Movie of the day: Princess and the Frog

We watched this movie at the BlueLight Cinema in Cupertino (ticket costs only $3.75!) I thought it would just be a rehash of the good old version of the story but it turns out to be quite different. Even though it's still full of stereotype and political correctness like your usual Disney movie, I did enjoy it. How could I not like a movie that played a lot of Dixieland jazz as background music? It's too dark for my kid's taste though.

美國人也反高鐵

和香港一樣，在加州力推的高鐵計劃也遇到重重阻力。
這位史丹福史學家指出過去美國政府推行的鐵路計劃，效果欠佳；今次恐怕又會重蹈覆轍。得益者只會是政客及建築商，不會是普羅大眾。他又指政界經常引為模範的中國高鐵，乘客增長率亦遠遜預期。

Music of the day: Chinese classical music

I found this Chinese classical music radio program by accident (got a link to listen to another RTHK program) It seems to be a biweekly broadcasted ~15 minute program. Good for casual fan like me. (Another choice would be the DJ-less stream that is available on Shoutcast)

Sports highlights: NASCAR at Darlington, Lakers swept, Man U defeated Chelsea plus more

The most exciting moment I watched was Regan Smith winning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Darlington. The race wasn't much until the final laps, when big crash wiped out Kevin Harvick and teammate Clint Bowyer. Pit strategy came into picture: the leader Carl Edwards and most decided to take 2 new tires while the rest gambled by taking none. Regan Smith was among the latter group and the gamble paid out! He restarted first and maintained his lead over Edwards until he got the checkered flag. It's nice to see one-car team like his beating the big guns from Roush Fenway, Hendrick and Childress.
I didn't watch the game at all but I was really happy to hear that the hated Lakers (well, by most people outside SoCal, especially NoCal people like me) was swept by Dallas Mavericks. It's no fun to see the same team winning over and over again...... unless you are a fan of that team, which, in my case, applies to Man U closing in on another EPL title again, by beating the 2nd place Chelsea 2-1. Go Man U!
This might not be the biggest headline on the Sports section but we have lost a golf legend, Seve Ballesteros, this weekend. He was a well-known great golfer way before I started following golf but he always showed his charisma whenever he's on TV. I remember him captaining the European team to victory in 1997. Another sad piece of news was that cyclist Wouter Weylandt died at Giro d'Italia. May them rest in peace.

Music of the day: Nicole Scherzinger performs Black Dog with Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience

Nicole rocks on this song! (Well, I'm totally biased because she's Lewis Hamilton's gf. Not sure if I will be as positive if it's anyone else)