Poker Addiction

These past days I had been busy with poker. No, it's not what you think. I lost only chips and not really big bucks. Actually what I have lost is time. But anyway, I enjoyed playing it, thanks to poker in Facebook. I started with 2,000 chips and reached up to 1,030,000 then it turned me down to 0...now I am still recovering from my BIG loss.

I have realized that life is just like poker or any games we knew. Sometimes you reach the top and sometimes you go down. It is how you manage your life. I do not consider myself a loser, I always find the reason why every time I lose in a game of life.

I am glad that in online poker I only lose chips unlike in the real game I could lose time, money, and perhaps future. I do not encourage the real game in life if a person is not ready to lose everything. Thanks to the lesson I have learned from playing it without practically paying money to understand the game of poker!

Tricky Phrase! In One Word

I am featuring the blog of Kaja. He is one of my mates in one of the social networking sites that had been designed for bloggers. Well, what can I say about this cowboy is nothing much aside from being a winner in the contest in a thread that I created. There were many answers but they did not get it right until this witty guy had gotten it correctly.

Perhaps you may wonder what game was that so to tell you further let me start with a game called “Tricky Phrase, In One Word”. There were many dumb asses around and I almost fell off the chair when I began to read their posts. Okay, it would be unfair if I will not tell you what phrase all about.

Here it is:

“If you are in IT you are E” --- simplify in one word.

That was a very simple phrase and I asked them to simplify in one word just like breaking the codes. All of a sudden there were answers like “E”, “Engineer”, "TIE" and some funny answers. Perhaps they were dying to get the reward that I had promised. Well, the reward was not about money neither for me to become their slave for a year nor anything about providing household services but to promote their blog. Blog promotion for the lucky bastard winner was really a difficult task. I made my words to feature their blog in the social net communities that I have joined. Actually by generating this post to my own blog as promised made me sick and tired. In addition to my solemn commitment I told them that whoever got it first I will praise him!

Getting back to the answers made by many of my followers in that thread entitled “Tricky Phrase, It's Just A Game", there was actually one guy who firstly got the correct answer. His name is DeadRooster. The only problem with this rooster was that I had a follow up instruction on the game before he posted his answer.

If DeadRooster had been wise enough his answer should be placed on top of the thread but instead he just posted his answer at the bottom. By checking the time of his post he really got it first!

The right answer by the way is FURNITURE please see below answer made by Cowboy Kaja:

Reunion with My High School Friends

I have met my high school friends recently after not seeing them for 14 years. Actually I have only met four of my classmates and two of them have already children. Most of them have their own families and I feel that I need to have my own as well. It was nice to have bottles of beer with them while sharing stories of past and present. Most of the impressions were about our new looks and body built. They have noticed that I gained weight and that's one of the reasons that I needed to take diet. I had tried to have a 30-day diet but unfortunately I have lost days instead of weight I cannot resist to eat plenty of foods especially this Christmas and the coming new year.

How I wish we could have high school reunion that everyone could attend but I know it is not possible since some of them have already their own lives abroad and the chance for having such party for the entire batch is very low.

I would consider one of the happiest moments in my life was during high school although I had many regrets--sorry but for those regrets it's a bit personal and I cannot disclose here. I had lost many opportunities when I was still a teenager but I am still delighted every time I reminisce the past years.

It is so nice to know that nowadays we have social media sites that you can keep in touch again with your long lost former classmates and friends but what really excites me most if I could meet them personally. Well, thanks to Facebook, Friendster, etc that at least I could get a chance to see them by looking at their published photos and what they are heading to. The communication is still there because of the technology that we know today.

Most of my high school classmates do not know that I am fond of blogging. If ever they get a chance to look at this article I would like to tell them that there will come a time that we could have regular gathering even just yearly. Those who are unable to go I think there will be no hindrance even just through video conferencing! That's the beauty of internet!

Now that it's Christmas time I hope they are in good shape and happy with their respective family.

What I Feel Right Now

While I am writing this post I am actually drunk and the culprits are two bottles of strong beer. I love this personal journal because it is my blog and anything I can tell about myself can be posted here. I drink alcohol because I have problem. I do not care if somebody will tell me I am unprofessional about this article. In my other blogs I cannot express about myself due to some restrictions on the topics.

Here, you can get to know the feelings of the writer and what is really going on about him. I am the Crazyhorse as what I have planted to the mind of my readers but I am actually into difficult situation right now and my extreme apologies for being so emotional as of this moment.

Well, I cannot disclose further more information about what I am going through as of for this very moment. I hate myself sometimes.

I live a simple life and right now I am about to decide for my life. You can write me email at livinginphils@yahoo.com and maybe for this moment you can help me with your advice...

Thank you very much for reading my articles.

Manny Pacquiao, 7 World Titles in Boxing

Last November 15, 2009 I had watched the fight between Miguel Cotto and Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao. I was so nervous that Pacman may be knocked out since I know how strong the punch of Cotto by seeing his previous fights before. The Puerto Rican champ had given his title to the Filipino challenger.

Now, Pacman is one of the world 's known pound-for-pound king in boxing arena. He is the pride of General Santos City in Southern Philippines and the Filipinos everywhere in the world.

I believe he is the only singing boxer, a comedian, a politician and highest paid commercial endorser today. Before his fight with Cotto he managed to film his upcoming movie "Wapakman" to be shown on 25th of December this year, of course in the Philippines.

Way back to his latest fight with Cotto here are the highlights:

I could not get the right angle inside the Araneta Coliseum while watching the live event courtesy of pay-per-view (PPV) so after the fight at home I managed to watch again courtesy of delayed telecast from one of the leading local television networks. On this photo, Cotto receives a hard punch from Pacquiao.

Before the fight Cotto added tattoos on his body.

Cotto is unresponsive to Pacquiao's attack.

You can see the move of Pacquiao here with his side stance. His footworks really work in his fight with the Puerto Rican defending champ. In the 12th round with having 55 seconds remaining the referee has stopped the fight in favor of Pacquiao by TKO.


Pacquiao has now seven (7) WBO world titles. They have now negotiation with Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s camp for their fight plan to be expected by next year.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has awarded the "Order of Sikatuna", the highest recognition only given to those Filipinos who made exceptional and meritorious services to the Republic of Philippines.

All Saints and Souls Day 2009 : Visiting Our Loved-Ones

Have you visited your departed loved-ones this year 2009?

Here are some of the images that I have taken last November 1 :



My grandfather who raised me to become what I am right now, a responsible and a law abiding citizen. I had learned lots from him. He made sure that I can finish my studies in college. I might become a drug addict or smoker if not what I had absorbed from my grandfather as becoming a good example. He walked the talk that's why it became effective to me.

When I was young he taught me some moral values. Despite of getting old I had seen how he loved my grandmother. His daily routine was to wake up every morning to cook for our breakfast. He did not finish his study but because he wanted to offer good life for his family he strove for the best and retired as Planner and Estimator (considering the fact that he only just finished 6th grade in elementary education)which mostly those engineering graduate can get that kind of position.

Before he died he managed to finish his autobiography. He was rushed to hospital and until on November 15, 2002 my aunt and I decided to go to the hospital in the province which about 6 hours travel by land to visit him but we did not make it. He died 11:00am and we arrived 1:15pm. He died beside his wife. He was 88.

My Trip to Pangasinan, Philippines

I have spotted two lovers facing the sea! So sweet! This picture was taken during my travel to Pangasinan, Philippines to buy fruits and vegetables and then sell off to earn for a living!

This is our dog inside our jeep. She's with us every time we are heading to Pangasinan to buy commodities to distribute to other places. It seems she's aware that I am getting a picture of her...Hmm, Nice pose "Saring" (Name of our dog)!