Meet Be-bop, my 2012 Elantra

Korean car maker Hyundai is truly giving American and Japanese cars a good competition with the release of the 2012 Elantra. The first time I saw the new Elantra, I immediately fell in love with its sleek look, spacious cabin and trunk and generously loaded interior – with GPS navigation system, DVD panel, bluetooth and [...]

Regular Holidays and Special Non-Workings Days in the Philippines for 2012

Regular Holidays for 2012     New Year’s Day            January 1 (Sunday) Maundy Thursday        April 5 Good Friday            April 6 Araw ng Kagitingan         April 9 (Monday) Labor Day                May 1 (Tuesday) Independence Day        June 12 (Tuesday) National Heroes Day        August 27 (Last Monday of [...]

Lolong, the world’s biggest crocodile

(Photo Credit: CNN) Somewhere in southern Philippines, a giant crocodile about 6.4 meters long was caught by local townsfolk.  They called it Lolong – and it gained worldwide attention, even the likes of CNN and the National Geographics. Lolong is potentially can be recognized as the world’s biggest and largest croc. Not so surprising since the [...]

Nursing Board Exam 2008 Results

Well, last night, 24th of July, the whole blogosphere optimizing the Nursing Board Exam 2008 Results were gone crazy over the surprising “early” release of the NLE 2008 results. And indeed, those who were lucky enough to get hold of the list of passers enjoyed unprecedented “huge” volume of traffic to their sites today – and few more in the coming weeks.

Will Ms Philippines Get Into the Top 5 Ms. Universe 2008 Winners

The much-awaited contest of beauty, sexiness and brains will take place on July 14, 2008 in Vietnam (Monday morning in Manila). Various Ms. Universe 2008 predictions were written bravely all over the web, the newspapers and other media – and it turns out Ms. Venezuela seemed to be favorite among the other Miss Universe 2008 contestants.

The Mexicutioner

Manny “the Pacman” Pacquiao has won the World Boxing Council Lightweight Title over the bigger, but slower David “the Dangerous” Diaz in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. This made Pacquiao the only Asian, and the only Filipino to hold 4 boxing Championship titles in 4 different weight divisions. The fight result was devastating to David Diaz, [...]

The Parable of the Pipeline

An eye-opener to each and every one of us: Enjoy!

Common things between the Philippines and Italy

My blogger friend, Michael, from Australia, posted on his blog a very funny video he pulled out from YouTube. It is a cartoon video showing the what makes Italy different from the rest of Europe. What made it very interesting is the ‘odd’ similarity between Italy and the Philippines, on various things presented in the [...]

Musings from my inbox: Funny Pinoy Stuffs

I got this email from a friend who is now working in Singapore. I know I have read similar of this stuff before, but still, it couldn’t keep me from laughing thus making my Monday blues go away. And it made me take some nice break from my usual blogging and spending sleepless nights setting [...]

WPP Gives Back Contest

When I started this blog, my first blog 5 months ago, I had no idea about blogging, and how to use the WordPress blogging platform. My friend just told me that WordPress is the best blogging tool so I signed up an account. The logical thing I did was to Google on people using it, [...]