Hiked: 05/02/10

A Long Journey to Retrieval
As I tried downloading a clip of Lakers highlights through Megaupload this morning, the site told me to type in my user name and password. This is unusual because they were memorized automatically by Megaupload months ago, and as I filled in the boxes and tapped enter, a pop-up popped up and said wrong username and password... that was when I finally realized I got hacked... So I spent the next 2 hours trying to retrieve my account by contacting Megaupload multiple times, but only to receive an email requesting me to send over proofs or evidence of purchase (btw, a lifetime premium account is $199USD), so I did, now all I can do is wait..

Hike
I called Chris and told him to get over here and do a hike with me into Yang Ming Shan. He came over at 2:00pm and we set out at 2:15. We followed a steep slope up the mountain originating from a road close to Steve's house, and then when the road began to decrease in width, they became hard to walk on with all the weeds and sticks in the way. I brought with me a day pack including a full 1 liter Nalgene water bottle. Chris was let prepared and had to get water from me throughout the trip. We hiked to 文化大學 after going through a few different trails and came down on the 天母古道. By the time we reached home, it was already 5:40pm, the trip was tiresome, but well worth the effort and time spent.
Me Putting an old Kodak camera into good use:

Easy in, Easy out.

Who is he?

Mmmm, I'm confused.



A New Beginning
Tomorrow, Jazz @ Lakers Game one will erupt in the sell-out Staples Center. The Road to Repeat continues, Jazz's team statistics are a little down from last year, so since we owned the Jazz team last year, this year's Jazz shouldn't be too hard to clean-up. According to ESPN Sports, Andrew Bynum was reported to have a tear in his knee, but the tear shouldn't be too severe because he has been playing with a small tear for the whole season and now the very small tear only turned into a "small" tear. Game 1 starts at 3:30am tomorrow morning, let us all miss a night of sleep for a very good cause,
the moment is here,
let us dine and shine.

Passed: 05/01/10

Done
Woke up at 8am this morning and started setting up my microphone and laptop for the oral presentation. My grandpa came at 9am and we started the oral interview, to my surprise, my grandpa's answers to my questions were quite truthful and emotional. He didn't cry in front of me or anything, but knowing him for so long, I can hear the sadness and seriousness behind his voice. He mentioned life was hard for his village and I feel bad now since I told him to not "talk too much" before the interview. After the interview was completed, he started remembering more events regarding his early childhood, but I was unable to record it due to the fact that we were eating at a restaurant. My grandpa is usually very talkative and has a great sense of humor, but this morning, he was dead serious and I was glad he chose to take this seriously. Thankfully right after the interview was out of the picture he started laughing and told me to pay him 200nt for asking him so many questions (he said 15nt per question but gave me a discount at the end). Below I've decided to attach a download link to this morning's interview:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P45JF62S

Please delete the digital file within 24 hours, the file will be available for direct purchase through Eddie You at TAS.

Second Round Here We Come
If you guys have been checking your facebook what I am talking about right now should be fairly obvious. The Lakers had just eliminated the Thunders and are going into the Conference Semi-Finals. The final score was 95-94, concluded by Gasol's tip in from Kobe Bryant's miss with .5 seconds left to play. Kobe played extremely well today, he carried the team behind his back and brought us to the second round.

Kudos to the Lakers, who finally managed to play through some tough whistles and a crowd that was reaching "We Believe" proportions. They were given multiple opportunities to fold, but finally displayed the mental toughness and grit that will be absolutely required if a repeat title is in the cards. Tonight, they had to find new ways to win, because the usual stuff wasn't working out. In a game full of strangeness, the ending provided the strangest finish of all, with Kobe being saved by his teammates, instead of the other way around.

Watch the final moment of the game:


And tonight we shall drink, "We LOVE Paul Gasol":


P.S. Jazz vs Lakers starts tomorrow, there are still more battles ahead of us, we will take on them one by one: THE ROAD to REPEAT.

Have a great day, I know I will.

Eddie You

Bash: 4/30/10

Stress
Thinking back now, I could hardly imagine 2 days ago I was still capable of typing up a 30 minutes blog post at 10pm. All of a sudden, every assignment from every subject seems to be due right after the weekend is over. There's the Asian Studies Unit 5 test, the oral interview, the English soundtrack project, the Mandarin book report, the Physics quiz, the Math test coming up, and all the extra curricular works from tutors. These assignments are not only eating away my weekend, but also slowly evaporating my high school years.

314 Venture Crew
Despite the overloading assignments, I was still able to attend my first "boy scout" meeting last night (which I didn't realize it was a 2-hour meeting). Everyone involved seemed pretty nice and approachable. I was introduced to the crew, participated in a crew position election, then we did the Tenderfoot Requirement: As many sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups you can do, plus a 1/4 mile run in the end. By the time all this ended, it was already 8:30pm, I did homework for the rest of the night.


Package Arrival
On my way home, picked up the Cold Steel Double Agent 2 knife I bought online, with a Lansky knife sharpener and I few knife catalogs I received for free. I was extremely impressed with the Aus-8 Japanese made steel and the serrations cut through layers of paper like butter. The knife sharpener was not that great, it only sharpens plain edge blades and unusable with serrations, but it's not like I paid 500 dollars for a sharpening stone.

Double Agent 2 SESS



And the Lansky Knife sharpener:


And I strongly believe the Venture Crew meeting and the Knife exploring last night were direct causes of my failed Mandarin Test this morning.

P.S. Filling in my Venture Crew application ATM (at the moment)

P.P.S.
Lakers @ Thunders Game 5 tomorrow: WIN or GO HOME



Cheers,
Eddie You (Admin)

Slash: 4/28/10

How should I start this
Ah, i thought i might have an hour to write this but seeing that it's already 10:52, I'll make it brief. As always, the start for a long voyage is always crucial for the team mentally and emotionally, here we go.

Woke up at 7:30am after my alarm clock failed me for the 3rd time this week (yes, that's 3 straight days) and speedily dressed myself and brushed my teeth, then off I went to school.
Took a quick nap in Mandarin class and hopped on atdhe.net for a live stream of the Mavs vs. Dallas game, the quality was so disturbing I decided to return back to my corner and finish my English project (yes, in Mandarin class). Lunch time finally arrived 4 long dreadful hours later, it was finally time for the: Cheer the hell out for the Lakers game!

Cheer the hell out for the Lakers game
Few of our school's hardcore-Lakers-cheer-members landed in one of the front tables and got ready for a long survival battle. The game turned out to be a total massacre, the Lakers led 14-2 run with 6:25 left in 1st quarter, what a killing spree. Watched half the game in the cafeteria and the other half in multiple classes (atdhe quality forgiven). The Lakers played great, in fact one of the best games throughout the regular & post season, below are just some numbers for you to WOW at:

27 assists for the Lakers
56 points in the paint
Only 7 Fastbreak points for the Thunders (a WTF compared to Game 3&4)
A 1.21 Points-Per-Possession for the Lakers :0 (avg. 1.00 before)
Awesome 111-87 victory over the young Kevin Durant Team

By the way, when was the last time you saw our 118kg Ron Artest did this:


FIVE STAR RONNY!!

and just to remind you what this is all about, the road and determination to REPEAT (with
Obama's new affection)
































Slash:
As some of you may know, I am starting a new hobby: Tactical Knives. It all started on a night last week when our apartment's cleaner (who turns out to be my dad's friend) walked right into my house at 9:00pm with a cigarette and "Where's your dad?", talking about a heart-attack....

So I decided to equip myself with some non/lethal weapons. Next day I went to Ebay and got myself a Benchmade Pika II Tactical Blade and a can of Mace pepper spray.















Then later went back on Ruten (Asian Ebay) and got myself a few knives from Gerber, Cold Steel, and Boker.

If you feel like better equiping yourself from your cleaner or sexual offenders, please visit the below sites for more reference:
Benchmade
Cold Steel
Boker
Spyderco

But if you do buy any knives please do not bring them to school unless a suspension is acceptable either for you or your parents.

Now I shaw end my first of my many future update posts with: