i am baaaaack! after two months of hiatus, i welcome myself back to the blogging world. why my absence? i was preoccupied lately in a ‘positive’ way (wink, wink) but last night, i woke up and suddenly, jumbled thoughts started springing into my head, wanting to be put into writing. it was like an epiphany of sorts that i had to update my abandoned blog.
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over the past month or so, i went gaga over the post season of NBA. i rooted for the celtics in the east and the lakers in the west. it was a dream come true for me to have them play against each other on the finals because i liked them both. but in the end, i can only truly cheer for one team and my heart went to the lakers, the 2010 NBA champions. whoohoo! it was so intense, man. i actually didn’t watch much of game 7 because it was so nerve wracking for me. i only caught the last 7 minutes or so of the 4th quarter. by then, the lakers had already closed on the early lead by the celtics. and thank God for the DVR because i was able to watch the whole thing after.
basketball is one of the few sports that i truly understand. i started watching it when i was young but i never got to fully appreciate it until mid-90s which i refer to as the glory days of my being a basketball fan. it was at that time when i was so much into the sports with UP Maroons (of UAAP), Alaska Aces (of PBA) and Chicago Bulls of NBA) making up my so-called fan life. i frequented the UAAP games as i untiringly cheered for paolo mendoza of UP Maroons. i even went to one of their games at the araneta coliseum, all by myself after a class field trip (although i found some friends inside). my elder and sister and i, being big alaska fans that we were, also saw live PBA games. i remember when we stood in line very early in the morning to get tickets for a finals game between alaska and ginebra in 1996. oh boy, those were happy days! that was the year when alaska won the grand slam. it was also the time of michael jordan and the bulls dynasty in NBA and needless to say, there was obviously so much to look forward to and to celebrate.
i am fortunate to have found raj who like me, shares the same enthusiasm in basketball. when my elder sister left for the US, it was raj who became my constant companion in PBA games. he too was an alaska fan so there was never a conflict. we both liked the same teams and just recently, the two of us were together in cheering for the lakers (against everyone in our family who were all celtics fans). now the NBA is over and i’m going through withdrawal period, hence this entry.
