Pepsi goes to cut 3,000 jobs!

The economic turmoil has caused workers their job at Pepsi.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/business/pepsi.php

Paul Krugman, Who is he?

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/14/business/14econ.php

Now, now, where is the Dictionary?

If not for Noah Webster where would we be?

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/12/noah.webster.birthday.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Hindu and Christian relation in India

Somewhere in India, a land of one billion people, and a secular state, there is a confused relationship between Hindu and Christians.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/13/asia/13india.php

How much is $10.2 trillion?

Do you know how to count up to 10.2 trillion?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/12/national.debt.clock.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Economic rescue plan fails to address problem of 6 million to default house payment

Below are two articles that is related to the Wall street economic meltdown and a woman, 90 years old who shot herself because her house will be foreclosed.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/03/eviction.suicide.attempt/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Mass extinction

During the period where most life was extinguished and few survived, where did living forms took refuge?

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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/03/permian-extinction.html

Graphic presentation of BBC on Wall Street's economic collapse

BBC's graphics tells us the figures and the graphs that points to things all going down. The next is to go up, but when?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7644238.stm

Time Line of the Crisis under American sky

The link is CNN's documentation on the economic crisis spawned by mortgages that the American failed to arrrest.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/09/30/us.bailout.timeline/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Update: Wallstreet

Thomas Friedman tries to figure out the Wallstreet meltdown. Shows how we are interconnected.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/01/opinion/edfriedman.php?page=2

Rising Poverty in America

There is a rising poverty and homelessness in American. There is no end in sight.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/home-s27.shtml

Ecuador's way out using referendum

The national leader of Ecuador is seeking a referendum to tighten controls of vital industries and maybe stop debt payments.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7637458.stm

On saying Thank You

An interesting 3 minutes clip on saying Thank You by Laura Trice.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/laura_trice_suggests_we_all_say_thank_you.html

Tower of Babel and collapse at Wall street

Just Say "No" to Any Immediate Bailout-Don't try band-aids to keep the Tower of Babel Standing
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbis of antiquity interpreted the attempt by humanity to build a Tower of Babel that would allow people to storm heaven as a symbol of human hubris and technological power gone crazy. It was globalization for the sake of power, not for the sake of kindness or goodness, so, according to the Bible, God ensured that the whole thing would collapse. Scrambling languages and created a multi-cultural reality provided a way for humans to develop their own less imperialistic goals, diffusing power and challenging the notion that the path to salvation lies with material conquests and technological prowess.

Our contemporary capitalist system and its globalization of selfishness has evolved into a similarly grotesque distortion as people are increasingly socialized into the goals of the system: accumulate as much money and power as possible, and refuse to allow any other ethical goals into the public sphere (we are allowed to pursue them in our own "private lives" but not together in social space). The human suffering that results is not only for the poor. As people internalize the ethos of the marketplace and its "looking out for number one" and its seeing others primarily in instrumental terms ("what can you do for me to further my goals or satisfy my needs?"), families feel increasingly unstable, education becomes training to "make it in a global competition," and politics increasingly focuses on how to best assist the most powerful in their aims to secure or increase their wealth, or to protect American corporate interests as they increasingly seek to dominate world markets.

The pursuit of money and power is a huge ethical distortion for human life and destructive for a society. Whether manifested in the failed wars in Vietnam or the continuing bloody conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Pakistan and Iran, or in the collapse of our banking, insurance, and stock market systems, the ethos of selfishness and materialism are not sustainable in the 21st century.

So the careful and skillful manipulating us into a mass hysteria that this all be worked out immediately and before Congress goes on recess to run for reelection, with dire predictions that nobody knows to be true, to rush to use our monies (currently proposing a trillion dollars, but there will be trillions more to come, because we will be nurturing a "culture of dependence" by the rich and their corporate holdings) to bolster this way of life. Democrats have bought in. Yet it is a huge error-it's like trying to put bandages on the Tower of Babel. Of course, the wealthy all think that this is an immediate emergency-they suspect that a Democratic President and Congress might be more willing to demand a better deal for ordinary citizens in return for using their tax dollars this way. And they think that our tax monies (of which they contribute very little, should be used to "provide confidence to the markets"-meaning themselves). Many of them don't care that the resulting inflation is likely to make most working people's savings, retirement accounts, and social security considerably less valuable in real purchasing power terms. But they are wrong to fear the Obama election-the Democrats, including Obama, are as much committed to propping up the current system as the rich, in order to prove (to the pundits and inside-the-Beltway crowd and their wealthy funders who together constitute their primary reference group) that they are "responsible." So their demands for "accountability," re-regulation, and "limits on executive incomes" throws the merest little restraint while the hundreds of billions that will be spent will resuscitate the system of selfishness, keep the majority of corporate executives benefiting from the excesses they current enjoy, and not even touch on reshaping the fundamentals.

This is an extraordinary moment, a crisis like this is a precious thing and should not be wasted. If we had any ethically or spiritually visionary leadership, they would reject any immediate bailout, and instead, talk of ethical and spiritual reconstruction of the society in accord with a New Bottom Line: that every institution should be judged efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent that they maximize money and power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring for others, generosity and kindness, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe.

To start that process, we should demand that any corporation receiving help from our government give a corresponding level of ownership and control of their venture to the people of this country. Moreover, any such corporation should be required to meet the terms of the Network of Spiritual Progressives' proposed Social Responsibility Amendment to the Constitution: that any corporation with an income of more than $50 million a year must get a new corporate charter once every ten years, to be granted only if it can prove a satisfactory history of social responsibility as measured by an Ethical Impact Report and as decided by a jury of ordinary people whose task is to represent the interests of the common good.

Meanwhile, the rest of us should be protected as the Tower of Babel collapses. So the hundreds of billions of dollars being thrown recklessly by our Congress into the hands of the very people and corporations that fostered the current meltdown, should instead be used to create a national bank that would provide mortgage assistance at affordable rates, buy up and restart in the hands of the people who work within them any at-risk corporations providing socially useful functions at a price not dictated by the need to ensure that the wealthy prosper, recreate ( for those who've lost them) and sustain (for those who still have them) pension funds for families with incomes under $300,000/yr., create a single-payer universal health care system of the sort now being used by Members of Congress, and provide strong incentives for alternative energy-oriented investment and a minimum wage that rises with inflation to ensure adequate compensation for working people.

Yet these are only baby-steps, and the moment is now to insist that the elections themselves be dedicated to exploring more visionary approaches to reconstructing our economy on the basis of caring for each other and rejecting the materialism and selfishness that has perverted our media and threatens to continue to destroy our economy in the years to come. Just say "no" to the demands for an immediate "bailout" of the wealthy with your tax monies-and take the time to use this amazing historical moment to put ethical and spiritual values back into our economic life!

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun Magazine (www.tikkun.org), chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (www.spiritualprogressives.org) , rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco, and author of eleven books, most recently: The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right (HarperCollins, 2006).

If you agree with this perspective, please please please JOIN the Network of Spiritual Progressives at www.spiritualprogressives.org to help us support the work necessary to develop and publicize this approach to contemporary issues (and with membership you get a year's free subscription to TIKKUN magazine). You can also respond to Rabbi Lerner: RabbiLerner@Tikkun.org

AJ Dimarucot

An artist with a nationalist bent. His art is asking votes for his shirts.

Beautiful work of art that you can wear around your place.

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http://www.collision-theory.com/apparel/

The Greeks and Filipinos.

The Greeks are worried about the flooding of junk-food into their society. Pediatricians are finding out high blood pressure among their children.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/24/europe/diet.php

Children dying

About 82,000 children die before the age of 5 in the Philippines. How much is the budget for Department of Health compared to our foreign debt payments?

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http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p080917.htm&no=37

Stones as part of women diet?

Women eat a kind of stone in Kenya.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7596067.stm

Is your lifestyle leads to health?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7617146.stm

Is America a waning power?

A sharp criticism on McCain and somewhat seeing America becoming irrelevant in this world.

Thomas Friedman writes.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/14/opinion/edfriedman.php

Mental illness and American Dream

Frank Brenner made a critique on mental illness in the United States.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/ment-m24.shtml

Science and Society

Science, Society and Superstition, from the World Socialist forum.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/geno-a15.shtml

Poincare's Conjecture

Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg tackled the Poincare's Conjecture.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/math-j03.shtml

Pope and secularism

How the Pope and other leader's sees secularism in the present light.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/world/europe/13pope.html?ref=world

Challengers

Jerome White, 49, and Bill van Auken, both of the Socialist Equality Party, are challenging Obama and McCain for the US presidential election this 2008.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/elec-s13.shtml

One Life that can change

Francois Demulder, 61, a war photographer died not in the battlefield but a heart attack that her friends called a medical error in cancer treatment.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/europe/letter.php

Why we shouldn't fear the Large Hadron Collider from making small "black hole"

Scientists in Switzerland have begun an experiment in simulating the so called "Big Bang" theory.

This will happen inside the Large Hadron Collider to be found in the territory of Switzerland and France. It is an underground loop and these guys are going to bombard proton particles and would see what will happen. Well what will happen?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/opinion/edbgreene.php?page=2

Google

If you are with Google ten years ago, you might be a billionaire now.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/04/google-tenth-anniversary-tech-enterprise-cx_wt_0905google.html?feed=rss_popstories

Knowing more of me.

The link below tells a story through words and picture on the art of magic.

In short, knowing more of me.

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http://innermagicclub.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/prof-al-brings-his-magic-to-poor-children/#comment-1702

Wealthy fails the poor

The United Nation claimed that the wealthy nations have failed the poor nations.

Millenium development goals will not be met on 1015. Copy-paste link to your browser.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7599291.stm

Manila 1938

View Manila in 1938.

Wow! An article on Sex?

8 Bad reasons why you should not have sex.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/08/28/tf.bad.reason.for.sex/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

How do typhoon create themselves?

The link is an animated guide from BBC in understanding how typhoons are born.
The word typhoon has a Chinese origin.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4588149.stm

India's caste system, on the way out?

Chandra Bhan Prasad argued that India's economic liberalization is about to do the unthinkable: destroy the caste system.

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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

How children learn?

A video essay of Sugata Mitra, an educator. Sugata Mitra is the main instigator of Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment. A computer was placed in an area where children can access this computer and learn how to manipulate it. He is a proponent of Minimally invasive education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata_Mitra

Women, work, raising a child in Germany.

How a German woman struggles in work and raising children.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/business/women.php

Size of Earth and Stars

See the comparison in diameters the size from moon Pluto to VV Cephai A?

Language, Conflict and peace

Language...that mystical music that comes from our mouth, can be a basis of conflict. Thus, in the Russian and Georgian conflict, language has a lot to do with with conflict and peace.

If language can be a basis for conflict then it is also a wellspring of peace.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/24/europe/caucasus.php

Evolution, Religion and the Teacher

The ongoing discussion on Evolution, Religion and the teacher caught in-between.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/24/america/24evolution.php

Miracles do happen

A baby thought to be still born was placed in the refrigerator in preparation for burial.

Later the baby moved, held the hand of the nurse and openned the mouth.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSLI23405020080823?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69

Suicide bombing

Some beliefs on suicide bombing.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/22/iraq.bombers/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Students help in research

This is a story of two students who did a sample DNA testing on the sushi they are eating. They found out the 23 percent of fish samples were mislabeled.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/22/america/fish.php

Dead suffers from inflation

In Vietnam, even the dead suffers from inflation.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/19/business/dong.php

Women in America

Women in America tend not to have children.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/19/america/fertility.php

In Bihar India, rat to eat.

Care to eat rat? Bihar has 80 million in population and they are mulling over to add rats in their menu. Read why?

Note the Bihar is 80 million in size, that is the estimate population size of the Philippines circa 2006.

In some of our farming communities, rat is eaten as a source of protein.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/india.rats.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Procambarus clarkii

Procambarus clarkii also known as the crayfish is now invading the Nile river of Egypt. This is likened to our golden Kuhol that our farmers hate.

See also related news article on the New Zealand mud snail. Read the two articles and you will see the connection of the two.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/eco.crayfishegypt/index.html

Beijing Olympics

Not to miss the glory of the Beijing Olympics.

Prison Escapee

An escapee said that she does not want to go back to prison because she feels "uncomfortable in it".

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/18/fugitive.mom.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Snails can cause social change?

How can a snail, the New Zealand mud snail, cause change in the lives of people living a round their habitat?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/invasive-snail-lake.html

Magic of David Copperfield

Magic of David Copperfield. What you see may not really be real. What we see and hear in society may not be real!

China paralympics in 2012.

The disabled in China, trying to make a difference.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7556652.stm

You have loans?

Who owns your loans?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_68/s0808000966244.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

Georgia and Russia Conflict

A background on the Georgia and Russian conflict. Read and be guided. Form your opinion.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/10/europe/assess.php?page=2

Mindanao Dejavu?

Again, violence flares up in areas of Muslim Mindanao. Chilling effect on the civilians who are evacuating themselves trying to save their precious lives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/asia/12phils.html?ref=world

Web 2.0

Just what is the Web 2.0? Watch, read and listen to this channel.

Olympic date and marriage

Chinese beliefs in August 08, 2008 or 8-8-8. How many got married this date in which that date happened to be the commencement of the Beijing China Olympics?

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/08/asia/scene.php

Beijing 2008 on Masks and Athletes

When wearing mask becomes a thorn in side in the Beijing Olympics.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/06/sports/masks.php

Old Days

I am sharing this piece to my students to whom I am introducing the past. Their father and mother, or Lola or Lola can connect with it. This is a forwarded attachment.



Have a Nice Trip Down Memory Lane!

*Shared by William M. Esposo*

Panciteria Moderna was the place to go for pancit miki and miki bihon already wrapped in their version of "tetra pak". Pancit bihon was the specialty of Panciteria Wa Nam.

At Ma Mon Luk siopao was at 30 centavos; mami was at 70 centavos or 2 pcs of siomai (large) with unlimited soup was at 30 centavos. So with one peso busog ka na.

The Shangri-la in the basement of Shelborne Hotel (at the back) was the place to go for dates if you wanted a dark and cozy atmosphere. The Embers (in Cubao) of Bert Nievera was also popular. The Black Angel along Shaw Blvd near the corner of Kalentong in Mandaluyong was a very good place to listen to soft music (e.g. Fleetwoods, etc) and the lights were also quite low. With Php 30- 50 in your pocket you were in pretty good shape for a date.

"Bakuran" was the in-thing at parties with "screening" from a friend to assist you in getting a dance with a girl who was very sought after.

Wack-Wack, the Sky Room in Jai-Alai, the penthouse of the Rufino Bldg. as well as the penthouse of the Sarmiento Bldg right opposite it were the favorite places for proms and balls. Sikat ang event if the Hi-Jacks; the Electromaniacs or the Technicolors was the "combo" playing. Alta Vista along Roxas Blvd. was the favorite place for wedding receptions at Php 8.50per cover!

Special ringside seats for performances at the Araneta Coliseum were at Php 5.00 per. So with Php 20.00 you could safely invite someone and still have enough for a snack afterwards or a game of "putt and putt" at the mini-golf place located at the back of Araneta.

During early 60's, 5centavos and 10 centavos ang bayad sa jeep. Manila and Suburbs ang lahat ng biyahe ng jeep noon na 3seater lang at pitpit ka pagbata ka pagsumakay ka. Sa Avenida Rizal at Sta. Cruz, Blumentritt, Tayuman, San Roque Church, Espiritu Santo Church, Grace Park at monumento ang mga sikat na lugar.

Yung Good Earth Emporium pwede ring idagdag sa mga magagandang shopping mall noong araw. Yung Manila Grand Opera house, Odeon, Hollywood, Cinerama, Ideal, State, Lyric, Capitol ang mga sikat na sinehan noon. Sa Q.C ay sikat yung Max's Chicken at Dayrit. Ang dollar rate noon ay 3.70Php sa 1$ ang palitan. Ang Sarsi ay cinco centavos (5 centavos) 10 Centavos ang Coke.


Pero sikat yung Canada Dry, Uva at orange ang paborito namin noon. Pag pasko madalas kami sa Sta Cruz para manood ng palabas sa Manila COD para sa Xmas season. Noon walang chippy at potato chips, ang merienda ay banana cue, camote cue, palitaw, biko, pinipig, halo-halo, carioca, pilipit, butsi, hopiang hapon, hopiang munggo, hopiang baboy, bibingka, puto, cassava, cake o budin, suman at mani.

Ang apple ay apat-piso ang benta sa Lawton Bus terminal. Mas mahal pa yung local na chico na pineras. Ang grapes, pear, at apple ang karaniwang binebenta sa mga bus terminal na papuntang south (BLTB). Ang bus noon ay bukas lahat yung isang side kaya doon dumadaan ang mga pasahero. Ang sikat na mga Plaza noon ay Plaza Goiti, Plaza Miranda at Plaza Sta. Cruz. Sa mga bakery sa Manila ay sikat yung machacao na tinapay.

May I add: Hallili Beer (sold to the Sorianos), Tody chocolate drink in cans, Horlicks malted milk tablets; Hallili bus, Super (dog logo) Transit, Yujuico, JD & MD buses; ShoeMart Carriedo (the first SM) followed by 2nd ShoeMart beside Ideal Theater and fourth was SM Echague with a revolving restaurant at the top floor.

Safari Club beside Manila Zoo at the height of the "Twist" craze, Dance-O-Rama with Pete Roa & Baby O'Brien, Jam Session every 6PM on television.

Now anyone who missed those days can't really claim they've seen and tasted the best. Every generation has its own set of "Aces". Do you recall when: You tasted Fres Gusto, Cosmos "Sarsi" Sarsaparilla, RC Cola, Yes Cola, Teem, Darigold Evap, Liberty Condensada, Choco Vim, Sunkist Orange (in tetra packs), Magnolia Chocolait, (pronounced chocolight), Klim (the word "milk" spelled backwards), Big 20 Hamburgers, Foot-long hotdog, Tweet & Jiggs Candies(by Mr. Krieger), Sugus Candies, Tootsie Roll, Serg's Chocolate, Blenda Margarine, kerosene-flavored popcorn and kropeck along Dewey Blvd, dirty ice cream, Magnolia Ice Cream sandwich, Selecta ice cream (now Arce Dairy) and their fresh carabao's milk, Magnolia popsicles in orange, chocolate and langka flavors, Sison Ice Drops in monggo, and buko flavors, Milky Way's buko sherbet, Acme Supermarket' s sundaes and Coney Island's 32 flavors?

You went to: Syvel's, Assandas, Arcegas at the Maranaw Arcade, Funhouse at Bricktown, Aguinaldo, Erehwon Bookstore, Alemars Bookstore, Bookmark, Botica Boie, Makati Supermarket (in Makati!), Rizal Theater (with its spacious lobby) with D'Bankers Barbershop and Leila's Coffee Shop, Tropical Hut (and its hamburger), Acme Supermarket, Cherry Foodarama, The Regent of Manila, Hotel Mabuhay, Manila Hilton, Christmas carnival (where Dusit Hotel now stands), Villa Pansol and Lido Beach?

Rizal what?" "Who would be crazy to build a cinema in the middle of nowhere?" It turned out to be the best theater in the city of Makati (at the same site now occupied by Shangri-La Hotel).

And ate at: The original A&W along UN Avenue in Manila, Aristocrat across Malate Church, Italian Village, café Valenzuela, Bonanza Restaurant, Brown Derby, Little Quiapo, Country Bake Shop, Selecta Restaurants (owned by the Arce family), Taza de Oro; New Europe, Madrid, Cucina Italiana, La Cibeles at A. Mabini, The Plaza, Jade Garden Restaurant, Luau, The Makati Automat, Sulo Restaurant (in Makati), Makati Fastfood Center (the first ever), Bulakena, Casa Marcos, Au Bon Vivant, Salambao Restaurant, Dairy Queen along Buendia, Di Mark's Pizza, the elegant dining room of the old Army & Navy Club. Botica Boie in Escolta, Albas in Florida, Malate Brown Derby and their signature foot-long hotdog came with its special, extra tarty mustard sauce and a hot, crispy bun. We used to park at their drive-in bays after we were exhausted from all-night partying but with enough energy to gobble down sausages and soft drinks.

The Plaza was the favorite venue for all formal school and social functions. Food was not a big factor so long as cozy couples could have their special table for two.

You shopped at: Escolta, Harrison Plaza (when it was still clean and had the bump cars), Ali Mall, Rustan's in San Marcelino, Aguinaldo's in Cubao, Quezon City; Shoemart in Makati was a small, split-level affair.

The original Rustan's was the garage of the Tantoco's residential house which was eventually converted into a dazzling shop filled with eclectic things and collectibles.

Blockbuster movies were: Love Story, Mahogany, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Logan's Run, Battlestar Galactica, Paper Chase, Enter The Dragon, Jaws, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Carrie, Willard (theme song was Ben sang by a young Michael Jackson), Exorcist, Love Bug, Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang.

You wore, carried or used Denman brush tucked in your back pants pocket, Jordache and Sassoon jeans, Bata rubber shoes, Botak running shoes, Ace flexible comb, Ace clutchbag, Carrera shades, Ray-Ban, Photochromic and Ambermatic shades, Foster Grant sunglasses, Alaskin, tie-dye shirts and pants, double-knit pants, Sergio Valente, Vidal Sassoon, Fiorucci, Banlon, Ye-ye Vonnel shirts, Nik-Nik, Bang-Bang, Faded Glory, Jazzie, Puma Topfit, Tiger Onitsuka, Happy Feet, clogs, Wet look shoes, Pierre Cardin, Brut, Jovan musk oil, Aramis, platform shoes with bell-bottom pants and wide-buckled belts.

You had your hair styled or permed by: Flavio and Carmen, Nomer's, Lita Rio, Grace Lagman, Dick & Lucy, and Kayumanggi. That was the time of Aqua Net stiff, foot-high beehives, French twist and Kiss Me liquid eye liners and Pretty Quik instant facial blotters.

You sang: Bobby, Bobby, Bobby by Jo Ann Campbell, Someday by Ricky Nelson, And I Love Her by the Beatles, Cherish by the Association, Because by Dave Clark Five, Distant Shores by Chad and Jeremy, Rainy Days & Mondays by the Carpenters, You've Got a Friend by Carol King, Hundred Miles by Peter, Paul and Mary, Evergreen by Paul Williams.

Saved whole month's allowance P50 to watch the Beatles perform live at Rizal Memorial Coliseum in 1965.

It was hip to listen to: Bingo Lacson and Jo San Diego (past midnight) of DZMT, the singing sensations from Ateneo de Manila? RJ and the Riots, The Loonilarks, Joe Mari Chan and the APO Hiking Society and dance to live combo music garbed in cocktail dresses and dark suits.

DZMT was affiliated with the Manila Times and was the only broadcast station that stayed on the air past midnight. Jo San Diego was their anchor woman (she with the velvety bedroom voice).

And danced at: Manila Hotel's Jungle Bar, Stargazer, Bayside Night Club (with live music by the Carding Cruz band), and the Nile (and the Italian singing group Five n' Fives), Queue Disco, Circuit Disco, Where else? Altitude 49, Delirium (in Greenbelt), D'Flame, Rino's, and Velvet Slum, Wells Fargo, and Coco Banana.

After graduation, jam sessions were replaced by night clubs and Bayside was the place to go for live bands and non-stop dancing.

Do you remember when: Dollar to peso exchange rate was $1 = P7, Walang Tindigan buses charged a flat rate of

P1, Love Bus fare was P1.50, family size Shakey's Pizza cost less than P40, Malate streets were named after US States (Pennsylvania, Colorado, etc.); Paranaque, San Juan, Makati, Pasig, Las Pinas, Taguig, Pateros and Muntinlupa were municipalities of Rizal province; DLSU was De La Salle College, Poveda was Institucion Teresiana, Adamson University was the original St. Theresa's campus, Robinsons mall was the Assumption Convent campus, Petron was Esso, Villamor Air Base was then known as Nichols Air
;Base, bancas were aplenty in the Baclaran side of Dewey Blvd. (now Roxas Blvd.) and traffic was non-existent in Tagaytay.

PLDT telephone numbers were five digits and you used your index finger to dial a number one at a time.

If you remember all these things, you're history in great company and I dare say, happy to be.

Since the writer was fleeting between two generations (60's-70"s), you party goers surely remember the DynaSouls (dubbed the Beatles of the Philippines), The Tilt Down Men (The Sotto brothers, Tito, & Val, favored the Dave Clark 5) Jaime Jose & the Deltas* (remember Maggie Dela Riva?)

What about gate crashing a "Tipar" (for party) and the ensuing rumble between feuding barkadas: The Havocs, Combat*, & Exotics, meron pang kanya-kanyang busina (car honking id).

Remember BMI (Baguio Military Institute)? That school was a dumping ground for kicked out students from Manila and kids that needed discipline. Let us not forget ang mga taga "Baste" (San Sebastian). Ang daming siga noong araw.

Sure you remember playing Pelota... And drag racing along Ortigas and behind Meralco..

Sikat ka sa barkada kung may "syota" (girl friend) kang "Colegiala" (Assumption, STC, St. Scho, Maryknoll, Holy Spirit; and the other schools - St. Paul's, St. Joseph, Centro Escolar ). As proof, you should be wearing her high school ring in your pinkie finger...And dapat karta 9... You probably took her out to the Butterfly (at UP) to listen to folk songs and sip Butterfly Iced Tea.

Did you get to date a "chick" from Brent (Baguio) and IS (Makati)?

Of course you should have enough cash for the gaso (gas), tsibog (food/dinner), cover charge/drinks at the Flame or Rino's, konting damo, and for the finale, enough datong (cash) para sa "biglang liko". Or kung gipit for cash, park at the huge lot of Folk Arts and just do it in the car... Kaya lang dapat may "Tapwe" (Singkuwenta pesos) pang lagay sa parak (police), and a handy calling card of a military officer with a hand written note in the back that "you should be given utmost courtesy"... jeesh...

Then in the late 70's early 80's came the CB radio phenomenon.. Tibs on Makati Ave. for beer and happy hour at the Manila Garden; always overflowing with beer and chicken wings...Tapos masahe sa Imperial Palace or Maalikaya... To cap the night, a stop at Birds of the Same Feather for smooth jazz courtesy of Eddie Katindig.

Tapos you get to do it all over again the following day. Take care :-)

Evolution of the Cell phone

Watch the evolution of the cellphone at You Tube.

Concerns on using mobile phones

There is a persisting concern about the use of mobile phones and health issues. Why does is persist?

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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc2008085_412407.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

Is Globalization in a rut?

A very interesting debate on Globalization.

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http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/globalization/?p=776

Marrigage at 11.

Children getting married are being stopped. This is in Saudi Arabia.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/06/africa/ME-Saudi-Too-Young-to-Marry.php

Paintings of Vitali Komarov

How do we account for this? Home Alone?

A child was left at the Ben Gurion airport. The parents were informed by the pilot after the take-off.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7540112.stm

11-Best Foods you arent eating - NYT

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/the-11-best-foods-you-arent-eating/#comment-94538

Heike Matthiesen

Heike Matthiesen, guitarist par excellence, doing Recuerdos de la Alhambra composed by Tarrega.

Acting is Compassion

Acting is Compassion

"I will take my rightful place on stage
and I will be myself.
I am not a cosmic orphan.
I have no reason to be timid.
I will respond as I feel;
awkwardly, vulgarly,but respond.
I will have my throat open,
I will have my heart open,
I will be vulnerable.
I may have anything or everything
the world has to offer, but the thing
I need most, and want most,
is to be myself.
I will admit rejection, admit pain,
admit frustration, admit even pettiness,
admit shame, admit outrage,
admit anything and everything
that happens to me.
The best and most human parts of
me are those I have inhabited
and hidden from the world.
I will work on it.
I will raise my voice.
I will be heard."

Elia Kazan from The Actors Vow

Cost of transporting Anything

With cost of oil reaching towards heaven, transportation fees are blowing by the weeks.

Manufacturers are looking at their own country for competitive advantages or the "neighboorhood syndrome".

What do you want to export? Read the article.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/business/03global.php?page=3

Can impersonation help you?

Can impersonation as a job help you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7537109.stm

Taught by Van Gogh

Visit the art of Vitali Komarov.

http://www.komarovart.com/gallery.htm

How to fold a T-shirt

How to fold a T-shirt in two seconds.

What a wonderful world

Daily accidents, crime, corruption, disasters... amidst these... What a wonderful world!

Love is Blue

This falls in the field of sociology of music.

Paul Mauriat captured the music of the 60's, 70's and 80's. He passed away this 2006. Paul is French by birth

You can view this in wide screen.

Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh one of the greatest painter humanity has produced.

Vincent lived life of a needy. He was supported by his brother.

But Vincent was rich in creativity that was barely understood in his time.

Vincent cut his ear and gave it to a prostitute as a gift. He never sold his painting when he was alive. But today his work cost millions of dollars.

Vincent was suffering from terrible headaches.

One day his took his own life.

See a production tribute to Vincent.

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Link below represents paintings inspired by Van Gogh
"http://www.youtube.com/v/6QiZQYPtI7c&hl=en&fs=1"


Link below represents original paintings by Van Gogh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

A-Z of chemicals in cigarettes

A recording of what chemicals are produced by pyrolitic process in cigarettes as recorded at Wikipedia. Consumers of cigarettes should know about this.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes