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This year's topic for Blog Action Day 2010 is Water. Blog Action Day is when bloggers in the world write about one topic with the purpose to raise an awareness about global issues and concerns. If you want to participate in this event, register at Blog Action Day site. For more info visit, blogactionday.org . Blog Action Day is on 15th October 2010 amikvs.com

People who have visited Baguio decades ago would often say "The moment you set your foot in Baguio, you would smell the pines." Baguio was like the best place in the Philippines to unwind, relax, and enjoy the nature. Those days, when you think of a vacation, you think of Baguio. My first glimpse of Baguio frustrated me. It wasn't the picture in my mind. I was expecting clean and well-maintained parks with lots of blooms and fresh greens. Had I not been to Camp John Hay, and if not for the cold breeze, I would have not enjoyed Baguio. I tried to sense the scent of pine trees but nada. In the 80s, Baguio has lost its pine scent, but at least, not its fresh cold breeze. The fresh air was gently soothing; something you can't breathe in in Metro Manila. In the 90s, I visited Baguio again. What I saw was a struggling Baguio, trying to recover from the earthquake that devastated the city dwellers. It saddened me because Baguio was losing its charm and beauty. I thought ...

People have abused their environment. Now, their paying for their abuses. Nature is fighting back. On September 26, 2009, the Philippines was devastated by typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) leaving 3.8 million people affected, P8 billion damages, and almost 300 dead. A week after, typhoon Pepeng (Parma) attacked Northern Luzon for a week leaving another 3 million people affected, P8 billion damages, and more than 300 dead. Three-fourths of Metro Manila was flooded, so are the provinces of Laguna, Rizal, Cagayan, Ilocos, and Pangasinan. In some areas, the flood was as high as a two-storey house. The fury of the water destroyed walls, roads, and small bridges. Landslides killed people. Why did it happen? The answer is simple. Water had no way to flow back to the sea because the rivers and creeks were clogged with tons of garbage. And believe it or not, the Philippines has no efficient drainage system. Corruption is the culprit No president, vice-president, senator, congressman, governor, mayor, ba...

Some words to enrich your English-Tagalog vocabulary. tapuy ,  Tagalog . rice wine, English tuba, Tagalog . sap from coconut flower made wine lambanog , Tagalog . Philippine vodka, made from coconut

Note. The following post is from an email forwarded to a Yahoo Group. Taken from Grupo Toyota boards….ingat lang An incident happened to a friend of mine last Friday night at around 11:30pm. He was cruising along C5 Taguig area going towards Pasig on board his ae92. He was running at approximately 80kph at the leftmost lane. Then meron siyang napansin na dalawang binatilyo na nakatayo sa center island about 100 meters away. Hindi naman daw mukhang tatawid so hindi na siya nag-menor. Pagtapat niya dun sa dalawa, BANG! Nabasag bigla window ng pinto niya. He slowed down and medyo lito pa siya dahil puro bubog na siya sa mukha at katawan. He looked back and nakita niya na humahabol yung dalawang binatilyo. One was carrying a bag and the other was carrying what seemed to him as a lead pipe. That was when he decided to floor it and go straight dun sa malaking Petron station just ahead. Just as he was entering the gas station, sinalubong na siya ng guard sabay sabi ng "sir, nabato din ba...

Chip Tsao, a Hong Kong broadcaster, called the Philippines a "nation of servants". This resulted to varying reactions, usually angry, among the Filipinos. There's nothing wrong with being a servant. Everybody serves somebody. A nation leader is called a public servant. The Pope considers himself servant of the world. A mother and a father serve their children. In the spirit of volunteerism, we reach out to serve the needy. When a Chinese harmed a number of Chinese infants by putting melamine in infant's milk, it's not fair that all Chinese are like him. When the Abu Sayaf kidnaped three Red Cross volunteers, it's not fair to call Filipinos as terrorists. What is not acceptable in Cheap Tsao's attitude was how he treated his Filipino maid. The Chinese should be ashamed of Cheap Tsao because he humiliated the Chinese community by broadcasting his unwanted behavior.

March 11 marks my nth birthday. I don't celebrate my birthday splendidly. I simply make my Thanksgiving Mass special. On this day, I celebrated my thanksgiving at the San Agustin Church - one of the oldest churches in Intramuros that was built around in the 17th century. March 11, 2009. On this day, the ashes of Master Rapper, Francis "Kiko" Magalona aka FrancisM, is laid to rest at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina. After happily battling against the killer leukemia, the master rapper went home to his Master. Though I'm not a fan of FrancisM, I was saddened by his death. He was too young to die. Everybody could agree. One thing I admired about him was his nationalism expressed through his music (rap, rock, hip hop) and his own clothing line . His passion was true and genuine. His music speaks of values; not the no-nonsense type of rap. In fact, "Mga Kababayan Ko" and "Keleidoscope World" are the only rap music that I enjoy listening to. Fr...