Saturday, December 15, 2012

Christmas Decor Shopping in Paskuhan Farmers Cubao

Last week, I finally got the time to shop for a lantern and some Christmas lights for this Christmas season.
I am always looking for the cheapest tiangge possible where I can buy affordable but quality Christmas decors or decorations or ornaments or whatever you call them.
For years now, when it came to Christmas decors, the PASKUHAN TIANGGE in Farmers Cubao have been my haven. This Tiangge for Christmas ornaments opens every night only during the Christmas season. I have been to Divisoria a couple of times this season and the price there was relatively higher compared to Paskuhan Tiangge.

Paskuhan Tiangge in Farmers, Cubao, Quezon City
 The place is located just beside Farmers Market and accessible through EDSA. Finding the tiangge is very easy because the area is very bright because of the various Chrismtas lights being sold. The luminous place will surely grab your attention.


I was able to buy two sets of LED drop lights or rain lights for 350 pesos each. Drop lights are very much in as a Christmas decor this season. The price of this set (8 pieces of stick per set) in Divisoria ranges from 500 - 650 pesos. But here in Paskuhan Tiangge in Farmers, the price for this same set ranges from 350 - 450 only! I was able to haggle the price to 350 pesos.

Drop lights/Rain lights 350 pesos per set (8 pieces per set)
I also bought a big lantern made of capiz and light bulbs about 2 - 3 feet in diameter. The original price was 1,800 pesos but I was able to get it for 1,650 considering I also bought the drop lights on the same store. They also accept lantern repair so I would not have to worry reusing the lantern I bought for the next Christmas season.

Huge Lantern for 1,650 pesos

Connecticut Elementary School Massacre: 27 dead including 20 children


A shocking headline made the December 14, 2012 news about a massacre that happened in an Elementary School in Connecticut, USA when 20 year old young man had shot 27 people including 20 children. A separate dead body was found in a nearby house bringing it a total of 28 casualties once police found  this related to the case.

The shooting started at around 9:30 in the morning according to the police. Victims were mostly children around 5 to 10 years of age. Seven of the victims were adults including the principal and the killer himself. It's  yet to be identified whether the suspect was killed by himself or the police. Another dead body found in a nearby house was allegedly the killers mother. Only one person suffered an injury but survived.

The killer, Adam Lanza, was 20 year old young man who was allegedly a former student in Sandy Hool Elementary School. He was first mistakenly identified as his older brother because of the identification card he was carrying with him when he went to the School. According to investigation, Lanza allegedly shot his mother in their house before driving to his former school.

According to former classmates and friends of the suspect, Lanza was a nerdy shcool boy back in High School. He wore rather more formal clothes than normal kids his age and had a few friends. Adam Lanza was a shy but intelligent and polite young boy so investigators had to dig further on how this young man had committed such heinous crime.

Other sources told that as a kid, Adam was forced by his mother to study harder. His parents were divorced, his mother was known to be a gun enthusiast and had a collection of firearms. She even brought her children to gun shooting sometimes. Investigators found that the gunman was very accurate at his shootings.

President Barrack Obama had already expressed his condolences in the massacre, even ordered to lower the US flag to half mast.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

3 ways I know to watch Pacquiao Marquez 4 live

Everybody is already excited about the upcoming fight of Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez this coming December 9 (December 8 in Las Vegas, USA). I'm sure most of you can't wait to watch it live as much as possible and are looking for sites online that would provide you with a channel or a live stream video.

I have listed 3 ways I have tried and tested (except for no. 3) that would surely provide live action on your screen.

1. SopCast - This is what I use mostly and needs a bit of effort. SopCast is a downloadable software where users online can publish their videos for other users to watch. Its definitely free and needs no registration.
Just download the software on their website here.
The next step is to look for available SopCast channel that broadcast the fight. This is a bit hard and needs a bit of patience because most of this videos are illegally broadcasted and are being controlled and shut down by online admin.

I have listed some of theSopCast channels I have used previously for the Pacquiao and Bradley fight. Hopefully it will still run for the Pacquiao Marquez 4.

sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/93289
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/69756
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/6002
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/51813
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/24267
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/29629
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/24267
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/65154

sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/85856
sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/85856
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/7524


2. Subscribe to Cignal Pay per View (PPV) - This is a legitimate way to watch the fight and needs no effort at all. You only to need to pay 550 pesos on top of your regular monthly subscription fee to be able to watch it live and commercial free. Of course one prerequisite is to have existing Cignal account.
Check out their site here for more info. 


3. The third one is what I will be using right now to watch Pacquaio Marquez 4. I have subscribed to PPV of Destiny Cable (Global Destiny CATV which was newly acquired by Sky Cable). This is much more expensive than Cignal TV because you have to pay for one time installation of digital box worth 2000 pesos plus the PPV fee of 1000 pesos. 
Call their hotline for more information 418-0000.


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