Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Manila in the 1930s
It was great then, let us all do our share to make it great again!
The Philippines - one of the next emerging N-11 economies. (Goldman Sachs)
The Grandeur of Old Manila (circa 1938)
pointed to this direction by FB buddy Rye Buaron, this amazing video of Old Manila shows us all the veritable Grandeur of Old Manila, before the Japanese devastated the city in World War II.
it was great then and if we all work hand in hand and do our share, it WILL be great again. No place of pessimists in a world of infinite possibilities.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Text/SMS your friends in the Philippines, USA, the UK, Spain, India for Free using your Googletalk/ Gmail Chat -Absolutely Free!
for example - texting a US mobile Number:
steps
--> add the phone number buddy into your gmail account this way
(country code) (area or mobile network code) (phone number) @chikkatalk.com
so if you're adding friend in the US with phone number 1(941)2717985 add:
19412717985@chikkatalk.com
as a regular googletalk buddy , then proceed to text. they will be able to receive the text in their phones, and they will reply to your googletalk/ or gmail chat as a regular chat dialogue. (premium sms charges will apply)
example 2: adding a UK mobile number with phone no. +447518816855
add 447518816855@chikkatalk.co
YET ANOTHER SHAMELESS PLUG, NOTHING IN IT FOR ME, BUT IT'S A GREAT SERVICE, USE IT TO KEEP IT ALIVE AND FREE!
other countries you can sms to for free are:
* Guam
* Hong Kong (Smart 1528 only)
* India
* Indonesia (XLcom only)
* Philippines
* Saipan
* Spain
* United States
* United Kingdom
* charges apply to replies from your friends' mobile phones.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Is this for real? salvaged photos of last moments in the doomed Air France A330 Flight
Yesterday the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris
Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside the GOL B 737 aircraft that was involved in a mid air collision and crashed.....
A B737 had a mid air collision with the Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America . The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged with the winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no idea what they had hit. The B737
however crashed, killing all crew and passengers on board.
The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.
These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre . It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.
================mid-air collission? didn't the plane crash on the sea? how'd they manage to find the camera, let alone salvage the memory card?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Live your Dreams Campaign
This "Live Your Dreams" TVC is now being aired on CNN, CNBC, ANC and other few foreign channels. http:://www.liveyourdreams.ph
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Passing of a very close tito and family friend . . .
Today, deeply do I mourn the passing of a very close Tito and family friend, Tito Joe . . . a second father to me while we were growing up . . .
Requesting prayers and good memories, from those who have known his kindness . . .
A great man who has moved on to be with his Creator . . . you will never be forgotten. . .
R�quiem �t�rnam dona eis, D�mine,
et lux perp�tua l�ceat eis.
Requi�scant in pace. Amen.
Thanks for everything Tito! Godspeed!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Be proud you're Filipino.
Be proud you ARE Filipino.Be proud you ARE from the Philippines.Put your mouth where your pride lies.Your deeds. Your hopes.Share the good in the PhilippinesStop airing dirty laundry - keep it to ourselves, not the whole world to see.and actually do something about it.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Sunday, May 03, 2009
He is straight . . . OKAY!!!!!
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Monday, April 06, 2009
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Stupidity Abounds Everywhere: Police blocks son-in-law from Mom-in-Law's Deathbed
I dunno if this incident was caused by sheer stupidity/ or an overdose or racist/arrogance, the police man involved in this scene will forever be tagged as very very stupid, callous, and an arrogant racist, among other things, for successfully blocking NFL player Moats, from her mom's death bed. When the shit hit the fan, he just said, he thought, he was JUST doing his Job!!! WTF???????
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here's the news feed from CNN.com
DALLAS — Racing to see his dying mother-in-law at a Plano hospital, an NFL player found himself delayed by a Dallas officer as her life ebbed away. It's a story that has sparked outrage across North Texas and generated interest around the country.
Dallas police Chief David Kunkle faced reporters Thursday afternoon to express his embarrassment over the incident and to publicly apologize to the family. He said the officer involved failed to use common sense.
It all started in the early morning hours of March 17. With his wife and another woman in the car, Ryan Moats — a running back for the Houston Texans — sped his car toward Baylor Regional Medical Center of Plano. But when the Moats arrived at the emergency room parking lot, they were stopped by Officer Robert Powell, who reportedly drew his service revolver on the concerned family members.
Dashcam video from the Dallas officer's patrol car captured the incident.
"Get in there," Officer Powell yelled out to Tamishia Moats, Ryan's wife, as she exited the car. "Let me see your hands. Get in there. Put your hands on the car."
"Excuse me; my mom is dying," Tamisha Moats replied.
She and the other woman ignored Officer Powell's commands and rushed inside the hospital to her dying mother as Ryan Moats and Officer Powell went back-and-forth over insurance paperwork the NFL player was unable to locate.
MOATS: "I've got seconds before she's gone, man."
POWELL: "Listen: If I can't verify you have insurance..."
MOATS: "My mother-in-law is dying!"
POWELL: "Listen to me."
MOATS: "Right now, you're wasting my time."
POWELL: "If you can't verify you have insurance, I'm going to tow your car. So, you either find it or I am going to tow the car."
As they argued, the officer got irritated.
POWELL: "Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth. You can either settle down and cooperate, or I can just take you to jail for running a red light."
"I certainly hope anybody who saw the videotape immediately understood how serious the misconduct is," Chief Kunkle said Thursday afternoon. "I don't know how you train for these circumstances other than to hire people with good common sense and people skills."
In a telephone interview, Moats said the clash with the officer was totally unexpected. "For him to not even be sympathetic at all, and basically we're dogs or something and we don't matter — it basically shocked me," he said.
No compassion was indicated in the police recording of the incident. "I can screw you over," Officer Powell said. "I would rather not do that. You obviously will dictate everything that happens; and right now, your attitude sucks."
"My understanding is that Officer Powell — even after he saw the videotape — believed he had not acted inappropriately," Chief Kunkle said, a view that was underscored by Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson, who reviewed the tape with Officer Powell on Wednesday.
"His belief was simply that he was doing his job," Chief Simpson said. "It did concern me that it just seemed that the compassion was not there."
The hospital twice sent nurses to try and get the officer to release Moats.
"We're blue-coding her for the third time," a nurse said on the police videotape.
A Plano police officer stopped to make a plea for the officer to let Moats go. "Hey, that's the nurse," the Plano officer said. "She says the mom is dying right now, and she wants to know if I can get him up there."
Finally, after a 20-minute delay, the officer ticketed Moats for running a red light.
By the time Moats made it up to the emergency room, his mother-in-law was dead.
"I went up after she passed and held her hand, but she was already gone," Moats said in a telephone interview.
Dallas police have launched a review of the incident.
“When it came to our attention, we immediately called for an internal investigation to be done,” said police spokesman Lt. Andy Havey.
"The essence of being a police officer is common sense and discretion," Chief Kunkle added. "I can't imagine a worse circumstance."
WFAA.com has received more than 400 comments about the incident since the story first aired on Channel 8 Wednesday night.
WFAA.com staff editors Marjorie Owens and Walt Zwirko contributed to this report.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nicole Recants her Testimony against Daniel Smith
here's the news feed
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‘Nicole’ recants
MANILA, Philippines—The Filipino woman who accused an American Marine of raping her late in 2005 and testified about her ordeal in court has recanted.
The sworn statement issued by "Nicole" on March 12 comes more than two years after the Makati Regional Trial Court convicted Lance Corporal Daniel Smith of raping her.
Nicole said she expected her motives to be questioned but maintained she was bothered by her conscience
“I expect many sectors to question my motives in executing this statement more than three years after the incident. However…I can’t help but entertain doubts on whether the sequence of events in Subic last November of 2005 really occurred the way the court found them to have happened,” Nicole said in her affidavit.
“My conscience continues to bother me realizing that I may have in fact been so friendly and intimate with Daniel Smith at the Neptune Club that he was led to believe that I was amenable to having sex or that we simply just got carried away,” she said.
“I would rather risk public outrage than do nothing to help the court in ensuring that justice is served,” she added.
Nicole said she practically grew up interacting with American servicemen in Zamboanga City “who treated me and my family very well.”
She also questioned her decorum when she met Smith at the Neptune Club at the Subic Freeport, saying she was so drunk she may have lost her inhibitions and did more than just dance with the Marine.
Nicole also raised doubts that Smith raped her inside a van at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone and suggested that she may have welcomed the Marine’s sexual advances.
“I told the court that Daniel Smith kissed my lips and neck and held my breast inside the van. Recalling my testimony, I ask myself how I could have remembered this if witnesses told the court that I passed out and looked unconscious,” Nicole said.
“How could I have resisted his advances given this condition? Daniel Smith and I were alone on the third row of the van which had limited space and I do not recall anyone inside the van who held my hand or any part of my body,” she added.
Nicole said all she could remember was the “very loud music and shouting inside the van.”
“With the events at the Neptune Club in mind, I keep on asking myself, if Daniel Smith wanted to rape me why would he carry me out of the Neptune Club using the main entrance in full view of the security guard and the other customers?”
“Why would Daniel Smith and his companions bring me to the seawall of Alaba pier and casually leave this area that was well-lighted and with many people roaming around? If they believed that I was raped, would they have not dumped me instead in a dimly lit area…to avoid detection?”
Nicole said with the amount of alcohol she had consumed that night and only a slice of pizza to eat, she may have lost her inhibitions and enjoyed Smith’s company.
“I had no opportunity to deny in court that I kissed Daniel Smith but, with the amount of alcoholic mixed drinks I took, my low tolerance level for alcohol and with a slice of pizza all night, it dawned upon me that I may have possibly lost my inhibitions, became so intimate with Daniel Smith and did more that just [dance and talk] with him like everyone else on the dance floor,” Nicole said.
“Looking back, I would not have agreed to talk with Daniel Smith and dance with him no less that three times if I did not enjoy his company or was at least attracted to him since I met him for the very first time on the dance floor of Neptune Club,” she added.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Not ONLY in the Philippines (America's Next Top Model Stampede)
Remember the Wowowee stampede that was a big disaster back home? Well that sort of thing, doesn't only happen in the Philippines.
Imagine a hyperventilating swarm of girls, in very high heels, motion-restricting high-heels and head-ache inducing hairdo's and weaves in all the different colors, running around at their wits end screaming at the top of their lungs.
Well this is it. hahaha. I wish we could get a video on the ground itself. here's what an eyewitness had to say, or maybe she was auditioning herself
kelly8725 (4 hours ago)
I was there and there was a car that overheated, the driver ran out of the car. Girls then started screaming and yelling FIRE!! so that caused all of the girls to go running. and when thousands of people try to run from what they think is a fire is not a pretty pic. the police did not even know that happened i told the cop hat happened and he was yelling along with me and many others to calm down and that there was no need to panic, but it was useless.
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here's the news feed
The casting call for the television show descended into chaos, with six women injured and three people arrested.Thousands of aspiring models queued in short skirts and high heels outside the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan over the weekend, some waiting all night for a chance to compete in the latest round of the popular TV series.
However, fighting broke out and women were knocked over in a panicked stampede after a car belching smoke reportedly pulled up near the queue on Saturday afternoon, prompting cries of "Fire!" and "There's a bomb".As women stumbled over police barricades, witnesses told a local radio station that the mayhem was compounded after a man jumped out of a car and started grabbing purses.After the stampede, shoes and clothing littered the street outside the hotel."The girls were running like it was 9/11 part two.
I feared for my life," said Jennifer Brown, an aspiring model from Brooklyn."It was pretty scary," said Jessica Paravati, a prospective contestant who had camped out overnight in the queue.New York police said two women and a man were arrested on charges of inciting a riot and disorderly conduct.At least six women needed medical attention after being crushed or fainting due to lack of food.
Some would-be contestants blamed poor organisation of the event.Women were unable to go off to leave to get food or use the lavatory without losing their place in the queue.Most of the women were still queuing when police told them that the auditions were over and that the organisers had already packed up and gone home.
Now this is really really f*cking hilarious !!!! hahaha
Friday, March 13, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
THE PHILIPPINES: ASIA'S BEST DESIGN DESTINATION -HELP Spread the Word
I am promoting this event at my work in Brussels and London. Please help us spread the word :D THE PHILIPPINES - ASIA'S BEST DESIGN DESTINATION
US, like USSR, will crumble—Russian envoy (Signs of the Times?)
US, like USSR, will crumble—Russian envoy
MANILA, Philippines—Is the American Dream finally coming to an end?
With the financial crisis worsening in the United States, the world's lone superpower could start breaking up into six different territories by the end of the year.
This was the assessment made by the dean of Russia's diplomatic academy Tuesday morning during a lecture at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Professor Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst who heads the Russian Foreign Ministry's diplomatic academy, likened the current crisis in the US to the last days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the late 1980s and said that US President Barack Obama would not be able to do anything about his country's economic meltdown and eventual "disintegration."
“I've studied the history of the United States and my conclusion is that the US has no future...The fall of Wall Street last year could be likened to the end of the American Dream,” said Panarin, who predicted as early 1998 that the US would eventually collapse.
“Obama will not be able to do anything. He is like (the USSR's last leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, who had beautiful words to say but when it came to work, it was a different matter. Obama is the American version of Gorbachev,” he said.
US, like USSR, will crumble—Russian envoy (Signs of the Times?)
US, like USSR, will crumble—Russian envoy
MANILA, Philippines—Is the American Dream finally coming to an end?
With the financial crisis worsening in the United States, the world's lone superpower could start breaking up into six different territories by the end of the year.
This was the assessment made by the dean of Russia's diplomatic academy Tuesday morning during a lecture at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Professor Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst who heads the Russian Foreign Ministry's diplomatic academy, likened the current crisis in the US to the last days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the late 1980s and said that US President Barack Obama would not be able to do anything about his country's economic meltdown and eventual "disintegration."
“I've studied the history of the United States and my conclusion is that the US has no future...The fall of Wall Street last year could be likened to the end of the American Dream,” said Panarin, who predicted as early 1998 that the US would eventually collapse.
“Obama will not be able to do anything. He is like (the USSR's last leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, who had beautiful words to say but when it came to work, it was a different matter. Obama is the American version of Gorbachev,” he said.
