Kamsky’s Blog

These headphones rocks!

The bass is really good despite of its unbelievable low price.

I discovered these headphones from head-fi.org and bought this pair as a replacement of my worn out Sennheisser PX200. I noticed that many posters liked them. Just search ‘ksc75′ in head-fi to see comments and reviews.

*head banging with Rush’s Tom Sawyer*

Finally, we have won the SEA games in our backyard after the 3rd time to host this event. We spent millions of pesos for the preparations and for the training of the athlete so we deserved to win. :D

There were accusations of cheatings from competing countries, and they claim of the biased officiating of some subjective sports. It was the same story that recurred for every SEA games. I don’t know what was their basis and the evidence; they’re subjective claims too . Blah! Blah! whatever and etc. I’ll give you my right testicle if this would not happen in Thailand 2007.

Also some countries claimed that they did not send their best athletes (yeah right!) and we did not too. So where are our athletes? Here they are at http://www.azbilliards.com, playing billiards, and earned big dollars; some of them played basketball which pay their multi-millions lifestyles.

There was also positive effect that no basketball in our version of SEA games. At least we were not focused only in that sport. Yes, basketball is nice to watch but I believe not in a lifetime that we’ll see Philippines will win world championship or gold medal in the Olympics. So we had the chance to witness Pencak Silat, Muay Thai and insert-crappy-and-weird-sports-here. Also, I hope we’ll focus on the sports where we have chance like Bowling, Badminton, Football (right, Bjorn?), Judo, Chess, Boxing and any sports where height is not a factor.

I managed to watch Sepak takraw and it was really a nice game. At least I watched one event and was not just counting the gold medals. I admit I just counted the medals most of the time. Anyway, I’ll post some of the Takraw clippings and photos for this spectacular game.

I was so happy when Man U did it and won against Chelsea (1-0), thanks to Fletcher’s header. It means Arsenal’s 49 games unbeaten still intact.

Maybe £300 million is not enough for Chelsea. But I admit Mourinho did a good job of turning me a Man Utd fan this time.

After the Middlesbrough did the beating against Henry-less Arsenal 2-1, Manny Pacquiao saves my bad week by knocking down Mexican figher, Hector Velasquez. In another matches, two other pinoy fighters Biloria and Bautista also won at the same event and many people believes that Bautista from Cebu/Bohol, with his style, is the next Manny Pacquiao.

Good job Pacman, Viloria, Bautista, and Freddie Roach.

As of today, Pascal Cygan, the Arsenal’s bald central defender, is the 3rd highest scorer of English Premier league after he scored twice on Arsenal 4-1 Fulham game.

Here’s the partial scoring table:

Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 3
Darren Bent (Charlton Athletic) 3
Pascal Cygan (Arsenal) 2
Frank Lampard (Chelsea) 2
Didier Drogba (Chelsea) 2
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 2

Maybe he’s the ideal partner of Thierry Henry?

It was fun watching with Cygan’s last goal with Kolo Toure leaped in front of him, the ball passed between Kolo’s legs and to the back of the net. It looks like a circus to me.

Good showing guys.

Arsenal lost to direct rival Chelsea with a fluke goal of Drogba. After the defeat, I was speechless and slept right away.

It hurts.

Chelsea has completed the acquistion of Shaun Wright-Philips and still on talk with Essein.

I can’t believe Chelsea buys a lot of expensive players even if the team is still intact. Probably Mourinho would like to keep SWP to avoid Arsenal buying it.

In the Philippines hoarding is illegal. Let’s put Mourinho to jail.

Arsenal and Juventus finally agreed about the transfer of Patrick Vieira.

Captain, thanks for the memories. I hope all the best for you.

Yes, Arsene Wenger is the best manager in the world. I am a big admirer of him with his wit and words.

Here’s a good sportinglife.com article about the professor: WENGER LEAVES NOTHING TO CHANCE.

I am an Arsenal fan. My European friends always telling me that ‘Kamsky, it’s easy to admire Arsenal because they’re always on top in the league and they play Champions League every year’. In short, he’s telling me that I am a glory hunter.

Why I like Arsenal?

I am living in a country with no Football tradition, where Football fields are converted to Basketball courts, and where people only knew David Beckham. I was hooked with this beautiful sport after I have understood it fully, thanks to EA’s FIFA WC 2002 Edition. I used to play a lot with that PC game and my favorite team was France.

The first time I watched the full length of this sport was during the first leg against Liverpool FC of 2003/2004 season. I am rooting with Arsenal FC because I’m more familiar with them since they have a lot of French players.

ESPN and Star Sports have a good coverage of EPL and they cover most of the Arsenal games. Probably ESPNStar have realized that Arsenal is the Football that viewers would like to see. :)

I visit http://www.arsenal.com and Football sites everyday. I also tracked news by subscribing to Yahoo! Alerts and Google Alerts with keywords: Thierry Henry, Arsene Wenger, etc., to ensure that I would not miss interesting articles.

So I am not a glory hunter because for better or for worse I will support Arsenal.