Archive for February, 2006
The Country Under 1017
With all the funfare about the supposed to be Coup last week, the President placed the entire country under a State of Emergency (Proclamation 1017) — sounds familiar, especially to those who are already alive when Martial Law was declared by Marcos.
Some luminaries and known Arroyo critics had already been arrested since Friday, including Prof. [...]
Coup Plot Bared
0630H: Classes in the Elementary and Secondary Levels were suspended by the Department of Education (DepEd) following reports of troop movements in different camps all over Luzon.
0645H: The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) suspends all classes in the Tertiary (College) Level.
0700H: The AFP had a Press Release confirming that the Coup Plot is indeed true!
0800H: [...]
Rosales Now a Cardinal!
Pope Benedict XVI yesterday announced the confirmation of Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales as a Cardinal effective 24 March 2006.
Cardinal Rosales is among the fifteen newly promoted Bishops & Archbishops worldwide.
Before this came out in the late night news yesterday, the Papal Nuncio (Ambassador of the Pope in the country) requested the presence of Bishop Rosales [...]
My POV on PBB
With just fifteen (15) days of being inside the house of “Kuya”, one of the “housemates” already had quit, another one already told “Kuya” her intention of going out, and another one is about to face her superiors for being in AWOL from the service.
The idea of the Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) is great, but [...]
GMail Sign-up Now Ready for Pinoys!
Good news! No need to ask a friend nor wait for someone to send you a GMail Invite (if you still don’t have one yet). You can now sign-up for a GMail account with the use of your mobile phone. Yes! You had read me right! You’re mobile phone.
Just go to http://www.gmail.com and click on [...]
Tradegy at Leyte
It’s been barely less than a month since the tradegy at ULTRA, where around 70 lives perished, just yesterday a mudslide was trigerred at St. Bernard in Leyte. As of this writing, around 30 bodies has been recovered from the mudslide already. What really shocked me and my officemates last night (when we saw the [...]
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