Saturday, May 10

Los Angeles 110, San Antonio 95.

I BELIEVE. I BELIEVE, BABY.



i am not the only one who is seeing some crazy officiating in this series. Jack Nicholson flipped out and stepped onto the Staples Center court after a series of terrible calls and screamed at referee Mark Wunderlich during a break in the action. he was almost tossed out. the crowd was behind him 100%, the frustration of bad officiating coming to a peak.

"I pay a lot of money for this seat,'' Nicholson said at halftime. "This is the NBA, you can't tell me to sit down.''

kobe played great. shaq played great and ran a play coast to coast. the dude has handles?! impressive. what he doesn't have: a sky hook. those 2 attempts were nasty.

but this game really belonged to devean george. i've been hard on this guy all season, but he showed some real heart today by starting this game, hitting big shots from the beginning to set the tone, and playing solid D after sustaining a severely sprained ankle, JUST FOUR DAYS ago. he wasn't expected to play for the rest of the series, and there he was. heart? iverson? i don't think so. make room for george!

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on the TNT post game show: say what? kenny smith's vocabulary: INFUTILITY. good word? bad word? who knows?

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA. man, those TNT guys are mean. 'zo didn't want to be rude, so he was trying to hold back, but he cracked up. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

schnikes, this series is taking me thru an emotional roller-coaster. it's like having a girlfriend! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHA

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when shaq ran the break and went coast to coast himself, dave and i went ballistic and started screaming. in the midst of our screaming, one of our visiting aunts from korea comes running down the stairs and starts screaming, too. we take one look at this scary wild banshee rushing us, and we scream again, in a higher pitch. we just sat there, screaming at each other. that was some weird stuff. all three of us ended up howling when we realized that she was just making fun of us.

i'm starting to realize that my extended family is very very strange. they are not elegant ppl at all. last night was like the funniest, wackiest night at the apollo. these old 60, 70 yr olds were singing acapella, DANCING WITH NO MUSIC, laughing up a storm. they have this weird, uncontrolled, let-it-all out laugh that is really really scary. seriously. i was scared. they were like drunk ppl, except none of them consumed any alcohol. that made it even scarier. they forced me to sing for them. aiyo. they even got DAD to "DANCE." this was CRAZY stuff. it was half torture, half funniest thing i've ever seen. my parents shed years of age in the past few days.

joanne's fam, our fam, and jimmy's visiting hs friends had dinner together last night. ate lots. turns out, one of the aunts popped a button on her pants during the dinner. this was the subject of many, many laughs during the night. the ringleader: "c'mon, you won't dance for us?! we flew all the way over from korea and even took our pants off for you!" stuff like this all night. they have no reservations about heaping guilt on. heck, they have no reservations, period.

interesting observation: in the entire bunch of them, the two siblings that looked the oldest: my dad (youngest of 7 children) and my youngest aunt, both who happen to be the most serious. they looked decades older than even my oldest aunt, who is the ringleader of the circus. i know they have done studies on laughter and health. this just confirms it, and convicted me to laugh more and harder. mORE JOKES, i say, more jokes!!! :D

dave calls our relatives, "the hobbits." no comment. heeheheheheheheheeeheeee

yakob at 1:56 AM

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