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Dear DiDo,

Happy first birthday/anniversary to you!

The year that was...

Since it is a new year, it is always a tradition on my part to prepare a list of some significant events that happened the year before in my life or the world:

1. The Maguindanao Massacre. True enough, this is the worst news story of the year and probably the biggest to wrap up the year. It is significant not only because I'm from mindanao but how this event shocked my moral conscience and the whole Philippines. Let's all pray that justice will be served and never again this awful, inhumane and worst killings will happen.



2. The Ondoy Deluge. Again, another sad event highlighted the year 2009 with the catastrophic effect left by Bagyong Ondoy in Manila. This was the worst flooding I've ever saw which left many filipinos dead, missing and displaced. Let's hope that we have learned something from it and make necessary solutions to prevent it from happening again.



3. Pres. Cory Aquino's Death. She took back democracy from a dictator, thus, making her one of the significant personalities in Philippine history. She made the Family Code and taught us how to value our freedom. She is well-loved by the people as evidenced by thousands of filipinos who went to her burial.


4. Manny Pacquiao. Well, last year, I also wrote about this guy who just defeated the bigger and heftier Dela Hoya. Again, he made us proud by keeping on winning against other boxers. As I said before, he is the only reason I watch boxing.




Guess, that's all I can think of significant events that transpired during the year 2009. If you have anything more in mind, just leave me a comment. Thanks!

***All Photos are from the internet***

Happy New Year!

Dear Blog,

First of all, Happy 2010. In a few days now, you will be celebrating your 1st year anniversary. I know I am not as active blogger as I should be and I do apologize for that. I was really having a hard time finding some time to put an entry every single day. I know that there are important months like December which I left no entry. I am sorry for that, I guess a lot of things happens the past months that keeps me from sitting down and write about it.

This year, I am hoping that this would be a better year for me. I am actually excited this year than i was last year. I am looking forward to do more productive things and my main mission is to make a schedule to review for the whole year including summer and sem breaks. I need to start doing things as early as now since preparation is always the key in taking big career and life-changing exams.

Again, same old new year's resolution for me. To be healthy and go on a diet, eliminate those unwanted fats and go back to some active lifestyles that i used to do. I really hope I could keep it this time. I am hoping that I'll be able to climb Mt. Apo this year. I started doing climbing and trekking over at Epol (my second time and yet to write about it), though the experience was remarkable, I think that I still need to do a lot of those to survive the Apo trip.

I am wishing that we could make our environment clean. I am doing my part and wish everybody could do the same. It is not unlikely that the movie 2012 or anything close to it will happen.

It is the year of the Tiger, let's growl louder and the year color is blue, my favorite color, i really hope it is my year!

Happy New Year Dropping in, Dropping Out!

Let's all shout for justice!

Enough is enough for all this political killings. Let's all unite to show the government that we will not stop until justice is served for the 57 people who were brutally massacred in Maguindanao.

What were they thinking?!

It's been awhile since my last post. I went home for my sembreak and internet was not an easy access there. I spent two weeks in my hometown doing practically nothing. I regret not bringing my books with me so as to negate my boredom and be able to review. I tried to do something productive by helping my mother on our mini-store but that did not totally erased my boredom. I was happy that I finally came back and check on my online accounts.

The first day of school was not that welcoming. First off, the rain poured hard late in the afternoon, the hardest fall in months. I had to cover myself up while going to school but despite that, my shoes got wet still. Next, the teacher that was assigned to us did not impress us at all. He was my teacher before and I would say that he was my worst teacher ever(swear)! And I hoped that he will never again be my teacher. Well, that hope was alive until today when he entered the classroom (late)
and started blabbering. I was trying to be composed and not to make a flinch on anything that he said from his classroom rules to his assigned topics. Honestly, this would be the worst first day of school in my life. I am disappointed with how the school administrators took for granted our needs as students. We are on our third year, don't we deserved a competent teacher handling a 4-unit major subject?! What were they thinking? Crap.

Something to say for October post

It is almost the end of October and unfortunately, I still haven't got anything to post. So just not to leave the month of October empty from any post, I pasted the about me page on my Friendster account.

Here it is...

There's something about describing myself which makes me uneasy. Maybe because after years of existence, i still do not know a lot of things about me. But I guess, that's the fun part, discovering new things which I did not know existed. That probably is what makes me enjoy this life more.

A little info about me is the fact that I am insatiable. i thought i would never get over things that i was addicted into for a month but i was wrong. A month after, i would go gaga over other things and so on...

oh, maybe there's one that i am
fixated-watching cartoons and playing computer and arcade games..boy, the older i get, the fascination grew even more.

I like to discover and learn new things. this one trait i like about myself. i always wanted to try doing something fresh.

I love my family. My parents and siblings and my new interests-my 2 nieces! don't fret, theres another one coming! when you grow older, you realized how much of an impact a familiy is in you. They're my backbone that keeps me straight up.

My friends are one source of inspiration. Life, party, heartaches and happy moments would be useless if they are not around.

Guess, that's all i can think of as for now. As said, i am still discovering new things about me. glad for you to read.u

When Mother Nature Strikes Back...

A thought on Global Warming and the Typhoon Ondoy aftermath.


September 27, 2009- Davao City, Philippines.

I woke up usually late in the morning for I always sleep late the nights before. I noticed that there was a light rain and it was a gloomy morning. I checked on my email and Facebook and I found out that the UAAP basketball finals was cancelled due to typhoon. I thought that it was the usual typhoon that flood Metro Manila-as always.

I was preparing for school late that morning when I opened the Television and saw the heavy rains upnorth being telecast. Here in South, we only experienced isolated rainfall suffice to say I was not really materially injured.

I went to school and the rain was sort of becoming light to medium showers. My friends and I were enjoying the weather because it was a good day for talks and discussions. While we were doing group talks, my classmate mentioned that the Bar Exam will be cancelled because of flood. It did not really bothered how catastrophic the typhoon was until I went home that night and saw the news.

I was tuned in to ANC (ABS-CBN News Channel), when a celebrity named Chrisitne Reyes was interviewed and was crying for help. She was on the roof of her house and was desperately needs help. It was quite a shock on my part upon realizing how enormous the flooding would be considering that people on that village opted to stay on the roof and even saying that if the rain would not stop they would like be drowned. When an aerial view was shown on TV, it seemed that Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon were covered with waters. The only thing that can be clearly seen were roofs and some people. It was an unbelievable sight.

Honestly, it was the worst flooding I ever saw in my life. True, I was not there to experience it firsthand but seeing those victims lost their homes, crying for help, etc. were enough for me to realize how bad the effects of the typhoon was. I was also worried of some friends who are living in the north. All that I can do was to pray for their safety.

Now we can all agree that this is one of the consequences of not taking care of our environment. Landslides and flashfloods which are caused by typhoons and heavy rains which also results to the loss of life and properties. Garbage thrown anywhere which clogged the drainage contributes to flood, inundation, overflowing of rivers, etc. Who's to blame on this? Some people blame the government for not putting much emphasis on flood control projects and other environment-friendly projects. I would say blame it to discipline, for being not part of us. We could not just put the fault on the government and to other people. It is too bad that we (that includes me) get to have these sentiments when a disaster or tragedy happens. Maybe because this is the only time that we get to be reminded by God and Nature that we are just human and we do not control everything. That, we do not have the power to abuse and destroy our environment because when mother nature strikes back, we definitely are nothing but a mere unimportant living creature being wiped out.

As for today, Typhoon Ondoy's rampage left 73 deaths and counting for there are still who are missing and leaving thousands of people homeless and displaced.

***All photos from pinoyexchange.com