Critical Mass Ride on Saturday, October 20, 2007
The Firefly Brigade is organizing a Critical Mass Ride this coming Saturday. Below are the details of the event.
Critical Mass Ride for October – UP Diliman to Mall of Asia
October 20, 2007, Saturday
7:00am meet up at UP Diliman, AS Parking lot
7:45am Ride Out
Pace: 15kph
9:45am- arrival at MOA
10:00am- short program at MOA parking lot
- proceed to Firefly booth at MOA
Things to bring: Helmet, bike, extra money, friends, sense of humor
sense of fun, sense and sensibilities, sense of direction
Bike skills- intermediate riding skills
Ride leader- Prof. Rosar
Route-Route- UP Diliman, CP Garcia, Maginhawa, Kalayaan, Kamias, Kamuning, Morato, E. Rodriguez, Welcome, Espana, Quiapo, Manila City Hall,Manila Hotel, Roxas Blvd., Buendia, Macapagal , MOA.
“Can men and women be friends?”
I had an older post with my question about friendship and loving. Here’s another indirect answer from a magazine….
While we’re in a coffee shop last weekend, I was reading a magazine, Girlfriends (?) . It has an article, a personal essay with the title “Can men and women be friends?”
Can you share your experience as well? Do XX and XY have different opinions about it?
Post-Graduate Course on ECG, Stress Testing & Nuclear Imaging
The St. Luke’s Medical Center Heart Institute is conducting a Post-Graduate Course on ECG, Stress Testing & Nuclear Imaging on November 9-10, 2007 at the 2nd Floor Conference Room of the hospital.
The 2-day event will bring together experts in the field of cardiovascular medicine. The first day will be lectures on normal ECG, chamber enlargement, arrhythmias, ischemia and infarction, exercise ECG and nuclear imaging. Workshops on resting and exercise ECG and nuclear imaging will be conducted the next day. Participants are entitled to CME units.
Read more HERE.
My Birthday Give Away!
Kumusta po sa inyong lahat!
I am feeling very generous today because it’s my birthday! 
I want to celebrate by having a contest. I am giving away free domain registration with hosting for 5 years on a Linux server(of course) located in a US based world class state of the art facility. Yes, your very own domain name and not some silly sub domain!
The lucky(hard working) winner will receive:
Bandwidth Allotment: 250,000 MB or 244.1 GB transfer
Diskspace Allotment: 5,000 MB or 4.9 GB
Hosting and Registration value of $290.00! interested?
Romblon Chronicles: A bitter-sweet rendezvouz with RO-RO
Note: This is part of a series of my Romblon Chronicles. So watch out for the sequel this week. (Inkblots).
Finally, I am able to sit down and write what I have gone through almost two weeks ago. A week after I went to Batanes for a work-related trip which I blogged here, here, here, and here, I went to Romblon last October 4 for a consulting work with the Peace and Equity Foundation.
I was both excited and anxious about my trip to Romblon. Had it not for the consulting fee (lolz!) and the important social mission I have to accomplish (I will blog about it later.), I would not go to Romblon.
Have You Found The “Star” of Your Life Yet?
I am trying to write something tonight, well actually it’s already early morning, but for some reason I cannot begin to put all together the words and ideas that are flowing here in my mind. I don’t know how to put them all together. There are so many things that I want to write so I can let everyone know what I feel.
First of all, I don’t know what to do with my life… again! I am tired of my work and of what I do everyday. I am losing the drive to work and I feel that it’s time for me to do something new and different. I only do my work because I need to and because of necessity. I feel like I am a loser. I am no longer happy with what I do. I feel so lost. It’s not enough that I have a job, what I want is a career or to have my dream business that I can call my own. I do not want to work for someone anymore, I want other people to work for me. Well, that’s my dream.
Second, I am tired and sick of being alone and of being lonely. My friends and my family can not give me the happiness that a partner in life can give me. I may have true and cool friends and family whom I can count on at times when I experience difficulty in my life, who makes me happy and accompany me in good times. But when they’re gone, who will keep me warm in the middle of the night? Who will comfort me when I’m having a nightmare? I need someone to make me happy, someone who will bring out the best in me, who will help me see my worth and someone who believes in me. The time will come when all of my friends will have their own life, family and career and the sad truth is that they cannot be there for me when I need them. That’s the reality of life, right? The people who matters to us most cannot always be there for us to protect us.
Third, finding someone to share my life with is not that easy. I don’t know what’s wrong with our single guys here. Most of them only wants sex in women and someone who they can posses as their trophy. That’s the sad reality. And when you chance upon a guy who is like that, it can be so devastating. I had an experience just like that. I thought that guy really loved me but sooner I found out that what he wanted in me was just sex. The sad part was that I already fell for him, he already became part of my everyday routine. It was like without him would be so hard coz I was so used with him around me. But I cannot settle for something less coz I know I deserve much more than just a guy who only wants from me was to have sex. So, what do you do with that kind of man? Different women have different ways of disposing of these kinds of men. As for me, I want to kill him with guilt. That’s just exactly what I did. He did not hear any bad things or words against him from me though he wanted me to hurt him physically, maybe to ease some of the burden that he was carrying because he knew that he was guilty of hurting me and using me. But I am not like that, instead, I remain nice to him. True enough the guilt he was feeling was killing him. The good thing about it is that he was man enough to apologize for what he has done to me and because of that we remain friends up to this day.
After my last relationship, I’ve met several guys who I found are nice and gentlemen but I think I am not yet ready to jump into another relationship or maybe because I have not met yet the right man who I can say I want to spend my life with although in all honestly I want so bad to be with someone who I can love and in return be loved by this man. But I also believe that it is not right to be with someone just for the sake of having a boyfriend or just for the fun of it. There has to be love in there.
Lucky are those who have already found the other half of their heart and life. So, never take for granted that precious gift that you have right there in front of you. You have to realize that the love that you have right now is the most special thing that anyone can possibly have. Be grateful for that love. And if you have that special star in your life right now take care of it, cherish it and never break its heart, coz a star with a broken heart cannot shine.
And I know for a fact that all of us wants someone in our lives who will shine through us.
Education for all?
Government statistics show that for the last six years there was a steady increase in total school enrollment, but there was also an increasing proportion of elementary school-age children who remained out of school. In the 2005-2006 school year, almost 65 percent of six-year old children did not begin their primary education on time.
Read more at Mongster’s Nest
