Monday, November 24, 2008
[TXT] Two ears = one heart
kaya kapag marunong kang makinig, marunong kang mag-mahal.." - Bob Ong.
Translation: "If you join your two ears together, they form the shape of
a heart. The ears are the heart's extension, so if you know how to
listen, you know how to love." - Stu Pid :-D
[TXT] [did you know?] The weight of the earth
Don't add more weight to it by carrying a heavy heart.
Stay light.
Laugh often.
Love much.
Enjoy life. Ü
[FWD] When God was defeated
and said, 'Once again, the Earth has become
wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of
all flesh before me. Build me another Ark,
and save 2 of every living thing along
with a few good humans.'
He gave Noah the blueprints,saying, 'You have 6 months
to build the Ark, before I
start the unending rain for 40 days and 40
nights.'
Six months passed. The Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard
- and no Ark!
'Noah!' He roared , 'I'm about to start the
Rain! Where is the Ark ?'
'Forgive me, Lord,' begged Noah, 'but there have been difficulties. I
needed a building permit. I've been arguing with the Inspector about the
need for a sprinkler system. My neighbors claim that I've violated the
neighborhood zoning laws
by building the Ark in my yard, and exceeding the height limitations.
We had to go to the Development Appeals Board for a decision.
Then Hydro One demanded a bond be posted for the future
costs of moving power lines and other overhead
obstructions, to clear the passage for
the Ark's move to the sea.
I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they
would hear none of it.
Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local
trees in order to save the spotted leopard. I tried to
convince the environmentalists that I needed the
wood to save the leopards - but no go!
When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group of Maneka
Gandhi sued me. It insisted that I was confining wild animals
against their will. It argued the accommodation
was too restrictive, and it was cruel and
inhumane to put so many animals
in such a confined space.
Then the Ministry of the Environment ruled that I couldn't build
the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on
Your proposed Flood.
I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights
Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed
to hire for my building crew.
Immigration and Naturalization are checking the Visa status
of most of the people who are hired for work.
The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to
hire only union workers with Ark-building experience.
To make matters worse, Revenue Collectorate seized all my
assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with
endangered species.
So, forgive me, Lord, but it will take me at least 10 more years
to sort thru all this bureaucratic red tape and rigmarole, and finish
the work on the Ark.'
Suddenly there was a huge clap of thunder, the Earth shook, but the
skies cleared, and the sun began to shine. A rainbow
stretched across the sky. Noah looked up in wonder
and asked, 'You mean Lord, you're not going
to destroy the world?'
'No,' said the Lord.
'Your Government beat me to it!'
[FWD] just a thought
The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish.
If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.
To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.
However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive.
Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste.
The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.
So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan?
To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies (still) put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The fish, in an attempt to run away from the shark, stay constantly alert and hence, fresh. The shark may eat a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state.
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Lessons from the story:
Like the Japanese fish - "Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."- L. Ron Hubbard.
Challenges are what keep us FRESH! Instead of avoiding challenges, jump into them. Beat the heck out of them.
Enjoy the game. If your challenges are too large or too numerous, reorganize the challenge, team up, be resourceful and do not give up. Failing makes you tired.
If you have met your goals, set some bigger goals.
Once you meet your personal or family needs, move onto goals for your group, the society, even mankind.
Don't create success and lie in it.
You have resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.
Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!
[FWD] Statistics
MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
____________ _________ _________
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
____________ _________ ________
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
____________ _________ _______
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
____________ _________ ________
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
____________ _________ _________
LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
____________ _________ _________
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
____________ _________ ________
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
____________ _________ ________
HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED;
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
[SWE] List of (Windows) Software Essentials
Safe & Fast Web Browser Google Chrome
Safe & Fast Web Browser Mozilla Firefox
Compressed File Handler ExtractNow or WinRAR
PDF Viewer Acrobat Reader
E-mail Use Web Browser, access Gmail or Yahoo! Mail
Torrent Downloader uTorrent
Chat/IM Yahoo! Messenger or use Web Browser to access Gmail Chat or Yahoo! Web Messenger
Office Suite OpenOffice.org
FTP FileZilla or FireFTP via Mozilla Firefox
Safe & Fast Media Player (for all Media) VLC Media Player
Windows Useful Extras
iTunes Store + iPod Syncing iTunes+QuickTime
Extra Web Browser Safari
Extra Web Browser Flock
Extra Web Browser Chrome
Windows Useful Tools
Print to PDF PDF995
Download Full Websites or Multiple Links WinHTTrack
Rename Multiple Files at Once FileRenamer
Configure Many of Windows' Hidden Switches TweakUI
Print to PDF Alternative PrimoPDF
Print to PDF Alternative CutePDF
If you have gadgets…
Palm Desktop
Nokia PC Suite
Did you want to shift to Linux?
Wubi
Monday, November 17, 2008
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[thoughts] 3 October 2008
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Sushi served Nyotaimori-style
But yeah, in Christian contexts, this is a no-no, as you (usually males) are putting yourself in a situation where you could be tempted, at least to entertain thoughts violating "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife..." or "Thou shalt not commit adultery..."
Anyway, read this article first: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/style/2008/10/naked-sushi.html
Did you know? The French are predominantly Catholic.
Anyways, it turns out it's somewhere between US$ 100 to 300 to do this, and that's exclusive of something like a mandatory tip of 18% and taxes, and other extras. No, this is legal, and no, you can't touch the "plate." You do have chopsticks. But it would be rude as you are here to eat sushi in a different way.
Of course there are places-a-plenty like this in Japan. Anyway, if you're in New York, check out this out:
http://www.nyotaimori-ny.com/
Monday, November 3, 2008
ronjie.com.mag issue #10 (november 3, 2008) ==> special HALLOWEEN issue
what's special about halloween? november 1 and 2 are holidays in the philippines - all saints' day, and all souls' day. it's the time when filipinos go visit their dead at the cemeteries, have a picnic on grave tables, play tong-its, etc. sad. boring. that's what this issue is about. it's about sad or boring stuff. well, check it out yourself. issue #10. lots of forwarded stuff (including via text), and a really boring movie. oh, and a very difficult sudoku game that might take you the whole day to finish. me, i'm sleeping... :-D
[Movie Review] Once
and Lyrics starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant) about an aspiring
singer-songwriter and a girl he meets with whom he shares the same
talent and passion for music. Cool. I love music, I am a
singer-songwriter myself. For that, this was interesting.
WAS.
I slept on this movie. The songs are so melancholic. It became
dragging to a certain point. Perhaps that was the point of the movie.
If so, then it's a great movie. That I slept on.
I rate this a 2. It's a must watch only for very, very, very serious
movie lovers.
[TXT] Kapag may umaway sa'yo...
sabihin mo sa kanila:
UGLY never starts with "I," it always starts with "U."
wala ka pala e! haha! :-D
[TXT] You CANT stop others to talk negatively against you.
death.
RONJIE.COM comment: This is just one of those things I receive. I don't
necessarily endorse such TXT messages. But of course, the point is, if
they're wrong, they're wrong, and let it be also the fault of those who
believe in such negative things without first confirming for themselves
if what is said about you is true. In short, you can't stop gossip, but
you can go on and be not what they say you are. :-D
[FWD] MAHILIG SA SOUVENIRS?
By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:07:00 04/10/2008
HONG KONG-Think twice about taking 'souvenirs' from airplanes,
especially on international flights.
A judge here Wednesday fined two Filipinos HK$2,000 (P10,700) each for
taking with them life jackets from their Cathay Pacific flight from
Dubai .
Tsuen Wan Principal Magistrate Andrew Ma imposed the fines on Edwin S.
Antolin, 52, and Crisanto R. Ramos, 29, after they pleaded guilty to the
charge of theft. The life jackets cost only HK$400 each.
'Do you know each other?' asked the judge, who got curious why the two
would take life jackets from their flight. He apparently did not know
that many Filipinos had a proclivity of taking with them 'souvenirs'
from hotels, airplanes and other places they visited.
Both Filipinos denied knowing each other. They were seated on different
rows when they arrived here at around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday for a
connecting flight to Manila .
Ramos occupied Seat No.. 35B while Antolin was in No. 47B, but they
apparently had the same urge to take the life jackets under their seats.
Antolin put the jacket in his blue traveling bag, while Ramos hid his in
a red shopping bag. They did not foresee that they would be arrested and
charged in court for taking 'souvenirs.'
When they got to the passenger terminal building of the Chek Lap Kok
International Airport , their belongings had to go through an X-ray
machine before they take their connecting flight.
Airport security officers later told investigators that they noticed
'suspicious objects' in the Filipinos' bags.
The passengers were searched and the life jackets were found. Ramos
supposedly even wrapped his jacket with a blanket.
The security officers reported the incident to the police and Cathay
Pacific staff members, who confirmed that the life jackets were missing.
During police interrogation, the Filipinos denied any wrongdoing but
they later pleaded guilty upon the advice of lawyers after they were
brought to court.
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KABAYAN. PLEASE. BUMABABA NA ANG DOLLAR.
WAG NA NATIN SADYAING BUMABA DIN PATI ANG ATING DANGAL.
ISAULI NYO PO ANG KUMOT, UNAN, KUTSARA, TINIDOR, KITCHEN KNIFE, PLATITO,
CUP AT PERFUME OR LOTION SA CR.... DI PO KASAMA YAN SA BINAYAD SA
PASAHE.
PATI ANG EARPHONE... HINDI NYO PO MAGAGAMIT YAN KASI PANG-EROPLANO LANG YAN, MAY EROPLANO BA KAYO SA BAHAY NYO???
[FWD] Beware of a Group of Manila Cops
** PLEASE PASS ON TO FRIENDS... ****
Subject: Fw: Beware of a Group of Manila Cops
This was passed on by my husband's classmate from college in La
Salle... Hope it never happens to any of your loved ones!
DIDI
Hi ED,
THANKS FOR THE E MAIL. I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU MY SON'S EXPERIENCE
WITH THE MANILA POLICE LAST WEDNESDAY EVENING AT ABOUT 10PM.
CHRISTIAN WENT TO THE CONDO AT THE CORNER OF VITO CRUZ AND TAFT
AVE. TO RETURN HIS COUSIN'S LAPTOP. HE HANDED THE LAPTOP TO HIS
COUSIN AND WENT BACK TO THE CAR. WHEN HE GOT TO THE CAR, THERE
WAS A COP WHO ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE; WHY HE WAS
PARKED ON A NO PARKING
<http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50585#> AREA.
CHRISTIAN SAID, IF IT WERE A NO
PARKING AREA WHY IS IT THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF CARS PARKED.
THE COP TOLD HIM TO OPEN HIS TRUNK AND CHRIS ASKED, WHY? DO YOU
HAVE A WARRANT? ANYWAY, THE CAR DOORS AND WINDOWS WERE OPEN AND
ANOTHER COP SEARCHED THE INTERIOR WHILE ANOTHER OPENED THE
TRUNK.
IN THE TOOLBOX THEY FOUND THE PLASTIC END OF SPARK PLUGS
<http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50585#> . THE
COP SAID IT WAS A PARAPHARNALIA. THE SAME COP BROUGHT TO THE
TRUNK USED PLASTIC SACHETS OF SHABU AND STARTED TO SHOUT 'DRUGS
'TO!', 'DRUGS!'
SO THEY TOOK CHRISTIAN, TO THE ATM OF BPI. THEY SAW HIS CARD
AND ASKED HIM TO WITHDRAW ALL HIS MONEY. FORTUNATELY HE DOES
NOT KEEP HIS MONEY THERE. ONLY HIS SALARY IS DEPOSITED THERE.
SO THE COPS WE INSISTED THAT HE WAS A DRUG USER. AND MY SON WAS
SAYING DO A TEST NOW SO THEY'LL SEE IF HE'S POSITIVE. HE SAID I
CAN'T WORK IN MANDARIN AS A CHEF IF I'M A DRUG USER. HE SAID HE
HAD TO GET POLICE, NBI, BARANGAY, COURT AND MEDICAL CLEARANCE
BEFORE HE COULD START WORKING.
THEN THE POLICE TOOK HIM TO POLICE HEAD-QUARTERS AT UN AVE. AND
THERE FORCED HIM TO EAT SHABU. IT TOOK A WHILE BEFORE HE ATE
IT. SIX COPS WERE PUNCHING HIM AND SCARING HIM WITH THEIR GUNS
UNTIL THE POOR GUY PEED IN HIS PANTS OUT OF FEAR. HE HAD TO
SWALLOW THE DRUG. THEN THE COPS STARTED TO LAUGH. NOW WE'LL SEE
IF YOU ARE NEGATIVE OF SHABU. '200,000PHP AND WE'LL LET YOU GO
OR THIS WILL BE AT THE FISCALS OFFICE IN THE MORNING. CALL YOUR
FRIENDS AND PARENTS.
THIS ORDEAL STARTED AT 10PM. HE WAS ABLE TO CALL ME AT 5AM THE
FOLLOWING DAY. POOR SON OF MINE WAS REALLY TRAUMATIZED. A
FRIEND OF HIS CAME WITH TWENTY THOUSAND THE COPS GRABBED IT AND
LET HIM GO AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED.
I WAS IN LIPA ALL THE TIME THIS WAS HAPPENING. CHRIS LATER
FOUND OUT FROM HIS COUSIN THAT SEVEN OF HER FRIENDS WERE ALSO
APPREHENDED BY THE SAME GROUP OF COPS AND ALSO TOOK THEM TO
THEIR ATM'S. THEY GOT ALL THEIR MONEY IN THE ACCOUNT. THIS COP
IS CAPT.MENDOZA OF THE MOBIL GROUP AND SARGENT GAVINO. IF YOU
GUYS KNOW INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE SERVICE, PLEASE LET THEM
KNOW ABOUT THIS. I WOULD ALSO LIKE FOR THEM TO RETURN THE MONEY
THEY TOOK FROM MY SON SO HE COULD GIVE IT BACK TO HIS FRIEND.
THE MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS SO CALLED POLICE OFFICERS THE
BETTER. THIS IS THE TYPE OF GOVERNMENT THAT WE HAVE NOW. DISARM
THE POPULATION AND THIS TYPE OF ABUSE HAPPENS. THANKS AND PASS
IT ON. BOB
[FWD] [did you know?] BANGUNGOT
BANGUNGOT & some realities
(From RONJIE.COM: I have not yet confirmed the authenticity nor the accuracy of this information. This is for entertainment purposes only. But then again, there's nothing wrong with drinking a full glass of water before going to bed!)
Got this information from a US-based pharmacist who is a cousin of a
colleague.
It seems only MALES are afflicted with this.
We had a co-staff/driver from FAO who died last month from supposedly
BANGUNGOT-- leaving a housewife and 3 very young kids.
IMPORTANT: Never go thirsty when going to bed and be sure you have
plenty of water during your 8-hour rest.
Bangungot has killed a male nurse of UERMMH. It is sudden death in
adults which cause them to die while sleeping. Many theories have been
put forward as its cause. However, here is an article which sheds some
light to the cause of this malady.
Please read on:
Article from THE PHILIPPINE STAR:
The reported cause of actor Rico Yan's death is nightmare or bangungot.
Medical investigators in China , Japan and several Asian countries who
performed autopsies on persons who died from 'acute hemorrhagic
pancreatitis' found out that the majority of them had eaten NOODLES as
their supper. This was a startling finding.
However, it wasn't the noodles that caused nightmares but DEHYDRATION.
Imbibing even
with a few drinks of alcohol or just
eating noodles immediately before bedtime compound this on an empty
stomach will trigger
an electrolyte imbalance and other factors that
causes a person to dehydrate or lose water.
It is therefore advisable for a person to take several glasses of water
before bedtime if he had a few or several alcoholic drinks.
Avoid eating noodles before bedtime, but if you can not avoid it, allow
at least two hours for the body to digest the noodles before hitting the
sack and drink plenty of water.
The most important thing is, never go thirsty when going to bed and be
sure you have plenty of water during your 8-hour rest.
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PLEASE PASS TO YOUR FRIENDS!
[FWD] 4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST - Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked Try it out.
SECOND - Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to
drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!"
THIRD - Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
FOURTH - How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends
[FWD] MMDA apprehensions
I just reached my limit last weekend, and decided to
take action against the abusive MMDA enforcers. I
basically called up the MMDA head office and
inquired from the Personnel Officer, Antonio
Pagulayan, to clarify their policies. Here is what
I got.
If any of these abuses seem familiar to you, Mr.
Pagulayan has asked that you call either the MMDA
hotline (136) or call the METRO BASE at 0920 9389861
or 0920 9389875 and ask for an Inspectorate. They
will send inspectors to the place where these MMDA
officers are extorting, even while you are arguing
out of your apprehension.
1. MMDA officers are not allowed to group together
in order to apprehend. They are not even allowed
to stand together in groups of 2 or more. The only
time they are allowed to work together is for
special operations (probably when they apprehend
groups of buses for smoke belching)
2. Swerving IS NOT a traffic violation. Moving one
lane to the left or right is not swerving, no
matter where on the road you do it. And it is even
less of a violation when you do it with a signal.
Swerving is defined as shifting 2 or more lanes
very quickly. So you can argue your way out of
this, and call the Metro Base for help.
3. Sadly, using the yellow lane is a traffic
violation and will get you a ticket. However, buses
are really not allowed to go out of the yellow lane,
so if you see selective apprehension of private
cars only, you may complain.
4. MMDA has confirmed that your license MAY NOT BE
CONFISCATED at a traffic apprehension. The only
time they can doso is if you are part of an
accident, or it is your third violation and you have
not settled your fines yet. They are only allowed
to give you a ticket, which you can contest. He
recommends actually receiving the ticket in some
instances, so that you can report the officer who
did it.
Also, you are free to ask any of these officers for
their "mission order", which is written by their
supervisor. If they apprehend you for a violation
that is not in their mission order for the day, you
can report them and they will receive disciplinary
action.
[FWD] QUIRINO AVE/SOUTH SSH DRIVER HORROR STORIES(Pls. always lock your doors)
For the general commuting public, maging driver ka man o hindi....
Ingat kayo when passing through south super highway cor quirino ave. On our way home from Makati, we took buendia then turn right to south superhighway, it was only 8pm and it was drizzling. we were cruising fine but it was a slow moving traffic. right after san andres st, there are these buildings which are modern version of home along the riles (near the designers depot), my wife screamed because somebody was trying to open the car from her side. sensing that it was locked he moved to the back door and tried to open it likewise, we were stocked in traffic and i was stunned that i could not think of anything to do but just look at him. so when finally the traffic moved he also moved away casually tucking the gun in his belly and staring at me as if saying you are lucky you locked your door. thank GOD my wife is so makulit in reminding me to lock the door evertime we go. kaya to all you people beware of that place. Actually you should be alert & be cautious when passing through south superhighway all the way to nagtahan.
Karla Vanessa M. Redor
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Three days ago my driver had an encounter in this area. After dropping me off at work, the driver was on the south bound lane of South Super Highway near the home along the riles housing (near Sunday Machine Works and Designer Depot). As he came to a full stop at the San Andres intersection stoplight, a man approached the car's rear passenger side, grabbed the car's antenna and broke it. The man remained beside the car, apparently waiting for the driver to get down and confront him. Fortunately, the driver remembered my dad's warnings regarding these types of M.O.s and remained in the car. As the driver sped away, he noticed a group of men on the center island. It pays to be praning,
Sara
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Yes, I have witnessed a similar incident, maybe about a month ago, and reported it immediately to Police 117. A young man tried to open the passenger door of the taxi in front of me. About three or four girls were inside the taxi at that time. Fortunately, the door was locked. I pass this route coming from Malacanang every night. Fortunately for me too, my car is heavily tinted so I am not easy prey. I shall call 117 again. I suggest you do the same. Although I don't know if that would really help.
Atty. Dara C. Acusar Assistant Secretary
Office of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
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A similar incident happened to me along Quirino Avenue somewhere between the Flying V gas station and Iglesia ni Kristo. 3 men approached my car IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! and SLOW TRAFFIC! and tried to open the back doors.
Bumusina ako ng tuloy tuloy to BR ward them off. It's scary 'coz that area has no patrolling policemen. When they failed to open my car, they tried the other cars naman. I don't know kung may nabuksan sila. Then yesterday, while the PMAP rally was going on along Buendia cor. Ayala, as I was about to cross that intersection, two of the rallyists tried to open my car doors again. Again in BROAD DAYLIGHT! WITH A POLICEMAN AROUND! Hay, what the world has come to. I suggest you lock up and make a lot of noise to at least rattle those thieves.
Judy
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mga tsong this really happend last wednesday, September sept. 10.... and i hope u would take time in reading this........ I came from makati and was driving along south super highway (osmena hiway) going towards manila area, nung dumating ako sa maliit na bridge before the DESIGNER DEPOT, ung maliit na bazaar of clothes (corner quirino ave and osmena hiway) , if ur coming from makati and u took bu endia or pablo ocampo, mauuna ung bridge before DESIGNER DEPOT ung nasa harap ko is a gold honda civic, all of a sudden may mga lumabas na around 6 or 7 guys who obviously look like squatters who reside along the riles and biglang tinambangan ung civic, pinagsisipa, pinagyug-yug, pinagkukutkot ung susian and they were successful in opening the doors, tapos nagulat na lang ako isa isa nilang nilabas ung mga gamit na nasa loob nung civic cds, bags, etc. im not sure kung ung driver is a girl or a boy , pero ung driver tinutukan ng kutsilyo... in short parang kinuyob ung civic, btw, ako and ung civic during that time(mga 830 - 9 pm) ay nasa right most ng lane... meaning right side lang namin ung lakaran ng tao..... after robbing... they immediately jump off the bridge and went away..... dami nakakita nun pero isang taxi driver lang ang tumigil to check ung condition ng driver.... nga pala, may oner na nasa harap ng katabi ng civic, sakay ay mga pulis, 2 lang ata yun,,, naka purple na uniform (manila police)..... . i dont know kung nakita nila yung incident na yun....pero sa tingin ko naman makikita nila yun... natakot lang dahil 2 lang sila eh and their rusty pistols.... just a friendly warning mga tsong..... kung mag-isa kayo and mejo kita kayo sa loob ng kotse nyo (kahit ano pa yang kotse nyo, luma or bago) try to avoid muna if possible ung osmena hiway at night or better yet try to have another route kasi mejo nagpaparamdam na naman ung mga modus operandi na tulad nun dahil pasko na ulet. if any of u guys have contact sa manila police, paki inform naman sila or just spread this news.... its for all us naman eh... peace!
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Always better safe than sorry... forewarned is forearmed... mga bro ingat kayo run, malapit lang ako nakatira dun kaya talagang totoo yung mga sinasabi rito, karamihan ng mga tarantado diyan nde mismo taga ilalim ng tulay (tapat ng sunday machine works) ginagawa lang nila taguan yun at takasan, mostly ng tulisan diyan mga taga-riles from Fabie, taga-Texas, taga-Muñoz, taga-Mataas na Lupa at mismo taga-riles (batangas line). uso rin ang agaw cellphone jan tsaka holdapan sa jeep lalo na sa riles ingat din kayo sa parking lot ng Designer's Depot kse yung iba doon naghahanap ng biktima (kase talagang madilim dun!) yan din ang isa sa mga reason kung bakit walang nakatira dun sa mga housing project na malapit dun dun sa tawiran sa kabila ng designers depot (yung maraming bata at totoy na nakatambay at yung iba nagbebenta ng sampaguita) wag din kayo tatawid dun dahil puro rugby boys and girls ang nakaupo run! ang masakit, walang ginagawa yung police detachment diyan! sana makatulong ng konti
[FWD] kuwentong pinoy
Philippines.
This was written in 1999. Matter of Taste by Matthew Sutherland
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I have now been in this country for over six years, and consider myself
in
most respects well-assimilated. However, there is one key step on the
road
to full assimilation which I have yet to take, and that's to eat BALUT.
The day any of you sees me eating balut, please call immigration and ask
them to issue me a Filipino passport. Because at that point there will
be no
turning back.
BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there, is a
fertilized duck egg. It is commonly sold with salt in a piece of
newspaper,
much like English fish and chips, by street vendors usually after dark,
presumably so you can't see how gross it is. It's meant to be an
aphrodisiac, although I can't imagine anything more likely to dispel
sexual
desire than crunching on a partially-formed baby duck swimming in
noxious
fluid. The embryo in the egg comes in varying stages of development, but
basically it is not considered macho to eat one without fully
discernable
feathers, beak, and claws. Some say these crunchy bits are the best.
Others
prefer just to drink the so-called 'soup', the vile, pungent liquid that
surrounds the aforementioned feathery fetus...excuse me, I have to go
and
throw up now. I'll be back in a minute.
Food dominates the life of the Filipino. People here just love to eat.
They
eat at least eight times a day. These eight official meals are called,
in
order:
breakfast, snacks, lunch, merienda, pica-pica, pulutan, dinner, and
no-one-saw-me-take-that-cookie-from-the-fridge-so-it-doesn't-count.
The short gaps in between these mealtimes are spent eating Sky Flakes
from
the open packet that sits on every desktop. You're never far from food
in
the Philippines. If you doubt this, next time you're driving home from
work,
try this game. See how long you can drive without seeing food and I
don't
mean a distant restaurant, or a picture of food. I mean a man on the
sidewalk frying fish balls, or a man walking through the traffic selling
nuts or candy. I bet it's less than one minute.
Here are some other things I've noticed about food in the Philippines.
Firstly, a meal is not a meal without rice-even breakfast. In the UK, I
could go a whole year without eating rice. Second, it's impossible to
drink
without eating. A bottle of San Miguel just isn't the same without
gambas or
beef tapa. Third, no one ventures more than two paces from their house
without baon and a container of something cold to drink. You might as
well
ask a Filipino to leave home without his pants on. And lastly, where I
come
from, you eat with a knife and fork. Here, you eat with a spoon and
fork.
You try eating rice swimming in fish sauce with a knife.
One really nice thing about Filipino food culture is that people always
ask
you to SHARE their food. In my office, if you catch anyone attacking
their
baon, they will always go. "Sir! KAIN TAYO!" ("Let's eat!"). This
confused
me, until I realized that they didn't actually expect me to sit down and
start munching on their boneless bangus. In fact, the polite response is
something like, "No thanks, I just ate." But the principle is sound-if
you
have food on your plate, you are expected to share it, however hungry
you
are, with those who may be even hungrier. I think that's great. In fact,
this is frequently even taken one step further. Many Filipinos use "Have
you
eaten yet?" ("KUMAIN KA NA?") as a general greeting, irrespective of
time of
day or location. Some foreigners think Filipino food is fairly dull
compared
to other Asian cuisines. Actually lots of it is very good: spicy dishes
like
Bicol Express (strange, a dish named after a train); anything cooked
with
coconut milk; anything KINILAW; and anything ADOBO. And it's hard to
beat
the sheer wanton, cholesterholic frenzy of a good old-fashioned LECHON
de
leche feast. Dig a pit, light a fire, add 50 pounds of animal fat on a
stick, and cook until crisp. Mmm, mmm... you can actually feel your
arteries
constricting with each successive mouthful.
I also share one key Pinoy trait ---a sweet tooth. I am thus the only
foreigner I know who does not complain about sweet bread, sweet burgers,
sweet spaghetti, sweet banana ketchup, and so on. I am a man who likes
to
put jam on his pizza. Try it! It's the weird food you want to avoid.
In addition to duck fetus in the half-shell, items to avoid in the
Philippines include pig's blood soup (DINUGUAN); bull's testicle soup,
the
strangely-named "SOUP NUMBER FIVE" (I dread to think what numbers one
through four are); and the ubiquitous, stinky shrimp paste, BAGOONG, and
it's equally stinky sister, PATIS.
Filipinos are so addicted to these latter items that they will even risk
arrest or deportation trying to smuggle them into countries like
Australia
and the USA, which wisely ban the importation of items you can smell
from
more than 100 paces.
Then there's the small matter of the blue ice cream. I have never been
able
to get my brain around eating blue food; the ubiquitous UBE leaves me
cold.
And lastly on the subject of weird food, beware: that KALDERETANG
KAMBING
(goat) could well be KALDERETANG ASO (dog)... The Filipino, of course,
has a
well-developed sense of food.
Here's a typical Pinoy food joke: "I'm on a seafood diet. "What's a
seafood
diet?" "When I see food, I eat it!"
Filipinos also eat strange bits of animals---the feet, the head, the
guts,
etc., usually barbecued on a stick. These have been given witty names,
like
"ADIDAS" (chicken's feet); "KURBATA" (either just chicken's neck, or
"neck
and thigh" as in "neck-tie"); "WALKMAN" (pigs ears); "PAL" (chicken
wings);
"HELMET" (chicken head); "IUD" (chicken intestines), and "BETAMAX"
(video-cassette-like blocks of animal blood). Yum, yum. Bon appetit.
"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches" --(Proverbs 22:1)
WHEN I arrived in the Philippines from the UK six years ago, one of the
first cultural differences to strike me was names. The subject has
provided
a continuing source of amazement and amusement ever since.
The first unusual thing, from an English perspective, is that everyone
here
has a nickname. In the staid and boring United Kingdom, we have
nicknames in
kindergarten, but when we move into adulthood we tend, I am glad to say,
to
lose them.
The second thing that struck me is that Philippine names for both girls
and
boys tend to be what we in the UK would regard asoverbearingly cutesy
for
anyone over about five. "Fifty-five-year-olds colleague put it. Where I
come
from, a boy with a nickname like Boy Blue or Honey Boy would be beaten
to
death at school by pre-adolescent bullies, and never make it to
adulthood.
So, probably, would girls with names like Babes, Lovely, Precious,
Peachy or
Apples. Yuk, ech ech. Here, however, no one bats an eyelid.
Then I noticed how many people have what I have come to call "door-bell
names". These are nicknames that sound like - well, door-bells. There
are
millions of them. Bing, Bong, Ding, and Dong are some of the more
common.
They can be, and frequently are, used in even more door-bell-like
combinations such as Bing-Bong, Ding-Dong, Ting-Ting, and so on. Even
our
newly-appointed chief of police has a doorbell name Ping. None of these
door-bell names exist where I come from, and hence sound unusually
amusing
to my untutored foreign ear. Someone once told me that one of the Bings,
when asked why he was called Bing, replied "because my brother is called
Bong". Faultless logic.
Dong, of course, is a particularly funny one for me, as where I come
from
"dong" is a slang word for... well, perhaps "talong" is the best Tagalog
equivalent.
Repeating names was another novelty to me, having never before
encountered
people with names like Len-Len, Let-Let, Mai-Mai, or Ning-Ning. The
secretary I inherited on my arrival had an unusual one: Leck-Leck.
Such names are then frequently further refined by using the "squared"
symbol,
as in Len2 or Mai2.
This had me very confused for a while.
Then there is the trend for parents to stick to a theme when naming
their
children. This can be as simple as making them all begin with the same
letter, as in Jun, Jimmy, Janice, and Joy.
More imaginative parents shoot for more sophisticated forms of assonance
or
rhyme, as in Biboy, Boboy, Buboy, Baboy (notice the names get worse the
more
kids there are-best to be born early or you could end up being a Baboy).
Even better, parents can create whole families of, say, desserts
(Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Honey Pie) or flowers (Rose, Daffodil, Tulip).
The
main advantage of such combinations is that they look great painted
across
your trunk if you're a cab driver. That's another thing I'd never seen
before coming to Manila -- taxis with the driver's kids' names on the
trunk.
Another whole eye-opening field for the foreign visitor is the
phenomenon of
the "composite" name. This includes names like Jejomar (for Jesus,
Joseph
and Mary), and the remarkable Luzviminda
(for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, believe it or not). That's a bit like
me
being called something like "Engscowani" (for England, Scotland, Wales
and
Northern Ireland).
Between you and me, I'm glad I'm not. And how could I forget to mention
the
fabulous concept of the randomly inserted letter 'h'. Quite what this
device
is supposed to achieve, I have not yet figured out, but I think it is
designed to give a touch of class to an otherwise only averagely weird
name.
It results in creations like Jhun, Lhenn, Ghemma, and Jhimmy. Or how
about
Jhun-Jhun (Jhun2)?
How boring to come from a country like the UK full of people with names
like
John Smith. How wonderful to come from a country where imagination and
exoticism rule the world of names. Even the towns here have weird names;
my
favorite is the unbelieveably-named town of Sexmoan
(ironically close to Olongapo and Angeles). Where else in the world
could
that really be true? Where else in the world could the head of the
Church
really be called
Cardinal Sin?
Where else but the Philippines!
Note: Philippines has a senator named Joker, and it is his legal name.
[FWD] items have been recalled due to China's milk scandal
1. M&M
2. Snickers
3. Mento's Yoghurt Bottle
4. Dove Chocolate
5. Oreo Wafer Sticks
6. Dutchlady Sterilised Milk
7. Wall's all natural mango
8. Mini Poppers Ice Cream
9. Magnum Ice Cream
10. Moo Sandwich Ice Cream
11. Mini Cornetto
12. Youcan Ice Cream
Stores have been asked by AVA Singapore to remove them. If u have any of these items at home, don't eat them.
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