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Happy Halloween... everyone...

Just leaving a quick word of greeting... more so a handful of prayers for all those who departed in this material world. May God's grace shine on them and lead them to eternal peace.

Moreover may we never forget the real reason why we are commemorating this annual event, to reminisce the days when our loved ones trotted with us on our journey toward the unknown and the uncertain. May their memories stay intact within our hearts, even though they already went away.

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Big Brother has a new house guest! It's no other than the prime time host of the show, Toni Gonzaga. Just today, after the 2nd round of the nominations the abrupt announcement was made. Viewers really doesn't have any idea, if ever Toni Gonzaga had a hunch that she will stay as another house guest or will replace Mariel Rodriguez as the house guest. What ever happened today will be revealed tomorrow at Uber at around 5:30 pm, so I'm going to wait until Big Brother releases their official statement. Read news here

Anyway, the nominees were as follows: Meagan, Baron and Donnie, and Zara. I really don't have any bets on them yet, but the only thing that I could say was I really don't like Baron nor his ever dependent brother to stay. More so, I also don't like Zara because the only thing that she does was to weep, weep and weep. I'm feeling that its her past time habit, plus the fact that she's so onioned skin as well. So that leaves me to Meagan again, for the second time.

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Every actor in this country, as we all know reaches a point where they were intrigued of being a female-hearted male, and we all know most of them just shrugs them of, deny them or just let the issue die; just like what this actor now gracing this page did previously. This actor, a product of a television reality search, TV Idols, aired previously on the now dissolved show MTB, was accused of being a gay, and he vehemently denied such accusations causing the said issue to die. However, table turns and the issue resurfaces, hence, yesterday the said actor became true to himself and revealed his long time secret; that indeed he was gay. Read news here

There is no harm actually in being true to yourself, more so, admitting that you're indeed gay. However, the next question that should be address here was: Will he be accepted whole-heartedly by the same people he had previously be-friend with? We all know, that once you're out of your comfort zone, and revealed to all your darkest secrets, you'll end up being rejected, more so type casted, due to the double standard norms that our society have. The society sees you as something different, hence you're not easily accepted back to the community that you belong with. A thorough screen process will be subjected to you in order to see that you're not contagious.

The double standard norm of society exist in order to restrain people from being true to themselves and be happy with what sexuality they choose. If you know, to yourself, for sure that that you're not doing anything wrong, more so you're not stepping on others to attain your goal, then go live your life, the way you wanted it to be. Read More......

I received a tag from an online friend, Kamskee and it's about this:

7 Truths about me

So here goes:

1. I can speak and write in 3 different languages namely English, Filipino and Spanish, though I must admit that I'm still not that fluent with the last language. More so, I think I'm the only person who doesn't even speak a single dialect.
2. I used to draw and sketch a lot before, but now I really don't know if I'm still that good in the said abilities.
3. I used to make and compose a poem to express my feeling, but I grew tried of it like what happened in the second ability.
4. I used to play the piano, but I'm too busy to even try again. The piano stays there in its place, just waiting.
5. I really like reading chic-literature and other romantic novels... I'm a hopeless romantic... I think...
6. I have never been into any intimate relationships at all... So to speak, I like being with people only as friends and not as a partner, since I felt like I'm going to sacrifice my freedom and a lot of things if I ended up being with someone.
7. Lastly, I'm really at lost now, and I don't know if I'm going to change my career path, or pursue a MA degree.

And now I'm tagging the following people:

• Rich
• Julai
• Ross
• cd
• guapako

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This is what I had viewed after the former president had been released from his house arrest in Tanay, Rizal. According to the news, the family of the former president was a bit surprised for the sudden release of their beloved relative, but was expectant that he will be released sooner or later. More over, supporters of the ousted president also stresses that they "took the former president hastily from his house in Polk Street to be detained but was too late to be returned back to them in San Juan."

What was this? Could somebody use a baseball bat on me so that I'll be able to wake up from this nightmare? I don't know what to say? This was the first time, ever, in Philippine history that a convicted person, released from his detention was accepted back by the community with utmost desire and welcome like he did nothing wrong more so was hailed like a hero. Really ironic!

If Philippine politics was like a chess, and the President was the main player, I must admit, the country's in the wrong hands, moreover nearing the end of the play. This was a result of an unintellectual move coming from the incumbent president, and I pity her for doing that. Lastly, let me quote what the former president of the Philippines, Fidel V. Ramos had said on his interview, "that the president's power is nearing its end."

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Yesterday, at around 4-5 in the afternoon an abrupt, and important announcement was made in the Palace of Malacañang where the president of the Republic of the Philippines resides. The sudden announcement aired in national television states that the former president, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, convicted of the crime plunder, was now given presidential clemency and hereby restores his civil status and his right to vote again given the fact that he will not run anymore to any electoral public office. Read news here

Presidential Clemency? Where in the so-called constitution can an ordinary citizen find that? As far as I know, the former disgraced president was removed from office by the people due to plundering the national treasury, was convicted by the court, and now what? He was free again, like an ordinary citizen! I just don't know if the executive branch really do have that absolute authority to rule over the judiciary system of the country. I'm now quite convinced that if you're a VIP in this country you can go away with anything.

I'm really not sure what to think of in this country. I just can't imagine they can do this, just to cover up the scandal brought about by the ZTE deal and the bribery of local government officials. Filthy politics rules here!

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I felt obliged to create a new blog today using a new domain www.jayceesdesires.info since the previous subdomain I'm using from freedns on afraid.org, http://jayceesdesires.strangled.net cannot be indexed by Google or any other search engines properly, hence I know will not yield any page rank at all even if I try.

I loved using freedns at afraid.org, since it's really not going to cost me anything at all. However, after realizing that the main reason why the said site was not properly indexed nor cached by any search engines was the fact that the service entails cutting out web crawlers, I felt really down-hearted hence my reason to move on to another domain.

To my frequent visitors from my previous blog http://jayceesdesires.strangled.net please update your links to this new one http://www.jayceesdesires.info. Please include a www to it, since without www the page would not load properly, because the registrar to where I had bought this domain doesn't have the feature yet to point a CNAME record to a specific domain. Read More......

Upon reading this article from Yahoo! that Albus Dumbledore, one of the main characters of the well acclaimed book Harry Potter series, was gay, caused distress to me, more so caught me off ground as shock sinks in within my line of thought. I never had the slight idea that what the fictional character, Albus Dumbledore's famous line about love refers no other than his own sexuality, his repressed feelings towards Gellert Grindewald! I never thought that, that was the reason why Dumbledore never had any partner in life towards the progression of the book. Now I feel irritated with J.K. Rowling since she ruined the fatherly image I view about on of her fictional character, Dumbledore. A thorough follow-up to the Deathly Hallows is really needed now.

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National TV Ratings

I haven't switched to local channels lately so I never knew that GMA Network released their own version of television ratings stating that they were the one leading against its stiff competitor ABS-CBN. I must admit that I might appear bias since I really don't watch any television shows aired by GMA network, but I won't lie to all of you, if I say I don't believe what they were claiming. I still believe that the ABS-CBN were the ones telling the truth when it comes to television ratings, since they had based their claims to an independent body of surveyors AGB Nielsen. Even if GMA network claims that they were leading in Metro Manila, the only thing that I'm going to assert is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts!

Is the Manila rating the only ones preferred in the television race? I think not, since even if Manila had a million watchers, it's not only Metro Manila that had a viable market of watchers, there's a lot of regions, cities, and provinces out there where both networks can earn as well.

I pity GMA Network for sour graping on the latest release of national television ratings made by AGB Nielsen. Data can't be screwed just to fit a single preference, so please stop deceiving the viewing public with fabricated data. Read More......

Today at aound 1:40 pm (+8:00 GMT) the business district of the Republic of the Philippines, Makati City, had experienced yet again another explosive blast on the same ground of the previous explosion - the Glorietta Mall, owned by the Ayala Corp. According to ABS-CBN news the explosion happened in the storage room of one of the restaurants the said mall caters. Up to today, authorities are not sure whether the cause of the explosion was made by a leak on the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) or was made by an improvised explosive planted inside the mall.

"This was a bomb. But beyond that we can't say anything else yet because we are still investigating. What I can say is it was not LPG that caused this," Razon told reporters.

However, there is still no clear evidence to rule out what was first thought of about the explosion that it was caused by the leak on an LPG tank, until the authorities had finished their investigation on the said site.

Due to the said explosion, 8 were killed while more than 56 were injured having different degrees of flesh cuts and burns. Moreover, according to the news 2 individuals were still in a critical condition confined in Makati Medical Center. I just pray that God may spare them and let them live to testify to the public on how horrendous the situation they had been if it was caused by extremist bombing.

One thing is for sure about what had happened today, that people should be more vigilant on the places they are going to since no one have any idea on whether the same explosion in the Glorietta 2 mall will be repeated on another place or another mall.

Edit: Sen. Trillianes states on the news that it was the Arroyo government that should be blamed for the said explosion. Instead of blaming the government Mr. Trillianes, why not find the real culprit if the said explosion was caused by a bomb? Instead of blabbering about nonsensical things that are baseless more so factless why not work as a senator and use your connections to get to the bottom of this incident?

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Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), napakagandang pakinggan sa ating mga tenga, ngunit ano nga ba ang kanilang nirerepresenta sa pamayanan na kanilang pinamumunuan? Mula sa mga titik na bumuo ng mga katagang SK, kabataan ang kanilang pinumumunuan, ika nga ng nakararami kabataan para sa kabataan. Ngunit ako'y nagtataka at napamuni-muni dahil malapit ng matapos ang aking kabataan pero bakit ni isang proyekto na dapat nakatuon para sa aming mga kabataan eh wala akong nakita? Sadya bang ang tinatawag na SK ay kubrahan ng salapi ng mga mapagsamantala sa gobyerno na may bulok na sistema?

Balikan natin ang salitang SK, Sangguniang Kabataan, kabataan ang namumuno para sa mga kabataan, nakakapagtaka hindi ba? Ano ba ang mga kwalipikasyon ng pagging isang punong mamumuno ng SK? Itong aspeto na ito ay sadyang di malinaw sa akin, lahat ba ng kabataan ay pwedeng tumakbo bilang isang punong manununo o kagawad? Handa nga ba ang simpleng kabataan na ito na mamuno o wala rin silang kaalam-alam sa kanilang pinapasok? At ang pinakamalaking tanong na aking iiwanan, para matapos na ang aking pagmumuni-muni eh, handa ba silang hatin ang kanilang oras sa paaralan, sa barkada, at sa pamilya para mapaglingkuran ang mga kabataang kanilang inererepresenta?

Translation:

Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), a nice pleasant statement but what does it represent in the community? Deriving from the word SK, the youth were the ones being represented by them as it was based from the old Filipino cliche, youth are for the youth. However, I'm wondering and more so pondering because my youth is nearing at its dusk but why can't I find a single project that were somehow directed for the youths that this SK represents? Was it true that the so-called SK were just misrepresentations and that the salaries were being used for illegal activities by other local government officials?

Going back to the word SK, Sangguniang Kabataan, the youths are the one governing the youths, not that I'm trying to limit the capabilities of the youth, however, isn't it questionable and at the same time arguable that youths below 18 years of age can run for public office? What were the youths' qualifications to become a chair person, more so a member of the team that governs the so-called youths? Were these running youths for the government office ready for the task they're about to be facing or do they lack the basic knowledge of the position they were about to be embarking? Lastly, can these youths manage to split their time for their different priorities (e.g. school, friends, family, and the government) just to serve the majority of the youth that they should represent? Read More......

Political stalemate; is it worth it? Does replacing the incumbent president by its constitutional successor, the only viable way to stabilize the rotten politics that this (in) famous country have?

For a normal, ordinary citizen that doesn't even had any access to first hand information disseminated by the media, I believe it is necessary that the palace of Malacañang be transparent in the issue of bribery. Everyone knows that it against the constitution if an elected public official receives any kind of gifts coming from the president or any other institution, be it money in the form of cash or any other valuable gifts. Money coming from bribe is still illegal be it an old practice!

Old habits die hard as the cliché goes but it doesn't mean that corruption in the government cannot be eradicated. If ousting the incumbent president solves this issue, then I, as one of its citizens agrees to it. However, I still had my doubts whether the constitutional successor of the president is capable of reforming the soiled politics of this country, or whether the said successor wouldn't end up the same as his predecessors.

At the end of the day, however, whether the country changed leadership or not, the same question still stays the same; where in the world did they get that 500,000 Philippine pesos cash that was allegedly bribed to local government officials? Was it from the national treasury that each tax payers spared, taken from their salaries or was it an illegally obtained money? Read More......

Mariel Rodriguez, the host of the Big Brother Philippines Celebrity Edition show Uber, is now an official house mate! The said twist in the show was really unexpected, not just for the viewing public but for the host herself, since she wasn't notified early on that she would be included as a house mate. Poor Mariel, she had the intuition already that she might be forcefully be included as one of the house mates but she still worked as the Uber host up to today not knowing that it's her last day as its host and the start of being a house mate. By looking at her reaction, she really didn't expect it and least to say made her cry. I pity her for being so unprepared, imagine she doesn't even had any clothes with her as she entered through the confession room, since she was coerced. Well this is a new and exciting chapter on the said show, so I'm going to stick my eyes glued on the said show up until it's end.

Go! Go! Mariel! We, the viewers of your show since season 1 up late will miss you.

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Was it sheer indifference or am I just too dense to notice? Does becoming a psychologist makes you a cold-hearted individual that only looks at life as a matter that needs constant treatment? Are psychologists devoid of emotions to even shed a tear?

Questions... all questions... but no specific and generic answer - nothing. I really felt indifferent. Why does it had to be that way? The situation asks for me to spare a tear, to mourn, to weep, to ask for comfort, and to seek for solace, yet I didn't even felt any of it! Does lack of knowledge on the deceased person affects your mental cognition and emotional aspects?

Bakit nga naman ako iiyak, eh di ko nga alam kung sino yung kamaganak ko na yun na namatay.

I don't know he ever existed to be called one of my grandfathers. More so I don't recall having a deep emotional ties with him, and up to the end of the burial ceremony I'm asking myself whether our paths had crossed just once prior his death. Maybe if given the chance to turn back time, I will spend just a single day to be with him to be able to know him, so that I won't felt indifferent or even dettached.

May the Lord grant him everlasting peace now that he's with Him.

Edit: If you're reading this, I'm so sorry. I'm still trying to find a little solace deep down in my heart for my deceased grandfather. Read More......

Victor Basa, Wil Devaughn, Baron Geisler, Donald Geisler, Ruben Gonzaga, and several others not yet allowed to the enter the house will comprise the male celebrity house mates of the Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2, while Yayo Aguila, Riza Santos (Ms. Canada representative for Ms. Earth), Jen Da Silva and Marylaine Viernes (from the 26K Deal or No Deal), Megan Young (from Kokey) and others yet to be revealed also were the next female celebrity house mates who will stay at a single house full of cameras for about 72 days.

This is voyeurism at its finest level! I just can't help but looked stunned and drool over when the next celebrity house mates were unveiled yesterday. I had never imagined that the Big Brother producers would let such luscious, gorgeous, and yummy models and celebrities to be a part of the so-called house mates of the next celebrity edition of the said show. I wondered why they chose those celebrities and quasi-celebrities to be a part of the said show? Was it for ratings purposes? Or was it for plain business and career move?

As I recalled, if not for the despised Wendy Valdez, season 2 of the said show will not reach a good rating even if they did tried to reinvent it. Why? Because all of the season 2 house mates seems like playing around to be the darling of the crowd. Will the next celebrity edition of Big Brother would act the same as that of it's predecessor? Or will they act real despite all the cameras rolling for about 24/7?

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Jake Cuenca's Bench billboards along EDSA or even in Rotonda are really hazardous to female and female-hearted male motorists alike. For my opinion, it would really insinuate a lot of traffic on the said roads, hence it's advisable if motorists just re-route and leave the said roads to be blocked by the aforementioned people. *insert grin here* It's not always that you can see a luscious body of a sassy young male wearing skimpy undergarments being exposed for you to salivate, right? *insert high pitched laugh here*

But does the said billboard matter? Of course it does! As a country "living in billboard hell", as Sen. Santiago once said, it does promote advertiser's products to the consumers even at the extent of selling sex as a commodity and much worse even causing eye strain and traffic to viewers looking at it; it really does matter. Imagine seeing Jake Cuenca wearing those skimpy undergarments, a lot of fans of the said actor would and definitely would buy the same type of products being endorsed.by him, even if the said viewer of the billboard is a female.

Anyway, what's the main reason why I'm blogging this about? My simple answer, I've seen the said billboard both at North Edsa, and another one near Guadalupe or Makati, and I can't help but stare at it. Just imagine if most motorist would stop by and stare at the said billboards, it would cause commotion and traffic that would entail a lot of distress to our poor traffic enforcers. More over I just don't see the point why advertisers makes huge billboards with sex as its theme background on it! Does sex themed things really produces a lot of money? (Edit: Just pondering over; how can you even sell undergarments without using it as a theme? Lol)

No offense to Jake Cuenca, but having that luscious and yummy body to die for being exposed on a billboard really causes a lot of eye strain. Read More......

Impeachment, and yet again another impeachment for the incumbent (in) famous president of the Philippines tagged with a lot of administrative and criminal cases. How in the world are they going to impeach a president who holds in the neck, most of the officials trying to file the case against her? Is it just a lie? Or worst still just a play displayed for the viewing Filipino public?

Has the speaker of the congress, Cong. Jose de Venecia, eaten his words when he said the following line in an interview?

"This is an explosive (bribery) scandal and if I endorse it right away I might be contributing to a scandal," (-Source: Phil. Star)

What a laugh...? Ha! Ha! Ha! *insert sarcastic remark*

I, as one of the citizens of the Philippines, do here by state, that I'm so TIRED of all these MESS, YOU, Politician are making. I am so SADDENED by the fact that ALL of YOU are trying to just make YOURSELVES UNWORTHY of your positions. YOU ALL where just making FUN OF YOURSELVES, so stop making a MORO-MORO just to protect a single person unworthier in the position she's enjoying as compared to you.

I pray solemnly that God may bring enlightenment into YOUR MONEY clouded thoughts. May He permit YOU all to think critically for the sake of the rest of the Filipinos, and not for the sake of a single person stealing from the people's treasury with half of which going towards to YOUR pockets.

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Virus, Trojans... whatever! My flash drive este memory stick almost had been destroyed! I just don't know how that happened; how my flash drive had been infested by such a very, very annoying pest of a Trojan in a sector that I don't even know that exist in the said removable drive (H:\Recycle Bin\Info.exe) but I had a very bad hint about how that occurred.

Just today, this morning, someone with the unconventional type of a device called a floppy disk had accessed our computer, and guess what? The said diskette was infected by a Trojan something blah, blah, blah that I don't even understand about that was contained in an executable file called Japanese girls. But how in the world that a single detected Trojan proliferated that fast? Well that's another question that I'm trying to uncover.

With regards to the flash drive? As I said it was almost damaged since I can't access it due to the said infestation. The computer detects it as a removable drive, but it doesn't auto play, nor it doesn't open, even if I tried to double click the icon for the removable drive the only thing that I can see was Not Accessible pop up dialog box. Hence, I had no option left but to format the said flash drive. Lucky for me the said flash drive doesn't even contain any important documents to be retrieved prior to my decision of formatting it.

I don't know now if the said formatted flash drive would work perfectly still like the first time that I had bought it, or it's still functional up to today, since after I had formatted it in Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, I had not even tried to access or open it again for fear of another infestation of the said annoying Trojans.

Trojans on the computer? I don't know whether they were thoroughly cleaned by Microsoft Windows Defender, but I'm hoping that all those things that makes the computer so wreck be erased.

If ever you also encountered the said problem with regards to your flash drive, I can only suggest the same thing as the others suggest - to format it. It's the best possible option left, aside from buying a new one.

Here's the steps on how to format your flash drive:

1. First plug your flash drive on the USB slot and check if it's still detected by My Computer
2. In My Computer, check whether you can access your flash drive.
3. If it says you can't access it by normal double clicking nor right click open, then proceed to formating it.
4. Right click your flash drive, then look for the format option.
5. Under format option, you can choose either FAT32 or the other option. (Don't know which one is best since under my experience I only got FAT32)
6. Then press start for default option. Wait until finished, and there you have your formatted flash drive.

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Honestly speaking, I had never seen a work of art most revered by the world with my own eyes, so close as to even touching it. That's is why I'm so heart-fallen when I had read from BBC News that one of the paintings of Claude Monet, a renowned painter of the Le Pont d'Argenteuil, had been damaged at the museum it had been placed under custody with.

It's such a shame that instead of looking at the paintings with admiration and fascination, five unknown people who had broke in the Musee d'Orsay gallery had managed to put a four (4) inch hole on the said painting. How in the world could the possible destroy a cultural artifact that was known not just in France, but in the whole world? I'm so saddened by the fact that I haven't even seen a real Monet painting, and then now I would read that It's now damaged! Those people were blessed to see such a work of art but why vandalize it?

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Ever had a problem with insurances? Or have you encountered people who "suffered" from being fooled by the insurance companies that they had entrusted their things with (e.g. car insurance, life insurance, policies, retirement policies, health insurance)? What might had been your and their general conclusion on all insurance policies available? The following were the ones I've been hearing about, and in my experience, I had also encountered.

I'm not saying that most of the time insurance companies just trick you on buying the said policies that should protect your valuables, and after maturity of the policies you will find out that you were fooled since you can't retrieve the service that was to be allotted for what you had payed. Or worst still, when you needed the said insurance as is it an urgent need, you will found out that your agent or the company had filed a bankruptcy for most of its service that it offered.

Of course, you will feel down hearted and re-think why had you even bought the said insurance with high maintaining policies that you had paid dearly then just ending up in sink hole. If you had just find a some best quoting solution then you might not had ended up on being one of the so called victims of poor mismanagement. If you just had learned early on that there is an online site called Advantage Auto Quotes then you should have not been whining over for what you had encountered with your previous insurances.

Anyway, to those who had just acquired a new car or any type of automobile, or just needed an insurance for your valuables, I suggest you check out Advantage Auto Quotes so as to find the best insurance policies that you might need for the said automobiles be it for Coverage For Sports Car, Business Insurance, Online Insurance Policy, or any Automobile Insurance Policies. The said site offers anything from the best insurance policies from the best insurance agents out there like AIG, Allstate, eSurance, and Liberty Mutual, so you wont lose anything in the end and don't end up as one of the few victims that I'm talking about.
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OMG! OMG! I accidentally triggered the automatic update function of the windows operating system that our computer is running to. Gosh... now it eats a lot of space on the hopefully surviving hard drive with almost half a gig space left. (The files need to go on backup!)

I don't know how to stop the said update anymore. I just hate it! I can't find the word cancel or pause so as to stop it from downloading all those security updates for windows media player 11 and the operating system itself that where queued there for ages.

Gosh... Gosh... Gosh... I should have been careful on clicking that icon. Now I don't know how to make the said thing stop... Read More......

Don't know whether I'd be happy or I'm going to laugh my heart out on this spoof that I had fished from youtube itself. It's really quite defamatory when children would view it, since most of the characters associated in this short spoof were the ones idolized most by the children.

However, this spoofs makes the subliminal message of each and every Disney movie made, more prominent. I know you all know that most of the time people rant about animations' hidden messages enveloped in each scene, and that most of the time parents who had viewed them, complains on how it corrupts the minds of the innocents viewing it. Now, this spoof clearly demonstrates it all, with just a single song, it releases, for my part, every subliminal messages I had ever known when I was watching the said Disney movies.

Let me quote what Perez Hilton had said in his blog, in relation to this post, that Disney has the touch on making such bitches ever known. Read More......

The much awaited second fight of Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Barrera has finally ended, and for the second time it's still Manny Pacquiao who had won! So what will happen to Marco Antonio Barrera after he had eaten what he had said in the pre-fight? According to the GMA 7 news, he might be forced to retire due to his failure to win for the second time against Pacquiao, more so due to his consecutive loses against other boxers. Ain't I hearing the same escape goat of an alibi again? As I recalled promptly and correctly, Erik Morales also had said the same thing when he lost to Manny Pacquiao before.

Anyway, the Filipino's Boxing Champ won in a unanimous decision from the 12 round fight, and the score cards were as follows:

Judge Tom Schreck scored it 115-112 for Pacquiao, while Jerry Roth and Glenn Trowbridge both favoured Pacquiao 118-109. The Associated Press also gave it to Pacquiao, 116-111.
(Chronicle journal)

Isn't that what boxing analyst had viewed prior to the fight, that Manny Pacquiao had the upper hand against his opponent? True to what they'd all been blabber about, it does end up the same as what they had expected, but the turning point of the fight was not about who had won, but instead who was the one who had shown the will to win. Both players had remained standing up to the very last round, which is of course very unexpected since both refused to be knocked-out, and this is, I think the best part of it.

But the question still remains the same anyway, am I going to be proud for him? Well, part of me wanted to go and rejoice since another Filipino had made a name in the field of sports, but at the end of the day, it's still just Manny Pacquiao achievement, and not the rest of the community.

P.S. Don't get me wrong, but this is what I'm feeling right now. I'm feeling kind of indifferent.
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Last time I had included in my post something about a moth as a messenger from the dead. Though again, I reiterate that the said notion doesn't have validity nor sources to back it up, since it's purely a Philippine folklore superstition passed on from word of mouth, I find it really weird since just two days ago another moth just flew inside the house.


The moth that flew inside the house was same as the picture above. I really don't know much about the said superstition but so far as I recalled it from past experiences, my mother used to tell me that somebody might be missing someone in the house, or that somebody might want to be remembered by someone that's why the moth had flew in.

However, I'm pondering whether it has some connection with people nearly or almost near in his or her death bed, just like the cat in the hospital as what Rich had written in her blog. Since, prior to the moth's appearance in our house, our family had already received a dreaded message stating that a relative had been hospitalized and in his critical stage, and when it (the moth) flew inside the house and stayed there for almost two days another message was received stating that one of my grandfathers, from my father's side had passed away already already, and just the same time I had found that the moth that had arrived in the house was also dead.

Quite shocking though, that the said message woke us up early in the morning. However, is it really coincidence that the moth's existence in our house suggests that somebody had been wished to be remembered before his or her death?

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As I viewed it, though ABC Network had apologized for the discriminatory line the show Desperate Housewives had slipped through its season 4 premier, I still feel that they needed to retract the said line the same way as how they started and made it - through a script aired through the television.

According to ABS-CBN news correspondent based on North America who had acquired a short statement from the said network:

"The producers of Desperate Housewives and ABC Studios offer our sincere apologies for any offence (sic. offense) caused [by the insulting remark] in the season premier, ...There was no intent to disparage the integrity of any aspect of the medical community in the Philippines."

A short statement? Was that enough for an entire population being berated? I think not! They might not even write an apology if they were not forced to by the embassies, online petitions, and the Philippine Medical Association letters asking them to make a public apology on how they belittle the educational foundation of doctors in the third world Philippines.

It's quite shameful though that most of the time Filipino doctors and nurses were the ones who served the aged and sick people of some foreign lands, because the said foreign lands offers high compensations as compared to the Philippines per se. If however, the Philippines had just the same benefits and compensations those foreign lands offers then I think that most of the health care practitioners wouldn't end up helping and caring for those people in other countries.

Now, I am also pondering, what's next discriminatory line would they slipped through their programs and who's next in your line? As I've read there were racial issues already against African Americans, Chinese Americans, and other races who had migrated to the said land of milk and honey.

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Transcript: “Okay, before we go any further, can I check those diplomas? Cause I would just like to make sure they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

Uhm... like what is this? Is this an acceptable desperate housewives script aired over the US and a few select countries airing the said show? Is there such a moderating body in the US that check every DISCRIMINATORY remarks made by the said show?

I think there isn't, because you all know what? It reached the news of the country that the said show discriminates! How dare the producers and writers of that show to include that demeaning and derogatory line Teri Hatcher had said? Are they too stupid enough to not even think that most of their health care workers are Filipinos! First and foremost can they present valid evidence that Filipino Medical Doctors are way too incompetent as compared to their doctors? Was there a scientific evidence that proves their claim?

The Philippines may be a third world country that faces a lot of global issues, but how dare them (the script writers) think that they're far too superior than the rest of the world combined! Not all the time, a first world country can produce the best of the crop, sometimes even third world countries does and it's far better!

If they think that the said line stirs a lot of media exposure then definitely it does, but at the expense of dragging a negative connotation on the people or a certain nationality that is affected. If however, they (the script writers) think that the said line is a means to say that's just some sort of American Pun, well then the said racist remark is far unacceptable as a pun, and it should definitely be retracted! Read More......

BLAG!

It's the only thing that I heard after I slipped directly to the floor, and now...

OUCH!

It hurts! It really hurts. I do hope nothing is fractured or damaged within my right arm, specifically my elbow, because I think it endured most of my weight as I slipped directly into the shiny floor.

Lesson learned: Never walk on shiny floors with damp feet, and better wear rubber slippers. Hay, why did I forget to wear my slippers at night while traversing the living room going directly to the scary spot the washroom, toilet or comfort room, whatever it is called!

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