Just got a few glimpses of the Miss Universe Pageant last night. It was broadcasted in the Hallmark Channel in cable, but it run in parallel with my favorite AXN shows, so I had to jump from channel to channel.
The 5'10" Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza, 22, gave perhaps one of the most memorable responses during the Q and A portion. What is the difference between men and women?
Men think that the fastest way to go to a point is to go straight. Women know that the faster way to go to a point is to go to the curves.
And with that, many would argue, she won the title. Now that's beauty and brains at its finest!
The 2008 Miss Universe pageant was held in Vietnam which, as can be expected from hosting countries, Vietnam is promoted heavily as a tourist destination. :)
One other highlight is Miss USA Crystle Stewart taking a fall during the evening gown section, similar to what happened to last year's Miss USA Rachel Smith.
Not sure why so many people are making a big deal about the trip. She tripped, okay? It happens to all people every now and then. And yet, she makes the front page of a newspaper! It's not a tabloid, mind you. It's a freakin' newspaper! A big picture of her sitting on her rump after falling down is hogging the front page. What? No other news to report about? Geez, get a life! :)
I always wanted to include a 'Related Posts' widget at the end of each post item. Thanks to a short reprieve, I was able to finally implement this in my blogs in Blogger.
So let's start:
1. Backup the existing template. (In Blogger/Blogspot, it should be in Layout > Edit Html.
2. Within the page header (i.e., section enclosed in the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags, insert the code below. I suggest inserting it right before the </HEAD> tag.
<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var relatedTitles = new Array(); var relatedTitlesNum = 0; var relatedUrls = new Array();
function related_results_labels(json) { for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++) { var entry = json.feed.entry[i]; relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.title.$t; for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) { if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') { relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.link[k].href; relatedTitlesNum++; break; }}} }
function removeRelatedDuplicates() { var tmp = new Array(0); var tmp2 = new Array(0); for(var i = 0; i < relatedUrls.length; i++) { if(!contains(tmp, relatedUrls[i])) { tmp.length += 1; tmp[tmp.length - 1] = relatedUrls[i]; tmp2.length += 1; tmp2[tmp2.length - 1] = relatedTitles[i]; } } relatedTitles = tmp2; relatedUrls = tmp; }
function contains(a, e) { for(var j = 0; j < a.length; j++) if (a[j]==e) return true; return false; }
function printRelatedLabels() { var r = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random()); var i = 0; document.write('<ul>'); while (i < relatedTitles.length && i < 20) { document.write('<li><a href="' + relatedUrls[r] + '">' + relatedTitles[r] + '</a></li>'); if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) { r++; } else { r = 0; } i++; } document.write('</ul>'); } //]]> </script>
3. With the "Expand Widgets" checked, under the 'Blog1' widget, look for the lines: <b:if cond='data:post.labels'> <data:postLabelsLabel/> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if> </b:loop> </b:if>
and replace them with the following: <b:if cond='data:post.labels'> <data:postLabelsLabel/> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&callback=related_results_labels&max-results=10"' type='text/javascript'/> </b:if> </b:loop> </b:if>
4. Save the Template.
5. Navigate to Layout --> Add Page Elements, and add an HTML/Script element, name it as "Related Posts" (or whatever) which includes the following lines of code: <script type="text/javascript"> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(); </script>
6. Return to Layout --> Edit HTML, check Expand Widgets, and look for the 'Related Posts' element you just added. It should be similar to the following: <b:widget id='HTML13' locked='false' title='Related Posts' type='HTML'> <b:includable id='main'> <!-- only display title if it's non-empty --> <b:if cond='data:title != ""'> <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2> </b:if> <div class='widget-content'> <data:content/> </div> <b:include name='quickedit'/> </b:includable> </b:widget>
7. Insert the lines in bold below. This additional two lines ensure that the "Related Posts" widget will only load when the user is currently viewing one post only. <b:widget id='HTML13' locked='false' title='Related Posts' type='HTML'> <b:includable id='main'> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <!-- only display title if it's non-empty --> <b:if cond='data:title != ""'> <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2> </b:if> <div class='widget-content'> <data:content/> </div> <b:include name='quickedit'/> </b:if> </b:includable> </b:widget>
And there you have it. Whenever you view your individual posts, you should be able to see the "Related Posts" widget somewhere in the page (depends on where you put it).
I guess I'm in that mode again in which I want to watch a slew of videos and movies. As of this time, these are the ones that I would really, really, REALLY want to watch...
WWE RAW, June 23, 2008 Episode
This is the episode when WWE conducted its annual draft lottery. That is, WWE superstars (i.e., wrestlers) go from one brand to another. I already know the results, which be read from the official WWE website, but I'd still want to see the action.
Well, believe it or not, I believe draft lotteries are rigged. That is, it is scripted and the results are already planned; the sole purpose of this draft is to shake things up, developing new storylines, new rivalries, etc. It's actually a good thing. :)
Of course in this year's lottery, I must say that nothing shook things more than Triple H being drafted into Smackdown! And of course, where Triple H goes, his favorite announcer, WWE Hall of Famer "JR" Jim Ross goes with him.
Anyway, I guess I'll just have to wait for re-runs to get this one. :)
WWE Night of Champions (June 29, 2008)
Okay, fine, another WWE video. What can I say? I don't get my weekly dose of wrestling video like back home. :) I always want to watch WWE Pay-Per-Views anyway, and this is no exception.
Same thing here. I know the results, but I still want to watch it anyway. :) Now that's a fan! Hehehe :)
Like the one before, I'll wait for reruns.
The Dark Knight, opens July 17, 2008
You have to be crazy if you do not want to see this one! Finally, the much anticipated sequel to Batman Begins (and the animated film Batman Gotham Night) will be showing next week.
You don't have to be a Batman fan to watch this, right? I mean this is the Batman franchise movie we've been waiting for. The Chrstian Bale Batman is the best Batman we've seen in years. (Yup, I'm not a fan of those George Clooney Batman flicks.)
Or for the more sentimental people out there, would you not want to see the very last movie starring Heath Ledger? Rumors in E!News and The Daily Ten (yeah, I watch those. So what? Hehe) indicate a stellar, Oscar- or Emmy-worthy performance by the actor. Based from the teasers, trailers and posters, Ledger's portrayal of Joker is the darkest and freakiest Batman villain I've seen. Definitely a favorite pick in the "Best Villain" category.
Not showing yet, so no choice but to sit tight until then.
To all Pinoys working in Singapore: ever wonder when it would be a good time to remit your hard-earned SG dollars to Philippine Pesos?
Well, since October 2007 (when we first came here), I would say that now would be a good time to remit. According to i-Remit, as of 4 July 2008, SGD 1.00 = PHP 33.00! That's a lot of cash, compared to last Christmas season, in which the rate was only around PHP 27.00 to SGD 1.00.
For most people, the 7th of the month is usually the salary/sweldo day. You can expect a lot of people down in Orchard Rd in Lucky Plaza remitting to the Philippines.
Better take this opportunity to remit now. Once the Philippines gets a lot of remittance, it may cause the value of the peso to rise a bit, possibly lowering the exchange rate to PHP32.00. Just my two cents. :)
With broadband internet connections quickly becoming the norm, many online file-sharing / storage services have come to play. Here's a review of some of them.
This is Microsoft's own file-sharing service. As far as I know, you are required to have a Windows Live Messenger Account (i.e., hotmail ID, etc.) so you need to sign up first before you can use this. The total storage per account is 5GB, with a 50MB cap on the size of each uploaded file.
True to the Microsoft's way of doing things, you are working with folders. You have three types of folders: your Personal (only you can access), Shared (only you and selected users), and Public (accessible to anyone). You need to be familiar with the concepts of file permissions to get this done with less hassle (as I've had seen people who are struggling with this one).
As of the moment, since this is very, very new, you can expect a few bugs here and there and a lot of room for improvement. Maybe in a few weeks or months, after getting tons of feedback, we'll see some improvements.
One of the newer services, with up to 100MB maximum storage free, or 25GB at US$10 per 1Gb per year. You can use it immediately to share files even without creating an account. Good for those quick file drops you need to share ASAP.
Aside from that, it is integrated with Facebook, so if you're a Facebook user, you should have no problems sharing files with other users there.
Lastly, you supposedly can add a Drop.IO widget into your website/blog, but I have yet to do this. I'm still going through the site's FAQs and stuff.
If you are not comfortable with the above, you can always just use the tried-and-tested filesharing services out there, such as RapidShare and MegaUpload and their variations (both having a total upload size cap per country/region, unless you have a premium account), MediaFire and YouSendIt.
Here are some additional quotes from Season 4 of House M. D. You can check the other quotes from season 4 here.
Janitor: I'm not breaking into somebody's house... <pause> I got principles.
Dr. House: I got some loose change here says you don't.
Janitor: I'm not doing this... for less than a fifty.
Amber: Uhm, I watched this football game once. And I noticed something odd. The winning team was the happy one. I did the math.
Dr. House: Our patient's happy.
Amber: He's an idiot.
Dr. House: He's a happy idiot. That screws with your world view. There's something freeing about being a loser, isn't there? Why are you afraid to...
Amber: Mommy didn't love me enough. Daddy expected too much from me. Something! <pause> Let's assume that's true. I get how that can make me a screwed-up person. But how is my willingness to do anything to get the right answer bad for my patients? Or put in terms you can understand, how is it bad for you?
Dr. House: What makes you so sure that drugs are a mask for something else?
Thirteen: Drugs are always a mask for something else.
Dr. House: That's the dumbest thing I've heard in my life.
[Thirteen leaves. Dr. House sets 13's points from 100 to 102.]
Dr. Cuddy: Hire a woman too.
Dr. House: Hire two women.
Dr. Cuddy: You can have the one that gives a crap about people.
Dr. House: They both do.
Dr. Cuddy: Right. Hire "Thirteen".
<pause>
Dr. Cuddy: This was your plan all along...
<pause again>
Dr. Cuddy: Well, at least the games are over.
Dr. House: How long have you known me?
Thirteen: She’s not a liar.
Dr. House: Ok, this is gonna be a tough case. I have almost no knowledge of alien physiology.
Thirteen: Everyone lies but there’s an exception to every rule.
Dr. House: Actually there isn’t. That’s kinda what makes it a rule.
Dr. House: There’s a reason that everybody lies. It works. It what allows society to function, it’s what separates man from beast.
Dr. Wilson: Oh, I thought that was our thumbs.
Dr. House: You wanna know every place your mom’s thumb has been?
Dr. Wilson: I’m sorry I missed rehearsal. Am I taking the “truth is good” side? Don’t you usually take that side?
Dr. House: Lies are a tool, they can be used either for good… No wait, I got a better one. Lies are like children. Hard work, but they’re worth it. Because the future depends on them.
Dr. Wilson: You are so full of love… or something. When you care about someone...
Dr. House: You lie to them! You pretend that their constant ponderous musing are interesting. You tell them they’re not losing their boyish good looks or becoming worn out.
Dr. Wilson: I stand corrected and may I say, it’s been a real pleasure chatting with you.
Dr. House: Saint Nicholas?
Melanie: Patron saint of children.
Dr. House: Also seamen, merchants, archers, prostitutes, and prisoners.
<parts omitted>
Melanie: Prostitutes wear religious symbols?
Dr. House: I think they just like kneeling. [smiles] You don’t have the skin of a seaman, the fingers of an archer, the clothes of a merchant, or the attitude of an ex-con. So, just leaves one left.
Melanie: Mmm… Two actually. [gives him a flirtatious smile] But I’m not a child, am I?
Dr. House: [touches a finger to her lips and feels them] You do a donkey show? [a purposeful pause] I’m not curious. It matters.
Melanie: It’s a donkey or a mule… [gives him a knowing look] I can never remember.
Dr. House: Wow… That is a creepy smile. [cringes lightly] I bet the donkey’s is even creepier.
Melanie: [laughs lightly] Do I have to explain?
Jane: Mom… The doctors told me what’s happening.
Maggie: It’s gonna be okay, sweetheart. [nods] I promise you. Doctors can be wrong. There’s still a chance I can be-
Jane: [cuts her off] You really believe that?
Maggie: [trying to be strong] I do.
Jane: [shakes her head] No, mom. You’re dying. Nobody can help you. It’s not going to be okay.
<House and Thirteen leaves the ICU room.>
Thirteen: That was cold.
Dr. House: Yeah.
Thirteen: This is a game? First we have to screw with our co-worker and now we have to try to figure out what you want us to say? This is insane. I'm not playing.
Dr. House: Right. You should've said this two days ago. Do not play games with me. Number one, you're going to lose, you're just not ready. Number two, the game was to force you to stop playing games. I need you to stand up to me. Challenge me. I need you to stop worrying about getting fired. Go pay for my cable.
We were able to see the feature film Batman Gotham Knight at the last day of the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention 2008 (Sunday, June 29, 2008).
Apparently, there are not enough Batman fans here in Singapore.
There were only about 60 seats set up in front of the stage and were cordoned off; these seats are reserved for those who have tickets. For some reason, around 10 minutes before the screening time, there were only about 4 people (a family by the looks of it) seated. God knows where the rest of the ticket holders went.
The organizers then decided to let the people lined up outside of the cordoned area to take their seats. Still, we were not able to take our seats because there were just too many people there.
After the first of the six interlocking films, though, people started leaving. We then took that opportunity to talk to the organizers so that we could take the seats just vacated. :) So I enjoyed the rest of the film seated comfortably in front of the stage...still with that nagging question why did these people leave? Did they not like the film? Were they bored? Did it not suit there taste?
So let's see....
Chapter 1: Have I got a story for you This chapter recounts how Batman is perceived by three kids. The film emphasizes how the children's (in this case, skater kids) wild imagination caused them to see Batman differently; one kid saw him as a living shadow, the other as a giant humanoid Bat (more bat than human,with claws, wings, and all), and another as a heavy robot of sorts.
As it turns out, Batman is still in pursuit of the villain and have reached the skating rink where all of the kids above are holed up. Batman (this time shown in his classic costume similar to the one in Batman The Animated Series), bloody and messy at this point and confused further by the smokescreen from the villain, was saved by one of the kids (i.e. the kid who missed all of the action earlier) by clubbing his skateboard at the back of the head of the enemy. The kid was understandbly stunned at his encounter with the real Batman and shouted "Man, have I got a story for you!"
It was towards the end of this chapter that people started leaving and that's when we took our seats. Judging from the number of people who left, I'd say they are not Batman fanatics for sure.
The story itself is okay, showing a typical Batman encounter through the eyes of several witnesses. Sounds cliche? Maybe. But the big let down IMHO is the artwork. Too much emphasis was given to how the kids in the story perceive Batman; the background is done well enough, but the characters are depicted using very simple drawings, big bodies with small disproportionate extremities, the style of which is something that you'd expect from a show on a kid's or baby's channel or something.
That's the bad news. The good news is, things can only go up from here.
Chapter 2: Crossfire Batman delivers "The Man in Black" (presumably the same villain from chapter 1) to Lt. Gordon, who then instructs Detectives Cris Allen and Anna Ramirez to deliver him to the Arkham Asylum. After the delivery, while disputing about whether Batman can be trusted or not, they find themselves caught in the crossfire between turf / gang wars between the "Russian" and Sal Maroni. One rocket to the detectives' car later, Allen finds himself flung by Batman on top of a nearby building to save him from the explosion while Ramirez is knocked out on the street below. Batman then dispatches the remaining Russian gang members while Maroni held Ramirez hostage. Batman quickly disarmed the man who, perhaps out of fatigue or fear (of Batman), or both, stumbled and sat slumped on the ground. Batman then leaves the scene, apparently gaining the trust of the two detectives.
Nice thing about this is that it picks up right after the encounter in the first part. It shows the typical process of Batman's crimefighting: Batman looks for crook, Batman catches crook, Batman sends crook to the police. A "vigilante"of sorts tolerated and trusted by Gordon because of results; with more criminals jailed, Gotham is slowly and steadily becoming a safer place, one taken out crook at a time.
And this time, the artwork is certainly much better than the first one. Batman is now in his sleek, streamlined costume while the rest are (compare to chapter 1) better drawn and more realistic (no disproportionate limbs and bodies, or anything like that). Special effects are great, especially the explosion and the ensuing fires. Perhaps the most picturesque part here is when the ominous (almost devilish) outline of Batman steps out of the flames as he stares down Maroni.
All in all, great chapter two!
Chapter Three: Field Test We find Bruce Wayne walking into the lab of Lucius Fox (i.e. the former research head and current CEO of Wayne Enterprises, played by Morgan Freeman in Batman Begins). Fox shows him a prototype of a shockwave sensor that generates an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) strong enough to deflect bullets. Bruce decides to test the shield when he dives into the Russian - Sal Maroni feud once again. A bullet deflected by his shield inadvertently hits one of the gang members whom Batman then sent to the nearest hospital. Batman decided not to use the shield. "It works too well. I'm willing to put my life on the line to do what I have to do. But it has to be mine. No one else's."
This part shows Bruce Wayne's morality goes. He is willing to risk his life but not willing to risk others'. Now we see the line that he is not willing to cross in pursuit of justice.
Artwork here and fight sequence is great as well. But I guess, it is just too "anime" for me. My problem with this one is how his face was drawn. Bruce Wayne is drawn in the typical anime-style shape; heart-shaped head, large Anime-eyes, with matching long hair to boot. But the voice doesn't appear to match well with the face. We see a young, clean, fresh, playboy-looking character but has a deep husky voice that we all know and love. (BTW, Batman is voiced by Kevin Conroy, the same one who voiced Batman in most DC animated series).
Aside from that, this is another excellent chapter in the film.
Chapter Four: In Darkness Dwells Batman enters the sewers as he follows the trail of an 8-foot lizard man, Killer Croc, who abducted one O'Fallon down to the crypts, the sixth of the high-profile abductions this week. He eventually finds Croc and knocks him out, but not before being bitten by Croc and thereby infecting him with fear-inducing toxins; an intelligence report reveals that Croc is one of the subjects of the Scarecrow's fear inversion program. The experiments pumped Croc full of toxins making him more twisted and dangerous than before.
Batman then faced Scarecrow and his toxin-induced cronies to rescue O'Fallon. One methane gas explosion later, Batman finds himself on the side of a river dam. Gordon then shows up in a chopper to take knocked out O'Fallon. Although injured, Batman refuses Gordon's offer to help and jumps down to the river below as the chapter closes.
The story is fairly straightforward. No mystery here. Just follow the trails into the sewers, rescue the victim while pounding the bad guys. One good thing that it does is, with Batman being severly injured, it serves as a springboard for the next chapter.
Chapter Five: Working Through Pain While Batman stumbles his way back through the sewers, we get flashbacks from a time when Bruce was trained by an exotic Indian woman, Cassandra, in order to deal with pain. She taught him for months on how to work through pain, how to put it in its place.
One night, after defeating men who tried to harm her, Cassandra sent Bruce away, since he has learned everything he wanted to learn, but also reveals that the pain that Bruce has is beyond her abilities; that his path is leading him down a path that he desires. Whatever. Quite the mumbo-jumbo, ain't it?
Back to the present, as Alfred came to the location where Batman is, he finds him his hands full of firearms found among the trash. And thus, hints the source, the true nature of Bruce Wayne's pain... And off to the final chapter.
Chapter Six: Deadshot Bruce Wayne remembers the time when his parents are gunned down. He has held on to the firearms that he had found; he admired them although he has no intention of using them.
BTW, Bruce Wayne here, with such a very prominent chin, reminds me of that classic anime, Slam Dunk.
With the power of the crimelords declining, the Russian hired Deadshot to take "him" out. The leads fed to the police made them to believe that the target was Lt. Gordon, but Deadshot only used him as a pawn in order to lure out his real target: Batman himself. He eventually knocks out Deadshot after a short battle on the train.
Back in the Wayne Manor, Bruce reveals to Alfred that the fight with Deadshot was similar to the night when his parents were killed.
"It seems I've been trying to stop those two bullets all my life. It's a fool's dream, Alfred. Sometimes I think I should just be done with it."
"Perhaps, you are right, sir. But something tells me that you have a deeper purpose."
And with that, Bruce looks up into the clouds in the night sky glowing with the Bat Signal.
The end. Or rather, the beginning. Off to Dark Knight!
As much as I hate to say it, unless you like and/or familiar with the Batman mythos, you may find the movie lacking and could not appreciate the tiny things that have been put in place within the film.
Perhaps the sides of Batman that have been shown on this film will prove significant when the Dark Knight comes out later this month. I dunno (but I sincerely hope so). If so, then everything should come full circle, and we will have a trilogy of sorts (Batman Begins, Batman Gotham Knight, Dark Knight).
This film is not for everybody, as evidenced by the number of scowling faces I saw after the movie. :( Personally, I enjoyed the film, but hey, I'm biased; being the comic and movie collector that I am, I am inclined to like the film anyway.
I had some time to spare and I used to apply expandable posts on our blogs. For the meantime, I have applied the required changes both here and in Che's blog.
It took me a while to discover exactly how to do this. So in the spirit of sharing, I might as well include the how-to of expandable posts using the "new" blogger format.
Assumptions: This is done using the new Blogger; hence this is not a "walkthrough" for other web publishing services, such as WordPress. Regardless of the publisher, when you get down to it, it is all HTML anyway, so while the steps may not exactly be the same (as you will see later on), the principle should be the same.
Outline of Steps: 1. Editing the Conditional CSS 2. Adding the "Read More" links 3. Adding Blog Post template
Important: Regardless of whether you are new to this or not, please BACKUP your current template. For Blogger/Blogspot, this should be in Layout -> Edit HTML, then click on Download Full Template.
Once everything is set, here we go...
Step 1: CONDITIONAL CSS
First of all, we need to define within the template the "fullpost" span class. The behavior of the fullpost class is simple: if it's an item (i.e., one blog post only), display everything; otherwise, do not display the text.
1.1. Locate the </head> tag.
1.2. Immediately above/before the tag, add / modify the following code within the <style> tags
You are, of course, not restricted to use the words "Read more". You can opt to use something like "Click here to read the rest of the entry" or as short as "..."
2.1. For blogger users, click on "Expand Widgets".
2.2. Locate the line <data:post.body/>
2.3. Immediately below/after the above tag, add the following code: <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> <a expr:href='data:post.url' target='_blank'>Read more...</a> </b:if>
2.4. Save the template.
Step 3: POST TEMPLATE
Now comes the editing of the actual posts. Each post would have to include <span class="fullpost">. To make life easier, Blogger included the Post Template under Settings > Formatting, so that each new post would include the above tags.
3.1. Go to Settings > Formatting, then scroll down to Post Template.
3.2. Enter the following code:
Summary here <span class="fullpost"> The rest of the post here </span>
3.3. Save Settings.
Just be mindful of the placement of the fullpost tag within your next posts and that's it.
With this, you can highlight more of your most recent posts within the main page. I remember at one point in which I had to limit the posts displayed to five or below, depepnding on the length of my post. With this one in place, your main page will act as the "index", enabling the reader to browse through the contents of your blog without actually going through entire unwanted entries.
Here are some selected quotes from the TV series Chuck, Episodes 1 and 2. I'll post more at a later time. For the time-being, enjoy. :)
Bryce: It's hard to say goodbye
Chuck: Hi! Hi! Uh, phone trouble again?
Sarah: Uh, yeah. I'm not sure I'm able to receive calls 'coz... I never got one from you.
(Yeah, every nerd's dream... Hehe)
Chuck: Is that your big secret, by the way? 'Coz I've been sitting here trying to figure out what's wrong with you.
Sarah: Oh plenty, believe me.
Chuck: So I was thinking either she's a cannibal or she's really not that funny. And I was pulling for cannibal because I never met one before.
Sarah: Uh, not a cannibal, but I did just come out of a long relationship, so I may come with baggage.
Chuck: Well, I can be your very own baggage-handler.
(yeah, smooth moves!)
Sarah: Okay. I may have to point my gun at you so just don't freak out.
Chuck: Why?
(Casey enters scene.)
Casey: It's late. I'm tired. Let's cut the crap and give him to me, now. He belongs to the NSA.
(Sarah points gun to Chuck.)
Sarah: CIA get's him first.
(Chuck points gun to Sarah.)
Sarah: You come any closer and I shoot him.
Chuck: Sarah.... I'm feakin' out!
Sarah: I need you to do one more thing for me.
Chuck: Yeah.
Sarah: Trust me, Chuck.
(After flashing on Sarah.)
Chuck: Don't freak out.
Sarah: Well... No sign of anything here.
Chuck: Looks like we'll be sending the good doctor in an ashtray
Sarah: Okay, well I've got hotdogs to fry
Chuck: And I've got some toasters to sell.
Chuck: He's got Sarah, we've got to save her.
Casey: Brilliant deduction Nancy Drew. Now pull out the tranq dart!
Chuck: That was the doctor, right? He's probably not dead.
Casey: The sun sets in the west, nothing gets by you.
Sarah: WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!?
Chuck: Clammy hands, got it. No good.
Sarah: Chuck, the secrets that you know are incredibly important! You compromised everything when you stopped trusting me...
Casey: And when you got out of the car!
Chuck: Uhm, listen uhm.. I'm sorry okay?
Sarah: No, it is not okay. How could you think I was the double, huh? You know I am not Bryce. Bryce betrayed everything that I believe in and if you ever accuse me of that again then I will walk away, mission over. We all go back to Washington. And you do not want that to happen, Chuck. That you should trust me on.
(Sarah leaves. Casey waits until Sarah is quite a distance away, then says...)
Casey: Way to go, ace!
Casey: What happens to Chuck when this is done?
Dir. Beckman: You'll do what you do best.
Sarah: Some people want to be heroes and other's have to be asked. So... Chuck, are you ready?
Well, that was lightning fast. The Pacman knocks out David Diaz in the 9th round with 36 seconds remaining.
Congratulations to Manny Pacquiao for soundly defeating Diaz beyond the shadow of a doubt and winning the WBC Lightweight Champion.
Round Highlights: Pacman dominated all of the nine rounds both in the general scores and in the number of power punches thrown and landed (with Pacquiao throwing around a hundred punches per round, against Diaz's around fifty punches per round).
If I were a judge in the bout, I would score it either 10-9 in all rounds except perhaps round 2 which I score 10-8 (due to "first blood"), all in favor of the Pacman.
Round 2 First Blood: Pacquiao shows how much his right hand has developed. Using a right-hand bodyshot followed by a right-hand uppercut, Pacquiao drew first blood, cutting Diaz on the bridge of the nose.
Round 3 Headbutt: Pacquiao acccidentally headbutts Diaz, cutting him on his right eyebrow. Being blinded
Round 9 KO: Pacman KOs Diaz with 36 seconds remaining. While lying on the canvas, the camera captured clearly the damage done to Diaz, with his left eyebrow swelling.
Significance: Pacman becomes the first Asian to win four major titles in four different weight classes, namely, Flyweight (max 112 lbs), Super Bantamweight (max 122lbs) , Super Featherweight (max 130lbs) , Lightweight (max 135lbs) divisions.
Pacman has proven once again why he deserves to be Ring Magazine's Pound for Pund Number 1 boxer (June 9, 2008). This is after Floyd Money Mayweather announced his retirement from boxing.
This is Pacman's eight consecutive win since 2005.
This is the first decisive KO victory since 2007. His previous bout last March 15 against Juan Manuel Marquez was won via split-decision (spurring a lot of controversy to the validity of his win) while his October6 2007 bout against Marco Antonio Barrera was via unanimous decision (he clearly outclassed Barrera, but he still managed avoiding a total knockout victory).
What's Next: As of this writing, Pacman's next championship match is scheduled this November, against Edwin Valero of Valenzuela.
