mlina has compiled some links on how to provide aid for victims of tropical storm washi in southern philippines.

see her post here.

update: over 650 now dead, with hundreds missing

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in other news, north korea's kim jong il has passed away.

simply_kim has compiled aid links for Joplin, Missouri, and other areas in the US hit hard by the recent storms. see her post HERE.

It's such a strange coincidence that so many uprisings are going on elsewhere in the world, with the EDSA People Power Revolution's 25th anniversary so close at hand. It's been a quarter of a century since the world's first bloodless revolution was held here in my country, and now I watch the news with hope that the revolutions going on in other ( Read more... )

i'm starting to think i'm churning out rants like this because i'm suffering from temporary insanity. again. i guess i should be grateful i'm not running into walls or killing kittens instead. i just wish i had some sort of warning before it happens :/

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Just a few days ago, another white guy wrote to tell Filipinos what we're doing wrong. ( Read more... )

i've just been so busy, but i couldn't help myself after seeing this article. to be honest, i love yahoo's syndicated news and how it force-feeds itself into me as i check my mail.

tricycle driver and 2 security guards file petition to disqualify mikey arroyo from representing them in congress

He said the party-list law and the Constitution, as ( Read more... )

Disney will buy Marvel for US$4B. someone had better deliver xavier's school for the gifted musicals and epic hulk vs. mickey mouse combat scenario.

NCCA finally updates its website - with a revision of the National Artist rules. thanks to kristel for this link. i've been wondering what happened to the NCCA artist database, which i remember ( Read more... )

I remember the 1986 EDSA Revolution vividly. Or at least, I remember watching it on the TV. I was in the provinces then with my family, safe from the noise and the trouble. All the radios and TV sets in the neighborhood were on, including ours ( Read more... )

because i apparently think it's important enough to repost XD

i'm fairly sure this has been suggested before, but i'd still like to put it out there: if there's nothing we can do about the presidential appointment of national artists (though if there is, i'd like to know so i can participate) perhaps the appointees could just be distinguished from ( Read more... )

Rest in peace, Mrs. Aquino.

recently, local musical legend freddie aguilar proclaimed that international stars like charice pempengco, gary valenciano and arnel pineda are "copycats." apparently it's caused quite a stir in the filipino community - although certainly not as big a stir as the one caused by the hayden fias-kho, which is still making ripples and keeping the local ( Read more... )