pacquiao power, pinoy and proud!

a cut above the rest.

that was how i saw him since his days in amateur boxing. my pops and grampa and 3 brother (plus me) would gather round our tv set when Mano Mano would show on sats or sundays. it featured this fighter from gensan who was really good.  fast forward a few years and we have a new age hero, that's Manny 'the pacman" Pacquiao for us.

last nov. 18, infront of 18,276 people at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV, history was made, again, by a Filipino.  Pacman floored Erik "el terrible" Morales three times in three rounds (one in the seond, twice on the third).

and the third time, he was not standing up to fight. he knew it was over, manny was too good, too fast (as he said in a later interview).  PINOY NGA ANG TUMAPOS!  where pun was intended, it included the career of el terrible. he has seen his best years and manny was the big period that ended the morales sentence. 

erik looked to his father when he was floored for the last time on the third round and as his papa urged him to go on, he simply shakes his head, "no mas, no mas".  that scene will forever be etched in my mind. pity and proudness overwhelmed me that very moment. pity for the guy, manny was to win at his expense and he gave more than a good fight. but manny was too much for him and for that i was proud, pinoy yata yan!

all over the world pinoys rejoiced! i was ecstatic with joy, too, as i watched… though from a delayed telecast (no cable, **sigh**)………….

pinoys in dubai were late for work but were definitely happy. pinoys won lots of money on legal bettings in Australia.  pinoys in the US did "patak-patak" for pay per view ($50 per house) and held mini-parties at the same time (pay per view subscription was told to have reached 400,000 units….wow, time $50!).

like any celebrated trilogy in boxing, this will never be forgotten, not just by pinoys, but by the world!

MABUHAY KA PINOY! 

post script: Ronnie "calamba" Alcano won the 2006 World Pool Championships hel here in the Philippines just 4 days before Manny won.  Ron bested even his idol, Efren "bata" reyes.

monday… it’s all good

it's a Monday… and i'm raving!

it's my first day on the 10am to 7pm shift today. nice shift! lotsa chance for OT (if the gf does not get too sticky, that is!).  my morning's good… i only slept barely more than 4 hours but am not complaining, it' my own doing anyway. i was up till 3am watching the 4400 TV series on DVD.. sleepy? no one to blame  but me.  but sleepiness is the last thing on my list today, i have a lot of "To Do's" but my day is starting right (hopefully, my week too!).

the gf was early at the house this morning, just almost past six. i would've complained cuz i was to wake up at 7am, wanting to leave at 8 and having at least 5 hours of sleep, but hey! i ain't gonna be an insensitive prick today, i appreciate it! also, I got to work earlier that expected (9am) and so, I have the chance to write this, yeye, finally!

so, i also made it to TOP THREE at the Morning Rush's Daily Top 10 today! a new guy (i think Jake was his name, a winner of the Radio Idol contest probab'ly, making the lucky guy the new  RX DJ) was with Chico, as (from what i heard from the JumpStart) Delle was still in the US and won't be back till next week.  Anyway, the guy read my entry which was for the "TOP TEN things you would like to do if u were of the opposite gender for a day"….to which my entry was…

"i'd spend the whole 24 makin' out with my girl so we can have a child of our own, which would make us complete."

they got the point, the guy said i was one of Ellen deGeneres' kind…and they had the wits to remind me to make sure that my  girl was "ovulating", hence we'd just be disappointed. cool men, they are.

 I just got off the cellphone with my lone sis, who was celebrating her bday yesterday. It’s good to know I’m grounded and I really appreciate the fact that the gf nudged me into calling instead of just texting. I’ve has my ruses with her, esp. when she forgot my bday last april..heh.

Oh, and the weather’s really great! Just enough clouds, enough sun. wind has Christmas written all over it. I was actually looking forward into writing about the night sky and the stars I’ve looked up to while I rode the tricycle home at 12mn-2am, the past three days of my 1-10pm shift last week. The kind of sky that reminds me of my time in Batangas,   when  I graduated from college and took mountain climbing (kuno at Pico de Loro) for a couple of days with the college paper gang. Lying on a “papag” staring at the great big sky that night left me in awe of the universe. I’ve always fancied space, the start and the comets. I wanted to be an astronaut (my secret dream) for a long time, if given the chance, hahaha. Anyway, the constellation Orion (with the Tres Marias as her belt, of course) was always the one I look up to whenever I get the chance to get a good look at a bright clear sky.

Christmas, yep, it’s here aryt! You can smell it, you can hear it, see it, feel it. We went to Divisoria so I can get a good money’s worth of Christmas lights yesterday (got it for 100, when we started the “tawaran” portion at 140), I was so excited it went up the moment I got home at 9pm.  I was busy being dazzled by the lights (with the dramatic turn off the main ones) I didn’t notice the green ones were lighting up at all, sheesh! If the kid downstairs didn’t mention why it didn’t have greens,  I wouldn’t have noticed. I made “palusot” that the lights on my Christmas tree (went up the day before) already has green lights, and taking a good aim at the chance t brag about my little green tree with silver and lemon yellow flowers on it, the kids esp. likes the sparkling Christmas balls on it. In any case, looks like I’m gonna have to find time to tear down the Christmas lights by my window so I can have the greens fixed.

The malls were already palying Christmas carols as early as Nov.2, it was as if they were more than eager to get Nov. 1 over and done with.  Well, I guess that’s why the Philippines is known to have the longest holiday season in the world, what with it  staring Nov.2 and ending at January 6 (3 Kings Feast)! Meanwhile, the air just is so cool, it reminds me of a sunny day in Tagaytay or Baguio, ang sarrap matulog!

well, it’s 10:30am, I gotta get to work,  and earn my keep. Until then, thank God, life is good! As DJ Sexy Love Delamar says what her motto is: “IT’S ALL GOOD!”

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beam me up, scottie!

Hutchison Effect – ever heard of it?

Sounds like one of those principles in Science that we come across in school, right?

Wrong. 

Vancouver scientist John Hutchison's 22 years of experiments into electromagnetism has unintentionally produced every phenomena reported in the Bermuda Triangle. The term “Hutchison Effect” has become a moniker applied to all the peculiar and startling effects his plethora of machinery can produce.

It all began back in 1979. While studying the longitudinal wavelengths of Tesla (Nikola Tesla, a radio pioneer), Hutchison, limited by space in his small apartment,  crammed into one room various devices that emit electromagnetic fields and wavelengths, like Tesla coils, RF generators, van De Graaf generators, etc. He turned them on and went about his work. In some unexpected way, the wavelengths these machines created interplayed to create astonishing effects. John first noticed this when an object touched his shoulder. . .one he wasn’t expecting because it was levitating!

Repeated tests have produced a number of astounding effects. These include the continued levitation of objects: wood, styrofoam, plastic, copper, zinc— they hovered and  moved about, swirl around and ascend, or shoot off at fantastic speeds. With further experimentation: fires started around the building out of non flammable materials, like cement and rock; a mirror  smashed (80 feet away!),  metal warped and bent and even broke, (separating by sliding in a sideways fashion), in some instances crumbling like “cookies;” some metal became white hot but did not burn surrounding flammable material; lights appeared in the air,  along with numerous other corona manifestations; and water spontaneously swirled in containers. . . to name only a few.

Read more here!

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

A friend of mine commented that his motto was “To see is to believe”, I told him to show me the wind.  Note that there is an insurmountable difference between invention and discovery, as the latter can only be the truth mostly found in nature, as The Creator would want to have it.

Time and space travel IS not too far from here.  Civilizations before us may have long known what we are only starting to discover.  Would these finally explain crop circles and alien abductions? That remains to be seen by the next generations as we continue to advance with our infantile knowledge of our own planet.  Sometimes, I want to believe that Superman can be true, or could it be just one of my wishful thinking? 

Beam me up Scottie! You "lost" me there…

mortality

I had a clear sense of what to write about today when I was on board a bus commuting to work this morning….. mortality.

Not only because to day is All Saints Day in the Philippines, when most of us make our way to the cemeteries to light up candles and lay down flowers to our dearly departed loved ones, but because I bled this morning.

Oh, don’t worry, it wasn’t near anything serious.  But it made me see enough blood to make me realize that life is indeed unpredictable, no matter how much we think or we seem to have control over it.

While comfortably seated, I decided to move to the window side to avoid being disturbed by a passenger who may want a seat next to me.  To my dumbest of luck, as I leaned on the backrest of the three-seater bench using my elbow, I got pinched by something I had accidentally forced my weight to.  I did not know what punctured the flesh near my elbow, but it was not too big to hurt too much, nor was it too small to be ignored.

I was thinking, if it was a nail and had rust on it, tough luck! I tried cautiously finding the source of the triangle- shaped puncture wound, but couldn’t.  Least I could do was warn the girls who climbed up and sat next to me. I decided to stay where I was, regardless of the inconvenient pose (being on the aisle).

Looking to the tissue I was holding with spots of my blood oh-so-red on it, I began to think….it could all end here.  Not to be pessimistic, but no one knows when they will meet their end. It can be now as you read (just kidding!).  Seriously, I have lost some loved ones, some of which I can’t seem to find acceptance that easy in more ways than one.  I feel like I could have done something better to make life easy on them, just as one of my favorite songs would go… ”I feel like I’ve been cheated, ‘cause we never said goodbye…”

Truth is, life could slip away that easy that we have to savor every moment of it.  Our lives are as petty as it is so valuable. We are mere beings who are vulnerable to fate and yet have the power to create our own destiny and legacy.

I may be am just me, but I am somebody to somebody.  It is sad to think that when my time comes to go and after a couple of years or so, I’ll be just like anybody to every body….dead.

So, if you have something you wanna do, do it now.  Someone you want to say something to, say it now.  Life is too precious to be wasted on regrets and plans and wishes. 

Carpe Diem!