It was close to midnight, they are staying in their vehicles, go to the rooftops of nearby buildings, or sit on the sidewalks and simply monitor the coverage on their portable TV and radio sets.
At past midnight: radio station DZRH of the Manila Broadcasting Company and Star City amusement park continues to operate despite the overnight vigils near the CCP complex and Sofitel Philippine Plaza hotel.
At 5:30 a.m., sunrise in the Manila bay has started.
Despite the massive protests and riots outside the PICC, near Star City and the Sofitel, while at the PICC plenary hall when Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales celebrated the mass at six in the morning over Radyo Veritas 846.
No less than Senator Pia Cayetano along with Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino general manager Marco Protacio, Rina Go and Paolo Abrera together with kart racers Matteo Guidicelli, Tyson Sy and Mark Bumgarner, race car driver Enzo Pastor and Ambassador Marciano Paynor, Jr. stayed at the Sofitel during the entire duration of the 24th Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Besides next to Sen. Cayetano, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino general manager Protacio, Go, Abrera, Guidicelli, Sy, Bumgarner, Pastor and Ambassador Paynor Jr. are Illac Diaz, Ginggay Joven-dela Merced, Paco Magsaysay and Anton San Diego.
GMA News reported that Sen. Cayetano, Go, Abrera and Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino general manager Protacio having a dinner with their friends at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza’s Spiral Restaurant. Karen Yao and Gema Gochuico of Adformatix, Rebecca Galit, Franchita Atayde, Lorna Guevarra, Cheche Lazaro, Mon Isberto, Gilbert Yao, Ariel Ureta, Ronald Escala, Malou Mangahas and 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution hero Guido Santos among other personalities to spend during the late-afternoon dinner at the restaurant in the hotel itself at past 5 p.m.. TV sign-language interpreter Alfred Celada, Jr. having a press conference at PICC Forum after dinner.
Celada was arrived at past 5:30 p.m. and to start his press conference on live television after the dinner at Spiral restaurant of Sofitel Philippine Plaza. He was flanked by former Sen. Orlando Mercado, his wife Dr. Susan Pineda and SM Foundation’s Connie Angeles at the PICC Forum 3. Members of foreign and national media was here are GMA news and public affairs reporters Susan Enriquez, Jimmy Gil, Tina Panganiban, Bernadette Reyes and Lhar Santiago.
Cebu basketball player and businessman Jeremy Ryan Huang, who was joined by Sen. Cayetano, Go, Abrera, Protacio, kart racer drivers Guidicelli, Sy and Bumgarner, race car driver Pastor and Ambassador Paynor, Jr.
Radio announcer Dennis Antenor, Jr. was at the DZRH studio, while dozens of amusement-park goers outside of Star City – Amusement Park and PICC participating in the “Occupy” protests, as well the anti-government protesters clash with police at Roxas Boulevard during the 2007 Nakhon Ratchasima Southeast Asian Games swimming Men’s 100m Butterfly Finals A at past 7:29 p.m. of December 9, 2007.
Nasa Spiral Restaurant ng Sofitel Philippine Plaza kasama ang media na mag-spend ng dalawang oras bago mapanood ang 2007 Southeast Asian Games swimming competitions sa Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
At past 6 in the evening when Boy Gonzales of DZRH in a report saying the police crowd estimated to 250,000 to 500,000 people at the Burnham Greens and Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila.
Over at 102.7 Star FM, when Bombo Radyo news anchor Jun Desca reported about 300,000 people nearby SM Mall of Asia complex to spend time, while at the activity area it aired the live streaming of the 24th SEA Games coverage together with other 30 SM Supermalls.
At 7:29 p.m. local time (6:29 p.m. in Nakhon Ratchasima), when movie and television celebrity turned turned De La Salle University (DLSU) Green Tankers member Enchong Dee, who participated at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games swimming competitions at His Majesty The King's 80th Anniversary Swimming Pool, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. He was in lane 8 of men’s 100-meter butterfly finals on the same day.
Despite the live broadcast streaming of the swimming competition of the said event in activity centers in shopping centers nationwide, also at the Activity Center of Star City amusement park, the police clash with protesters in the Filipino capital Manila at past 7:29 p.m. of the said date near the Sofitel Philippine plaza hotel to Star City, also they marched to One ECom Center in SM Mall of Asia complex.
