The Pacquiao Non-Knockdown in Pictures

The following screencaps of the 10th round Pacquiao knockdown in the Mosley fight show that it was really not a knockdown at all. Referee Kenny Bayless later apologized for the miscall. Mosley stepped on Pac's foot, and as Pac stepped back, Mosley pushed (not punched) Pac away.

The 'knockdown' woke up PacMan and it made the remainder of the fight interesting. He was already in the middle of the ring several seconds before the start of the 11th, eager to resume the fight, while Mosley's seconds were still on the ring.

Despite the call, two of the judges gave PacMan the round, while the third gave it to Mosley 10-9. PacMan can do no wrong.

If PacMan seemed to grope for the right combinations in the middle rounds, he definitely groped Paris right after the fight. PacMan is a god.

Manny Pacquiao deified

What Manny Pacquaio wants, Manny Pacquiao gets.

When PacMan demanded yellow gloves for the Mosley fight, yellow gloves he got, even if traditionally only black or red gloves are used. He also requested his fans to wear yellow to support what he calls the biggest fight of his life - the fight to eradicate poverty. And us fans wore yellow alright as requested.

Women's tennis album - April 2011

White hair chronicles LXII: 50 years of human in space

This week marks the 50th anniversary of man in space. On April 12, 1961, Russia's Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute orbital flight aboard the Vostok 1. Gagarin's short stature (5'2" or  1.57m), on top of his outstanding training and intellect, made him the prime candidate for the post, considering the space challenged (pun intended) cockpit of the spacecraft.

Today, commercial space tour flights are just around the corner. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic accepts booking for a place in their future space flights. Tickets are at a hefty $200,000 (8.7 million piso) or about the price of two second hand luxury cars of Pnoy, or half of Mikey's purported share in the SFO house that he sold. Come to think of it, Mikey and wife can go buy tickets to space with their earnings from the sale.

Summer's here! Fire prevention reminders should stay.

After saying last month that summer will be delayed, Pag-asa finally declared that summer is here. The weather agency advised that summer has officially started. It further said that summer will be cooler this year, and boldly predicted that a wet Holy Week looms. How's that again? Is Pag-asa back to its hopeless ways?

The weather really seemed fickle in the first quarter. Not that we're complaining. The cold spell lasted a bit longer early this year. Then some parts of the country got flooded due to heavy rains. Then summer got late. Pagasa attributes all these to climate change.

But through it all, Pagasa sustained the credibility it got after a change in management early in Pnoy's term.

With summer delayed, I think the government should sustain or reiterate this April the fire prevention consciousness efforts traditionally made during March. The light material in many houses are tinder dry by now. I noticed that there are more fires this month than in March.

I hope the prediction of a wet cuaresma holds true. Until then, how about running those fire prevention reminders again?