I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
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I am getting annoyed by Dish Network and it’s spamming calls to promote their services! This 866-668-8047 number from Dish keeps bugging me anytime of the day! I do not remember not getting a ‘robotic’ call from the company at least twice each month.
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The National Statistics Office provided a data of the Most Common Filipino Names based on records from January 2000 to December 2005. The record showed the Filipinos’ love for biblical names. Among male names, “Joshua” is the most popular, although it disappeared from the top 5 names in 2002.
Read moreFacebook will never run out of interesting links to share! The latest link circulated online is the one that concerns the planetary alignment on December 3, 2012. According to the post, the three planets — Mercury, Venus, and Saturn — will be dead-on aligned with the Pyramids at Giza (see…
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American blogger Sarah Pope, who runs the blog The Healthy Home Economist, has been the talk of the town in Philippine media the past days after Filipino Senator Tito Sotto plagiarized her blog. Sotto used in his anti-Reproductive Health Bill speech, without attribution, portions of Pope’s blog entry entitled “How…
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“Guttersnipe” is the first book published online by aspiring author, Matthew Trigg. The book is both a ridicule of the societal woes and a travesty of human fallibility. The tale circles around the inconvenient journey of human lives. Trigg forges a story that is hinged on the conflicting lives of…
Read moreI visited the Milwaukee Art Museum today. I arrived there three hours before closing time and I was afraid that I would not be able to see all the galleries in such a very short time. However, I managed to squeeze all the viewing and reading the labels by following…
Read moreFor very obvious reasons, most of my foreign friends, mostly Americans and few Europeans, do not like bagoong and dried fish. While Filipinos consider bagoong and dried fish to be heavenly delectable, there are many eating mortals in the planet who just dislike the food and, instead, would prefer pizzas,…
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Alright, I may have exaggerated the title. But, it was exactly what I said — sweetest love poem ever — when Ms. G. wrote it for me many, many years ago. The poem — so simple and sweet! *** Is this true Is this love Is this right Doesn’t matter……
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