Multiples of Fear
Fear cripples.
Fear haunts you like a menacing spirit.
Fear thrives on doubts and mistrust.
Fear wakes us from thinking we are invincible.
A fire in a split second takes everything even your life. From the mansions to average size homes, you lose it to one flicker.
You casually go to the mall and boom! A bomb explosion and you see lifeless bodies around you and you try to run away. Morbidly, you find your mangled….www.filteany.com
*My heart goes out to the families of those who perish in the bombing of Glorieta Mall in the Philippines. To the officials of my country, please stop keeping track of your pork barrel and keep an eye on our nation’s security.*
Tech News: Atma Xplorer
General Programming Tips
Every developer follows a set of guidelines no matter what language he/she is handling. These guidelines can be good or bad depending on how they’re used and on how much they speed development up or slow things down.
Missing the boat: the barangay and SK polls
Investigators are now saying that the Glorietta explosion could have been just an accident after all. In an amusing satire piece whose conclusion I do not really agree with, the Inquirer’s Neal Cruz replies: Glorietta bombing was a mistake, not an accident.And so all the wild speculations as to the real cause of the blast continues. But here’s an excerpt from a news report on “missing the boat,” as the cliché goes, that gave me the laughs the other day…
Candidate for village chief fills up wrong election form
By Chris Ligan,
Correspondent, Cebu Daily News
Tuesday, 23 October 2007A barangay captain seeking a second term in office is running for the wrong position.
Mike Oceleasa, barangay captain of Day-As, Cebu City, has already started his campaign for his reelection bid. But election officials discovered yesterday that the certificate of candidacy (COC) he submitted last week was not for barangay captain, but for barangay councilor.
Marchel Sarno, election officer of Cebu City’s north district, said…the certificate could no longer be changed because the deadline for submission of COCs was on Oct. 18. For the Oct. 29 barangay elections, Ocleasa will be considered a candidate for the Day-as barangay council.
“He could have changed his status of candidacy before the deadline,” Sarno said.
Reforming the aid process
In March 2005 the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness was signed by 35 donor countries, 26 multilateral agencies and 57 partner country governments. Initiated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris Declaration is an “unprecedented global consensus to reform the delivery and management of aid.”
Read more at Mongster’s Nest
h o m e s i c k (7 Reasons Why I Love the Philippines)
I was in the Philippines last week for a 7-day holiday. And I had a blast! I am now back in Vietnam and the new school term is in full swing. But just before my holiday ended, I left my heart in Manila.
What is it about the Philippines that fills my entire being and consciousness with such intense longing to be back in her loving arms?
Click here to read the 7 reasons why I love the Philippines…
Report card
Today is my son’s last day in school before they go on a two-week semestral break. It is also the day for parents to meet with the teachers to discuss their kids progress in school.
I am unsure why I keep thinking PTA (Parent Teacher Association) but I feel this meeting has come to be called just that.
His teacher then presented me with my son’s report card. It reminded me of my own back when I was still struggling through grade school. This time though instead of the familiar grades of 80, 85, 90… there written were 1, 2, 3, and 4 with 1 being the highest grade given. And instead of seeing subjects like Math and English, what was listed were school activities like – use of pencil and crayon, recognizing letters and numbers, initiating activities with other kids and the like.
First Try at Rebel 2000
These are my first attempts of using my brothers SLR. Expect ugly pictures. But I’m reading about photography and yes, I’m practicing my composition. I actually shelled out 2 rolls of 36 shots in Pangasinan last weekend. I’ll show some of those in another post. The pictures below were taken last October 19 at the National Peasant Mobilization at CM Recto.
Living in the land of the lost
I first encountered Sumilao when I went to Bukidnon last April. The bus made a five-minute stop in the town’s central market to pick up some passengers. The whole stretch of the highway- from Cagayan De Oro to Malaybalay (where I eventually rendezvous-ed with one of my closest friends from medical school, Dr Lester Geroy) –was flanked by a seamless array of plantations, hills, and, sparingly, by forests. It exceeded the vision I created in my head, of how nature and agriculture has fused perfectly in this bountiful place to provide for all who live off of it.. This is the reason why the place seemed as peace… Or so I thought.
Dos Lang?
Sometimes, when you put a little piece of you on your work, a literary piece perhaps, and you got too attached on it like you treated it as your best work ever, you tend to expect things from it, you tend to expect others to like it also, to admire it, to give it the right commendation you think it deserves. I think it’s human nature. We tend to put a little bit of ourselves on something important to us, on something which signifies our own personality, of our own pleasure. But yeah, I think one of the biggest despair in it is that if things don’t fall under your own expectations.
See, I made a short story for my Creative Writing class as my final paper for this semester. Since I had this feeling of trust and confidence towards the idea I’ve formulated, I just gave it a go and finished the whole material. Actually, it took me more or less three concepts to arrive in that particular idea, and it still took me a long while before I made that idea into a full-blown plot. And that plot, of course, took me a long time before I managed to create a very satisfying short story.
E-flowers/prayer campaign touches Inquirer.net
This just came in!
Earlier I have called for prayer and sobriety, which was followed up by my call for photographers to post a flower for Glorietta victims and their families.
It was not expected, but fellow blogger Erwin Oliva, who happens to be a PDI writer, too, noticed my blog. Honestly I did not know how I could show these photos of flowers (read: show of sympathy) to the family of the victims. Rhodora, who posted a really nice prayer suggested television. But I guess, that would be self-promoting. Erwin Oliva is a blessing in disguise.
Below is the link to the article he wrote, entitled:
Virtual flowers offered to Glorietta mall blast victims
This is already a great leap from this lowly blogger to get the message accross the country and the entire globe. You are still welcome to share your prayers and keep on posting your flower photos (even if it was taken only with a celfone camera).
God Bless
