Vehicle Fire on I-10

A vehicle fire, happening right at this moment seeing outside of my office window.
Sure hope that eveyone is ok in those car.

My fever: Fifa World Cup 2006

I have not miss a single game during this World Cup, thanks to the DVR system.
This is my thoughts about the latest World Cup so far.

Argentina, wow! That’s a team with 6 strikers, 8 midfielders and 7 defenders!! They play as a unit, passes the ball as well as Holland and everyone of the youngsters can put the ball in the net with flare… but most importantly, they look like they are enjoying themselves. The 20+ passes' super goal was just classic.

Brazil is playing with only 10 men. Ronaldo is still back in the hotel somewhere. They are so very gifted. The soccer gods have blessed them with talents that no other nations have enjoyed. They played with fun and passion (borderline showing off) but they are not playing serious football yet. I do see Brazil switch into another gear in the next round.Iberia. Portugal and Spain. They are as fun to watch as Argentina. Silky smooth passing and skillful finishes seems to sprang from these two teams that are better known for hype and disappointment. Granted they have both played lesser opponents but Portugal with Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and Spain with well, the whole 11 of them plays with unstoppable momentum. Spain had a wake up call yesterday. They did however pick up their slack and cruise to a win in the end of the game, showing that they are for real… when they are serious.Holland plays among the most fluid game in the World Cup so far. With the speedster Robben opening up the wing and Van Nistelrooy (warming up) combo. This could take Holland a long way.
England,... they can't really beat anyone... well, not until Mr. Rooney get fired up and ready to go with one foot. The good thing is that no one can beat them either thanks to Mr. Superman Terry!!

I am a fan of Manchester United and a fan of the Three Lions since I learnt how to watch TV. Since the day of crosses and header to the so call "creative game" of recent years. I still have great faith in them, simply because, still... no one can pass Superman Terry to beat them.
France... Henry and Ribery seems to be the only two players that actually running around. The others are just trying to keep up, with a 2 minutes lag.
Italy vs. US. What a game!! You have blood, you have toy soldiers that falls if ever you touch them and you have a referee that will give you a red card if you sneeze!! What a #@#%! is that referee not getting a red card himself for being an idiot is beyond me.

Italy was the better talent but the US was the better team that day.

The US players is also the only team that always spring up on their feet after tumbling down. No rolling around and cry like a baby to draw sympathy or a whistle from the referee.

This is how the US games are played as well. Hit by a 90mph baseball on the hand. Shake it off and lets’ go again.

American Football, broken hand with a cast… he would still run the ball, getting hit for the next 3.6 yards.

Basketball, Smack! Fouled by the 200 pound Center… Dwyane Wade would get up, dust himself of and go to the free throw line.Brian McBride… put some tape on and you know what? Let’s go again!

By the way... if you want to read real football news... there's no better place than the BBC.

FIFA World Cup Player's Blogs

The FIFA World Cup 2006 games will start tomorrow.

Are you wondering what’s on the mind of the famed football players, while the biggest games approaching?

Well, why don’t you read their personal blogs?

United State
Brian Ching
http://blogs.chron.com/brianching/

Brazil
Ronaldinho
http://spaces.msn.com/worldcup-br-uk/

England
Michael Owen
http://spaces.msn.com/worldcup-uk/

Holland
Edgar Davis
http://spaces.msn.com/worldcup-nl-uk/

France
Claude Makelele
http://spaces.msn.com/worldcup-fr-uk/

Spain
Xabi Alonso
http://spaces.msn.com/worldcup-es-uk/

US FIFA World Cup Soccer Team 2006

First of all. I want to declare my legion to the US World Cup Soccer Team.

I think they are a really great group of players, including my favourite player, Brian “The Big Chingy” Ching (Houston Dynamo) who will come off the bench as a sub. He is an aerial specialist who scored 7 goals in 6 games to lead the league before getting the call from Coach Arena.
I think that Bobby Convey (Reading, England) is one of the best left wing midfielder there is, helped his club Reading to earn a promotion to the Premier League last season.

Eddie Johnson (Kansas City Wizards) should open some eyes in this World Cup. Watching him in Club play really convinced me that he is one of the most dangerous strikers around. Every time he got the ball against the Houston Dynamo, I was holding my breath.

However, to prove a point, the following is my starting lineup for the US 2006 FIFA World Cup Team.

1. Randy Moss ( Goal Keeper)
2. LaDainian Tomlinson (Left Back)
3. Shaq O’Neal (Center Back)4. Shau Alexander (Right Back)
5. Ken Griffey Jr. (Right Center Defensive Midfielder)
6. LeBron James (Left Center Defensive Midfielder)7. Steve Smith (Right Winger Midfielder)8. Dwayne Wade (Attacking Midfielder)
9. Scott Podsednik (Left Winger Midfielder)
10. Mike Vick (Striker)
11. Tracy McGrady (Striker)

Subs

Brian Ching (Sub Striker) and Kobe Bryant (Sub any position)

Unfortunately in our country, the best of the best plays Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Lacrosse, Golf, Beach ball, Dodge ball and then Soccer... in that order.

X-Men, mutation and secret to live forever

Hurricane

This is the first day of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. The prediction suggest that there will be about 5 hurricane that will reach catagory 4 or higher. Remember Rita and Katrina last year?
Well, I got some can food, health bar, torch light, batteries and first aid kid ready.
X-Men

Any how, let get to the X-Men-The Last Stand.
Got to watched it on Sunday.
I must say, I have mixed feeling from this one. You see I am a big Uncanny X-Men and the X-Men series fan. To see all the comics characters on the same screen is a thrill but to see them die like flies... not so cool. It is the end of a trilogy.

Movie critics complained about the absent of emotional in the movie... the first and second movies of the series are about the introduction of the characters... this my dear, is the resolution. It's a nice movie, good action sequences. Big idea and absolute solution.

The story is a continuation of X2, as human became afraid of the mutants, they decided to find a "cure" and did so... Well, don't worry, that fact was established in the first 10 minutes... I will not go on with the movie but with another story that came to my mind a few years back.
Mutation and cure?

Every single day, we are facing with the problem of mutation and we are fighting them with every ways possible, including chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. Yes, it's call Cancer, a mutated group of cells in our human body.

If Darwin was right about evolution of living species (natural selection), Cairns was right about Directed mutation (we choose which mutations to produce in the face of environmental stress), then won't curing Cancer a hindrance to the betterment of the human species? Are we in the way of evolution? Species that do not evolve... tend to... emmm... how should I put it,... Dodo... extinct!
Everlasting Life?

We grow and life because of cell division. The cells in human body copy themselves and multiply, that's how we grow bigger. The computer in our body also decides when to stop such activity and then decides when to cell quiencence (cell death). That's how we grow old.

Cell division... they sort of copy themselves like a photocopier machine does, and like the machines they do make mistakes, and when that happends a process called apoptosis occured. The error cells commit suicide.

Now here's the strange part. If the cell "refuses" to commit suicide, it become a mutated cell, a cancer, if it's malignant. It will multiply and conduct cell division with the same error cloned. In another words, Cancer cells are a group of cells that have refuses to die... ironically, by refusing to die and trying to spread (this idea) to the rest of the human body, they will also kill the whole.

If only one day, we can live will all cells being cancer cell, then we would live forever... wouldn't we? But then again, I am no doctor... just another lower middleclass Joe.