Archive for August, 2009
I’m giving it a shot: The Philippine Blog Awards 2009
Well, here it goes! I just nominated my blog to The Philippine Blog Awards 2009, and I’m very nervous. This is the first time I’m doing this, and looking at the blogs that won last year’s awards, I still don’t think my blog has what it takes to even be nominated (getting cold feet here…). Due to the work I have, my schedule doesn’t allow me to always update my blog. Most of the time, I tend to back date some blog posts because the things I am posting should have been posted last week or even last month! I am sure I am going to learn a lot from this experience, there are a lot of things I still don’t know about blogging that I want to learn through the blogging community and I hope this awards will pave the way for that. More…
Friendster’s “Jolog-ness”
For sure, most of us now would say that Facebook is way better than Friendster, but I think otherwise. Friendster may have suffered from an invasion of “jolog” members, but Facebook can be messy too at times, with all the “What is your Kanto Name?” quiz requests and Mafia Wars and Farmville invitations. Add up superpoke and superwall and I see myself as irritated as I am with all the spam bulletin posts, animé backgrounds and blinding colored designs and fonts that plague Friendster profiles.
But yes, Facebook has some good traits. I particularly love its minimalistic design which doesn’t allow you to change your profile’s or pages’ design and its ability to tag photos. The thing is you just lack privacy. I hate it when everybody can comment on your photos just because they can and there’s no way to control it!
Friendster, on the otherhand, can boast of its testimonials functionality. In the good old days of Friendster, you would find heartwarming and touching testimonials. Although good testimonials are hard to find nowadays, having them is still better than those wall posts I’ll ever receive in Facebook.
The heartwarming and touching testimonials from your close friends or kind words of appreciation from new friends you invited or from people whom I rarely (if ever since I’m abroad) get to see again. I would never have gotten in touch with them if not for Friendster and its “jolog-ness”.
I just miss the good old days of Friendster. It’s just no good now because almost everyone I now has already migrated to Facebook (and is now busy harvesting the crops they have planted in Farmville), but whatever everybody say, Friendster would always have a special place in my heart (ang jologs…).
By the way, if you have read this far, penge naman ng testi!
Goodbye Tita Cory…
Maria Corazon “Cory” Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino was the 11th President of the Philippines and the “Icon of Philippine Democracy”, serving from 1986 to 1992. She was the first female president of the Philippines and the first female president of any country in Asia.
On March 24, 2008, the Aquino family announced that the former President had been diagnosed with colon cancer. While she had initially been informed by her doctors that she had only three months to live, Cory pursued chemotherapy. The treatment caused both heavy hair loss, loss of appetite and immunological problems. In public remarks made on May 13, 2008, she announced that blood tests indicated that she was responding positively to the medical treatment.
By July 2009, Cory was reported to be in a very serious condition and confined to Makati Medical Center due to loss of appetite and chronic baldness. It was announced that Cory and her family had decided to cease chemotherapy and other medical interventions.
Cory died of cardiorespiratory arrest after complications of colon cancer at the age of 76 on August 1, 2009, 3:18 a.m., at the Makati Medical Center.
Source: Wikipedia