Hello! I'm back from my US trip so hopefully I have time to catch up on my blogging in the next few weeks. But before I continue with my posts about
our recent Hong Kong trip, I want to write about this first.
I'm sure all of you heard about the big controversy surrounding an event sponsored by PLDT and Manny V. Pangilinan (MVP). If you haven't, well, there was supposed to be a game between NBA players and the Gilas Pilipinas team at the Smart Araneta Coliseum last week. Patron seats reached P23,000 ($511) each but since there are a lot of basketball fans in the country, tickets still sold despite the steep prices. Turns out, the NBA did not allow its players to do this event so the 5-on-5 game against the Gilas team was canceled and the players resorted to scrimmage and drills.
Everyone in the audience was booing and shouting "REFUND", it was crazy! I felt bad for the NBA players as well as for our Gilas team but I also emphatized with the people who spent their hard-earned money and was there to see an exhibition game. PLDT and MVP ended up refunding everyone who purchased a ticket, as well as canceling the event the next day. Reports say MVP spent at least P200M because of this blunder.
As luck would have it, I was given passes by one of the sponsors of the Gilas Pilipinas team (thank you Max's Chicken! #pusotothemax) so NBA fan T didn't have to buy tickets to the game.