2012 sf giants

the 2012 sf giants had their first spring training cactus league game today and although they lost 9-6 to the diamondbacks, i'm excited for the start of this new season. although they didn't make any splashy moves in the offseason, they still have their core star pitching in tim lincecum, matt cain, and madison bumgarner and an upgraded defense behind them. from the talks on the radio, it seems like they are preaching more aggressive base-running and hoping for that timely hitting with men in scoring position that was missing last season. and of course they are hoping for a healthy buster posey, a continual resurgence of pablo sandoval, and an outbreak season from brandon belt. yes i'm a homer, but i really think they have a good chance to make the playoffs this year (especially with the added wild-card team) and make another run at the world series. in any case, i'm ready for the season to start. play ball!

longest paper airplane throw

when i was a kid, i used to enjoy making paper airplanes. and of course, the purpose was always to see how far the airplane flew. as time went on, other people shared different ways to fold the paper airplanes. just now, i did a quick search on 'paper airplanes' and am amazed by how all the different ways you can fold paper airplanes. anyway, just recently, someone broke the world record for longest paper airplane throw netting 226 feet and 10 inches. check it out below :)

disconnected

i've been feeling a bit disconnected with the on-goings of pop-culture and sports which is a weird feeling because these are topics that i'm usually up-to-date on. i didn't even know that the oscars were this past weekend until the last minute and when i looked at the list of nominated movies, i hadn't seen any of them except for 'moneyball.' and the only reason i saw that movie was because it was showing on the plane ride to australia/new zealand for my honeymoon. [quick review of 'moneyball'. it was entertaining and brad pitt did a good job, but best picture nominee? i don't agree]. so, while normally i would have given my oscar picks for the year, i had nothing to say about them.

it's similar to sports. i've been able to keep up a little bit more because of the internet and the sports blogs i follow, but there is still a little bit of uncertainty of all that is happening. the nba all-star was this weekend and i know who won what because of the internet, but i didn't watch anything live so it feels a bit different. in fact, i haven't even seen any highlights from it. maybe i should go check it out.

i guess being disconnected from pop-culture and sports isn't actually a bad thing. i've been busy with married life and ministry which are both more important things to focus on, but i am hoping to still have something to blog about in-terms of sports and pop-culture.

so here is one critic. just the other day, i did watch 'hugo' and was fairly disappointed. i felt it was slow and the story was only okay. i can see why the academy nominated it (because it was a movie about the greatness of movies), but i'm glad it didn't win best picture. i don't know. just from the list of movies that were nominated for best picture, nothing really jumped out at me. they all seemed like they would be slow. but, guess i should actually watch them first before i judge them.