Mark Wahlberg Proudly Wears Pacquiao

Yep. That's right. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg is a big fan of Manny Pacquiao. He watched him train for the Dela Hoya fight. Now he proudly supports Pacman!

Aside from that, Pacman is leading the ESPN Champion of Champions 2008!


Click here to see and vote!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Trailer

At last, an HD copy of the trailer! I've been waiting for this since early this year. The trailer was first shown to an audience in this year's Comic-Con.

Here's the video and some screenshots. I can't wait for a Gamit action figure.

























In theaters April 30 (Manila).
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am

Nominees: 2009 Golden Globe Awards

Fortunately, the writers' strike is over. This means there's an award ceremony to look forward to come January.

So the nominees were announced last week. Many were snubbed like "Grey's Anatomy". Many were also disappointed when "The Dark Knight" wasn't nominated for Best Picture. At the end of the announcement of nominees, among the hopeful "Dark Knight" men only the late actor, Heath Ledger was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for bring to life the man named, The Joker in the Batman saga.

Ledger is up against Tom Cruise and Robert Downer Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (people laughed when Tom Cruise was mentioned), Ralph Fiennes in "The Duchess" and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt".

Five men are competing for the Best Actor - Drama award. Leonardo Dicaprio in a reunion movie with Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road", Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon", Sean Penn in "Milk", Brad Pitt who is receiving Oscar buzz in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler".

Anne Hathaway, the former "Princes Diaries" star earns her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Drama in "Rachel Getting Married". Also nominated in the category are Angelina Jolie in Clint Eastwood's movie, "Changeling", Meryl Streep in "Doubt", Kristin Scott Thomas in "I've Loved you So Long" and Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road".

For the rest of nominees, visit GoldenGlobes.org. The 66th Golden Globe Awards is on January 12 (PH time).

Grammy 2009 Nominees

There's nothing much to say. As expected there were a lot of surprises with the list of nominees this year. Most of them are first timers but they can't disregard Grammy favorites like Coldplay, Kanye West and former Beatles member, Paul McCartney.

Nominees were announced in a live concert at the Nokia Theater. (Check out the ticket prices here.)

Rapper Lil Wayne tops the nomination list with eight. British band, Coldplay has seven nominations while Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Kanye West get six each.

Pop-classic singer, Josh Groban gets his second Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for his Christmas album, Noel, which was the best-selling album of 2007.

American Idol alum, Jennifer Hudson earns her first Grammy nominations this year:
"Jennifer Hudson", Best R&B Album
"Spotlight", Best R&B Song
"Spotlight", Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
"I'm His Only Woman" (ft. Fantasia), Best R&B Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals

Young R&B singer, Chris Brown gets two nominations:
"No Air" (with Jordin Sparks), Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
"Take You Down", Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

For the rest of the nominees, visit Grammy.com. Winners will be announced on February 9 (PH time).

I'm Disappointed With 'One Tree Hill' Writers

(This contains spoilers.)

Season 6, Episode 11

I'm a big fan of One Tree Hill. But last two episodes irritated me.

As we were watching episode 11, I told myself that if I have a least favorite episode, this would be it. It was an episode written by Chad Michael Murray. I recognize his efforts in making a One Tree Hill plot set in late 1930s but over-all I think it's a waste of time.


So according to Chad, there's still Karen's Cafe in 1930s and Haley's (Bethany Joy Galeotti) the regular singer. Of course, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) is the owner, Skills (Antwon Tanner) is the pianist while Nathan (James Lafferty) is the bartender. Dan (Paul Johansson) is still the bad guy, manipulating girlfriends Peyton (Hilarie Burton), Brooke (Sophia Bush) and Haley. So that's the premise.

What's wrong about it? It consumed the whole episode and in the end it was just a dream of Lucas. I won't say it's forgettable because I'd remember it as a could-have-been-better episode if it were just a 10-minute dream sequence.


I thought sometime in between, the 1930s setting would end. But it didn't. I wish they trimmed it down to 10 minutes and then went on with the plot in the present. That would have been more entertaining, seeing what happened to Julian's (Austin Nichols) movie proposal with Lucas.

It's cheesy, it's predictable, it's boring, it's comical in a bad sense.


The dream sequence is so high school. I didn't expect that Mark Schwahn (creator) would allow something like it. A dream sequence!? Come on.

SIDE NOTE TO MARK: Bring back to the storyline Haley's family. Jamie is growing up and we haven't seen them in a long time. I just find it odd that Haley's not having any conversation with them, no email, no phone call whatsoever with her family. Enough with Peyton's hunt for family for a while. Develop Haley's storyline. Everyone else's families are open book but not Haley's.

Season 6, Episode 12

In Episode 12, they're back in 2008, which is a good news! Thank God! But still I think the writers need a break. They're over-complicating things. First, with the boring episode 11. Now in episode 12, a Millie (Lisa Goldstein) and Owen (Joe Manganiello) team up? What's up with that?!?

Broke's in hell right now after losing Clothes Over Bros, Baby Angie, Owen leaving, the attack at the store and another Owen issue... AND WITH MILLIE?!?!


Plus, the predictable sad story of Peyton having cancer... duh! But she's been through a lot. Learning that she's adopted, meeting her dying birth mother, meeting her wasted dad, meeting her biological brother, probably dropping Mia (Kate Vogele) in the record label and now... she could die?!?!

I think they should lessen the drama. Yes, these things could happen. It's possible but we need a breather. OTH is becoming heavy to watch, don't you think?

I hope the coming episodes (OTH will resume next year) will be way way better than this.

(It's Funny) When People Don't Listen

I had a silly yet funny encounter with this vendor in Cybermall. I heard from Jilly, that they're selling tasty lemon squares. I was intrigued so I went there to buy. Here's my conversation with the vendor:

Raimon: Miss, may lemon squares kayo?
Vendor: Ay sir, wala na po. Naubos na. (super sad tone)
Raimon: Miss, ano 'to? (pointing at a dessert)
Vendor: Lemon sqares po.
Raimon:

The Watsons here in Eastwood has the best customer service ever. They're very approachable. (Duh!) They're very kind to customers. (Double-duh!) And they have excellent listening skills. (Amen!) This happened several months ago.

Raimon: Uhmm.. Kremil-S. Dalawa.
Watsons: Ilang po? Sampu?
Raimon:

Here's is Sel's story (still in Watsons).

Sel: Tsaka Smart load na 300.
Watsons: Smart load na 300. Ma'am, Globe po?
Sel:

Last September, I got a phone call from BPI offering me a credit card. She (the one who called me) asked some questions and we struggled to understand each other in one of her questions.

BPI: Name of employer po, sir?
Raimon: Trend Micro.
BPI: John Michael?
Raimon: Hinde. TREND. MICRO.
BPI: Ah... Trend Michael.
Raimon:

It pays to listen.

(Special thanks to Yahoo! Emoticons.)