2009 August archive at ako ‘to si dennis!

Archive for August, 2009

Aug

Free Transport Service for Filipino Voters Offered By Two Auto Groups

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Categories: Goin' Dubai and Randomness

The Pinoy Expats Auto Club in Emirates (PEACE) and Filipino Offroad Auto Club (FORAC) are offering free transport service this Friday, August 28, to their compatriots who want to register as overseas absentee voters (OAV) at the Philippine Consulate General in Al Ghusais, Dubai.

Both clubs will dispatch their members to pick up future voters from 9 to 10 am at the following areas: Al Attar Shopping Mall in Karama; Lal’s Supermarket in Satwa; Philippine Supermarket in Murraqabat; Ibn Battuta (fastfood parking area) in Jebel Ali; Mega Mall (facing main road) in Sharjah; and Atlas Mall (back entrance area) in Rolla, Sharjah.

According to the Philippine Consulate General, Filipinos are advised to bring photocopies of their passports. Those who have casted their votes in the 2007 mid-term senatorial elections still need to register. The registration period will be up to August 31 only, from 9 am to 3 pm.

The OAV’s will be able to choose their country’s next president, vice-president, 12 senators and party-list representative in May 2010.

“This will be one of the rare opportunities for us who are based overseas to have a direct participation in our country’s political process. Everyone should exercise their right of suffrage and elect the right leaders who can really steer the Philippines into becoming a politically mature and economically progressive nation,” explains Art Los Banos, a Dubai-based PR consultant who has a Political Science degree.

Historically, individual votes are crucial to the 12^thand 13^th placer in the senatorial elections. The 12^th senator is usually proclaimed eventual winner several weeks after the elections.

Los Banos, who has participated as an OAV during the May 2004 and May 2007 elections, added: “You will feel guilty if your own province mate lost by a few votes because you failed to register and vote.”

The PEACE and FORAC hotlines are 050-3516729 and 050-7456452. Both auto clubs have been initiating other civic activities in the UAE such as fund-raising efforts for poor families needing decent homes in the Philippines through the Gawad Kalinga community development program.

For more information:

050-3516729 050-9031204

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PEACE FO

Aug

I’m giving it a shot: The Philippine Blog Awards 2009

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Categories: Goin' Dubai, Randomness and Technology

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.

I nominated my blog in the “Personal” category and in the special award category “Filipino Abroad” (since I work here in Dubai). I don’t know if it is possible to nominate one blog in two categories, I used two email addresses to do so (you can only use one email address per nomination, if I did it wrong I hope someone can enlighten me about this). So guys, wish me luck!

For those out there who has a blog and wants to join or if you want to recommend someone else’s blog, fill up the Nomination Form.

Aug

Friendster’s “Jolog-ness”

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Categories: Randomness and Technology

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!

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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!

Aug

Goodbye Tita Cory…

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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