Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 148 times
So how did you spend your day in the aftermath of Bagyong Basyang? It left a LOT of houses and offices without electricity for one whole day. Actually, I’m writing this post in Agave at The Fort while my wife is sipping margaritas. It really sucks having no electricity for a blogger. You can’t blog [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 907 times
I got this link from a friend in Facebook where a site called tryfreecandysample.com is offering a FREE sample bag of Skittles worldwide. All you need to do is give your e-mail and refer the site to friends. Sounds easy right? And who doesn’t want a free bag of Skittles? Now the big question… Is [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 391 times
You might be wondering what the heck is a “jejemon”. Initially, I thought it was those people who often type “hehehe” as “jejeje” accidentally because they’re typing too fast without looking at the keyboard. Turns out it goes much deeper than that. Here’s a nice description of what a jejemon is according to Urban Dictionary. [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 279 times
Yikes! Just heard from the news that starting this Monday (Feb. 15), there will be 2 to 3-hour rotating brownouts in Luzon that will last for a month. This is similar to what happened in Rizal and nearby areas on October last year. According to utility economics manager of Meralco, Lawrence S. Fernandez, these 2 [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 177 times
Here’s the gist of the story. On a trip from Hong Kong to Manila, Cebu Pacific’s flight attendants asked Marites Alcantara and her son suffering from Global Developmental Delay to deplane. According to the mother, the cabin crew informed her that it’s against company policy to allow two or more special children to be on [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 318 times
I guess most of you have already heard that the highly-anticipated sporting event of the year, Paquiao vs. Mayweather Jr. fight this coming March has now been called off just because both camps can’t agree on a how to do the blood tests. So who’s fault is it anyway that this mega-million fight that the [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Calvin | Viewed 188 times
Sad to say, the Philippines is now dubbed as the most dangerous country for journalists to work according to the International Federation Journalists. We were at the fourth spot behind Pakistan, Somalia and former number 1, Iraq before the Maguindanao election-related massacre last Monday killed 57 people (death toll as of this writing), 22 of [...]
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