I’ve reached a decision
It’s time to rearrange my life
We’re speaking the same words
Although their meaning has changed

You’re telling me what I want to hear
But what’s the use when we just don’t share
The same emotions that brought us together aren’t there

In this world, nothing lasts forever
Was it you who changed or me
Should we go our separate ways or stay together
Believe me when I say

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now

I look in the mirror
And see a relfection that isn’t me
It’s hard to remember the girl that used to be me

In this world, nothing lasts forever
Was it you who changed or me
Should we go our separate ways or stay together
Believe me when I say

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now

(Inst. Break)

In this world, nothing lasts forever
Was it you who changed or me
Should we go our separate ways or stay together
Believe me when I say

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now

I’m not gonna change
I’m not gonna change now
If you walk away
There’s no turning back now
Repeat Fade

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Those were the words of NBA (Washington Wizards) star Gilbert Arenas when he visited the Philippines this momth. He made an entry at this blog, and to quote:

I was stunned.

They made me feel like an NBA star.

Any NBA players out there: If you’re having a bad day, or you’re having a bad career, go to Manila. They’ll bring your spirits up, trust me.

I felt like I just won the NBA championship, to be for real.

After we left the mall we were looking at pictures from the event a couple days later and we were telling ourselves, “Man, that was unreal!”

Plus, with the security I had, I felt like I was the President. I felt like I was Obama. I really felt like I was running in the presidential election, especially when I got to meet the U.S. ambassador out in the Philippines. We had a great time talking to each other.

Reading those words makes me prouder to say that I am a Filipino!

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It’s past 1000H Manila time, and Twitter is down

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Ever wanted to create a simple hit counter for your site, but never had the chance to code it yourself? Then, you may simple use the code below — all hard coded by me, royalty-free. The code is used to teach non-techie people how to create PHP-MySQL-driven websites.

<?php
// connect to the MySQL server using 'localhost' as the server name, cPanel username & password
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","cpanelusername","password");

// check if the connection is established or not

if (!$con)
   {
      die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());

   }

// continue with the database processes if the connection is successful

else
   {

      // select the database you wish to connect to
      mysql_select_db("ctrdbase", $con);

      // go to the last record in your database table, this will also be the last number
      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM counter_table ORDER BY ctr DESC LIMIT 1");
      $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

      // store the last record to a variable
      $cctr = $row['ctr'];

      // declare a new variable that will do the addition thing
      $nctr = $cctr + 1;

      // store the updated counter to the database
      $sql = "INSERT INTO counter_table (ctr) VALUES ($nctr)";
      $dbupdate = mysql_query($sql);

      echo $nctr;
   }

mysql_close($con);
?>

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To: Mr. Bayani Fernando
Chairman, MMDA

Dear Mr. Fernando,

I can’t help but wonder why floods are still everywhere within the Metro Manila area during a down pour, even if your office had already spent millions of tax payer’s money cleaning the estero’s and rehabilitating the pumping stations. I grew up in the same street where I am living now, and I can only remember once or twice (at most) wherein our street got flooded due to heavy rains — take note, “heavy rains”.

But now, it is very much different: the entire street gets flooded after a 20-30 minute rain. No, I am not complaining because I am against you, but I do not see my money’s worth in the way your office handles flood control.

Another thing, was it really necessary to have your face posted in every tarpauline that your office will post in the streets? True public service need not to have a face — people need not to know who leads what agency or office, as long as they are doing their jobs (right). Same goes with the “BAYANI” stickers pasted on almost all buses plying the avenues of the metropolis — is it a necessity?

I am not sure if you are very much aware of how much each tarp poster or sticker cost, but I do not think they are helping in the improvement on how Metro Manila looks from the eyes of a citizen.

Thanks for your time reading this letter. More power, and I do hope to see less of MMDA tarps with your face in the very near future.

Best regards,

BobReyes.com

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WordPress users, upgrade to WP 2.6 now! Don’t know where to download it? Just head on directly to http://www.wordpress.org

Enjoy! Don’t upgrade and you will be missing a lot of things.

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Good news to all WordPress Pinoy users, WordCamp Philippines 2008 is pushing through this coming 06 September 2008, and the venue? It will be at De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (DLS-CSB) Taft Campus!

Too bad, I cannot attend this momentous event, as I will be busy that day to a greater event: Robyn’s First Birthday celebration.

Good luck to the organizers. Mabuhay ang WordPress!

Visit http://philippines.wordcamp.org to register.

This event is sponsored by:

* i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
* Free Online Flash Games
* Wazzup Manila Philippines
* Real Estate CRM
* Real Estate Website Designers
* Orange County Real Estate
* Auto Insurance Quotes
* Lane Systems Inc.
* RedMedia

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Now, this is really something that makes me think of dumping Palm (and acquiring a Centro) for an Apple mobile phone — iPhone.

Read on at http://iphone.wordpress.net.

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I had never had any formal training with MOODLE (nor Claroline), but I happen to be the de facto system adminitrator of both MMA LMS (Learning Management Systems — MOODLE & Claroline). That’s why I was very happy when I received an email invite from CSB’s CLCIR about their Online Teaching Seminar Workshop, and immediately signed-up for the first batch, which started today and will run until the last Saturday of this month. I got so excited with the seminar, that I managed to upgrade my current MOODLE installation from version 1.8 to 1.9.2 last night — this was planned months ago, but never found time to do it.

I was surprised to see that the seminar workshop facilitator is Mr. Tony Ingles, a fellow CSB faculty (SMS) and a TurfSitePH.net client — we had been communicating for such a long time (mostly via email), and today was the first time we had met face-to-face. Also, Ferdy Raymundo is my classmate for this seminar series.

Of all the many beautiful things I learned from Tony this morning, one thing got stucked into my mind: “MOODLE was created by genius people, for stupid people.” So true! MOODLE was beautifuly designed and executed that it is so fool-proof and complete (magalit na ang mga loyal sa Claroline). The seminar was designed for first time MOODLE users/teachers — being teachers, we got to experience how to become a student in MOODLE. We were asked to play around with stuff that you can do in MOODLE, and the first thing I did was to edit my profile — I actually added my pic there. Come the time Tony showed us what a teacher see’s in the MOODLE, my classmates were surprised to see my face beside my name .. hehehe .. I am really looking forward to our next session.

Oh, another thing that made me happy this morning, the seminar workshop was done at B308 — all of the PCs are running Linux

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Last night, I was at school til around 8PM for my MMAPROJ advising. On my way down (inside the lift) I had difficulty in breathing — first thing that came into my mind is I need water. Went to 7-11, but I got Nestea instead. My throat got cleared by my chest wasn’t.

Immediately got a cab, and asked the driver to bring me to our place in Makati. But still have difficulty and breathing and felt a little bit dizzy (losing oxygen?). It was just around 3-4 blocks away from our house when I decided that this is it! I asked “Mamang Driver” to head straight to San Juan De Dios hospital.

My blood sugar level was tested (since their records revealed that my dad is a diabetic) and blood pressure checked — a whooping 150/110. I was immediately given medicines so that my “high blood pressure” can subside, and they had noticed that my belly was bloated — I told them it’s because I had a bottle of iced tea. Minutes later, my dad and brother arrived at the ER — as they were advised by the nurse (my wife was home with Robyn). Minutes after taking the medicine, I fell into sleep. Hours later, I was allowed to go home.

Today, it was my first time in almost a year to have a 12-hour sleep (it’s Eat Bulaga already when I woke up). Reading the diagnosis of the doctor last night, I was advised NOT to take coffee and iced tea to prevent getting a “heart burn” again.

This is the third time I got hospitalized in my entire life, second for the same incident (last was almost a year ago). So, no more coffee (Starbucks Torre Lorenzo, Figaro SDA 9th floor, & Nescafe Vanila/Hazelnut) and iced tea for me, for now.

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FrontlineSMS [http://www.frontlinesms.com] is a desktop software that lets you send SMS with the use of your mobile phone’s modem features. Prior to installing FrontlineSMS, I was using a Nokia 30 GSM modem with a software the comes with the hardware. But, the problem with the Nokia 30 is that I need to insert my SIM card to it every time I will be sending messages (i.e. billing reminders) through my PC. Now, with Frontline SMS, all I need to do is to attach my mobile phone via USB to my PC and fire up the app.

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Last month, it was reported that swimmer Miguel Molina will be the country’s flag bearer to the Beijing Olympics come August 2008. However, upon Manny Pacquiao’s return from his successful match with David Diaz last week, PGMA announced that he will be the country’s flag bearer to the Olympics.

Alright, Manny is a great athlete, I have nothing against him, but is it really necessary to kick Miguel Molina out of being the flag bearer? Another thing, Manny is NOT even on the official Philippine delegates list to the Summer Olympics, thus making the butts of the Philippine Sports officials off their seats trying to get him in the list to Beijing. Shame on you PGMA!

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: July 01, 2008 - 11:46AM CT

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