2009

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Pacquiao Squashes Cotto

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Ching under Family, Life, News.

Jen and Armando invited Brian and I to watch the Pacquaio vs. Cotto boxing match at their place, a huge HBO pay-per-view event that I’m sure all Filipinos watched all over the world. I’d never been a huge boxing fan until now. Actually, I don’t consider myself a boxing fan. I’d never watched boxing before. This was the first boxing match that I’d watched from start to finish. And I wouldn’t have watched it if not for Manny Pacquiao. I guess I am a Pacman fan, not so much a boxing fan. LOL.

Mom and Dad were already there when we arrived. Brian and I felt bad because we had dinner at Red Lobster before hand. I guess I misunderstood. When Jen said she had food, I thought she meant snacks. I didn’t realize that she actually cooked!

Of course, the first thing that Brian does when we get there is check his farm. I can’t pick on him, though, because I had to check my farm too. LOL.

Mom and dad left early, even before the match began. I think this might have been so that Jenni and her boyfriend could come and not feel the pressure of meeting the parents. LOL. Jenni never showed, though.

Apple and Andrew came. They arrived just in time for the Pacquiao-Cotto boxing match. None of us were really interested in the pre-fights.

We were all there to cheer for the Pacman.

I have to post Armando’s “Team Pacquiao” shirt because it is awesome.

I was worried about Pacquiao at first because he is much smaller than Cotto. Pacquiao actually had to gain weight in order to fight in this weight class. After the fourth round, though, I knew I had nothing to worry about. Pacquiao is amazing!

I’d never been excited about boxing before. He had all of us screaming and cheering. It was super exciting. We were so loud (specially Jen, Apple and I) that Brian was worried Jen’s neighbors would call the cops on us. “I should have brought ear plugs,” Brian exclaimed at one point during the evening. LOL.

Thank you to Jen and Armando for inviting us over. It was the first boxing watch party I’d ever attended. Thank you for making this first a truly memorable one.

Thank you to Manny Pacquiao for another amazing victory. He did not disappoint at all. He delivered an exciting match and another boxing title that all Filipinos can be proud of… He is a true national hero!

If you missed it, here is a round by round recap on the LA Times. I’m sure there are video clips on YouTube also. I will try to find those for you guys. Enjoy!

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Cada Wins the WSOP Main Event

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Ching under Life.

We watched the WSOP final table with Jay and Becca on Tuesday night. Of course, all of us — with the exception of Jay — already knew who won because of all the news and blog coverage. Jay didn’t want to know, though, because he wanted to enjoy the show.

He purposely avoided Yahoo! and the internet blogs and even our Facebook because he knew that we’d be talking about it and spoil the fun. Jay was really disappointed when Phil Ivey got knocked out. I was disappointed too, but not as disappointed as when I read about it on Pauly’s blog. I knew what was coming so I was prepared for it, at least.

To ESPN’s credit, they made Phil Ivey last an hour and half into the show. I’m sure they knew that everyone was rooting for Phil to take it down this year. The enthusiasm and energy level just wasn’t the same after he was out.

It was so funny watching him writhe and grown and flop all over the floor. When it was down to the final two, he was totally rooting for Moon. Jay continued to wince and whine and say comments like “I hate Cada. I hope he doesn’t win.” I didn’t say anything. LOL.

Despite Jay’s protestations, he couldn’t change what had already taken place. Cada won. I’d actually read quite a bit about Cada in the poker blogs. I’m glad he won. I was rooting for him because I wanted to see a new record set.

We had a blast at Jay and Becca’s on Tuesday night. I even had fun creating a Mii, even though it told me I was overweight. Of course, I already knew this. Brian is overweight, too, so at least I’m not alone. LOL. He carries the weight so much better than I do, though. He doesn’t even look fat to me. Men have it so much easier.

Anyway, Brian and I restarted our gym membership yesterday (thus, the Twitter posts you saw if you follow us; you might have seen the updates on Facebook also because Twitter updates my Facebook status automatically). I think we are going to get really serious about losing weight this time.

P.S. Besides being overweight, apparently my physical age is 57. LOL. I have my work cut out for me.

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Family Celebration at Legends

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Ching under Family.

I can’t believe I forgot to post the pictures we took a couple of weeks ago when we were at Legends at the Airport Hilton celebrating my birthday, Grandpa Clark’s birthday, and Grandma and Grandpa Brubaker’s wedding anniversary.

Grandma and Grandpa Brubaker’s wedding anniversary actually falls on the same day as Grandpa Clark’s birthday, which is on October 12 (Columbus Day is how I remember it – LOL). It works out because Grandpa will never forget their wedding anniversary, since it’s the same day as his birthday. Grandma is clever like that. LOL.

My birthday is on the 30th, the day before Halloween. Since these dates are pretty close together, we always celebrate together. This year, however, we couldn’t celebrate until November 1 because mom, dad, Brian and I were in the Philippines for the first part of October and then I’d been in and out of town for work as soon as we had arrived back. Weekends involved coming in to the office to review and approve time tickets and packing for the next trip.

Instead of putting it off longer, which will run into Thanksgiving, Brian and I managed to find a small window on November 1. The date worked for everyone so were able to get together for brunch.

Here are some of the pictures from that day:

Jenni and Donna, chatting. It was warm enough that day that Jenni was able to wear the Cebu souvenir shirt that Brian and I got for her.