I’m making up for missing all those times by checking out some movies I’ve missed. Also, I’ve got a huge queue of unwatched movies sitting on my hard drive – I seriously need to free up disk space. I guess wasting my time writing reviews won’t hurt a bit since I’ve got nothing better to do.

via In This Entry Ade Reviews Some Movies He’s Missed. Also, He’s Bored..

The Ramyer Travel & Tour offers the following tour packages:

3 Days and 2 Nights Bohol Vacation Package with Countryside Tour

Spend memorable three (3) days and two (2) nights at the best hotels and resorts in Tagbilaran City, or along the beaches of Panglao, and go on a Bohol countryside tour which includes the famous Loboc River cruise on a floating restaurant, a visit the world reknowned Chocolate Hills, an encounter with the Tarsier, the world’s smallest primate, among others.

Extreme, Eco-friendly and Educational Adventure Tour – Danao Package

Enjoy the suislide/zipline, caving, wall climbing, rappeling, root climbing, kayaking, among others at Bohol’s newest attraction, the Extreme, Eco-Friendly and Educational Adventure Tour (EAT) of Danao, Bohol. Enjoy various packages and options.

Chocolate Hills Countryside Tour

Visit Bohol’s top scenic spots including the site of the historic blood compact between the Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and Datu Sikatuna, the centuries-old Baclayon Church, the world-reknowned Chocolate Hills and the amazing man-made forest of Bilar. The tour also includes an encounter with the world’s smallest primate, the Tarsier, and Bohol’s biggest snake in captivity, a once-in-a-lifetime walk on a hanging bridge, as well as an enchanting cruise up the Loboc River on a floating restaurant, among others.

Panglao Beach Tour

Experience the best of Bohol’s beaches through our Panglao Tour package which includes a trip to the Hinagdanan Cave, Bohol’s natural undeground swimming pool, as well as lunch and a day of swimming at the Bohol Beach Club.

Bohol Island-Hopping and Dolphin/Whale Watching Tour

Experience Bohol’s eco-diversity and watch dolphins and whales play and frolic on their own playground. Hop on two of Bohol’s most enchanting islands, Balicasag and Virgin Island and spend your day swimming on powdery white beaches unlike no other, diving and  snorkeling.

I officiated the weddding of one of our batchmates. In attendance was the former secretary of finance, who was also of our batch. At the time he was already working in Singapore for a transnational firm. We were all gathered literally in one corner of the reception hall. But he didn’t mind being there. His behavior came to my mind as I read this Sunday’s gospel (22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time C)

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This week two noteworthy events involving the Philippines made headlines: the botched rescue of Chinese tourists taken hostage by a disgruntled former policeman, and a botched response to a question by Miss Philippines in the finals for the Miss Universe contest. You might ask, what do these two things have in common? Separately, not much, but taken together, they represent both the peril and promise of the Philippines today.

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I am deeply saddened by what happened on Monday with the hostage crisis. It was a tragic event that did not have to happen. It could have been easily prevented had the people in charged been more careful and did their homework.

The Philippines now has a black eye caused by the incident and the international community has pretty much condemned the country for its tragic mistake. It’s not just one, but several tragic mistakes.

The first one being President Noynoy Aquino being incommunicado during all of this. Hong Kong Administrator Donald Tsang tried to contact President Noynoy Aquino but was unable to reach him. Hong Kong residents and officials are mad because of Manila’s failure to update them of the situation as it was happening.

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The Nintendo DSI is an amazing piece of equipment that it warrants you some Free Nintendo DSi games for just owning one.

So how do you get to avail of your free games for the DSI?  Quite simple

Here’s how to get Free Nintendo DSi Games

• Purchase a new Nintendo DSi™ system and access the Nintendo DSi Shop through your wireless broadband connection by October 5, 2009.

• 1,000 Nintendo DSi Points™ will then be automatically credited to your Nintendo DSi Shop account.

• Download Free DSi Games here!

• Click here for more Free Nintendo DSi Games.

• Get an R4i for Nintendo DSi

• Download Nintendo DS Lite Games for Free

• Free NDS Games Download

What’s important here is that the games listed here have no requirements or payments up front. Just direct download links to Free Nintendo DS lite games and Free Nintendo DSi games.

Chikka the Filipino-owned web2sms service (one of the pioneer in the industry) launched today Chikka v5 – both for the web and desktop versions. continue reading here…

Etong mga taong eto parang walang pinag-aralan. Show some decency naman.

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Pano ka nga ba hindi mapipikon sa mga pulis na eto?

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Philippines’ very own pride, Venus Raj will be representing the country in this year’s Ms. Universe, she is now the top trending topic in Twitter and among top 10 searches in Google.

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yesterday’s hostage scene raked so much criticism from Filipinos (and the world alike). it was so dismaying you couldn’t help but sigh of disbelief. some IT folks found this intriguing and to perhaps show disgust, they created a game out of it!

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Here’s the footage of the storming of the bus with hostages in Manila on August 23, 2010.

There were 25 hostages and 7 people were killed, 5 were injured and taken to the hospital and 9 were released by the hostage taker Rolando Mendoza.

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More news about Francis Bryan Ang who stole more than P100M from Citibank Binondo.

While the news says he stole around P100M. I heard from the grapevine that he stole somewhere between P600M to P1B as in Billion.

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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – A private banking officer of Citibank’s Binondo branch has gone missing after allegedly carting away hundreds of millions of his clients’ money.

Francis Bryan Ang is the former assistant vice-president of the bank’s Citigold Wealth Management group, which is aimed at high-value clients with bank deposits of no less than P4 million. Most of Citigold’s customers are wealthy Chinese-Filipinos.

A note on the Citibank website states that Citigold clients enjoy various privileges including premium information and assistance from a dedicated wealth management team that will manage their accounts.

ABS-CBN News, however, learned that Ang embezzled more than P100 million of his clients’ money.

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Getting into heaven is serious business. But it’s not something to be given to you in a silver platter. Jesus said you have to agonize over it. (21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – C)

I’ve never been a huge fan of location sharing services. Yeah, I have a Foursquare account, but I checked in only once, and I was drunk. I quickly lost interest in updating the goddamn site, along with my will to live. I don’t know about you, but telling the world that you’re eating in this restaurant isn’t exactly my idea of fun. Also, I’ve done my fair share of oversharing on Twitter already “WHY DOES IT BURN WHEN I PEE DAMMIT” and sharing the place where I commit yet another hilarious misdeed to yet another major internal organ isn’t going to make my followers any more uncomfortable than they are now.

However, this newfangled Facebook Places thing is pretty interesting, if you ask me. You see, Facebook Places lets you check in to different places, just like a rich DOM and a college student with no tuition money the many location sharing services available right now, but with a twist: in the spirit of privacy violation that Facebook has been committed to doing for the longest time, Facebook Places lets you tag your friends to various locations – and they can do the same to you.

via Facebook Places: Oh, The Fun I’ll Have.

If you’re looking for the complete list of missions in Starcraft 2, then stop what you’re doing right now and read this.

The single-player mode in StarCraft II has a total of 29 campaign missions and they are broken down into several chapters for story line purposes. There’s no zerg mission for this game, that’s reserved for the next installment of Starcraft 2, The Heart of the Swarm.

For the protoss player, you have 3 missions to play with your favorite faction.

As for the complete list of missions in starcraft 2, the just read the guide we’ve linked for you below:

StarCraft II List of Campaign Single Player Missions

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Nachman & Associates, P.C. Participates in the 2010 Teaneck International Film Festival.

Nachman & Associates will sponsor the movie Entre Nos, which is being shown as part of the Teaneck International Film Festival this fall. Following the screening of Entre Nos, a panel discussion lead by Managing Attorney, David Nachman, Esq. will feature commentary about the film and about the changing face of immigration laws across the United States. Mr. Nachman has been practicing Immigration Law for over a decade and speaks frequently about nonimmigrant visas and green cards to groups of business professionals across the tri-state area and internationally.

The featured film, Entre Nos, is the story of Mariana (Paola Mendoza) and her children Gabriel, 10, and Andrea, 6. Together, they take us on a remarkable journey where we bear witness to a family’s commitment to survival and their unrelenting hope for the American dream. Entre Nos is inspired by the real life drama of Paola Mendoza’s mother’s arrival in United States. After years of hearing the account and absorbing its implications, Paola realized she was ready to bring the heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring tale to the screen.

Click here to learn more about the festival: http://www.teaneckfilmfestival.org/Film2010/

Click here to learn more about the film: http://entrenosfilm.com/

Click here for more information about Nachman & Associates: http://www.visaserve.com

VERY FEW people are aware of it, but we are going to have a new set of peso bills very, very soon. We may be giving our godchildren the new bills as gifts this Christmas. The present set of paper Philippine currency will be phased out. New coins will be issued later.

The question is, why is the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) doing this secretly and hastily? The nation is totally unaware of what will happen to their money or how the new money will look like. Malacañang, Congress and the Supreme Court did not know anything about it beforehand. The BSP claims that it is an independent entity and can do anything it wants. In other words, it is the fourth branch of government, a co-equal of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. To get a favorable reaction from President Aquino, the images of his parents, Ninoy and President Cory, will be in the P500 note. But no one, except insiders and a privileged few, have seen the designs.

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