Archive for the ‘General’ category
October 9th, 2008
Due to melamine scare that made people world wide prefer not to buy Chinese-made products, an e-mail informing consumers how to identify products from China by their barcodes are being forwarded recently.
In this e-mail, it informs readers to differentiate each country’s products by the first 3 digits of the bar code. It states: products made […]
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October 8th, 2008
Will it be an antediluvian period?
I received a text message from a friend stating that:
“On October 17, 2008, the sun will rise continously for 36 hours (1.5 days). During this time, the US Countries will be dark for 1.5 days. It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 […]
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July 9th, 2008
An email spread like wildfire about an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 that will hit the Philippines on July 18, 2008. My officemates are terrified upon knowing it that some of them will not go to work on that day. How was this predicted?
A Brazilian teacher named Juseleeno Nobulega Daroose predicted this event along with his other […]
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June 24th, 2008
Camp Rock is Disney’s TV second highest rated of all time after High School Musical 2. Starring the Jonas brothers: Kevin, Joe, and Nick with hits: “Hold On” and “SOS”. The tv movie introduces Demi Lovato who plays as Mitchi Torres.
Camp Rock had its premiere on June 20, 2008 on Disney Channel. The story is […]
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April 30th, 2008
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April 28th, 2008
Today, Singapore is one of the hot spot destinations for Pinoys who want to work abroad. All degree holders have better chance of getting hired and salary starts from SGD1,800. IT professionals have the highest salary for it is more on demand in Singapore. The weather is basically just the same in our country […]
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April 22nd, 2008
Most of us don’t know that today is Earth Day, right? Guilty of charge, I’m one of those who are unaware that April 22 is Earth Day celebration. Celebrating Earth Day should have activities that focus on global warming awareness.Haven’t you noticed, it’s getting more and more hot each year? In our country, when month […]
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December 28th, 2007
I’m sure you have heard or saw this t.v. clip from Desperate Housewives. It has been on the local news for the past few weeks and ‘til now, it hasn’t come to a halt. Teri Hatcher is now very famous for the Filipinos for its line on the series mocking Philippine medical school, well some, […]
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November 15th, 2007
As more and more Filipinos are going to other countries for a “greener pasture”, remittance companies are also growing in numbers to facilitate money transfer to their loved ones in the Philippines.
I can still remember, when I was a kid, the most common way of sending money to the Philippines is through door-to-door – that […]
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April 27th, 2007
The Holy Week observance of the town Sto. Tomas, Pampanga is truly unique. The Semana Santa is the most joyful and colorful event in the town, it is a tradition the town of Sto. Tomas is proud of. The holy week observance this year started with the nine days novena and mass for the Mater […]
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April 22nd, 2007
The Holy Week observance of the town Sto. Tomas, Pampanga is truly unique. The Semana Santa is the most joyful and colorful event in the town, it is a tradition the town of Sto. Tomas is proud of. The holy week observance this year started with the nine days novena and mass for the Mater […]
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April 16th, 2007
This is an article wrote by my late father, Joe Marquez on his column in The Voice, a newspaper published weekly in the province of Pampanga and Angeles City, dated March 27-April 2, 1994. He was also, a columnist in The Sunstar, Pampanga Times, and Manila Times. I want to publish and share what he […]
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March 22nd, 2007
Last night, while I was looking for something inside my cabinet I saw a yellow organizer I had when I was in college, under piles of my clothes. Hmm, I wonder how it gets there, but anyway, when I opened it, some pieces of paper fell on my feet. When I got it, the title […]
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February 13th, 2007
Jeong Da Bin, Korean actress, known as Noreen in the Koreanovela ?Attic Cat?, died on February 10, 2007. The actress who became a pop icon in Taiwan in 2005 was reported to have committed suicide at her boyfriend?s house. Her boyfriend whose last name was only known as Lee, found her body lifeless in the […]
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February 3rd, 2007
For the past few days, I?ve been receiving text messages from my friends informing me of the new Globe Unlimitxt Service. Globe is now implementing their new Unlimitxt service: P20/1 day, P40/2 days, and P80/4 days! Apparently, all Globe subscribers, including me of course, dislike this new service. If not for the text messages, I […]
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January 24th, 2007
My grandma?s celebrating her 80th birthday on Saturday. I thank God for giving her more strength, together with my grandpa who?s already 83 years old. Although we?re town apart, I?m sure that they are well taken care of by our relatives. But sometimes, we?re unable to visit them every week because of work. But during […]
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January 3rd, 2007
My grandma?s celebrating her 80th birthday on Saturday. I thank God for giving her more strength, together with my grandpa who?s already 83 years old. Although we?re town apart, I?m sure that they are well taken care of by our relatives. But sometimes, we?re unable to visit them every week because of work. But during […]
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July 18th, 2006
Last week, me and my officemate Ate Anna, watched Superman Returns. Actually, when I first saw the trailer on tv, I wasn?t that enthusiast to watch it on big screen (although, Brandon Routh is really handsome). I thought, there?s nothing new on the story, it?s just that Superman ? returns. But when I read its […]
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March 15th, 2006
I’ve read this mail through friendster and incidentally, an officemate of mine was reading it one early morning which almost ruin her day. I’d like to share it with you to let others know who had read this email be informed THAT MR. ART BELL did not make a broadcast calling the Philippines “a disgusting […]
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February 23rd, 2006
The night before my ate board an international luxury cruise she painstakingly applied for, a big problem occurred. My mother was pick pocketed on a grocery store earlier that day. She went alone to buy all the things needed by my ate. She was already at the cashier when she noticed her cellphone was missing! […]
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