This is the San Miguel Beer commercial that introduced Ina Raymundo to the world. And to a lot of young boys, their manhood.

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Looking at these pictures, I can’t help but see the huge difference in them. Mainly, the amount of power lines that Meralco has put up all over the place with no regard for aesthetics.

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The popular Filipino children’s show in the 80′s aimed at pre-schoolers returns after 22 years. TV5 has been granted the right to air the show.

In an interview, Sienna Olaso popularly known as Ate Sienna said, “This is something that today’s youth needs. Socio-cultural values like pagmamano and the use of ‘po’ and ‘opo’ should be taught constantly.”

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In this day and age where we live very sedentary lives. We should try to work out a lot more. I found a video with some great workout tips that you can follow…if you can pay attention.

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Kung mayaman ka, meron kang “allergy”.
Kung mahirap ka, ang tawag dyan ay “galis” o “bakokang”.

Sa mayaman, “nervous breakdown” dahil sa “tension and stress”.
Sa mahirap, “sira ang ulo”.

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Sino nga ba ako?

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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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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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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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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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In light of the concluding elections, I would just like to share this inspiring piece –not by a Filipino — but a Korean: practically an alien in the Philippines.

My Short Essay about the Philippines
by Jaeyoun Kim

Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the Philippines. Do you really think the corruption is the problem of the Philippines? I do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love for the Philippines.

Let me first talk about my country, Korea. It might help you understand my point. After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans had to start from scratch because the entire country was destroyed completely after the Korean War, and we had no natural resources.

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This new banner from Smart got us a bit curious. They say it will be coming soon but all they revealed is that it’s gonna be free and big for adults only. Yeah, adult only. I thought a lot of Smart subscribers are young people?

Anyway, if you saw this on their FB Page, I’m sure you got curious too.

We read about it here first, then saw this entry that gave us a hint about the adult thing, or perhaps this blog is right about Smart not up to something good.

Do tell us if you have some idea what this promo is going to be. We’re itching to get some action going on here.

First look of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. I still think he would be better as Wally West aka The Flash. But this movie could change my mind.

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EMERGENCY

The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112

If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you. And interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**

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I found this database from GMA.TV about the cost of tuition in private schools in the Philippines from prep school to high school.

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I’ve gotten a lot of request to post more photos of Manila during the 1950′s to the 1970′s. I’ve done some search from the source of the photos I posted from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee archive.

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