Review - Million Dollar Baby

This week, I have the chance to watch Million Dollar Baby. There seems to be many sayings.
Tough ain't enough
A place between nowhere and goodbye
Protect yourself

The movie starts with a boxing campaign. Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris (by Morgan Freeman) is fighting and bleeding on the face. He then retires with one eye blind and works for Frankie Dunn (by Clint Eastwood), a boxing trainer. Maggie Fitzgerald (by Hilary Swank)

When Maggie was practicing by herself on her 32nd birthday, Frankie had a talk with her. When Frankie said he would give her advice on practicing, Maggie rejected saying that she did not need mercy from others, what she needed was a trainer. It is the basic line and it put both of them to the right position. Frankie would take himself as her trainer and would not have excuse. Maggie with father dead, and Frankie with no contact with his daughter cooperated quite well. Frankie read Gaelic books in spare time, and gave Maggie a name Mo Cuishle when she started the match in Europe. This name become popular when Maggie won lots of matches.

It is a pity that Maggie did not get the meaning of Mo Cuishle by winning the match against the WBA women welterweight champion, Billie the Blue Bear. Billie is famous for foul attacks. After some foul attacks, Frankie told Maggie the way to fight against Billie. When Maggie succeeded in giving Billie double hit, Maggie relaxed and turned around to the audience. Billie illegally committed heavy attack to Maggie's head. Maggie lost balance and fell down with head and neck on the corner stool.

The principle of boxing is to protect yourself. Frankie told Maggie the meaning of Mo Cuishle before Maggie died. It is "My darling, my blood" in Irish Gaelic. "My darling, my blood" is touching…

I get to know that this movie won a lot of awards from Wikipedia, such as for 2004 Academy Awards (Oscars), just to name a few.
Best Motion Picture of the Year — Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg
Academy Award for Best Director — Clint Eastwood
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role — Hilary Swank
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role — Morgan

The Nikola Tesla Reminder - Google Search Image

I usually use google toolbar to search content that would be useful for me. On July 10, 2009, I notice that there was a special pattern on google search of my colleague's computer. Thus, I go to save the image on my computer with the file name started with tesla. However, I am not sure what the date is for yet.

Just google and get to know it is the birthday of Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943). I remembered watching a TV show about Nikola Tesla. When talking about electricity, most of us would recall Edison. Only a few common people seem to know another great inventor, Nikola Tesla for alternating current. The alternating current developed by Tesla is different from the direct current by Thomas Edison.

The alternating current power system is the fundamental system for our daily life now. The TV show presents the dispute about the experiment of Directed-energy weapon, which was based on a narrow stream of atomic clusters of liquid mercury or tungsten accelerated via high voltage. It was introduced that his experiment in 1893 for World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago made the night as bright as the day.

Thanks to Nikola Tesla, we can have the power factory far away from our house, and watch TV, open computer conveniently. Here is the information about Nikola Tesla at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Face the Fact with Michael Jackson's Death

In the morning of June 26, 2009, I got the news from radio saying that Michael Jackson died. I couldn’t believe what I hear, because I know that he was planning his concert in the near July. My first thought is that it could be the rumor before his concert. Sorry about my first thought. I know that it is unrespectable to the death, but I am not afraid to be honest.

With the confirmation with LA coroner about Michael Jackson’s autopsy, I finally believe it as the truth that the King of Pop died at 50. I am not a super fan of Michael Jackson, but I remembered my roommate in colleague played his song for body moving, or say keeping fit. The song we often heard is Beat It. We are not practicing the moon walk, but just to move our bodies with the songs.

My friend sent me the message about Michael Jackson’s fan, who had not listened to Michael Jackson’s songs in several years. But she suddenly recalled Michael Jackson’s song and then watched the movie on computer. She was touched and back to sleep with her husband waiting for her. The next day, she heard about the death of Michael Jackson. It seems psychic and I was touched.

Although I am not a super fan, his songs bring emery and keep excited. It is what we need when we are down. In memory of Michael Jackson, I will try to get a DVD of his best album and back it up on computer, so that the original one will not be scraped by accident when in use.