Its been years, possibly since i was a junior in high school since the last time i played volleyball. Joy’s cousins headed down from North Hollywood to Huntington Beach for some fun on the beach. Joy and I played two on two with Boy and Rommel in a three game series up to 21. Boy and Rommel took the first set, while Joy and I took the second. The third was a back and forth match from the get go, but at the end we failed, and we had to give up to the seniors. My arms took a severe beating as they haven’t had that much abuse in years and the next day my arms looked like i was shooting up crack the entire weekend as they were bruised with thousands of pop capillaries under the skin. The gallery watching wanted to play again, but we were all beat so we decided to go to dinner at Sushi on Fire on main st.

Boy used to work at the original restaurant in Valencia, and he always gets hooked up by the owner a rather large physically, and personality wise Thai woman. Food just started to arrive at our table just as we sat down. Plates and plates of sushi, beer and desserts kept coming, and the owner treated us very well. She seems to be very popular amongst the other patrons as she gave many hugs to different people, and comped dishes at other tables too. After our meal we ended up tipping the staff very well as we probably only got billed half of what actually ended up on our table. The owner concluded our dinner by saying goodbye to us, and bumming a smoke from a cart vendor outside her restaurant.

Please excuse the crappy photoshopping of the day, but i think it illustrates what i’m talking about.

One sports talk radio host once said that the NBA off season is the second best season of the NBA behind the Playoffs, and in front of the regular season. This year has already started off with a bang with Shaq moving from the Suns to run with LaBron in Cleveland, Vince Carter being traded to the Magic to play with Dwight and Jameer, and the Clippers getting the Blake Griffen in this year’s NBA draft. There are plenty of moves yet to be made as free agency signings will begin next week, and the biggest uncrestricted free agents in my opinions are in no particular order:

1. Lamar Odom
2. Trevor Ariza
3. Hedo Turkoglu
4. Ron Artest
5. Ben Gordon
6. Mike Bibby
7. Allen Iverson
8. Andre Miller

Not a very exciting group compared to next year’s crop, but will be impact players where ever they end up.

Now with the Shaq trade, its an interesting path that each team ended up with after trading the big diesel. The Lakers were at first very scrutinized with the players they got in return for the Shaq, but eventually turned around a few of players to make out like a bandit. Sure the Heat won a title with Shaq, but eventually now they ended up with just Jermaine O’neal to show for it. Don’t you think the Heat would rather have the likes of wade, butler, and odom now rather then wade, beasely, and o’neal? While most likely the suns will have none of the players that they traded for from Cleveland as their owner will mostly buy out their contracts.

The best performance last night was by megan fox’s bra.

Don’t get me wrong, i really enjoyed Transformers 2 – Revenge of the Fallen, but i can see why it wont ever be considered a critically acclaimed movie.

Review and Spoilers after the break.

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Keeping in tradition of never celebrating occasions on their actual day, Joy and I took the dads to Pala Casino for dinner Monday Night. I have to say that i was thoroughly impressed by the spread of food they had available. For $15.99 (with a pala players card (free, ($19.99 regular price))) you had a large spread of snow, and king crab legs some already cut in half for you, a grilling station where you can choose your own new york steak, burger, or chicken to be cooked on site (included), prime rib, lamb, a very tasty sweet potato mash and a dessert bar with a crepe station and a marble slab ice cream station. I felt like i really wanted to stuff my face until i had to unbutton my pants, but remembering it was only $15.99 made me feel like i wasn’t wasting anything.

When all said and done Joy and i rolled out of the restaurant and parked ourselves infront of a electronic roulette machine where we spent an hour only losing $2.00. Pretty fun place, but the hour and a half drive really sucks.

Jonathan had a free weekend with Janelle taking Noah up to Seattle and so that meant drinking time. We went to our old hang out spot in Torrance  Iccho for some pitchers of beer and One Cup Sake. I forgot how far the place was from the freeway because we had to just keep driving and driving down Crenshaw Blvd. until we almost got to Palos Verde. I decided to crash at his house as well because i didn’t want to drive back home in the wee morning hours.

The next day Joy and Seung met up with us so that we could go to the beach. Joy and i went to go take a nap on the beach while the other two went drinking at Hennessey on Hermosa Pier. I’m going to be really happy when Joy has more weekends off.