Wham!

A day before their WBO junior flyweight title bout, Velasquez Jr. was over himself and rattling Donaire, even flipping back Donaire's cap. Donaire countered by jostling the Perto Rican boxer's hat. Even their spouses had some things to yell at each other.


This incident made Donaire's split decision win over Velasquez doubly sweet; now the Puerto Rican must be hurting twice badly. First he ate his words that he'd beat the crap out of the Filipino Flash, and secondly, he was floored twice by Donaire. Enough of this bully.

The fight that followed was that of Carpio vs. Chavez Jr. which Chavez won amid the punches and counter punches that left both boxers bloodied.

Before the fight, I was shopping at Rustan's at Shangrila Mandaluyong. I remember the last time I was at Shang - to watch an Italian movie festival.

I felt like a tourist at this mall, not being familiar with its stores the way I am familiar with Megamall's.

In Toronto, I frequent mostly the Fairview Mall at Sheppard, and the Yorkdale Mall. I know their shops and restaurants. In between big shopping days, I'd go to the nearby East York shopping centre for a quick bank transaction or to do my grocery, or at the Don Mills Centre, at Lawrence and Don Mills, which had been transformed from an average mall to an upscale, boutiqued mall.

I miss shopping at Don Mill's Bailey's, where I used to buy affordable stuff, mostly hardware items. Now, Bailey's moved outside the mall proper and became smaller.

When I was new in Canada, I remember shopping at a store called Woolco, which had been purchased by Walmart (the area is now occupied by Zeller's at the East York shopping centre). There was also a KMart store which I loved going to in North York, but which closed shop in Canada. KMart stores are still open in the U.S.A.

The food selection in Rustan's was quite varied. I was able to buy Canadian bacon, and before that, we ate in the in-house diner and I was quite happy with my lunch of mini-morcon and white rice and guinatan halo-halo.

Even before this, we sauntered into a hardware store called Value and I was quite happy with my purchase of mostly items for the dog, Yabi.

Yabi will be wham-med later on. She'd be leashed at the back because of late, she'd been destroying plants and potters. She's on a heat.