NBA rocks!

I watched my first NBA game LIVE today , Golden State Warriors Vs Minnesota Timberwolves played at the Oakland Oracle Arena. It was an exhilarating experience. The ambiance was incredible, good lighting, screens all around the place, ground shaking speakers, fans rooting and watching the game from a vantage point in the 7th row!

You can notice the subtleties of the game like a player signaling to his mate to throw the ball near the basket so that he can jump, grab and dunk the ball in timing his jump to perfection! And yes, they do jump long and far!

Its quick and exciting nature makes it one of the better sports to watch live and i would definitely recommend people to watch one.

Next on the to-watch list is a Football game.

World cup prediction

The WC kicked off today with its first official match. Although it'll be extremely premature to predict a winner, lets start off by listing out the probable semi-finalists:

India
Sri-Lanka
West Indies (yes i DID say this even before their victory over Pakistan today)
Australia

India, I believe, have a really good team considering the pitches in the Carribean; ditto for Sri Lanka. And of course, I am a die hard fan, so i would have included them in my fav's list even if they had a crappy team. Sri Lanka have won a good percentage of their recent matches and have a re-born Jayasurya who is in top form once again. The war horse will probably be the most dangerous all-rounder this cup. West Indies being the home team are well aware of the home conditions and the correct strategy to use. Brian Lara I am sure will give everything to win this tournament, this being his last. And the lynchpin of WI batting Ramnaresh Sarwan makes all the difference to their batting. Now, I include Australia only because they are THE most professional team today.

Finally, my bet's on India.

GPS

I got a Mio DigiWalker Navigation system. For its price, its not bad, I think its pretty good quality. The only drawback being an absence of a text-to-speech converter, so it yells out "Take an exit in 0.4 mile" rather than say :take the Fremont exit next". But the route recalculation is amazing. And i loved the night view. Overall, you can NOT depend on the GPS so much so that you just obey it like a robot.