2009 NBA Taipei Game@Taipei Arena

2009/10/08
I went to 2009 NBA Taipei Game on October 8th at Taipei Arena. This is the first time that NBA team play the warmup match in Taiwan. The ticket is very hard to buy. I remember that ticket sales began in June. It sold as fast as it can. Actually all the 15 thousands tickets were sold out in 15mins. At that moment, I gave up joining this sold out crowd. I tell myself that I have to earn a lot of money and fly to American to see the regular-season game.
One day before the game, my friend called and ask me if want to see the game or not? If I did, we might try every means to find two tickets. That's cool, why not? But the ticket is also hard to get, much harder than buying ticket in June because the scalped tickets are everywhere. Finally we get the tickets at midnight.
We arrive at Taipei Arena at 5:30pm, there are a lot of people and a lot of jerseys walk on the street. But jerseys are not completely Denver or Indiana, I think more people wear jerseys with Kobe and James. I see many famous basketball players in Taiwan like Taiwan Bank team and the coach of Song-Shan senior high school.
When we get in, what we see is a NBA court! The floor is directly transfer to Taiwan! This is my first time I enter Taipei Arena. That's awesome! May be I am a yokel but I'm so touched. My seat is far far away from the court but I can see very clear on my seat. Before the game start, we go to the VIP seat to take a photo of NBA stars like Chris Anderson, Chauncey Billipus, Carmelo Anthony, and Kenyon Martin. I'm so sorry what I shot almost Denver team because I don't know much about Pacers except Danny Granger and T.J. Ford.
I meet Evelyn there. She is Anthony's fan and as a professional fan, of course, she wears on Anthony's jersey and that day but I just photograph her back!

And our President Ma film a video to say some words for this Taipei game, but he speaks in Chinese and I think NBA stars do not understand at all.

When game starts, I almost cry because I am so touched that I could see NBA game before 30 in my life. As for the game, I have to say that is much better than SBL in Taiwan even two teams do not do a serious play. Danny Granger and Troy Murphy are two guys help Pacers to win. Danny Granger made 4 three-point shots in two mins and Troy Murphy was the goto guy in fourth quarter. By contrast, Nuggets did not put their mind in this game. They seemed to compete who can do more turnovers.

There are many shows in every timeout and between quarters. Pacers' acrobatic courtside slam-dunking stunt crew named the Power Pack that showed there is more to basketball than the game itself.And there were some local celebrities attended, like NBA Legend Larry Bird and NBA commissioner David Stern.
In the end, Pacers topping the Denver Nuggets 126-104.Even though the outcome of the contest was not close by NBA standards, I still felt excited and enjoyed that.

BTW I shouldn't buy the stuff in NBA store because that made me wait for almost 2 hours after the contest.

看書：陪你到最後

作者：Ray Kluun

出版日期：2008.08.31

ISBN:9789866571060

這本書是個荷蘭作者寫的書，我大概花了兩天看完這本書，在看書的期間遇到了幾個人，有兩個人跟我說：這本我看過耶！還滿好看的，但是看起來很黑暗。另外一個跟我說：很好看，但看起來很沈重。那時我才看了一半，所以我一直抱著很沈重的心情在看這本書。

書中的主角，也就是作者，他的太太，卡門，得了『乳腺炎癌症』，原因是出自於半年前醫生的誤診，在得知罹癌之後，史丹他就陪在她太太身邊，中間經歷了化療、手術切除患部、化療的後遺症等等，讓卡門從一個相當漂亮的女生扎扎實實的變成一個罹癌的病人，但史丹本身有『孤獨恐懼症』，簡單來說就是沒有辦法固定同一個伴侶的心理疾病，但他對卡門的愛卻讓他無法離開卡門身邊，在兩者的掙扎中，看到了卡門的寬容以及史丹的真愛。但書中我覺得最偉大的角色是玫瑰小姐，她是史丹的心靈及生理支柱，卻又不奢求多餘的愛，默默的陪在史丹旁邊。

書中我覺得很重要的是卡門知道史丹愛她，但對於史丹的行為她能體諒，也能相信史丹始終是愛她的，身體上的需求只是需求，這種情操相當偉大啊！當然在台灣這種社會似乎是很難理解這樣的想法。

當自己的親人或是妻子到了癌症末期時，不知道是不是都能夠不離不棄的『陪你到最後』，因為你可能看到一個世界上最美麗的女人變成一個奄奄一息的骷髏，但，我想只有『愛』是不會變的吧！

movie@Inglourious Basterds

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent

這部片總共分成五個章節，從一開始納粹在法國到處尋找猶太人開始，被稱為"Jewess Hunter"的Landa上校(Christoph Waltz)是個厲害也貫穿整部片的角色，因為他的聰明，也使的整部片相當的緊張，不過其實主角Brad Pitt的戲份沒有很多，但卻是主要的角色。一群要殺死德國納粹的人群聚在一起，組成德國人口中的"Basterds"，不過整部片最後的重心似乎是在『電影院行動』上面，不同的反納粹人卻有同樣的想法，最後終於反抗成功。

現在在IMDB的評分高達8.7，可以說是相當的高，不愧是昆丁大師的作品，他的血腥很自然而然的發生，讓你一點都不會覺得是刻意要血腥，一種『要是你，你也會這樣做』的感覺，我是不太了解他們之間的仇恨，但是我還是看的很開心，另外，他介紹人物的手法也是相當特別的，有點像是卡通在介紹的感覺，以前這種方法我只有在兔寶寶之類的卡通才有看過， 有種懷念的感覺。

不過，整部片我都在看Christoph Waltz的演技，真的演的很好，讓整部戲加分很多很多，也是因為他，才勾勒出劇中每個角色的特性，另外，也讓我看到，每個演員都好會演，因為說謊的時候真的都演出好多說謊的微表情！而且在那個諜對諜的時代，大家都很懷疑自己不認識的人，就算認識，也是會互相猜忌，那個時代好累！

很推薦大家去看啦！不過片長兩個小時半真的有點久，第五章的電影開場時，他們假裝義大利人時的對話，讓Brad Pitt好像戴揚，快要笑死我了！這部片Brad Pitt的聲音跟表情好搞怪，我好喜歡他說：Will you take off your goddamn uniform? Of course you will. I don't damn like it! 每次講這句的時候他表情都好賤，不過那群特工真的各有特色，可惜出場機會沒有很多，也有三個死的莫名其妙，但是也是死於破綻，此外，在講Hugo殺死十三蓋世太保的時候，我一直想，那他幹嘛不去殺掉十三太保鰲拜就好了，雖然他橫練金鐘罩、鐵布衫，可是韋小寶都行了！哈哈

總結：好片一部，但要有看很久的心理準備，還要有聽很多話的準備，這部片的話真不是普通的多。