here we go, Steelers... here we go!

• monday night football.
• Steelers v baltimore ravens at Pittsburgh.
• it was raining.
• Ben threw *5 TD passes, 4 of them in the first half; was pushed to the turf but not before throwing a 45-yard completion to Santonio Holmes in the 3rd quarter. he was taken out but came back in the 4th quarter.
• some members of the Steelers' All-time Team was in the sideline cheering on the guys and enjoying the game. among the notables were Terry Bradshaw, Mean Joe Green, Franco Harris, Lynne Swann, Mel Blount and Jack Ham. Coach Bill Cowher was also there and got the crowd going at one point.
• but the night's most impressive Steeler was linebacker, James Harrison. his stats speak for himself.
• final score, 38-7.

here we go, Steelers... here we go!

*ties Terry Bradshaw's and Mark Malone's record throws in a game.

fall back...

by the way, standard time is back.
we gained an hour!!!
but did we put it to good use...?
i'm off to bed...
g'night, people.

9-0!

yup! inspite trailing for the first time this season, the new england patriots prevailed over the indianapolis colts. bridget moynahan's baby daddy threw 2 TD passes in the fourth quarter to stop the colts from running away with the game, and finished off 24-20.

Tom Brady is really HOT, literally and figuratively!

battle of the undefeateds...

the patriots and the colts are playing right now. they are the remaining undefeated teams in the nfl, and so this game will finally separate them. james brown had a question earlier on cbs sports where he asked if the winner of this matchup would end up as the super bowl winner. all the panelists - dan marino, coach cowher, boomer esiason and shannon sharpe said no, and i say no, too. my Pittsburgh Steelers has a good shot at it, and i'm sure fans of green bay, chargers, cowboys, etc. would say the same thing - that is, their respective teams have a good shot at the super bowl... question is, who has the most legit claim? the Steelers fans, of course! =)

the Steelers will be on monday night footbal against their nemesis, the baltimore ravens. last year, the ravens ravaged the Steelers in their two meetings. i'm confident it won't be so this year, and i'm going out on a limb and say, it will be the other way around. the Steelers are playing solid this season. not perfect, but solid.

i guess we wait and see...

sleep... more sleep...

i went to bed this morning around 2am, but had to get up at 7 for R's 8am appointment at quest diagnostics for bloodwork. he has an appointment with his endocrinologist next week hence the bloodwork. i think they got 6-7 vials of blood for testing...

around 2pm, hubby said he'll take a nap, and i told him i will, too that's why i didn't make the bed... so off to bed i went for my nap. it was 2:30pm. well, my "nap" turned out to be the longest i had in a while. i woke up after 6pm... hubby was already awake before i was, but didn't get up... we finally dragged ourselves out of bed around 6:30ishpm.

i'm still frustrated with the two trades i'm working on. i've been at it for 2 weeks now and have not gone green on both. uggghhh!!! i don't want to do any more trades until i'm done with these two... so now i'm stuck, and it's not a good thing...

all soul's day... remembering my brother...

this is supposed to be the day we remember our dearly departed. but for some reason i do not know, it is not so in the Philippines...

so i remember my youngest brother, who died at the tender age of 16 of H-fever... his death, so far, is the most painful experience i ever went through in my life... i still think of him. miss him. wonder what could have been... my parents were totally devastated when he passed. it was very painful for all of us...

i named my son after him...

all saint's day...

1st of november, all saint's day.

in the Philippines, this is supposedly the day when everybody treks to cemeteries to remember their dearly departed. that used to be the case when i was young... veeery, very young...

nowadays, all saint's day seems to be the day when most pinoys go out of town for some R&R, just like the holy week. this is how most of us observe these religious holidays now... boracay, baguio, palawan, tagaytay... just some of the places popular to out-of-towners to go to to "remember" their dearly departed (all saint's day) or do some "soul-searching" (holy week)...

but people still do go to the cemeteries. they go through the motions of offering flowers, lighting candles, saying a little prayer or in isolated cases, pray the rosary. that should take about half an hour maximum, and the rest would be socializing...

such are "shining" examples of Philippine tradition nowadays... the kind of tradition this generation passes on to their children. and this coming from a country, which its own citizens tout, as the only Roman Catholic country in Asia. with these "traditions", and everything that are going on in my country right now, how can you brag about that...?

and such is the hypocrisy of our society...