Heating up the web today are the latest predictions of Juseleeno Nobulega Daroose (Jucelino Nobrega da Luz), among which is the high-magnitude earthquake which is said to hit the Philippines on July 18, 2008 (and that will be tomorrow, few minutes from now in fact!). This has caused the Filipinos to be anxious about the said high-intensity earthquake. The Philvolcs however denied of this predictions saying that there’s no science behind. I am not a believer of predictions but I hope the Philvolcs assurance was right.
Anyway, Juseleeno Nobulega Daroose is a Brazilian who has listed several of his predictions in his website. Most of his predictions has passed which included Princess Diana’s death by car accident, the 911 tragedy and the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. Accordingly, he sees the future in his dreams and has an average of 3 to 9 such predictions per day.
A list of his predictions are available here.
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Tomorrow (February 25) marks the 22nd year anniversary of EDSA revolution. It was one of the most historic events in the Philippines because democracy won over dictatorship. It showed the solidified unity of Filipinos to oust a greedy and corrupt leader. The Filipino nation rejoiced. We were freed! We should be happy, shouldn’t we? We were once dubbed as the second happiest people in Asia, after all.
Ironically, we can’t feel that so-called happiness right now. The current political crisis we are experiencing – the NBN controversy only proved the ongoing deception and corruption of our political leaders – is no reason to be happy.
In an article from The Philippine Daily Inquirer, analysts said that the Filipinos are still unhappy after 22 years since the fall of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos no matter how the present administration is boasting about economic growth, which has improved the lives of many because of Pres. Arroyo’s policies. Read more…
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Filipinos never get tired of social networks. In fact, the largest portion of the Friendster users are Filipinos. As of 2006, 5 million Filipinos have a Friendster account. But this may also include duplicate and spam accounts. My brother, who is a Friendster-junkie (and we are always argue because of it) has 3 accounts! And he spends more than 2 hours browsing photos, adding more “friends”, commenting, etc.
Recently, I stumbled upon and joined Pinoy United, a social network exclusive for Filipinos around the globe.
What is Pinoy United?
It is the latest social networking site with Filipinos in mind. The site is based in the United Kingdom and aims to cater for Filipinos across the globe. Similar with other networking sites, members can stay in touch with their friends, connect with new friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.
How does Pinoy United differ from other social networking site?
Aside from being exclusive for Filipinos, their utmost concern is their members’ safety. One can easily report abusive acts from other members.
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The recent development of Paypal service in the Philippines, which now includes receive feature has helped a lot of internet entrepreneurs, bloggers, online auctioneers, sellers and buyers, webmasters, and the regular internet users.
In my case, it also helped me a lot:
1. For my web hosting: I am now able to pay for web hosting for my sites without worrying about my account being deleted for not logging in for days. My sites have been hosted by Ejam Hosting for almost a year but due to limited features and increasing website demand on bandwidth and space, I decided to switch to a paid host.
2. Online Auctions: I can now join in online auctions without the need to worry on the payment method. Most online auctions support Paypal such as eBay. I’ve been wanting to buy a 3G phone. My Paypal balance, however, is not yet sufficient to buy a new one.
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The National Telecommunications had imposed a law about penalizing giant cellphone companies for sending unsolicited text messages composed mainly of advertisements and promotions. Smart Telecom was penalized a total of P20,800 and Globe of P12,200 for unwanted messages.
But the penalty imposed has not prevented these companies from sending spam text messages. I am a SMART subscriber and spam messages about the company’s latest promotions and offers, especially right after I reload my account, have been regular annoyance at my inbox, some of which, I admit, are tempting. Since these are spam, which rhymes with scam by the way, I do not easily succumb to them.
Why was this measure not effective? These maybe are few of the reasons:
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The August 2007 Philippine Licensure Exam for Physicians is fast approaching. How do you prepare for it? Here are few tips you can follow:
1. Follow these tips from The House Officer’s Survival Guide: Rules, Laws, Lists and Other Medical Musings, by Lawrence Martin, M.D for It is written for doctors in training, but will also be of interest to medical students, and practicing physicians who must take recertifying exams.
2. Get good reviewers and focus on one study material per subject area. This way, you can concentrate more and it won’t take more of your time. Of course you will still need the “big” text books for clarification of some points you can’t understand while taking the review.
3. To attend to review center or not? Some successful passers do not advocate attending review center while others do. It would depend on the person’s preference.
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