Tag Archives: philippines

Rest in Peace, Cory Aquino

Published: August 1, 2009
I have never cared for Filipino politics. The modern day Filipino political scene is corrupt, petty … and resembles a Filipino Hollywood than it does an institution working for the people. Growing up as a young boy was different. When I came into this world, Marcos’ dictatorship had just ended. The Philippines had hope … [...]
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Partial eclipse over Manila Bay

Published: January 29, 2009
Partial eclipse at Manila Bay. Beautiful. Click for a larger image. What’s happened to the setting Sun? An eclipse! Two days ago, the Moon eclipsed part of the Sun as visible from parts of Africa, Australia, and Asia. In particular the above image, taken from the Mall of Asia seawall, caught a partially eclipsed Sun [...]
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Manny Pacquiao in Sports Illustrated

Published: December 5, 2008
This is something I usually wouldn’t write about. I am not a follower of “Pacmania”, but this was a pretty good bathroom read. You can find scans of the article’s four pages here. I especially love the part where the article mentions how people just hang around his house … social welfare. So so Filipino. [...]
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Google to Philippine residents: Help Us

Published: October 24, 2008
Taking a page out of Wikipedia, search giant Google has unveiled in the Philippines a map-making tool that allows the user community to map the Philippines by contributing photos, names of streets, and other information.via Google Cache (Manila Bulletin) So yes, do something productive so that when I finally go back, I can use a [...]
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Matt in the Philippines

Published: September 3, 2008
Matt from WordPress is in the Philippines for Wordcamp. the immigration/customs forms here are sponsored by a booze company. lol I love you Philippines. haha
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UNICEF Picture of the Year, 3rd place.

Published: December 24, 2007
UNICEF has released their 2007 Photos of the year and this placed 3rd place. Just another news story the Philippines can be proud of in addition to Thriller. On her ninth birthday, Annalyn S.* was photographed by German photographer Hartmut Schwarzbach, happily jumping on a red sofa that she had found on the garbage dump [...]
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BFWGaming Filipino Gaming Community

Published: December 7, 2007
I’m inviting everyone interested in gaming to our very own little forum, the brain child of one dbgg1979. Even if you are only slightly interested in gaming, perhaps P2P is your thing, come and sign up. If you’ve been going or have been to one of our LAN parties, then this is definitely for you. [...]
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