Happy Birthday Janette Toral!

As chief proponent of the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 and founder of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, she is among the pioneers of Filipino personal online media. Towards the end of the 20th century, she pulled me out of a plucky little university seminar and plunged me into the thick of the Internet industry. If it weren’t for her, you might not be reading my blog today.

Happy birthday to my discoverer and mentor, the Digital Filipino, Janette Toral.

Filipino MMA Fighters

Even though I’m six feet tall, I could never understand why Filipinos love basketball. Our players are shorter than Western players. It must be colonial mentality. As Manny Pacquiao demonstrates, we’re so much better at beating the shit out of people.

That’s why I was glad to see Filipino mixed martial artists Justin Cruz and Lino Tagacay duke it out at the Platinum Ring of Fire MMA event yesterday. Cruz finished the fight in one round. Clearly, Filipinos could stand a fighting chance in this sport.