The sweet taste of goodbye kisses away all the bitter memories of you.

the smile i gave, the look he made....ahhh! perfect! oh my, my lee min ho! here i am, your son ye jin! :-)

Cruel Indifference

To wait seems forever,
for I have stayed here so long.
To hope fades with a glimmer,
for I have almost lived in your shadow.

My world stopped moving,
but it didn't matter to you, I know.
Now I think I made it right this time,
because...

To continue is senseless,
'cause you shun even my slightest attempt.
To love you is worthless,
'cause you break my heart with your cruel indifference.

The love I had wanted to give you is now up for anyone to get. The question is, will anyone ever take hold of it?

Manny: The Plight of the Human Spirit

After his convincing victory over the much bigger and heavier Antonio Margarito, Manny Pacquiao’s luster has been elevated to a level much greater than any other boxer in the modern era. It is without a doubt Manny’s most hard fought battle. I guess that out of all of Manny’s fights, this one deserves every right to be considered the most dramatic one. It is the fight that bared all the aspects of the superstar pugilist’s personality in and out of the ring. It showed us that he possesses both a fighting heart and a compassionate one at that.

Going into the fight, the odds were clearly in favor of Manny. It is an anomaly by logical reasoning since he is in fact smaller and lighter than Margarito. There have been so many David and Goliath stories in the past. Manny’s tale does it in reverse. He is the David that has Goliath’s power. It seems as if we’re made to believe he can put any big man down that gets in his way. Now that’s what you call a myth.

And so Manny, in his usual relentless style of boxing pummeled through a dazzled Margarito, stunned him with lightning quick punches which Margarito often never saw coming. By the end of the fourth round, Margarito’s right eye was cut badly and swollen. It was only then was he beginning to feel the real power of the little man he was facing.

The bigger man had his own moment in the sixth round as he pushed Manny to the corner and hit him with big body shots that for a moment scared the hell out of those who love the national fist, including myself. But like a true champion, Manny moved on to win the succeeding rounds with accurate punches to Margarito’s head which caused the poor man’s eyes to swell even more.

By the end of the tenth round, Margarito was ceaselessly being hammered by Manny’s countless blows. The fight should have ended there but Margarito never stopped fighting. He refused to quit even if it meant endangering his own life. And although, the referee often checked if Margarito could still see after having such a bad cut, it seemed the agony for both fighters was long enough to show us the true plight of the human spirit, the courage of a warrior’s heart and his compassion toward a fellowman.

I have never seen anything like this in recent times. Or maybe I have, but only in films. The courageous Manny we often saw attacking at a chance of knocking out an opponent was human enough to allow his foe to finish his game. He clearly never took advantage of the fact that Margarito could barely see and hit him, rather it became the reason he didn’t want to punish him any more than he had already received.

At the end of the fight, the result was not as important to me as the manner in which Manny handled the entire game. I was in awe. Not only did he prove himself worthy to be listed among the all-time greats in boxing, he has somewhat proved to be one of the few inspirational figures of this era. His rise is a modern day fairy tale and his legend just keeps getting bigger and brighter.