Christ Bosh

Criticism against Christ Bosh has never stopped. The biggest question is that if it's Big 3 or just Big 2. This really isn't a fair argument. And it's wrong in so many different ways.
First of all, it's unfair to compare any player of this generation with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. These two can retire today and still be HOFers when they reach the time requirement. In the past 20 years probably only Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan are on the same level after their first 10 years of career. Even Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett had proved themselves that well in their first 10 years.
Second, Christ Bosh sacrifices the most in the team. When LeBron and D-Wade have to make minor adjustments, or Ray Allen has to be a bench player, Bosh is the only player on the team who needs to fundamentally change his game. He can't hold the ball, dribble, and constantly attack the rim anymore. Bosh is mostly a jump shooter and cutter nowdays. Plus, he isn't even playing his position at all! One major reason he struggled in ECF and Finals is he couldn't give any pressure offensively due to the fact that he's No. 3 choice in Heat's offense.
Third, people don't see how much Bosh does. Offensively, he needs to pick it up anytime when LeBron and Wade are in trouble. Defensively, he plays against player bigger than him every night. In Heat's system, he's the person to protect the rim, to bate opponents' big men out. And he does these things in the way he has never played in his whole life.
Ultimately, Bosh has done a good job so far. He still is an All Star every year. Even in the series against Indiana he at least stood against the whole flock of big men over half of the time. In the Finals he played against the greatest power forward and successfully executed his duty.
Besides basketball life, Bosh is the kind of player the league no longer has. I love LeBron, and I'm the biggest D-Wade fan, but Bosh is just classy. If anybody ever seen Bosh's interviews he/she'd know what I'm talking about. Players today are just ghetto, they can't even make a sentence right. The worst thing is, they think it's cool. Look at Kobe in his early years, and look at him now, the articulated young man is gone, leaving a "gangster" there. But Bosh is different, him and Duncan, along with another maybe 3 players, are the extincting species who can give a decent speech when asked almost any question.
No more words is needed, just appreciate and respect Chris Bosh.

Long Term Goal

I am going to get a physics degree when I get a tenure position in a university or retire. Well, these two things are pretty close: you won't lose your tenure or retirement, which means I'll have plenty of time to spend on one of the three things I always love but can't do it for living.
So here are the second and third goals. I'll play basketball till my doctor tells me to stop. I'll one day be a freelance photographer for National Geographic.

This is How I See Gun Debate

The current gun debate is in a dead end. It's not about self-defense. While gun does protect us from, let's say Mike Tyson, a Glock doesn't do you to much good when facing an AR-15. It's not about the Thomas Jefferson quote about protecting the people from tyrants. Whosoever thinks people with shotguns have a chance against M1A2 and B-2 is the king of morons. It's not even about how we can't change the Constitution, the 18th and 21th Amendments are still sitting there. The core issue is while doing no harm, whether or not people have the right to choose their life styles. Like it or not, having guns, likewise singing, drinking, smoking, collection, are things you can argue being useless and under certain circumstance being disturbing. But there are people who find in need in those things and can somehow manage to not bother others. So if we respect the existing gun culture in this country, we shouldn't let anyone take away the right to own firearms. Meanwhile, some people's obsession shouldn't be the reason why we don't allow gun regulations, like there are regulations regarding activities listed above.

Recent Thoughts

I really should've written more often but things just kept on coming and kept giving me excuses to not write. And this one was meant to be here yesterday.
Before starting anything, why do so many Russians read my blog? I'm indeed honored but meanwhile just wanna know what I is attracting the Russian population. Oh by the way, to the ones who read my blog for whatever reason, thank you. It's more of a open journal so I'm willing to share what I believe and essentially who I am.

I've had some rants recently, or more like all the time. This isn't my first time digging into the topic of evolution. The U.S. is a strange place, not that I don't love it, which has probably the largest well educated population who deny the theory of evolution. And it seems like there's probably even larger portion people of my faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who don't believe in the theory of evolution.
I've said it and I say it again: it's totally fine what scientific theory one believes, or one doesn't believe any scientific theory at all. Or, one has different view on what scientific theory is. Science, and religion, and any other theory/philosophy, are the lenses that we human beings use to interpret our observation. One thing both theists and atheists believe is that we, humans, can't hold the whole truth. Thus while we are using the right lenses, religion or science or both, our natural inability limits us to reach the whole truth. It doesn't mean we give up, but only means we try even harder.
One reason I admire Brigham Young is that he realized, openly admitted, but was never ashamed nor discouraged of, his imperfections. He kept preaching after saying "I have known many times I have preached wrong." Acknowledging we humans, from the prophet of God to me, constantly make mistake helps me to better tolerant the ideas that I don't understand.
I was confused many times because the scientific theories and the gospel of Jesus Christ contradicted each other when I was about to accept the gospel. Eventually I realized it's not science and gospel don't coexist but rather I don't want to embrace both of them. As I stated before, both science and religion are the lenses we use to observe this world. While we have scriptures as one gift from God, our intelligence is another gift from the Father. Indeed we oftentimes need to use our intelligence to understand the scriptures even though we make mistakes all the time, like Elder Bruce R. McConkie. It's true the scriptures never directly mention evolution or the big bang, but it never says they're wrong either. Cars are not mentioned but we still drive them. There's a reason why the Father doesn't make the scriptures encyclopedia. In addition there's a reason why He doesn't make us understand the scriptures completely. They are the same reason, the reason why we are here on the earth, to exercise our free agency. So if I deny scientific theories, or the goespel, just because I can't comprehend them, I'm missing out the purpose of this life.
But again, it's just me. Everyone can, and should, choose what he/she believes as long as it's for the right reason, or even it's the wrong reason. To me, I'm blessed to be able to understand some science so I won't give up this privilege. Others might have different blessings so they don't have to think the same way as I do. Or maybe the blessing I have isn't having the knowledge, I could be wrong about evolution and the big bang, but the blessing of always having an open heart to new ideas. It doesn't matter. What matters is I'm on this earth to access my free agency and learn as much as I can, and try to reach my full potential.

Again, this is my understanding. If you are interested in what I believe please go to www.mormon.org, I guarantee you won't get the whole truth of the universe because only the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost have them. But you WILL reach the door to the whole truth, to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.