politics is not for you, Manny
Manny Pacquiao finally gave in to other people’s desire for him to run in May… he is still figuring out whether to run as mayor of his native city, or as a congressman of his province… in any case, he still has until Feb 12 to figure it out…
but whatever the case, may it be mayor or congressman, there’s only one thing i, and millions of other Filipinos who truly admire you and care for you, can say: PLEASE DON’T RUN!!
dating guide for cool pinoys [or how to bag a great a** this Feb 14]
the love month is now upon us, and for all those whose Christmas is cold, don’t let Valentine’s Day be equally cold, if not worse…
and, to all of you who doesn’t have a date yet, i pity you here is a dating guide so that you can finally experience that first kiss you’ve always been yearning for, but cannot seem to get…
next weekend photography prospects
it will be very busy for some of us next weekend…
first up is the Lovapalooza at the Mall of Asia…
day after will be the 11th PAHBF in Clark Air Base in Pampanga
2000 Bloggers
Millions of blogs are out there and many more are being churned out by the minute. And who are the people who created and maintain these blogs? A-list bloggers, B-list or even C-list ones… all kinds of folks from all walks of life. It’s rare to see them together in one place. Usually you’d find them surfing around two of the biggest bloggers’ networks, Technorati and MyBlogLog, but Tino Buntic had a better idea. Why not just take 2000 of those millions and put their photos together into a collage. Call it “2000 Bloggers” and you got yourself 1999 backlinks and 1999 other people to network with. Plus there is of course that extra zing of being included in the elite 2000. And if plans came through, those lucky 2000 may be featured on the cover of a book on blogging by Joseph Jaffe.
Join the 2000 Bloggers MyBlogLog Community.
Nicholas Stoodley – Living in the Twilight Zone
Chapter 6 – Basketball Fever Part One
In 1980 it was decided that what the brand “Nicholas Stoodley” needed a bit of spectacular publicity and hence there emerged from Los Angeles the Nicholas Stoodley Basketball team which, according to the meeting in question, would arrive in Manila, play in the PBA 2nd conference at the Araneta Coliseum and, hopefully, slaughter the opposition and make the brand into a countrywide phenomena!
The players were assembled from NBA hopefuls who were hanging around hoping to be picked for a team later in the year or they’d end up serving burgers in McDo. The chance to play in Manila (wherever in the world that may have been) sounded like fun – a free trip, pocket money and hey… isn’t Manila famous for R & R? A place the American troops went wild in whenever they escaped from the Vietnam War!
The first practice session they had upon arriving in the country was actually the first time they had actually played together as a team …
One Year Later
Exactly two years ago from today, I opened eLBi, the UPLB Forums. It was a product of idle time, internet curiosity, grand aspirations, and nostalgia for my college years. And oh yeah, I got tired of the egos I constantly encountered within my former online hangout. And I was too lazy to join other similar online communities. Yeah sure, there probably is another intelligent online community out there that interests me, but sadly, I was too lazy to search for it. I built one instead.
I wanted to discuss the most intricately serious topics and the most trivial non-issues with people who I’m comfortable with, whether I’ve already met them in person or not. “But that’s nearly bloody impossible, Baddie! LOL” you say. Yeah, nearly. In UPLB, we’ve always manifested the sense of a community of strangers from distant towns and cities. People call UPLB a “microcosm of the Philippines”. A melting pot of the country’s brightest minds isolated from the rest of the so-called civilized nation. Strangers, yet a tightly knit community. If I’m going to build an online community, it might as well be made up of people from UPLB. And within a span of a year, the community matured, and ideas for bigger things grew with it. Bigger things like our own domain and more ways to showcase the talent and brilliance of the scholars doing scholarly stuff at the foot of Mt. Makiling.
