The Day The Crime Rate Comes Crashing Down

In the next few days, Philippines will watch as our great boxer Manny Pacquiao attempt to garner one more victory. I love watching Manny Pacquiao fight, he is one of the best boxers in the history and definite a great symbol of so-called Philippine pride. His worldwide televised fights actually lessen the crime rate locally, but that is another story, I want to talk about the irritating and annoying side of watching Pacquiao fights as presented by our local TV stations.

Very biased local commentators
Actually I don't mind listening every rant by our local expert commentators since they add the so called Filipino flavor, but most of the time there are kind of biased. They always praised Pacquiao like Jesus. I think most of the time they just blatantly ignored his opponent's obvious efforts to decimate Manny. Some of their lines were downright hilarious, exaggerated and ridiculous like injecting the power of the Filipinos in every punch Manny throws to his opponent.

Pictured: Power of Pacquiao's punches in nifty mob form.

Pacquiao always win mentality
I remember all the hype made by the media that Pacquiao will win his second bout with Erik Morales. All the festive celebratory mood of Filipinos were suddenly crushed when Pacquiao lost to his sophomore fight to Morales. Always remember that this sport is a competitive nature. Manny is not invincible and he had already 3 losses under his professional record. I will not be surprised if Manny will be defeated in his next fight because there is always a possibility that he or may not win the fight.

Victoly! er, Victory! even if Pacquiao loses because we are PROOUUDD!

Commercials, too many commercials
The pay-per-view concept is not a thing here locally and we thank the advertisers for providing us access to the show. On the other hand, we are bombarded with left and right commercials. I think there are more commercials than the actual show. Even between rounds and replays they will show another commercial. Sometimes the commercials kills the phasing of the matches. I think you can even have a long ass bathroom break whenever a set of commercials is on and when you return the commercials are still there, slapping us silly with construction materials and laundry products.

Aftermath after showing ANOTHER commercial for the 816th time

Undercard matches are highly under appreciated
A big boxing event does not evolve in main event alone. We should start recognizing other fighters competing in mid card, even in lower cards. The other matches, even if there are gem and five-star worthy of a match will always be overshadowed by the big main event. Local media should start advertise thoroughly everyone in the undercard, especially the relatively newbies. Remember Pacquiao also started somewhere in the undercard.

Undercard is sad

Everyone in the country will stand still, even criminals, watching and screaming in enjoyment as one guy tries to decimate the other guy. Hell, its entertainment for everyone and others even make gambling out of it. On the other hand, thanks to the Internet, I can watch the boxing fight without any annoying commercial interruption and biased Filipino commentators, via Justin Television, SOPCast and anything Google that can offer.

Those Other Computer Thingies

Today the world is getting smaller in terms of inter connectivity thanks to Internet. We all know the Internet, you know, created for the purpose of exchanging insightful ideas but later tarnished by people who are into furry, scat and other horrible fetishes.

A lot of common everyday stuff is now computer assisted with names that has letter E or I at the beginning like E-Mail, E-Brochure, E-Poke and I-Pad . I am a blogger, a Facebook user and a regular guy who participates in some online message boards, but still there are some computer things that does not apply for me, I just can't feel it.

My own personal Twitter account
I read some Twits from some celebrities, news sites and friends but I just can't have my very own Twitter page. I am not that guy who is always connected to the net and starts showering everyone with my updates, clicking the like button left and right and being just active in social media.

Homer Knows Twitter

They say its like a lite version of Facebook status thing, but in Facebook I don't regularly post statuses, even in this "best time-wasting blog ever ®", I can't write anything in regular basis even I do love writing stuff.

Banking, ordering stuff and anything involves with money via the net
The closest thing that I have done with e-banking is just checking out my savings balance online. Even it is user-friendly I still prefer physical contact when I do money transactions. I think it is more reliable talking and interacting with people than rereading FAQs that mostly filled up with bank jargon that may sound gibberish to you.

The Masked Internet Robber at work

I still don't trust the series of tubes called the Internet when it comes on ordering and transacting stuff online. When I want to have my food delivered I rather dial their delivery number. If there is something I want to buy that is available locally, I will just drive there and buy that stuff. If the stuff is not available locally and can only avail abroad, I just move on especially if it is just a novelty item.

Using Facebook Applications
I only use Facebook for statuses, viewing photos, clicking links and watching videos. Using miscellaneous applications that rampaging throughout the tubes of Facebook is not my thing.

A Super Poke (citation needed)

Some will super-poke me expecting to super-poke them back and receiving lots and lots of gaming or application requests that fills up my notification page that I will drop, probably after a year later.

Reading a whole E-Book in a computer screen
Maybe read an E-Book with less than 20 pages is tolerable enough but reading a complete more than 20 pages E-Book via your screen is nerve wrecking and make my eyes hurt worse than my Bells Palsy experience. The current rush of touch screen products like iPad makes reading E-Books easier. But, having the real physical book is still better than reading E-book for its sheer convenience in reading.

also a good storage for your orange gun collection

Reading a text heavy in a screen with light-colored background is like staring directly in a tungsten light bulb.

Playing online games
The last time I played an online game is way back in my freshmen years in college. Counterstrike is the most popular online game back then and my old computer can actually run that game. Later, when a surge of online games, mostly RPGs popularize by Ragnarök, starts sprouting like flowers I just did not feel like playing it with LAN parties, real competition that encompasses across the world.

and at the same time they are planning a real world domination
via the power of Internet

I love videogames but I just can't see myself dealing with very complex games and I don't want to throw some money just to get some good stuff in the games. I still play quick flash-based games from time to time but current wave of online gaming is not my cup of tea.

Listening to podcast
I love listening to radio, it's already a ritual for me to tune in to Magic 89.9 whenever I drive to work in the morning, and later setting the radio to Jam 88.3 while driving back to good old Las Pinas City. I also listen to online radios but listening to podcast, especially the ones primarily focusing on speaking and no audio or music support whatsoever is not appealing for me, it's so darn boring.

Seeing guys bored to death is more entertaining

Majority of podcasters out there sounds monotonous and not entertaining. Some of them are just randomly rambling about anything and you wish you can go to that podcasters house, get his wired mic and strangle him with an ease.

You are most likely into the stuff I mentioned above but like what I always say, different strokes for different folks, you may like Twitter but you don't want to blog yet I like to blog but I don't want to create and be active over at Twitter. I like the whole internet thing because we can communicate with other people easier; relive nostalgic things in various ways; and of course torrent downloading but some stuff in computer and Internet thingy that I just can't see myself using in a regular basis.