Bisdak Song Post #3
ULIPON SA GUGMANG GIATAY
by The Ambassadors
Kung ikaw masayod
Paminawon mo
Kay kung pananglit
Yam-iran mo
Mga panompa'og
Pasalig ko
Ug kung ugali'ng
Kalit ka'ng mobiya
Di ko kapogyan
Mualog ning mga luha
Kay ikaw ako'ng himaya
Handomon ko matag karon ug unya
Ikaw langit og yuta
Ako'ng pinangga
Unya mihabol ang ka-ngit2x
Nga giduyugan sa... ulan
Ug sa kalit lang nahanaw
Ang bidlisyo sa adlaw
Oh kahag sa imong panagway
Nga naulipon sa gugma'ng gi atay
Inday paminawa taos ko'ng gugma
Na kanimo ako'ng igasa
Dili ko man mahatag ang tanang bahandi
'ning kalibotan apan inday
Dungga intawn, ang aalaot nga naulipon
Sa gugma'ng giatay
2006 Annual PBA Draft
I was very satisfied with San Miguel's draft perfomance this year. I can't even remember the last time they drafted a player that had an impact on the team. The closest that I could remember was drafting Noy Castillo and trading him for Danny Ildefonso back in 1998 or 97. And to think Ildefonso wasn't their pick, they just acquired him via trade. Last year they drafted Paolo Hubalde when there were still good players available, like Leo Najorda & Larry Fonacier. SMB tried to convert him into a PG but it didn't work. Now Hubalde sits on the sidelines waiting to replace someone who would get injured.
This year was completely different. They had the 4th and 5th picks of the 1st round. It was obvious that they would be able to land LA Tenorio since the first 3 teams weren't in need of a PG. Santa Lucia and Air 21 opted to draft the 2 of best big men in the draft in Kelly Williams and Arwind Santos respectively. Coke had the third pick and they don't need the services of LA because they had drafted Denok Miranda the previous year. Picking Joseph Yeo came as quite a surprise since I always thought they were drafting a big man after they lost Reavis and Mamaril to Ginebra via trade.
San Miguel's fourth pick was a no-brainer. Even the cameraman knew who they would pick as he focused the camera on Tenorio even before his name was called by the commissioner. I knew they were picking a big man for the fifth pick because they lost Nic Belasco to Alaska earlier this year via trade with Brandon Cablay. I was thinking they were picking Mark Isip since he was the only above average big man I could think of. Besides, SMB has expressed interest in him during the rookie draft camp. But lo and behold, SMB picked Gabby Espinas! How could I forget about him? Great player, athletic, good rebounder, and he's got the credentials to back him up. Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same year in the NCAA. So I think Espinas was a better choice than Isip.
With this year's draft, SMB has become younger and faster. Especially with their aging superstars, Seigle, Ildefonso and Racela. So the upcoming season looks bright for the Beermen... Wooohooo!
Sam Cassell Appears on FOX's "The Swan"
Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Sam Cassell, who's been dogged and humiliated all his life by his horribly disfigured face, got back at all those who have teased him by appearing on FOX's "The Swan" this past Monday. On week five of the popular TV show, Cassell's radical change in looks was measured against that of Donna Sheridan, an overweight, unemployed, divorced 29-year-old mother of four whose belly is covered with stretch marks and whose face, which has too much hair on it, was severely burned when she tried to save her family from a fire in her home as an eight-year-old.
Sheridan's transformation was dramatic, but the makeover done to Cassell was so shocking that the show's experts were calling it nothing short of a miracle. Without question, he was chosen to move on and compete in a season finale pageant that culminates in a crowning of "The Swan."
"I don't know what to say, it's just so overwhelming," said a tearful Cassell, as a crown was placed upon his head. "All my life, people have told me I don't have the face for basketball. Well, now I do. I feel like the sexy, self-confident man who I've always wanted to be."
"Sam was a unique case," said Dr. Terry Dubrow, Cosmetic Surgeon for "The Swan". Since he plays basketball, he's really in incredible shape. We didn't have to do any liposuction at all. Mostly it was his face we had to focus on. It was really fucked up."
Cassell had an extremely difficult childhood. He was abandoned by his parents at the age of six, and then he was left without a guardian when his grandmother died seven years later. He started to eat compulsively soon after to ease the pain, and at age 16, he weighed over 200 pounds. He grew to hate his bug eyes for the ridicule they brought him, and worse, started to lose his hair at age 17.
He found solace and lost weight playing high school basketball, and would eventually become more sociable while attending Florida State on an athletic scholarship. He felt a high after being drafted by the Houston Rockets and after leading the team to each one of its two championships, but after being traded to lowly New Jersey Nets and eventually to the underachieving Milwaukee Bucks, he fell into a deep depression. On top of that, he lost all his teeth at 25 due to periodontal disease, so he started wearing dentures.
"Here I was, one of the best point guards in the NBA, and I still couldn't pull any ass," said Cassell. "But what was even more insulting is that I would get calls to do cover shoots for basketball magazines like Inside Stuff and Slam!, but once they saw what I looked like, they made up some kind of excuse, like they forgot film, and never came back. Then, sure enough, I'd see someone else on the cover.
I remember in my rookie year, Beckett Basketball Monthly wanted me on their February cover" continued Cassell. "Turns out they went with Kurt Rambis instead, you know, the Lakers dude with those goggles. What the fuck?"
"It got bad, real bad," said Cassell. "I had fans and players-even other teammates-calling me 'alienhead' right to my face. Someone even once told me that I had the smallest breasts they've ever seen in the NBA. There were times that I wanted to celebrate a game-winning shot by taking off my shirt and throwing into the crowd as I ran into the tunnel, but I was too self-conscious. Even standing next to a guy on the court like Ben Wallace, who's got the biggest pecs in the league, made me feel embarrassed. I mean, the guy's practically got cleavage."
Cassell's lack of self-confidence even began to affect his relationships.
His first wife refused to look him in the face when they were having sex. So he divorced her and marries someone 12 years his junior. But then, he got worried that she would find someone younger and more attractive. Plus it didn't help that she insisted they have sex with the lights off." That's when Cassell started thinking about going on "The Swan".
"I began to think about what I could do to be more of a man, physically and emotionally, and less of an alien," said Cassell. "I guess I just wanted that glamorous look I've never had."
Now, after 35 years, he finally has it. And other players are starting to take notice.
"Sam is straight up cute; like really, really cute," said Boston Celtics' Paul Pierce. "Whoever did his boobs did a great job. He totally fills up his jersey now. It doesn't just hang off his body. Now that Rick Fox retired, he's probably the prettiest player in the league."
-Story courtesy of Sportsgoons.com
Back After More Than a Month of Absence
At long last I had the time to write a new article for my blog. It’s been over a month since my last article. My last article was about the Ateneo-LaSalle Final Four game, and a lot has happened since then. There’s FEU winning this year’s UAAP men’s basketball championship, the Ateneo Lady Eagles winning the women’s basketball, the start of the NBA, PBA and PBL season, San Miguel starting the PBA season 0-4 before winning against Air 21 in double overtime (now they’re 1-8), and the controversy about LaSalle’s ineligible players, Benitez and Gatchalian, to name a few. Well, actually it’s no longer a controversy because LaSalle has admitted that both indeed had falsified documents. And now, LaSalle is taking a year’s leave of absence in the UAAP. Although I read somewhere that the UAAP board was actually suspending them next year. And oh, LaSalle’s team manager Manny Salgado, the one who gave Arwind Santos a cheap shot back in Game 1 of the Finals, was also apparently involved in forging Benitez’s and Gathcalian’s papers.
Yeah, I had to stop posting in this blog when I realized the board exam was barely a month away. I had to press the panic button and start cramming, or else… At that time, it has just come to my attention that I was a member of the unique group people who got through college without reading an entire textbook. Hahaha!
Anyway, a lot has really happened since then. The results for the Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination are already out. My best friend in high school, Hamlet, not only passed the exam but also ranked 7th among the 300+ passers. He did this despite only self-reviewing for the last 2 months because Procter and Gamble hired him midway through his review in Cebu. Grabe, pang-astronaut ang utak! Hehehe!
And so, I’m leaving for Cebu tomorrow already and I probably won’t be able to post again in this blog for a long time… Except maybe when I’m bored to death at home and I have nothing else to do.
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