It’s Not the End of the World As We Know It
For this blog there will be no such year-ender ritual – not because I didn’t want to but because I caught fever on New Year’s Day. However, Postcard Headlines did have a report of sorts last November when it commemorated its first half-year of blogging.
I hope it’s not a sign of things to come. There are too many things to do other than lying in bed all day. Of course there’s no need to be utterly alarmist. “The end of the world as we know it†is a much-abused phrase by an assortment of personages ranging from so-called environmentalists sounding the alarms on the coming great flood to warmongering neoconservatives warning of the next big terror attack.
PAG-ASA Astronomical Diary for January 2008
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will be active from January 1 to January 5. Under a dark and cloudless sky just after midnight of its peak activity on January 3 and 4, meteors or “falling stars†can be seen…. Continue reading here…
Nutrition Labels On Resto Food Menus?
Maybe it won’t be long before you see a menu board, such as the one depicted above, setup in many major restaurants in the country.
Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro has filed a bill in the House of Representatives that would require restaurants to put nutrition information on their products. The requirement is covered by House Bill 2939 and is hoped to give encouragement to Filipinos to be aware of healthy food choices.
This move isn’t particularly new. Though nutritional labeling of food products have been in existence in various parts of the U.S. in the 1940’s, the common nutritional labeling that you see in supermarket products have been seen since the 1990’s. And in 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug administration has proposed some rules that would require restaurants to backup any nutritional claim in their menus. And last August 2005, in their ongoing battle against America’s number 1 killer, heart disease, New York City Health Department had urged restaurants to cease using trans fat in cooking their food. Starbucks had announced that, by the end of year 2007, there would be no trans fat in all their company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S., Alaska, and Canada. In addition to that, McDonald’s had even joined in the health bandwagon by promising to put nutritional labels on individual boxes of their products and also, by offering healthier alternatives like Caesar salad with grilled chicken.
Christmas and New Year… and conversation topics
Christmas was not that good. I slept through the whole endeavour after eating a godawful of fattening substance….. It might be true that besides being a season of jolliness, tis also a season to be FAT. That’s why a common NY resolution is to stay fit, to be specific, stay thin.
Apart from my mom and my two siblings. Christmas was also celebrated with my mom’s bro, his wife, and his daughter… My cousin.
And that’s it. Apart from money, which was very small that year, there was still an array of shirts that I got, particularly with collar. The most surprising is that two someones (they live together and both my aunts) gave me boxers… O well, at least they’re relatives.
New Year [NY] is the best because Christmas is just a warning that the beginning is near and we need to fix everything for a new start.
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“DARK KNIGHT” PROLOGUE EXCLUSIVE TO “I AM LEGEND” AT IMAX STARTING JAN 8
Dark Knight movie teaser poster
Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation jointly announce that Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated sci-fi thriller “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith will be shown at the IMAX Theater at the SM Mall of Asia starting Jan. 8, 2008, simultaneous with the film’s opening on the same date in conventional cinemas across the Philippines.
“I Am Legend,” which recently opened in the U.S. to a record-breaking $77.4-million, will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience.
ABS-CBN Sports Joins the 2008 Clark Freeport International Marathon
All is set and ready for the first major sporting event of 2008. The first Clark Freeport International Marathon to be held on January 13, 2008 is expected to draw in participants and spectators from all over the country and around Asia.
To ensure full and quality coverage of this grand event, Clark Development Corporation (CDC) and ActivAsia, Inc. are partnering with ABS-CBN Sports. “ABS-CBN Sports’ commitment to sports and adherence to the highest standards of broadcasting are compatible with the marathon’s thrusts and objectives,†Noemi Garcia of CDC says. “We envision the marathon to be a yearly event, and for this purpose, we find ABS-CBN as a veritable ally.â€
Disappointing Friendships
When a friend told me that she thinks another friend of ours considers me as one of the few real friends she has, I immediately felt my heart thumping like crazy. The thing is, my heart was beating not because I was really happy but because I always have this notion that I will always disappoint them when they consider me to be that special. I was happy though to know that but the feeling that I will disappoint her was more overpowering.
Married?
We’ve been talking about marriage and getting married. That’ll be me and a few friends. And we were all agreeing to the point that getting married may not be a big deal for some but it is. You do get married only once in your lifetime and it would not be a piece of cake.
Get Paid to Click Sites of 2007 – In Review
This will be my first post here. Hope you check out this post. 
There you see bux.to and its rise to the top. The site has overtaken the ever popular adbux as the most visited paid to click site on the planet. This is mainly due to the fact that bux.to members has seen an incredible amount of boost on their number of ads which now sits at around 15-17 per day. Bux.to simply just blew all the competition away.
GMA 7 Seeks New Pinoy Idol
Almost everybody knows that GMA 7 now owns the right to air the new Idol show in the Philippines, which will be called “Pinoy Idolâ€. And today, the network has just started calling the attention of Idol aspirants around the nation.
As shown on TV, audition dates and venues are now being announced and will take place in major areas in the provinces such as Cebu, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro and more.
