Reposting: Expats for Olympic Torchbearers – Beijing 2008
Due to the overwhelming response, I am re-posting the entry I had a couple of days ago. When I posted it, Marco Torres only had 453 votes including mine. Look what happened since! Goodness gracious! Thanks mga Kabayan! I knew I can count on you! 1092 votes!! That is well over 100% increase. SALAMAT ULIT SA MGA SUMOPORTA.
Just remember – we are now lagging behind a American Expat in China by 5000 votes, the Colombian is now in second place!
Here’s Marco’s comment on PinoyAmbisyoso’s blog entry:
Marco Torres said,
9-27-2007 in 03:09:25 at 210.82.86.148
Marco here, first, maraming, maraming salamat, may 1054 votes na tayo at malapit ng mag-no. 14…..
Thanks to you all a Filipino might be able to carry the Olympic torch for the first time since the 1964 Olympics at matagal tagal na yon.
Please keep forwarding to all your friends via YM, Friendster, Facebook, Email or any other forms…
You can also try voting again, maybe at least once a day, sometimes it works.
Wow! Sir Marco what an honor to have you glimpsed at my blog. Yes we are very proud of you! Thank you very much. Hope you’ll make it. Goodluck!
Cheers,
Pinoy Ambisyoso
Kaya natin to mga kabayan!! Vote for Marco
He’s Getting UP THERE!! LET’S GO FOLKS! VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
as of 11:29 p.m. 09/27/07 U.S. Time
I picked up this story from one of my admired bloggers, Pinoyambisyoso.com and found this to be a great cause for all of us Pinoys out there. I wasn’t aware of this until I stumbled upon Pinoyambisyoso’s entry regarding the inclusion of expats in China to bear the torch during the Beijing Olympics 2008. A Filipino named Marco Torres is in the running and we need to help him win the votes. According to Pinoyambisyoso, we are lagging far behind in votes from a Columbian national living in China by about 4000 votes.
Kam on mga kabayan, yakang yaka natin i-out vote yan. Kung sa Miss Universe nga lagi tayong Miss Photogenic eh - – eto pa kaya. Let’s vote for our kabayan, Mr. Marco Torres, an ex-pat living in China. The original write-up by Lester Cavestany entitled “Suportahan Ta Ka (Vote for Marcos Torres as a Torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Olympics)”. Let’s all get on the bandwagon and vote for him. (You should use IE as your browser as I had trouble voting using Firefox)
Fellow bloggers UNITE!! Let’s get him to the top – - the winner will be announced in November and we need to get him there. If you have a blog, I admonish you to blog about Mr. Marco Torres. Let’s show the world we are ONE!
I have never tagged any bloggers but would tag several for this cause. Reyna, Bluep, Bea, Ceefive, Pink Biik, Dom, Chuvaness, Pazing and Diwa. No arm-twisting here. You may or may not blog about this. I just want to spread the word. Thanks fellas!
