Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to share with all and sundry a preview of the new Philippine five-peso bill, graced by none other than Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao himself.

Congratulations to Manny “Pacman the Destroyer” Pacquiao for defeating Erik “El Terrible” Morales by way of a Tenth Round TKO (Technical Knock-Out) in their WBC Super Featherweight match yesterday evening at Las Vegas.

Mabuhay ka, Manny!

My nails have been a glittery, slutty, bright purple since Saturday. Of course, this drew positive attention all around.

My hair is now back to being black, too. Wearing purple and having my natural locks back made me feel human again.

I spent most of today setting up my computer terminal – speakers, scanner, modem, the works.

Plugging and connecting electronic devices is a very therapeutic task, I must attest.

As usual, a Saturday visit to my grandparents turned out to be really fun.

Grandfather and I went to the biggest mall in town and toured nearly the whole place except for the cinema on the topmost floor. We spent quite some time at the bookstore looking for certain business textbooks but none of the titles in my list was available. I ended up buying a paperback compilation of short stories by English, American and Continental authors the likes of Edgar Allan Poe *worships*, Mark Twain and Katherine Mansfield, among others.

We also went to Toy Kingdom and I bought a stuffed dog that I fell in love with at first sight. Grandfather offered to carry the shopping bag with the stuffed doggy and suggested that I feed my new pet so he would get bigger.

On Sunday night, the entire family watched Rocky IV (1985) over GMA-7. The movie was feel-good, superhero-ish stuff.

I believe that Rocky IV was more or less the template for Filipino actor Robin Padilla’s current hit Buhay Kamao (Life of Fists), which highlights the emotional, physical and psychological struggles of a boxer in his pursuit for victory.

I really love Dolph Lundgren’s character Ivan Drago – so stone-hard, icy-cold and emotionless that he defies humanity. It would be awesome to have a bodyguard like him!

Just finished watching Rocky III (1982) on GMA-7. The “villain” role of Clubber Lang, portrayed by Mr. T, was a little too two-dimensional and you could not really appreciate it because you never really got to know his character. It was like Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) was the embodiment of Good, and he was the exact antithesis.

I think I am growing a scary fascination on The Powerpuff Girls. Darn GMA-7, Neopets and our local stationery store for causing it. Do you know that I’m even contemplating them for a webpage layout – or even a whole fansite? Heaven help me.

Speaking of Neopets, I cannot believe what some members are doing to their virtual babies. As in some of them ABANDON their pets at the Neopian Pound for others to adopt. How dare they? They create a pet, and then just leave them when they get tired of them? Is that being fair to that helpless little creature?

I have now maxed out my pet limit of four. I have created two blue Acaras and a yellow Kacheek. And I had just blown 85 Neopoints to adopt a poor red Chia. I was browsing through the Neopian Pound when I saw this baby crying into his palms, thus my heart went out to him and I adopted right on the spot.

Just got done with a shopping spree for books and an omelette feeding session for all of them. I think all of them like sweets, too, just like real children do.