A very touching story..

Derick : I guess we are the left-overs in this world.

Lily:

I think so...all of my friends have boyfriends, and we are the only the 2 people left in this world without any special person in our lives.

Derick:

Yup, I don't know what to do.

Lily:

I know! We'll play a game.

Derick:

What game?

Lily:

I'll be your girlfriend for 30 days

and you will be my boyfriend.

Derick:

That's a great plan, in fact, I don't have anything to do

much for the following few weeks.

DAY 1:

They watch their first movie

and they both are touched by the romantic film.

DAY 4:

They went go to the beach and have a picnic. Derick and Lily have their quality time together.

DAY 12:

Derick invited Lily to a circus and they ride through a Horror House.

Lily was scared and she thought she touched Derick's hand but she actually touched someone else's hand they both laughed.

DAY 15:

They saw a fortune teller down the road, and they asked for their future advice.

The fortune teller said:

"My darlings, please don't waste the time of your life, spend the rest of your time together, happily." Then tears flowed out from the teller's eyes.

DAY 20:

Lily invited Derick to go to the hill

and they saw a meteor; Lily mumbled something.

DAY 28:

They sat on the bus, and because of a bumpy road Lily gave her first kiss to Derick by accident.

DAY 29:

11:37 pm:

Lily and Derick sat in the park where they first decided to play this game.

Derick:

I'm tired Lily...Do you want anything to drink? I'll buy you one...I'll just go down the road.

Lily:

An Apple Juice, that's all. Thank you.

Derick:

Wait for me.

20 minutes later

A stranger approached Lily

Stranger:

Are you a friend of Derick?

Lily:

Yes, why? What happened?

Stranger:

A reckless drunk driver ran over Derick, and he is in critical condition in the hospital.

11:57 pm:

The doctor walked out of the emergency room; he handed Lily an apple juice and a letter.

Doctor:

We found this in Derick's pocket.

Lily reads the letter and it says:

Lily, These past few weeks, I realized you are a really cute girl, and I am really falling for you-your cherished smile, your everything when we played this game. Before this game ends, I would like you to be my girlfriend for the rest of my life.

I love you, Lily.

Lily crumpled up the paper and shouted:

"Derick! I don't want you to die-

I love you; remember that night when we saw a meteor and I mumbled something. I mumbled that I wish we would be together forever and that we would never have to end this game. Please don't leave me Derick .. I love you! You can't do this to me!"

Then the clock strikes 12...

Derick's heart stopped pumping...

It was the 30th day.

Source: http://tipoenaja.blogspot.com/

EA Sports Motion Capture With Landon

By Luis Bueno for MLSsoccer.com
[Editor's note: This was an excerpt from an article originally punlished on May 13, 2010. To read the full article, click here]

In his preparations for the World Cup, LA Galaxy and U.S. star Landon Donovan might enlist the use of a secret weapon.

Clad in a skin-tight orange-and-black jumpsuit, Donovan hailed video game giant Electronic Arts and its new EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa video game in a promotional event on Tuesday.

Donovan and U.S. coach Bob Bradley won’t exactly prepare for the games by playing the video game into the wee hours of the morning, but any modicum of information gained is a bonus.

“You might think it's a little odd but if you can learn a few things about some players… these guys [EA Sports] do all the research,” Donovan said. “They know what they're doing. They follow those players and these teams more than we do up until this point so you can learn a lot.”

The U.S. will play Slovenia and Algeria in the group stage of the World Cup, on June 18 and 23, respectively, after opening play against England on June 12.

Here's a Behind the Scenes video of Landon doing a motion capture session for the new EA Sports FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa game.

Gregg Berhalter's Favorite WC Memory Is...

...what else, beating Mexico in the 2002 World Cup to advance to the quarterfinals.

U.S. Soccer recently came out to interview several players and coaches on the LA Galaxy roster for a series of "Favorite World Cup memories" it put together.

The first in that series features defender Gregg Berhalter talking about Landon Donovan's decisive header. Berhalter started and played the full 90 minutes that day in Jeonju, South Korea. (Trivia, without looking it up, name the date that game was played in.)

Others interviewed from the Galaxy included Associate Head Coach Dave Sarachan, Cobi Jones, Eddie Lewis and Clint Mathis. Be sure to keep an eye out for those videos and more on USSoccer.com.