January 16, 2009 – 1:36 am
Inquirer.net reports that the DepEd in a memo dated January 8 of this year, chess will form part of the curriculum of Elementary and High School students. “Global studies have shown that chess is a game that improves individual organizational and analytical—
January 9, 2009 – 5:58 pm
Photoworld Asia or Photoworld Manila, whatever you want to call it, is set to open the exhibit in the Glorietta Activity Center on January 29 to February 3, 2009. I’m looking forward to joining this photographic event, just like last year. I’ll—
December 8, 2008 – 6:04 pm
First and foremost, I’m in the Philippines. Obviously, our standard TV uses and able to play NTSC formats only for videos and video games. Before I purchased my Sony Playstation3, I was worried that I might not be able to play NBA—
November 3, 2008 – 2:36 am
Bowler Dies After Rolling Perfect Game. A 62-year old Michigan bowler achieved his lifelong dream of rolling a perfect 300 game, then collapsed and died. Apparently, he suffered a heart attack, and his teammates believed the pressure of bowling 12 straight strikes—
October 22, 2008 – 11:40 pm
Citic Pacific Ltd., the unit of China’s biggest state-owned investment company, tumbled the most in 18 years in Hong Kong trading after predicting HK$15.5 billion ($2 billion) in losses from unauthorized currency bets. Note the use of the term “bets” instead of—
September 30, 2008 – 1:43 pm
I created two NBA Fantasy Leagues, one in Yahoo! Sports, and another in NBA.com. If you are interested to join my leagues, kindly drop me a message below so I can invite you to the tournament. A lot of slots are still—
August 31, 2008 – 12:36 am
Ely Buendia rushed to hospital; Eraserheads reunion concert cut short No, I wasn’t in the event. And this is the sad news that broke when I arrived home. The Eraserheads reunion concert on Saturday night at the Bonifacio Global City Open Field—
August 11, 2008 – 10:50 pm
In time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, have you ever wondered what’s the biggest Olympics fiasco of all time? Watch this video: It was when the Philippines was robbed of the gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
I initially wagered for a Celtics-Spurs NBA Finals. But unfortunately the other day, the Lakers beat the Spurs to advance to the 2008 NBA Finals. Eventually, my reason for looking forward to an exciting NBA Finals started to dwindle. But today I—
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I’m currently in fedora. And I’m starting to like it. My taste of Linux started with the Ubuntu experience. Then when my wireless card failed to work with the latest version Hardy, I tried PCLinuxOS and then OpenSuse. Some more disappointments with—
Could this be how bad the recession in the US is right now? Bear Stearns Cos., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and and brokerage firms in the world, entered into a deal to sell its business to—
The official results of the November 2007 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Exams for Philippines candidates are out, although the news are not yet included in the News and Events section of the IIA Philippines website as of this post. Results are also—
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Tagged CCSA, Certification for Control Self-Assessment, Certified Financial Services Auditor, Certified Internal Auditor, CFSA, CIA, IIA, Institute of Internal Auditors, Philippines, Professional Licensure, William S. Smith Award
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January 8, 2008 – 2:14 pm
At the rate at which the current Boston Celtics is going (29-3, or 90.6% winning percentage), it is very much likely that it will beat Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls record of 72-10 (72 wins and 10 losses, 87.8% winning percentage) in 95-96 season.
October 8, 2007 – 2:21 am
Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines did it once again in his fight against Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico yesterday.
The fight was decided, though, in a unanimous decision after 12 rounds of boxing action, against speculations or projections of a four to six rounds knock-out in favor of Pacquiao.
September 12, 2007 – 6:52 am
Because of the limited amount of light entering the gymnasium, I bumped up the ISO to 1600, and set the camera mode to shutter priority (Tv). I noticed that a shutter speed of 1/250 of a second is not enough to freeze the hard packed action, so I increased it a third increment to 1/320 sec. Then I tried positioning myself on a higher ground while avoiding shooting directly against the windows.
August 27, 2007 – 10:46 pm
So once they started getting out of character it was like they weren’t progressing with the game so I became a 2K fan and then now I’m back to LIVE and I think all the 2K fans are going to come back to LIVE again because they’re going to see they made progress. It’s a lot smoother. It’s not as choppy as it used to be. It’s realer now. It’s not like, “Oh, this is fake. That doesn’t happen.”
