Are you one of them?

Cloning started in the form of a sheep named — Dolly: The first exact genetic duplicate of an adult mammal. Since then, cloning leapt to the world of reality from science fiction.

Dolly was created from deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. This is the basic unit of heredity that was taken from a single adult sheep cell. Is this really an accomplishment? If this is an accomplishment, did it open the door to the potential uses and abuses of cloning? Including the possibility of cloning humans?

I remember the movie “The Sixth Day”, A father or should I say a family man comes home one night to discover that his life has been stolen by a clone. This is what I’m afraid of, if this technology — Human Cloning — falls into the wrong hands.

There are endless possibilities in cloning. This is most beneficial in medicine. Imagine that a scientist can clone an exact copy of a man to provide, for example, a bone marrow, to one who is afflicted with leukemia.

Other scenarios range from the obvious to the foolish. Just come to think of it, women giving birth to babies without needing to know the father. There would be virgin births!

A lot of NBA teams would choose cloning to draft their players. Imagine this, cloning five copies of Kobe Bryant to make a basketball team! hahaha

Riding a bike is like expressing my youthful yearning for freedom and identity.

My father gave me a Ducati 160cc Junior Monza on my 17th birthday that fell short of the Ducati 851 Strada that I wished for. Actually, I knew little about motorcycle, much less about the venerable name that this bike quietly bore on its tank and its style. Anyway, it gave me mobility at minimal expense. When not in use, the bike languished in the garage like an unwanted pet.

As time goes on, I began to see this bike not so much as a means of transport but as a work of art. I became a bike enthusiast. There is now pleasure that I draw from it. Actually, I parked my Ducati in my living room as part of the furniture.

I never stopped dreaming of one day getting myself a powerful bike. Speed is my fantasy. With an unrelieved thirst for speed and adventure, at 19 I bought my dream Ducati 851 Strada, with a bright red tank, bullet black wheels and a trellis frame. I bought this bike not for sheer utilitarian reasons but for the thrill of living dangerously. The pleasures that I draws from it comes not so much from its utility but the ride.

“If it gets back to that, it means we’re playing at a championship level, so hell yes I would (like to see the Lakers-Celtics rivalry rekindled),” — Kobe Bryant

As you will see it’s been two decades since the teams played a meaningful game. The Lakers won three consecutive NBA titles to start this decade, while it’s also that long since the Celtics were championship material. Do you think Celtic pride will be restored?

Kobe Bryant of Lakers asked to be traded during an interview last May, and has not yet rescinded. He is still with the Lakers, he appears grounded after an off-season of controversy and uncertainty. I believe the Minnesota Timberwolves dealt Garnet to the Boston Celtics instead of the Lakers. To transform the Celtics from also-ran to league powerhouse with a 9-1 record, Garnet has joined Allen and Paul Pierce. As I see it the three can renew a meaningful rivalry with the Los Angeles and their Big One, Kobe Bryant. As what I discovered, Bryant a known Celtics hater grew up in Philadelphia.

As far as I remember and as you will look-up the past, the Lakers and Celtics defined the NBA in the 1980s. The teams played three times for the league title in the decade. The Boston’s 7-0 streak against the Lakers ended with the Lakers’ 1985 victory. With James Worthy, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson in purple and gold, and Robert Parrish, Mchale and Larry Bird in green and white, the teams could not have been different. Those were the days that your Dad was either a Lakers or a Celtics fan. Good day!