This weekend has been pretty awesome. Last Friday, I watched Nacho Libre, a movie about a Mexican monk (played by Jack Black) who desire to become a Lucha Libre. I find the movie amusing and funny and was laughing throughout it. But compared to Jack Black's previous movies, Nacho Libre falls in the middle of the road - not as good as School of Rock but still better than Shallow Hal. Nonetheless, I still recommend the movie to people as it has high entertaining value.

On Saturday, Fernando, Serge, Sorin, and I went to Nick's apartment and watch the World Cup. The Ghana vs. Poland game was exciting. I was surprised how well Ghana played. The Ghanaian players came into the game with energy and were determined to win. They got into rhythm early and eventually outplayed the Czechs. Good game. The U.S. vs. Italy match didn't disappoint like the U.S. game where Americans played the just a few days ago. The game on Saturday was a great, nothing short of dramas. While I that thought that U.S. deserve the loss for their lackluster performance in the game against the Czechs earlier, I thought that the Americans played very well last Saturday considering that the Americans played with only 9 players having gotten 2 key players ejected because of some bad officiating calls by the referee.

Later, with the exception of Sorin, we all went out to The Hill to celebrate Chris's (SDM 06) birthday. As usual, it was a good time hang out with these guys. I have to confess, for some reasons I am always lucky with the ladies whenever I hang with Fernando, Nick, Serge, and Sorin.

On Sunday, Camille and I took part in the Learn to Sail class at the MIT Sailing Club. We learned taught the basics of sailing in the first 2 hours of the class with classroom lessons and demos. In the last 2 hours of the class, all students were given boats to sail on the Charles River with our partners. It was a hot, muggy day with very little wind. None of our boats moved very fast today. Even the head instructor was apologetic that today was one of the worst days to sail in the season. Interestingly, the Sailing Club is the only Sailing Club among Boston's colleges that is still open to the public. The class is free to all MIT students, staff, and affiliates(bring your ID card with you). In addition, the students are allowed to bring one guest outside of MIT to sail for free. The sailing clinic is fun and definitely worth the 4 hours. With the sailing orientation out of the way, I am now eligible to bring a boat out to Charles River to practice. The rest of the afternoon was followed by working on the first assignment of System Dynamics (more about this class later) and running 4 miles around Charles River in a muggy 92 F weather.

6/18/2006 11:55:50 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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