For those of you like me who won’t be able to watch the Shakey’s V-League championship game 3 today at The Arena in San Juan between University of Santo Tomas and San Sebastian College-Recoletos, we can just watch it live from our PCs!!! I’ve been out of the loop for quite some time now so I’m sure you guys already know by now that the folks over at the official www.v-league.ph website came up with a Live Webcast page where we can all watch the finals game (as well as the previous ones from the archives) via live video streaming.

Finals Game1 – SSC defeated UST in 3 sets: 25-17, 25-22, 25-19
Finals Game2 – UST defeated SSC in 3 sets: 25-21, 25-22, 25-23
Finals Game3 – TODAY!!!

You can catch the live webcast over at http://www.v-league.ph/webcast/ where all the fans should already be tuned in by now. But if you are finding it hard to load the page probably because of the heavy traffic caused by the thousands of live webcast viewers, you can also watch is directly at their www.justin.tv/vleague/ page. Or…

Note too sure if this will work, but I have also tried embedding the Live Webcast over at Spikeithard.com in this blog post so you can also watch it here. So who do you think will win, UST or SSC?

I know it does not seem too manly for a guy like me watching US Girls on Studio 23, but I really love that show so whenever I catch it on TV, I get hooked. (Hey, I also watch Sports Unlimited.) A few months ago, FEU volleyball superstar Rachel Anne Daquis was featured in the show.

Vote for your favorite bikini for Rachel Daquis

It’s was summer (back then in April) and Rachel sought the help of US Girls in choosing which bikini would be the most bagay for her — as if there’s any bikini out there that would not look good on Rachel. The viewers were asked to log onto the official Multiply site of US Girls over at to see the photos of Rachel and vote for their favorite bikini for her.

From www.usgirls23.multiply.com:

Hello Rachel Daquis’ fans out there!
Rachel needs your help in choosing the best swimwear for her this summer.
Choose your pick and tell us why.

Unfortunately, I was not able to watch the later episodes and did not know which bikini won. Anybody knows? In any case, why don’t we just redo this vote-for-your-favorite-bikini contest over here at Spikeithard.com and determine which bikini looks the hottest on Rachel Anne Daquis. Here are the photos. Don’t forget to vote via the online polling at the end of this blog post.

I’m sure you guys remember Lady Eagle Patricia “Patti” Taganas, right? (Photo of her by Mike Bartolo on the right.) Some fans call her the angas princess – I don’t quite seem to know why. But probably because you would always see Patti play with all her heart whenever she’s inside the court along with the rest of the Ateneo de Manila Women’s Volleyball Team. She won numerous ‘Player of the Game’ awards during her more mature years in the Shakey’s V-League. I’ve seen her play as a rookie up until she became one of the veteran players of her team. She’s a hard worker and a leader inside the court. She’s not playing in the current Shakey’s V-League Season 6 (1st Conference) but continues to support the Lady Eagles as one of the trainers. The fans will surely miss her “One Big Fight!” attitude whenever she plays volleyball.

Patti is currently taking up her Master’s degree in business and guess what?…. (what!!!)… she’s doing a study on the Shakey’s V-League for her thesis paper. Hope you guys can help her by answering this survey:

Blue Water Day Spa has just opened its latest branch at Capitol Hills in Quezon City. Their president Mr. Francis Simisim, has been promoting the business for almost three years now and Blue Water Day Spa has indeed come a long way. They now have a total of 6 branches all over Metro Manila and are still expanding.

Francis (who is actually just 24 — I learned about this after reading a feature article on this month’s Entrepreneur issue), is doing another online contest for bloggers to promote the spa. Last time, I joined their Spa Movie Theater contest and my blog post entry was one of the lucky winners!! But unfortunately I was too busy at that time and wasn’t able to attend the free spa treatment.

This time, I’m joining the BlueWater Day Spa Capitol Hills: 20 Bloggers Event Competition and here’s my official entry: