WWE Live Tour in Manila 1

My first live WWE Show... and it was a blast! The crowd was hot, and their cheers never died down throughout the entire night.

Yes, I finally got to see "The Masterpiece" Chris Masters, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, "The Rated R Superstar" Edge, "100% Stratusfaction Guaranteed" Trish Stratus, and to my surprise, Maria! She wasn't on the card or anything, but she was there as the special guest ring announcer. Wow! I don't know if she came along as a last minute replacement for the recently-injured Ashley, but her appearance made my day.

Two Wild fans
Burn in our light
Best buds
The sold-out crowd in Araneta
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Maria! My favorite diva!
"I'd like to give a special kiss to that boy in Upper A..."
"Call me!"

Searching for Stars

I've been to eight music stores in counting, in different locations. Odyssey, O-Music, Tower Records, Music One, Astrovision, plus their other branches. Yet, no one carried the Cranberries' album "Stars". As a matter of fact, all of them did not carry any of the Cranberries' album. Not a single one, not even singles.

It's strange. It was as though the Cranberries disappeared from the face of the earth. Sure, they've not been producing any more singles or MTVs lately, but they haven't officially disbanded. Yet, I see Latoya Jackson's album, Celine Dion's "Falling into You", all the Spice Girls Albums, even BBMaks, Smashing Pumpkins, C-Note and OTT.

Oh well.

Free Darko Movement

(Brian) Hill said Darko Milicic, the No. 2 draft pick behind James in the 2003 draft acquired Feb. 15 with guard Carlos Arroyo from Detroit, will be given an opportunity to play -- but only after the third-year center learns the system.

I don't know about you, but it sounds like bull to me. This is the same statement the Detroit Pistons used before, and look at where it got Darko -- a human victory cigar.

Going Back to my Roots

I spent practically weeks for this task. Fatigue set in, overtime hours ticked away, but I never quivered.

I was a layout artist once more, and I love it.

The Desk Phone Disappears!

And I feel the rising prices first hand. My desk phone disappears due to cost-cutting measures. Now I share the phone with two other officemates. However, the phone is in their side of the cube thus making it a bit of a pain for me to answer the phone since I have to go over the other side.

Plus, anyone who calls will know who is calling me.

Beautiful, simply beautiful

As I commuted home from Migs' house, I saw a very cute girl with a guitar on her back. We glanced at each other for a split-second when we crossed the first street of Aurora and went on our merry way. She actually took a glance back again.

Unknown to her, I was watching her from afar. No, I wasn't stalking her, but observing her help an old lady and probably her grade school grand-daughter cross the streets of Aurora, and assist them in getting a jeepney in the middle of a push-and-shove crowd. The old lady carried a plastic chair and a bag, while the little kid had her schoolbag and snacks.

She could've gone ahead, seeing that a dozen of jeepneys passed her by and by her actions, I found out what jeep she needed to ride on. However, she opted to stay with the old lady and the young granddaughter until they managed to get on a jeepney.

I'm impressed. There are actually people who still exist up to this very day that help people without anyone asking them to, or without any major disaster that had already happened before they react. And she's drop-dead gorgeous too. Beautiful outside, beautiful inside.

I applaud you, miss Whoever You Are. You are one of those people who bring beauty and hope to this country.

Magic Sing Battle

What do the songs, Zombie and Free to Decide by the Cranberries, Don't Cry out Loud by Melissa Manchester, Viva Forever by the Spice Girls have in common?

The answer: I can sing them all pretty well, according to Magic Sing. I got a 97 for Don't Cry Out Loud, 96 for Viva Forever and Zombie, and a 94 for Free to Decide when Migs and I played around with their new Magic Sing Microphone.

We found out that Migs' sings good Creed songs, and songs of the same genre while I'm better in pop-ballads and the Cranberries songs.

We have crazy battles, especially when the "contest" battle where the songs are random and we are forced to sing songs that we don't have any idea that they ever existed.

I won all battles, even the two "choose-your-own-song (CYOS)" battles. The first CYOS battle was close, I only managed to edge out Migs by 7 points. The other 4 battles (contest & CYOS) were a bit of a rout. He ran out of Creed songs to sing.

Our third "contest" battle ended up with me singing "Ipasok Mo". Golly, Filipino artists sure think up of sexual-innuendo-laden titles.

Videoke is truly addicting. I have videoke machines set-up in the family computer at home, and in my laptop as well. But I want a Magic Sing too, it just feels different singing along to a real instrument background instead of MIDI synthesizers.

The End of a Glorious Fight

Our quest for the bowling trophy ended in the quarterfinals. I guess the magic, miracles and luck ran out.


As you can read from my previous post, our team barely made it to the cutoff. Technically, we shouldn't even be here, as the "playing coach" of my team said. If it weren't for those 100+ games by my teammate who averages around 60, we would have never gone this far.

We could've gone higher, and I kind of blame myself for my faulty 82 first game. If I only had scored around my average back then, then our team would've gone much higher, probably fifth or sixth, possibly even fourth.

It was a very interesting quarterfinal though, and we managed to somewhat give the second-ranked team a run for their money. We were facing a major deficit in the first three frames, then we rallied back in the middle frames. Unfortunately, they showed afterwards why they were the second-placed team when almost all of them threw strikes in one frame, capped by a couple of spares in the remaining frames.

Two of my teammates did not play particularly well, and the one who miraculously went past 100 in the elimination round, floated around her true average. Our "playing coach" and the "strike power ball" did not do particularly well like what they did in the eliminations. I scored 140 to lead the team, but it wasn't enough as we lost by around 50 pins.

Next time when this happens, I'll be ready. Hopefully by then, My new range of bowling arsenal will be ready.