You must have missed a lot last July 26, 2010. You another day written in the history books. Last July 26, 2010 President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III gave his first State of the Nation address (SONA)
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July 30th, 2010 | Posted in Politics, Social issues & Current events | No Comments
Last Monday, July 26, 2010 our beloved President, President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III or popularly known as “P-Noy” gave his first state of the nation address or SONA. The intention of the SONA is to get the legislative support of congress in order that the president’s agenda for the country might be fulfilled. Aside from that the President also laid out to Congress what how will realize his campaign promises, what is his platform of government and how Congress can help him achieve this.
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July 30th, 2010 | Posted in Politics, Social issues & Current events | No Comments
This coming Monday, July 26, 2010, all eyes will be glued to their television sets and the entire Philippine nation will literally come to a halt as people will be listening to President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino’s 2010 State of the Nation address. (Or Commonly referred to as the Noyoy Aquino SONA 2010) on television or in live streaming through the internet, or probably wait for the videos uploaded to youtube or the various video sharing sites.
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July 25th, 2010 | Posted in Politics, Social issues & Current events | No Comments
If you are a science fiction fan, you would know what I am talking about. Star Trek Buffs call this as “Beam me up Scotty” while other science fiction fans closely associate teleportation with the “Star gate.”
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July 24th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
Forget the browser wars, the operating system wars and even the PC vs. Mac war. Now a an interesting war is brewing up and it’s between two formidable opponents. Microsoft Corporation’s Microsoft.NET vs. Sun Microsystem’s Java !
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July 1st, 2010 | Posted in Technology | 8 Comments
It’s been two months now that I had been using my Amazon Kindle 2 global wireless edition. I’ve wanted to get a Kindle ever since Amazon came out with the Kindle 1 last 2008. I wrote about it in the post entitled “The future of reading . . .The Amazon Kindle.”
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June 24th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | 5 Comments
I use to eat a lot of Skittles when I was a kid. For those of you who do not know what it is, it’s a chewy fruit flavored sweet whose ingredients is mainly sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oil along with fruit juice, citric acid and natural and artificial flavors.
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May 29th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The Visayan region, most particularly Cebu is known for its very musically minded people and its pool of talented singers and composers. In fact Cebu is widely known all over the world for its famous guitar making industry. A lot of Cebu singers have made it to the national scene and a lot of composers from Cebu have contributed to the rich musical archives of the Filipino nation.
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May 29th, 2010 | Posted in Music | No Comments
I just found this very nice, inspiring and uplifting song in Facebook entitled “We will rise again.” Considering that we have just successfully concluded our first automated elections and that we will be having a new president who promised to stamp out corruption, this song is just perfect for this time of change! Hopefully this song will inspire the Filipino nation to rise again and finally achieve our dreams to become a great nation.
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May 17th, 2010 | Posted in Music | No Comments
This is the last and final installment of the series “Advice for the bar examinee.” In part 1 & part 2 of the series Prof. Riguera gave some very interesting tips on what to do before the bar examinations. Now he concludes this series by discussing what to do the night before, during the bar exams and after the bar exams.
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May 11th, 2010 | Posted in Law, Law Practice, Law students | 3 Comments
Voting in some precinct has just been completed. Other precincts have already transmitted the results while the other Precincts are just about to transmit the Philippine elections 2010 results. They must have some trouble with the receipt printer in their PCOS machines. They say that before 1 a.m. today, May 11, 2010, we will have the complete results of the local elections and in within 24 hours more or less we will hopefully have the complete results for all national positions if not 80 % to 90 % of it.
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May 11th, 2010 | Posted in Politics, Social issues & Current events | 1 Comment
Isang tulog na lang ! The Philippine election 2010 will finally kick off tomorrow ! We hope and pray for a generally peaceful and smooth election tomorrow. Its judgment day for the candidates! I’ve said in “Ten things that make the Philippine 2010 elections unique Part 1” that the Philippine election 2010 is unique and that it deserves a prominent spot in our history books. I gave the first five reasons in the first part; here are the last five reasons on what makes the Philippines elections 2010 unique.
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May 9th, 2010 | Posted in Politics, Social issues & Current events | No Comments