floating in the newsroom

At 9:10am, a tele-radyo “news anchor” bantering with her co-anchor said that tickets to the Manny Pacquiao were (in an excited voice) “sold out in a matter of minutes!!!”…
       It’s ten seconds po, not “minutes”, the tickets were sold-out online in a matter of ten seconds – it is written right there on the graphics right below the frame of your own newscast… read… it’s running while you’re talking, it’s been there since yesterday. The co-anchor was just as clueless and merrily agreed.
      To be fair, a few minutes later, in the other tv station, the news reporter live from Los Angeles on follow-up said the tickets were sold out in ten minutes while the crawlers below the frame of their own newscast said the tickets were sold-out in “one minute”. The news anchor was as just as clueless and looking “thoughtful”, agreed. Read po, yun lamang.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat (an aerial shot of the uphill trail that world boxing champ Manny Pacquiao runs)

 This photo challenge by WordPress at:  

Afloat

           

is set to music… in 10… 9…8…7….5…4…3…

do you know what uphill running feels like?

It’s like running with a sack of rice stomping on your chest.

i don’t know why Manny Pacquiao does this —

 your muscles become their strongest

 but breathing here feels like being under a tank, pressed.

afloatPhoto by Myra Lambino, an aerial shot of the uphill trail on Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, that world boxing champ  Manny Pacquiao runs every morning to prepare for the fight of the century with Floyd Mayweather,

   shot two days ago: 

To run the Manny Pacquiao uphill trail

is to fight gravity and all the forces of nature

To win the Manny Pacquiao trial

is to be the greatest fighter of the world, 

             fiercest Filipino  warrior