Winning is Everything

Hah! I knew I'd win something again eventually. I'm a big fan of Click the City's Lootbox and I join almost every promo. It doesn't really take anything much. More often than not, you just answer one question about the featured movie, fill in your details, and VOILA! Congratulations, you're now in the running to become one of America's next top models. I mean, one of the winners of some fabulous prizes. Prizes are usually movie tickets or promotional materials like posters, limited edition t-shirts, and notebooks and what not. Last year, I won Wall-E tickets and Fool's Gold goodies. This time, I won a Inglorious Basterds movie poster and a limited edition t-shirt. Yay for winning! LOL.

Discover Music

Kids, I stumbled on another cool music site with streaming tracks by popular and little-known artists from all around Asia. Isn't the interwebs just the coolest?

AMP by Channel V

Thrillah in Manila

Manila Spirits was a blast.

I took Friday off from work so I could cheer on Carpet Head and the rest of his team, Team Barracks Obama, in the AOUCC Open/Men's Division. Team Barracks won two out of four games. Not bad. The party that night at Gilligan's Greenbelt was fun too. There was the traditional overflowing booze and dancing, but of course we didn't stay too long because we had a whole day of games the next day. (The pic on the right is by Ogee of Circus)

Day 1, Saturday, for the Warriors was sort of our practice for Spirits. It was the first time that all of us, old and new players, have actually played together since the last league, so the day was all about getting our chemistry back. We lost our four games, but it was all good. We still partied hard at the Saturday party in Spotlight, Pasong Tamo extension. The theme was Z-day and we partied the night away with all sorts of walking dead. I want to mention the awesome band that played that night. I don't know their name but they were ridiculously good. They played late 80's and 90's rock, which totally brought me back to the good ol' days. Anyway, it was an absolutely rockin' party.

The Warriors played a whole better the next day. Our first game was against Guambats and we played an amazing 6-point run during that game that brought us just one point behind Guam. Too bad we went over the soft cap by 10 seconds so we missed the opportunity to tie the game and play for a universal point. It was all good though. We lost our second game against Xavier by universal point. Our last game against BC was our one win and it was a well-deserved win if I must say. The Warriors showed great patience against a cup defense by swinging the disc and slowly bringing the disc down to the endzone. I'm so proud of you, Warriors!

The finals party was a blast. The Warriors went on a picture-picture spree with random and not-so-random people. Some of the guys tried to trade jerseys with folks from foreign teams. Everyone had a great time. We capped off the night with dinner at one of our favorite Alabang hang-outs, Congo Grill.

What an awesome weekend.



(EDIT: Just found out that the awesome rock band's name is NATF and they do Drunkeoke every Thursdays at 121 Pasong Tamo and play Saturdays at Capones.)

Run Run Part 3

UPDATE ON CURRENT RUNNING OBSESSION. It's not me, it's the shoes!! Carpet Head let me use his sister's running shoes that were just lying around their house and they were perfect! I tested the shoes last Sunday at the U.P. oval and my feet didn't hurt. I used them again the next day when we went for another run at the U.P. oval and my calves hurt and not my feet. YAYYY. That means I hurt because of the running and not because of torturous shoes. YAYYY. Now I just need to keep running regularly. I realized that it takes me a while to progress when it comes to sporty things, but I do eventually get to a level I'm comfortable with. I just need to keep at it.

TRIVIA! Did you know Asics stands for Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, Latin for a sound mind in a sound body? I just found that out. Isn't that cool? I've always wondered about the brand name and now I know. And we all know that...

.. knowing is half the battle. G! I! Joeeeee!

Manila Spirits!

I'm going to be awfully busy this week and the thought of work depresses me each day. Thank the heavens I have Manila Spirits this weekend! Disc all weekend! Yehey! Yehey! Yehey!

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Run Run Part 2

Last night I ran half a lap to warm up, did a bit of stretching, ran two laps, walked half, and ran one last half of a lap. Adding that up, that means I ran three laps, which is half a lap more than my goal for last night. Hah. Great. Carpet Head ran eight laps, which is about 10k. Now that is truly great. :)

I was so disappointed with myself. I know I could have done better. I wasn't too tired yet, but I just couldn't take the way part of my right foot was getting really numb. I felt a similar kind of pain last week after our first run, but it was on the sides of both feet. It's either I'm not used yet to continuous running or I'm not wearing the right kind of shoes.

After our run last week we went to Runnr so I could get assessed using their high tech gait analysis system, which is basically a fancy-looking treadmill with some kinda video cam. Haha. First, I had to run barefoot on the treadmill for a few seconds. I was worried there for a while because I'm not used to treadmills. I had this image in my head of me falling. Anyway, I survived and the guy who assisted us told me I needed Stability shoes. He also checked my running shoes and concluded that they were the Neutral kind and that they should be fine. He just told us to do proper warm up and stretching next time. Well, that's what we did last night and my feet still hurt.

Anyway, I think we're running again on Friday and this time I'm going to use different shoes. I guess we'll see if it's the shoes or if it's lazy me. :P


Visit Runnr at Bldg 3, Bonifacio High Street.