Pacquiao, a lawmaker representing the Province of Sarangani in the Lower House, arrived yesterday with wife Jinkee from Hollywood where he stayed for about a week after hyping his coming fight against Sugar Shane Mosley in the cities of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Washington.

The Filipino boxing icon, who is staking his WBO welterweight crown against Mosley on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, immediately announced his readiness to plunge into training in preparation for that 12-round confrontation.

His routine two-month training for a fight starts on March 8 or 9 in Baguio City, where he also held his build-up program in previous encounters against Miguel Cotto in 2009 and Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito last year.

But first, Pacquiao told ABS-CBN upon arrival, he must report for work in Congress before proceeding to hometown General Santos City where he intends to warm up prior to subjecting himself to rigorous training in Baguio.

Chief trainer Freddie Roach will be arriving early March to supervise preparations

Training at the country’s summer capital will last for three weeks before Team Pacquiao moves to Los Angeles April 2 where he will stay for a month at the Roach-owned Wild Card Gym. He ends his honing up regimen with a week’s stint in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao’s visit to the White House Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) was only the second by a Filipino athlete, next only to late golfer Celestino Tugot’s visit to then President Dwight Eisenhower, a fellow parbuster, in the 60s.

Eddie Alinea, Business Malaya Insight