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2010 in review

WordPress has kindly sent this year and review stats to me. It’s very helpful to see how many posts you actually made in a year and how much traffic is sent. Thank you all for coming to the site and I’ll do better this year. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this [ READ MORE ]

Can we finally get back to work?

Congress has finally dismissed the second impeachment complaint against Philippine President Arroyo with a unanimous vote of 173-32-1. This was the first major issue Congress tackled since it was formally opened by the President just last month. According to the Philippine Constituition, another impeachment case cannot be filed within the same year the first one [ READ MORE ]

So what else is new?

After President Arroyo of the Philippines gave her State of the Nation address, her supporters and detractors have once again stepped forward and gave their point of view on the situation. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=45468 It’s a sad sad sad world that these people live in. That the be all and end all solution to the current problems [ READ MORE ]

Unproductivity

Just recently, it was disclosed to the Philippine public on how inept the elected members of legislature. Can you believe that in past 365 days the Senate only passed 9 bills!?!?! Nine!?!?! And my tax money goes to pay these unproductive people!! And worst of all, the people voted for them!!! Don’t even get me [ READ MORE ]

Why don’t I feel sorry

This afternoon’s headlines just made me shrug it off. “Congressman’s SUV carjacked!” http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=38258 I don’t know the congressman personally or even heard of him until today. But when I heard that a congressman’s SUV was jacked! The first thing that popped in my mind was, “go ahead who cares. That’s probably how he got his [ READ MORE ]

Yada, yada, yada.

People keep complaining about the things that were allegedly taken away by Proclamation 1017 and keep comparing it to Martial Law and so on. Ever count the stuff that we do have? You never look for it until it’s gone. Maybe we really don’t deserve the freedom we have if we take it foregranted. Puhleeaaazzzeeeee. [ READ MORE ]

State of Emergency

As the President of the Republiuc of the Philippines declares a “State of Emergency”, and life goes on. The events of today ask Filipinos the question, do we deserve the freedom what we currently enjoy? If the events of today will be the basis then the answer would be no. Filipinos have too much freedom. [ READ MORE ]

EDSA

Twenty years ago I was a third grade elementary student in the University of the Philippines Integrated School. We didn’t go school anymore because it was senseless to go to school. Everyone was out in the streets waiting for the counting of the snap election to finish. The whole world was watching. It seemed that [ READ MORE ]

Voyages in Vana’diel

I got back on Final Fantasy Online again this week. I had already been left behind a bit by my linkshell and now I have to scrounge up some party members to get the Chains of Promathia missions. Maybe I should start from the beginning. I wouldn’t want to share my server details or the [ READ MORE ]

I’m going back to the original title of my blog which is what you see here. I’ve been searching around for a mac friendly web host but to no avail. In the meantime this url seems easy enough to have. I’ll maintain my dot mac site and update it whenever I can, but this is [ READ MORE ]

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