rematch

In a few hours, the Philippines' Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquaio will be hitting it off with Erik Morales, his opponent from last year's match. It's a re-match, one that is eagerly awaited by both Filipinos, Mexicans and die-hard boxing fans all over. It's gonna start at around 9PM US time, so since it's live, it's gonna be shown here around 10am. I remember the last time i saw Manny fight.

It was around the same time last year, and my then-boyfriend and i actually woke up early to see it. It was a sunday like this one (it's a saturday fight), and since he had no tv in his apartment, we scoured around Katipunan to find a tv that had cable so we can watch it. It was actually some surreal experience of sorts, given the fact that it was a) a sunday, and i woke up EARLY (hahahah), b) we were actually WALKING around a couple of blocks just trying to find a resto/bar that was open at 8am and had a tv with the sports channel on. We managed to secure ourselves a place in a grill bar which had terrible food but a big ass tv. Sadly, we found out that due to satellite problems, they were airing it a few hours LATER. :-P I remember thinking, i love Pacquaio and my country, but this is bull sh*t. I wanna go to sleep.

Thankfully, another friend who was also into boxing gave us the heads up to spend the afternoon at his place to watch the fight. We ended up not watching it, but hearing it on the radio, which had a faster access to the fight (Manny lost, sadly). At this point i was able to catch some zzz's and well, despite the loss, felt that the day accounted for something. The moral of this story? Well, nothing really, except, better make sure you have access to cable tv if you're planning to watch something that's as hard to watch as this.

So another year's passed and here i am again, awake at the crack of dawn and scanning the schedule to check out the fight. The boyfriend is gone, the cable tv's at my grasp, and yes, i am awake this early, so this rematch might be interesting...after all, it is Pacquaio.