Gawad Kalinga 1World Expo 2007 Oct. 26-28 SM Mall of Asia
I can’t believe it’s GK Expo time again! Last year was a fantastic experience! This year, amidst our turmoil- and challenge-strewn path, GK is continuing to help restore the dignity of the poor, one home and community at a time. Photo above from GK Expo 2006. Text and schedule that follow come from the Gawad Kalinga official website where you can get more information about the expo and how you, too, can be a hero for the country.
This month, Gawad Kalinga celebrates its 4th year anniversary particularly the birthing of its vision to build 700,000 homes in 7,000 communities in 7 years or GK777 officially launched on October 4, 2003.
On Getting EON Cyberaccount and Using It in Paypal
I feel a general mistrust for online transactions using credit cards because of fear of hackers who can retrieve information I send online. Also, I do not trust myself with a credit card transaction online out of fear that I’ll lose control and overspend. These have limited my opportunities to earn online.
So, imagine my joy when I heard that Paypal Philippines can now receive and send funds. At least, now there’s a more secured way to transact online. And it accepts some debit cards too (visa electron)! Now that’s good news. I don’t have to suffer having credit card information sent online.
So, what did I do?
First, I applied for an EON cyberaccount online at Unionbank website (read more about EON Visa Electron here). Then I received an email that informed me that my card will be ready for pickup after 5 banking days at the branch that I picked during application. In my case, I picked Muñoz branch.
My Dick and Spam
My Dick is SPAM.
Uhm, well, ahh… Not the size of SPAM. (Though I wonnder how it would be like to have a dick like SPAM… err, weird!)
My Dick is a SPAM-Magnet!
Seriously, every time I read through my emails, I always get emails which seem to ridicule me and my little johnny boy. I’m sure many of you get these kinds of emails too. I don’t mind getting them, at least not anymore. I have gotten used to them that I noticed the creative minds behind these junk emails – phishing and scamming or leading you to doom. Those who are ignorant and insecure fall for these traps and end up blowing up their computers and but not their dick sizes.
An Appetite for Books
On my present reading list is The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (hmmm, you might want to read contemporary short stories, so here, click this link), Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.
And since Christmas season is near (yippee!), here’s another addition to my book wishlist (all of which are easily accessible in any local bookstores – yes, I don’t wish for books with freight costs attached.):
Ma Jian’s The Noodle Maker
From Dannyreviews.com
A professional blood donor, thriving on the rewards for his labours, visits his friend the professional writer, who is unenthusiastically facing a commission to write a short novel on the theme of “Learning from Comrade Lei Feng”. They eat dinner and talk, and out come the stories the writer would like to write.These stories are both within the framing story and part of it, with the writer and the blood donor making incidental appearances within them as well as commenting on them. Ranging in length from eight pages to forty, they are dark, visceral tales of love and obsession, of violence and death, presented with a sardonic, unsparing humour…
Ismail Kadare’s The File on H.: A Novel
Gays at the Resto and Rich People Like Me
I checked my inbox a few minutes ago. Whoa, I won 1,000,000 Euro in a Brandenburg Lotto and another 1,000,000 Euro in The British Global Lottery. Wow, 2,000,000 Euro in one day!
I’m rich! I’m rich! I’m so freakin’ rich!
The Estrada Pardon: A Mockery of the Philippine Justice System
Since Estrada’s conviction as guilty for the charge of plunder, there have been speculations that he will be asking for executive clemency from Arroyo. Set aside all other excuses that the Estrada camp has given, it’s all apparent that the Estrada and his cohorts are doing all that they can possibly do with money and connections just to keep him out of jail (and I mean, a real jail, a prison cell behind prison bars, not some comfortable two-storey summer mansion). And after a short while of denying that he’s asking for a pardon (even vehemently saying he refuses to think of asking for it), finally his lawyers have pleaded for the clemency from the President, despite the flowery language that Estrada do not actually acknowledge the legitimacy of Arroyo’s presidency but only is asking for pardon from someone who could give it to their client (and I think only the president of the country could do that isn’t?). Arroyo, on the other hand, has always been open to the idea of negotiating granting clemency for Estrada. I mean, what a grand way of exhibiting her advantage over the enemy right?
And now, the pardon has been granted to Estrada.
Belle De Jour Power Planner
Its finally here! And I have been given the chance to own this famous fashionista planner. A planner that all kikay girls should have.
Aside from the great design, it comes with discount coupons to selected branches of the following establishments: All Flip Flops/Havaianas, Bayo, BYSI, Celine, Charles and Keith, Chocolate Clothing, Claw Daddy, CMG, Cocorama, Crustasia, Culte Femme Rustans, Cupcakes by Sonja’s, Fiorgelato/Fiorcafe, FlyWear Eyewear, Freeway, Get Happy Accessories, Heaven ‘N Eggs, Karimadon, Kashieca, Laybare Waxing Salon, Levi’s Girls Store, Luna Rustans, Maybelline, Moschino Fragrances, New Orleans Restaurant, RedCrab Seafood Club, RedBox, Rred Rustans, So! Fab, The Ramp Crossings, Tomato, VNC, and Ace Water Spa!!
FRIDAY, October 26 : Blog Action Day for supporting the families of Glorietta Blast Victims
PBS supports Ding’s initiative and call for a Blog Action Day on Friday, October 26.
FRIDAY, October 26 : Blog Action Day for supporting the families of Glorietta Blast Victims
Announcement:
To all Pinoy Bloggers (especially from the PinoyBlogoSphere [PBS] Community), on Friday, October 26, marks the first week anniversary of the Glorietta Blast. Let us all be one in commemorating this event by posting a blog
showing support and sympathy to the families of Glorietta 2 Blast Victims. Just leave a message here at Ding’s post that you would be joining so that you will be included in the list of supporters for this.
For full story sbout this, please click the following links:
A Call for Pinoy bloggers for prayer and sobriety
and
E-flowers for Glorietta Victims’ Families
Ghost Stories
They are nowadays referred to as controversial anomalous phenomenon which is believed by some and shunned by the rest as mere figments of the imagination.
My eldest sister Fraulein could see them. Once during the night of a neighbor’s death, she saw the spirit of the dead man outside his house, looking in through one of the windows as if checking on his family. On another occasion, an hour before my brother Junior died in his hospital bed in a Makati hospital, Fraulein saw him sitting on the step of her house as she was coming home from work. Instead of approaching him, she immediately turned around and took a cab to the hospital. Already comatose, Junior was pronounced dead shortly after her arrival.
Read complete entry here.
What My Favorite American Presidents Said
As the US gears for another presidential elections, let me share quotes from my favorite American presidents.
I love the movies. I love how Hollywood makes them.
What follows is a list of my favorite American presidents on the big screen and what they said.
President Tom Beck (Deep Impact, 1998): Cities fall but they are rebuilt. Heroes die but they are remembered.
More quotes from American presidents HERE.
