Manny Pacquiao may be a lot of things but he’s the only person I know that can make the whole Philippines shut up and watch (without necessarily punching them in the jaw)

A little info. Everytime Manny Pacquiao fights no crime is reported for that period.

Another info. 2 people got heart attacks and one fan got hit by a steel signage while watching.

So what are we waiting for “Wala kang katulad Manny!”

Congratulations Manny Pacquiao you make your country proud!!!

It’s Valentine’s why are you reading this? Go out and have some fun with your special someone! )

In tune with the season of love I’m presenting you with my favorite poem.

This is a classic Pablo Neruda. Enjoy guys!

Tonight I can write the saddest lines

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,’The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another’s. She will be another’s. Like my kisses before.
Her voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my sould is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Forgive me for straying away from Videogames but I promised a friend that I’d write an article about cancer. After too much time in the internet I still wasn’t able to make one so I made something else. It’s not an article but its still about cancer so I hope you like it.

A Cure for Cancer

I don’t know what cancer is.

I have experienced a love one die of cancer.

I have experienced an acquaintance’s parent suffer from cancer.

But still I don’t know cancer.

Cancer to me is taboo. A very scary thing that is best left to the imagination.

I don’t want to die from cancer nor would I like to have one. I share my sentiments with the world.

I don’t know what cancer is. I don’t want to know what cancer is!

But what if I had cancer?

Would I still feint innocence? Or would I go seek the fastest source of information?

Cancer is a sickness. A sickness that will slowly eat you until it encompasses you whole.

Cancer is a sickness. Not only is it a physical sickness but also an emotional one.

Cancer will eventually become a sickness of confidence. A sickness of hope.

How can you fight your battles when your best chance of living involves poisoning yourself.

I lay in the darkest hole. No light.

And yet there are other ways? People continue to fight each day.

They provide hope to those who have forsaken theirs.

Fight. Your love ones will you to go on.

I don’t know cancer..but I know love.

Fight cancer with understanding.

Fight cancer with love.

I don’t know cancer..but I know love.

Kinda mushy I know but if your interested in this topic you might want to drop by these other sites

Ifoundme: dedicate it!Pilipinas kontra Kanser!
Mark: Cancer chooses no gender, no class
Lalaine: FIGHT CANCER! prevent it! detect it! treat it RIGHT!
Jepoy: A Hypospray for Cancer!
Glen: Knowing is half the battle…
DocRio: Anti Cancer…
Bluepanjeet: Angel’s Wings
Dpish: A Lung-Bursting Compliment!
BroUtoy: “uuhhhmmm… what’s your sign ba?
Kamotenista: Give Hope and Support People with Cancer
Coolwaterworks: National Cancer Awareness Week
Cza: Were you depressed yesterday?
Teresa: i care
Dongho: cancer awareness SU2C

It’s official. Ziff Davis has sold its 1UP division to Hearst’s UGO Entertainment, and is shutting long-running print magazine EGM in the process.

EGM received a company memo coming from Ziff Davis containing “gee you did good but we gotta go now” kinda words and it was finished. There was not even a farewell issue. I’m not counting but what was 25 years? I think you owe it to the fanboys who grew up supporting EGM for a final issue.

I grew up reading EGM and maybe you reader did too. My friends Jepoy, Glen, Mike Abundo and Mark grew up wanting to become EGM contributors. The news was like hearing an old friend pass away.

I remember my very first EGM was about Mortal Kombat. I treasured it and went to school proud to say that I knew stuff that nobody else knew about Mortal Kombat. My buddies were EGM fanatics too and bringing an EGM to school was considered “uber kewlness”

What was EGM known for? No let me rephrase that. What do I love about EGM?

Despite continuous news of controversial editorials, pictures and constant rumors that EGM is losing money and is going to fold up any moment I’d like to remember the good times with EGM.

EGM was founded by Steve Harris and under the helm of long time editor Ed Semrad the magazine did something in the Philippines that no other magazine until now has ever done. Beat GamePro.

Did you know that Major Mike (yup the battletoad Mike Weigand) originally came from EGM)

Dan Hsu my favorite EGM contributor, my era watched him evolve from crazy writer to crazy EGM editor.

Jeremy “Norm” Scott, the artist of “The Adventures of Hsu and Chan” which literally brought back excitement to the magazine.

The Quarterman section considered until now as the authority in gaming gossip.
The Smarch issues. The best issues because of the free CD’s
Tricks of the Trade section which was once considered the best source of exclusive cheat codes.

Seanbaby’s “Rest of the Crap”, which highlighted crap games like “Britney” and “That’s so Raven”.

April Fools! What are the most memorable April Fools?

•1992: The legendary Sheng Long code for Street Fighter II in which players had to complete near-impossible tasks all the way through the final boss, M. Bison: Once there, the player could neither touch nor be touched by the boss for ten rounds, but at the end of this period the character Sheng Long would jump into the screen, destroy M. Bison, then challenge the player, this is EGM’s first (and possibly most infamous) prank.

•1998: “All Bonds” cheat in GoldenEye 007

•2000: The announcement of the new game system Giga Intellivision from Mattel, complete with “Sense Heightening Interactive Technology” (S-H-I-T), which was supposedly more powerful than the then-upcoming PlayStation 2′s Emotion Engine, complete with the tagline, “Feel it, Sony”. Because the same issue came with the announcement of the mature-rated Conker’s Bad Fur Day from Nintendo, additional controversy arose because many people believed that the Conker announcement was, in fact, the joke.

•2001: Issue included a small article in which the writers announced that Sega had found a warehouse full of old Sega Neptunes and was selling them on a website. The site referenced redirected to an online shopping site, where internet users were greeted by an “April Fools!” after adding the product to the cart.

•2002: Super Smash Bros. Melee’s “Unlock Sonic and Tails” code, where players had to defeat 20 opponents in Cruel Melee mode. The prank went widely believed for months, to a point where rival magazine Nintendo Power had to create a blurb to try and explain the origin of the rumor. It also ended in retribution for readers who wanted their favorite Sega characters duking it out with Nintendo’s characters, which would seem like a play on their rivalry back in the 1990s. After the prank was revealed, EGM held a contest where those who sent in videos of their Cruel Melee battles with over 20 KOs would win a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. In the November 2006 issue (#209), an article named “the BIG ones” suggests Sonic will reappear as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which turned out to be true.

•2003: The topless cheat for Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball in which you were supposed to go to a career mode and reset the game while at the same play no beach volley ball and return to the menu and in the suit-selection menu there would be a topless feature, this confused many people, some attempted it and sent several angry letters.

•2004: A small false preview for a The Lord of the Rings Kart-Racer that EGM claimed for it to be one of the first games for the PSP. There was a small clue in the fake game-screen, it showed the lap times that the total time would add up to 4/1/04 subliminally saying April Fools Day.

•2005: EGM told readers if they preordered the upcoming realistic-looking Legend of Zelda game (which would eventually be called The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) they would receive a copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with updated graphics equal to those of the new game, accompanied by a screenshot. Anime Insider believed the prank and published a small article telling people about the supposed preorder deal in the video game section, and many readers of the magazine were left infuriated that they had asked game stores about it only to get a puzzled look in return.

•2006: A report stating that Apple was making a portable gaming device called the iGame, as well as an idea that Apple will sell games for it. However, Apple now sells games for the iPod as part of the iTunes Music Store, which eventually did prove some of the article true.

•2007: A preview for Mushroom Kingdom Hearts, a new game in the Kingdom Hearts series, exclusive to the Wii and the third installment into the Kingdom Hearts Series (fourth if the side-story Chain of Memories is to be counted). The game would star numerous Disney characters as well as exactly 41 characters from Nintendo properties such as Mario, who would be a playable character.

•2008: A preview for Lego Halo , which provoked many angry letters from people accusing Bungie (the makers of the Halo series) of encouraging small children to play violent video games.

That felt good.

Here’s to a great Gaming Icon! Goodbye EGM!

Goodbye Sushi X! Sniff.

It wasn’t even considered a fight. Manny Pacquiao was in control since round 1. The Golden boy was no match. Presenting a blow by blow of what happened in the Pacquiao vs Dela Hoya fight!

ROUND 1

De La Hoya closed as a 2-1 favorite. De La Hoya is minus-200 and Pacquiao is plus-170. The over-under is 9½ rounds. Pacquiao comes out with a slight weight advantage tonight. On the unofficial HBO scales, he weighed 148½ and De La Hoya was 147. De La Hoya is the aggressor early, but nothing lands in the first minute. Straight left from Pacquiao and then a combination from Pacquiao connects. Lead left by Pacquiao. Right to the body by Oscar. Manny misses a big hook. Straight left by Pacquiao. Combination to the head by De La Hoya backs Pacquiao up. Right by Oscar connects. Straight left by Manny.

ROUND 2

Lead right by De La Hoya and a right hook from Pacquiao. Double jab by De La Hoya. Pacquiao is circling away. Combination from Oscar but doesn’t land flush. Combination to the body by De La Hoya. Right-left from Pacquiao. De La Hoya’s face is reddened from the punches. Pacquiao left lands and then an uppercut. Lead left by Pacquiao keeps getting through. Difference in hand speed is stark. Hard jab and then a left by Pacquiao. Lead left by Pacquiao.

ROUND 3

Lead left from Pacquiao to open the round connects. De La Hoya has to stop that. De La Hoya is doing nothing offensively in first minute of round. Pacquiao flicks a jab that is short. Right to the head and left to the body from De La Hoya. Lead left again by Pacquiao. Left to the body from Pacquiao. Oscar seems befuddled. Right hook to the body from Pacquiao.

ROUND 5

De La Hoya connects with a jab, but first 30 seconds of round are very slow. They’re circling but not throwing much. Pacquiao lands a right hook. Triple jab from Pacquiao. Combination from Pacquiao backs De La Hoya up. The way this is going, it wouldn’t be a shock if De La Hoya were to quit on the stool at some point. He’s taking a tremendous amount of punishment. Body shot by Oscar lands and then two lefts. Oscar’s left eye is closing. He looks like a beaten, old and shot fighter.

ROUND 6

Nothing happens in first minute of round. Pacquiao lands left to body and a left to the cheek. They trade in the corner and Pacquiao gets the best of it. Straight left from Pacquiao lands. Hard straight left by Pacquiao snaps Oscar’s head back. De La Hoya’s left eye is a mess. Right by Pacquiao lands on that eye. This may be stopped soon by the corner.

ROUND 7

Lead right by De La Hoya lands to open the round. Pacquiao rakes De La Hoya with a three-punch combination. Double jab by Manny. Pacquiao batters De La Hoya into the corner. He’s pinned on the ropes and Pacquiao is firing away. Fight is close to ending. Pacquiao is hitting De La Hoya hard with everything he throws. Oscar is in big, big trouble. Left to the body by Pacquiao hurts Oscar. Oscar has never been beaten like this in any of his 44 previous fights. Pacquiao is overwhelming him.
Iole scores it 10-8, Pacquiao ROUND 8
Pacquiao goes to the body and is warned by referee Tony Weeks to keep them up. Lead right by Oscar connects. Combination by Pacquiao pins Oscar in the corner. Lead left by Pacquiao buzzes De La Hoya. Combination wobbles him in the corner. Double jab by Pacquiao. Combination by Pacquiao lands. De La Hoya goes to the body. Four-punch combination by Pacquiao lands and hurts Oscar.

ROUND 9

Fight is stopped just as the round is set to begin. Manny Pacquiao is the winner. Official time is 3:00 of the eighth.

Manny Pacquiao Won!!! Congratulations Manny!!!