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The perfect man for the job!
The inquisition of Nathan Alarcon
The Philippine Book Launch of A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles
Photos from our Boracay Event
Here at UNO magazine, we basically get paid to enjoy ourselves. Make no mistake, it is a job, and not an easy one at that: what with all the setbacks, drawbacks, unforeseen reversals, late nights, last-minute disasters, and just typical day-to-day difficulties of putting out a worthwhile monthly print magazine, sometimes we work so hard at this that our pets don’t recognize us any more and our personal hygiene suffers (I won’t name names).
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Photos by Juan with retouching by Anna Hyde | Make Up and Hair by Nina Dumpa
Our last April’s Bombshell gives us little tips on how to dismantle a bomb without it blowing up in your face
“Is she really going out with him?” are the first words you’ll hear on the first ever punk single released in the U.K. “New Rose” by The Damned released on October 22, 1976 under Stiff Records (“If ain’t Stiff, it ain’t worth a fuck” was the company’s famed tagline), beating the Sex Pistols by over a month. (“Anarchy in the U.K. was released on 26 November). Tellingly, the b-side was a cover of The Beatles’ “Help”.
Despite its anti-everything stance, even punk couldn’t get away from the fundamental problem of how to fathom women. Or just get them to notice you for that matter. I mean, after all, going onstage with little more than clothes stuck together with safety-pins and spouting revolutionary rhetoric to the tune of three chords played badly can’t get you noticed, what will?
Good thing we’ve got Jacq Yu, an adventurous, no-nonsense girl, who also happens to be the girl we see selling us roof sealant every time we watch a Manny Pacquiao fight and probably the first reason we decided to watch Amazing Race Asia. She also did a memorable turn as a White Castle girl, donning the famed red-bikini and riding astride a steed on some beachside, and riding towards our collective unconscious in exquisite slow motion. And she was willing to sit down and spell it out for us just what it takes for a guy to impress someone from her peer group (i.e. unattainable goddess who will never, ever really go out with the likes of you).
The worst pick-up lines would be when they pretend they know me. It’s usually something like, “Do you remember me?” I hate it when a guy is trying to be cool or when guy shows they’re somebody that they’re not. I especially don’t like the arrogant ones.
If you want to introduce yourself to a girl, just be real. And don’t say annoying things like, “I think I met you in my dreams before.” Also, I don’t really talk to guys I don’t know, unless they’re friends of friends.
Getting me to give my number depends on how they ask me. Be proper, be humble, and be honest. Don’t expect to get it within the first few minutes. Some girls aren’t easy. But it all depends on how they approach me. It doesn’t matter whether you’re rich and famous or otherwise. For me, it’s the personality that matters.
To read the complete article, “Rules of Engagement” (by Nathan Tioseco), check out UNO’s April 2011 issue with Nathan Azarcon on the cover. To download the complete e-magazine version, please visit Press Display, sign up and search for UNO Magazine.You can also download the Press Reader application for your iPhone and iPad.
We’ve got Nike to thank for our up-to-date Pac-Man collectibles and what better way to spoil ourselves than to rush quick to the nearest Nike store and check out the 2011 Nike-Pacquiao items.
As we wish “The Fighting Congressman” good luck on his May 7th (May 8th, Manila time), here are the latest MP swag courtesy of Nike:
Pacman KO ZP Hoody
Nike-Pacquiao tees
Nike Zoom Huarache Trainer Low
Also out: Manny’s training shoes the Nike Trainer 1.3 Max.
“I pity the fool…I’m gonna get that sucka, Pac-Man”
Holiday boxing day, November 14 over on this side of the world. You can get yourselves a copy of the comic biography Pacquiao: Winning In & Out of the Ring, while you’re at it.
Written and illustrated by Jose Gamboa. You may also get the E-book version, in limited supply, though, so hurry.
by France Pinzon
MAIN EVENTS INVOLVE SPECIAL ADMISSIONS, HIGH STAKES AND A LOT OF MEDIA ATTENTION. NONITO DONAIRE SR. TELLS US WHY GETTING THE PINK SLIP IS QUITE THE SIMILAR AFFAIR.
After enduring a cold cyber-blow to the gut (translation: getting sacked from one’s job as a world boxing champion’s father-trainer via Internet news), Nonito “Dodong” Donaire Sr. got right back to business, leading two budding Filipino boxers to score upset wins over much favored opponents–one with 19-year-old Marvin “Marvelous” Sonsona, who beat Puerto Rican Jose Lopez for the WBO super flyweight title, and another with Ana “Hurricane” Julaton, who won over American Kelsey Jeffries in the IBA super bantamweight division-all of which happened last September. (As of press time, Sonsona had just loss his title to Mexican Alejandro Hernandez in Canada last November 21, after failing to going over the weight limit , while Julaton had kept her belt, winning against American Donna Biggers last December in San Jose, CA.)
Despite those post-firing events appearing to be a mild case of poetic justice, the 50-year old South Cotabato native didn’t have any plans on proving anything to his superstar son, whom he’d read on the Web was “looking for a new trainer” just days before his WBA super flyweight title match against Rafael Concepcion of Panama last August. “I don’t have any problems with my son, I really love and care for him.”
Such a response only reveals a fraction of the type of relationship the two share with each other. “He was a very nice kid, very respectful and energetic. He would always beat me in basketball and baseball,” the older Nonito recalls of the younger’s childhood.
The older didn’t quite have similar me-and-my-dad days while growing up in the province. (His father Teodorico died when he was just three.) After finishing grade school in Polonuling Elementary School in Puli, South Cotabato, then-young Dodong, his mother Rosario and sister Amparo all moved to General Santos City, where he was forced to work as a child, carrying sacks of rice and cement in exchange for less than 10 centavos per bag delivered. He was also unable to finish his education.
With a lot of things not going his way, the high school dropout enlisted himself as a Third Class Trainee in the Philippine Army, where he would soon get into amateur boxing and then meet his very first student: himself. (“I had to practice on my own since there were no boxing trainers available in the camp.”)
Donaire Sr. during his stint with the Philippine Army
Nonito Jr.’s adolescence involved neither military service nor Gensan Makar Wharf manual labor. By the age of seven, his father, being part-Hawaiian, had moved to the United States and the whole family (including mother Imelda and siblings Glenn, Rochelle and Lucky) eventually followed within the next three years. In 1994, to protect his children from gang recruitment, Nonito Sr. decided to get them into combative sports. Soon after, Jun-jun, who was training in karate then, would find himself in a sort-of sibling rivalry with his older brother Glenn, who at that time had begun bringing home trophies from boxing competitions under the father’s coaching. Feeling the need to match up to his brother’s amateur success, Jun joined the tandem and, in just 45 days, began competing like Glenn.
As the boys’ father-trainer, Dodong claims to have applied the semi-authoritarian method (“I made jokes with them, but I never babied them.”) “If I didn’t train them hard, you wouldn’t see where Nonito Jr. is right now.”
Dodong, with sons Glenn and Nonito Jr.
But as many a teacher has experienced, the student eventually surpassed expectations and became bigger than his mentor. In any case, a simple need for personal space could be reason enough for one bitter separation.
“Right now we have not had any communication since his second title defense against Mthalane [last August],” Dodong admits. “I lost my job, our health benefits and my retirement because of this.”
Distress over the fallout has been obvious as the older Donaire shares his sentiments. “Everybody worked hard for him because he had the potential to be a world champion. Now, even his Mom, who is jobless right now, is worried about getting evicted from the apartment [in San Leandro, California] where she is staying with Glenn [who works for Red Ribbon as a truck driver],” he says of Junior, who now resides in San Mateo, California with Fil-Am wife Rachel, a former United States taekwondo champion. Likewise, Dodong realizes that his plan of settling down for good in order to relax and nurse a bad back, which came from his many years of working, is not going to happen any time soon.
When someone takes a good beating, his immediate reaction is to strike back. But in Nonito Sr.’s case, we realize that it’s never really the ideal automatic response.
At the moment, the now-Cebu resident busies himself in training Sonsona and Julaton, as well as arranging matches for his prized fighters. (“I am trying to get Ana to fight here in the Philippines.”)
Any other prospects? “I have Jundy Maraon, number seven in the WBO category, who has a bout on December 19. I also have Ciso Morales.” (who just defeated Mexican Miguel Piedras and is scheduled to go up against Fernando Montiel this February.)
His dream bout? “Sonsona against [Vic] Darchinyan, I know we can beat him.”
The world boxing champion Donaire didn’t know anything about the celebrated sport until his father/ mentor/ trainer became all those things all at once. “I always told him, ‘Don’t forget where we came from; be humble.’ When he’s in the ring I always told him to be smart and to not get hit too much.”
As Nonito Jr. fights another fight and his father trains another possible up-and-comer, spectators carry on with their speculations: That the younger Donaire will continue to win more titles and eventually become the next Manny Pacquiao, while the older one goes on developing future contenders in the coming months, but eventually retires due to the emergence of more known training camps.
Like every underdog down the homestretch of a main event, he is bound to find his second wind while the opponent rests on his laurels, and then deliver the sensational game-finisher just when the crowd thought it’s long been a unanimous win.
“I’ve always been underestimated by everybody,” Nonito Sr. professes with much conviction. “Until I made a champion.”
Nonito Donaire Jr. is set to fight Mexican boxer Gerson Guerrero on February 13, 2010, at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So the new issue’s out! And, as you can see on this site, the cover rocks. But what’s inside?
We’ve got a quite frankly astonishing shoot with the gorgeous Cindy Kurleto — photography by who else but Juan Caguicla, and interview by none other than poet/songwriter Aldus Santos. And then we have a feature on Ellen Adarna, again with amazing photos by Juan, made even more amazing by special guest artist Lala Gallardo (I’m not going to describe it, you just have to see it). Interview by yours truly, writer and closet gangsta rapper Luis Katigbak.
There’s lots more: Jessica Zafra on historically significant treasures, Tweet Sering on Manny Pacquiao and boxing (in more than one sense of the term), Noel Orosa on Kinatay, Norman Black on how to win a championship, Erwin Romulo on Lor Lapus (and PJ Harvey), longboarding in the Visayas, UAAP predictions, and more more more, fashion and business and pop culture coverage that is second to none. Just get it!
“No fun to be alone… Well come on, well come on, well come on!” — Iggy Pop
*Incidentally, Cindy Kurleto was also featured recently on Complex magazine’s list of 9 Hottest Filipinas. If you check it out, you will also come across former UNO cover girl Kat Alano (as well as images from our Anne Curtis cover shoots).
