unbelievable cheat

aghast and heartbroken.

i cannot believe my team were so desperate to win, they copped a draw by cheating. diving IS cheating.

what has this manager turned into, to allow this?!

where is the class i always associated with this team..? i am so sad.

ngog=ughhh

U2 on youtube and liverpool 2-0 manU

beautiful day!!!

liverpool won! and U2's on youtube!
am wearing my liverpool shirt!!!


i want my old liverpool back. back to winning ways!
:D

love you bono! and larry!

wherefore art thou, xabi alonso?

head to head

head to head to head to head to head...
wasn't gonna quit. had no intention to.

a few words hushed words. a change of tone.

will see.

even the worst fools and idiots don't deserve that type of treatment.

sheeeeeeeet! on a regular day, i could muster enough patience. losing xabi from liverpool/BPL is stressing me out.

liverpool lost to chelsea 0-2. real madrid lost to sevilla 1-2.

the hurtful thing is, i have lost a major anchor. when before i had weekend BPL to look forward to, i could surmount all my woes. with xabi gone to madrid, and liverpool mucking about like headless chicken (i still love you guys, bar lucas!), what weekend is there?

¿porque la liga no esta en espn/star? por favor!!

gggggrrrrrrrrrrr. back to bono and U2. where is that martha grimes book? *sighs*

still hurts. what is the world coming to?

the fact is that Alonso was key to Liverpool's resurgence last season and without him they miss the urgency of his passes to Gerrard.


'Xabi Alonso was priceless for me,' Steven Gerrard explained when we met last month.

'The speed of his delivery was essential because it gave us the advantage over the defenders. I really miss him because I scored a lot of goals that were down to his speed of thought.

'The service, the way he controlled games, to lose that was big for us. He is one of the best in the world in that position.


Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1218164/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Its-tough-Rafa-Benitez-losing-Xabi-Alonso-X-factor.html#ixzz0T4lrRQKt

long time no blog

trying to get back in.
suffering from loss of style. writer's block. whatever!
haven't been this scared of my text productivity, ever!
i hope to get back in.

have gone through so much in the last 2 months.

will slowly pick up the pieces and get in sync.

xabi moving from liverpool to real madrid was so heartbreaking. not that i abhor real madrid. but because i love liverpool. manager treated xabi badly, though.

the highlight of the last 2 months.

españa 3rd place

XA silences SA in overtime españa 3-2 south africa! magnificent free kick, alonso! woohooooooo! stay with liverpool! you look good in red!

spain NT exits

missed the yuchengco museum opening of 'first impressions' exhibit with the embassy of spain in manila. would have wanted to attend, if only to commiserate with the embassy on the spanish NT's horrific exit at the confederation cup.

españa 0-2 ee.uu. heartbreaking, horrifying.
poor xabi.
am so not over it..

online grapevine, heard it through

jessica zafra is psychic. she was writing her column on madonna, prince and MJ-michael jackson last tuesday and now MJ is dead. yes, michael jackson has left. period. mr 'don't stop til you get enough' has thrown in the towel. what was a column is now an obit. philippine star, friday 26 june 2009. page F-4.

and so is farrah fawcett. dead, i mean. long live, long locks! now you are truly charlie's angel. rest well.

so the day started.

night out with the dearest ones

77-something. kamuning after petron. ambiguous address. good food. margherita pizza, penne pesto (lavish pesto). great time.

ten02 at timog. caught a jazz-blues jamming night. happens mondays. skarlet owns the joint and waits on tables. and sings the blues like there's no tomorrow.

som's at maysilo circle: vegetable curry and shrimp cake. not heavy on the pocket. one jeepney ride away from home. no complaints.

sonsi. somewhere along pioneer. benguet coffee, banana chips and peanuts. not bad. with dorcas, naomi and nathan, perfect!

adcon PR and Publicity baguio and tarlac

adcongress calls. and work takes you to baguio. i've always been fascinated with this city. still am. in january i got to stay at the baguio country club cottage, and this time, at the lodge.

take 2 at the rose bowl for the 21st PAC PR+Publicity committee presscon for baguio city's local press. it was a good presscon.

rose bowl along harrison and star cafe along session fill up very well. our stomachs, i mean. the raisin bread at the baguio country club means well. i mean, the goodies aren't all that bad. jones campos, committee chair brought us to sizzling plate and the food was sizzling. for the meat-eaters, i am told it is worth all the bucks charged.

on the way down, it was tarlac for lunch. the native food fish place was a bizarre fusion of buddha, baskets and brides (of the transvestite variety). like i said. bizarre.

to jones campos, jho gonzaga, jun, terence and ivy: nice getting to know you, guys! i know that i am not good company. *hugs* and to full circle: betty, jenson and mitch! :D

BUT, for real good stuff, cafe by the ruins. none the better. kamote bread. yyyuuummmmy! tried their mango-stuffed pastry. and i loved it! simple pastries, good coffee. peace and quiet. perfect.

too much to say: part 3 feed the world, save the children 2009-style

United Nations World Food Programme. Fine sunday morning 07jun09. 8k converge on rajah sulayman park at malate. place of good memories: megascopegraphics, warner music philippines, ma-an, ballet philippines, etc. 150-bucks to feed children in conflict-ridden mindanao (where i come from). it was a fine sunday morning with adobo mag workmates.

MTv EXIT. Stop human trafficking! Stop it! enough said. Take action.

too much to say part 2: more than cinema

cinemalaya V: saw ma-an hontiveros. enough reason to make the trip to the cultural center of the philippines (CCP) celebrating its 40th year, and cinemalaya V. the aspiring digital film makers of 2009 were introduced. good luck to them all! interesting stuff. looking forward to nerseri and last supper number 3. i didn't like the trailer of LS3, it felt so much like guy richie's rock n' rolla. nerseri looks promising. the cinema-photography certainly is.

centerfold: dante brillante mendoza
one of the perks of the job. Meeting positive celebs. Met cannes film festival best director 2009 dante brillante Mendoza. Not only met him, I worked on his centerfold photoshoot! I got mark nicdao to shoot. IDante dizon of tbwm\santiago mangada puno was the art director. Production designer was erl directo-cuison and makeup by al de leon. I am so honored.

too much to say: part 1 museum exhibits

too much tv. too much activity. too much to do. too little time. where have all the family and friends gone. left with a handful (those that matter). left with workmates. not all too bad.

stuff that has happened since:


ayala museum: tabuena retro. fernando zobel 1950s collection. a beautiful place. the zobel retro is ongoing. check it out! the zobel image is not allowed. i took it before i was politely told not to. i will take it down when i am told to. the tabuena images are legit.


pete jimenez's if the shoe fits. pete jimenez is humble. never would have thought of him as an artist. optima head honcho! sculptor extraordinaire. exhibit ongoing at yuchengco museum at the rcbc. it's gonna get your heels tapping. i wrote a piece on it. check out link:http://www.adobomagazine.com/global/module.php?LM=news.level1&id=1243931107304

this xabi, deshabille

shirtless, bare-chested, topless.. whatever.

his hotness. red hot chili hotness. cool and cute outside. all hotness inside!

this man may seem gentle, jovial, dorky even - he is obviously very bright and smart - nerdy, i believe. that he is an excellent passer, is FACT. one of the best, in fact!

but to do this to us, his loyal, loving, eager fans is daft! unforgivably daft, it is brilliant!

how can you do this to us xabi?! how can you keep this from us?! hide this hotness, from us?! what a jolt!

¡ay, dios mio, xabier!

¡hace calor! ¡hace mucho calor! *faints*

http://kickette.com/images/uploads/XABIFUR.gif

thank you kickettes!

collect and dust off

liverpool are runners-up in the premier league. now man f*ing U is equal to liverpool in 18 league titles. next season, the race to #19 is on! and bloody it will be!

will make a rundown of the last six weeks. soon. i hope.

meanwhile, i shall nurse my heartache at the losses of the season. as i shall try my best to ignore the transfer rumors. try my very best!

right now, i am anchoring my sanity to the upcoming liverpool trip to bangkok+singapore! chanting and singing 'you'll never walk alone!' or in my case, you'll never walk alon(e)-so!

football.

image credit: liverpool v aston villa. image appears on many sites.

patty in town

been six weeks since i have posted. life, real life that is, and its demands have taken over my virtual life. *sigh*

many events have taken place. and i have learned much from them. bottomline: integrity is the best deciding factor. whatever that means.

the most important thing that happpened in april is that i saw patty and louie! albeit they were in town for the saddest of reasons being the demise of louie's dad, nevertheless we enjoyed a great italian dinner! this was taken tue of holy week. the last image of my old hairstyle.

loveyou, patty and louie! kiss!

saving private blair, the blair teach project

he's not really. private, i mean he's special envoy to the middle east. how that works, i have no idea. need saving, he doesn't. (or does he?)

tasked to talk about negotiations, leadership. and he did. amongst other things, like having sex in no. 10 downing street.

i wonder though why the organizers made the early-registrants take the crummy seats (back rows) while the ones who arrived later, got seats nearer the stage. and worse, when the more expensive, but not near enough seats were glaringly empty, same late-comers got upgraded! from blair teach project, this was fast becoming the blair bitch project!

when people learned i attended his talk, everyone of them asked if i had any problem understanding his speech - they presumed his accent would get in the way. i, of course, said no. on the other hand, that is why i refuse to watch slumdog millionaire.

yahoo day out 2 - manila bay like i have never seen before

glorious! i have always been a sunset/dusk person. well, technically, the sun stays where it does, the earth moves around it. but that is beside the point. there's something solemn witnessing the sun rise somewhere else (that is what happens when it sets where you are).

taking a cruise along the bay courtesy of yahoo! i have never seen roxas boulevard and manila bay from this perspective before. manila appeared clean, peaceful, calm. something to cherish.

Mark Nicdao ALIVE!

mark nicdao is hard-working. perhaps that's the reason he caught the interest of viva water/coca-cola, the multinational being the sponsor behind his first exhibit. in no less than fashion walk greenbelt 5. i hope he remains what he seems to be, grounded. good work mark, and francis dayao.

richard gomez's pic. one of my first local crushes as a teenager! francis dayao, where are the images?