MANNY "Pacman" PACQUIAO VS COTTO

Right this very moment, the streets of Bohol are wonderfully free from reckless motorcyclists, traffic violators and agents of pollutants...all because they are watching the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Cotto on tv. Forget for a while all the hassles and cares. . . Manny is on tv fighting the newest opponent.

Already there's a rumor that Manny won on the 2nd round...nobody believed me when I told them that Manny was defeated by KO on the 2nd round 2 hours ago and so I told my friends it's the other way around and the more they say no way because Cotto after all is not a mediocre fighter either. Well anyway, the main event is still two more minor ones away, so I'm taking this free time writing this short post. But whatever the outcome, Manny is and will always be a hero in our hearts.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and watch Manny...

Techie, IT and then some...

Five years ago, I didn't know what the term techie means. Then I started working with techies...so now I often hear the words like wifi, skypilot, connectors, UTP, IP address, bandwidth, webhosting, email ad, SEO, affiliates, referrals and adsense to mention just a few. Although I still don't really understand these terminologies, at least I now have some foggy ideas what they are...like rubber boots are not what you think they are and rj45s and toolless jack something hehehe...But really, not knowing anything about computers and IT these days is quite hard on you. I mean almost everyone uses the computer and because of that, you're expected the you use it too. Imagine the pressure that assumption has on people like me five years ago...which reminds me of a story about a Mom begging her son to teach her how to use the computer. Finally, after so many pleas, her son gave in. He let her sit in front of his computer and said, "Mom, this is your login homepage. Now put your hand on this mouse and.."
Her mom unceremoniously stood up and said: just because I don't know anything about computers doesn't give you the right to make a fool of me. What does a rodent have anything to do with computers?

As to where I have read that story, that I can't remember...but the sadness, I can.

unforgettable books

I grew up in a small town just a few kilometers from the famous chocolate hills. The games we played were not like the games most kids play nowadays. They were more like the ones that Kerima Polotan described in one her books.

Kerima is one of my favorite Filipino writers who wrote about the "old games" children play. I'd like to think that she is our female Samuel Clemens. It was Kerima who made me learn to love reading. Samuel Clemens' Mark Twain also made an impact. Then came Wilson Rawls' Summer of the Monkeys and Where the Red Ferns Grow. I've read a lot and I mean a lot. During my highschool days, I was the only one in our class who was issued a library card twice in a schoolyear but of all those books, the ones written by Kerima Polotan, Samuel Clemens and Wilson Rawls stood out.

Every now and then, I read them again and how they make smile.

starry nights and van gogh

I admit that the very first time I saw a picture of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, my thought was " I can do better than that". Big thoughts. From a small town girl who never made even one serious effort to paint. So what happened to the dream of becoming a painter? Nothing. It got sidetracked.

As I grew older though, my perception of life and of Van Gogh's Starry Night changed. My dream of becoming an artist dimmed; Starry Night shone brighter, When as a young girl I'd dismissed it as a childish effort to paint, now I'm moved by its consistent and vibrant brush strokes.

just thinking.

It's still several months till the next presidential election in the Philippines and guess what. Many of the wannabes are just so much into it that they are using every loophole in the election code of the Philippines just to be ahead and have more millage in the electoral marathon. But the thing is, every time i see their faces on television, I either feel like puking or poking their fat bellies, depending on the stupidity of their "nice guy" acting. Aside from being the opposite of the good guys they're acting out, they're not good actors either.

How I feel about it is not unique...I've asked several of my friends and associates and they all, well almost all of the them feel the same way.

We'll talk about it again one of these days...I'd be more specific then. Bye for now.

hello again!

my boss started another business and everyone at the office got busy with the preparations and everything that goes with it,, me including, and i miss my favorite blogs. i browsed and realized just how much i missed. so i still have a lot to visiting and reading to do.

i don't want to leave blogland...so last night, i was thinking of possible topics to post but i was too tired and fell asleep and woke up to the sound of Epol's laughter outside my door... my morning started nicely...

we're not that busy now and though there are still a lot of things and chores to do, I can at least have time to blog already...

and as to what topics, i still have to think about it.

even the photo "sounds" good enough

I was browsing for free photos and this is what I got.

I know I've posted about jazz before but listening to beautiful jazz rendition made me nostalgic.