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Archive for February 2008

Happiness is a beautiful wooden plaque

Feb 27th, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Family and Me, Freemasonry

My loving wife, Bambit, wanted to give me a gift on the first year anniversary of my raising as a Master Mason - a plaque etched with the timeline of my Masonic journey. She got this idea of a gift from her friend whose company makes fine quality wooden military plaques. Consequently, she had my [...]



Liars go to Hell

Feb 26th, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Family and Me

She said it once, twice, now she said it again.
This is the third, if not the nth time, that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) admitted a lie. The first one was to promise that she will not run as President only to break it later because she believed that the good Lord planned to put her [...]



Parlez vous?

Feb 25th, 2008 | By Sam | Category: World View

Just when I thought that nothing was free on the Internet and that knowledge always came with a price, I came across this site where you can learn to speak French!
The site provides pronounciation guides, grammar and phraseology, arranged by Topic so that you can specialize in some areas that you think you need improvement [...]



Just Another Sunday

Feb 24th, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Family and Me, Philippines for Dummies

The corridors of power are busy this Sunday in fulfilling both their religious and political obligations, and as is often the case the combination of both. Religious in a sense that they attend mass and pray that they may get a good shot of this another Photo ops stint. Political, because for sure they are [...]



I signed up for PPP!

Feb 24th, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Other Stories

Just as when I was worried about switching jobs and a possible stalling of income, I discovered payperpost. It’s something I never thought possible until now, to be paid to sit and blog about things I like to blog about.
I had heard about other bloggers who went pro-blogging in 2005, and that there were a [...]



Viva EDSA!!

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Philippines for Dummies

In the next few days, events will unfold which might lead into yet another conjuncture in the Philippine political history. These critical set of circumstances is brought about by the NBN-ZTE scandal which once again implicates the GMA administration.
On Monday, rallies calling for GMA’s ouster/resignation will be held simultaenously in various locations in Metro Manila. [...]



Geeks (in BDUs) rule!

Feb 21st, 2008 | By Sam | Category: Family and Me

Being a computer geek has its advantages, one of which is the chance to raise more geeks and eventually conquer the world. My teen-aged geek stepson is a war tactician of the meanest calibre, and can change history with a few mouse clicks or key presses, in his army jacket while sitting in the comfort [...]



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