UEFA Champions League

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/05/27/champions.league.final/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8060878.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/sports/soccer/28soccer.html?_r=1&hp

Ser del Barça és el millor que hi ha.

Campeones campeones ole ole ole

FC Barcelona champion of the Spanish King's Cup!!!

spanish cup final (España, el pais de la patraña)

Today it's the final of the King's Cup (Spanish Cup). Barcelona is playing against Athletic Bilbao. 1/3 of the tickets were for Barcelona, 1/3 for Bilbao and 1/3 for the Spanish Soccer Federation.

Many many people I know from Barcelona couldn't get a ticket and they are home now. But, I can't do anything but wonder, how come that about 75% of the people in the stadium are Bilbao supporters and there's thousands of Bilbao supporters in the area of the stadium that was suposed to be neutral with the tickets for the Spanish Feberation?

It is sad to be from a country were everybody dislikes catalans and does not want Barcelona to win. We are like if we were playing in Bilbao with only a couple thousand supporters in a small corner of the stadium.

Apparently in Spain nobody likes that a spanish team is having its best season ever and with many chances to win the spanish league, the King's Cup and Champions League. Pathetic.

As usual, not proud to be from España, el pais de la patraña.

Rome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDh5ZOy-9fA&feature=related

FC Barcelona...

...is the best football team in the world and one of the main reasons of my happiness.

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15278/match=302804/report=rp.html

response to my letter to Conseller Saura

Senyor xxxxxxxxxx,

Com a cap del gabinet del Conseller Joan Saura vull fer-li arribar l’agraïment per l’escrit que li ha adreçat, molt crític amb els fets ocorreguts arrel de la protesta estudiantil i la intervenció de la brigada mòbil del cos de Mossos d’Esquadra. I vull començar per expressar-li amb tota sinceritat que entenc el seu malestar i la seva preocupació al respecte.

Com ja sap, el passat dimecres els Mossos d’Esquadra, a requeriment del Rector de la Universitat de Barcelona, van portar a terme el desallotjament dels estudiants que estaven tancats a la universitat des de feia 4 mesos. Malauradament, els incidents que es van produir al llarg del dia van comportar un balanç de moltes persones ferides, entre les quals hi ha també 46 membres del Cos de Mossos d’Esquadra.

Tal com ja ha expressat el mateix conseller Saura, davant d’aquest resultat no podem amagar el nostre desgrat i la nostra preocupació. Així doncs, amb la voluntat d’aclarir totalment els fets per poder prendre mesures en coherència, el conseller ja ha anunciat dues accions immediates. En primer lloc, l’encàrrec d’un informe policial exhaustiu per esclarir els successos, determinar de quina manera van tenir lloc les actuacions i, segons el que es desprengui, prendre les mesures pertinents. I, en segon lloc, ha demanat comparèixer al Parlament per donar compte i informar detalladament del què ha passat, en un exercici d’absoluta transparència.

Des del Departament d’Interior, Relacions Institucionals i Participació continuarem treballant perquè es garanteixi l’exercici de les llibertats públiques i es protegeixin els drets fonamentals de tothom, tant dels que volen estudiar com dels que volen fer vaga, tant dels que volen manifestar-se com dels que volen circular lliurament.

I en la realització de manera pacífica i en bona convivència d’aquest objectiu, el paper de la policia és fonamental. Per això a Catalunya estem treballant fermament per construir entre tots una policia nova, amb un alt nivell d’exigència professional i ètica, un gran objectiu de país en el que ens trobem immersos, però que no està lliure de contradiccions ni de moments difícils.

Agraint novament l’opinió que li ha adreçat al Conseller, aprofito l’avinentesa per a saludar-lo cordialment,

Xavier Riu Sala
Cap del Gabinet del ConsellerDepartament d’Interior, Relacions Institucionals i Participació


ps. Em sorpren molt aquesta resposta, sobretot quan llegeixo a La Vanguardia que El PSC rechaza depurar responsabilidades por las cargas de los Mossos como piden ERC e ICV

http://www.lavanguardia.es/politica/noticias/20090323/53666353295/el-psc-rechaza-depurar-responsabilidades-por-las-cargas-de-los-mossos-como-piden-erc-e-icv.html

(aquesta ps. es escrita per mi i no formava part de la resposta del senyor Riu Sala, per si no quedava clar)

police charge in Barcelona

I sent this letter to the major of Barcelona. If anyone knows how can I make it reach other people such as the President de la Generalitat, el Conseller Saura, etc, please let me know.

Excm. Sr. Jordi Hereu i Boher,

Sóc un Barceloní resident a la ciutat de New York, als Estats Units. Li escric aquesta carta per mostrar-li el meu complet desacord i repugna per les recents actuacions dels Mossos d'Esquadra al centre de Barcelona.

M'agradaria comunicar-li que les esgarrifoses imatges de les indiscriminades càrregues contra estudiants (i contra periodistes clarament identificats) han aparescut a les notícies de diversos canals nacionals de notícies als EEUU. Els comentaris d'aquestes cadenes de televisió eren d'estupefacció en veure com, en una ciutat que es suposa moderna i cosmopolita, es carregui d'aquesta manera i amb aquesta brutalitat contra estudiants manifestant-se pacíficament pels carrers de la ciutat.

Voldria afegir que vostè i els responsables dels mossos estan enterbolint la magnífica imatge que tenia Barcelona aquí als EEUU, i això és algo intolerable. És la primera vegada que, com a Barceloní, m'avergonyeixo de la meva ciutat. I tot i que voldria, no entraré a parlar de la desafortunada decisió que ha tingut vostè en deixar construir el túnel de l'AVE per sota del carrer Mallorca i per sota, per tant, de la Sagrada Família.

Espero una resposta seva donant-me explicacions de perque el cos policial de la meva estimada Barcelona carrega contra pobres estudiants universitaris de menys de 22 anys i contra periodistes clarament identificats, tirant pels terres la reputació de la nostra ciutat. Com compendrà, veure aquestes notícies després de saber el que van fer 3 mossos a la discoteca Bikini (detenció il·legal i pallissa a un home a la comissaria de les Corts) i d'altres fets deplorables que han passat en relació als mossos és molt desmotivant i preocupant.

Una cosa tinc clara, vostè no té cap fill/a ni cap nevot/da estudiant a cap universitat a Barcelona o com a mínim es va assegurar de que no anessin a la manifestació. Li agrairia que si us plau, el cos policial de Barcelona i rodalies es dediqués a actuar amb contundència contra els skin heads que agredeixen a noies de 15 anys als Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat en comptes de posar-se a cop de porra contra els meus germans i germanes de Barcelona.

Sense cap mena de respecte per vostè i el pèssim cos policial de la meva estimada Barcelona,

Roger Piqueras Jover


ps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0rUEObbyvU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxsZ-CAmASU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_B0uXwLCTg

...looking for Latika...

...and deservedly the movie Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Oscar's...

...aparently, Latika is going to star in the next Woody Allen movie...

It was very cold for 3 days and now it is, again, not that cold (30 to 40F is not cold to me anymore). I kind of miss the snow and the intense cold... but it seems it will snow on sunday. If it snows a lot, i'll take pictures again.

By the way, I have many new pictures that I keep forgetting to post on flickr... I'll post them soon.

And that's all folks...

...for today, I'll try to write more soon...

Latika, where are you?

Everybody should see this movie. Not just because it is a great, beautiful movie that (deservedly) is nominated to 9 Academy Awards, but also because the whole movie leaves you with such a nice good feeling... it's like this movie turns everyone into an optimistic. It also has a plus if you are a guy, which is that you'll fall in love with Latika...

Not much going on around here lately... for some reason it is not cold anymore. About 30-40F (about -3 to 5 celsius) every day. It is nice but, to be sincer, I miss the cold and the snow. Now it is difficult to get dressed, and I always think it is too warm. Aparently this is very very uncommon for a February in NY... maybe it's the climate change. Oh, and when it is very cold it snows... but now it rains instead and, trust me, it's waaaaay better when it snows than when it rains. I actually just needed a few months in NY to hate-hate-hate the rain.

A bit of random things going on, I went to an amateur fashion show last weekend. A friend was modeling there and it was great. The on sunday I went to a rock show by Flogging Molly (http://www.floggingmolly.com/). They mix irish traditional music with rock/punk-rock, with a great result.

February 3rd

Births:

1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
1747 - Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)
1777 - John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon and author (d. 1836)
1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
1807 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)
1808 - Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877)
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)
1824 - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
1826 - Walter Bagehot, British essayist, journalist and businessman, (d. 1877)
1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
1843 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)
1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
1862 - James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
1876 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
1889 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director, (d. 1968)
1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
1899 - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970)
1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
1899 - Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994)
1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1905 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
1909 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
1911 - Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)
1913 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
1918 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (d. 2007)
1918 - Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician
1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1924 - E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class), (d. 1993)
1924 - Martial Asselin, French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec
1925 - Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist
1925 - John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1926 - Shelley Berman, American comedian
1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
1927 - Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
1928 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999)
1929 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
1933 - Paul Sarbanes, American politician
1938 - Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
1939 - Michael Cimino, American film director
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player
1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1941 - Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
1943 - Blythe Danner, American actress
1943 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)
1943 - Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
1945 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
1945 - Bob Griese, American football player
1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
1947 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)
1947 - Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
1947 - Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter
1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate
1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author
1949 - Arthur Kane, American musician (d. 2004)
1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, American actress
1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
1952 - Fred Lynn, American baseball player
1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1956 - John Jefferson, American football player
1956 - Nathan Lane, American actor
1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1957 - Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver
1957 - Steven Stapleton, British musician (Nurse With Wound)
1958 - Joe F. Edwards, Jr., NASA astronaut
1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
1959 - Thomas Calabro, American actor
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
1959 - Lol Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
1960 - Marty Jannetty, American Wrestler
1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder
1961 - Linda Eder, American singer
1961 - Keith Gordon, American actor
1962 - Michele Greene, American actress
1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
1965 - Maura Tierney, American actress
1966 - Frank Coraci, American film director
1967 - Dave Benson-Phillips, Children's TV Presenter
1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer
1968 - Vlade Divac, National Basketball Association player
1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor
1971 - Sean Dawkins, American former football player
1971 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
1971 - Vincent Elbaz, French actor
1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
1971 - Metin Türkcan, Turkish musician, guitarist
1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1972 - Jesper Kyd, Film and Video game music composer
1973 - Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
1974 - Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer
1974 - Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1976 - Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian hockey player
1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress
1976 - Dwayne Rudd, American football player
1976 - Tim Heidecker, American comedian
1977 - Daddy Yankee , reggaeton singer/rapper.
1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor
1978 - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer
1981 - Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
1981 - Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer
1982 - Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1982 - Roger, catalan living abroad.
1983 - Richard Bartel, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Silambarasan Rajendar, South Indian actor
1989 - Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1990 - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper

(Font: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
(Obviously, "my" line is not in wikipedia)

me duele la cara

Me duele la cara (my face hurts), and it is not for the reason that Hombres G sang in their famous song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80CBtRbudvk&feature=PlayList&p=D6E567F04B3BD11D&playnext=1&index=82), it is just because I just walked from home to my office.

It takes approximatelly 10 to 15 minutes... time enough to freeze if the temperature is -13 degrees celsius.

So, following with my gathering of rules to survive a NY winter:

Rule #6: If t is the time you have to walk to your work/gym/date/whatsoever and T is the current temperature, cover your face with your scarf if (t>10 minutes && T<-10 C).

Anxiom to rule #6: If you want to experience the funny feeling of your blood getting back to your face and slowly heating it, try to not follow the last rule. Only recommended if t<25 min.

wind, ice, snow... cold

New York in winter is beautiful. Everything looks, for some reason, more "romantic". Smokey sewer's, a white and green Central Park, crowded cafeterias and restaurants, double doors at the restaurants and bars to avoid freezing the customers each time somebody gets in... a countless number of things are different here these days. And that seems to atract countless tourists (mostly national tourism) challenging the weather to see the city that never sleeps in winter.

However, it is not as nice at it seems. It is COLD. Very COLD. Did I mention it is COLD? Yeah, it is, indeed, COLD. This is annoying at the beggining but, once used to it and, specially, once one has found the optimal combination of clothing, it becomes not that bad. Even if it snows and your street is covered in snow...

Actually, when it snows it is not that cold. But I already learned rule number 1 of "how to surivive a winter in NY":

Rule #1: if today it's snowing, tomorrow it's going to be very COLD.

Anxiom to rule #1: Same applies if today it rains and it is winter.

There's another very important rule to always keep in mind:

Rule #4: If it's been snowing very recently (at most one or two days ago), it is cold and it rains, tomorrow everything will be very slippery. Watch out where you step!

Anxiom to rule #4: One can't see through snow, but one can see through ice. So, if there's "something" on the floor but you can still see the floor, that's ice, choose the other sidewalk. (This anxiom is void in the case of being everything covered by ice and snow)

Back to work has been a bit tough so far. I have to finish and wrap up some work in 2 weeks but I had originally scheduled at least 6 for it, so I guess I will be busy the next few days.

On the other hand, I am in the process of re-decorating my living room. I got a sofa-bed (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70087108) (potential visitors, you do have now a place where to sleep in my apartment that is not an inflatable matress), a tiny tv stand and I am planning to visit MOMA someday very soon to get a few posters or painting replicas.

Pictures coming soon...

Not much more to explain. Back to my routine of work, work out and running at the gym 2 or 3 days a week plus a weekend run in the park (when it is not freezing cold)... plus eventual bi or tri-weekly visits to my local beer spot, a bar named 1020 (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7171497/).

....

New York City

...I am back... Sorry, I know it has been a while since I wrote here for the last time. Last month has been hectic. However, I have tried to be in touch with all of you as much as I could... excepte per la familia, que la tinc una mica oblidada, pero no patiu, que ja torno a ser aqui.

So, as I already told you, I moved from California to New York City. My first impression of living here (I had already been here last year on vacations) was that things were different, in terms of what I like to call "welcome to the real world". Move into an unfurnished and empty apartment, go to IKEA, waith for the furniture to come, assemble it (I happen to be really bad putting furniture together... the proof is in the drawer in my room...)...

A naive person (like somebody who just moved from Orange County) would expect to have electricity and water in the apartment, but here you have to call to activate the service. No internet, no tv... I had to call the cable company and it took them a week to send me a cable guy... and he was not Jim Carrey, too bad! (awesome movie, watch it! haha)

Finally, once I had my room furnished, tv and internet, things got better.

Some comments about my life here would be that I like NY a lot, it is like a real european city and in some ways it really reminds me of Barcelona. However, I must admit I got used to the Southern California way of life and I miss it a lot... I feel tempted to move back there sometime in the future... but we'll see. Also, people in NY is very different than there. I am not saying they are worst (not at all, they are as nice and fun as people living in California), but it is more difficult to meet people here. However, I already know quite a few people and even a group of persians I play soccer with.... outdoors 11x11 soccer though, I still have to find a place where I can play futsal.

About daily live, so far I am mostly working a lot, going 3 times a week to the gym and running very often in Central Park. I have fallen in love with running in Central Park and I have to think about how will I manage myself to keep doing it in winter without freezing my ass. I always run around that sort of lake you can see in the picture. It takes me about 10 minutes to reach it, and then run around it is about 20 minutes... well, actually, I am not really sure yet how long is it to run around and how long does it take me. I just go there, run around twice and go back home, and when I get home I am very tired.

I also meet often with some friends, and on weekends we always do some night plan. This is one of the things that are better than in California, since NY is a 4am town and public transportation takes you anywhere 24/7.

For the ones interested in the nerd-freak stuff, I am working in a project about wireless networks (como no) based in OFDMA technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFDMA) and mostly on WiMax networks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax). Also, the work focuses on analyze "what happens" and to solve the interference problems when, in a very near future, femtocells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell) are added to the current networks.

I really like the project (so far it is not causing me many problems, but for sure sooner or later I will hate it) and it is very interesting because I am focusing it towards a "industry" perspective, so it will look very nice in my curriculum and it will give me lots of experience that will be really valued and useful to find a job... By the way, the idea of getting a job is still in my mind, so this current work is not definitive yet...

As a random comment, every morning, when I walk to work, I walk in front of cathedral of st John the Divine. It is really funny because there's always a coach of spanish (and catalan) tourists and they (we) always look the same. It is really obvious they are from Spain. And it ashames me a bit to hear them every morning to complain about everything, say bad things about people who are simply sitting on the stairs having breakfast and discuss ways to sneak into the cathedral without having to pay a voluntary donation...

For some reason, since I move to California, I have developed a strange spuerpower. I can tell where people is from by just seeing them a fraction of second. My friends here are really astonsihed to see me apply my superpowers and they can't still understand how I can tell who is from spain without hearing them talk and after seeing them for a fraction fo second in the distance with an accuracy of 100%. I can't understand it either...

Before I say goodbye, a couple of recommendations. If you live in the US, subscribe to Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/) and go to the cinema to watch You don't mess with the Zohan. It is the best movie ever. A brilliant comedy. If you are in Spain, I am afraid that the dubbing might be crappy and with voices from famous(?) comedians from tv... I would suggest you do an effort and watch the movie in english.

talk to you soon

http://www.youdontmesswiththezohan.com/

...summer in the city...

Sorry all for not having updated my blog in a long while... the reason was that I moved. Now I am living in New York city. Even though I am not in California anymore, I really miss California and there is where I started dreaming, so this is still going to be where I write about my California dreams.

I will update extensively very soon.

ps. if anybody know anybody in NY let me know, I know almost nobody so far...
ps2. pictures of my new home in my flickr

...updating...

I know, I haven't updated the weblog in a while... a long while... I am very busy these days.

A very brief update. I have lots of work these days, plus I am teaching a class and I have to hold extra review sessions, extra office hours...

I went to the cinema a couple of times lately... worth to mention Iron Man and Indiana Jones. The first one is a really good (and funny!) superheroe movie. Tony Stark is the coolest super heroe ever and he shows it in the very last scene of the movie.

On the other hand, Indiana Jones, far from being as good as the other 3 ones, is a great adventure movie that I really enjoyed. The only thing I didn't like was the "theme" chosen for the movie (even though it is a topic I have always been interested in) and specially what happens at the end. I just wish they had taken the great plot for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis for the 4th movie.

I've been doing many other things but cinema, but they deserve one post each one, so I'll keep them for future updates.

As fast and brief brainstorming: Pau Gasol less than 7 games away to be the first catalan (and spaniard) winning an NBA ring, The Offspring new album coming out very soon, Don't Mess with the Zohan (new Adam's Sandler movie) coming out soon... and looks like it's going to be hilarious, Eto'o, Ronalidnho i Deco al carrer... i que n'aprenguin! and my graduation coming very soon too... next Saturday is the commencement ceremony. I'll try to post some pictures...