Showing posts with label Pacquiao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacquiao. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

From Paris to Pluto

Writing a blog post can be time-consuming. Long stretches of days not creating often leads to frustration and anxiety. Failure to find inspiration from a three-dimensional experience ushers in tedious internet sessions in my Asus Eee PC (and that is not good).

Tales gathered can be superfluous on one hand and amazing on the other.

1.Pluto's demotion from Planet to dwarf planet. Try unlearning years of stock knowledge. But, as one noted scientist correctly said, “The universe is what it is, not what we want it to be, and science must always be open to correcting its mistakes.”

2.Britney Spears shaving her head in full glare of the cameras. It is hard dealing with your problems in the confines of your own home, I can't imagine dealing with them with millions of people watching.

3.Barack Obama. America is on the verge of having the first African-American President. Times have changed, views have changed.

4.Deplorable. As a country, the Philippines is still in the process of finding a President and a congress worthy of our votes.

5.Red Sox. After wallowing in the “longest championship droughts” in American professional baseball, they finally broke the “curse of the Bambino” and won the 2004 World Series.

6.Manny Pacquiao. One fairy tale we don't want to end. He embodies our collective wish for fame and fortune (less the black eye and possible brain damage of course).

7. Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Roger Federer. Need I say more?

8.Perez Hilton. He gets 5 millions reads a day.

9.Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan. I know these are American celebrities, but they do rule internet traffic.

10.The overflowing support for Myammar, China, calls to end human rights violations the world over Darfur, Tibet, Somalia, Iraq... world peace, the standard answer for beauty pageant contestants in this part of the world when asked what contribution to society they would like to be remembered for. We laughed at the futility of it all, and yet, we continue hoping.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Pacquiao - Marquez fight

Okay so I’m one of the millions of Filipinos that root for Pacquiao. It’s a matter of national pride. It’s for the benefit of our reputation of being the basket case of Asia. At least with Pacquiao dominating the boxing scene, we can, for an hour or so forget the immensely embarrassing problems besetting the country.
Sad to say, almost all live feeds of Pacquiao fights are with a fee. They do broadcast the fights on TV but with 30 minutes to one hour delay and loaded with advertisement. Sometimes 2 round fight can last up to 4 hours if you watch it on free tv.

I know, nothings for free, and even if it is “free” it comes with a price.
Here I am 30 minutes nearing the 10 am pacquiao fight, browsing the internet for any free live feeds. Here are some links I stumbled upon:

SopCast Channels:

sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/22260
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/35999

• You need to download SopCast and you need to have a broadband connection.

A Boxing-Crazed Nation


I kid you not. My government’s Armed Forces declared a seven-hour unilateral ceasefire in its campaign against communist insurgence to give troops time to watch the Manny Pacquiao-Manuel Marquez fight.

Military operations will cease at 8:00 am, March 16, 2008 Philippine time and will end at three pm same day. And I only know this today, Pacquiao is a military reservist holding a rank of Master Sergeant.

To declare a suspension of operations to watch a boxing fight? Priceless.