Pacquiao TKO'd Hatton

Photo: Times Online

What a class act! Now I am a believer! Pacquiao really showed us all why he is the best pound for pound boxer at the moment. I'm sure a lot of my fellow countrymen were laughing their way to the bookies today. Balato bi!

It was a disappointing two round stoppage considering I've paid £15 for the match. I was sleeping most of the time during the marathon match (starting at 10 pm until about 5ish am when it finished). I agree with what was written in the papers today about the very bad matches that featured last night. Pathetic!

I was a bit nervous when the match started as I thought Pacquiao had heavy legs as he moved. Unlike that December 2008 demolition of de la Hoya where he seemed to me as if he was moving like lightning. But it did not take long before I was reassured that Pacquiao was going to win it.

Three very clear knockdowns in two rounds. Enough said. We wuz robbed! It should have went on to 8 rounds to make the pay worth it! Go Pacman!

If you want to read a nice article about the fight read this Times news article.

Pacquiao v Hatton Boxing Fight

Photo: Manny Pacquiao's website Pacland

Go Pacman! Go Hitman! I have just began watching a marathon pay per view boxing match as I am writing this. The Pacman - Hatton fight will start at 4am tomorrow (Sunday 3 May) but there will be a lot of fights in the run up to this main fight.

Just like Pacquiao's demolition of Oscar de la Hoya, this fight promises to be another explosive fight. I think it's worth the 14.95 GBP I'm paying just like the Pacquiao-de la Hoya fight. I admit I have not seen both men box before except maybe Pacquiao's fight with de la Hoya. I'm not much of a boxing fan but I did watch quite a lot of boxing matches when I was a child.

My dad's a very big boxing fan. I still remember well the late night boxing matches we watched on our black and white Toshiba television. That trusty old tv set was the kind that also stands as a furniture. I remember the fights of Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler, Larry Holmes and many more.

If my dad's here now he too will be watching this until the main fight. I wonder if they will be watching it live too on television in Cebu. I forgot to ask him when I rang up at lunchtime to ask them how they are doing there. I might give him a ring later tonight to check if they will be watching this match, too.

I am not a betting man but if I am I will definitely be betting on Pacquiao. Go Pacman!

Britain's Got Talent

Photo: Daily Express

Forget Leona Lewis. Forget Girls Aloud. Forget Sugababes. They are the past.

Meet Susan Boyle (pictured above), Britain's Got Talent's newest singing sensation. Oh, but you would say, "C'mon, you're pulling my legs." I know why you said that. You're not alone. Even the mighty judges and the audience of the talent show thought the same.

Here's an account of what happened last weekend:

"Last Saturday, viewers saw Boyle, with double chin, unkempt hair, frumpy appearance and eccentric demeanour, step onto the talent show stage and proclaim her dream of being a professional singer.

The judges rolled their eyes and the audience pulled incredulous faces. Onlookers, on set and at home, were rubbing their hands at the prospect of another hopeless, deluded loser being crushed by a withering Simon Cowell insult.

Then she opened her mouth and sang I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables.

Her voice confounded all expectations - the judges' eyes bulged, the crowd went wild and Boyle became an instant star."

And what a hit she became in YouTube with more than 26 million views (and growing fast). In fact, she has become a world sensation because of YouTube. She's a big hit in America, too.

But why has she become such a phenomenon? Here's what a celebrity magazine writer has to say:

"In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging - the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts - the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace.

She pierced my defences. She reordered the measure of beauty. And I had no idea until tears sprang how desperately I need that corrective."

You have to watch the audition to see for yourself why she is music's newest sensation. And to think that she has not won the competition yet. Amazing!

If you want to know the rest about Susan's story read more at BBC News.

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I love playing this game. Guess who introduced me to this game. Yes, it's my 4-year old gamer son. He is so into online games (the free ones only, of course) especially those involving balls. I'd like to think that playing this game will exercise my brain by making me think. Why don't you give it a try?

Tilt-shift Photographs

"Tilt-shift" refers to a photographic technique used to create special effects when taking a photograph. I have seen works by professional photographers that were given the tilt-shifting treatment and they are amazing. Real-life scenes that looks like "model" photographs.