Norwegian Wood

Heroes of the Lance

• Tanis Half-Elven, a half-elf and de facto leader of the companions.
• Sturm Brightblade, a squire to the Knights of Solamnia and deeply honorable man.
• Goldmoon, daughter of the chief of the Que-Shu tribe, bearer of the Blue Crystal Staff, and first true cleric since the Cataclysm.
• Riverwind, bodyguard and romantic interest of Goldmoon.
• Caramon Majere, huge, muscular, sometimes slow-thinking warrior, with a deep affection for his brother.
• Raistlin Majere, a powerful, sarcastic, cynical, frail mage of the Red Robes, and the twin brother of Caramon.
• Flint Fireforge, a gruff old dwarf and old friend of Tanis.
• Tasslehoff Burrfoot, a happy-go-lucky, innocent, and genial kender.
• Tika Waylan, a red-haired beauty and barmaid.
• Laurana Kanan, an elven princess and romantic interest of Tanis.

God Paladine

• Mishakal, Goddess of Healing.
• Elistan, a Seeker who converts to the faith of Paladine. He was given the Disks of Mishakal by Goldenmoon.
• Silvara, silver dragon who poses as a Kagonesti elf. She and Gilthanas fall in love but part due to the complication of their relationship.
• Theros Ironfeld, smith working in Solace. He obtains an artifact necessary to forging Dragonlances.

Others

• Otik, the owner of the Inn of the Last Home, adoptive father of Tika Waylan.
• Tearsong, Goldmoon’s mother.
• Fizban, a muddled old wizard.
  
• Forestmaster, a talking unicorn.
  
• The Everman, an enigmatic figure seen in Pax Tharkas and shortly afterward.
• Bupu, a gully dwarf who assisted the Companions while under the “friend” spell of Raistlin.
• William Sweetwater, innkeeper of the Pig and Whistle tavern at Port Balifor.
• Gnosh, a gnome whose Life Quest is to study the Dragon Orb.
• Mir Kar-thon, who represented Northern Erogth at the Second Council of Whitestone.
• Serdin MarThasal, who represented Exiles on Sancrist at the Second Council of Whitestone.

Elves

• Gilthanas Kanan, brother of Laurana.
• Porthios Kanan, brother of Laurana and Gilthanas.
• Solostaran Kanan, Speaker of the Suns and father to Laurana, Gilthanas, and Porthios.
• Lorac Caladon, Speaker of the Stars, King of Silvanesti
• Alhana Starbreeze, the daughter of Speaker of the Stars Lorac Caladon, Princess of the Silvanesti elves.

Knights of Solamnia

• Derek Crownguard, Knight of the Rose.
• Aran Tallbow, Knight of the Crown.
• Brian Donner, Knight of the Sword.
• Gunthar uth Wistan, Knight of the Rose who becomes Grandmaster.
• Alfred Markenin, Knight of the Sword, High Justice.
• Michael Jeoffrey, Kight of the Crown.

Dwarves

• Arman Kharas, who represented mountain dwarves at the First Council of Whitestone.
• Duncan Hammerrock, who represented hill dwarves at the First Council of Whitestone.

Queen of Darkness

• Khisanth aka Onyx, the black dragon who guarded the Disks of Mishakal
• Verminaard, a Dragon Highlord and one of the main antagonists.
• Ember, a red dragon who serves Verminaard.
• Flamestrike, a senile old red dragon.
• Eben, a man in Pax Tharkas who betrays the Companions.
• Cyan Bloodbane, a green dragon who destroyed Silvanesti.
• Sleet, a white dragon who guarded Ice Wall.
• Feal-thas, a Dragon-Highlord who guarded the Dragon Orb in Ice Wall. He was killed by Laurana.

Bought from Amazon.ca on May 23rd, 2003

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finished the chinese version sometime in college.
finished the english version on june 25th, 2007.

finished the chinese version sometime in college.
finished the english version on july 2nd, 2007.

西甲最后一轮, 皇马必须获胜才能夺冠. 在上半场0-1落后, 范尼和火腿都因伤下场, 但依靠Reyes梅开二度和对方的一个乌龙球, 最终第30次夺取联赛冠军. 这也是火腿和卡洛斯代表皇马的最后一场比赛. 火腿将加盟美国大联盟的L.A. Galaxy; 卡洛斯则将奔赴土耳其.

火腿加盟皇马四年, 这是他所获得的唯一冠军. 这个赛季对于火腿绝对不是一个顺利的赛季. 在被排除在英格兰阵容后, 在年初他选择了不和皇马续约, 对此皇马教练卡佩罗反应强烈, 公开宣布绝对不会再派火腿上场. 但火腿仍然坚持训练, 最终连史上最强硬的教练卡佩罗也不得不自食其言, 重新派遣火腿上场. 夺冠后, 卡佩罗说:

“I made several misjudgements, but my biggest mistake was not to count on Beckham after he announced he was leaving. Not keeping him in the side was my biggest error.”

good luck! Beckham!

tuesday afternoon: soccer game, artificial pitch. a lot of people showed up. the first one was opponent’s own goal and martin scored the second one. they are a very good team. i almost put a free-kick pass from chuck into the net, just half foot from the left post. final score 2-4, 2W3L.

friday morning: run 3k, rail trail.

saturday afternoon: soccer game. largest win. we scored first two goals in about 10 minute. i scored the second one, a over-head pass and put it into the right corner. score sheet: martin 4, paulo 2, nick 1, cid 1, myself 1. first time at the mcmaster field, a little bit small, but there are shadows along the side. final score 9-2, 3W3L.

Life is just unfair. Tony Parker won nba champion three times, he is the MVP of the final, and he is gonna married Eva Longoria.

Tim Duncan’s fourth champion, and he is also 4 of 4 in the final. Horry won his 7th ring, and he did it with three different teams, which is very impressive.

For Cavaliers, here is an onion article to say it all:

God, the omnipotent and omniscient Creator of the Universe who recently saw fit to allow the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance to the NBA Finals, expressed concern Tuesday that He might be causing the earthly city of Cleveland undue emotional anguish by doing so. “I can’t help feeling that they who dwell in Cleveland and root for the Cavaliers have done nothing to warrant the dashing of their hopes after having them raised to such lofty heights,” said God, who acknowledged that day-to-day life was bitter enough for city residents. “Although I move in mysterious ways, and in doing so often allow bad things to happen to good people, My grand design is usually glorious to behold. But the Cavs in the Finals…I don’t know, maybe that’s just plain mean.”

monday evening: run 8k, rail trail

friday morning: run 5k, rail trail

saturday afternoon: soccer match. dundas field. the opponent is a very good team; short pass is very good. yaro scored our only goal. final score 1-3, 2W3L

well, i change my mind; spurs is a very good team, defensively and offensively.

when i was watching the suns vs spurs series, sometimes i was just wondering why nash didn’t attack the basket as often as he did in lakers series. now i finally realize that because of duncan’s existence in the paint. his blocking ability is unbelievable, and today cavaliers hardly got one clear cut to the hoop.

parker is the best shooting guard in nba right now, period. back a few years ago when spurs met lakers in the playoffs, the way to defend parker was just to let him shoot middle-ranges. but right now, there is no way you can prevent parker going to the hoop, no way. he basically can blow by any defenders and finish the layup with very high percentage. one play, parker dashed into paint, stopped, then his defender bumped into another defender, knocking him off, and left parker with a close range shot. too quick. once he shot the middle-range well, there is absolutely no way you can defend him with single coverage.

the offense of spurs is not very complicated. parker penetrates, gilobili penetrates, duncan backed down, and all the other guys shot 3-point. their team-play is such a beautiful thing to watch. one play, varejao was fronting duncan very hard, so gilobini didn’t have a clean pass to duncan. he passed the ball to horry, who was near the penalty line, and he bounce-passed immediately to duncan for a dunk. so beautiful.

here is the more detailed description of this play from TureHoop:

It’s 80-72 Spurs late in the game. Ginobili catches the ball on the left side beyond the three-point line. He sees Duncan on the low post and wants to feed him the ball. However, Varejao is doing a good job fronting Duncan and thus preventing the pass.

Meanwhile Horry is hovering on the weak side. When Horry sees what’s happening, he flashes to the foul line area and forms a Ginobili-Horry-Duncan triangle. Ginobili sees this, feeds the ball to Horry, and Horry bounces a pass to Duncan. Because Varejao is fronting Duncan, Duncan has a clear path to the basket, and Varejao’s helpless. Duncan has an open path to the basket and an easy layup. It’s not flashy, or even extraordinary, but it’s beautiful. Good basketball players have such an incredibly intuitive understanding of space. The entire sequence described above happened in under five seconds. I can’t even tie one of my shoes in that amount of time.

spurs is gonna win another championship. it’s just killing me that horry is goona get his 7th ring, one more than mj.

update1: people are making case of how cavaliers came back from 0-2 down to beat piston. well, those two games were close, and this one, not even.

update2: in some peroid of time, james was guarding parker and successfully force parker to shot middle-range. some one suggested to put james always on parker. well, if james can defend parker and have monster game in offensive end, he is next mj.