstly, you must be disconnected to the rest of the world, you must be out of the loop, simply live by yourself
secondly, you don't shave, you let any kind of hair on your body grow messily and freely, it would be probably best if you have it frizzy.
as simple as that

Wind back to a few centuries back, when there was no cell phone or any means of communication and transportation, there might not even be a developed language for them to "hang around" how did they live, didn't them felt bored living in a extremely drab "neighborhood". However I guess they still managed to have some not so effective but ample communication with the other folks in a tribe, their community like gesturing and scowling when they got mad.

I have been practicing this kind of primitive life style recently. You know, it is the study week, my sole program in my itinerary is just studying and doing the goddamn boring revision. When I got bored, a laptop will entertain me well, movies and net surfing. I guess the past week the only person in my loop is just my girlfriend, I talk and text to no one else except her, until today I just encountered an rare opportunity to deal with something with a friend. Ya, but i was "moodless" to quite entertain them.

Trust me, I never doubt if I would be so craving for some interaction with anyone besides her. You see the whole idea is, I am quite a nerd, I don't prefer my life to be boisterously cheered with a a lot of people around me. I have hobby, and am interested in a wide array of stuffs in my life, even some trivial one. I don't felt like articulating all of these interests. Fine, but I am writing this not because the true nature of mine is not in line with what I just mention just now. seriously, an lively enriched social cycle is to me, subservient to my passion for those interests.

I have friend teasing me that I am a primitive, when I seldom show up in all those kinds of gatherings, hanging out. But his comment doesn't work, he actually guides me on how to define myself, I buy the idea but not the trick. I wonder this nerd propensity stems from lacking of joyous and cheerful occasion with a big crowd, it might because I have not tasted the fun of it. But one thing I confirm is that it has something to do with the "style" of my childhood.

But, day by day, I have became cognizant of that I have cross the line, i meant too disconnected to the world and the people around me. Just I even became lazy to reply message from a friend, most because I have been leaving leaving my cell phone alone these few days, late to notice those incoming text. You know, just feel like reluctant to apologize and following up with the things. Gosh, I know that it is not the way it should be. to sum up, I mean I at least I needa engage communications necessary to sustain my daily needs. ya that is, if i avoid that because of laziness, damn it is not a rules in my theory to be a modern primitive man, all I want is simplicity. Oh finally sleepiness consumes me, night.

Return of Nash??

Come on, we need Nash
I think many of the fans share a same thought of mine
Thinking Nash as the last resort for the Lakers
Thinking that this 2 times MVP point guard will bring some significant evolution to the Lakers

Although Nash gonna be a shortfall in the defensive end
But looking at their games now
The team is desperate for changes currently in a losing streak
Yeah, Kobe has some prolific individual performances
But They lost most of the games with Kobe scored more than 30 points
Come, he is not the young Kobe raving to get score anymore
He is eager to win now

Back to Nash
All he needs will be a couple static canons, Kobe and World Peace can take the roles, catch and shoot
Some hasty legs to set some fastbreak points
And a big guy who can screen and jam in the paint, Dwight and Gasol

An all-around forward will be a befitted piece of puzzle of the Lakers with Nash
Antwan Jamison, he is able to take this job, he can grab rebounds, can run, can shoot, post play and even 3 pointer dagger.
So I think it is better to have Jamison plays starting power forward if they want to play effective run and gun
better choice over Gasol
I still like Gasol, and he should stay, the team needs him when they want to dominate under the hoop and when hard defense is in play

I still have faith in this Lakers roaster
Imminent improvement is coming soon
And reclaim the central stage

The former all star forward

How many career total score can he amass?

A pic I got from Kobe Fans Page

One thing for sure is that he is definitely going to surpass Julius Erving, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan in this statistic.

But What I am really concerned is whether he could be on top of the list. Beating Carl Malone (36,928) and Kareem Abdul Jabbar (38,387).
Can he be the first to hit the 40k milestone

Currently 12cn December 2012, Kobe has accumulated 30,016 points, at the age of 34.
If he takes good care of his body, he might be playing for another 5 years
Id he can produce 3 more seasons with 2,000 plus points and 2 more seasons with around 1,000 points. He could be the "prototype" of 40,000 points 

Even without this astonishing accomplishment, he is still always player of last decade 
And if nothing goes wrong, Lebron is the next to beat up Kobe

A naively dishonest boy

I have never doubted my honesty and integrity
I actually dare to say I am proud with this innate qualities

But how would I feel when I was criticized to be a cunning and dishonest guy
This was  what I could guess from the riddles from him
If there was any

It was hurt to hear that
Especially when I knew from the cradle to the grave that I am born to be a gracefully kind man
All I could say was that I was too naive
All I wanted was just a better presentation
And damn it I did it worst man

May be he was right, when he refuted that
I didn't see the seriousness and the consequences from my own action
But
I meant it when I said that I had an average grade
And I had never been so desperate for an excellent grade
Or thinking of unethical methods to boost my grade
And I would not do something that was against my value to attain a better grade

Indeed it felt bad and it was disheartening to have someone misunderstood me
or labelled dishonesty on my forehead
but as the saying goes "Life goes on"
Still I needed to grit my teeth and humbly take the lesson
Think before you leap
Really important

I appreciated that there were consolation and company from my love
Thanks

Indolence

It was a good Saturday and I wasted it

watching 2 movies when I know that I shall not

taking a long nap was the main itinerary in the afternoon

When I woke up, it was already 6 45 pm

Come on, I got a lot to deal with

when will I be sober

And then I went for jogging with my friend

And after that it seemed better

I braced myself to fight laziness

Come on, maybe we should see things in another perspective

optimistically, it was great

it was a great way to relax

and let my distress abates like that 

doing nothing and enjoy a good movie

The end of a dark path is a hopeful bright sun

Lakers still struggle

Another solid performance form Kobe Bryant 40 points came along with 10 rebounds
But how sinister for Kobe to have lost the game
A tie game, just 2 points to Indiana Pacers
come on
54 percent on the foul line, and 32 percent field goal
what happens to the others the bench
Kobe just outscored all his spiritless teammates(40 to 37)
The Lakers were like praying Kobe to make every single jumper, 3 pointer and layup
even without Nash still you got to work things out
Come on,
Lots of fans will be disappointed

The lone ranger

Malaysian Accent

"I like the way he speaks, his rebuttal makes you believe in his points, it is so convincing"
"You know I like the style he speaks also"
"The way he speaks has a very strong Chinese accent"
"It is nice to keep this accent you know"
"Rather than being too westernized"
This was the compliment that my English teacher gave to a very brilliant student after the debate
When I was a bit frustrated for not doing quite well
And this comment inspires me a lot
why should we talk like a westerner,
Imitating and emulating the accent of UK or US
We are Malaysian aren't we
We are commonly renown for our language ability
And it is also what makes us unique as a Malaysian
It dignifies us as a Malaysian

As for my teacher, she is kind of a localized English teacher
I know undoubtedly she can speak so well
But she has not any hesitation to use "lah, lah, lah" in the class

When I was admiring and jealous about how fluent, hasty and well another female classmate spoke spontaneously
This comment of my teacher had really twisted my thought
And I can agree more about this
come on lah, just speak like a Malaysian lah

Don't judge a book by its cover

We, people, seem to have the propensity to make a judgment based on what we witness with our very own eyes

Today I came across an incident that made me felt and agreed with the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"

You know, I always moans that the shuttle bus service in my campus sucks
Actually I entailed this conclusion just based on my handful experiences with shuttle service
Cause I have my own Bike, seldom I take the bus
My grouse was those buses coming in groups
There is always a couple of buses coming in a roll at a same time
Why couldn't them have some gap between rounds?

But today, I understand the reason behind it
The time when I see the "Bus fellowship" is a time peak hours of the shuttle service
The time when most of lectures start
All the students are heading the the lecture halls
If there were only a bus at one time, it would be definitely insufficient, it could have been more complaints

So, I guess next time, I should have observed more and see more into detailed, before coming to a conclusion

Kobe remains tough

At the age of 34, even inflicted by some injuries
Kobe Bryant is still fit to score a prolific 38 points with a efficient 55% accuracy
Forget about the loss to Kings of that game

With such an outstanding condition, why he needs to relinquish his domination in the team?
He just prove himself a superstar, a sustainable and long lasting superstar

And it is indeed to my surprise that such solidly strong performance of Kobe comes so early in the season
you know it hints that there will be more coming on the way

God please let this guy stay fit for a couple of seasons more
And Dwight, he is waiting for your rock the city

I love this man's layup very much, if Lebron's Jam is a super pop, then this lay up is a old school classic

The road not taken

Just suddenly felt like writing something
Looking around
there are various types of people passing by in my life
At the age of 23, not considered very old, but I guess I have seen quite a number of people in my life
I bet, as graduation is coming around the corner, me and my fellow friends and other undergraduates have reached at a crossroads
A time where one of the toughest and momentous decision that we need to make
Our path to our future, the career path
whatever choice we take, it will greatly influence the manner and the way we live

Recall the poem "The road not taken" in secondary school
At this point of my life, my situation just fitly depicts what is said in the poem
There is a bright, clear, and straight road
A path where I used to think as what am I supposed to take
I had this thought may because of there are many people with a similar background like mine have chosen it
We human have the propensity to decide by referring to others
And to some, there are even society and family pressure, where the poor fellow is coerced to take the road
But
Do they really enjoy the journey?

Thanks God that, I am born without any disability
And in a decent family, not loaded but at least I have no financial pressure
There are someone around,
even someone I know, needs to think about his what to feed himself for the next meal
If they are unfortunate, then me as the lucky one,
should I appreciate my luck by doing what I am thought or expected to do by the society?
Is making a decision blindly hinges on the envious feeling towards the successors a smart way of choosing?

Whereas it is completely different with the other route
There are distinctly fewer "risk taker" have tried this road
Because it is unconventional, unlike a the other roads where someone in his or her right mind should choose
I am exposed to less knowledge and information on how it could be to choose this road
The decision to take this road is sure to be contentious
There will be disagreements against it
And I might be said to have lost my right mind for ever thinking about it

"Don't judge a book by its cover"
should it be taken into consideration?
What others say
Is that the option that there are more people chose a definitely right choice
Even if I am aware of this vague road leads me to a destination that might be congruent with my interest, what I want and more importantly what I indeed enjoy spending time on.

I guess I would just literally like imprisoning myself with the views from people around
what generally a person like me should do and what they might want me to do
It could be true that following my heart is the means to extricate myself from this jail, the life long jail
Otherwise I'll just walking in their shoes at the end of the day

But why?
Why? still I'm stuck?
I am still indecisive and doubt

This just picture just conveys what I don't want to be

Mike D'Antoni, the "Right Mike"

Just when the whole LA is talking about who will be the head coach of the Lakers
And when some rumor has that Phil Jackson the Zen Master
Shockingly to our surprise Mike D'Antoni has taken the post, out of all's expectation

I personally don't recognize the last Mike, Mike Brown as a good coach
When this starry hollywood lineup of the Lakers was formed, I was thinking that it was certainly a waste to have Brown to coach this roster
Firing Mike Brown has just allayed some of the worries and fears of mine and I bet the other fans

Okay, Stop criticizing Mike Brown.

Mike D'Antoni, a very vibrant veteran coach who has experience in the euro basketball (with even 2 euro league titles) is best known for his aggressive and spectacular attacking games
In spite of his average result during his stint in New York
He is now in L.A to bolster the confidences of the fans
Can you recall the Sun with Nash, Stoudemire, Marion...
Run and Gun
It is always exciting to watch his games
Although he has yet to win any title in NBA
but his ability to coach is indisputable and no one will doubt him to be fitter than Brown

Just like George Karl, his basketball belief has that attacking is the most effective form of defense
However, after decades of coaching career in NBA, George Karl is still longing for his first title

The worst opening of the season and the pre-season games of the Lakers has inflicted an immense disappointment to all the Lakers' die hard fans and me. They were just disappointing.
Mike D'Antoni has to turn thing up, the fans of Lakers are cheering for his reign in the hope that he could assist Kobe to another few or maybe the last trip to the final and conquer the league
And I also hope that he will break the refute the long standing phenomenon of " Offense wins applause and Defense wins the game"
Hope that he can attain something outstanding in Lakers

The collaboration of Nash and D'Antoni is inarguable and should bring some good impact on the execution of the game plans and the chemical effect of the team
As for Kobe, he is still fit to score and mark, he should be very grateful that Lakers enlists Mike D'Antoni as the last piece of the lakers complete team

Now the veteran Lakers has the height, the experience the clutch and the right coach
the only downside of this super Lakers is the bench
There is an apparent disparity between the starting line up and the substitute
It hints that the starting line up must stay healthy the whole season
Or something must be done to address it before the window closed

Lakers must reclaim the central stage under D'Antoni's Steer

The right "Mike"

This guy is another corner stone of the Lakers

cheers

Structured

I love things to be in order, organized and structured

that is why sometimes I have my own quiet moment of introspection

Fantasizing quietly and devising a method of how to keep my things neat and structured

I feel like cleaning and tidying up my stuffs every time I sense that I feel spiritless and energy-less

It could be those past experience and retrospective unpleasant happenings that trigger the spiritlessness and low motivation

It is proved to be workable too

By clearing all the mess and organizing my various belongings in a cellular form

I feel revitalized and recharged inside

However, thing that I need to organized the most is myself, ain't my stuffs

Panel lining Gundam Plastic Model Kit

I have collected a couple of Gundam plastic model kits.
Not HG, MG nor the new RG
I personally love SD (super-deformed) very much
their head is comparatively bigger and more detailed than any other grade
and they are just so cute man

Once finish building a gundam model kit
have you ever felt that there is something not right with your model
Like lacking of something
It doesn't come out quite alike what I expected from the image in the packaging
And felt like being cheated or buying a defective product

I am still a rookie in Gunpla
And soon I realized that building a nice looking Gundam model kit is not simply joining and assembling all the plastic parts in the runners
There are more, like painting, panel lining and coating

This time I wanna share a most effective way to make the model much alike the image in the packaging

Just do panel lining

I first show some picture of  before and after panel lining of  my Zero Gundam

It is nice but it is so plain before panel lining

After some panel lining, the whole model looks more detailed and lively now

A closer look at the difference before and after panel lining

May be my skill is not too good, but it looks shockingly good to me since it was the first time to do panel lining

If you google panel lining Gundam model kits, you will find that there are many ways to do it
But I think for a beginner like me
It is advisable to use the Gundam Marker
It is just as easy as drawing line on a plastic surface
And remember to get yourself a piece of fine rubber eraser
to rub off the ink in case if you made some mistake
I bet you will make lots of mistakes

This is the Gundam maker that I use

Lastly I wanna say that panel lining is not an easy job too
To make a perfect job it needs lots of patience too
but the result really pays off

I can't wait to panel line all my model kits
But after the Zero Gundam, I have an unbearable sore neck now

Astray Red

The Rules of the Games

The week is the exam week of the 2 monstrous lecturers' subjects

These few days I have been studying like hell

I thought I could burn the night oil yesterday, but I fainted in bed

I was just washed-out because there were presentation and life saving duty yesterday

After reading reading and reading

A thought popped up in my mind

I agree with the statement that Learning is by no means Memorizing

I guess this is what an ordinary student does

Loading gigabytes of facts and theories and throwing them up in the exam hall

And if you ask him afterward, he'll tell he has forgotten about them

 

The exam oriented type of education is doomed to be failure 

Until a turnaround change in this edu system, it is only manufacturing memorizing machines

What I want to say is application learning is the rules of the game today

You suck if you can't apply the concept you learnt in your text

To apply you need to fully understand and comprehend what you have learnt

It could be called knowledge only if you understand them

As for the prevalent memorizing, it is only a means of understanding

It could be fun to dig, dig and keep digging a piece of knowledge

If you figure out your interest in it

Someone in our society must really called a halt to this exam oriented education

to extricate the students from the burdens of studying 

and start to produce thinking individuals

Environment for studying

A suitable place to study is always not in my list of concerns about studying

I used to think that a desk or a bed especially will do

But now I started to feel that studying environment is very imperative to encourage and motivate us to open the books

It could be because I was brought up in a decent family, my mum stressed us a lot on studying 

Though we are not rich, my parents have tried the best to provide us a souvend environment for studying

Therefore since secondary school, I would not ride down to the town deliberately just to get to the library or McDonald to read

I was wondering why can't they just study at home?

Is it necessary for them to take a long ride just for a space to study?

May be the air conditioner is cool attractive, but does it make a lot of differences?

But later on, I realized that I was so naive to have the perception that everyone had a decent place to study at home
Furthermore, outside with friends, they could chit chat a bit when it became too boring.

Thanks God for what I have and given by my parents, not everyone share an equal fortune.

In my tertiary education,  the external environment of having a suitable, comfortable ( with air conditioning or midnight), or quiet place to study has become a key for me to study. My productivity is at peak during mid night. Especially someone takes part in activities or joining any society, club or organization, the poor little guy just have inadequate time for them to study in the day time.

In addition, a very convincing reason, that is when I am apart from my laptop my effectiveness and productivity of studying can go staggeringly higher.
God damn, it is so true for people like me who is not pretty good in self-discipline, self-control, self-management, or self-whatever. 

Aside from these external and physical kind of environment, however, the intangible kind of environment plays a more prominent role to "lure" us to study.

For instance, the type of friends that you hang around in the class, are they the sloppy one or aggressive type, or the type of your lecturer, strict or lenient. 

Definitely, in an environment where you have aggressive friends and strict lecturers is more favorable if we are talking about getting good grade, it has a positive impact for us to feel pressure for studying hard. 

Just imagine that one of your lecturers is strict and very demanding, he assigns tests and pop-quiz in class relentlessly, and at the same time all your fellow classmates are so aggressive in studying in order to trample on those do not study well, then someone n this environment is so likely to be hard working as well. 

It forms a kind of aura of hardworking and engender pressure and reason for us to contend with other students. 

You know, human being is born to have a mindset of winning and may be we are pre-engineered to love winning over others. What a sad scenario.

But you know, learning should be fun, find my interest in the topic and I think being curious and interested can make learning lot of fun. This is the most powerful and strongest environment of studying, perhaps. 

Barrack Obama won Re-election

Congratulation to Mr President
It is so impressive that Mr President still attracts the voters very well
Even though in the past 4 years there were some economic issues
I really thought he would lose to Romney(I am one of his supporters)
Whatever so he did it
this time the first black to win re-election