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How much of the damage was due to force majeure and how much could have been prevented?

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Fuck WordPress and its damned Delete button! Why oh why, for the sweet love of Jesus, is it even there?

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We’re now down to the last three days of the Php130,000 Philippine SEO Contest. My team’s entry, Go-Ogle! Isulong SEOPH, is presently ranked 7th in the first Google search engine result page (SERP) for the keyword Isulong SEOPH. We’re hoping to at least maintain our position until September 30, the SEO competition’s end. Just a few hours ago we were at 5th place, and a month ago we were Top 1 in Google (can you believe it?).

If you’re interested, you can download this great wallpaper made by graphic artist extraordinaire Ia…

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Typhoon Milenyo is travelling at 130kph. Though not regarded as a super typhoon (which has maximum sustained winds of 180kph and above), its gustiness can reach 150kph which is strong enough to uproot trees and roofs.

Which is what’s happening right now in Manila. Billboards toppling down, trees uprooted, flood everywhere! But we still managed to report for work. Eh?

So he we are, a handful of brave souls sitting in our respective chairs. Good thing there’s electricity and internet. A memo was issued early this morning that those who have no urgent / emergency work need not report for work. Well, got tons to do! right after this blog (harhar).

Read on at watson.online

…one of my worst pet peeves is sharing a restaurant meal with a large group of people, including several I barely (or don’t) know, only to get stuck with having to pay a monster share of the bill because a bunch of boneheads couldn’t figure out the math of adding tax and tip to calculate what they owe. Perhaps they merely thought these “extras” were optional. Or maybe because they’ve already had too much to drink and have conveniently forgotten that they did at all.

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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably noticed that I’m not blogging as much as I used to… Until I’m able to get used to my new lifestyle as a PhD student at the University of Toronto, posts will probably just be limited to one or two a week. More…

“Slip in, one,” my trainer Dave commanded during boxing practice last week. Focus mitts on his hands, Dave threw his left jab. I moved my head left to avoid Dave’s jab, then stepped forward to throw a counter-jab at his right mitt.

“Bad intentions, Aurea!” Dave yelled. “Let me feel that jab! Remember that ex-boyfriend we talked about!”

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if you badly need to go on a vacation far far away but not so far (as in hongkong or singapore?) but you are on a budget constraint, you should consider flying cebu pacific.

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The game I am busy playing instead of concentrating on my World of Warcraft and Guild Wars characters…  and the casual game that’s going to be available locally soon via IP E-Games!! ->  See the gameplay here….

Located at Plaza Calderon de la Barca, Binondo Church, also known as Minor Basilica of Saint Lorenzo, was founded by the Dominican Friars in 1596. It has sustained considerable damage over the centuries from earthquakes and other natural disasters, as well as from fierce bombings during World War II.

Binondo, an hacienda once like Makati, is an island between two estuaries or esteros — Estero de la Reina and Estero de Binondo. The village of Binondo sprang in the banks of the Pasig River, and was once called Ysla de Binondo.

Two years before this church was built, in 1594, the Spaniards gave the land to the Catholic Chinese tax-free and Binondo was established with limited self-governing privileges. This was to encourage their loyalty to Spain while keeping them culturally at a distance. Nonetheless, just across the Pasig River, from the gated walls of Intramuros, the Spaniards aimed the range of their cannons at this Chinese enclave in case of an uprising.

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I was on my way to the bathroom after a looooong sound sleep when i noticed a message on my cellphone. Piqued, i checked to see who could’ve texted me this early in the morning. Much to my surprise, it was our project manager at work and the message read (this is not verbatim): “ADB closed today due to typhoon signal no. 3. Please await until further notice”.

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No classes and no work today.

Should we be happy?

Boooohhhh!

They are talking about the integrity of the nursing profession. Thus, the Palace occupant ordered the retake of the nursing exam last year marred by cheating.

How about the integrity of the electoral system, and the integrity of the Presidency?

There was massive cheating in the 2004 election, so why was there no retake of the polls!

This double standard is sickening!

GMA declares that the Philippines is now a second world or middle class country.

Is this like when she declared that there is no more classroom shortage (by fixing the numbers)? Or that the government has defeated unemployment (by fixing the numbers, again)?

Just because she said it doesn’t make it so.

Read her delusions here.

We were able to watch Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros last night. We almost didn’t make it. We bought the tickets two minutes before the movie (last full show) started.

Maximo is about the life of an out-of-school adolescent gay living in the slums of Manila with his criminal but very loving father and brothers. He did all the household chores while his family “worked”.

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What are the chances that a runaway hamster would land in our house—where I spoil my own hamster (and fish) more than my parents pamper me, their one and only child? Monday morning, the moment I went downstairs to eat lunch (I never have breakfast on weekdays), my mom asked me if I wanted to adopt a hamster. I assumed perhaps a kid neighbor’s going out of town so we, hamster owners and all, were the critter’s logical adoptive family among all our neighbors. I was wrong. It turned out that the little rascal just found its way among the plants in front of our house.

Of course I said yes. I had the right food, vitamins, and extra equipment and knew hamsters well enough to tell the world that hamsters are not for children! They bite. Hard! And I still have the scars to prove it!

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Comrades! Let us now turn our attention to images of fascist, decadent, anti-revolutionary structures dedicated to that vile abomination which our dear Great Thinker Karl Marx had called “the opium of the masses!”

Kidding.

I’m speaking for myself (specifically my ex-seminarian self), but certainly any trip to Russia would not be complete without seeing up close its magnificent, centuries-old churches. These monuments to the Russian Orthodox faith, distinguished by their onion domes, spires and cupolas, are everywhere in Moscow. For 50 or so years the commies and their state-sponsored atheism ruled Russia, but in the end they were swept away, and the churches have remained standing.

Ladies and gentlemen, the state of the onion is strong.

See pics of Moscow churches and read the rest of the story here.

Kanina, sa harap ng National Press Club, ay idineklara ni GMA na tayo ay isa nang Second World country.

Huwaaattt???!

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