So where are YOU watching?

Everyone will be watching the Pacquiao vs. Cotto match Sunday morning, 15 November. No doubt about it. And most everybody will watch the fight live for there's no sense in waiting for it on free TV, only to be barraged by the endless commercials.

But where will people be watching? The options are aplenty.

The cinemas are an obvious favorite. Watching the fight on a large screen in an air-conditioned theater in the company of a large, boisterous partisan crowd is an experience in itself. Very much like watching an Ateneo La Salle basketball game. Except this time, there's no La Salle (or no Ateneo, if you belong to the other school). And this time everyone's cheering for the same guy.

Movie house tickets for the fight range from P500 to P650 and come with reserved seating. But no popcorn.

Some cinemas, like the one pictured here, even have raffle promos to entice fight fans to watch there. I for one, would like to get my hands on a Team Pacquiao jacket.

Restaurants are another option. The TV monitors or projection screens may be smaller than those of cinemas but food is always included in the ticket price. And if food is your fancy then perhaps the champion of buffets, the Triple V Group,  may just have an edge over everyone else.

For P750, you get to watch the fight AND enjoy DAD's ultimate buffet. With bottomless ice tea at that.

Now if you're more the drinking than the eating type, then better head off to the nearest bar. That is if you don't mind drinking at 8 in the morning.

Like restaurants bars include breakfast with the entrance fee but make most of their money on the beer buckets and bundles they brandish. Given the BPO phenomenon, many may already be used to booze in the morning. But for me, I'd still rather just have coffee with my ham and eggs.

Finally, to my surprise, the fight will now also be shown in comedy bars! Yes, those places where merry men and loud women who call themselves artists are paid to insult, ridicule and make fun of  their audience. Yes, these so called comedy clubs have joined the Pacquiao bandwagon.

I wonder what their come on is? I hope they won't have female impersonators performing between rounds.

And me? Where will I watch and why?

I'll be watching in the new Eastwood Cinema. Because Patty wants to have lunch after in one of the new restaurants that just opened in Eastwood Mall.  In the end, the wife decides. Unanimous decision.