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Rudy Fernandez gets a gun salute

June 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

According to an article from Inquirer.net:
The late action star was given full military honors, being a reservist in the Philippine Navy. A 12-gun salute accompanied the actor’s burial. The Philippine flag wrapped around the casket of Fernandez was handed to his widow, who clutched onto it tightly.
Oh, the dramz!  First of all, pardon my ignorance [...]

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HIV Positive chef charged for engaging in indecent acts with boy

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

This is one piece of news that disturbs me.
Not because the 42 year old HIV positive man and the 16 year old boy performed indecent acts on each other in a public place without the man disclosing that he was HIV positive.
I might be watching too much House and CSI or I’m missing something here.
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Thomas Beatie, pregnant man is half-Filipino?

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

A few posts back, I wrote this entry about the pregnant man in the US, Thomas Beatie and how I recall that there’s been a similar although totally false news long ago in the Philippines.
And whaddaya know, it turns out Thomas Beatie is half-Filipino

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Pregant man is on Oprah

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

When I was a kid I remember there were news of a pregnant man in the tabloids of Manila.  I remember it had a number of versions one of them being he’s going to give birth to a fish or something.  So when I heard about the pregnant man in the US, my first thought [...]

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You know you’re getting older when…

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

You know you’re getting older when you start to feel the generation gap between you and the younger people.
I’m starting to sound like my grandmother whenever I read

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Police still looking for escaped terrorist

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) detainee Mas Selamat bin Kastari escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre at 4:05 pm on 27 Feb 2008. 

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Vote for our Tubbataha Reef in the New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments


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Finance Minister unveils 20% tax rebate

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

 

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Filipino Student Wins Grand Prize in US State Department Art Contest

March 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Ms. Isabelle Masbate, a first-grade student at the Singapore American School won the Grand Prize in the 2004 US State Department Alert Overseas - Kids (A-OK) competition. The A-OK programme is intended to provide security and safety information to American children living overseas and has been run by the State Department since 1986. The competition [...]

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