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Join the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey live blog

Joey Alarilla — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:08:41 +0000

I’ll be doing the live blog of the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey fight tomorrow, Sunday, March 14, for Yahoo! Southeast Asia’s Ringside With Manny site.

Go to http://bit.ly/ringsidelive to join us during the live blog. If you’re on Twitter, use the hashtag #RingsideWithManny so that your comments about the fight will be automatically posted on the live blog and seen by thousands of Yahoo! readers.

Send an email reminder to yourself.

Wacky Yahoo!

Joey Alarilla — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:44:10 +0000

Here’s a wacky photo of the Yahoo! Philippines team!

New home

Joey Alarilla — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:00:32 +0000

Sorry haven’t blogged in a while, but here’s a photo of our daughter Sam posing on the bridge that leads to the clubhouse. We moved to the new condo over the weekend.

Check out the Flickr set for more photos of our first morning at the new condo.

You are Yahoo!

Joey Alarilla — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:32:01 +0000

Taken during Day 2 of our weeklong training and orientation in Singapore.

Yahoo! regional office in Singapore

Joey Alarilla — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:37:05 +0000

I arrived in Singapore on Sunday night with my colleagues Janie Octia and Pia Garcia for our weeklong training and orientation at the Yahoo! Southeast Asia office in Singapore.

Cebu dancing inmates are back with Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’

Joey Alarilla — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:55:51 +0000

Yup, it’s another viral video from the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, a maximum security prison in the Philippines.

Check it out on Yahoo! Meme — it’s the most popular post as of this writing.

Sam and view from balcony

Joey Alarilla — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:15:54 +0000

The developer was finally able to finish the paperwork after getting the letter of guaranty from our bank, and so we visited our new condo unit for the first time on Saturday, Jan. 23. Can’t tell you how wonderful it is to see our new home! Target for moving in is before the last week of February.

Here’s Sam showing off the view from the balcony of our new condo unit.

Here are more photos.

Conan O’Brien and the Bugatti Veyron Mouse

Joey Alarilla — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:38:31 +0000

Conan O’Brien gave an emotional farewell to fans on his final night as the host of NBC’s The Tonight Show.

At times fighting back tears, O’Brien thanked his legions of fans Friday night for making “a sad situation joyous and inspirational,” urging them to fight cynicism over the ugly public feud that ended his seven-month tenure at the legendary late-night comedy show.

The audience at Universal Studios in Burbank, California replied in kind, giving him a standing ovation and chanting “Conan! Conan! Conan!” repeatedly.

After an experiment placing the funnyman’s predecessor in prime time garnered meager ratings and frustrated the network’s affiliates, NBC television announced it would bring Jay Leno back to the show he hosted for 17 years.

For more details, read the full story.

We’ll have to wait and see to find out which network will Conan join after leaving NBC, but you can bet that we’ll see him hosting a new show soon.

In the meantime, let’s all have a good laugh over the instant classic that is the Bugatti Veyron Mouse segment, in which Conan sticks it to NBC with what is being touted as “the most expensive skit” in the history of late night shows.

And here’s a clip of Conan’s farewell speech.

Carmina Topacio: Through the Glass

Joey Alarilla — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:25:59 +0000

Here’s the latest video clip from Filipina YouTube star Carmina Topacio.

For more clips, visit her YouTube channel.

My new laptop

Joey Alarilla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:49:09 +0000

Today was my first day at Yahoo! Philippines. When I got home, my daughter Sam decorated my office laptop with Yahoo! stickers, which were part of the swag I got.