Do we need the RH Bill?

Intramuros-2 Originally uploaded by ikeorganusFor the people who actually say something about this, I hope they've read the bill. I hope they actually understand before they say something about it. It will only make them look, er, unintelligent and when things like that happen, I'm saddened. I am yet to read the full text. It think I can find it here. Maybe I'll download it and print it to read it before I sleep. But I still have a few more chapters to read about the book of Acts. I guess the RH bill can wa...

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A Beautiful Boxer

No, this is not another film review. Before I post about the Oscars, which I do not plan on doing anyway, let me say I am amazed to see her last Saturday (or Sunday, I forget) in her final moments before the super-bantamweight championship announcement in California. I wasn't able to watch the game, but hey, she's so cute that unless she wears dentures, I would say she makes a good toothpaste commercial specially made for boxers. She's truly, truly beautiful and she reminds me of Kuya Erc's boxing gloves in his room. Makes me want to become a boxer again... Nah. For the news, click here.&nb...

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Of Love and Other Drugs

Sorry Lovi Poe, but it sure is your fault why your beloved “Cong”  - now that I mentioned it, I don’t actually know how to call him anymore – Singson is going to spend his cold nights behind bars for 18 months. It was your fight that drove him to do drugs that day. Or Usher. Either way, he’s in, you’re out and left crying over what-could’ve-been’s and whatnots.  I wonder how your professed love for each other will grow as you get separated by those steel bars (or not, because I have no inkling as to how HK jails look like, most especially for the big names getting jailed for “justice’s” sake.) Will your love, as my old yaya would...

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Work-Related Whatnot

We live with what we have Don't mind that I still use XP at work. This is the Philippines. Although hired by SG and HK's premiere business magazines, I am forced to accept this fact. Never mind that I still use this kind of processor. My point in this entry is this: I've spent my entire day doing html coding that I could easily pass of as an IT person already and not as a, well, I don't know how to categorize myself, honestly. All the Chrome files on my desktop (there used to be 7) basically ate my whole afternoon. So many html-ing I keep on jumping from one job to another. Yesterday, I did the lay out because out layout artist was sick....

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MRT Blues 2

In riding the MRT I choose to stand. Even in an empty coach, I would still choose my favorite spot – that corner nearest the last door from the driver in the women’s coach. There, I’m completely safe from being crushed to death every time MRT gets flooded by passengers. Standing there, I could read, look the salivating guys from the men’s coach, pretend I can’t move when being pushed over by space-hungry ladies who actually often forget they wear their companies on their ID laces or blouses. I will never forget an embarrassing situation when I almost kissed a woman in her mid thirties when the driver totally forgot he was driving a mass transpo and made an abrupt break to the end of a station. My face was already too close to the woman’s face in the first place because I could not find any...

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Tutkals: Another new term emerging the Philippine streets

When was it, when Jke told me he dreamed of street children playing soccer (for him)/football?Apparently, they call it Tutkals (Tutang Kalye). Well, the weird thought here is that football = Azkals already. Hmm. Source: (The Azkal's twitter pa...

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Intramuros: Old Spain in Manila, Boiled Corn, Shanties

Intramuros: Something I've forgotten all about Intramuros. Sa wakas. (Finally.) I had the chance to go here last December, when I volunteered to bring my lethargic English guest for some “planned” sightseeing in Manila, but never got to because he just decided one morning that he was, well,  too lazy for it. So it was exciting for me to have a free Saturday afternoon to visit there and shoot. Ch picked me up in the church and we commuted our way to Intramuros, the walled city of Manila. “Do you know how to go there?” Ch asked as she put back the small suha (pomelo) in the bag she bought for me from Davao. “No idea.” Her look was a...

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Headphones

I’m typing this from the tech booth. I’m currently trying out the new Sony dynamic stereo headphones brought in by Kuya Jyr from somewhere. I don’t know what to do with. Perhaps this, listening something with it. So I plugged in into the mixer and listened to the Psalmists as they practice. This headphones has its own volume and tone enhancer on the heads themselves, so if you’re mixing and want to mute the other channel, you can actually do it without having to go to the mixer or the main controls. This is particularly convenient if you’re standing at a far edge of a cliff and you don’t want to move from your place anymore. Or you’re too lazy...

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From basketball to football to boxing to rugby

I want to start off by saying I'm sad I missed the Azkals game in Bacolod. Wasn't able to watch it. I am also sad I wasn't able to watch Donaire's game last Sunday. I tried, but he didn't give enough time for walkers like me to get home to finish his opponent. And I've always secretly liked the Volcanoes. I guess it's because of the movie, Forever Strong. I never got that chant though. This makes me ever more proud to be Pinoy. Start of article. During my recent visit to Las Vegas for the IRB 7s, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of Fil-Ams making a name for themselves on the American rugby scene. One of our brightest prospects...

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I'm such a geek

This article made me want to read more on the topic. "This will help us understand the structure of space and time. For reasons that no one yet understands, nature ruled out antimatter... this inspires us to work that much harder to see if antimatter holds some secret." -Professor Jeffrey Hangst I am all the more fascinated with God's greatness in creating every single thi...

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Childhood

Practically raised alone, I spent most of my life learning things. My idea of a typical school day would be being picked up by my mom’s students to hang out with her at the multi-level school just behind ours during lunch and go back for an afternoon of ballet and/or ethnic dances. My weekends would be spent in front of the TV, eating the mashed potato I learned to cook on my own, waiting for my parents to go home wondering whatever pasalubong they had for me. Sometimes, it’s singing the karaoke, while blocking out my old yayas from my parents’ room, aircon blasting and simply waiting for them to arrive. Sundays would be mall days. My idea of sport: playing outside for any street game that will allow me to exercise my infantile muscles and have my legs wounded. My mom hated it so I would...

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Goals of the Church

The primary goal is not a bigger group, more activities or better services, it is not even benevolent acts, nor greater prosperity, and not even more and better evangelism, neither is it healing or emotional healing and deliverance. All of these and more are the results of the goal of the "ekklesia" (assembly of called out ones). The goal is Christ formed by the Holy Spirit in a people becoming His character and His nature in the world producing the kingdom of God and His righteousness. - Ron McGatlinThe problem with the most churches nowadays is a matter of priority. We, as body of Christ, should know what the Holy Spirit is intending for us to do. Revival, new souls, healing and miracle movements are meaningless if the movers of these have nothing, not even...

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True and False Repentance According to Finney

Note: I've read this around two years ago, and I just thought it's worth sharing. I always need to be reminded lately. TRUE AND FALSE REPENTANCE by Charles G. Finney"For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this self-same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea.what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourself to be clear in this matter"--2 Corin 7:10-11.True repentance involves a change of opinion respecting the nature of sin followed by a corresponding change of feeling toward sin. Feeling is the result of thought. When this change of opinion...

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