Posts Tagged ‘Philippines’

22 years ago, there are five li’l boys dreaming to be big guys in the future.. 22 years ago, we play toy guns, water guns and wooden guns, hoping that we’ll own real guns in the future..22 years ago, we race bike and dream about F1 and Nascar, hoping that we’ll drive our own hybrid [...]

Wassup peeps? It has been ages.. Oh well, I have been busy joggling things at work.. Say, I have been busy working round-the-clock and that’s literal.. It’s M.A.Y.! How cool’s that? That means that it’s high time for Canadians to see lushes and hear some birds chirping.. The snow has finally stopped, and I am [...]

Cory Still Saves The Philippines Even After Death.. Yes, it is pretty odd but, you read it right.. Even if the former President Corazon Aquino succumbed to cancer last year; in the after life, she still did a good job by saving the Philippines and the Filipino people from another political jeopardy.. Today, in Canadian [...]

It is with great displeasure to be informed that Zone 6 (Bituen ti Daya), our basketball team for more than a decade has been banned from competing in the 2010 Rambac Ti Daya Inter-Zonal Basketball Tournament for the most absurd and inutile reason of not attending a Formal Emergency Meeting called by the organizers.. Let [...]

For the past two weeks, I’ve been thinking of a good post to write about Halloween.. Yes folks, it is the time of the year once again where the scariest part is to see your kids teeth decaying because of too much candy, courtesy of course by no less than – The Halloween.. I’ve exhausted [...]

Typhoon “Ramil” (international name: Lupit) maintained its strength as its moves northwest slowly toward Northern Luzon. The typhoon might affect the Cagayan-Isabela area starting late Wednesday even as its landfall is expected Thursday morning. It is expected that the landfall will start in parts of extreme Northern Luzon on Thursday morning or afternoon, depending on [...]

Above is the latest DOST-PAGASA MTSAT-EIR Satellite Image (timestamp on image is UTC; add 8 hours to convert to Philippine Standard Time) on the pathway of “Pepeng”, now almost reaching its “Supertyphoon” status.. — In a related news, PAGASA Chief, Nathaniel Cruz has these words to say: Typhoon Pepeng (international codename Parma) is forecast to [...]

UPDATE 1: Pepeng Could Become Super Typhoon; May Reach Manila by Saturday This is a reposted news article from Spot.ph Published: October 1, 2009 A new typhoon called Pepeng might become a super typhoon by the time it reaches Northern Luzon and has already left about 139 people stranded in ports and transportation terminals in [...]

The Philippine government through the Office of the National Disaster Coordinating Council declared Regions I (Northern Ilocos), II (Cagayan Valley), III (Central Luzon), IV-A (CALABARZON), IV-B (MIMAROPA), The Cordillera Administrative Region and The National Capital Region (Metro Manila) as primary areas under State of National Calamity.. Below is a copy of the Memorandum signed by [...]

My former colleagues (Victor Conanan Jr., Curlee Canlas Galang, Catherine Esteban-Galang, the couple’s kid and another coworker) at the Office of the President – Commission on Higher Education sent me few photos taken somewhere in Makati City during their “Ondoy” Ordeal.. The email is in response to a webtext i sent Vic, asking how things [...]