Just feeling it right now :) When you see yourself in a crowded room Do your fingers itch, are you pistol-whipped? And will you step in line or release the glitch? And can you fall asleep with a panic switch?
I thought they were Tinted Windows at first...astig yung drummer parang yung drummer sa muppets :)
So I've been sick the past few days and I've had nothing to do at home but be online for 14hours straight. Manny's fight is coming up and it's not hard to miss blogs and websites picking up on Nike exclusives. I got the run down courtesy of Nike Philippines:
Team Pacquiao Quickstrike Tee(Php895, approximately $18) The mainstay of every Pacquiao fight, the tee took the simple route this time skipping the display of Manny's image just as in the 2nd shirt in this series. Comes in black and white colorways. The description from Nike:
"Let everyone know who you’re rooting for, with comfortable, graphic tees. On the back is a screen print of the great Philippine Eagle, the symbol of power seen on Manny’s crest."
Nike Trainer 1 (P5,029 or approximately $102)
You know you've made it when you've got your own pro model. Jordan has more than 20 and now Manny has his very first one. It's kind of hard to market this as this isn't the actual shoe that he uses when he boxes, but as with any piece of pro gear, this is still worth it imo being the first one.
from Nike: Nothing stops Manny from his morning run, he hits the road in his versatile trainers, complete with an AIRMAX unit to provide proper cushioning, DIAMONDFLX technology allows him graceful, multi-directional moves, while a lightweight unisole lets him lift his feet up with ease. Manny’s trainers are built with supportive microfiber synthetics giving him all the freedom to blaze through the streets of LA. (smokehead pala si Manny, nagb-blaze)
Available only on May 3, 2009 at Nike Park Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City, Philippines.
AND NOW>>>
The Manny x Nike franchise has jumped on the hype bandwagon with the next few pieces. Nike's flagship store setting up shop at nearby Mag:Net cafe to accomodate the release of limited edition tees and jackets. Complete with a first come-first serve, one piece of a specific item per person policy, Nike has capitalized on their sponsorship of boxing's man-in-the-spotlight right now. This isn't your Air Yeezy launch, expect everybody from all walks of life to be there, from boxing fans, sneakerheads/hypebeasts, kids, sports enthusiasts and just the average joe in the line.
POPUP STORE DETAILS from Nike:
read it and squint.
THE PRODUCTS:
Pacquiao Pride Windrunner Jacket (P3,995 or $81)
Wear the colors of the Filipino champio fighter. Jacket design drafts off iconic chevron design windrunner styles featured most recently at the Beijing Olympics. Made with lightweight taffeta fabric, it gives Manny freedom to move when he trains.
Team Pacquiao People's Champ Windrunner Jacket (P3,695 or $75)
Even if you can’t stay with Manny in the ring, you can look like the people who do. Made with lightweight Taffeta fabric to give you freedom to move
Make a statement in red, white and gold. There’ll be no mistaking whose side you’re on
<<WIldcard Gym Tee (P1,095 or $22)
Manny’s battles begin long before his fights. Let the world know where team Pacquiao spends most of their days
Southpaw Eagle Tee >> (P1,095 or $22)
Take the stance of a true champion. Whether or not you’re left-handed like Manny, you’ll be part of a winning team.
(and the most-limited piece of them all)
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE GEAR Peoples Champ Windrunner Jacket (P3,695 or $75)
Nothing cheers for Manny Pacquiao more than these limited edition Varsity Red windrunners. Own one of the 20 pieces available. Find out how (links to mannypacquiao.ph)
I still have no idea about the details of this deal but mannypacquiao.ph already has an article about it. Apparently people on the West Coast will also have a chance to score these items at the Montalban Theater in LA starting Saturday, April 25 and Fatlace starting Monday, April 27.
Will I be at High Street to get any of these? Maybe. What did I just do here? Add more people in the line. Hey Nike, this one's for free.
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The Gerry Penalosa - Juan Manuel Lopez fight just ended as I was posting this blog. Darn, JuanMa gave it to Gerry good. Gerry kept up and did a good job in defending himself but the Puerto Rican was just too much for him. With the height and reach advantage, Gerry had to stand up straight to counterpunch everytime Juan Manuel jabbed at his gloves, Juan Manuel attacked the body only to leave Gerry bowing lower to cover most of his body or inevitably, lower his gloves to expose his face. After the nintheighthnintheighthano ba talaga ninth round Gerry's face was a swollen mess and Coach Roach called it off to give the Lopez the win.
You have to give it to Gerry, 2-time world champion and 20 years of being a pro. That means he was already pro when I was five years old. Kudos, Master Tactician, it was a good fight.
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On the side, I noticed that energy drinks are picking up here. No where near Monster or Rockstar, but the marketing and advertising push for Cobra is an impressive one. The current TV ad reminds me of UnderArmour-style photography (ok, ok, Dave Hill) emphasizing on power. Add to that sponsoring the upcoming full Ironman Triathlon in Camarines Sur edging out Gatorade, and hey it doesnt take much to wonder if these people are making money! I've read in some places that it doesn't taste good at all but it really works. I think they should spend a bit more time on R&D and make it a really good product. I personally think it looks like piss so they could just put it in a can.
Funny note: I heard somewhere that cab drivers buy Cobra by making a certain gesture. To do this, put your hands in front of you (like a zombie), put your left hand above your right bicep, retract the back of your palm towards your face but your fingers still pointing forward....
edit: here's a pic edit edit: fuck wala akong makita sa google haha.
So after an all nighter at the office, I get home late and logically...I woke up late. Seeing as I was in the mood for some adventurous ideas, I imagined myself skating to work. All this while being totally naked sitting on the can, complete with drool on my face.
I finished all my morning rituals and was on time actually, for being late. But I went through breakfast and all that in record time. Maybe I was just excited about the thought. I strapped my right hand glove on and got my board from the trunk of my car. Pushed towards the exit of our compound and was met by the ubiquitous puzzled look and occasional psst as I rode along. I encountered my first challenge by the form of a Coke truck breathing down my neck so I kinda mellowed my carves and just ride it straight on the side of the road. Truck passes me by but I was still catching up so I tried my hand at skitching since at the rate it was going, I could've even passed it. Just that the road was narrow so I held back on the urges, and we were out on the road in no time. I push like crazy and held speed till I can get to the overpass and cross where I can catch a jeep going to the MRT. But as soon as I was seated on the jeep I realize that I forgot my mp3 player in my excitement to get out. Bummer.
We arrive at Quezon Ave and I was just minding my own business carrying my board around when out of nowhere...
my foot gets stuck on the stairs going up the pedestrian walkway. WTF. My shin catches the edge and I hobble as I go up the stairs. All the while I was thinking that walking was stupid when I'm carrying around a big ass board. Now people think I was stupid and that I might've gotten hurt while riding. It still hurts as I type.
Anyway. Now the hustling and hassle doesn't stop there, as I make my way through the line at the MRT, I am stopped by the guards to say that my board isn't allowed inside. I reason that I can't even do anything to it since there are a lot of people. The guards don't reason back and I just make my way in. But when another guard tells me the mantra "ser bawal skateboard" I just walk and suddenly he's infront of me to tell me I need to talk to the station manager. Well he didn't even tell me that, he just assumed that I was following him. But I did as a passenger would do and insert my ticket into the turnstile like everbody else (he went through the metal gate where the other guards are). I follow him to the control station and tell them where I'm getting down, that I use my board to get to work and that it's pretty useless because my helmet was strapped on the wheels and it won't go anywhere. To make a long story short:
I was a happy camper (albeit having adding a guard to the list of people I ticked off today). My pawis dries off since somehow I dropped the face towel I was supposed to wipe sweat with. I get more puzzled looks as to what I was carrying was, but I just sat there thinking that there must surely be an easier way commuting with this thing. And to top my train adventure off, someone tries to be a pick pocket and miserably fails. What a day.
I get off at Ayala, moving along like all us train zombies were. All headed in one direction, escalator-climbing, ticket-inserting-then-brisk-walking-away-from-the-station zombies. I still keep on wondering where I could drop my stick and ride it but since I have this mindset that all these guards are stuck up and will probably lay down the law on me once I even drop the thing, I just carry my frogfish til I'm out of private property. It takes quite a while and the wood grit spray-grip roughs up against my Boon shirt (which is great for riding, I must say, but not for rubbing grip against with). I get to the intersection of Legazpi and Dela Rosa which was practically quiet since it wasn't mall hours yet and lunch is still a couple of minutes away. I ride again like it's my first time. Just feels good to get smooth asphalt under my 'zags. Nice breeze on sweat-soaked fabric. Car horns still present but slightly muted. 5 minutes of carve-commuting bliss. Which was sadly and abruptly halted by some jerk who doesn't have the idea that the road was two-way. I hop off my board and tell him my piece of mind and I'm back on my merry way again. Crossing a couple of intersections and sidewalk surfing for a while, while getting my last set of puzzled looks from college students already on lunch break and that's it. I'm ready to do my normal, daily grind (engeng tshirt pls).
All in all it was a nice experience, from really pissed out lows to just floating highs, skating is something that I just feel good about, like nothing else. And thanks for reading how my day started, hope I read about some of your skating experiences :)
Aside from this there's nothing much new that Apple announced in today's Macworld 09 keynote. No iPhone news (except for iWork integration), a new Mac Mini, heck even Steve Jobs wasn't there.
Here's the low-down on the new and rather expected-because-it-was-kind-of-late iteration of the MacBook:
17-inch LED-backlit display
2.66GHz or 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
6.6 pounds; 0.98 inch thin
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics
Three USB 2.0 ports
FireWire 800 port
ExpressCard/34 slot
Built-in battery
What's not said in those specs: * +$50 for a matte screen * longer battery life * thinnest 17" * should come with the new iLife and iWork suite
All yours starting at $2799.
What else is new? - New iTunes pricing scheme - iTunes 3G store & DRM-free music - iWork.com (sort of like Google Docs) - iLife - iPhoto with face detection, geotagging ala flickr/facebook. Garageband real artist lessons (read: Rockband), iMovie improved cuts - Steve's "hormonal" imbalance.
in other news...damn you X1!!! PhP42,000+ just not worth it. Just sucks so much for something I've been waiting for for almost a year now. so now I'm looking for either an unlocked iphone ($300-500, PhP 25-32k from what i heard) from here in the Philippines or a T-Mobile G1, ($300+ unlocked, a little above PhP15k).
BUT! If anyone knows where i can get a cheap X1 (400-500)...drop me a line!
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hours after performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.
Officials said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence. It came to rest on an embankment across a five-lane highway and was engulfed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said.
Two other passengers — Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, according to the county coroner. Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.
The plane was headed for Van Nuys, Calif. It is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a California-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year, Hersman said. The company said it had no immediate comment.
At the crash site Saturday, the air was still heavy with the odor of jet fuel. A trail of black soot led off a runway. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.
"It's absolutely terrible and tragic," Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said.
Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night. Event sponsor T-Mobile said their hourlong set ended at about 7:15 p.m.
The show, which included performances by former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell and singer Gavin DeGraw, drew 10,000 people into the streets of Five Points, the neighborhood near the University of South Carolina, Coble said.
Peter Kastis, Farrell's manager, said he and Farrell didn't find out about the crash until they arrived at the airport Saturday morning to find it closed.
"I just hugged them hello less than 24 hours ago. I wish I could hug them now," Kastis said.
One concertgoer said TRVSDJ-AM's performance was unique and different.
"It was literally one of the best shows I've ever seen," said Brett Flashnick, a freelance photographer who works for The Associated Press and attended the concert for a local newspaper.
Barker, 32, was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182, whose biggest album was 1999's CD "Enema of the State," which sold more than five million copies in the United States alone.
After Blink-182 disbanded in 2005, Barker went on to form the rock band (+44) — pronounced "plus forty-four." He also starred in the MTV reality series "Meet the Barkers" with former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, to whom he was married at the time. The show documented the former couple's lavish wedding and life. Their later split, reconciliation and subsequent break up made them tabloid favorites.
Goldstein is a popular DJ for hire who at one time was engaged to Nicole Richie.
He spun a mix of hip-hop and dance beats for the hottest nightclubs and had a string of dates set up for the next few weeks. He reached the peak of his celebrity perhaps during his highly publicized romance with Richie a few years ago.
DJ AM also dated singer/actress Mandy Moore, and while he became a gossip favorite for his romances, he drew respect from music aficionados for his DJ skills.
Barker and Goldstein performed as part of the house band at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.
Take this test to see how good you can distinguish colors. The lower the score, the better. Some have scored a perfect 0 (weird), I scored a 4. I now have four grey bars permanently burned on to the back of my eyes
guess what
skate shop
the only longboards that they had. well this and s9.
kicks
doggies
bomberman! hehe that headgear's weird. Anyway.
