Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 3 Results

Wow another week just finished. This week's hockey pool has been a roller coaster ride, especially against my leagues leader. Very amazing week this week has become.

In my NHL League, I beat my league leader by a score of 11-4. My goalies were spectacular, especially Marc Andre Fleury who I got rid of last season. Antti Niemi was great too! All my skaters were pretty good I must admit, although on a near Saturday meltdown again, good thing the damage wasn't too severe. I eventually get a solid win even though I was leading 15-1 at one point yesterday!!

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played my league leader, which is my rival. For most part of the matchup, I was able to make him fall into a hole as my team kept pounding him with goals and assist, my goalies were pretty solid I must say. Although a near meltdown yesterday, I was still able to hold him to 7 categories win, which I eventually won 11-7.

Starting tomorrow, I will be playing a weaker opponent which I'm expected to win against as well as one of my close friend in my NHL League who gifted me Fleury and Thornton. As well, time to face my demons tomorrow, receiving back my failed midterm and prepare to go all out in working on my essay!!

College Year 2: Day 25

Middle of the week just passed, which also happened to be my last day of school for this week! Yes I have one more week to go, before I go to Hong Kong. This morning I woke up right at 8:00am.

I went to brush before eating breakfast. Had spaghetti with seafood sauce, made by my dad! Afterwards, I got dressed and get ready for school as my dad gave me a ride to the nearest Canada-Line station.

I arrived to school at 10:00am and waited outside of our classroom. When class started, we looked at the Hagia Sophia monument, it was by far the most popular museum in modern Turkey during the early Byzantine period. We looked on the inside of it too! Other artworks we looked at, was the Crucifixion of Christ in which Jesus sacrifices himself to wash away the sins that mankind has committed. Also looked at the Christ as Pantocrator and more!

After class, I went home first to watch my drama. Yeah, when you have a husband that works with the police department, as a forensic and a wife who is a lawyer usually for the criminal now she works for a boss who is responsible for Cocaine and other drugs, they are bound to be separated. They really deserved to be separated only because the wife cares about nothing but rankings and wealth.

Anyways, after the show I went to do my research essay all the way until 4:30pm before I left for school! I arrived to school at 5:25pm so I did some research in the library! By 6:00pm I went to my history class and waited until class start. Today in class, we looked at Stalin and his rise to power in Russia. The guy was really harsh on his own people, but all for a good cause for the country. His 5 year plan claimed many lives, but Russia soon became an industrialized country. I personally think, he could have still achieved it, without taking his path, but in Stalin's view, only his way would work!!

We also looked at the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Yeah, Jewish people believed in Zionism, and the Arabs hated them. Only because there are so many Jewish people and nowhere in Europe wants Jewish immigration, therefore they had to move into Palestine which conflicted with the Arabs. The British in my opinions were idiots, for changing all the time, which includes allowing and disallowing Jewish immigrants, as well limiting Jewish immigration. Therefore, this caused lots of conflicts between the 2 groups, although the British tends to favor the Jewish more and accuse the Arabs of being the devil. Later we had group discussions, regarding Stalin's acts to end the class.

After class I went home to eat dinner and now blogging, time to sleep now!!

College Year 2: Day 24

Another day just finished, although today I was able to wake up on time today. I went to eat, I don't know what they are called. But you will find them when you go out for dim sum, it's those stuff wrapped over the sticky rice, in Chinese it's called "Long Mai Gai"

After breakfast, I went to school through the cold weather. I arrived to school at around 9:55am so I had to sit and wait outside of my classroom again!

In class today, we finished off looking at the early Christianity art and we moved on to the Byzantine Empire art. Though, none of them are what we had to know for the final exam, but still good to know!

After class, I went home to watch my drama. Episode 12 was intense, but episode 13 will be even better, because I will get to see the final result of the relationship between Pro Sir and Eva!! Preview shows they will divorce and Eva goes out with another rich bastard? LOL!!

Later I continue to work on my essay! More essay to do tomorrow!! And Go Canucks!!

College Year 2: Day 23

The first day of the week just unfolded. Yes I woke up late today! I can't believe I woke up at 8:20am, maybe because I was really tired last night? But that's what I get for sleeping so late!

Anyways I had to rush through everything, eat and pack my stuff to get ready for school. Though when I left the house and arrived to school, I was 30 minutes early, so I sat outside waiting until class begins at 10:30am.

Though in class today, we looked at Christianity and Roman religion arts. Yes as a Christian I know some of the religious story which included Adam and Eve and the forbidden tree. we looked at the The Good Shepard painting, Old St.Peter's and Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes paintings.

After class I went home and watched my drama before starting on my comparative and contrast research essay for my Art History class until now!

More to blog tomorrow!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 2 Results

Yeah, another week just ended today. Yes I'm talking about my hockey pool. I guess it's time to get right into it!

In my NHL League, I played Team thething, for most part he was dominating over my team, with his players scoring points on a daily basis! Of course my players didn't accomplish what his players did, so I fell short in all the points category. My goalies struggled in the beginning, until Lundqvist and Niemi picked it up late, which I was able to turn the tide around for the goalies categories which I took almost everything. So at the end of the week I still feel by a score of 8-7.

In my VCanucks2012 league, I held on to the lead all the way until the biggest day, which was saturday, before collapsing in a 13-5 hole by the end of Saturday. The goalie categories were pretty lopsided as he took everything except gamestarts. For the skaters categories I held on to most of the categories until Saturday where his players just kept scoring and scoring to the end so I fell 13-5 on Saturday, but today I was able to make a small comeback and turned the 13-5 deficient into an 11-7 loss! Two weeks without winning a matchup, this is starting to become last year where I had the slow start before going on fire in the later end, but I don't know, we will see!!

Starting tomorrow, I will be playing a friend who I hang out with all the time, and my rival friend who defeated me in the finals, it's time to get revenge!! Go Headshot!

College Year 2: Day 20,21,22

Yeah, I've finally finished all my midterms for both classes. I did extremely well on my modern history midterm, 19/20. Highest in the class!! First time ever :) Yeah, I spend all these three days studying as well attending class.

Today, was the 20th of October, in which my mom and sister leaves for Hong Kong. I studied until 3:00am this morning and woke up at 7:00am. Yes I was extremely tired but I had to suck it up because the midterm was important and I planned to go to school earlier to study.

I had rice this morning with a cup of tea and then we left the house. I arrived to school and studied at the library, memorizing all the arts sculptures and paintings.

By 10:00am, I went to study outside of my classroom. Sucks that I didn't get a chance to study all because chapter 5 took all of my time.

Anyways, 10:30am was when the exam started. It was rather difficult. I swear, there are just too much stuff to remember and know. More stuff to know than anything else. Prediction: 20/50.

After exam, I got a ride to the airport since my mom and sister will be leaving for Hong Kong today. Everything went well. And we soon left the airport after my mom and sister went to grab something to eat on their own.

I went to buy some lettuce with my dad for dinner. Later we went home and I watched my drama that I missed during the days I was studying.

Later I just followed some hockey scores before dinner and friends came over to play NHL 12. Pretty much leading up to now! Time to sleep!

College Year 2: Day 19

As time progresses, I've become much more of a busy man this week. But that didn't stop me from doing my regular activities.

Yeah I woke up a bit late today because I was tired. Had to eat breakfast because it's very important! Later I got a ride to school because my mom had to work and it was convenient for the both of us.

Since I was early, I went to the library to hang out for a bit before going to my Art History class.

Today in class, we finished off chapter 7, looking at the rest of the architecture of the Roman empire, which included the Roman's Markets of Trajan in which they had to destroy parts of the city just to make build it. Others included, the Baths of Caracalla, Four Tetrarchs, Arch of Constantine and Portrait of Constantine.

After class is over, I went home and watched my drama before continuing on with my research essay for history. I would continue this until 7:00pm then I went out for dinner.

Yeah, how can I not remember the freaking stomach ache I had after! It was horrible, had to stay in the filthy bathroom for at least ten minutes and then later went home and spend another five minutes inside the bathroom again. Poor me! Why do I have such a fragile stomach!! Though I went on to finish my essay and now waiting for my friend to proof read it.

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 1 Results

Finally the first week has come to an end! Well, I should be keeping this post short because I have to get my essays done and then proceed to study for my midterm for Thursday.

For my NHL League, I fell 10-3 to Captain whom I highly respected as a player and a person. I will agree my team on paper was far better than his, but his team outperformed mines, Jason Spezza, Anze Kopitar, Erik Karlsson all prevented me from winning. It was pretty fun I have to admit but losing sucks! Week 1 also saw the trade of Derek Roy for David Krejci for me. Since Krecji is injured, it's hard to say who has gotten the better deal until he comes back and play. Looking forward to Niemi's return tomorrow!

Now for my other league, the VCanucks2012 league, I spend most of the week falling behind, but eventually crawled my way back up to an 8-8 draw. If only I receive a few more hits from my players, I would have won 9-7. My goalie stats was rather poor, only because I relied on Roloson for starting and Niemi was injured for that time, though no worries I have Niemi back tomorrow! Will be a good one!! Next opponent, Red Army :)

College Year 2: Day 18

So my school days for this week is finally over. This week is only the beginning of my 3 busy weeks. Why? I have an essay and a midterm next week, back to back too! So it's time to stop wasting time and get working on it.

This morning, I delayed for 20 more minutes before waking up only to find myself sleeping for another 10 minutes then I went to brush and got dressed and ate. There wasn't much noodles left so I just finished the remainders and left the house for school.

I arrived at 9:55am again! Since there was nothing to do, I sat on a bench until 10:20am and went to my art history classroom.

Yeah, first thing we talked about was the midterm which will be next Thursday, the day my mom and sister leave for Hong Kong. Just all recognizing of pieces of arts. I however still feel a little iffy about the second part. Anyways we continued to look at the Roman arts and architecture, we looked at the paintings as well as the collesium.

After class, I went to eat with my mom at Fraser. We had PHO, which was something I certainly missed. And after we went home, so I watched my drama first and then reviewed my notes for my midterm.

At 4:00pm I left for school to study for my history midterm. Anyways, at 6:30pm we had our midterm, the exam wasn't hard at all. It's going to be out of 60, I predict at least a 45/60. Later we had a lecture on the Dada Art Movement and what the arts represent.

College Year 2: Day 17

Ok, I will keep this post relatively short since I have to continue to study for my exams for tomorrow.

Yeah, I've decided to wake up 15 minutes later now, it doesn't matter now because I still arrive to school relatively. I left the house at 9:15am and arrived to school at 9:55am. Still so early, as usual I have to wait by my classroom until 10:30am.

In class today, we looked at the Roman temples and architecture. Seems like the Romans are just copycats, they took much of the Greek's idea to how to build their temples.

Well, I don't think I should talk more, I'll end this right now! Bye all!!

College Year 2: Day 16

Yeah, normally I don't have classes on Thursdays if my seminar group didn't have meet up in class.

My throat's situation is becoming really bad, even if I took medicine early, it still grew until it reaches to the point where it can't no more then I have to slowly recover from this crap.

In my seminar group today, we looked at ruler sculptures which included Napoleon, Charles I Hitler and Pharoahs. Pretty much in a group of 4s we analyze them together.

After class I went home to watch my drama and then vacuumed the house. Later I had medicine before heading out to downtown!! At first a friend and I scheduled to have Japanese food, but the store wasn't opened so we had to settle for hotdogs at Costco. It was really cheap and you get a drink as well!! I'm in a disadvantage because I'm coughing like mad.

We then walked around elsewhere for a good 45 minutes before waiting outside of Rogers Arena for two of our friends. They came at around 6:20pm or so and we entered Rogers Arena to watch the Canucks season opener. We sat at row 322. Since my friend couldn't get 4 seats together, we decided to rotate first, I sat by myself behind a group of Penguins fan. The Pens jumped to a 2-0 lead before Lapierre banking a goal off Fleury to cut the lead in half.

In the second period, Matt Cooke scored a fluke shorthanded goal which restored the Penguins two goal lead, and later Keith Ballard scored to the cut the lead to one. This time I rotated with another friend for the seat.

In the third period Vancouver dominated all the way and tied the game. They kept pressing but couldn't get the lead, so this game went to a shootout which Pittsburgh easily won since Vancouver is not a shootout team at all. Though we lost but it was an entertaining game!! Looking forward to attending more games in the future!! Time to sleep!

College Year 2: Day 15

A fine Wednesday morning broke out with me coughing like a mad man. I bet it's my sister who passed on her illness to me!!

Today I actually delayed until 8:15 before waking up and I had rice for breakfast. Typical Wednesday when my dad doesn't work. I didn't really eat much, because I never liked having dinner type foods for breakfast, it's not the right appetite for me!

Anyways, I waited until 9:15am to leave the house and arrived at school at 10. I sat outside of my classroom to wait for the class inside to be finish and proceed to go in. In class today, we finished off looking at the Greek sculpture and then we went on to look at the Etruscans, in another words Italians sculptures, which included the Sarcophagus couple and some of the dugged tombs!!

After class, I got a ride home from my mom. Not long later, we went out to eat. I also happened to check the E.A simulation. Pittsburgh over Chicago in the finals. For most part it's fair but Chicago won't make the finals, I'm pretty sure of that. Vancouver will not win the President Trophy and Montreal won't miss the playoffs while Toronto makes it!!

We came back home at around 2, and I watched my drama. Later on, I was watching the Cardinals-Phillies game, Cardinals won!!! Game 5 will be on Friday!! Lets complete the comeback Cards!!!

After that, I went back to school for my history class. We talked about the Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, and Lenin coming to power along with his group of Bolsheviks!! When class ended, I went home to eat.

R.I.P Steve Jobs :( and my Seminar group meets tomorrow!!! Game day too!!!

College Year 2: Day 14

Completed exactly two weeks worth of class after today. I got up at 8 once again and wasted no time getting dressed and went to eat breakfast. Yeah I had fried rice which I won't complain much about, because it gets me full for a while.

After breakfast, I got a ride from my mom with a friend to Aberdeen station and we hopped on the train to school. We arrived pretty early, so we went to the library to hang out for a while, before heading to class.

In class today, we continued to look at Green sculptures and later on we watched a film based on what were lectured on for chapter 5.

After class I went home and since I have no episode to watch, I spend the whole day doing my research essay for history.

College Year 2: Day 13

Another week just began today. No more headaches this time, but I woke up right at 8:00am. I still felt really tired, so this time I probably gonna sleep earlier.

I ate spaghetti again today, but felt sick after. Good thing my mom gave me a ride to school, so that I have more time to prepare.

I met up a friend from high school and we hanged out for a bit before I went to class. In class today, we continued on chapter 5, looking at Greece temples and sculptures of heroes. One of them is Zeus however, the king of godness. Most temples that the Greek built, had pediments on them, which basically shows what was going on in any event. One of them actually shows the celebration of victory over Persia, in which many Greek temples were destroyed. I guess Alexander the Great really earned his title, by defeating the Persian all on his own.

After class, I went home to watch two episodes of drama and then began to work on my History research essay for the whole day!! That's about it!!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Draft Result Part 2

What a busy Sunday it has been for me. This morning, I woke up with a headache, which also occurred when I was sleeping and it bothered me to the point I had to wake up! Anyways, I spend the next few hours trying to reschedule the draft time, because I tried to find a day where everybody can make it, but people are busy all over the place which eventually I had to leave everything as it is.

My breakfast was pretty much my lunch. I only drank soup, I don't know what they are called, but they came from the cans and they have other ingredients such as peas and potatoes. I seriously didn't eat much though I have to start eating more. This past few weeks, I've been eating very little.

Later, I watched football, My Patriots took on the hated Oakland Raiders, even though Oakland had a decent start, my Patriots were able to counter attack and took over the game. Many pushing and shoving after the whistle, which brought to a more exciting game. The Patriots ended up winning 31-19 and the Buffalo Bills lost to the Cincinnati Bengals!! Hahaha, what losers! Now the Patriots and the Bills are tied in record.

Later, I started on my history research paper before dinner. I only ate crabs for dinner, yes I hate a whole bunch of them. Now, no more crabs for two months please!! After dinner, I took a shower first and waited until the draft. At 8:00pm, I was able to get into the live draft box, I was stunned to find out that I draft first overall. I hate drafting first and last, because that means I have to wait 14 turns to draft two players which is too long! Anyways, here is my draft result:

1. (1) Martin St. Louis RW
2. (16) Ryan Getzlaf C
3. (17) Patrick Marleau C,LW
4. (32) Claude Giroux C,RW
5. (33) Antti Niemi G
6. (48) Joe Thornton C
7. (49) David Backes RW
8. (64) Thomas Vanek LW
9. (65) Milan Lucic LW
10. (80) Brenden Morrow LW
11. (81) Marian Gaborik RW
12. (96) Alex Pietrangelo D
13. (97) Logan Couture C
14. (112) Dwayne Roloson G
15. (113) David Krejci C
16. (128) Jack Johnson D
17. (129) Patrik Elias LW
18. (144) Shane Doan LW,RW
19. (145) John Carlson D
20. (160) Brian Gionta RW
21. (161) Tomas Kaberle D

Time for some rant, some people autopicked and they got complete crap team. I was pretty emotional with this draft, because Henrik Zetterberg was taken to an autodraft, I just can't believe it. This is really absurd!! Later, Cam Ward got taken, and my desired defenceman, Tyler Myers, Cam Fowler and Brent Seabrook as well as Kronwall got drafted. I so pissed off, I had to call my rival friend a fag for drafting them. Anyways, I think my team is decent, despite goalie problems! My first round opponent will be my two former commissioners, both have Roberto Luongo as a starting goalie. It will be tough!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Draft Result Part 1

Today marked the first day of October, which meant that in six days from today the National Hockey League season will officially begin. Today is also the second last day of preseason. Haha, about the only thing I don't really care about of hockey is preseason! In fact, I don't really want the Canucks to win in preseason because teams get nothing from it, even if they win.

Anyways, I've pretty much spend the entire day doing three things: finishing my Art History readings, play NHL 12 and watch hockey / yahoo fantasy draft. I sure did play NHL 12 the longest of all, but I think I ragged a bit too much. It sure is frustrating when you have teammates who can't seem to get things right, even if you kept trying to give them chance after chance!! Well, to be honest I have one great game, where my team won 10-1, I finished the game with 8 points, 2 goals and 6 assist. The rest of the way was just an absolute joke.

Anyways, for the preseason games, Vancouver beat the Oilers 4-1, this time with our full lineup! See, once we play our regular team, we just steamroll everybody else!! Cody Hodgson was spectacular today, scoring 2 goals! As for the Oilers' only goal, it should not even have counted. Do they expect goalies to make saves when getting knocked down by skaters? Certainly is possible but not very likely. Though the game didn't end, while the draft began.

As for the draft goes, stunning how Captain decided to miss the draft :( It's just not like him. I know he's not that crazy over it, but the draft shouldn't be something he should be attending. But anyways, it's over already. Here are my draft results:

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1. (5) Martin St. Louis (TB - RW)
2. (12) Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C,LW)
3. (21) Ryan Getzlaf (Anh - C)
4. (28) Patrick Marleau (SJ - C,LW)
5. (37) Claude Giroux (Phi - C,RW)
6. (44) David Backes (StL - RW)
7. (53) Antti Niemi (SJ - G)
8. (60) Milan Lucic (Bos - LW)
9. (69) Brenden Morrow (Dal - LW)
10. (76) Tyler Myers (Buf - D)
11. (85) Alex Pietrangelo (StL - D)
12. (92) Dwayne Roloson (TB - G)
13. (101) Derek Roy (Buf - C)
14. (108) Cam Fowler (Anh - D)
15. (117) Patrik Elias (NJ - LW)
16. (124) Logan Couture (SJ - C)
17. (133) Brian Gionta (Mon - RW)
18. (140) Drew Stafford (Buf - RW)
19. (149) Brooks Laich (Was - LW)
20. (156) Niklas Kronwall (Det - D)
21. (165) Craig Anderson (Ott - G)

Time for a little bit of rant. I got most of my players, however players such as, Cam Ward, Dustin Brown, Patrice Bergeron and Shane Doan were taken. Cam Ward was by far my most desired goalie, however due to that Antti Niemi was available for pick, I decided to pick him first, thinking that no one wants Cam Ward, but my friend also happened to pick him on the same round :( Yes, I am aware my goalies are my weakest link, but one thing I have to say is, I do not expect every game they play, to be complete shit. Back to my old philosophy, I win with average goalies. This will be another test!