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Wow this picture was taken exactly a year ago. My good friend Tracey brought me along to one of the small islands in Wando for swimming with another friend Stew. I did enjoy the beach with its cold water and not so hot sun. Beach scenes are definitely interesting (hehehe) and this boy enjoying his watermelon-looking beach ball is refreshing sight. Check out this couple: and this mermaid too... good friends Tracey and Stew I definitely miss Tracey for all those exciting travels and trips. Comes weekend I hope to go and see the beach again this summer for the Mud Festival in Shinan. Below is a short excerpt from Wando County website: Wando County consists of 200 large and small islands having ancient mystery, and it is the first-class clean sea area in Korea. Wando County provides abundant marine products including ear shell, laver, bundle, kelp and flatfish, which is the most delicious and high-quality in nation. Jang Bo-go, the Great ...

Below is an excerpt of a new entry on my OFW Blog . I am helping Kenji promote his search for 2008 Top 10 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blogs . Finally my plan to feature OFW here had materialize with this interview with Jebee Kenji Solis. He has been blogging since 2005. This is how he describe his blog: THOUGHTS KOT O is a jargon word for "these are my thoughts". Blog of a Young Filipino LDS Couple , living in Saudi Arabia. Thoughts and Musings about Life and Love, Trials and Challenges, Faith and Hope as we continue in our journey to FOREVER." I was invited to nominate for the 2008 Top 10 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blogs . I find the search interesting so I asked him if I can feature him on this blog and promote his initiative. Below is the interview of Kenji. Check out his blog here: http://jbsolis.blogspot.com/ So please nominate by following this link: http://jbsolis.blogspot.com/2008/07/search-for-2008-top-10-pinoy-abroad.html

Mula sa website ng Camus ( http://www.camus.fr/main.asp ) Sa Pilipinas sikat ang Fundador bilang brandy subalit may ibat-ibang klase at grado ito. At syempre kaakibat ng grado ay ang presyo. Malimit na iniinom ang brandy matapos ang kainan - panghimagas na inumin kumbaga. Samantalang ang iba pang alak tulad ng whisky ay karaniwang iniinom bago kumain. At syempre ang mga wines (red/white) ay partner ng main dish at depende sa klase ng karne (red/white). Sa mga pinoy na lasengero anumang inumin mapa-whisky man o brandy ay tinutumba kahit sa anumang pagkakataon at okasyon. Sosyal na inumin ang wine. At hindi papahuli ang mga katutubong inumin tulad ng lambanog, basi, etc. sa mga probinsiya. Beer lalo na ang inumin hinding-hindi mawawala sa anumang inumang pinoy. Tagay na ! Mula sa e-how ( http://www.ehow.com/how_2139692_buy-good-brandy.html ) Brandy is simply a wine that has been distilled to the point at which its alcohol level has reached 40 to 60 percent of its total volume. Origina...

I am so glad to see that Forvo featured Ilokano as word for the day. Discovering it on the internet through downloadsquad , with my intention of learning Korean I found this new service. But instead of learning, I am contributing Ilocano words and pronouncing most of them. With my contributed word am now at the top 20 and top 30 with the pronounced words. Well I hope people could make use of it should they be interested to learn Ilocano, a mixture of different languages with influence of Spanish (but unlike Chavacano which is 80% (?) of Spanish), very closely related with Bahasa Indonesia or Malaysia, etc. People at Forvo are very accommodating. I suggested to include Ilokano and the next day they sent me an email informing that it was already included. Tagalog another language of the Philippines was there only with one word contributed, so I contributed more words. I found out also that my joining Forvo was also in line with UNESCO's celebration for the International Year of Lang...

Below is an image from Inquirer. This was the clip of the news: 'Most unpopular leader' Arroyo approval ratings dive to -38 in June Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters, Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 19:24:00 07/18/2008 MANILA, Philippines--(UPDATE) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's oublic support ratings plunged last month to a record low, making her the most unpopular leader in the country since democracy was restored in 1986, the Social Weather Stations said in a survey released Friday. The SWS found that only 22 percent of Filipinos were satisfied with the President's performance while 60 percent were dissatisfied, in a poll conducted in the last week of June. Read more : Indeed I can't wait until 2010. I hope she will soon opt to resign since it is not only popularity that matters but the irregularity/ties for which she run the government.

Luntiang Salad In Korea vegetarian reastaurants or Chaesik Buffets are gaining prominence because of the Mad Cow issue. Korean government insisted to import beef from the US in exchange of exporting freely its cars and other electronic products under the FTA (Free Trade Agreement). Some see the issue not necessarily of mad cow perse but a culmination of different issues against the government neglect to hear to the voice of the people. Unlike the previous administration branded as leftist, the current government of Lee Myung Bak is very conservative. People are beginning to see him as a CEO of Korea's businesses more than a leader. So he revamped members of his first cabinet and had shelved the controversial Grand Canal Plan (a river network connecting Seoul to Busan that will cut across the country), a success claimed by green or environmental groups. So green... people are now discovering green vegetables more than ever. Korean diet has plenty of fresh vegetables, like when t...

What's new with entrecard that's driving its members crazy? For the last two weeks various improvements are happening at entrecard and members are I believe getting a bit crazy about this fast-fast improvements. But one thing for sure the members are getting involved and engaged. I am wondering how this entrecard bandwagon could be utilized to some overwhelming changes online. I believe if the power is harness properly then this online community could very well be a potent force to contend with on the internet. The last time was a call to have a digg so I added several people now on my digg but I think of the 600 people only 10 or so would digg the news I shouted to them. So am not sure what entrcarders could make out with the so many people on digg now. Then comes the comment bomb, well it was good to see entrecarders commenting in someone else's blog imagine a hundred for a single post, that is something. For my blog I think the biggest number of commenters I have is 30 ...

UPDATED: 15 July 2007 12:02 PM (Note: image above is from the button of linked in yahoo group) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinBloggers/ I signed up lately to LinkedIn Bloggers at yahoogroups and posted this topic, blog hazard to the group. I received very construcitve and informative feedback. Since I don't have persmission to quote the exchanges there. Those who are interested to join - provided you have linkedin account I encourage you to join the group and learn from professional bloggers. Here's the group description: Group Description: LinkedIn Bloggers is a forum for discussing how blogging and related technologies, such as podcasting, video blogging (vlogging)and wikis can support members' professional networking using LinkedIn. I recently received what I call blog hazard:nasty comments more than a blog criticism. After all they neglected to see and read the intent of the blog entry for which they commented on. But learning from John Chow , I thought of b...

This is a project of Filipinovoices.com initiated by Nick. His pix in the blog is that of Ninoy (hmmmm...), below is his description of himself: Nick is as passionate a Filipino as you will ever encounter. He lives on political and social news, and often writes about these topics as well. His personal blog is at Tingog.com which he started in 2006. He is an engineer by trade. He is a Filipino-American, but 100% pure blooded Filipino. He is a Cebuano, from Cebu of course. He loves Filipino food. And he loves Filipino women. He hates politicians who take advantage of the marginalized for political gains (which is almost all politicians). He plays guitar, pool, golf, chess, basketball, and badminton. He hates small talk. Although the name that appeared is Peter Ahon , that should be Pete Rahon , I definitely claim authorship to the article and that blog is this blog. Indeed it is an "ahon" rising up or pulling out of the waters of blogging to a more sensible writing. It is a r...

Updated 07 July 2008 2:42 PM (Korean Time) Here's an email from a friend about the non-existence of the prediction on the website: Hi pete! here's the website of jucelino with his predictions www.jucelino.daluz.nom.br / Under july 2008 there is no prediction of an earthquake in the Philippines!!! What's amazing was that he predicted the storm and floods in the Philippines last June 2008. Here's the entry - - Major floods in China caused by a hurricane and are already thousands of deaths and starts reaching Bangladesh and the Philippines; That was storm Frank which caused many horrible disasters last month and one of the papers said it caused damage worth P555M! Am still wondering where they got the date July 18, 2008. Whatever, whenever, these are the times to be prepared for major disasters, which we always have naman. Kaya siguro tayo deadma na sa bagyo, lindol, baha, etc. The only difference is that this time it will be stronger. Time for us to rethink, este ...

I think I have come across this a year ago and checking on their blog I found that the gender genie was up in 2006. I checked the net because I came up with some writing plans - well these days whenever I have thought of some ideas or words in mind I would check the net to figure out if my ideas are original only to find out it is so commonplace! I mean I could always find similar if not related things with that of what of mine. So for the gender genie I used a longer blog entry since I found out that most of my blog entries are suited for internet reading - less than 500 and so many hyperlinks (ughhh, where's originality). So the text was from a blog entry about my sister graduating from nursing . The blog entry was quite long. The figure shows the text and the tracking of the genie for words. This is the figure of the analysis - there are words particularly used by men and that of women. Check this article from NY Times about language difference of men and women. So finally ...

I got a comment for my blog entry on Balikbayan box: Manolito Sulit said... You'll realize more about life in the Philippines in over a hundred years since the Philippine-American war when you watch the historical independent movie, "Barako", showing in Galleria's IndieSine (Cinema 8), from July 9-15. Here's the trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMKmk0f7IdI God bless! Manolito C. Sulit writer, director & producer Mei Magsino The title of the film is replete with meanings and searching the net I believe the article of Mei Magsino will best expound on its meaning: The Barako Bared SAY the word barako and immediately three meanings come to mind: the strong-flavored and robust brew of the liberica coffee; the sex-driven adult male boar ready for breeding; and that certain brand of Batangueño, the rough and tough Filipino male from the province of Batangas. All three possess virility, strength, fearlessness — yes, even the coffee, whose f...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia    A Balikbayan Box A balikbayan box (literally returnee's box) is a cardboard box containing novelty items brought by or sent by a Filipino who is returning to the Philippines from a foreign country.[1] These boxes contain non-perishable food items, canned goods, other food items, toiletries, household and kitchen stuffs, time saving devices, computer parts, electronics, toys, designer clothing, personal items, and hard-to-find items in the Philippines.[2] In 2006, I wrote a blog entry about balikbayan box with this link: http://peterahon.blogspot.com/2006/04/balikbayan-box.html Okey, my apologies for the non-Filipino readers but jokes are best delivered by the language and medium of the speaker and  audience could very well relate with. I believe most Filipinos have read this email that circulated few years back. I tried looking for this email in my mailbox but unsuccesful so I found it on the web instead, from this link: http://www.geocities...

( Source: http://www.nomad4ever.com/ ) I have been wanting to write about this things and now I have more reason to warn about a prediction that I have received in my mailbox. Of particular interest to me is the prediction of earthquake that will strike the Philippines by Mr. Juseleeno Nobulega DaRoose is Brazilian, born in 1960 (whether quack/fake or what not Pinoy should be ready and be prepared just the same) : > July 18, 2008 - Philippines will get 8.1 earthquake, > thousands of people > will die. {Other bloggers have picked up this news, I know this blogger since we both belong to the entrecard community. http://ahkong.net/predictions-by-mr-juseleeno/#comment-8035 There's a photo and link of this site regarding  earthquake clouds: http://www.xanga.com/LevDau/657019082/item.html Here's a link that counter the predictions and authority of the psychic http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080623053206AAYLGpu Addtional link/discussion: http://answers.yahoo...