Archive for July, 2007

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Time Magazine Unofficial *Erratum*

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I’d like to declare an unofficial erratum to Time Magazine’s July 30, 2007 Issue. Page 49 , the magazine’s music feature zooms in on the Philippines and one of Manila’s premiere bands, Up Dharma Down. Paragraph 6, lines 15-16, somewhere along the feature’s third column, names Rivermaya as an example of an ASEAN band […]

Strike One? Or, are we just being too hard on China?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Huge scandal–Siu Pao sold on China’s streets are cardboard-filled! While a number of global fastfood chains are rumored to use onions and ‘low-grade beef’ as burger fillers and global food manufacturers, cartilege in hotdogs, the world declares cardboard ‘taking it too far’. China is, after all, the well-known least cost, least quality source of goods […]

JCA Pizzaria: Cebu’s *Best Cost* Pizza
How an Assortment of Seemingly Inappropriate Food can make Great Tasting Pizza!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Way back when I was in grade school, my cousin Robert (much older than me and my brothers) would take us to JCA for a bite of pizza. Back then, we considered Pizza Hut and Shakey’s high-end. Well, JCA only had a few items on its menu. It’s specialty: <i>Magic pizza</i>.
The Cebu market is all […]

Harry Potter and the Missing Denoument

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

The last installment of the Harry Potter series hit stores last Saturday, the 21st of July. Having read the first six (of course, I got hooked many many years ago…when I was young enough to claim youth as the sole reason for reading Harry Potter), I decided to read the final book, Harry Potter and […]

Ayala Young Leaders Congress 2008 Now Open for Applications

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The Ayala Young Leaders Congress is, hands down, the best leadership development program for youth in the Philippines. If you make the requirements, give it a shot and apply.
Visit www.ayalayoungleaders.org.ph to download the Student Application set and for more information on AYLC 2008. Deadline for School Nominations will be on August 24, 2007. Please […]

More on the Anti-terror Law (News bits)

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Keeping up-to-date on the status of the Philippine Anti-terror Law, here are some updates on the news:
1. 28 more cases vs anti-terror law filed at SC <http://newsinfo. inquirer. net/inquirerhead lines/nation/ view_article. php?article_ id=77226>
By Leila Salaverria, Jerome Aning
Inquirer
Last updated 02:48am (Mla time) 07/18/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Opposition to the Human Security Act (HSA) of 2007 is snowballing.
Quoting […]

Philippine Terror Law Takes Effect as Bush’s War on Terror Loses Steam

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

You would have thought that, as Bush’s War on Terror loses steam in the US, pressure on the Philippines (and on PGMA) to raise the bar on its own war on terror would ease up. Apparently this isn’t the case.
Just last Sunday the Human Security Act, the Philippines’ very own anti-terror law, came into effect […]

With an Eye for the *Good News*

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Check out my blogroll for a link to Inquirer.net’s *Good News Page*–the news group’s response to Philippine Media being *all about the bad*. This special section of Inquirer.net features all the good news stories on the Philippines. Good idea, no? Well, read it. Then, promote it! I think daily supply of good news is just […]

Good Real Estate Buy - Cebu City

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Ever wanted to live up in the mountains but still be just a few minutes away from the city where work, study and shopping will likely be? Well, for metros like Manila, this may be an impossibility but not so for Cebu!
Ever wondered why Cebu’s international airport is located in Mactan and not Cebu City […]

(Update) Role-playing Madness

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Amazing. INSEAD, the premier french business school, uses Second Life, a virtual second world built especially for the MMORPG fanatics and others of the sort, as a playing ground for business students in a new online MBA track!
The Economist (online) reports:
Is this for real?
In a novel twist on the idea of the online course, […]

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