A local blogger sent a picture of his dad’s bamboo jeep to Cory Doctorow and it got featured in the popular boingboing.net. Go Pinoy!

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I met Alfred in 1989, I think,on the first day I presided over the usual Thursday afternoon meeting of CSUN’s Filipino American Student Association (FASA) as the organization’s president. His older brothers were friends of mine and they had asked me to watch out and “take care” of their youngest. It wasn’t difficult to find the guy; it was immediately apparent that there was a family facial template when I scanned the room and spotted him sitting quietly there. I must have loved him from the very beginning; I knew right away he was special, or at least that his heart was much fatter than his then-skinny frame.

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I hate eat-all-you-cans, mainly because the prospect of having bottomless eats can be daunting for my plans to lose weight. Especially if I’m on the losing end of the weight-loss war and would like to win a small battle every now and then. So I try to avoid occasions that entail eating lots, making up excuses about saving an obscure country in Africa from the machinations of a tyrant or something like that. Whatever.

But it was my grandfather’s birthday last Sunday, and despite my protestations, I had to show up and wage another battle of wills against the buffet table.

So after making niceties with my relatives, I grab a plate and head off to the buffet table. The buffet table stares at me menacingly, and taunts me with cries of “You will never be able to resist my charms, you weak human glutton!”
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endings and openings. that’s what life is all about for me now. i think joe’s made his last attempt at contacting me, and i realized how lucky i am to have mik in my life.

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I never thought this day would ever come.

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Siguro lahat naman yata ng tao dumaan na sa trahedya ng puberty at teenage life. At ang pangyayaring ito ay umaabot hanggang sa pagtanda natin. Don’t worry, no biggie naman ito—big deal lang naman sa mga overzealous vain people. Ang tinutukoy ko lang naman ay ang mga pimpols, tigidigs, zits at kung ano pa ang gusto mong tawag diyan. Basa pa at alamin pa.

Many Filipinos may not realize — as evidenced by rare coins, tradewares, and other unearthed artifacts — that there was extensive contacts between the Chinese and Filipinos long before the Spaniards discovered the archipelago and named it the Philippines.

Early records also indicate the active trading between the Chinese and Filipinos from the north to the south of the islands by the late 10th century; bartering mainly facilitated their transactions. The Filipinos also visited China as recounted in the story of the Sultan of Sulu Paduka Batara. The Sultan went to Beijing to pay tribute to the Imperial Court of Emperor Yung Lo in 1417, but died on his way back home.

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Rody Vera is running around like a man possessed these days. There are a thousand details to attend to, photo shoots to grace, rehearsals to check out and showdates to finalize as he and the Writers’ Bloc, together with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and its resident theater company Tanghalang Pilipino, gear up for the Virgin Labfest, now on its third year.

The Labfest is a modest festival of “untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged” plays that are culled from the twice-monthly critical readings that members of the Writers’ Bloc hold among themselves. Its first two incarnations offered 15 new one-act plays; this year, the repertoire has expanded, with 18 plays (including three from visiting foreign playwrights) as well as staged readings and platform events, all to be held in various venues at the CCP.

Read complete post and see show schedules of The Virgin Labfest here.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is currently in Christchurch, New Zealand for the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee. Part of their activities will be naming new sites of outstanding cultural value and inscribing them as part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Currently there are 45 candidates for the inscription. But do you know that one of the candidates is from the Philippines?

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Of late, I was pondering on the notion that though a blog is not popular base on the standards of alexa, technorati and ratify, and no matter how loud or how soft the voice of a blog in the blogosphere, the rumblings, musings, rants or whatever we want to call it, blogs do touch lives–Bloggers scratch the back of other bloggers, and vice-versa. There may be some who exchange links just for the sake of increasing the popularity and profitability of their blogs (not necessarily bad), but there are also those who are more conservative in managing their blogroll. But irregardless of the nature of link exchanges, blogs caused on-line connection become real friendship that extends to the real world.

How Blogs Touch Lives? Find out at Sonnie’s Porch

To those motorists/drivers, here’s a new guideline to follow. I guess what VATICAN is trying to imply is that, we need to value life. Taking consideration of others and be responsible in driving– not drunk while driving.

‘It warned about the effects of road rage, saying driving can bring out “primitive” behavior in motorists, including “impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code.”‘

The “Drivers’ Ten Commandments,” as listed by the document, are:

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To those motorists/drivers, here’s a new guideline to follow. I guess what VATICAN is trying to imply is that, we need to value life. Taking consideration of others and be responsible in driving– not drunk while driving.

‘It warned about the effects of road rage, saying driving can bring out “primitive” behavior in motorists, including “impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code.”‘

The “Drivers’ Ten Commandments,” as listed by the document, are:

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That movie is so amazing! Just enjoyed it! And most of all, I enjoyed Mr. Torch, Johnny Storm, Chris Evans in real life. He’s so cute! Just love his eyes! Well, he’s HOT!

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after 48 years, nadugtungan ang tumatakbong kwento sa paghahanap ng ibong adonis …

sino ang mga nagsasabwatan?

ano ang balak ni la chorvah para sa mga prinsipe?

at ano ang nagbabantang kapahamakan sa kahiran?

makibasa ssa MGA KWENTONG PARLOR NI WANDA ILUSYUNADA

dahil si kuya, ka-baklaan mo …

Ate Luds, pwedeng mag-plugging?

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n celebration of Manila Day, Ivan Mandy gave a free guided tour of this finely restored UNESCO award-wining Art Deco campus last Saturday. Another walking tour is scheduled for next month, so please check out his website for details.

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I am from the ciudad de flores, ciudad de Zamboanga. We speak a Spanish creole called Chabacano. Chabacano is 90% Spanish and 10% Tagalog and Bisaya. Recently, I decided to learn a third language. I chose to learn Spanish because of the fact that I know how to speak Chabacano. I figured I won’t have too much trouble with the vocabulary.

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Hehe… I’m just spoofing the way Pinoy TV news reporters report their headlines… in their loud shrieking alarmist voices, they would yell something like,

Dalawang lalaki nahanap sa imburnal…. PATAAAAAAY!!!

Of course they could also be talking about the most mundane things but they would still use the same tone of voice,

Judy Ann Santos nagluto… NATALSIKAN NG MANTIKA!!!

I kid you not about the last one. But anyway, back to my title… so I watched the final episode of the teleserye, Maria Flordeluna, last Friday. Yeah, yeah… I hear you guys snickering at me. But it was either that or TNA Wrestling. And yeah, I know that I also said in a previous post, when I was quarantined at home with chickenpox and sentenced to watch teleseryes all day, that I didn’t like Maria Flordeluna because the villains were too mean for my gentle heart. But not to worry, like in all other teleseryes, all you need to watch would be the previews imposed on televiewers all day, and maybe one or two episodes, and you could catch up with the story and the lives of all the characters in about say…. two minutes, tops.

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eto e kwento tungkol sa isang araw na walang nangyari …

pero sino sina kelly at dolly?

kilalanin sila sa MGA KWENTONG PARLOR NI WANDA ILUSYUNADA

dahil si kuya, ka-baklaan mo …

Tlaquepaque is a highly fashionable suburb less than 10 kilometers from Mexico’s second largest city, Guadalajara, with a hip, up market colonial center with a character and style of its own. A must on any Pinoy tourist agenda. The street of the main shopping area is closed to traffic so that people can stroll and shop at a leisurely pace. The colonial-style streets that remind me of the streets of Intramuros are lined with shops and restaurants.

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