here's another article detailin' the apple/intel relationship and it's future.
an interestin' quote i picked up on one of the forums i frequent
"the problem with america is stupidity. i'm not sayin' there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
yet again a little lag on da update. so let's see what's been goin' on here in the past week...
on friday, the weather was really crappy since the typhoon was coming thru. spent most of the practice coachin' the girls. the key point i taught them was how to roll of the pick 'n roll (p/r). the correct way & timin' of the roll and also to be ready for the pass by immediately extendin' their lead hand for a bounce pass. it's very rare that the p/r can be accomplished with a chest/overhead pass. another thing i taught them was to fake the chest/overhead pass before makin' the bounce pass. it's those little things that i think are normal but that's probably due to the fact that i had really good coachin' when i was younger. the hardest part is not gettin' them to do execute it cuz anyone can go thru the movements. but the hardest thing is to be able to communicate to and make them understand the reason for doin' those little things. and it's a joy to see that light go on in their heads when they realize how such a minute thing results in a totally different outcome. the main thing for the guyz is to work on their shot. you may say, umm....kev....ur probably the last person to teach shootin'. let alone free throw shootin'! well...like mr. jordan, he didn't develop a solid j til the middle/latter part of his career. i already have one kid who has drastically improved his ft% because i changed some minor things in his form.
left practice a little early to meet up with lisa for dinner. i chose 広島お好み焼き cuz she's never had it before. so we went to the spot in 下北沢. luckily it wasn't too full, only a couple waitin' to be seated. after a few minutes, the guy next to lisa turns my way with a funny look...it turned out to be lloyd and his wife reiko!?!? of all places!! the bond that lloyd and lisa shared were that they went to rival high schools, lloyd - aragorn, lisa - burlingame. the funny thing is that lloyd graduated 14 years before she did!! they got seated before us and shortly thereafter we got seated right next to them at the counter. they only ordered 1 お好み焼き but forgettin' that i was with a girl and not da homies, i ordered 2 plus the sauteed scallops. even tho she can eat, she probably ate at most 3/4 of one, so i had to struggle to finish everything up. we tried to find a place to get ice cream but @ 2200, not too many places are open. we ended up at this sports cafe and had this banana chocolate cream cake which was more like a banana flavored fudge brownie. we chilled for a bit before catchin' the train home. since i was headin' to b's, we hopped on da 井の頭線, me gettin' off at 永福町 and her stayin' on til 吉祥寺.
when i got to b's, sportscenter was on! espn motion doesn't even compare! afterwards, we played madden with the nfl europe teams. b gave me a run for my money, and at halftime, he was up 3-0. there must've been 4 3rd & long plays where i went to a shotgun formation and there was a bad snap, to make things worse, b always bring the house on 3rd down, so those 3 of those 4 plays were sacks while the other one was an interception!?! it was a total defensive game and i finally tied it with a minute to go. i was able to hold him and we went to ot. he won the toss but played totally reckless, 3 & out. i got the ball back and ran a wide variety of plays and got to the 25. went for the game winnin' fg (in madden, when it's a crucial fg, the controller starts to rumble to simulate your kicker's heartbeat) and it went straight thru the uprights!!!
the next day, we chilled and then headed to lloyd's cuz b needed to get copies of lloyd's japan "thomas guide". we grabbed some kfc for all of us and then got on the train. so kfc has this new sandwich called the レドホットサンド which is pretty darn good. b had to take off early but i stayed for a bit to chill. it was koo to hangout with them. this was probably my first time really gettin' to know the both of them. lloyd's a lucky guy to have such a koo wife. they showed me pics of fuji rock, this big 3 day concert in 新潟. they've been goin' for the past 7 years! he was tellin' me this year's lineup and crown city rockers (formerly mission) is gonna perform! man, it looks like a lot of fun but not sure if i'm down with spendin' over 3万円 (over $300)...
came back to funabashi and then headed over to 茶茶 to hang out with mama. i only meant to hangout for a little bit, but it turned out to be like 5 hours!!! the next day just chilled and did some laundry. 津田沼 and then got a call from 茶茶. mama for the time/place for masaaki's bday dinner. ended up meetin' at this 焼肉 near 習志野駅. it was pretty good. the 和牛 was off da hook!!! it was koo to see masaaki's new baby boy, 銀平 and play around with shimba. he is already gettin' an early start with the ladies as he made a friend with a girl that was next to our table. since it was a nice day, decided to walk all the way home.
normal day at school. nothin' really new except that the 9th graders are back. didn't realize how much of a difference it makes durin' lunch time when they're not there or maybe i just chose the wrong lunch cuz the line was hella long! didn't go to practice because i had a dentist appt. i was totally surprised that he didn't have to scrape anything from my permanent retainer this time. after that, got a lot of errands done and went to bed early.
the next day at school for bball/vball practice, instead of havin' a regular practice, we had to do プール掃除. so i helped the kids who were playin' more than cleanin'. the girls had to brush and sweep while the boys had to use buckets to empty out the pool. i did that for about 2 hours and then helped the 7th grade boys on the vball team. durin' the end of the practice, the guys and girls who were cleanin' the pool came back into the gym soakin' wet!
that night, i decided to just grab a quick bite to eat and finish makin' the listenin' portion of the 8th and 9th mid-term tests at a coffee shop. went to the station, parked my bike and right as i was goin' to go to the gate, i realized that i didn't have my wallet in my pocket. i must've searched my pockets and my backpack like 20 times before retracin' my steps back home. then i searched my apartment again but no luck. so i decided to venture out and retrace my steps again. after searchin' for another 10 min or so, still...nothing. so as i came home (2nd time), i thought maybe i left my wallet at school (as you can see, i was gettin' really desperate here and tryin' to thing of the easiest way out of the situation) but not 3 min passed before my phone rings and it's 茶茶のママ tellin' me that 川中さん sent her an email sayin' that he found a 大切な物 that was mine. when she asked me if i lost/forgot anything, i first thought of my umbrella that i left there a few days before but then i realized she was talkin' bout my wallet. and was like, no way. all this transpired in about a 30 min time frame! so she told me to go the local 交番 and pick it up. after a long, drawn out questionin' with the police and fillin' out all this paperwork, i was able to get my wallet back with EVERYTHING inside. only in japan.... luckily the person i found was somebody i know, huh? as we say in japanese, 偶然. since it was around 2100, it was too late to go finish up the test, so i just went to 茶茶 and celebrated the findin' of my wallet with the crew.
the next day, headed to 銀座 to go to the apple store. i inquired bout the education discount and they told me that i need a teacher's card w/picture id. hmm...i'm wonderin' if my visa would work cuz it does say "instructor" for the funabashi board of education... cuz i really don't want to have to pay full price for osx 10.4 tiger ($130) and ilife '05 ($80). with the education discount it comes out to a total of about $120. durin' this trip i got to see 2 30" cinema displays bein' spanned by a dual 2.7 powermac with final cut pro runnin'. omg!!! it was amazin'!!! not that i would probably ever need that my real estate, but it doesn't hurt to dream...
after playin' around for about and hour there, headed over to 上野 and finished up the listenin' tests at a coffee shop. then i headed over to かおる's restaurant and chilled there talkin' with かおる n her pops. she closed up at 1930, then ヒデ came thru and went to eat some 焼き鳥 near 上野駅. while we were eatin', i got a call from a payphone and it was same lady with a funny japanese accent. after the initial greetin', she went to perfect english. it turned out to be my aunt jeanne, who's in japan now. i remember gettin' an email months ago about her and uncle fred comin' out, but never heard anything after that. since she was on a payphone, we got cut off like 4 times. they're in 京都 now but will be comin' back to 東京 today and will be leavin' back to hawaii on route to cali on sunday. since i'm free on saturday afternoon and will be in 東京, i'm gonna try to meet up with them. plus, they brought their granddaughter paige with them, so it'll be nice to see her too. back to dinner, since ヒデ has only been out of the country for business, he really has that itch to travel. i told him bout california and all the food and stuff to do there and him and かおる were totally stoked bout plannin' a trip there sometime with me as the tour guide ;b hopefully within the next 3 years they can go out to cali with me and take a super one week tour of da bay, la, and vegas! on day way home, my internal alarm clock worked to perfection, wakin' up just before 京成津田沼駅.
back to school on thursday and had my first 9th grade class in over a week. man, this class was so dead. just askin' them a simple question (that i ask to the 7th graders), i didn't even get a response, just blank faces!?!
on a side note, my visa is expirin' and when i looked at my passport, it says that the exp. date is the 19th of this month. so i called my boss and he had to scramble to get all the paperwork done and we went to the immigration office in chiba this mornin'. man, at the office, it must've been 80% filipinos there. it was probably the only place where i heard tagalog more than japanese.
anyhow, what ya'll think bout the nba finals!? tied up, 2-2. gonna be interestin'...i say da spurs in 7.
well...have vball & bball practice and then dinner with 和田先生 and 吉川先生 tonite. should be fun...
also, gonna try to meet up with uncle fred, aunt jeanne and paige but now i found out that 田島's mother passed away and that the funeral is saturday. not sure if this is gonna overlap with the guyz' nite out tomorrow but we'll see.
aite then,
kaz out...
an interestin' quote i picked up on one of the forums i frequent
"the problem with america is stupidity. i'm not sayin' there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
yet again a little lag on da update. so let's see what's been goin' on here in the past week...
on friday, the weather was really crappy since the typhoon was coming thru. spent most of the practice coachin' the girls. the key point i taught them was how to roll of the pick 'n roll (p/r). the correct way & timin' of the roll and also to be ready for the pass by immediately extendin' their lead hand for a bounce pass. it's very rare that the p/r can be accomplished with a chest/overhead pass. another thing i taught them was to fake the chest/overhead pass before makin' the bounce pass. it's those little things that i think are normal but that's probably due to the fact that i had really good coachin' when i was younger. the hardest part is not gettin' them to do execute it cuz anyone can go thru the movements. but the hardest thing is to be able to communicate to and make them understand the reason for doin' those little things. and it's a joy to see that light go on in their heads when they realize how such a minute thing results in a totally different outcome. the main thing for the guyz is to work on their shot. you may say, umm....kev....ur probably the last person to teach shootin'. let alone free throw shootin'! well...like mr. jordan, he didn't develop a solid j til the middle/latter part of his career. i already have one kid who has drastically improved his ft% because i changed some minor things in his form.
left practice a little early to meet up with lisa for dinner. i chose 広島お好み焼き cuz she's never had it before. so we went to the spot in 下北沢. luckily it wasn't too full, only a couple waitin' to be seated. after a few minutes, the guy next to lisa turns my way with a funny look...it turned out to be lloyd and his wife reiko!?!? of all places!! the bond that lloyd and lisa shared were that they went to rival high schools, lloyd - aragorn, lisa - burlingame. the funny thing is that lloyd graduated 14 years before she did!! they got seated before us and shortly thereafter we got seated right next to them at the counter. they only ordered 1 お好み焼き but forgettin' that i was with a girl and not da homies, i ordered 2 plus the sauteed scallops. even tho she can eat, she probably ate at most 3/4 of one, so i had to struggle to finish everything up. we tried to find a place to get ice cream but @ 2200, not too many places are open. we ended up at this sports cafe and had this banana chocolate cream cake which was more like a banana flavored fudge brownie. we chilled for a bit before catchin' the train home. since i was headin' to b's, we hopped on da 井の頭線, me gettin' off at 永福町 and her stayin' on til 吉祥寺.
when i got to b's, sportscenter was on! espn motion doesn't even compare! afterwards, we played madden with the nfl europe teams. b gave me a run for my money, and at halftime, he was up 3-0. there must've been 4 3rd & long plays where i went to a shotgun formation and there was a bad snap, to make things worse, b always bring the house on 3rd down, so those 3 of those 4 plays were sacks while the other one was an interception!?! it was a total defensive game and i finally tied it with a minute to go. i was able to hold him and we went to ot. he won the toss but played totally reckless, 3 & out. i got the ball back and ran a wide variety of plays and got to the 25. went for the game winnin' fg (in madden, when it's a crucial fg, the controller starts to rumble to simulate your kicker's heartbeat) and it went straight thru the uprights!!!
the next day, we chilled and then headed to lloyd's cuz b needed to get copies of lloyd's japan "thomas guide". we grabbed some kfc for all of us and then got on the train. so kfc has this new sandwich called the レドホットサンド which is pretty darn good. b had to take off early but i stayed for a bit to chill. it was koo to hangout with them. this was probably my first time really gettin' to know the both of them. lloyd's a lucky guy to have such a koo wife. they showed me pics of fuji rock, this big 3 day concert in 新潟. they've been goin' for the past 7 years! he was tellin' me this year's lineup and crown city rockers (formerly mission) is gonna perform! man, it looks like a lot of fun but not sure if i'm down with spendin' over 3万円 (over $300)...
came back to funabashi and then headed over to 茶茶 to hang out with mama. i only meant to hangout for a little bit, but it turned out to be like 5 hours!!! the next day just chilled and did some laundry. 津田沼 and then got a call from 茶茶. mama for the time/place for masaaki's bday dinner. ended up meetin' at this 焼肉 near 習志野駅. it was pretty good. the 和牛 was off da hook!!! it was koo to see masaaki's new baby boy, 銀平 and play around with shimba. he is already gettin' an early start with the ladies as he made a friend with a girl that was next to our table. since it was a nice day, decided to walk all the way home.
normal day at school. nothin' really new except that the 9th graders are back. didn't realize how much of a difference it makes durin' lunch time when they're not there or maybe i just chose the wrong lunch cuz the line was hella long! didn't go to practice because i had a dentist appt. i was totally surprised that he didn't have to scrape anything from my permanent retainer this time. after that, got a lot of errands done and went to bed early.
the next day at school for bball/vball practice, instead of havin' a regular practice, we had to do プール掃除. so i helped the kids who were playin' more than cleanin'. the girls had to brush and sweep while the boys had to use buckets to empty out the pool. i did that for about 2 hours and then helped the 7th grade boys on the vball team. durin' the end of the practice, the guys and girls who were cleanin' the pool came back into the gym soakin' wet!
that night, i decided to just grab a quick bite to eat and finish makin' the listenin' portion of the 8th and 9th mid-term tests at a coffee shop. went to the station, parked my bike and right as i was goin' to go to the gate, i realized that i didn't have my wallet in my pocket. i must've searched my pockets and my backpack like 20 times before retracin' my steps back home. then i searched my apartment again but no luck. so i decided to venture out and retrace my steps again. after searchin' for another 10 min or so, still...nothing. so as i came home (2nd time), i thought maybe i left my wallet at school (as you can see, i was gettin' really desperate here and tryin' to thing of the easiest way out of the situation) but not 3 min passed before my phone rings and it's 茶茶のママ tellin' me that 川中さん sent her an email sayin' that he found a 大切な物 that was mine. when she asked me if i lost/forgot anything, i first thought of my umbrella that i left there a few days before but then i realized she was talkin' bout my wallet. and was like, no way. all this transpired in about a 30 min time frame! so she told me to go the local 交番 and pick it up. after a long, drawn out questionin' with the police and fillin' out all this paperwork, i was able to get my wallet back with EVERYTHING inside. only in japan.... luckily the person i found was somebody i know, huh? as we say in japanese, 偶然. since it was around 2100, it was too late to go finish up the test, so i just went to 茶茶 and celebrated the findin' of my wallet with the crew.
the next day, headed to 銀座 to go to the apple store. i inquired bout the education discount and they told me that i need a teacher's card w/picture id. hmm...i'm wonderin' if my visa would work cuz it does say "instructor" for the funabashi board of education... cuz i really don't want to have to pay full price for osx 10.4 tiger ($130) and ilife '05 ($80). with the education discount it comes out to a total of about $120. durin' this trip i got to see 2 30" cinema displays bein' spanned by a dual 2.7 powermac with final cut pro runnin'. omg!!! it was amazin'!!! not that i would probably ever need that my real estate, but it doesn't hurt to dream...
after playin' around for about and hour there, headed over to 上野 and finished up the listenin' tests at a coffee shop. then i headed over to かおる's restaurant and chilled there talkin' with かおる n her pops. she closed up at 1930, then ヒデ came thru and went to eat some 焼き鳥 near 上野駅. while we were eatin', i got a call from a payphone and it was same lady with a funny japanese accent. after the initial greetin', she went to perfect english. it turned out to be my aunt jeanne, who's in japan now. i remember gettin' an email months ago about her and uncle fred comin' out, but never heard anything after that. since she was on a payphone, we got cut off like 4 times. they're in 京都 now but will be comin' back to 東京 today and will be leavin' back to hawaii on route to cali on sunday. since i'm free on saturday afternoon and will be in 東京, i'm gonna try to meet up with them. plus, they brought their granddaughter paige with them, so it'll be nice to see her too. back to dinner, since ヒデ has only been out of the country for business, he really has that itch to travel. i told him bout california and all the food and stuff to do there and him and かおる were totally stoked bout plannin' a trip there sometime with me as the tour guide ;b hopefully within the next 3 years they can go out to cali with me and take a super one week tour of da bay, la, and vegas! on day way home, my internal alarm clock worked to perfection, wakin' up just before 京成津田沼駅.
back to school on thursday and had my first 9th grade class in over a week. man, this class was so dead. just askin' them a simple question (that i ask to the 7th graders), i didn't even get a response, just blank faces!?!
on a side note, my visa is expirin' and when i looked at my passport, it says that the exp. date is the 19th of this month. so i called my boss and he had to scramble to get all the paperwork done and we went to the immigration office in chiba this mornin'. man, at the office, it must've been 80% filipinos there. it was probably the only place where i heard tagalog more than japanese.
anyhow, what ya'll think bout the nba finals!? tied up, 2-2. gonna be interestin'...i say da spurs in 7.
well...have vball & bball practice and then dinner with 和田先生 and 吉川先生 tonite. should be fun...
also, gonna try to meet up with uncle fred, aunt jeanne and paige but now i found out that 田島's mother passed away and that the funeral is saturday. not sure if this is gonna overlap with the guyz' nite out tomorrow but we'll see.
aite then,
kaz out...
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