Bizarre Week

I just finished watching the Roger Federer-Novak Djokovic Autralian Open semifinals match. Roger lost! Wow! After like 3 or 4 years of making every grand slam finals, he lost to Djokovic in straight sets. I don't know if his earlier sickness which put him out of service for the pre-Australian Open tournament affected his game. His forehand was trash! It was errors one after another. He'd get one good shot in and make an error on the next point. This is was really far from the Roger Federer that I have watched before. I don't know if you notice, but it seems Federer's mind wasn't totally on the game. And he was very very stoic. No emotions. No reactions. He'd shout and pump his fist from time to time... but they were few and far in between. Is his age catching up on him? He's 26. It's not yet old, but it also is not young for tennis. He seemed to be having a hard time chasing after the balls on his forehand side.. Hopefully, he'll continue to be as dominant as Pete Sampras was and have Andre Agassi's durability and longevity. That'd be the perfect tennis player!! Djokovic did play well. And he's been giving Federer some hard time since last year. Djokovic beat Federer in a tournament last year and lost to Federer in the US Open. Now, he beat Federer in a grand slam tournament. Impressive! His service game was on. Federer was always on the defense and never was aggressive. Djokovic was a ball of energy all game long.

Hollywood star, Heath Ledger, died this week. Such a waste. In my opinion, he is a great actor. I was expecting a big career from him. Unfortunately, he had a short life. Wonder how that new Batman movie will do in the box office? People are already saying that he had a very good portrayal of the Joker for that film.

Had an expatriate visit us this week. So, it was busy week at work. We had to like entertain him and show him the spots at night. Had a team dinner and we also accompanied him to see Corregidor. A surprisingly nice place.

Audio Blog

I've been tinkering around with the blogger and trying to figure out how to play music with my blog page.

So here, I have included a widget from another site that includes a playlist I've compiled for the meantime.

But I also would like to know how to play something from the background. Without that user interface from the widget. How's that possible? I know something's written in the Help page of Blogger.com but I'm just too tired to read through it. Can someone point me to where I can learn about that? Is there also another way of streaming a playlist without that very large widget displayed in my blog? Please help me!

Comments and suggestions are most welcome.

My First Blog

First, allow me to welcome myself to the blogosphere. Welcome Adrian!

I'm not good in writing. And I don't have the interest in writing also. But I love reading blogs. Here in the world of blogs, everyone has his own opinion and his own experience to share. Doesn't matter if the opinion matters or not. It also doesn't matter if your stories are interesting enough or not. Bloggers just blog. Simple as that.

Reason I created my own blog? Boredom. And I also read an article in Newsweek telling how the world of blog is creating a new venue for advertisement. There was this company in Japan that invited bloggers to test out their new product. After testing their products, bloggers wrote about it. A search for the product in Google, they say, resulted in hundreds of blog entries. Amazing.

So, it got me to thinking of creating my own blog. Who knows, Honda, Toyota, or BMW would want a blogger to test drive their new car and blog about it. I might even get premium gifts (dreaming of a brand new car) from them, aside from being maybe the first to drive one if their new cars!

Hello advertisers! I'm a blogger. And I may just be able to share your new products to the world effectively..

Mmm... But first, I guess I have to learn to write better. Write about interesting stuffs to get readers to my page. Now that's hard. :(