Quote of the Day (6)

Words of wisdom from a lengthy passage penned by the American Comedian George Carlin that I received via email:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have… more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

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Download MP3 using GOOGLE

Hey guys, are you looking for an alternative MP3 downloader aside limewire, iMesh, bearshare due to lack of sources and sometimes slow download speed? why not use Google to download your favorite MP3. Yap, you can use Google to search and download your favorite MP3 songs. To start, just follow this format.

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Q&A Transcript: Binibining Pilipinas World 2008

I’m sure many of you have seen clips of this on YouTube or watched the coronation night of Binibing Pilipinas 2008 on television. And I’m sure that many of you fell off your seats either in laughter, disappointment, frustration, or a combination of the three.

Earlier, I shared my two cents’ worth on what’s wrong with Binibini so I will no longer bore you with rants about the whole joke that the pageant has become. Instead, I’ll share with you the transcript of the answer of contestant number 15, Janina San Miguel, to judge Vivian Tan’s question in the Top Ten interview portion.

Janina eventually went home with the Binibining Pilipinas World 2008 title and will represent the country in the Miss World pageants sometime in the last quarter of this year. The challenge now is for the Binibining Pilipinas Charities to coach her on her language skills. They have at least six months to do that. Continue Reading this entry »

How Doctors Tell Patients They’re Dying

Telling patients they’re going to die is less dramatic than one might think, and contrary to popular belief, most doctors refuse to estimate how many weeks or months patients have left to live.

“It’s not [a doctor's] job to take away hope but to try to provide support and be realistic as possible,” said Dr. Michael Grodin, the director of medical ethics at Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health. “We are notoriously bad at predicting how much time a patient has left.

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more to this:

http://rudjard.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-doctors-tell-patients-they-dying.html

Music Roundup: 1st & 2nd Week of March 2008

Music Roundup ( summary of previous happenings and upcoming events in the music scene in the Philippines and abroad) on the 1st and 2nd week of March 2008.

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