NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming

San Sebastian’s Jimbo Aquino and Jose Rizal’s John Wilson went into their highly anticipated showdown tied as the NCAA’s scoring leaders with an average of 20.8 points a game.

Aquino on Wednesday ended the debate.

Hitting clutch shots like he always does, Aquino powered the Stags to a surprisingly trouble-free 91-76 rout over the fancied Bombers to emerge on top in Season 85 at the packed The Arena in San Juan City.

Aquino, sometimes compared to his coach Ato “The Atom Bomb” Agustin, drained a deafening triple, a short swishing baseline jumper and two pressure-packed foul shots in the fourth quarter to douse cold water on a late, desperation rally put by the Bombers to seal their seventh straight win.

He could have done a little better though if he hadn’t fouled out with less than two minutes remaining in the game.

“He’s a clutch player but I think he could be a more dangerous player if he could minimize his fouls,” said Agustin of his talented, sweet-shooting team captain.

It was also a fitting gift to their coach, who just turned 46 Saturday.

“I told my players when we had a mini-celebration last Saturday to offer this game [as] a gift to me, I’m thankful the guys won it for me,” said a cheerful Agustin.

Wilson, for his part, was nowhere his usual self as he was shackled all game that forced him to miss 10 of 13 shots he attempted and ended up with a season low nine points.

Adding salt to injury, Wilson fouled out with still a little less than four minutes in the game clock.

“Our game plan was to really contain him (Wilson), we know he’s their top gunner,” said Agustin.

After a nip-and-tuck first half, the Stags switched to attack mode in the third period and turned a shaky 45-43 upper hand to an insurmountable 74-54 lead going into the final canto.

The Bombers went to their second troopers as they tried to launch desperation rally that however was defused, due to Aquino’s clutch shooting.



NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming
NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming
NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming
NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming
NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming
NCAA Season 85 Free Online Live Streaming

Corazon "Cory" Aquino's Life in Photos

Champion of Democracy
TIME chose Corazon Aquino as its Person of the Year for 1986, recognizing her central role in one of the most compelling dramas in recent history — the widowed housewife who avenges her husband's death by overthrowing the regime widely blamed for his murder. In February 1986, Aquino rose to the presidency of the Philippines after a popular uprising that forced Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos from power. She was the first woman to be designated TIME's Person of the Year since Queen Elizabeth II for 1952.



A Life of Privilege
She was born Corazon Cojuangco, an heiress to one of the great fortunes in the Philippines. In 1954, she married Benigno Aquino, one of the most ambitious and promising politicians in the country. Before they met, however, Benigno had dated a young beauty queen named Imelda Romualdez. Years later, his political career would turn him into the political nemesis of the man Imelda married, Ferdinand Marcos, who was elected president in 1965.


The Martyr's Wife
With Benigno Aquino's political star rising, Marcos assumed dictatorial powers in 1972 and imprisoned his archrival. Under international pressure, Aquino was eventually allowed to leave the country with his wife and children for exile in Boston. In 1983, however, he chose to return to the Philippines to try to offer himself as a political alternative to an ailing Marcos. The regime warned it could not guarantee his safety; but Aquino flew back anyway and was assassinated allegedly by a lone gunman while being escorted off his plane by Philippine soldiers. Corazon Aquino flew home for his funeral.



In Her Husband's Name, Challenging the Tyrant
Without Benigno Aquino, contending ambitions prevented the opposition from coalescing around a single candidate, even as the country appeared to be galvanized against the regime. Marcos sensed their disarray and, confident in the support of his friend President Ronald Reagan, declared a snap election to prove he still had a popular mandate. Only then did the soft-spoken, pious Catholic widow to realize, reluctantly, that only she could unite the opposition, that only she could make her husband's dream come true.


The Yellow Tide
Aquino turned yellow into the color of her campaign. It was, personally, one of her favorite hues; but its political significance stemmed from the yellow ribbons tied around Manila's trees and posts (inspired by an American pop song) by the supporters of her husband to welcome him on what proved to be his tragic return home. Her rallies were seas of yellow.


An Election Against All Odds
Aquino proved to be an inspiring campaigner, evoking tears and passion wherever she spoke. Hundreds of thousands turned out for many of her rallies; Marcos responded by bussing in thousands of his own for counter-rallies. The country seemed to be polarized. Almost immediately after the Feb. 7, 1986 polls closed, Aquino stunned Marcos by claiming victory; then the official tabulation trickled to a stop and Marcos was declared the winner by the government. Aquino declared she had been cheated.


Stand-Off and then a Catholic Rebellion
Two weeks of a tense political stand-off occurred; U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who had long professed friendship with Marcos, sent in an envoy to suggest Aquino share power with the dictator. She refused, feeling it repugnant to be asked to work with a man she believed had ordered her husband's murder. Then, Marcos' Defense minister and the second-in-command of the armed forces led a mutiny against the regime; the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Manila, Jaime Sin, gave up all pretense of neutrality and ordered the faithful in the streets to support the mutineers in the name of Aquino. They came out in the millions.


Madame President
On Feb. 25, even as Marcos appeared to be adamant about remaining president, Aquino was sworn in by a justice of the Supreme Court as the first woman to lead the Philippines. In Washington, meanwhile, seeing the populace turn against his friend, Reagan called Marcos and convinced him to leave the Philippines for exile in Hawaii. The man who had ruled the Philippines for two decades said farewell to his loyalists as his wife Imelda sang a final song. Then they took off for American territory on U.S. Helicopters.


Taking the Palace
Shortly after the Marcoses departed, the successful mutineers and Aquino supporters took the presidential palace, photographing themselves at Marcos' desk, poking guns at his portraits and, most startlingly, finding Imelda Marcos' enormous collection of shoes. The tacky but expensive furnishings of the First Couple disgusted Filipinos; as were allegations of billions of dollars that they had deposited in foreign countries.


A Washington Welcome
Apart from winning the presidency, one of Aquino's sweeter triumphs was her reception in Washington in Sept. 1986, where she was greeted at the White House by Ronald Reagan, the friend of her old nemesis. Her speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress was widely praised and interrupted numerous times by applause.


The Difficult Years After
Her ascendancy to the Presidency was perhaps the most important event in Aquino's life. But it would not be the only drama she would face. She would face down several attempted military coups. She delivered on her promise of closing down U.S. Military bases in the country. But the Philippine economy would sputter on, set back by several factors, including the catastrophic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Yet, Aquino had just enough popular goodwill to preserve the democracy that her husband gave up his life for. After her single six-year term allowed her by the constitution, the people elected the candidate she endorsed for the presidency. Aquino died after a long battle with cancer. She was 76.

Source: www.time.com

I am registering for Philippines' 2010 Elections

This week was the time allotted for our district's satellite registration for new and transfer registration for the Philippines' 2010 Elections. I was so excited but also disappointed. Hehe The process is soooo loooong. Well, actually it's not the process, it's moving on to the next part of the process. Lol Am I making you confused? What I mean is, because of the volume of people who will make their registration, the process went like a stagnant water. It would gonna make you at least an 4 hours to finish your registration.

Although, it went like that, I'm still thankful that COMELEC took the initiative to have satellite registrations on each Districts in the country. I hope this is also happening to other cities, since I know specially here in Mindanao that bad groups are trying to disrupt all the efforts of government just to get attention from the society.

I must say, Davao City is lucky enough since it has already established its good governance and strict city policies and orders. Media people are also in focus to city government's actions, so I think that is also one of the factor why they are doing their job well.

Although the city government is strictly implementing all its rules and orders, there are still people who are not obeying it. Let me quote what happened to me this morning. When I'm standing on the line, waiting for my name to be called to have the final process for my registration, There was a woman, I think on it's early 40, confidently smoking and bursting the smoke from her mouth towards us, I get her attention and said, "Can you went somewhere else and there have your smoke?" she just smiled and faced back and continue to smoke while on the line. On the height of my humbleness I got pissed and went back to her and said, "Don't you know that it is prohibited by the city law to have a smoke on a public place?," [the satellite registration was held on a public school] "If you're not going to stop what you're doing right now, I'll gonna call the central 911 and get you arrested by the police." Yep! I really did it. Without hesitation, all those words blurted on my mouth. Hey, of course I said it to her using the Cebuano dialect. Haha I can't imagine saying those words in front of the locals in English. Lol


I was really happy of what I have did this morning. It was an action that benefit everybody on that place since all of us are complaining about her smoking in front of us, with other women brought their babies with them. What happened to the lady who looks like a man? She then stepped the cigarette butt and apologized in a joke-way. Hehe

I'm still 17 years old but I'll gonna turn 18 by January next year. So by May 2010, I'm then already illegible to vote... vote for my choice whom I think will chance the Philippines. Hopefully. ^^,