Cyberware. Cyberwar.

I watched Manny Pacquiao's last fight with Margarito at my sister's house via the computer. Now that another Pacquiao bout is coming, I'm thinking I'd like to see it in my house.

Problem: I want to see the fight via big screen. One of the Phases in the subdivision where I live offers free viewing but you've got to live in their area. The SM Cinema doesn't offer the ambiance I wanted ( I need to go the bathroom several times during a boxing bout, I need to stretch my legs and this is not permitted inside the cinema, I want to raid the refrigerator a few times during the match, I want to switch channels in between the fight, etc).

Another problem: The two laptops at home are not big enough to really see the punches being thrown by the boxers. You can't see the sweat nor blood flying from the noses and faces of the adversaries.

So I set on a saga to connect the MacBook to the Sony High Def. Problem: cables.

The MacBook's video connection is the mini display port, and the audio is the earplug.

I went to St. Francis Square near Megamall the other day, and yesterday at the Cyberzone, where I found the right cable at CDR and also at the MacBook store. Cost: the one at CDR (a mini display port-video only- to HDMI - for 1,800 PHP, and 900 PHP for a mini display to VGA). MacBook store offers both video-audio connection to HDMI for 2,800 PHP.

At home, I searched for similar cables sold on-line and found several items for much lower prices.

I can only go for the video connection cable because the residence-MAC Book is a mid-2009 model and doesn't support the audio-video mdp-to-HDMI Kanex cable which is available at the Mac store, Megamall.

Now, I need to get a Toslink and a Toslink adapter for the audio to come in; it's getting complicated.

If I were in TO, the task would have been much simpler as there are many products and sellers to choose from at affordable prices. Here in Manila, the selections are fewer, and the costs, steeper.

Which reminds me, I should have gotten one while I was still in Singapore. Electronics, computers and accessories are way cheaper and more varied over there. Well.

Today I go back to work and figure out the connection. If after all the trouble I end up not seeing the Pacquiao-Mosley match, I'd content myself to watching free old movies on-line in the big screen high def Sony LCD.

I'm salivating for the 3D Sony Bravia, the cost of which is ceiling-high. I miss my 61-inch Samsung in TO which I purposely bought for its 3D capabiity. There, Manny and Mosley would look great with their counter punches - saliva, blood and snout, included.