Warrior Champions

Warrior Champions
June 18, 2015
Roxanne Joyce A. Javier



After 40 years, the Golden State Warriors has finally brought the trophy back home and proved that home-court advantage wasn't always the lucky charm.

The NBA Season Finals Game 6 was brought to an end by 105-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio last June 17, Wednesday. The Warriors maintained the three straight lead from Game 4 down to Game 6, giving just two game wins to LeBron James-led Cavs.

It was the Andre Iguodala and Stephen Curry tag-team, who were both crowned as the final's MVPs for garnering 25 points. On top of the 25 points, Curry was able to grab six rebounds and lend out eight assists during the last game. The Warriors started strong at the first quarter, scoring 28-15. Come the second quarter and the Cavs gave 17-28 finish to it. The third quarter was once again to the Warriors by having 28-18 score. The last quarter were measured as 32-36 performance.

The 32-point performance wasn't enough for LeBron James to once again lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to victory. Seems like dejavu from the battle against San Antonio Spurs last Season 2013-2014 that he showed immense strength and passion but it didn't paid off since it was considered as a one-man show. It cannot be helped to say that the shine of the once thought to be "Jordan the II" is catching shadows now. James still and always be on his top performance. He also remains as one of the greatest athlete in basketball. He even calls himself "greatest player of all time" in one of his interviews. Unfortunately, his strategy doesn't meet the ends in basketball - a team sports. Maybe LeBron needs a bit of reminding.

It wouldn't be always about "the one" but just as the Warriors motto is "Strength in Numbers".

(C) NBA.com

Return of the Comeback

SING: It's been a long day....

Or for me, a very long time since the last post. Forgive me self. It has been a busy life for me (well, I'm always busy) since we moved to my husband's mother's residence. It is because we had a new member of the family, my one and only son Fio, and we had a new car and paying it in installment.

So now, I'm back, not to update anymore but to a job for my friend. To write for news updates about sports. It's kinda new to me since I don't have a vast vocabulary about certain sports but I can report all thanks to BS DevCom training back in the university.

It's going to start this Father's Day (21st June 2015) and I'm hoping it's a good "FIRST WRITE UP." So help me that it would have no more editing!

Cheers to writing again!

Clixgrid reward: 7 more chances

May We Have A Cooler End

My Fair May,

Today it rained. It's the first rain of May. And we Filipinos believe that this could bring good health to people, especially to children. So they are encouraged to play, soak themselves in the rain water. 

However, it's more of thundering storms and a drizzle of rain. It's not much of a rain but just a shower. 

Luckily, Zami's asleep or she'll be forcing to play in the rain even though there isn't much water. She just looooves being in the water.

This first rain of May can also signal the end of summer. And that, is a cooler way to end it. 

Korean Spag for BF

Bibing Myun (instant Korean spaghetti) for breakfast

I'm very adventurous when it comes to food. I like to try and see for my self if that new innovation to food is satisfying or simply delicious. One of my favorites is pasta.

One day, I saw a TV commercial of an instant spaghetti with a new flavor - Korean Bibing Myun or simply spicy spaghetti. So my latest grocery included this one for testing.

Since it's instant, just three minutes in boiling water and the noodle is done. The sauce's label is Bibing Myun, it's red and almost smells like kimchi. It spicy but tolerable. The aroma somewhat painful to the nose, maybe because it's chili peppers. There's also another sachet and looks like black flakes or pepper. I mixed everything up and realized the black flakes were actually seaweeds. Just blacken by preservation process.

The tasting process begins. I smelled it first and boy it was PAINFUL in the nose! I sneezed and sneezed and been sneezing until now (achoo!-gazantai!). I recovered from the series of sneezes and began tasting. It wasn't that tasty to me. I cannot find the right taste. But it gives me the kick of spiciness. And....that's all. I can feel the texture of the seaweed flakes like more of whole black peppers. I.Don't.Like.It. (sorry Koreans!) But I have t finish the food because I'm starving and I don't waste food - a principle I keep until I die.

How adventurous are you when it comes to food? Did you ever had to finish the food even though you don't like it? How was your experience?

OAW Club

My husband and I have the same group of friends and we actually called it "The Once-A-Week Club" (OAW). It was called that way because we usually only see each other during the weekends and the husbands can only drink alcohol once a week. Moreover, we go travel once a week or once a month.

I had these set of friends just when I met my husband. I'm lucky enough to still have friends who I can a relate to because my old friends are all living in Manila and working in the office. The OAW Club maintains an easy-going, laid-back kind of aura and I really like that. Before my single years, I was very much uptight and strict because I'm the second in the family and expected to be always responsible. So now, meeting these OAW guys, it lighted me up.

Do you have new set of friends? Do you also name your group? Thanks for sharing!

PWD Audience Seats in Brazil

I just read something about giving special seats for a soccer game in Brazil. These seats will be given to people with disability (PWD). It's OK with me about PWDs but it is not purposively given to PWDs only but for the obese people.

I am more concerned if this is an encourage to continue being obese or to start having a healthier life? They said they just have to pay double than regular price to be able to get seated. The actual seat is colored in blue and the size of two regular seats joined together.

Is it just me or I just find this very wrong. It is not an action to solve obesity problems but it actually an encourage to continue being obese. You call it special to feel good of something and being obese doesn't need feeling good anymore. It brings a lot of complications and be resolve so easily.

Active solution is better than accommodating profit for companies' services. Instead of a plain seat, why not make it much more special and put pedals for their feet to exercise while watching the game. Or introduce healthier snack at sports match so not only the obese will benefit but as well as a lot of sports goers who likes being healthy, if not wants to be healthy.