Did you guys catch the premiere of the music video for Noynoy Aquino? I waited patiently for it and I was grinning the entire time I was watching it. I find it very classy, subtle, and well produced. For now, the music video will only be shown once a day due to budget constraints. If you missed it, here is the video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmOvCJklgvA[/youtube]
I want a free trip to attend the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 in Kuala Lumpur. It’s a 4 days 3 nights trip which includes airfare. Those who win will get to meet Biz Stone, Sir Bob Geldof, Amitabh Bachchan, Nando Parrado and more! I already joined but I want you to go with me. Just fill up the form here and increase chances of winning by inviting more friends.
Eligibility
Please please please join using my link. I really want to go.
LOLWHAT?
@thegreatest showed this to me last night. mebbe I should sell my services. hrhrhrhr
Yoohoo, Sony Ericsson! I wouldn’t mind any of these
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfO-pfD3R5w[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LAWuD6RvA[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvY1U1vgurI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPo9HDY0QQ4[/youtube]
or the Rachael phone 
I think it’s very creative! Aliw!!!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZL4CaABa68[/youtube]
I wonder who came up with this. I just learned that this isn’t an official commercial but a fan-made one. It won’t be shown on tv but was donated for web campaigns 
Facebook fans of Noynoy Aquino may vote for their favorite Noynoy Aquino avatar here. Fans may vote for as many as they want. Just click on “like” below each avatar page. Noynoy himself will choose among the top 10 avatars. Vote by November 6!
Some of my favorites
I blogged about Scarlet Tears before. These guys are just awesome! Well, on the 30th you’ll find me in their anniversary gig at Genre Bar in Cubao-X. Who wants to join me? The entrance is free and starts at 9PM.
Other bands who will be playing that night are:
Biscochong Halimaw
Decay Transit
Filter Filter
Inconnu Ictu
Isolation Ward
Ode to La Luna
The Discoball
X9
The 5th Anniversary CD shall be made available on this event for just Php80. Those who come in costume will be given a treat.
Scarlet Tears was conceptualized around November of 2003. A rag tag bunch of able musicians started to flesh out the band’s music in early 2004 up to the band’s first performance on October 30, 2004. The band’s music elaborates the dark side of love and lust, and the melancholic state of being bitter and scorned by the world of shallow love and destructive lies.
Scarlet Tears is comprised of: Sam Vigilia (keyboard synthesizer), Katrina Pallon (vocals), Ayn Tolentino-Azarcon (bass guitar), Jeff Azarcon (drums), and Bennet Gubat (guitar).
The Philippine Outpost of the 501st Legion of Stormtroopers will be raising funds for the victims of typhoon Ondoy and Pepeng. For a minimum donation of P50. You can take a picture with a stormtrooper and help flood victims get their lives back.
@mmeyma on Twitter brought to my attention a terribly disturbing news. http://www.ellaganda.com/ blogged about how the relief goods being coursed through DSWD are just stuck in the warehouse. If what Ella said is true, the victims still haven’t received the donations from abroad. I’m trying my best to get the news verified but http://www.ellaganda.com/ is now down and I think it’s important to spread this information as soon as possible. I was fortunate enough to be able to access her blog earlier and was able to screencap the entire entry.
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Feel free to repost the photo. Much better if you can back it up in your computer.
UPDATE 1
http://ellaganda.com is online again and her response to news networks.
UPDATE 2
Try as she might, Cabral can’t even deny that the goods are still there. She is just digging herself deeper into the muck especially with her literal interpretation of “rotting”. Trying to be cute or running out of excuses. Another thing, if DSWD is really planning to distribute the goods to the possible victims of Typhoon Ramil she should have sent the goods to Northern Luzon by now. Wag nga tayong gawing tanga! They keep on coming up with lame excuses. If they wanted volunteers, many of us are more than willing to help. Yet there was hardly a peep about the need for volunteers when they have so many resources for letting the public know. Wala lang talagang pakialam ang DSWD at ang gobyerno.
UPDATE 3
Some friends of mine dropped by earlier at the DSWD warehouse in pasay city. This was the warehouse along chapel st. The press release was that relief ops were currently ongoing at full speed but this was not the case, at least this was not what my friends witnessed upon alighting the vehicle at the gate of the DSWD warehouse. They were hardly welcomed by the guard assigned at that gate. This was how the conversation more or less went.
friend #1: San ang warehouse para sa relief operations para sa volunteers?
guard: Dyan (pointing vaguely somewhere or at something which they could hardly make out)
friend#1: Gusto namin mag volunteer, san kami pupunta?
guard: Ah, punta kayo sa kabilang gate pero wala ng volunteers ngayon, umalis na at kakaalis lang ng 3 truck dala ang relief goods papuntang region 1 and 2.
friend#2: Marami bang volunteers pumunta dito kanina?
guard: Oo, madami.
friend#2: Ano sila? Puro estudyante?
guard: Oo, mga 200 sila.
friend#2: Ano? Mga elementary students ba to? (feigning ignorance at the kind of volunteers that shows up)
guard: Hindi, mga college students to, mga taga-PMI.
friend#2: Anong oras ba nagsisimula at natatapos?
guard: Sa umaga, tapos natatapos kahit anong oras sa gabi.
friend#2: Kahit anong oras? So bakit sabi mo tapos na ngayon at di na pwede mag volunteer?
guard: Nagsisimula minsan sa umaga tapos hanggang alas-9 or 10 or hanggang 11pm.
friend#2: So san nga kami pupunta kung pwede pala hanggang 11pm?
guard: punta kayo sa kabilang gate
They then moved along to the other gate nearby. The other gate was not as welcoming as the first since it was just a iron gate that didnt even have a knocker on it. However, they could see through its sides that there was a guardhouse nearby and they started calling the attention of whoever was there since they could hear the radio playing from the other side of the gate. After several seconds of persistent knocking and guard calling, a sando-wearing disoriented-looking guard finally opened the gate.
friend#1: Dito kami tinuro ng guard sa kabilang gate para mag volunteer sa relief operations.
guard: Ha? Anong balak nyong gawin? San kayong grupo?
friend#1: Sa RockEd kame. Gusto namin sana makita ang warehouse para sa volunteer work.
guard: Ah balik na lang kayo bukas, kse sarado na ang warehouse.
friend#1: Bakit di pwede tingnan, sabi sa balita na pwede kami mag volunteer kaya nga nandito kami eh tapos sasabihin mo sarado?
guard: Sarado na kse nag lo loading ngayon dun ng relief goods.
friend#1: Eh bakit sinabi mo sarado kung may loading pala nangyayari dun.
guard: Ano ba balak nyo? Di pwede dito ng coverage. Di pwede tumingin lang, kailangan mag volunteer.
friend#1: Sige, pero gusto namin tingnan para lam namin kung pano magbigay ng instructions sa ibang volunteers pero since ayaw mo lang na tumingin kme, mag vovolunteer na din kami ngayon na.
guard: Magbubuhat kayo ng carton?
friend#1: Hindi, magre repack kami.
guard: Bakit gusto nyo lang tingnan?
friend#1: Sinabi na nga namin mag vo volunteer na nga kami kse ayaw mo na tumingin lang kami eh. Lam mo ba na wala kaming problema na makita ang relief goods sa red cross at sa abs-cbn kahit late na ng gabi? Sikreto ba ang location ng sardinas?
guard: (already pissed off) Bakit paulit-ulit ang sinasabi mo?
friend#1: Bakit nga? Anong problema talga? Talgang sikreto nga ang taguan ng sardinas?
guard: akin na ID mo.
friend#1: eto.
guard: (went away for a few minutes and returned with the ID)
friend#1: So ano?
guard: Balik na lang kayo bukas ng umaga.
friend#1: Anong oras ba talga relief ops dito? Meron ba kanina?
guard: Oo meron, mga 50 lang na estudyante.
friend#2: 50 lang? Pano sila makaka repack ng marami para sa 3 trucks?
guard: (irked again, maybe he was irked of how stupid his answers were.) Bukas na lang kayo bumalik kse walang advise sa amin sa ganitong oras ng pag volunteer.
friend#1: Eh bakit sabi sa amin ng isang guard minsan hanggang 11pm or hanggang gabi talga ang repacking? Anong oras ba talga nagsisimula at natatapos?
guard: basta bukas sa umaga tapos hanggang hapon o gabi.
friend#1: anong pangalan mo?
guard: bukas na lang.
friend#1: Bakit ayaw mo ibigay pangalan mo? Di ba sa gobyerno ka nagtratrabaho? Kinuha mo ID ko, alam mo pangalan ko tapos ayaw mo ibigay pangalan mo sa akin?
guard: (hesitated and stalled) Jay Lou Sadaya
friend#1: Jay Lou Sadaya? Jay Lou Sadaya?
guard: (nodding)
friend#2: sige babalik kami bukas.
Obviously, the accounts of both guards who are expected to be abreast of existing relief operations, (if they existed at all) or if they really are ongoing, should’ve been aware of the schedules and protocols of the activity itself. They should’ve been accommodating instead of being suspicious or consumed with such paranoia at the sight of volunteers or people wanting to volunteer. But again, this wouldn’t have happened at all had the government really meant that THERE REALLY WERE ONGOING RELIEF OPERATIONS at the site since the place did not give the impression of a warehouse bustling with activity at all. If that’s what they call Ongoing Relief Operations, then we now know why our country is still languishing in no relief hell. It’s because our government has always been doing what it does best, pay lip service to those who really need it. Great job GMA, Gibo and Cabral! Now please, don’t be surprised anymore if more people wonder why there seems to be a lack in relief goods being sent to those who really need it, the answer is plain and simple, it’s coz there is no sense of urgency and the relief goods can take all the time they want in the DSWD warehouse. By the way, the location of sardines and whatever relief goods there are seems to be classified information.
UPDATE 4
Gang Badoy was able to arrange with Sec. Cabral to allow volunteers to hasten the repacking of relief goods in the warehouse. If you want to be a volunteer, sign up here. I’m sure a LOT of volunteers are needed. Just look at the photos from ella’s blog.
UPDATE 5
Check out Bayanihan Online’s timeline of events of what happened yesterday. Since this issue isn’t over, I’m pretty sure that the blog post will be constantly updated.
I decided it’s time to announce it in public. I only told a few people last week why I would be undergoing a surgery not because I’m embarrassed by it but because I wanted the privacy. Last Thursday, I checked into a hospital because my blood sugar is high. The glucose resistance test the day before showed that I’m at the early stage of diabetes. The doctors need to normalize my blood sugar fast because I would be undergoing a lapband surgery the next day. I underwent many tests but everything quieted down come 10 PM. I was only awake a few minutes when the nurses transported me to the operating room the next morning. I don’t really know what happened during the operating room but my doctor said I was an easy case. I guess that’s good, right? Mom said the nurses wheeled me back to my room around lunch time but I was still asleep then. I was asleep pretty much of the day. Some relatives visited me but I hardly registered their presence.Saturday, Mom just settled the bills and clearances then we were home by 1 PM.
I got the lapband surgery for myself and for my mom. She said she wanted to see me thin before she dies. I had qualms about the surgery for a long time, mostly for my safety. But we found a good doctor who made me feel safe and that’s when I really started to consider getting it done. As I’ve said, I also did this for my own. I’m having difficulties with my weight and not just simple irritation. I can feel it affecting my health. The test results confirmed it and it’s really good that the diabetes was detected at an early stage. However, the surgery itself still has complications. Not so much as gastric bypass but the lapband could slip or perforate, etc. I have to be more careful now with how and what I eat and I am sure I will not always have the patience for that. I’m just praying for patience, self-discipline, and the ability to resist temptation because that’s all I have – prayer…also a thin band around my stomach.
I’ve been resting a lot lately so I don’t go online as much anymore. Being away from the internet made me realize who and what really matters. My family. They will always be there NO MATTER WHAT. I might find them annoying sometimes but they’re the ones I can turn to when I need comforting. My friends, online and offline, I hardly heard anything from. Honestly, this saddens me a lot but because of this, I rediscovered the importance of my family. Most of you guys don’t know me outside the internet but that’s my fault. I need detachment because that’s how I know how to cope. Maybe I should change that and actually befriend some of you. I dunno. To those who’ve I’ve let inside my life, I really value the companionship. It keeps the depression at bay. I guess what I’m saying is I need to spend time outside the internet. I am really at a loss as to how to go about that but I need to do that for myself. I really hope I can do that. The online world has been a crutch for so long.
And with this post I’m reclaiming the real purpose of this blog.
People who don’t believe that climate change is real should talk to someone living in the Philippines. We were just devastated by Typhoons Ondoy (Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma). Ondoy brought Metro Manila the heaviest rainfall in four decades and Pepeng claimed more than 300 lives when it made 3 landfalls in Northern Luzon. The Philippines may be in the typhoon belt but the severity of the damages the two typhoons brought is unusual and the the garbage situation, mining, and illegal logging compounded the effect. Contrary to what Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said, that the Philippines is not a culprit to climate change, I believe that we are all contributors to it and we can still do something to lessen the impact, if not reverse it. So what can we do as individuals? We can start by doing simple things like throwing garbage in proper places, making sure the drainage in front of our house isn’t clogged, and maintaining our vehicles so they are in top condition and doesn’t smoke belch. After that we can progress to bigger actions which involve the community like group tree planting, lobbying for laws to protect our biodiversity, campaigning for green architecture, etc. There is so much we can do and it’s not too late yet. Climate change is real and it’s happening now. Let’s do something while we can.
Ladies and gentlemuhns, I am still shocked that some people recommended me to be a part of Globe’s Digital Tribe for Luzon. Not that I’m complaining but WHY? I mean, I don’t have many followers especially compared to the other 9 who won.
Hay! Men! Ang Blog ng Tunay na Lalake
Good Times Manila
Byahilo.com
The Marocharim Experiment
Dessert Comes First
Chuvaness.com
The D Spot
Azrael’s Merryland
I’m thinking that the award is a mistake but I’m not going to give back my award and the Tattoo internet kit I won. Ha!
I is bonafide bloggar nao
read the fine print
The awarding was done during the Philippine Blog Awards last Friday night, my first time to ever attend the PBA. I had no intention of going until Melo Villareal informed me about my award. Good thing I did come because the free food was grrreat. I also got to meet more bloggers. Yay!
dementia and billycoy (with Micamyx in the bg)
technogra and dementia (wif Jayvee in the background)
Please to nominate me next year but not for photoblog cos I keep on forgetting to take phowtows. Seriously, thank you very much for the award. Thanks to PBA and Globe and congratulations to the winners of PBA!
P.S.
Keep on donating and volunteering. The victims of the Pepeng and Ondoy badly need our help.
P.P.S.
Hang pogeh ni Billycoy
P.P.P.S.
Sabi ni Helga kamukha ni Noy si Technogra
P.P.P.P.S.
Pers lady status by 2010!
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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