UPDATES: The recent voting for Foreign Expats for Olympic Torchbearers made our own Marco Torres in Number 2. See the results here. According to China Daily, eight (8) foreigners living in China will be chosen as prospective Beijing Olympic Games torchbearers next week. The eight will be selected from a list of the Top 100 candidates for the “Lenovo-organized Olympic Torchbearer Nominee Selection Among Foreigners Living in China. Aside from Marco Torres, there are 4 Filipinos who made it on Top 100. They are Jaime and Michelle Florcruz, Noel Novicio, and Jeremy Sy. Indeed these Pinoys make us all Proud! Let’s continue to pray that any five of them make it. Ang galing ng Pinoy!

I was invited by Lester Cavestany about his latest article, “Suportahan Ta Ka (Vote for Marco Torres as a Torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Olympics)”. At first i was curious who’s this man named Marco Torres he’s talking about. As i go on reading, i felt so proud that this guy is nominated as a Torchbearer in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics and knowing he is a Filipino. Marco Torres is living in Beijing for more than a year now and a marketer by profession. He is working for M Moser Associates, China’s number one design firm. As of this writing, we are too far behind a Colombian national with a total votes of 4,475, American and Australian who already gathered thousands of votes while Marco Tores with total votes of 404 (including me).
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