Archive for June, 2006
A better ending for Canes, and a bitter ending for oilers.
After all, we win.
I can totally understand 19000 fans chanting and refusing to sit down throughout the game, because I was standing throughout the game watch, except I was cheering to the TV. It was so nerve racking - Jane’s face is so close to TV so that she could find the small puck flying around. The torture technically ended 1 minute earlier - after Williams shot an empty net goal to seal the victory.
Canes totally changed in the game 7, they were more physical, they skated faster, they were more confident and determined. Oilers started the game really weak, totally not ready when Canes made the first goal - in the first 6 games, Oilers always score first. Once the mental game was settled, all the rest simply fulfilling the excitement. If without the mistake of referee on disallow a goal by Canes, the win should be 4:1.
No doubt we will go to the parade tonight to celebrate. Glad to be a caniacs!
June 20th, 2006
At the end of the game 6, I saw Edmonton fans chanted “Carolina sucks, Carolina sucks” at the backdrop during an NBC postgame interview.
It was an embarassing game, indeed. - Canes players looked so tired to move from the 1st minute of game 6, so weak when playing physical, so frustrated when get shots blocked, so inefficient when trying to captalize the man advantage favorible power-play, so unorganized when trying to kill the oponent’s power-play.
This is exactly the opposite of the Hurriances vs Edmonton in the beginning of final best of seven series. Hurricanes were able to calmly recover from a 0-3 deficit in early game 1 and made the finally winning goal (4-3) by the captain at 32 sec before the game eneded. They were very calm when they fell behind; they were the most efficient in the league to make goals during power play; they killed 29 of first 30 powerplays by Edmonton’s.
That hurricanes start to disappear since late game 5, and are totally gone by game 6. The return of legendary Erik Cole, a super star of the team and US Olympian, didn’t inspire the return of mighty Hurricanes.
If Hurricanes wants fans chanted “Carolina Rocks! Carolina Rocks” and claim the Lord Stanley cup, they just need to be themselves, and that change must be quick because there is no more chance.
June 18th, 2006
If you search “100 things to do before die” on google, 99 of them will show one as common: go wheel watching.
Glad that we have one less thing to chase after - we did whale watching on 05/29/2006.
3.5 hour boat trip brought us into the playground of the whales, smart companies now know how to attract cameras instead of hunters to get money. the animals are even smarter knowing when to show off their skills. We are lucky in that the whales are very cooperative during the day - I have snapped about 30 photos of them playing in their playground we even saw a mom feeding a son.
Keep in mind these photos are not taken from theme parks.
June 17th, 2006
Not sure where my blog readers are from, in case you are from US, and in case you get a salary increase, you prob wonder how much your new salary at your location is equal to the salary at Raleigh, NC, use this calculator to find out: (assume you are from LA area)
In case you are really lazy to click the above link, here is the summary:
- To maintain the same standard of living, your salary of $50,000 in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina should increase to $78,866 in Los Angeles-Long Beach, California
- Stated another way, it’s 57.7% more expensive to live in Los Angeles-Long Beach, California than Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
No wonder on my last flight from BWI back to RDU, we see family with noisy kids all over the place, we cannot even take a nap! (as we were complaining about the kid, I’ll soon have one too, oh well)
June 9th, 2006
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June 6th, 2006
Farecompare.com is a startup site visualize all the airfare price, trend in order to get you to the best deal. It is kind of similar to yahoo/travelocity dream-map, I find it easy to use with its builtin google-map integration..
June 1st, 2006