Finally the MVP has arrived with a statement
ballgame.
And not only that... he just
defeated arch-nemesis Chris Paul and
the new look Los Angeles Clippers.
Derrick Rose is the Statmonkey of the Day!
Chicago Bulls’ leader helped destroy the
Clippers en route to a 114-101 win with a near triple-double output of 29 points, 8 rebounds, 16 assists, and a
steal.
He bested for the honor the
likes of Miami’s Lebron James, Orlando’s
Dwight Howard, and the Clipper duo of Blake Griffin and Chris Paul!
In his UFC debut, he wants to impress. Unfortunately for these PRIDE and Strikeforce guys, they tend to suck at the start of their UFC
career. Blame this on age, skills, and wear and tear but it often looks and feels
like that for a lot of guys.
Brock Lesnar sucked as well. He was maimed
by Frank Mir in an embarrassing debut
of a musclehead from a make believe combat sport that thinks he has the beef
and the brawn to act monstrous.
But Lesnar, once dubbed as WWE’s Next Big Thing, returned to glory
and made an impact in the world of mixed martial arts.
Overeem battles Lesnar in UFC 141!
Winner gets a shot at UFC Heavyweight Champ Junior Dos Santos.
Game starts now!
ROUND ONE:
Lesnar feels Overeem’s overhead
right. Lesnar catches Overeem but can’t take the Englishman down. There’s blood
in Overeem’s eyes. Overeem answers with a lot of knees to Lesnar’s ribs. Overeem
is manhandling Lesnar – putting him on the gutter numerous times. Lesnar was
hurt a bunch of times and then Lesnar gets caught with a kick to the liver.
Lesnar falls down and Overeem went berserk! Overeem punches the hell out of
Lesnar and while Brock covered the head punches, he was not returning them. One
punch to the body from Overeem was enough to signal Mario Yamazaki (the Japanese version of Super Mario) to end the match.
POSTFIGHT:
It’s a tale of two careers.
Overeem will embark on a UFC career while Lesnar has announced to end his.
Overeem is going to manhandle Dos Santos if his demolition against Lesnar is a
sign of things to come. Meanwhile, Lesnar has had a lot of career-threatening
injuries. UFC is proving to be a brutal playground to gain fame and
recognition. With a UFC Heavyweight Championship reign and a 5-3 win-loss
record, I am guessing that the best scenario for Brock Lesnar...
... Is to return to the WWE.
Yes, Brock can go to the WWE
and Vince McMahon will tell every
wrestler in the locker room that Lesnar’s stomach is untouchable. Brock is
still a great heel persona waiting to happen and WWE can use him in either Raw
or Smackdown because of its extremely thin main event circle. Amongst the
wrestlers that embarked on a MMA career like Kurt Angle, Bill Goldberg, Bobby Lashley, and Dave Batista, Lesnar
was the most successful. Maybe the wonders of fighting in the octagon will make
him a more rounded fighter in whatever future work he wants to accomplish which
is the same thing I will also say with regards to Overeem. That kick was just
superb and I can see the heavyweight division going on the way of the Ubereem.
Let’s just hope for the best of
their future endeavours.
Dwight Howard at the start of the season has
signified his intentions to move out of the Orlando Magic. One of those in the hunt for his services was the New Jersey Nets who will parade him
just in time when they unravel their selves in Brooklyn.
The trade has yet to happen so
there is no love lost for the Superman to unleash his wrath on the Nets. Howard
had 16 points, 24 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, and 3 blocks in their 94 to 78
win.
Dwight Howard is the Statmonkey of the Day!
Leading the charge for their
respective teams are Oklahoma City’s Kevin
Durant, Denver’s Ty Lawson, Houston’s Kyle Lowry, and Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki.
Dallas has yet to win this season.
I can’t believe why people are
laughing at me for greeting them “Happy
Rizal Day”.
Because of this day, the
government is persuaded to give employees an extra holiday for us to prepare on
our New Year feast. The day is
victimized by getting sandwiched by Christmas
and the New Year. I can’t believe that people think low of this day.
And don’t get me started with St. Innocence’s Day.
It’s not a few months ago that
we celebrated Dr. Jose Rizal’s 150th
birthday. Didn’t Noynoy Aquino
give out a very charismatic reading of the speech given to him by his writer? Ask
little kids if they know what significant man became successful this day and
they probably mouth Enteng Kabisote
or with the way the MMFF Awards
turned out... Asiong Salonga.
I said this day is successful
for Rizal in the sense that his death reawakened the nationalistic spirit of
the Filipino people. Oh hey, maybe that’s it – people don’t want to celebrate
Rizal’s death.
This made me think of something
in lieu of the situation...
Why isn’t Rizal Day June 19?
Anyway, Happy Rizal Day to all!
And yeah, it’s okay for you to
not give me anything.
2011 had 52 weeks and while I
never saw 52 flicks on the big screen, I’ve pretty much seen my share of
wonderful movies.
No, I never saw Twilight: Breaking Dawn and Harry Potter. I’m GLAD my girlfriend
wasn’t a fan of those franchises. I also never saw Transformers 3, The Smurfs, Conan the Barbarian, and Glee: The 3-D
Concert Movie and it made me happy because it saved me 180 to 300 pesos (if
it’s 3D) and also my sanity. It just sucks that I never saw Captain America, X-Men: First Class, Rise
of the Planet of the Apes, Johnny English Reborn, The King’s Speech, Paul,
and those other entertaining movies in the cinemas.
2011 also marked the resurgence
of Philippine Cinema. There was a
time that there was one Tagalog movie playing in Trinoma every week. I wished I
saw Babae sa Septic Tank, Dito na me wer
na u, The Road, Praybeyt Benjamin, No Other Woman and other noteworthy
titles on the big screen but luckily we have Wingtip to help us.
Anyway, I saw all of these
movies in the movie house in 2011.
You can check out my reviews by
clicking the titles.
It’s been a while since I kept
tabs on Korean cinema as well as the goodness Europe can offer. I am hoping
however that Philippine Cinema will surge in 2012. Cinemalaya has done a great job recognizing the best films and the
citation they give out usually result to mainstream screening. This feat also
helped producers to shell out more money to get released in dates other than
the Metro Manila Filmfest, Valentine, and other holidays.
The Miami Heat has recorded their first three-game winning streak this
season and perhaps this is the year where they’ll avenge their finals loss.
Haha.
You can’t question their talent
though. Yes, Norris Cole went
berserk for the Heat in the last two contests but they’ll likely find stable
support from their veterans.
One of those veterans is of
course, Lebron James. The guy saved
the Heat from losing against the Charlotte
Bobcats via a squeaker, 96 to 95. LBJ scored 35 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks which made him the Statmonkey of the Day!
Complete the day’s finest are Charlotte’s Boris Diaw, Oklahoma City’s
Kevin Durant, Denver’s Nene, and New Orleans’ new starting point guard Jarrett
Jack. Jack should be a sought-after find now that Chris Paul is with the Los
Angeles Clippers. Paul had 10
points, 9 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals in their blowout loss against
the San Antonio Spurs.
Kevin Love finished his match with Milwaukee with 31 points, 20 rebounds, and 2 assists but it was not enough for the
Minnesota Timberwolves to dispatch
the Bucks. The Bucks creamed the Wolves, 98
to 95.
And yet, Love’s performance
warranted him the Statmonkey of the Day.
His individual performance
bested the likes of Boston’s Rajon
Rondo, Miami’s Dwyane Wade, and the LA Lakers’ duo of Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
Stephen Curry... he’s what’s up in the
Statmonkey tonight.
Yes, Dell Curry’s spawn is the Statmonkey
of the Day!
Curry bounced back from an
awful first game to win his matchup with MVP
Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls,
99 to 91. Step had 21 points, 7 rebounds, 10 assists, and 6 steals in 37 minutes
of action. In some ways, his stats scream quadruple-double which is rare
considering the last NBA player to grab the feat was David Robinson in his prime.
Rounding up the Top 5 are Houston Rockets’ Kyle Lowry, New Jersey
Nets’ Deron Williams, Philadephia 76ers’ Spencer Hawes, and Portland Trail
Blazers’ LaMarcus Aldridge. For Aldridge users, it’s kind of neat to see LA
in action especially since he was advertised as a health risk at the start of
the season.
When I was kid I liked watching
Mission: Impossible.
I have no idea who the characters are and I don’t remember much about the
people in the series but I believed the hype. This was when GMA still featured
foreign shows in the primetime lineup which pretty late 80’s if I remember it
correctly (I think it aired every Wednesdays alongside Jake and the Fatman and 21
Jumpstreet but I could be wrong).
I am admittedly a Tom Cruise mark. I think the mark of a
good actor is that he brings instant starpower whenever he’s involved. Remember
his Les Grossman bit in Tropic Thunder or when he played Austin Powers in Austin Powers? I love A Few Good Men, Cocktail, Born on the
Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire, Valkyrie, Rain Man, Risky Business, and the first
Mission: Impossible trilogy. There are a lot of Cruise films that escape me
as of this moment but I’m not here to review his filmography.
Cruise returns to the big
screen as Ethan Hunt in the fourth instalment of the Mission: Impossible series.
Simon Pegg, an actor I completely
adore, returns as Benji Dunn. Pegg
had a small part in the third instalment of the series – getting it after doing
the insanely awesome Shaun of the Dead
movie. Jeremy Renner, the guy who
played Hawkeye in the Thor and the upcoming Avengers movie and Paula Patton – the girl who acted in Precious and in the upcoming sequel of Who Framed Roger Rabbit complete the good guys in this version.
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
What I Liked:
First of all, the overall feel
of the flick is old school. The opening sequence and credits paved the way for
that build up. That lighting up the fuse to execute destruction sequence will
be a wonderful peg for the graphic stuffs I want to make. This Mission:
Impossible instalment isn’t like the second that relied on heavy rap metal
music and John Woo’s action-ness or
the third part where it had a lot of cheesy moments (Keri Russell fan here). The movie concentrated on the action and I
liked how the action scenes weren’t all gory and was done intelligently. I
liked how they combined a lot of things which made this reboot cool like the
part where Renner’s character mimicked the old ceiling hanging scene.
I think Renner’s character is a
prelude of bigger things to come. Cruise is set to turn 50 in 2012 and I doubt
if the Ethan Hunt character will do
a lot of circling and leaping in the next instalments. Yes... I believe there
will be other instalments because of the end parts that I don’t have the
audacity to spoil.
The action scenes do not
disappoint. The scenes ranged from basic to cool but the level of intensity did
not wane. Cruise brought out the thrill when he scaled that big Dubai building as
well as the sandstorm battle he had with the main antagonist. Even the prison
escape scene and that battle where they messed up a lot of cool cars brought
the flick’s swagger to full throttle.
Tom Cruise was like a superhero
in the film but it didn’t hurt the integrity of his character. It did help that
William Brandt (Renner) and Jane Carter (Patton) are flawed and
Benji Dunn is a complete goofball. Simon Pegg is awesome in this flick. His
jokes weren’t forced and they his timing was spot on. My love for this film is
affected by his presence and in some ways I’ll also give credit to that horny playboy
Indian guy.
And what’s a spy film without
the gadgets? The gadgets here are flawed and I really enjoyed Ethan’s struggle
on the Burj Khalifa. The most
awesome gadget he displayed though was the illusion projector he used during
the Kremlin heist. It was funny how
Cruise and Pegg exchanged their awesomeness in that scene. And yeah, I did
notice the Minority Report ode Tom
Cruise had at the end of the flick. It felt cheesy in some ways but hey, Cruise
had a connection with it right?
Finally, the film managed to
mesh the old M:I movies from the current version which brings me the notion
that there will be another trilogy in the near future.
Go figure out why Hulk Hogan’s Main Event is named the
worst video game in 2011 by Official
XBOX Magazine.
I think the magazine was nice
enough to give the game a wonderful review.
“The
atrocity earns the loudest jeers from us for not only for being the least
interactive Kinect game to date, but also wasting a great idea (mimicking
lavish pro-wrestling entrances) and taking up precious landfill space that
could’ve been filled with something more pleasant, like hazardous waste. This
game would have been a strong contender for the year’s worst game if it were $5
XBLA download. At $50, it’s the financial equivalent of being smashed in the
head with a steel chair.”
What a wonderful review.
I was never a Hulk Hogan fan
growing up. I thought he was too good, which was pretty much amplified by the
dorky cartoon series Hulk Hogan Rock N
Wrestling. I’m also not much of a gamer. I haven’t played a multi-player PC
game for some time now also. I still think low on his contemporaries that sell
his leg drop as if it is one of the best finishers ever.
Anyway, check out this clip
where two guys are testing Hulk Hogan’s game.
After almost nine months of
inactivity, the Statmonkey is back!
Here’s an idea for the NBA –
how about starting the season on Christmas
Day. These guys wouldn’t mess around the yuletide season, right?
Anyway, Christmas Day gave us
five wonderful games and even if my Boston
Celtics lost against the New York
Knicks, I am still happy.
Why is that?
Because the C’s Rajon Rondo is the Statmonkey of the Day!
Despite the 106-104 beatdown of
the C’s by the Knicks, Rondo did things right for Boston. Rondo scored a
team-high 31 points, had 13 assists, swiped 5 steals, and had 5 rebounds. Not
since Larry Bird was there a Celtics
that scored 30 points, 10 assists, and 5 steals in one game.
Rounding the Top Five are Miami’s Lebron James, New York’s Carmelo
Anthony, Orlando’s Ryan Anderson, and Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant.
My fantasy boys (non-sexual) in action.
Day’s Best:
POINTS: 37 – Miami’s
Lebron James and New York’s Carmelo Anthony
REBOUNDS: 15 – Orlando’s
Dwight Howard
ASSISTS: 13 – Boston’s
Rajon Rondo
STEALS: 5 – Boston’s
Rajon Rondo
BLOCKS: 8 – LA
Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan
3PTS MADE: 6 –
Orlando’s Ryan Anderson
I have three players in my ESPN
Fantasy team and Rondo, Amar’e Stoudemire,
and Kevin Garnett gave me enough stats to send me in second place.
Meanwhile, even if I have only four players scheduled in my rotisserie Yahoo
league, I still finished second primary because of Ryan Anderson’s six triples
and DeAndre Jordan’s 8 blocks.
Click to enlarge.
Yes... I have Jordan and
Anderson in my Yahoo league. Others that played in my Yahoo league are Caron Butler and David Lee.
A big-time test will come
tomorrow where I have nine players in my Yahoo league and five players in my
ESPN fantasy squad.
Hopefully I can sustain the
momentum I have right now.
Hours after the start of the 2011-12 NBA Season (yes I know it’s
still 2011 but 2011 is already reduced to six days for crying out loud) I bring
you a video of one of the most shocking stories that happened in the preseason.
Kobe Bryant’s
divorce.
In some ways this really makes
me wonder whether or not he is the heir apparent of Michael Jordan. Jordan found himself in the same predicament five
years ago. Jordan then used his alone time to toy around the Charlotte Bobcats and signed up Kwame Brown to a one-year deal for
amusement (Kwame in fairness would have flashes of brilliance and is now with
the Golden State Warriors).
Kobe Bryant however will use
his alone time to bond with former
Cleveland coach Mike Brown and Josh
McRoberts – the guy Lakers GM Mitch
Kupchak hired to heal the wounds unravelled by the Lamar Odom trade. But then again, maybe the Odom trade happened because Kobe hates mushy lovey-dovey crap that would likely unearth once Lamar and Khloe Kardashian's lips clash.
This is the Black Mamba’s first
interview ever since his wife Vanessa
filed for divorce... first seen on Funny
or Die.
Well technically this is not
Kobe Bryant. The guy is well-known Kobe impersonator James Davis. He has a ton of Kobe-isms in Funny or Die and his
works are awesome.
The video’s best line was when “Kobe”
blurted at “Vanessa” and said that he gave Vanessa a four million worth of
jewelry to “Shut the fuck up”.
Nate Robinson, the pint-sized high flyer who
has Filipino blood running on his
veins, was waived by the Oklahoma City
Thunder.
Good for him.
OKC is not using him anyway. He
was a vital cog for the New York Knicks
and the Boston Celtics sans his
personal issues and he can do better than the 3.3ppg and 1.5apg he averaged ever since he joined the Thunder in
the middle of last season.
The three-time NBA Slam Dunk Champion should be of value in a team that
would play him. Let it be known that he was one of the instigators of Boston’s
derailed championship run a few years back (they yielded the crown to the Los Angeles Lakers).
There are a lot of teams in the
league that badly needs bench help and the Celtics and the Lakers are one of
those teams that can use an offensive-minded point guard. Let’s remember that
he once scored 41 points after getting stored in Larry Brown’s doghouse for more than a month.
Merry Christmas for the
hundreds who won’t admit it but kind of checks out my blog!
While I superiorly suck at
Christmas raffles this is the time where people forget about stress and crazy
ass situations and just chillax. Here are the pictures where my face is in that
looks pretty enough to put in my blog! In some ways this is a behind-the-scenes look of our department's first win in our company's Christmas presentation. There a couple of guys in our department that put a lot of effort in all production aspects to awe-strike the judges.
And while I'm at it, here are our department's Christmas party.
