Olympics and (my) the like
For a while there I've lost contact with my grade conscious self. Blessed that Dad finally allowed me to sleep (YES! I KNOW!) in Sonja's place for the night, all we did was dance our *sses off, play with my lil' cousin Chelsea and talk about Michael Phelps and John Lloyd!
DANCE.
Sonj and I have a choreo project.. just for fun. Why wouldn't it be for fun when I actually suck gusto out of the people who watch haha! ANYWAY! Since you came across this blog you might actually find a video of our routine if you pass by again sometime. Lets see if my dancing DOES suck the life force out of you. I'll cover my face though so that if we happen to be in the same place at the same time, you won't recognize the girl who danced in the Video and start laughing. HAHA! But hey, they say I'm not that bad. Hows that for a breather? :P I just like to ridicule myself a lot when it comes to that subject haha!
CHELSEA.
We were eating dinner when she started saying, "Ato ato ato Ate Papu, Ato ato ato Ate Soleil, Ato ato ato Tita, Ato ato ato Mama, Ato ato ato Sesy!" Ato means "ako", which is "I" in English. And I have no idea about her grammatical usage of "ato" with what she just said, but then its CUTE! She's already 3 years old and she loves singing, dancing and attention haha! Well we love giving her the third one, so that's not a problem! Haha! Sonj and I slept around 4 am and this morning around 9 am she bursts in to the room, "Morning!" She said with her tiniest voice. Sonj was like "Mor...neng." and I was non-responsive! Haha! Pardon! We were still so game to sleep but the little kid was sooooo adorable saying "Let's eat naaaa." in evolved gugu-gaga words with the 'na' at the end. And she was always like, "Ate Papu mad at Sesy..." and goes down the bed, "..I'm going to tell you to tita!" haha! ADORABLE! :)) And when I had just arrived yesterday evening she pulled me to get a yellow book about the Human skeleton. She told me to tell her a story about the Human Skeleton... like oh my, can I just tell you a story about the Normal Distribution Table and (more gladly) Continuity and Differentiality? But noooo... she was too cute so I told her a story about the human skeleton, Bio style! So I began saying "Do you have bones? Its inside you!!" then she got worried and said softly "Noooo..." And that's when her big sis told me that she was afraid of that, the fact that she came from her mom's inside and the like. The "story" about the Human Skeletal System was cut short with her closing the book and burying her face on the bed being all scared and worried! No blame goes to me, I've only said up to three things to her [1] Bones are inside your skin [2] That is called a bone marrow [3] Your bones look like that. Then before we left, she was locking us in the kitchen since she doesn't want us to leave. HAHA!
MICHEAL PHELPS.
I never knew a fish could take human form, break the 7-medal-record in the Olympics and actually swoon me over. HAR-HAR. Last night, I watched his 200 m butterfly event where he, as defined by people who have no belief on touch pad technology, controversially beat Cavic by .1 seconds. Cavic was really like a foot head of the race but lacked technique or probably forgot that gliding is the least advisable thing to do when you're competing in the Olympics (or in any swimming competition perhaps! Obviously.) What happened was, probably three feet or a meter away from the wall he force-glided, while Phelps did a half stroke which made him touch the wall first. Phelps was even surprised to know he was first. Lady luck must be on his side this year. Well, we know who to watch next Olympics! Cavic can, honestly, actually match up to Phelps. Maybe we'll wait another century till somebody breaks his 8 medal record. With relation to Olympics, Phelps and Swimming; Torres representing US of A showed an admirable spirit of sportsmanship in the 50 m freestyle--Womens (50, am I right?). Before the race, one of her competitors' suit ripped and had change. She walked to one of the pool side judges (is that what we should call them?), an uncanny thing. What happened was, she asked them to wait for her competitor to finish changing. Definitely, the spirit of Olympics. I hope our athletes (Philippines) would also do a similar thing if ever something like that happens. Haha! Let's just say I'm still hoping we'd be taking home some wins? :) Even if we only have 15 representatives (I CAN'T HELP BUT COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^*%@%$(*&!!!). Torres is, by the way, the oldest American Olympian competing (41 years old) and already has 10 gold medals...plus her gold medal from the 50 meter freestyle event this 2008. :)
JOHN LLOYD.
You might be growing tired from reading about my, nonetheless, admiration for this actor.
I can't promote values and the like about all those things right now. I mean sportsmanship, tone, determination, etc are all that encompasses sports, but may be sometime I can dig in to the smores of athleticism because its not really just those things.
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Oh, By the way, it was Steffen of Germany who won gold in the 50m free, not Torres. Steffen outraced Torres one hundredths of a second ONLY and it was crazy! Just like Phelps when he won over Cavic in the 200m fly.
But, Nonetheless, I agree! With her age, she sure swam one heck of a race.
Have you watched the 4x100m free with Lezak (USA) catching up with Bernard (France); and he, winning the event and breaking the world record? That race was soooo exciting! Which, that, culminated Phelps' second gold.
As for the Philippines, its pretty much a long stretch to go before our country can haul a gold medal. With the lack of training facilities and inadequate funds to support the national athletes, the burden would always still be there.
What saddens me the most though is that (and I know this for a fact, i've been there) the POC (Phil Olympic Comm.) recruits foreign-bred athletes - most of which are from the USA - and goes as far as faking their documents and altering their citizenships just to justify a medal reap in the olympics. Do you think all those 15 delegates are full filipinos? Its a shame. Just what happened to our grass-roots?
Wow. Sorry for a long response.
No I wasn't able to watch the whole thing o_O!!!! But AXN showed strips of it, I'll watch it in youtube!! "Phelps propels" ...haha oooookey!
I read the roster of athletes sent by the Philippines, some have names that are barely Filipino-like. Miguel Molina, the swimmer we were hoping to grab the gold, didn't even make it to the 2nd prelimary round. To think that GMA said she'll give a ## million peso award to whoever takes home a gold medal for the Philippines. Kind of ironic though since she should have used the ## million peso award to fund the equipment and training of our Olympians.