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Senen Ebio Original Source:
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11
2006
Tropical Storm DURIAN (Reming),
PAGASA BulletinBased on experience, November and December typhoons are the most violent and destructive. Take appropriate actions and watch for the
next bulletin.
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Willy B. Prilles Jr. Original Source:
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11
2006
OUR WORST nightmare has just happened.Instead of being on our way to Naga via Manila, just in time before an approaching
typhoon is projected to pass through Bicol Region, we are still stuck here in Vancouver -- no thanks to a
record-breaking snow storm in British Columbia and bad breaks from a callous, uncaring
airline.Gabby believes this has just broken the all-time high "
police academy" standard starring City Administrator Frank Mendoza -- in an episode that happened sometime ago somewhere in Calauag, Quezon co-starring his favorite city hall driver, Tox Ballaran.:)
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Willy B. Prilles Jr. Original Source:
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11
2006
NOW I know why Philippine Airlines is not highly regarded among international flag carriers, in spite of its being Asia's first.Early this morning, Pacific time, we had to harangue and vigirously argue with its ground staff -- outsourced through an outfit called Globeground agents -- to get the usual accommodation that comes with a cancelled flight. Here's the timeline:10:40pm - published departure time out of Vancouver. When we checked in at around 9 yesterday, we learned that boarding time had been moved back to 2am.Around 1:30am - the Arrivals and Departures information board showed that the flight had been cancelled. [...]
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Naga City Journal Original Source:
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11
2006
NAGA CITY -- The committee that is tasked to supervise the bamboo cannon competition which is one of the highlight activities of this years Kamundagan Festival is now accepting entries for what is conceded to be one of the noisiest, merriest and rowdiest activities lined up for the holiday celebration.
Kamundagan Festival is a yearly festival in the city which highlights the birth of Jesus Christ as well as the rebirth of Naga as the center of culture, religion, education and trade in Bicol after the War years.
Andy Belmonte of Lolos Bar and Joe Perez of the Naga City Visitors [...]
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11
2006
NAGA CITY Taekwondo Olympian Monsour del Rosario of the Philippine Taekwondo Association will be the guest of honor during the 1st Naga City National Open taekwondo Championship to be held Dec. 9-11 at the Naga City Gymnasium here.
Naga City Mayor Jesse M. Robredo said some 200 participants from all over the country are expected to come for the 3-day national sports competition which is being jointly hosted by the Naga City Government and the Naga City Sports Council chaired by sports enthusiast Pedro Lee.
Sung Chon Hong, executive vice president and chief instructor of the Philippine Taekwondo Association will also [...]
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11
2006
Last week I had a chance to take a paid
Brainbench certification for C++ and my result was a disappointing
3.42 out of 5. The questions were mainly on language features and syntax. No question regarding design and/or applications. The results revealed that I was weak on C++ data types. I expected myself to rate higher than what I got. Time for me to hit the books, other C++ language reference materials and go back to the basics.Reminder to myself, before taking tests:Study, study, study!Be prepared. Have (online) reference materials ready when you are taking the [...]
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11
2006
"I'VE NEVER seen anything like this in the last eight years," our host Dr. Leonora "Nora" Angeles told us as we went to the Taiwanese Noodle House for lunch after going to church service. "Snow only comes around in January, and not this heavy. You should be lucky to have seen anything like this."According to the Vancouver Sun
website, this freak weather situation is expected to dump more than 13 inches of snow by tomorrow. The following is what worries me:Vancouver International Airport has reported several flight [...]
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11
2006
WINTER came early to Vancouver as snow started falling at around 2pm today while we were at
Lake Capilano, one of the three reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city. As we went home at around 6, snow has piled up all over the place.Incidentally, this lake was hit hardest by mud and sediments brought about by a heavy storm that hit British Columbia 10 days ago, bringing turbidity to unprecedented levels. As a result, a
boil-water advisory remains in effect until Monday. Since we arrived, bottled water has been our best [...]
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11
2006
HARDIN
I.Pigtatais kan gamgam an saiyang tukasa puro kan saiyang mga matatarom na kuko.
Nahiling niya an alulunti na nag-aawitMantang nagkakamang sa bulawan na daga.
May kun anong naglaad sa saiyang mataasin nagkalakaga an saiyang tulak,dangan pigbuka niya an mga pakpak
Naglayog siyang parayo,tanganing dai maparong an hamot kan alulunti.
II.
Nagsasabsab an tigre sagkod an baka kan mga dootna garo pigkikitik kan saindang mga ngipon.
sa paghiling kan tigre biglangnaging malumoy an sungoy kan bakapula an natok kan doot na nagluwas sa ngimot kan tigre.
Inagda kan baka na magduman sinda sa salognganing maghalimogmog.
Pagrara nindang duwa sa tubigDaing payo an baka, daing [...]
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11
2006
WE PAID a visit to the
Vancouver School Board (VSB) yesterday, and secured some basic -- and truly interesting -- info like the following:The Vancouver school district is a large, urban and multicultural school district providing programs to 56,000 students in Kindergarten to Grade 12, over 3,000 adults in adult education programs and over 40,000 in continuing education.By comparison, the Naga public school system (elementary and high school, plus the city government's Educare system and DepEd-run preschools) only serves some 40,000 students; and less than 1,000 out-of-school youth and [...]
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11
2006
Bicol campus journalists' summit starts in Naga CityBalita.org, UK - 1 hour agoNAGA CITY, Nov. 24 (PNA) – Campus editors and writers from various colleges and universities in the Bicol region are attending ...
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11
2006
YESTERDAY was our big day. Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado and I made the pitch to Dr. Leonora "Nora" Angeles's students at the University of British Columbia -- plus others who attended our lecture, about half of them in fact -- to visit Naga in summer next year for a proposed one-month studio course on participatory governance.Nora is an associate professor at the UBC School for Community and Regional Planning (
SCARP) and
Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations. She is putting together the Naga City Planning Studio Course that [...]
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11
2006
VICE MAYOR Gabby Bordado was one proud papa yesterday. Reason: his eldest daughter Marian's Choco Naga was warmly received by our host, the Forster-Angeles family in Vancouver.
The main selling point of these proudly Naga-made product are the luscious roasted
pili nuts generously embedded in every choco bar.
And it enabled Marian to earn her degree, as member of the pioneering batch, from the new entrepreneurship program of the
Ateneo de Naga University, an offering backed by the
Madrigal Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Nobody graduates from the course without putting up his own [...]
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11
2006
NAGA CITY Mayor Jesse M. Robredo will be one of the two major speakers when the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas hosts an executive forum on Dec. 5, 2006 at the BSP Executive Business Center Meeting Area at the BSP Complex in Manila.
In extending the invitation to the city mayor, Bangko Sentral Governor Amando M. Tetangco, Jr wrote: As a distinguished expert in local governance recognized for transforming Naga City into one of the Most Improved Cities in Asia, may we invite you to speak before said forum and engage members of the BSP management team in an inspiring dialogue.
With the [...]
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11
2006
NAGA CITY In celebration of this years Kamundagan Festival on Dec. 15, Plaza Quezon in the heart of the citys downtown district will be glistening with giant Christmas decors, a towering Christmas tree and multi-colored replicas of the storied Naga Metropolitan Cathedral, the Penafrancia basilica, and the patroness of Bicolandia, Our Lady of Peñafrancia, as the city welcomes the onset of the holiday season next month.
On December 1, the Naga College Foundation will set a giant 50-footer Christmas tree at the center of the plaza as a symbolic core of the colleges Light A Tree campaign for education and [...]
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11
2006
Job HuntingRoller Coaster Ride--That’s how I describe my two months of job hunting in
Singapore. I remember my first two weeks here applying for a job through the internet and without a single reply. It wasn’t easy at all (down). Obviously, there was something wrong. Thank God, sir
Senen and Don sent me templates of CV’s. I have to rewrite my CV to make it a little catchier. And it was. I took several interviews afterwards (up) but not all was successful. Most [...]
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11
2006
I always knew my parents look like TomKat! That's why Suri looks just like me... I wonder why mom was a bit surprised? Ah, maybe because my dad doesn't look as handsome as me. Anyway, dad surely looks happy he had a son like me, see?
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Willy B. Prilles Jr. Original Source:
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11
2006
AS THINGS stand, I'm now looking forward to enjoy this trip. The "police academy" episodes keep on piling up:the saga of Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado's Canadian visa continued. Within reach yesterday, a disaster then stared me in the face as I went to the embassy to pick it up, only to correct itself at the end of the morning;a successful last-minute episode at the Department of Tourism involving our travel tax;only to be stymied by a 4-hour delay of our flight, which was moved to 9pm tonight instead of the published 5pm departure.But the huge payback would be putting into [...]
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11
2006
Stop living your life as if somebody is watching and planning to make a movie out of it.
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Garish Original Source:
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11
2006
-Scribbles-He arrived home late last night.I’m not in a deep sleep yet (I am pretending); with his bare feet, I can feel his footsteps in my room. I feel his hand on my forehead, his fingers caressing my tangled hair. His cell phone beeps.“Oo nasa bahay na ako. Matulog ka na, gabi na. Ha? Bakit? Huwag mong isipin ‘yon. May trabaho ako bukas pagkatapos ng iskul ko. Umiiyak ka? Bakit? Galit ka? Hindi, oo mahal kita”…I tighten my grip to Auau (my stuffed animal) the very important man in my life is already in love. After twenty-two years, now he [...]
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11
2006
JUST GOT off the phone with Cheech, Nene Guevara's tireless alter ego at
Synergeia Foundation. Her contact at the Canadian Embassy said Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado's visa application had been approved, and will be ready for pickup tomorrow.That was a huge relief for us, paving the way for our week-long visit to the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where we are slated to discuss details of a proposed course that will bring UBC graduate students to Naga City. We will also visit the
Vancouver School Board, and using contacts that Reuel Oliver of the city [...]
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Garish Original Source:
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11
2006
Are Pinoy Youth Emotionally Ready for Sex? - Yesterday I was ask this query hmmm...I will be celebrating my twenty-first birthday on December. On the same month, I am planning to give up my innocence, my virginity. This thing I’m considering for quite sometime, I’m preparing myself emotionally.Emotional preparation takes place, thus taking it to the larger scope, sex and Pinoy Youth, means considering myriad elements of life. When a person is emotionally prepared he/she can face the ramifications of his/her actions. Person should be pragmatic enough to view the possible aftermath of every stride. He/She can advance to the [...]
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11
2006
Retrato hali pa sa Estados Unidos kan maghilingan sinda Melba Dominguez and Vikky Basa sa New York, hali ini kay Alma D., garo pwerte si bonding kan duwa asin nagsu-suksukan pa … garo malipoton na marhay ta si Vikky naka-scarf pa!
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11
2006
Selected photos from Alma Diaz during their get-together, garo grabe si happenings kan batch ta naka-duwa sinda with Ana O. Last Nov. 10, just arrived from Vancouver, CA nagkita-kits sa Starbucks-Araneta an grupo asin natapos sa dinner, Seafood Treasure. Pwera ki Alma asin Ana nag-arabot man sina Honesto Quijano, Jojo Estrella, Manette Garchitorena, Salve Enverga, [...]
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"I'VE NEVER seen anything like this in the last eight years," our host Dr. Leonora "Nora" Angeles told us as we went to the Taiwanese Noodle House for lunch after going to church service. "Snow only comes around in January, and not this heavy. You should be lucky to have seen anything like this."According to the Vancouver Sun website, this freak weather situation is expected to dump more than 13 inches of snow by tomorrow. The following is what worries me:Vancouver International Airport has reported several flight [...]Read the rest of this entry »
HARDIN
I.Pigtatais kan gamgam an saiyang tukasa puro kan saiyang mga matatarom na kuko.
Nahiling niya an alulunti na nag-aawitMantang nagkakamang sa bulawan na daga.
May kun anong naglaad sa saiyang mataasin nagkalakaga an saiyang tulak,dangan pigbuka niya an mga pakpak
Naglayog siyang parayo,tanganing dai maparong an hamot kan alulunti.
II.
Nagsasabsab an tigre sagkod an baka kan mga dootna garo pigkikitik kan saindang mga ngipon.
sa paghiling kan tigre biglangnaging malumoy an sungoy kan bakapula an natok kan doot na nagluwas sa ngimot kan tigre.
Inagda kan baka na magduman sinda sa salognganing maghalimogmog.
Pagrara nindang duwa sa tubigDaing payo an baka, daing [...]Read the rest of this entry »
WE PAID a visit to the Vancouver School Board (VSB) yesterday, and secured some basic -- and truly interesting -- info like the following:The Vancouver school district is a large, urban and multicultural school district providing programs to 56,000 students in Kindergarten to Grade 12, over 3,000 adults in adult education programs and over 40,000 in continuing education.By comparison, the Naga public school system (elementary and high school, plus the city government's Educare system and DepEd-run preschools) only serves some 40,000 students; and less than 1,000 out-of-school youth and [...]Read the rest of this entry »
YESTERDAY was our big day. Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado and I made the pitch to Dr. Leonora "Nora" Angeles's students at the University of British Columbia -- plus others who attended our lecture, about half of them in fact -- to visit Naga in summer next year for a proposed one-month studio course on participatory governance.Nora is an associate professor at the UBC School for Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations. She is putting together the Naga City Planning Studio Course that [...]Read the rest of this entry »
VICE MAYOR Gabby Bordado was one proud papa yesterday. Reason: his eldest daughter Marian's Choco Naga was warmly received by our host, the Forster-Angeles family in Vancouver.
The main selling point of these proudly Naga-made product are the luscious roasted pili nuts generously embedded in every choco bar.
And it enabled Marian to earn her degree, as member of the pioneering batch, from the new entrepreneurship program of the Ateneo de Naga University, an offering backed by the Madrigal Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Nobody graduates from the course without putting up his own [...]Read the rest of this entry »
Job HuntingRoller Coaster Ride--That’s how I describe my two months of job hunting in Singapore. I remember my first two weeks here applying for a job through the internet and without a single reply. It wasn’t easy at all (down). Obviously, there was something wrong. Thank God, sir Senen and Don sent me templates of CV’s. I have to rewrite my CV to make it a little catchier. And it was. I took several interviews afterwards (up) but not all was successful. Most [...]Read the rest of this entry »
I always knew my parents look like TomKat! That's why Suri looks just like me... I wonder why mom was a bit surprised? Ah, maybe because my dad doesn't look as handsome as me. Anyway, dad surely looks happy he had a son like me, see?
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