New Philippine Bills, Money’s Face Value in the Philippines

 

 

In 2009, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced that it was planning a massive redesign of current banknotes and coins to further enhance security features and improve durability.  I caught a piece of this last night in the evening news.

 

Have you seen the latest Philippine bank notes?

 

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Before your blood reaches 100 degree boiling point (or your face cracks laughing), these are NOT the new design of the Philippine bank notes.  I saw this somewhere and it’s not even close to what the new design is.

 

NEW Philippine Bank Notes

 

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I like the newly released design for all the Philippine bills.  It kinda reminds me of Hong Kong money, where it looks clean and there’s a semi-white patch or fading color on one side.  I like also how it promotes beautiful and must-visit places in the Philippines instead of age-old buildings.  I wish that the material/paper is as smooth as Singapore money –which is less prone to soiling and the silkiness feels hygienic.

 

Anyway, I can’t wait to get a feel of the new Philippine Peso/Bills. 

 

Bet Your Bottom Peso! 😉

 

 

Pacquiao vs. Mayweather Coming to a Close?

 

 

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum made a trip to the Philippines to talk to Manny Pacquiao, who broke records of being the only champion with 7 world boxing titles under his belt.  After Pacquiao’s clear welterweight win over Miguel Cotto last November, everyone is slating Floyd Mayweather Jr. as the next in line to face the formidable Filipino boxer.

 

March 13, 2010 is the date they are eyeing.  This can be the biggest boxing event of next year since people have been anticipating this match-up.  Pacquiao is the top pound-for-pound fighter while Mayweather is currently No.2 –although the No.1 position is not new to Mayweather since he was No.1 before he retired in June 2008.

 

 

The public has been clamoring for this fight to happen but according to Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s coach, March 13 is too fast a turnaround.  Remember that Pacquiao suffered a broken eardrum during his duel with Cotto.  Roach wants Pacquiao to be in his best possible shape before he steps again in the ring.  Roach is looking into a May 2010 bout but that will coincide with the election month.  Pacquiao already filed his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) this week to run for Congress.

 

Ticket for the live fight is expected to cost around $2,500 (P117,500) while the cheapest seats at around $500 (P25,000).

 

Will Schaefer and Arum get this deal done and set a fight date before the 2nd half of next year?  The public will have to wait and see.

 

 

 

Johnny Depp, Public Enemy No. 1, Mad in Wonderland Leaving 4K Tip

 

Johnny Depp never plays a character unless it’s different and intriguing.  He is never the ordinary person in his films.  Lately, his name is making noise again in Hollywood for his most recent flick, Public Enemies.  In this Michael Mann directed film, Marion Cotillard plays his love interest. 

 

 

Depp was rumored to have left a very hefty tip while dining in Chicago last week.  Chicago was the setting of the new gangster movie.   He was dining with co-star and director at Gibsons Steakhouse and left well past midnight.  The unsuspecting waiter, Mohammaed A. Sekhani reportedly received a $4,000 tip from the star.

 

More than Public Enemies though, what is more interesting is the movie which he also stars in, Alice in Wonderland.  He will play the role of the Mad Hatter.  I love the imaginative fantasy of Alice in Wonderland when I was young, but the Mad Hatter in the book really gave me the creeps.  I wonder how Depp will fair in the role and Tim Burton behind the camera.  I like Tim’s eerie creative take on films.

 

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Interestingly, Helena Bonham Carter is in the same film playing the Red Queen.  She is married to Burton.  Carter and Depp have both worked together during the filming of Sweeney Todd.

 

I am really excited to catch Alice in Wonderland.  Anne Hathaway plays the White Queen, Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, while Mia Wasikowska plays Alice.

 

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Mia Wasikowska is a 19-year old Australian actress who earned critical praise in the HBO drama, “In Treatment.”  She was named Variety Magazine’s “10 actors to watch.”

 

Burton apparently chose her because of a certain emotional toughness reflected in her face… that makes her kind of an older person but with a younger person’s mentality.  Alice will be the only character in Wonderland who isn’t enhanced in some degree with makeup or digital manipulation.