Paypal launched local bank withdraw

I received an email from the global leader in online payments, PayPal, this morning. It’s about withdrawing funds thru my Philippine bank account. That’s nice because it will be easier for me to access my PayPal funds. Here is the list of the major banks in the Philippines with their respective 9-digit bank codes:
Allied Banking Corp [...]

Djokovic and Sharapova wins Australian Open

20 years old Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open men’s single last Sunday against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He became the Serbia’s first Grand Slam singles champion after his four-set win over frenchman Tsonga at Melbourne Park. Tsonga beat Federer while Djokovic beat Nadal in semi-finals. In women’s single, Maria Sharapova beat Ana Ivanovic in [...]

Renaldo Lapuz: American Idol Texas Audition

While searching American Idol Season 7 in YouTube, I was surprised because there was a Filipino who joined the audition. He is Ronaldo Lapuz, 44-years old from Reno, Nevada who entered the American Idol audition in Dallas, Texas. Wearing a flashy silver cape, white adornments and white hat that had Simon written on it. Renaldo [...]

World’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air

While searching images for my press ad design, H my co-designer sent me the latest MacBook image thru Yahoo Messenger. I’m surprised about what I saw, the world’s thinnest notebook called MacBook Air. I visited the Apple website for it’s features and wow a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800 pixel [...]

Eight lies of a Mother

This story begins when I was a child: I was born poor. Often we hadn’t enough to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say “Eat this rice, son! I’m not hungry.” This was Mother’s First Lie.
As [...]

World’s smallest 10.1 megapixel digital camera

Casio release their EX-S10 digital camera which is to be the world’s thinnest and slimmest 10 megapixels resolution. It has the powerful functionality such as high pixel count, zoom functionality, 2.7-inch wide and bright LCD, photo functions and much more. EX-S10 has auto shutter function that records automatically the moment of smie and moving when [...]

Feast of Black Nazarene

Many devotees from different places of Philippines come to visit Quiapo Church for the feast of Black Nazarene. Evey 9th day of January, people gather here to join the procession accompanying the life-sized, dark-skinned statue of Jesus Christ. It is usually the single largest festival of the year in the Philippines. Today the number of [...]

The Duck and the Devil

There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with out in the woods. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit the target. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back for dinner. As he was walking back he saw Grandma’s pet duck. Just [...]

Goodbye 2007, Welcome 2008!

Year 2008, ikalawang taon ko na nag-celebrate ng New Year dito sa Tanzania. May halong lungkot kasi malayo ako sa aking pamilya at saya naman dahil kasama ko si Rocky at mga bagong kaibigan.
Sinalubong ko ang taong 2008 kasama ang mga tropa dito sa Dar es Salaam. Kainan, inuman at kantahan subalit iba pa rin [...]