tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649800390879658092024-03-23T18:16:23.894+08:00hulagthe motivation bloghulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-43509233212650455982011-06-21T07:34:00.000+08:002011-06-21T07:34:15.307+08:00New Technology, Same Thoughts<object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ihGQITCUezM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ihGQITCUezM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-45246905563947146522010-12-31T23:00:00.008+08:002011-01-27T21:52:10.311+08:00Happy New Year 2011<center><object width="450" height="310"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwanSuAL3XY?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwanSuAL3XY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="310"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Refer to this site: in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwanSuAL3XY">You Tube</a>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-57028299717806120542010-12-21T18:00:00.008+08:002010-12-22T07:54:38.946+08:00Why You Need to Go Down to Go Up<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="500" height="110"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100px; text-align: center;" alt="The face that logged a thousand shoes." src="http://dc244.4shared.com/img/ZEf-uTzo/Fuball_Calcio_hulagblogspotcom.JPG" border="0" /></a> </td><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">' </span></em></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">When football stars disappear, so do the teams... if the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.' - Pele<br />'The problem is that they are all stars in Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.' - Diego Maradona</span></em></span></span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">When The Ball Star Is Not Always You</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The earth's axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26'. It is the turning point from which the day starts to be longer than the night. It is however summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, during which the night begins to be longer than the day. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Note not everyone can experience same situation all the time, when someone somewhere goes up, another goes down. When someone is on his foot, somebody else is on his head. When a team got the ball, another is not having it. It is ok to miss the ball or not to be the star and be the water bearer. Athletes, salespeople, and politicians spend their days losing. Anyhow, the most notable winners usually encountered difficult loss before they champed and actually won because they resist discouragement by their defeats. Hey! Play well and want to win. This is not an “allow the ball to kick on you” post.</p>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-20341676434666149302010-12-16T06:00:00.009+08:002010-12-21T16:50:02.415+08:00Zuckerberg and How Much Does it Takes to be the TIME Magazine Person of the Year<table width="500" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" height="110"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100px; text-align: center;" alt="The face that logged a thousand shoes." src="http://dc197.4shared.com/img/1aGczmV_/Facebook_Shoes_on_wwwhulagblog.JPG" border="0" /></a> </td><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">' We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change.' - Mark Zuckerberg</span> </em></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">The Face that Logged a Thousand Shoes</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">I have quit blogging yet can’t quit Googling and found the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183,00.html">Person of the Year 2010</a> article by TIME Magazine who happened to choose Facebook’s <a href="http://www.facebook.com/zuck">Zuckerberg</a>. I can’t help thinking how a Harvard college drop out surpassed the others in the Person in the Year list. He made less controversy than <span style="color:black;">Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. He did not have the most watched video on YouTube as Lady Gaga. Does not have much fans as Justin Bieber.</span> All he had are the following numbers:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Age: 26</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">No. of years working (as CEO of Facebook): 6</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Influence</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">No. of Employees (in Facebook): 1,700</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Clients (Facebook users): </span><span style=";font-size:85%;color:black;" >600 M</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:85%;color:black;" >Assets</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>Net Worth: $6.9 B</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>World Billionaire rank: 212 (the 3<sup>rd</sup> Youngest)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:85%;color:black;" >No Google Keyword Search: </span><span style="font-size:85%;">673, 000</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span>If we however base the selection criteria from the classification of TIME 100 Most Influential People of the Century, the Person must be either: 1) a Leader or a Revolutionary, 2) a Builder or a Titan, 3) a Scientist or an Inventor, 4) an Artist or an Entertainer, or 5) a Hero or an Icon, Zuckerberg actually fills 3 criteria of only 1 required. He is an internet titan, who invented the social machine facebook, and is an icon in the cyber world. He is multi-dimentional. But is this enough to be the <span style="color:black;">TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?</span></p><center><object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" width="420" height="236"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=711047870001&playerID=42806370001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGEUMg~,hNlIXLTZFZk45NBFzfXjH_fcV1fGMncy&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true"><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com"><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=711047870001&playerID=42806370001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGEUMg~,hNlIXLTZFZk45NBFzfXjH_fcV1fGMncy&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" width="420" height="236"></embed></object><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"> </span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;">Time noted the value of change Zuckerberg is doing to the world. He was chosen “for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives…”</div></center><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-2187085254741534862008-04-30T08:00:00.026+08:002010-12-23T11:08:09.357+08:00Furious Fiery Fancy over China's Olympic Flame<table width="500" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" height="110"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100px; text-align: center;" alt="Bird's Nest: Awaiting the Egg" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/BirdNestStadium.png" border="0" /></a> </td><td><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">' To see Things in the seed, that is genius.' - -Lau-Tzu</span> </em></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Predict How Will the Beijing 2008 Olympic Cauldron be Lighted</span></b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRKJNwNy9Y"><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></st1:place></st1:country-region></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRKJNwNy9Y"><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span lang="EN">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></a><span lang="EN"> is a perennial surprise. Its discovery by western travelers in the 12<sup>th</sup> century proved there exist an oriental civilization as seminal as Ancient Greece in threading the cultural carpets beneath every sunrise nation. Its naturally ancient tradition stayed mint amids the pressure of international political conflicts. Its long sleep from world trade and its dragonic economic awakening enchanted every yellowed and non-yellowed skin alike in manic awe and fear. What <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> will bring forth now that it will host the 2008 Olympiad is a<span style="font-size:0pt;"> </span>futile guess. But we can always guess. Just like how Prometheus stole fire from the impervious gods, capture <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s future ideas through advance thinking. Perhaps we can track <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s next step by predicting how they will light the Olympic cauldron. See how your imagination fair with that of the most surprising civilization this millennium encountered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p>Let us review how the recent past host cities culminated the relay of the divine flame, sun-kindled on a parabolic mirror at the cypress-shaded archaeological site in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJO5Q6HX1j8"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Olympia</st1:place></st1:city></a>. Click on the pictures for the videos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div></div><center><table width="450" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="170"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_weauz1eI"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Seoul 1988" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Seoul1988.jpg" border="0" /></a></td><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNt4uI3CGw"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Barcelona 1992" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Barcelona1992.jpg" border="0" /></a></td><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seF7noys9QQ"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Atlanta 1996" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Atlanta1996.jpg" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cxAmnuSvs"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Sydney 2000" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Sydney2000.jpg" border="0" /></a></td><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JiD_19zvw%20"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Athens 2004" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Athens2004.jpg" border="0" /></a></td><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSSQbn-iRU%20"><img style="font-size: 130%; width: 155px; text-align: center;" alt="Beijing 2008" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Beijing2008.jpg" border="0" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></center><br /><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_weauz1eI"><st1:place style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Seoul</st1:city></st1:place><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> 1988</span></a><br />The ceremony which, showcased the Korean economic miracle to the world community, culminated with three athletes, each with a torch and stands on an elevating circular platform, lighting the cauldron. They represented sport, sciences and the arts being key opportunities to push beyond the barriers on the road to harmony and progress.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="TableContents" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNt4uI3CGw"><st1:place style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Barcelona</st1:city></st1:place><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> 1992</span></a><br />The flame was passed from the torch of a runner to the arrow tip of the Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo who immediately arched it into the cauldron from a platform at the opposite end of the stadium. In the subsequent Paralympics, the Olympic flame was carried by a paraplegic climber who hoisted himself up a rope to the cauldron.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seF7noys9QQ"><st1:place style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" st="on"><st1:city st="on">Atlanta</st1:city></st1:place><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> 1996</span></a><br />The American sentimentality was dramatized as the Parkinson victim, boxing light-heavyweight gold medalist Muhammad Ali raised the reed torch in trembling hand and ignited a special self-propelling torch that conveys the flame up a cable to the waiting scroll cauldron. The flame races around the enormous spiral, setting each jet ablaze. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cxAmnuSvs"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sydney 2000</span></a><br />After a long relay, including one under the <st1:place st="on">Great Barrier Reef</st1:place>, the flame was passed to the aboriginal, 400m-run medalist Cathy Freeman who circled the boomerang torch over the cauldron ring beneath the pool she is stepping on. The fire-water ring elevated and journeyed up to the zenith of an inclined falls – exhibiting <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s ode to the oceans.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="TableContents" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JiD_19zvw"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Athens 2004</span></a><br />The progenitor of sports stressed its space and time legacy that it ignited the first flame to travel from Ancient Olympia to the rest of the world and back. The windsurfer Nikolaos Kaklamanakis raised the olive torch to the bowing olive cauldron, flaunting the power of man over machines and the future. The cauldron slowly swung up and lifted the flame high above the stadium.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSSQbn-iRU"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Beijing 2008</span></a><br /><span lang="EN">The flame currently soars its way around mainland China following a phoenix graphical pattern and will reach the Bird's Nest cauldron, which at first I though is a cocoon, 100 days from now. It is relayed propane to propane burning from the lucky clouds graphic at the tip of the paper-scroll-shaped torches. Imagine the egg before the phoenix reaches its nest to lay. Predict how will the Beijing 2008 Olympic cauldron be lighted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span>Prediction 1. Liu Xiang, the reigning world record holder in the 110 meter hurdles at 12.88 seconds, will leap fire obstacles and be flown up by a Chinese Phoenix to the cauldron representing Chana's shift from a leaping technocracy to a flying global economic power. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="TableContents" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="TableContents" style="text-align: justify;">Prediction 2 . After a nautical parade, the cauldron will rise from beneath the creek beside the stadium to which Yao Ming, of the NBA Houston Rockets, will dribble a fire ball while riding a soaring lucky cloud to dunk into the cauldron -analogy to <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s greatest achievement while being harmonious with nature.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="TableContents" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p>Prediction 3. Chinese gymnasts will pass on the the flame in circle while hanging from the ntricate matrix of the Bird's Nest stadium roof. After which the roof's inner lining will form a scroll and be the olympic cauldron to which each gymnast will together ignite elaborating the slogan “One World, One Dream.”</p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p>Prediction 4.<span style="font-size:0pt;"> </span>The Fuwa (Olympic mascot) kids - the Lin 6-year-old quintuplets<span lang="EN"> from Shantou, Guandong Province representing fire, water, earth, wood and air - will form a totem pole (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFtSJfmBzM">check promotional video</a>), with the fiery red one on top lighting the cauldron.</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;">These are just <a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/">my</a> personal thoughts. The countdown to their closeness to truth is still running below. Good Luck <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRKJNwNy9Y">China</a>! The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhxh3expV10">World</a> Awaits!<br /></p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To Provoke the Senses</span><o:p></o:p><br />It is exciting to guess especially when your idea is strange yet a very likely outcome. Share your thoughts over the lines of Lao-tzu “<span lang="EN">To see things in the seed, that is genius.” My analogous interpretation is of course seeing the egg before the bird reaches the nest as exemplified by this post. What is your interpretation?</span>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-33396169861431733402008-04-24T18:00:00.007+08:002008-04-25T11:57:22.584+08:00State of the Blog Address: First Six Months of Hulag<img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Look Back" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/SideMirror.png" border="0" /> <span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>' We can move forward bit by bit by looking back to our mini achievements. ' </em></span></span></span><br /><div align="right"><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">- Wangbu </span></span></span><br /><br /></div><strong></strong><div align="justify"><strong>Most Remarkable Blogging Experience</strong><br />Dear Readers, Hulag is to date had been running for six months with minimal blogging breaks. Happy am I to be able to maintain it this long while paddling away from the giant <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2007/10/wangbu-pro-blogger.html">procrastination</a> whirlpool growing inside me. Even I already <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/04/reasons-why-i-love-drowning-into.html">realized</a> what kept me blogging, my wonder of the continuance is still going on in a cycle. Now I am checking back what happened in the Hulag past which inspired me to continue moving.<br /><br />6. Able to Blog for a Month<br /><br />At 1 month of blogging, the fact that I am a procrastinator who terrorize my shortened <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2007/12/emergency-relaxation-through-qwerty.html">off-duty schedule</a>, blogging for <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2007/11/you-one-month-blog.html">a month </a>is already an achievement.<br /><br />5. Listed at Blog Catalog’s Popular Blogs<br /><center><img style="MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Hulag at Blog Catalog’s Popular Blogs" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/BlogCatalogMostPopularBlog.png" border="0" /></center><br />At 2 months of blogging, Hulag have been listed among the <a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/">Blog Catalog’s</a> Popular Blogs. It is easy to be at the list. Simply visit and comment on other sites in the network and lead other authors to your Blog Catalog <a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/hulag.html">homepage</a>. The more you will be visited, the greater chances you'll have on being listed as the most popular blog.<br /><br />4. Granted Free Ad at ProBlogger.net<br /><center><img style="MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Hulag at Pro Blogger" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/ProBloggerAd.png" border="0" /></center><br />At 3 months of blogging, with aid of free advertising in the most valuable traffic generating scheme <a href="http://entrecard.com/">Entrecard</a>, Hulag had a 24-hour exposure at one of the blogging world's most priced site for the advertising-<a href="http://www.problogger.net/">ProBlogger.net</a>. I only sent me 68 views, but it is already everything to a 3-month-old blog.<br /><br />3. Chipped among Entrecard’s Most Popular<br /><center><img style="MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Hulag at Entrecard’s Most Popular" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/EntrecardMostPopular.png" border="0" /></center><br />At 4 months of blogging, Hulag reached the first row of entrecard's most popular blog. It was tough to be on despite row that I dropped on 300 cards daily. I devised schemes so - my first <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/02/entrecard-drop-rank-wall.html">Entrecard Drop Rank Wall</a> which I later revised as <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/03/entrecard-drop-wall.html">E Wall.</a><br /><br />2. Included in Top 100K Alexa Rank Bracket<br /><center><img style="MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Hulag’s Early Alexa Graph" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/AlexaGraph.png" border="0" /></center><br />At 5 months of blogging, Hulag was able to reach the top <a href="http://www.alexa.com/">Alexa</a> 100K bracket. The best recorded daily rank was last March 13 being rank 46 024 according to global reach. During which Hulag ranked 930 in Nigeria, 6 316 in New Zealand, 6 319 in the Philippines, 8 315 in South Africa, 13 521 in Malaysia, 15 091 in United States and 19 023 in Denmark. Since Alexa include all types of sites, it is also good to realize that among <a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/top_pinoy_blogs_alexa">blogs in the Philippines</a>, Hulag ranked # 20.<br /><br />1. Received Links from more than 100 Blogs According to Technorati<br /><center><img style="MARGIN: 0px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Hulag’s Technorati Page " src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/TechnoratiRank.png" border="0" /></center><br />At 6 months of blogging, despite being shy of <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/03/recollections-of-social-media-newbie.html">social media</a>, Hulag was able to receive links from more than 100 blogs according to <a href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati</a>. This is nothing without you kind linkers out there. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!<br /><br />In the next six months Hulag will reforming its blog traffic catching appeal. It will concentrate on developing more inspiring self-motivation content as it seeks to utilize its world wide web exposure to project its primary goal of being a blog for those who lagged.<br /><br /><strong>To Provoke the Senses</strong><br />Why not look back to your most remarkable moments? Aside from bringing fun, it also pushes you forward. </div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-39336337616976680322008-04-16T06:48:00.011+08:002010-12-16T19:24:40.660+08:00Reasons Why I Love Drowning into Blogging<a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 100px; text-align: center;" alt="Just Take a Plunge." src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/Plunge.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>' I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.' </em></span></span></span><br /><div align="right"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">- Tori Amos</span></span> </span><br /><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>Official Entry to The Blog Award Challenge # 1</strong></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><---Contest Piece Starts Here---><strong> </strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>I Blog Therefore I Am</strong><br />Off the net proved bootless ideas to my personal campaign against procrastination, thus I started to check life solutions in the Cyber Ocean and luckily discovered the blogosphere. I got intrigued by its collection of elastic self expressions and come-see-this-way opinions fighting for attention over a public space. At first, I thought blogs are diaries necessarily to be filled within 24 hours. Later, I understood posts were not always personal and most blogs were closer to a regularly updated, interactive, educational, online book rather than to a mute daily blubber. I found the blog both as a play space for my literary soul and as a deadline timer for my procrastinating ego. Perfect solution so, I plunged into blogging. </div><div align="justify"><br />For almost half a year I am still into blogs despite procrastination reminds me then and now that it still exists in the peripheral fringes of my behavior. One more wonder why I am still blogging is that I, since childhood, enjoy the ningas-cogon attitude which like cogon grass quickly catches fire, burns heavily and puts-off quickly. Actually, I found the reasons why I loved drowning into blogging beyond 3 to 5 posts more startling than why I started to blog. I am currently having pearl finds as I discover what are in me which made me blog. </div><ul><li><div align="justify"><strong>I am a Procrastination Combatant.</strong> My post-now - or-never attitude blogging becomes my real life guide to manage procrastination. I copied the capability of being prompt in posting to real life work to oblige myself to perform on time. My posting rings a bell on me not only on compelling deadlines but also on doing things at the right time. Blogging therefore is a cure to my time abusive self.</div></li><li><div align="justify"><strong>I am an Experimental Artist.</strong> Boredom of things not getting new made me rely to the progressive world of blogging as stable resource of novel perspectives. The art of blogging sustains my inner desire for something new most of the time. I enjoy accumulating and testing updated effective strategies for better blog analysis, optimization, publication, design development and monetization. Blogging therefore feed my hunger for discovery. </div></li><li><div align="justify"><strong>I am a Literary Acrobat.</strong> Flexing and stretching words and sentences to get readers interest excites my writing muscle mass and adepts my vocabulary. It recollects my literary pool which is wasted in my life before. Knowing I can write better than I used to, which attuned my writing to a spiritual rhythm, is the most gratifying gift of the blog to me. Blogging therefore serves as my language gymnasium. </div></li><li><div align="justify"><strong>I am a Hermit on the Loose.</strong> Rare was it for me to have a life beyond my skin but my blog displays proved more than just few square inches of exposure of the weird, wild, weed me to the blogging collaborative, cross-border community. It sent me reading friends and enlightened me with networking, commenting, and socializing skills. In fact I learned valuing others more from blogging than from the contact world - honestly stated. Blogging therefore generates my somewhat-called social life. </div></li><li><div align="justify"><strong>I am a Lecturing Learner.</strong> As a procrastinator who learns to move, I love to share my life discovered solutions for any distraction, through language plays, and against my hermitage. All these being delivered through my first ever blog - <a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/">Hulag</a>, a blog for those who lagged. It is so fun to learn and share what I have learned at the same time. </div></li></ul><p align="justify"></p><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Blogging therefore serves as one of my media for altruism. Just five pearl dives for now. Although I know that there is more to my person which clicks well with blogging so I remained a blogger. Worth discovering and elaborating so long as my eyes, fingers and soul are willing to be drowned into this cyber ocean against the pressure to procrastinate. Whenever this blogging experience ends soon, the part of my life that I became a blogger will always be treasured. I blogged therefore I was blogger. And I am still now.</div><br /><div align="justify"><strong>To Provoke the Senses</strong><br /></div><div align="justify">It is not easy to dive for reasons in life actions but simply start achieving it and you will get hooked to it. Do the same in achieving any action - just begin and you will find yourself crossing through. There might be pirates to hamper you but just keep going. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><---Contest Piece Ends Here ---></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><br /><div align="justify"><strong>Post Update</strong></div><div align="justify">This post is edited to suit the first theme of <a href="http://www.theblogawardchallenge.com/">The Blog Award Challenge</a>: <a href="http://www.theblogawardchallenge.com/2008/04/blog-awards-challenge-number-01-i-blog.html">I Blog Therefore I Am</a>. It is always fun to see the reasons why you blog. You can write it down and join the blog award challenge.</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-41411442635874692472008-04-13T17:55:00.032+08:002008-04-13T19:01:07.257+08:00Getting Free of the Rice Exchange System<div align="left"><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Any Exchange for Rice? " src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/RiceExchange.png" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>' Staples: serve steep, solicit sapient submissions, siege societal security scaffold. Strip Staples. ' </em></span></span></span><br /></div><div align="right"><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">- Wangbu </span></span></span></div><div align="justify"><strong>Rice Shortage Bubble<br /></strong>The heaviness of this alarm ringed every ear, every nose bleed, and haunted every pocket of each ordinary Filipino when the Philippine business community announced rice shortage lately. Succeeding The inevitable increase in price of 1 Kilo of rice, which is a daily everything to every Pinoy, taunts all in line from the office bosses regularly paid to the peanut vendors. The idea that each commodity in the country equates to certain half, double, triple or powers of rice exchanges, all prices of general commodities threaten to hike up with the rise in rice price. The commotion reached the blog posts of <a href="http://pedestrianobserver.blogspot.com/2008/04/philippine-rice-shortage-artificial-or.html">Ana</a>, <a href="http://prudentinvestornewsletters.blogspot.com/2008/04/rge-on-philippine-rice-crisis.html">Benson</a>, <a href="http://geramae.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-shortage-in-philippines.html">Geramae</a>, <a href="http://gerthy-sanctuary.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-shortage-in-asia.html">Gerthy</a>, <a href="http://www.marriageandbeyond.com/2008/04/04/poverty-in-the-philippines/">Jennie</a>, <a href="http://www.itot54joni.com/2008/04/extra-rice.html">Joni</a>, <a href="http://spirituality-page.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-ing-issue-shortage.html">Kebelle</a>, <a href="http://mortiferbarba.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-shortage-in-philippines.html">Marie</a>, <a href="http://www.marikenya.com/2008/04/10/panick-buying-caused-by-rumored-rice-shortage-in-philippines/">Marikenya</a>, <a href="http://angsawariko.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-shortage-issue.html">SirKramic</a>, <a href="http://diaryofanotherkind.blogspot.com/2008/04/rice-rice-baby.html">Vincent</a>, and <a href="http://webstertwelb.blogspot.com/2008/04/ricericerice.html">Webster</a>. There is so much more to bubble about rice shortage yet I am not interested on it anymore. Let the economic tyrant (read my e-opinion below if you can) play its violin for a while; simply avoid dancing with his tune.<br /><br /><strong>Changing Serving</strong><br /></div><center><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: left" alt="GLOBAL WARNING: Food Shortage Activated!!!" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/GlobalFoodShortage.png" border="'“0" /></a> <div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 15px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 15px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 16px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 16px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 18px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 18px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 20px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 20px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 22px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 22px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 24px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 24px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 27px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 27px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 30px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 30px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 34px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 34px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 39px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 39px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 45px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 45px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 52px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 52px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 60px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 60px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 69px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 69px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 80px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 80px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 92px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 92px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: left; FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 104px; HEIGHT: 15px"></div><div style="CLEAR: right; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 104px; HEIGHT: 15px"><br /></div></center><p><div align="justify">Just take this bowl: There are tyrants in our lives which we can drive out - our dependence to staples in us. Not necessarily rice, oats, maize, potato, bread, pasta, noodles or cassava, but the daily sellable and unsellable commodity we are dependent of such as electricity, TV series, frozen foods, air-conditioned environment, water heater, branded clothing, ATM machines, push button gears, soda machines, text message alert tones, cell phone reminders, coffee breaks, desktop calendars, lap tops, razor kit, 15 minutes fame, security advisers, loan makers, bogging... oops.... add more what you can recall. They became our daily respirators. Ouch! But how about getting free from this life staples which for some long whiles accompanied our breathing? Doing it is exactly reculturing so I am not suggesting moving totally away from it but simply gain independence from it. Recall how the rice shortage bubble like dominoes every affected less important economic commodity. More bowls...</div><br /><div align="justify"><strong></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong>To Provoke the Senses</strong><br />Do you find yourself dependent on something or someone? Dependence is not bad. However we should try to be independent from the thing we are dependent of so as to avoid addiction - which is a greater degree. There is more to life than one single thing. </div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-2834573061952644382008-04-09T07:11:00.005+08:002008-04-09T07:18:36.119+08:00TV Game Shows and the Power of Now Deciding<a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Quick Attack! Now Dodge!" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/quickattack.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>' Nothing is far away as one minute ago.' </em></span></span></span><div align="right"><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">- Jim Bishop</span></span> </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><strong>The Culture of Urgency</strong></div><div align="justify">Each society, give or take a few, is securing adapt to the culture of urgency. To be decided faster than your short-term goals are your quick-attack-dodge-now goals. Can not imagine how your speed should then be? Just think of your house on fire. Your adrenalin-rush stunts to put off the fire and save your family trapped inside are how quick life in urgent culture turns. Although the non-camera world is on its lazy speed, adjust your pace to always being on fire as in the following worldwide syndicated TV game shows with progressive eliminations:</div><div align="justify"><br />Enter the <a href="http://www.endemol.com/Main%20business%20areas/default.aspx?fID=7103&prID=1">Big Brother</a> house where you have to keep alert of every publicized eat, sleep, fart, kiss, bath or cry you do. You have to nominate two or more housemates instantly against emotional attachments, against minimal data you have about your housemates never met before, but along the track intellectualized that you should be the last one to leave the house to win this big voyeuristic game. </div><div align="justify"><br />Compete in the show <a href="http://www.americanidol.com/">Pop Idol</a> contest where you have to pitch to hit or be hit by the judges while insults boost your esteem amid the audience boos. You have to compete with hairbreadth time for a chance stardom which is hairbreadth away to win and hairbreadth away to lose the only recorded using the musical style that was able to spot # 1 Billboard hits - charisma.</div><div align="justify"><br />Take a lane in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_(US_TV_series)">Amazing Race</a> around the world every passing unpredictable geographical location. You have no right to waste split second decisions while keeping your teem on the track of the way to the pit stop at the cultural backdrop of the picturesque scenery around you. </div><div align="justify"><br />Strategize your self in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(TV_series)">Survivor</a> game. Get courageous tactics to throw a lifeline to pull into your future you from the wilderness to your messy one million dollar dream and decides second per second to outwit every ally or foe, out win every energy or emotion, to everyone who will outlast your way to insecure IT.</div><div align="justify"><br />Think of the human society as an evolutionary hum drum that forms its own progressive elimination. The rules that follow the TV game shows are the same rule follows in real life race which is the most special edition of Survivor - Survivor Living Earth. No need for a fire to stimulate you. As long as you trust your plans are unflawed, go! Do this and that now! </div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>To Provoke the Senses</strong></div><div align="justify">How fast do you choose with care? Opportunity is rare, is time bound, is precious, and is necessity in some cases. Enhance your ability to handle opportunity by practicing quick-attack-dodge-now responsible decision makings.</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-65941486871521382008-04-01T07:16:00.003+08:002008-04-01T07:51:49.706+08:00Humping Habit History<div align="justify">There were two islands I am familiar of more than any other- Panay and Negros. And this is their tale:</div><div align="justify"><br />Panay is an island of wide flats and small hills and on its flank stripped and strapped by many rivers. These natural irrigations made the place ideal for growing rice. Indeed rice was grown here ever since the first agricultural societies dwell in the island. The masses soon relied to rice. In fact they copied population spread from the fashion of the rice plant. Farmers which rooted from the mouths of the rivers speckled inwards, roads splits left and right, and split further left and right, and split further dividing to unpaved paths which end with isolated dwellings. Each dwelling is a watch over hut to a few rice paddies. The complexity of population distribution which was a gift during the agricultural period became a bad convention to serve with modernization. It rather made social cohesion, technology introduction, economic development and other government projects allocation difficult. It was in charge for the fall of the once progressive Panay.</div><div align="justify"><br />Negros is island skirt to the Kanlaon volcano. The many years of eruptions fertile the soil enough to attract the elites of Panay to put up sugarcane plantations. The population which established here became dependent to sugarcane and imitated indeed the expansion of a sugarcane plant. The people rooting from a southern delta spread in northward and southward directions constructing compact settlements along the way like node ends in the sugarcane stalk. Each settlement is practically managed by a haciendero, a sugar baron, whose manor, sugar mill, and sugarcane workers, rest at the center of a vast sugarcane field. Each settlement is practically a society in itself. It became easier to build public facilities such as schools and implement economic developing projects in these packaged settlements. This condition made Negros advanced more rapidly than Panay in the modern era.</div><div align="justify"><br />This tale might resonate as a fiction to you yet the whole lot of what was said here are real situations. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panay">Panay</a> is an island in central Philippines intricately meshed into four provinces with a total of 90 towns but only 3 cities. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negros">Negros</a> is the island just east of Panay but neatly divided into two provinces with a total of 38 towns and 19 cities. Negros is far advance then with city to town ratio of 1 is to 2. Way ahead of Panay ratio being 1 does to30. Practically, geography and population spread pattern became habitual causes of the continuous downfall of Panay while Negros soars.</div><div align="justify"><br />I live in Panay and formulated this harsh comparison while having a trip to Negros last weekend: There are some habits we can not change. It sticks to us. It pulls us down. That is what I just discovered. I might regret publishing this in a self motivation blog but I simply have to mention my thoughts. Probably change might ensue breaking those habits. But I don not know how powerful it must be to fix the logarithmic damage brought by history. Probably what we have is acceptance and adaptation to it. Adaptation in a sense that to put this bad habit to good use instead of breaking it. I do not know how exactly. It is brain ruining to think about. </div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-33432186159504515052008-03-28T20:00:00.001+08:002008-03-28T21:29:45.389+08:00On Black Campaigns<div align="justify">Tomorrow, the 29th of March between 8 to 9 PM in your time zone, you will be in black as the <a href="http://www.earthhour.org/">Earth Hour</a> will be observed as part of the non-negotiable anti-global warming campaign. I have experienced 2–month long dark nights two decades ago when the super typhoon Ruping toppled electrical posts in our area while whipping central Philippines. Having an hour without electricity is not much of a bother to me. What dulls me more is the reason behind the campaign, weather it really is for the decaying environment or simply to redirect the public mind from a political activity hostile to the supporting governments just like the first Earth Day set simultaneous with Lenin’s 100th Anniversary. It confuses me as much as I am already confused with the businessmen made-believe “rice shortage” to increase the pricing of this Philippine staple. But anyway if you believe that there is really no significant event to be blocked by this global black out, go participate. Here is the campaign:</div><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><center><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/irRzM8Ig7PU" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></center>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-18939136867323816842008-03-27T17:22:00.005+08:002008-03-27T17:36:52.606+08:00Viral Linkathon<div align="justify">The benefits of Viral Linking:<br />1. One of the fastest ways to see your Technorati Authority explode!<br />2. Increase your Google PageRank fast<br />3. Attract large volume of new traffic to your site<br />4. Build your community<br />5. Make new friends!<br /><br />I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. Thanks to <a href="http://www.lloydlopez.com/archives/2008/03/24/technorati-authority-explode-viral-linking/">Lloyd Lopez</a> who brought me to this. You have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes let’s hope a long list!) It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!<br /></div><div align="justify">And these are the people who already took part on this tag:<a href="http://flipclan.com/">Blognation</a>, <a href="http://pinoytek.net/">Pinoytek</a>, <a href="http://reynaelena.com/">Reyna</a>, <a href="http://bluepanjeet.net/">Bluep</a>, <a href="http://kotsengkuba.com/">Kotsengkuba</a>, <a href="http://kopongkopong.blogspot.com/">Buraot</a>, <a href="http://www.naptimerocks.com/">Iris</a>, <a href="http://bancodereyna.com/">Banco De Reyna</a>, <a href="http://manilenya.net/">Manilenya</a>, <a href="http://reynaelena.com/mitchteryosa.com/">Mitch</a>, <a href="http://manilenya.net/">Melai</a>, <a href="http://mynosebleed.com/">Malen</a>, <a href="http://lukaret.com/">Beng</a>, <a href="http://sasha-says.com/">Sasha</a>, <a href="http://fool.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Foolsville</a>, <a href="http://www.lloydlopez.com/">Lloyd Lopez</a>, <a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/">Hulag</a>, [next please]<br />I tagged these bloggers:<br /><a href="http://www.mommamuse.com/">Momma Muse</a><br /><a href="http://liza-fluer.us/">My So Called Life </a><br /><a href="http://www.stephanmiller.com/">Stephan Miller</a></div><a href="http://tripthelady.com/">Trip The Lady<br /></a>You [who ever wishes to join]hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-59359660823484754492008-03-27T07:58:00.004+08:002008-03-27T08:02:55.460+08:00Recollections of a Social Media Newbie<div align="justify">You must admit that you happen to ecounter at least one social media site in your entire blogging career. While you joined to leave links in your accounts that were redirected to your blogs, you also reserved a tag for “social media” among your posts. You certainly knew the link building potency of such sites that you often would not miss strategies on improving and sustaining traffic from it, however dried and stale those strategies were constructed. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">I have to admit that my exposure to social media is very minimal. I submitted my site to only a few. In fact, Hulag was missed in <a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/top_pinoy_blogs_alexa">Eugene's</a> initial Top Philippine Blogs According to Alexa despite having a rank of 74,481 which would make it number 20 in the list a probable reason that it is not registered in <a href="http://www.ratified.org/">Ratified.org</a> which is a near complete aggregation of active Filipino blogs. I know it was my fault Eugene, thank you very much for including me in the list. But certainly, though I had been working across my hectic offline schedule to network harder to gain traffic and link backs, this is not my point of rendering you a social media related topic. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Social Media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words and pictures. That is the exact <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">wikipedia</a> definition. Wikipedia itself is a social media of reference type. So the word social media is beyond just the popular <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2007/12/indispensable-blogging-resources.html">bookmarks</a> we click and networking <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html">communities</a> we joined. It even encompases social advertising such as <a href="http://entrecard.com/">Entrecard</a>, event promotion such as <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/">Upcoming</a> and online gaming such as <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml">World of Warcraft</a>. To a certain context, blogs and podcasts are also forms of social media, so are your e-mails and instant messagings.</div><a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Social Media Addiction" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/SocialMedia.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="justify">Accompanying exposure, a social medium with a substance is a farm of fresh feeds to the brain. Through which, you can either read good posts common or uncommun to you. In turn you will be assisted in blogging as your readings helps you see things better, your aawareness invites cooking of new ideas. Through a social medium you can discuss opinions especially with experienced bloggers around might provide you insights. Such interaction solicits tastes from multiple palates improving your mastery of your knowledge recepie. I would like to harvest new ideas first from my ten trusted (though I have not joined some yet) social sites:</div><p>The Four Forwarding Blogging Bookmarks </p><ul><li><a href="http://del.icio.us/">Del.iciou.us</a> </li><li><a href="http://digg.com/">Digg </a></li><li><a href="http://reddit.com/">Reddit </a></li><li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">Stumble Upon</a> </li></ul><p>The Three Threading Comprehensive Communities </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/Wangbu">Blog Catalog</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.bumpzee.com/users/view/Wangbu/">Bumpzee</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/wangbu/">MyBlogLog</a> </li></ul><p>The Two Trendy Sharing Sites </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> </li><li><a href="http://youtube.com/">You Tube</a> </li></ul><p>The One Online Link Authority </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati<br /></a></li></ul><div align="justify">To utilize social media is not to scavenge data or files from accounts of other. But to consume the collective intelligence funneled from them as daily living knowledge diet. Meanwhile, as you munch forward, you will be lumped with false statements, abusive expressions of freedom, blogging indifference, piggybacking, borrowed forms of trust, experiments with controversies or dry topics. But once swallowed you will just get used to them. If digested, they becoming additional learning nutrients to your self improvement. Rather participate it social media as they facilitate free-for-all knowlege farming sprees. </div><div align="justify"><br />For updates on outsourcing opinions <a href="http://www.addthis.com/feed.php?pub=hulag&h1=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fblogspot%2Fhulagrss&t1=">subscribe</a> to Hulag.</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-62686686019210811872008-03-23T15:01:00.052+08:002008-03-31T20:42:11.557+08:00Entrecard Drop Wall<a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/03/entrecard-drop-wall.html"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="E Hunt Starts Now!!!" src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd233/r2p2v/EHunt.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center">Welcome to Entrecard "<span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffcc00;"><strong>E</strong></span>" Drop Wall. </div><div align="center">Find your way to the deadliest droppers 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Please bear with me.hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com67tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-72385692520138339682008-03-19T20:14:00.008+08:002008-03-19T21:34:09.549+08:00On a Posting Pause<div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R-EIfeBkrqI/AAAAAAAAAHg/GvMghGYANBI/s1600-h/Pause.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179430383181409954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R-EIfeBkrqI/AAAAAAAAAHg/GvMghGYANBI/s400/Pause.jpg" border="0" /></a>I am swapping my minutes to write good articles with time to examine blog litanies from litanies of blogs which I am planning to include in my new entrecard drop rank wall. Yes, I notice the <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/02/entrecard-drop-rank-wall.html">previous</a> wall is not of practical use any longer as some blogs changed domains, some lost widgets, some were not reciprocating unlike the kind group of <a href="http://leedoyle.com/u-drop-i-follow-entrecard-badge.html">Lee Doyle</a>, some were not downloading fast as those in the now erased list of <a href="http://bendzg.com/2008/03/19/goodbye-entrecard-droplist/">Bendever</a>, and some were not persuasive to read anymore. In this drop wall reset, I will still include some interesting blogs from the previous which I can not just leave behind. Help me find the rest.</div><br /><center><form action="http://poll.pollcode.com/2hj3" method="post"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="0" style="color:#330000;"><tbody><tr><td align="right" colspan="2" style="color:white;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:black;">pollcode.com <a href="http://pollcode.com/"><span style="color:navy;">free polls</span></a></span></td></tr><tr><td width="500"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#ff9900;"><b>What criteria do you suggest I will use in choosing blogs for my next entrecard drop wall?</b></span></td></tr><tr><td align="middle" width="400"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#ff9900;"><input type="radio" value="1" name="answer">Popularity <input type="radio" value="2" name="answer">Drop Rank <input type="radio" value="3" name="answer">Reciprocating <input type="radio" value="4" name="answer">Quality of Posts <input type="radio" value="5" name="answer">Widgets on Top Fold <input type="radio" value="6" name="answer">Fast Loading <input type="radio" value="7" name="answer">Page Rank <input type="submit" value="Vote"> <input type="submit" value="View" name="view"></span></td></tr></tbody></table></form></center>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-12103182366158549742008-03-16T18:12:00.006+08:002008-03-16T18:27:18.839+08:00Quizzical Quasi-Quotation<div align="justify">One of my childhood memories surrounds over the stripping and plaiting of <em>palaspas</em> or fronds freshly taken from coconut or buri palm, intricately woven into thousand an one designs, and brought to church for blessing during <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/holyweek_1.shtml">Palm Sundays</a> to commemorate the entry of Christ in Jerusalem. These were then made as decks, as religious reminders, as talismanic symbols in almost every Catholic Filipino home, business establishment and vehicle. The ubiquity of these palm fronds reminds Philippines, the only Christian nation in Asia, of its being second in the most number of Catholic followers in the world. Funny to note that these drying, browning sacred things are burned during Ash Wednesday and use to remind Catholics of their evanescent humanity with a cross from the soot marked on their foreheads. </div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R9z0deBkrnI/AAAAAAAAAHI/cdEQAZ_nHJE/s1600-h/voyage.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178282458682273394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R9z0deBkrnI/AAAAAAAAAHI/cdEQAZ_nHJE/s400/voyage.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="justify"><br />At one time, routine Catholicism bored me. And it crazed me over “I believe in God.” statement; weather I really affirm it or simply quote it. This made me miss one of those Palm Sundays I yearly await and left me writing over my bed the following:<br /><blockquote><p align="justify">You lie supine on the upper board of your wooden bed, jackfruit double deck to be exact. You eye up the fluorescent bulb drop hanging from the sky of your twelve-year old room but you shape out the quad-centennial dome of Magellan's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_shrine">shrine</a>. Who was Magellan? Whine back your first Cebu stopover to this sailor who planted the cross on your country. Through him, you then and now make the forehead, bosom, left and right shoulder tapping gesture with your right middle and index fingers. As you believed.</p><p align="justify">Later in your shirt jack years you were taught that he was an enemy of the locals, the first boss of intruders from the far west. His daring venture to the unknown, though tainted in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan">battle</a> of Mactan, is still idolatric even you abhor what drove him to. Certainly he never took those wealth and power, but he posthumously homed prestige after the remains of his fleet proved that the world is round. An idea you believe.</p><p align="justify">Now you are on another voyage. This time with a one-spirit army to a place that none of your specie or the Internet could conclude exists. Not one proof could quake the earth and the universalize faith. If there was, then it had been. You made an unscientific step of jumping into conclusion that the people learned to doubt because of the absence of the backings to the basics of all, such as the A-Z of the cosmos, the inert velocity of the starting material, the sub-quantum precision of things, the perfect superlative. You wet up and down your cracked lips, el ninod by the absence of answer. But you still believe.</p><p align="justify">You shook head to the industry of past people in weaving their respective hold that completely influence their living. Some debated: nature is the origin, the means and the ends. Others find contemplation as benefactors of altruism. But you? You just don't know why you kneel head down, or you stood up arms wide and open your mouth for an Alleluia, to <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-charred-and-colored-spirits.html">dinagyang</a> your own stand. You simply pull yourself and enjoy the early to rise for nine rooster masses, the hand scalding candles in the Lenten and Easter processions and the vomiting-wheel ride above the lake of balloons and pop corn vendors during town fiestas. You even once took a role in those plays at the end of May – the <a href="http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Santacruzan">Santacruzan</a>, the search for the Holy Cross.</p><p align="justify">And you seek a goal in your voyage greater than this prose: To seek for the Cross again. What's that? Where's that? When is that? You don't know. But you believe.<br /></p></blockquote></div><br /><div align="justify"><div align="justify">That was when I was about 18. That was when my writing was still immature. That was a Palm Sunday – a day for reaffirmation of faith. Today is another Palm Sunday. Today is March 16 – the alleged date the first Europeans headed by Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines. To all those who believe in God, Who ever He is to you – rediscover your faith in him today.</div></div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-81458067076040348112008-03-14T06:27:00.004+08:002008-03-14T06:32:37.492+08:00Ravening Rococo Researches<div align="justify">I attended a drug company sponsored product safety review for NSAIDS and coxibs. These Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDS) are the tabs and caps we now and then buy over-the-counter for the quite relative symptom of pain we are experiencing. How many do not use Diclofenac, Ibuprofen, Mefenamic Acids, Meloxicam, Naproxen or Nimesulide which are a few generic of these? I'm sure only a few will assert as the rest are more familiar with their abused brand names which I will not promote here out of medical ethics. Coxibs are the rather new relatively safer yet expensive family of pain remedies. Unfamiliar still? Check your medicine cabinet for the generics. Almost constantly one of them is there.<br /><br />The session, which is just one of the many dinner-preceded, drug product presentations held many times a week in my small city, is a talk less on the mechanism of formation of adverse effects of the drugs itself and more on understanding the reliability and relativity of researches done to satisfy such knowledge. The speaker started questioning everyone in the medical society how often they have been fooled by other speakers in other drug product presentations whom they rather take as surrogate markers for medical truth. He then equates the number to that of laymen who take drug commercial endorsers as surrogate markers for their idea of relief. Though only members of the medical society are present, there is no need to compute for comparison as everyone but a few, out of human vulnerability, have once or twice been fooled. Our speaker explained that we have propensity to be enthralled by the maturity, status, and enlightening background of other speakers who were suppose not to present clinical experiences but rather scientific data of which anyone who can understood can explain. Also, we almost always revere research outcome without assessing the potential inaccuracies in their methodologies especially the inclusion and exclusion of data. Several studies on side effects of pain relievers were then one by one dissected by him speaking only less ill to the generic of the brand of the sponsoring drug company. Somehow familiar then followed endorsement of their brand's generic as the best. However, certain things such as reviews on everyone's ramblings over theories on relativity which strikingly makes even the Einstein's Theory remain Relative already stuck with me.<br /><br />The myth of science is its totally being true. Yes, it follows logic but not everything logical presents truth. One reason is that the nomenclature used in descriptive research once utilized for experiment can still be influenced by human biases. Take for example the symptom of pain. Evaluation of its intensity is subjected to individual conceptualization of degrees of pain. Given a range of 0 to 10 with 10 as the most painful experience one ever had in his entire life. One's idea of 5/10 may be 8/10 to you or just 3/10 to mine. Moreover, once you ask a person to characterize pain, how close is his idea of burning, cutting, pricking, tingling, stabbing, cramping, aching, throbbing, crushing, shooting, lancinating or jabbing to yours. For example, if you will use these semi-standardized data for an outstanding study, you might be adored in the scientific world but your results will remain relative to the angle of truth.</div><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R9mqv-BkrlI/AAAAAAAAAG4/ND9xvnOMHQU/s1600-h/statistics.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177356987719265874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R9mqv-BkrlI/AAAAAAAAAG4/ND9xvnOMHQU/s200/statistics.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">Take care in devouring every ounce of information you see, hear, or read even from elaborate advance scientific researches. Currently, my group of four is trying to finish a research which is a requirement for completing our one year post graduate medical internship course. I left the review of similar studies to the finest of my scrutinizing command; however systematic they boastfully describe their techniques, to minimize the chance of having also a waste basket worth of study.</div><br /><br /><br />How much of science is reliable to you?hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-68854612753309140882008-03-11T07:06:00.012+08:002008-03-11T07:25:28.454+08:00The World is Mutating, Aren't You?<center><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K_EWzxRn8Xo&rel=" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" color1="0x234900&color2=" wmode="transparent"></embed></center><br /><br /><div align="justify">Every spit of time like every swing a self-replicating robot is quite mesmerizing. I can not discern what age we will be next. The Age of Inevitable Mutation? This idea was conceived by me few days ago while startled by the rush of <a href="http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2331.htm">typhoid</a> patients to the hospital where I am training in. The number of patients with prolonged complicated typhoid fever, some even need <a href="http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2331.htm#section~treatment">surgical</a> intervention intestinal perforation, is challenging that of habitually elevated hospital staples (Stroke, Diabetes Mellitus and Community Acquired Pneumonia). I earlier considered it to be an isolated Iloilo City incidence but later, resigning to media blows and pops, I realized that it already staged a nationwide alarm where in the province of <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080303-122564/DoH-declares-typhoid-outbreak-in-Calamba">Laguna</a>, Philippines outbreak has been declared. Thinking through, a grave national problem over an ordinary food-borne infection can not just be blamed on faulty hygienic practices. There must be some sort of virulent mutation in certain strains of <a href="http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2058.htm#section~Clinical">Salmonella</a> that backs up pathogenicity.<br /><br />Time change is a cloaked event recognized only as it unveils. Prompt rolling of presents to past may occur as predicted or veer off from usual expectations. The propensity of current events to deviate from the norm is dreadfully logarithmic. These may involve alternation such as drastic change in the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/richest-people-billionaires-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305billie_land.html">tycoon rankings</a> addition such as the <a href="http://www.overpopulation.org/">population explosion</a> or loss such as <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/fragile_earth.php">environmental degradation</a> as very basic examples. The changes which however spread in the eyes of people such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_dali">Salvador Dali</a> are bizarre yet inconclusively possible examples.<br /><br />Notice that mutations are not proceeding in the living world alone but in other facets of the earth at varying degrees, inevitable as the rising sun. Notice also that how neat you organize your plans, weather will visitingly hack your day, make out some scams and deflect your way. Notice further that only during these minor sabotages that you became mindful of earthly changes around. You never had a space in your brain for such as you adore indifference, maybe even to the fact that the temperate north zones had already shifted to daylight saving time. But I request you one thing, you have to adapt to the mutating world. Why? Though uncertainties from subjected facts are infinite, we are part of a planet where “evolutionary theory” is extending beyond just biotransformation processes. As it rotates, we undergo the course of natural selection which checks time after time that only favorable mutants (hopefully humans) remain.<br /><br />So, are you ready to mutate?</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-23483523245428711442008-03-07T06:45:00.012+08:002008-03-07T06:58:31.939+08:00Zany Zesting Zombies<div align="justify">vs<br /><br />Ranting Resting Robots<br /><br />Do you ask how faster, higher, or stronger can you be? Or have you ever pushed your body to exhausting and exhilarating limits and sweat buckets? You don't? Well, shame on you for a great number of vegetative fellows completed distally by assorted substances of prosthetics, entwined around by different shapes of braces, ambulated from end to end by various modes of locomotive devices, and hurt in depth by altering approaches of pain, visit the rehab unit daily to bend life to its utmost feasible physical and occupational realization.<br /><br />Even virtually <a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/01/practicing-hopeful-resignation_21.html">resignable</a> instances of life are not calamities unless you make them so. Collect your strength and capture the courage of these almost zombies. Be not just a ranting, rusting robot as in this alarming age of technology, it is unavoidable that companies will soon hire ordinary, perfectly operating, machine-driven staffs which receive only repairs, no demanding benefits and no complaining wages. Survive existence to points of making or breaking like a marine training stud horrified of boot camp expulsion.<br /></div><div align="center"><br />One word: Discipline.<br />Two words: Try and Triumph<br />Three words: Get not scared!</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><br /><center><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/"><img alt="DO IT NOW!!! " src="http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z298/cdump06/Images/scary/images/scary.gif" /></a></center>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-29539363997349253922008-03-05T08:29:00.005+08:002008-03-05T08:45:47.311+08:00Partaking Public Perspiration<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I am still aligning my sleep-wake cycle to my Rehabilitative Medicine rotation this March. The 24+8+8 hour 3-day routine was replaced by weekday office hour duties, stripping my receptions to Earth alive and resuscitating my long arrested civil opinion. I am not implicating here that my hospital job is a contraindication to having a personal life as it is my choice to deal with them separately.<br /><br />I perceive the conventional Filipino to be extra disapproving. This trend which rooted from sporadic post-war stress disorder, grew into epidemic </span><a href="http://hulag.blogspot.com/2008/02/international-dread-of-iron-fist.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">depression-after-oppression</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> and fruited to this pandemic attention deficit where every mind feigning reliability crave for more daylight exposure around EDSA, more seconds in the broadcast and more square centimeter in the newsprints. They gooseneck placards, burn effigies, fire words of sense and none, to the government which they have forgotten they are also part of. They have forgotten that the Republic of the Philippines is a nation supposedly by the Filipino people and that they have to take part perspiring some of its oils which is not all about swarming like bees from a harassed hive and jamming traffic down main streets. Democratic minds in evolution - if this post will be understood wrongly, this must be the explanation.<br /><br />I will skip those who chipped in rallies to support personal finances and lay down this paragraph for those who went along for national cause. The truth is we loved to be spoon-fed by the government, which we consider our parent, and do public tantrums if our desires are not fulfilled. Because we did not receive outright reassurance, we felt being betrayed, thus added more pascals to the pressure the government has been parrying or padding itself. We edgely contributed to the paralysis of civic mobility. Aren't we guilty? No, of course! We are blissful of our rebellion. “We have been there, we have done that, and it's fun!” we sing to ourselves and publicly announce that we “concerned” citizens have done our part in “correcting” the erroneous government, as if we previously corrected the errors among us. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Here are versions of problems where somehow we People of the Philippines share faults with the officials of the government:<br /></span></div><blockquote><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Case 1: Food shortage</strong><br /><strong>Officials' share:</strong> The </span><a href="http://www.dar.gov.ph/laws_issuance_ao.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> (created during Aquino era) – the fractioning of land to the low-funded, less agriculture and management trained, family-first-oriented soil toilers upshot to national food shortage and reliance on Thai and Vietnamese rice.<br /><strong>Public's share:</strong> We did not plan our family size. Pro life is not being just concerned by the living and what the living will eat now but what the living will eat in the coming years. Besides, those who were entitled of land grants sold them to subdivision realties and kept on rallying down Mendiola to get more share with the thought of free profit by selling it to awaiting factory builders. And those who left it tilled wasted great amounts of land and rice over experiments on fertilizers and insecticides, neglecting additional assaults to the environment to which our agricultural produce is dependent of. Where is our social sense of right and wrong? Our concern to what amount of rice will be left to feed the future? We only appeal to appease our churning stomachs, and worry less of other churning stomachs in some points in the Philippines, at some points of time. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Case 2: Corruption</strong><br /><strong>Officials' share:</strong> The </span><a href="http://www.pcij.org/blog/wp-docs/LGC1991.pdf"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Devolution</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> (enacted during Ramos era) – the passing on of authorities to local leaders sponsoring the padrino system or modern day feudalism. Each applying public employee must be of the same political party of the governor or mayor. Each local venture must cut some percent of its low budget for the officials and must scream the lines: “This blah blah was completed through the efforts of Mayor Blah Blah...” Each huge affair must be permitted by local heads or left ineffective. Each public sponsorship such as social service aid for indigent hospital patients must bear the name of the congressman involved.<br /><strong>Public's share:</strong> We pampered these politicians by voting them, by picking them as Ninongs and Ninangs to our weddings, by tagging with their rallies or even campaigning for them. And finally kept eyes shut from their faults out of “</span><a href="http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Philippine_Core_Values#Gratitude"><span style="font-family:georgia;">utang<br />na loob</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">” or debt of gratitude. In so doing, we became the padrinos of the<br />padrino system in our locality.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Case 3: Low Standard of Education</strong><br /><strong>Officials' share:</strong> The low teacher: student ratio, the shortage of school infrastructures, books and equipments, the low standard of teaching as projected by almost useless graduates is perennial in other areas in the Philippines. All attributed to the high cut off in education budget by higher officials and the devalued accreditation.<br /><strong>Public's share:</strong> Though Filipinos culturally are concerned of their young finishing their schooling, only a few are concerned what their children have actually learned from school. Basically, education of the young is in part a parental concern. Not all parents peeked through the mental works of their children. All their concern is to see the cross the stage in wearing black toga, holding a diploma and sending them money back for their “now finished parenting.”<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Case 4: Frailing Health Programs<br />Officials' share:</strong> There are still people who have not seen a doctor for life and dwells in areas far from the already called Rural Health Units. The government can not also raise descent salaries to draw back abroad going doctors and nurses due to lack of public funds, which can be attributed to low income tax which can not be raised due to meager individual income. For me the amount from Philhealth program is good enough based on the government's financial status.<br /><strong>Public's share:</strong> Please don't misquote me but human health is more dependent on heredity and individual discipline than public policies. We can not blame heredity. We just have to practice discipline. He who kept his fever for weeks, his flu for months or his cough for years without medical consult will less likely get immediate resolution. A lot of patient were brought to the ER were at the terminal stages of their illness. And most of them have diseases related to their chronic smoking and heavy alcohol drinking. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Case 5: Unhomely Public Housing<br />Official's share: </strong>They government was only the end of blame for their self-made homelessness of these aspiring city dwellers and so the poor parent responded by creating housing projects and relocation sites. These were often build in rush with inconvenient facilities and set far from urban sprawl thus have a common side effect of driving these squatters away from their source of livelihood.<br /><strong>Public's share:</strong> Everyone clamored for a roof above his head but not all tried to find his own way to have it. Who told them to live the roof they were born and grew in? Who told them to settle to urban areas and build bamboo stilts over river banks and shorelines or assemble pieces of paper, wood and metal along railways, over dumpsites or under the bridge? And now they clamor for a descent roof.</span></p></blockquote><p align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">We, the Filipino People who forms the Republic of the Philippines are part of its illness had to partake in its rehabilitation for national cause and not just nonsensically assemble down the main streets with self-importance in mind.<br /><br />Reaction please.</span> </p>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-483927643236585982008-02-29T18:00:00.233+08:002008-04-16T11:57:58.155+08:00366 Filipino Bloggers<div align="justify">First I saw a blog and dug it.<br />It was a witty visual tryst honestly condensed from dural fireworks, blotted every skin of the monitor, and engaged to beam a light to the dura of my own.<br /><br />Then I started to blog and got hooked to it.<br />I channeled my running imagination of every blogable ends, crawling under cloak-and-dagger scrutiny, oddly scaring my procrastination while satisfying the blogger inside me.<br /><br />Now I am destined to seek more blogs to bind to.<br />I on forth will explore simple phonic on-self arguments or brain-kill literati, to sincerely credit creativity, productivity and dedication and rediscover viewpoints in the silence of my biases and prejudices.<br /><br />The Phase One of this planned linkathon and readathon involves those who rally with the online revolution that continually changes the Philippine web society. Here is my tribute to 366 Filipino bloggers on this rare day that added one more solar rotation to this year:</div><br /><br /><p><a href="http://www.aaronroselo.net/blog/">Aaron Roselo</a><br /><a href="http://abaniko.blogspot.com/">Abaniko</a><br /><a href="http://abbyongyanco-lim.com/">Abby Ongyanco Lim</a>*<br /><a href="http://abbieunreal.blogspot.com/">Abbie Real</a><br /><a href="http://www.yugatech.com/blog/">Abe Olandres</a><br /><a href="http://seleria.wordpress.com/">Abigail Yap</a><br /><a href="http://blog.ademagnaye.com/">Ade Magnaye</a><br /><a href="http://milkplanner.wordpress.com/">Agent Grey</a><br /><a href="http://atejada.wordpress.com/">Agnes Tejada</a><br /><a href="http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/">Aileen Apolo</a><br /><a href="http://baklaako.com/">AJ Matela</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.ajalapus.com/">Aja Lorenzo Lapus </a><br /><a href="http://ala-ism.pansitan.net/">Ala Paredes</a><br /><a href="http://iam.aldrinred.org/">Aldrin Jhones Redolme</a><br /><a href="http://alexistioseco.wordpress.com/">Alexis Tioseco</a><br /><a href="http://painstakinglydrafted.wordpress.com/">Amy Grace Remollata</a><br /><a href="http://anatogonon.com/">Ana Togonon</a><br /><a href="http://www.alleba.com/blog/">Andrew dela Serna</a><br /><a href="http://www.derpinsel.com/weblog/">Angela Solis</a><br /><a href="http://anitokid.blogspot.com/">Anito Kid Mapugay</a>*<br /><a href="http://brightbluerain.blogspot.com/">Anmarie Reyes</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.annalyn.net/">Annalyn Jusay</a><br /><a href="http://anton.blogs.com/">Anton Diaz</a><br /><a href="http://apples-pie.com/blog/">Apples Haravata</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/">Ariel Garcia</a><br /><a href="http://ariellalisan.org/wp/">Ariel Lalisan</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.moleskinerie.com/">Armand Frasco</a><br /><a href="http://arnold.gamboa.ph/">Arnold Gamboa</a><br /><a href="http://aczafra.com/">Arnold Zafra</a><br /><a href="http://gohamstergo.blogspot.com/">Arsenio Rafael IV</a><br /><a href="http://www.soundtoday.blogspot.com/">Arvin Tonogbanua</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.gensantos.com/">Avel Manansala</a>*<br /><a href="http://balikbayanbox.pansitan.net/">Ayeza Garcia</a><br /><a href="http://azraelsmerryland.blogspot.com/">Azrael Coladilla</a><br /><a href="http://www.barrycyrus.wordpress.com/">Barry Viloria</a><br /><a href="http://bendzgerona.blogspot.com/">Bendever Gerona</a>*<br /><a href="http://bloggertising.blogspot.com/">Benedict Aluan</a><br /><a href="http://www.lukaret.com/">Beng Hafner</a>*<br /><a href="http://blog.622design.com/">Benito SJ Vergara</a><br /><a href="http://www.atheista.net/">Benjamin Espina</a><br /><a href="http://butchay.clarkph.com/">Bernadette Millares</a><br /><a href="http://www.bevelyn.info/">Bevelyn Plaza</a><br /><a href="http://superbianca.blogspot.com/">Bianca Gonzales</a><br /><a href="http://crost23.blogspot.com/">Billycoy</a><br /><a href="http://cooljerk.diaryland.com/">Black Soul</a><br /><a href="http://bluepanjeet.net/">Bluepanjeet</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.mindanao.com/blog/">Bob Martin</a><br /><a href="http://bongaustero.blogspot.com/">Bong Austero</a><br /><a href="http://www.bryanboy.com/">Bryan Veloso</a><br /><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jdalisay/blog/MyBlog.html">Butch Dalisay</a><br /><a href="http://myconsolingasylum.blogspot.com/">Caesar Balatero</a><br /><a href="http://caiabbass.i.ph/">Cai Abbass</a><br /><a href="http://www.carlocab.com/">Carl Ocab</a>*<br /><a href="http://bloggerista.com/">Carlo Ople</a>*<br /><a href="http://celdrantours.blogspot.com/">Carlos Celdran</a><br /><a href="http://www.carlosconde.com/">Carlos Conde</a><br /><a href="http://nancydrewandme.blogspot.com/">Cathy Babao Guballa</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.cathcath.com/">Cathy Black</a><br /><a href="http://crazytittletattle.blogspot.com/">Cathy Laine Raagas</a><br /><a href="http://cecildejesus.blogspot.com/">Cecil de Jesus</a><br /><a href="http://icnsq.cnsqonline.com/">Cesar Noel Quiñon</a><br /><a href="http://charleslemark.wordpress.com/">Charles Lemark</a><br /><a href="http://www.nierva.com/">Charles Nierva</a><br /><a href="http://1puzzlepiece.blogspot.com/">Chester Tagudin</a><br /><a href="http://chinwong.com/">Chin Wong</a><br /><a href="http://www.cmdesignlounge.com/">ChiQ Montes</a><br /><a href="http://isaganirx.page.ph/">Christian Corpuz</a><br /><a href="http://www.bloggwing.com/">Christina Cabreira</a><br /><a href="http://idioxinecrasies.com/">Christine Rivera</a><br /><a href="http://salitablog.blogspot.com/">Christopher Sundita</a><br /><a href="http://www.houseonahill.net/">Connie Veneracion</a><br /><a href="http://conradmiguel.com/">Conrad Gozalo</a>*<br /><a href="http://thisiscoy.net/">Coy Caballes</a>*<br /><a href="http://pangkulitan.motime.com/">Crooner KR Guda</a><br /><a href="http://www.cultureshiok.com/">Culture Shiok</a>*<br /><a href="http://risingsun.dannyarao.com/">Danilo Arao</a><br /><a href="http://www.juicelog.com/">Darwin S</a><br /><a href="http://davidllorito.blogspot.com/">Dave Llorito</a><br /><a href="http://geekythoughts.blogspot.com/">David Edward</a><br /><a href="http://coconuter.blogspot.com/">David Poarch</a><br /><a href="http://deanalfar.blogspot.com/">Dean Alfar</a><br /><a href="http://www.simplythrifty.com/">Deborah Ng</a><br /><a href="http://dennisrito.blogspot.com/">Dennis Rito</a><br /><a href="http://blog.codesignstudios.com/">Dennison Uy</a><br /><a href="http://5thirtyone.com/">Derek Punsalan</a><br /><a href="http://techathand.net/">Dexter Panganiban</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.theaftermac.com/">Dickoy Magdaraog</a><br /><a href="http://dine.racoma.com.ph/">Dine Racoma</a><br /><a href="http://ding-inkblots.blogspot.com/">Ding Fuellos</a><br /><a href="http://emeritus.blogspot.com/">Doc Emer</a><br /><a href="http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/">Dominique Cimafranca</a><br /><a href="http://kulamnista.blogspot.com/">Dong Ampil</a><br /><a href="http://desertbox.blogspot.com/">Dorica Lopez</a><br /><a href="http://ederic.tinig.com/">Ederic Eder</a><br /><a href="http://www.edsnanquil.blogspot.com/">Eds Nanquil</a><br /><a href="http://blog.edarevalo.net/">Edward Arevalo</a><br /><a href="http://www.everything-eli.com/inmylife/">Elizar Palad</a><br /><a href="http://www.ellentordesillas.com/">Ellen Tordesillas</a><br /><a href="http://www.jozzua.com/">Elymar Apao</a><br /><a href="http://intentiontotreat.blogspot.com/">Em Dy</a><br /><a href="http://www.byahilo.com/">Enrico Dee</a><br /><a href="http://erasmusa.blogspot.com/">Erasmusa</a><br /><a href="http://salaswildthoughts.blogspot.com/">Eric Ariel Salas</a><br /><a href="http://ericzoo.com/">Eric Clark Su</a><br /><a href="http://baratillo.net/">Ernesto Sonido Jr. </a><br /><a href="http://arielerra.blogspot.com/">Erra Sanjorjo-Gomez</a><br /><a href="http://cyberbaguioboy.com.ph/">Erwin Oliva</a><br /><a href="http://akosipaeng.blogspot.com/">Erwin Rafael</a><br /><a href="http://blog.treiziethoughts.ws/">Esteniejade Herrera</a><br /><a href="http://bethelo.blogspot.com/">Ethelbert Ouanu</a><br /><a href="http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/">Eugene Alvin Villar</a><br /><a href="http://soul.beyondeternal.com/">Euri Darenthorne</a><br /><a href="http://www.ironwulf.net/">Ferdinand Decena</a><br /><a href="http://shutter.box.com.ph/">Fernando Martirez III</a><br /><a href="http://fitzvillafuerte.com/">Fitz Villafuerte</a>*<br /><a href="http://angsawariko.blogspot.com/">Flowell Galindez</a>*<br /><a href="http://chronicles.wraithstrider.com/">Francis Gerard Alcala</a><br /><a href="http://behindhiddendoors.wordpress.com/">Frank Augustine Manuel III</a><br /><a href="http://unholyhours.blogspot.com/">Frank Cimatu</a><br /><a href="http://mom.exchange.ph/">Gabriel Mercado</a><br /><a href="http://kutitots.com/">Gail Dela Cruz </a><br /><a href="http://gurbi.blogspot.com/">Garry Urbi</a><br /><a href="http://youhadme-at-hello.com/">Gary Sumayao</a><br /><a href="http://www.websaytko.com/">Geri Barcelona</a><br /><a href="http://www.gerryalbertcorpuz.motime.com/">Gerry Albert Corpuz</a><br /><a href="http://gianpaolosamson.blogspot.com/">Gian Paolo Samson</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.iloiloonfoot.blogspot.com/">Giancarlo Alvarez</a><br /><a href="http://www.gibbscadiz.blogspot.com/">Gibbs Cadiz</a><br /><a href="http://gigigoesgaga.typepad.com/">Gigi</a><br /><a href="http://bigbaddie.com/">Gino Carteciano</a>*<br /><a href="http://isulongseophil.com/">Giovanni Castro</a><br /><a href="http://www.promdiliving.com/">Gladita</a><br /><a href="http://www.filipinasoul.com/">Grace Ibay</a><br /><a href="http://causticthoughts-gracemags.blogspot.com/">Grace Maghanoy</a><br /><a href="http://runway-styles-and-fashion.blogspot.com/">Guia Almonte</a><br /><a href="http://www.thegrapebunch.com/">Gwen Nava</a><br /><a href="http://hansentimiento.blogspot.com/">Hannah Samson</a><br /><a href="http://paranoidandroid_18.blogs.friendster.com/nothingness/">Haren Fegarido</a><br /><a href="http://bryantonpost.blogspot.com/">Hector Bryant Macale</a><br /><a href="http://blog.ditz-revolution.net/">Helga Weber</a><br /><a href="http://www.gmapinoytv.com/sidetrip/blog/">Howie Severino</a><br /><a href="http://braggito.blogspot.com/">Ian Alvarez</a><br /><a href="http://eatingthesun.blogspot.com/">Ian Casocot</a><br /><a href="http://elsalvadordelmundo.blogspot.com/">Ian Gomez</a>*<br /><a href="http://ilangq.wordpress.com/">Ilang-Ilang Quijano</a><br /><a href="http://bulitas.blogspot.com/">Irvin</a><br /><a href="http://filipinayzd.i.ph/">Irvin Sto. Tomas</a><br /><a href="http://paradoxicleyline.wordpress.com/">Ishmael Ahab</a><br /><a href="http://www.ivanhenares.com/">Ivan Anthony Henares</a><br /><a href="http://racoma.com.ph/">J. Angelo Racoma</a><br /><a href="http://dmjakebatausa.blogspot.com/">Jake Batausa</a><br /><a href="http://theorygame.com/">Jalexander Honco</a><br /><a href="http://blog.jammedph.com/">Jam Macabanding</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.janemking.com/">Jane King</a><br /><a href="http://www.digitalfilipino.blogspot.com/">Janette Toral</a>*<br /><a href="http://kamaru.blogspot.com/">Jason Paul Laxamana</a><br /><a href="http://pinoy-blog.isoftinno.com/">Jay Bray Cabaña</a>*<br /><a href="http://kwentongtambay.com/">Jay David</a><br /><a href="http://jaydj.blogspot.com/">Jay Frank De Jesus</a><br /><a href="http://jaypeeonline.net/">Jaypee Habaradas</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.abuggedlife.com/">Jayvee Fernandez</a><br /><a href="http://bethumbed.com/">JC Mae Palmes</a><br /><a href="http://www.lettersfromthesoul.com/">Jean Grey</a>*<br /><a href="http://angpalaboy.blogspot.com/">Jeffrey Eugenio</a><br /><a href="http://www.gwapito.com/">Jeffrey Wong</a><br /><a href="http://www.jehzlau-concepts.com/">Jehzeel Laurente</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.marriageandbeyond.com/">Jennifer Aspacio</a>*<br /><a href="http://jericho14.blogspot.com/">Jericho Dignadice</a><br /><a href="http://www.subtleoasis.com/">Jerome Quinto</a>*<br /><a href="http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/">Jessica Zafra</a><br /><a href="http://ziliant.blogspot.com/">Jhayzie Santos</a><br /><a href="http://jhed.asteeg.net/">Jhed Cabrera</a><br /><a href="http://jher.wordpress.com/">Jher</a><br /><a href="http://harshpoeticchaos.blogspot.com/">Jigs</a><br /><a href="http://haringliwanag.pansitan.net/">Jim Paredes</a><br /><a href="http://jinjiruks.blogspot.com/">Jinjiruks Ikari</a><br /><a href="http://jmagreda.blogspot.com/">JM Agreda</a><br /><a href="http://jmtuazon.tinig.com/">JM Tuazon</a><br /><a href="http://www.joanjoyce.com/blog/">Joan Joyce</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.jodyliwanag.blogspot.com/">Jody Liwanag</a><br /><a href="http://gameshogun.ws/">John Cuneta</a><br /><a href="http://newsstand.blogs.com/">John Nery</a><br /><a href="http://whoridesavespa.com/">John Rana</a><br /><a href="http://writingthirty.blogspot.com/">Jojo Malig</a><br /><a href="http://www.mapiles.com/">Joliber Mapiles</a>*<br /><a href="http://jollacarmen.blogspot.com/">Jolla Carmen</a><br /><a href="http://blog.kapenilattex.com/">Jon Limjap</a><br /><a href="http://techievangelism.blogspot.com/">Jonas de los Reyes</a><br /><a href="http://jonasdiego.com/">Jonas Diego</a><br /><a href="http://behindwonderland.blogspot.com/">Jonas Serapion</a><br /><a href="http://www.archon-digital.com/">Jonathan Cuevas</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.taintedsong.com/">Joni Ang </a><br /><a href="http://www.deuts.net/">Jorelle Tuvillo</a><br /><a href="http://farfromneutral.com/">Jorge Cosgayon</a><br /><a href="http://beyond-the-norms.org/">Jorich Roa Ponio</a><br /><a href="http://www.jovefrancisco.com/">Jove Francisco</a><br /><a href="http://www.filipinolesbian.blogspot.com/">Joy-Joy</a><br /><a href="http://www.pinoyblogero.com/">Juan Karlo Licudine</a>*<br /><a href="http://julia-aquino.blogspot.com/">Julia Aquino</a>*<br /><a href="http://messagesendingfailed.blogspot.com/">Julius Jason Junio</a><br /><a href="http://jrocas.com.ph/">Julius Rocas</a>*<br /><a href="http://junanteola.wordpress.com/">Jun Anteola</a><br /><a href="http://www.magandangbalita.com/blog/">Jun Asis</a><br /><a href="http://intiendes.com/">Junelle Caravana</a>*<br /><a href="http://scentofgreenbananas.blogspot.com/">K Santos</a><br /><a href="http://www.rockersworld.com/">Karla Vanessa Redor</a><br /><a href="http://katesgasis.com/">Kates Gasis</a><br /><a href="http://hundredpercentkatherine.blogspot.com/">Katherine de Castro</a><br /><a href="http://postcardheadlines.wordpress.com/">Karlo Mongaya</a><br /><a href="http://whenthesongbirdsings.blogsome.com/">Kaye Inigo</a><br /><a href="http://seriouslie.wordpress.com/">Kevin Bautista</a><br /><a href="http://codamon.com/">Kevin Codamon</a><br /><a href="http://getxtina.wordpress.com/">Kristine Roa</a><br /><a href="http://suzakulace.blogspot.com/">Lace Llanora</a><br /><a href="http://lalondelarosa.blogspot.com/">Lalon dela Rosa</a><br /><a href="http://www.laurganism.com/">Lauren Dado</a><br /><a href="http://www.ambothology.com/">Lavern Tan</a>*<br /><a href="http://parisukat.com/blog/">Lex</a><br /><a href="http://www.lheeanne.com/scrapz/">Lhee Anne </a><br /><a href="http://wellwhatever.com/">Liz Buenaflor</a><br /><a href="http://www.lloydlopez.com/">Lloyd Lopez</a>*<br /><a href="http://lordartworks.com/">Lord Art Lomarda</a><br /><a href="http://dessertcomesfirst.com/">Lori Baltazar</a><br /><a href="http://loriethereselocara.blogspot.com/">Lorie Therese Locara</a><br /><a href="http://ibanagcooking.blogspot.com/">Lotus Flower</a><br /><a href="http://www.yaw-yan.com/">Louie Mateo</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.luisteodoro.com/">Luis Teodoro</a><br /><a href="http://hablachabacano.blogspot.com/">Luz Rimban</a><br /><a href="http://www.lastleaf.org/">Mae Paulino</a><br /><a href="http://mayenskie.blogspot.com/">Mae Yen</a><br /><a href="http://noneed4ink.com/">Maki Eduardo</a><br /><a href="http://www.beautifulandhappy.com/">Maline SP</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.malouescasa.i.ph/">Malou Escasa</a><br /><a href="http://www.quezon.ph/">Manuel L. Quezon III</a><br /><a href="http://www.manuelviloria.com/">Manuel Viloria</a><br /><a href="http://merjoem32-pinoyboxing.blogspot.com/">Marben John Salarda</a><br /><a href="http://marcdionisio.blogspot.com/">Marc Dionisio</a><br /><a href="http://marcroger.com/">Marc Roger</a>*<br /><a href="http://mistervader.blogspot.com/">Marcelle Fabie</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.exploreiloilo.com/">Marcos Caratao Jr.</a><br /><a href="http://kwentongbarbero.com/">Marcus Rex II</a><br /><a href="http://www.macuha.com/">Marhgil Macuha</a>*<br /><a href="http://avantgarde-deux.blogspot.com/">Mari Quint</a><br /><a href="http://mommyness.blogspot.com/">Maria Angela Abad</a><br /><a href="http://workwithria.wordpress.com/">Maria Jose</a><br /><a href="http://www.tagailoilo.blogspot.com/">Maribeth Daquilanea</a><br /><a href="http://sweetperceptions.i.ph/">Maricris Nonato</a><br /><a href="http://www.aethen.com/">Mark Aethen Agana</a>*<br /><a href="http://marcospot.blogspot.com/">Mark Buladaco</a><br /><a href="http://clickmomukhamo.com/blog/">Mark CG</a><br /><a href="http://makoyskie.blogspot.com/">Mark Ferdinad Tayag</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.hoopaddict.com/">Mark Javellana</a><br /><a href="http://mjerome.wordpress.com/">Mark Unmute</a><br /><a href="http://thoughtsinbinary.com/">Mark Verzo</a><br /><a href="http://www.marketmanila.com/">Merketman</a><br /><a href="http://rebelpixel.com/">Markku Seguerra</a><br /><a href="http://m2factorial.blogspot.com/">Marwin Mira</a><br /><a href="http://enchantedlilypad.blogspot.com/">Mary Ann Tinsay</a><br /><a href="http://fruityoaty.com/">Massa P</a>*<br /><a href="http://max.limpag.com/">Max Limpag</a><br /><a href="http://www.parenting-weblog.com/">Melissa Atienza-Petri</a><br /><a href="http://meltingpen.blogspot.com/">Michael Lee</a><br /><a href="http://tagadavao.wordpress.com/">Migs Hipolito</a><br /><a href="http://mikelopez.info/">Mike Lopez</a><br /><a href="http://mikevillar.com/">Mike Villar</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.mimiandkarl.com/">Mimi Abesamis</a><br /><a href="http://backtothephilippines.com/">Mixxy</a>*<br /><a href="http://keyboardmonologues.blogspot.com/">Monaco</a>*<br /><a href="http://mongpalatino.motime.com/">Mong Palatino</a><br /><a href="http://manilenya.com/">Nalen Aguilar</a><br /><a href="http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/">Nancy Reyes</a><br /><a href="http://architectscomeback.wordpress.com/">Natalie de Guzman</a><br /><a href="http://es2pido.com/">Neil Brian Bernardo</a><br /><a href="http://blog.nestlepoell.net/">Nestle Poell Lagaya</a><br /><a href="http://www.tingog.com/">Nicholas Kister</a><br /><a href="http://www.kotsengkuba.com/">Noel Cabacungan</a><br /><a href="http://www.aboutmyrecovery.com/">Noemi Dado</a>*<br /><a href="http://lawstude.blogspot.com/">Norman Serapio</a><br /><a href="http://iloilocityboy.blogspot.com/">Oliver Mendoza</a><br /><a href="http://www.robilloblog.com/">Oliver Robillo</a><br /><a href="http://nocturnalangel2.blogspot.com/">Pam Pastor</a><br /><a href="http://pau.araos.com/">Pao Araos</a>*<br /><a href="http://thesilentmaiden.blogspot.com/">Pao Mateo</a><br /><a href="http://www.paolomendoza.com/">Paolo Mendoza</a><br /><a href="http://onepaintedlife.blogspot.com/">Paul Brett Orozco</a><br /><a href="http://www.unlawyer.net/">Paul Santos</a><br /><a href="http://hownow.brownpau.com/">Paulo Ordoveza</a><br /><a href="http://www.peachyherrin.com/pinaygspot">Peachy Herrin</a><br /><a href="http://www.shmula.com/">Peter Abilla</a><br /><a href="http://jester-in-exile.blogspot.com/">Pierre</a><br /><a href="http://mysoulfulthoughts.blogspot.com/">Rachel</a>*<br /><a href="http://raincontreras.com/">Rain Contreras</a><br /><a href="http://www.photojunkie.ca/">Rannie Turingan</a><br /><a href="http://www.raylanddelosreyes.com/">Rayland delos Reyes</a><br /><a href="http://reah.info/">Reah Bunsoy</a><br /><a href="http://redkinoko.blogspot.com/">Red Kinoko</a>*<br /><a href="http://kokegulper.wordpress.com/">Remo Aguilar</a><br /><a href="http://firelynx.blogspot.com/">Resshell Brian Rojas</a><br /><a href="http://kingofchocolates.blogspot.com/">Rex Dizon</a><br /><a href="http://reyian.blogspot.com/">Rey Ian Corpuz</a><br /><a href="http://www.rgcruz.com/">RG Cruz</a><br /><a href="http://blog.rheaongyiu.com/">Rhea Ong Yiu</a><br /><a href="http://renrie.blogspot.com/">Rhea Samson</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.reynaelena.com/">Reynz</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.guitarchic.net/">Rhiza Sanchez</a><br /><a href="http://rhyan.net/">Rhyan</a>*<br /><a href="http://pc.batangyagit.com/">Richard Diongson</a><br /><a href="http://www.retzwerx.com/">Richmond Paul Ruiz</a><br /><a href="http://www.rickey.org/">Ricky Yaneza</a><br /><a href="http://fool45.com/">Rico Mossesgeld</a><br /><a href="http://ruralpinoybiker.com/">Rino Avila</a><br /><a href="http://www.bobreyes.com/myblog/">Robert Reyes</a>*<br /><a href="http://therocketboychronicles.blogspot.com/">Rocketboy</a><br /><a href="http://www.bloggingmix.com/">Rocky John Tayaban</a>*<br /><a href="http://shurikenstuff.blogspot.com/">Rodrick Guarin</a><br /><a href="http://dailyscooponline.blogspot.com/">Roland Agreda</a><br /><a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/">Roland Tanglao</a><br /><a href="http://my-sense-and-sensibility.blogspot.com/">Ronnie Ferez</a>*<br /><a href="http://crinago1172.blogspot.com/">Rouel Ganir</a><br /><a href="http://evilwoobie.com/">Ruby Grace Galvez</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.allergizer.com/">Ruth Schaffer</a><br /><a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/">Sacha Chua</a><br /><a href="http://skamid.wordpress.com/">Sajid Kamid</a><br /><a href="http://journal.sarahcada.com/">Sarah Cada</a><br /><a href="http://www.scribesmeister.info/">Sarj Malanyaon</a><br /><a href="http://the-parody.com/">Sasha Manuel</a><br /><a href="http://sedricke.blogspot.com/">Sedricke</a><br /><a href="http://senorenrique.blogspot.com/">Señor Enrique</a><br /><a href="http://www.shaicoggins.com/">Shai Coggins</a><br /><a href="http://shane.jaducana.net/">Shane Jaducana</a><br /><a href="http://misteryosa.com/">Shari Cruz</a><br /><a href="http://www.shaydelgado.com/">Shay Delgado</a><br /><a href="http://mefindhome.blogspot.com/">Sherwin Castillo</a><br /><a href="http://www.superficial.nu/">Skye Lau</a><br /><a href="http://thesolitarybird.blogspot.com/">Solitary Bird</a><br /><a href="http://sesantos.com.ph/">Sonnie Santos</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.beautynomics.com/blog/">Sophia Joyce Uy</a><br /><a href="http://stellify.net/">Sophia Marie Lucero</a><br /><a href="http://honeycaragos.blogspot.com/">Stephanie Caragos</a><br /><a href="http://www.stephencuyos.com/">Stephen Cuyus</a><br /><a href="http://www.selaplana.com/">Sustines Laplana</a><br /><a href="http://tesstermulo.com/">Tess Termulo</a>*<br /><a href="http://www.manilamom.com/">Tessa San Diego</a><br /><a href="http://cureless.net/">Tew Reonal</a><br /><a href="http://amethyst-lover.blogspot.com/">Tiffany Chua</a><br /><a href="http://www.crimsonpage.blogspot.com/">Tina Panganiban-Perez</a><br /><a href="http://kurokuroatbp.com/">Toe Oblena</a><br /><a href="http://www.anthonette.com/">Tonet Ardael</a><br /><a href="http://toni.marikit.net/">Toni Marikit</a><br /><a href="http://tonyocruz.com/">Tonyo Cruz</a><br /><a href="http://hundredyearshence.blogspot.com/">Urbano dela Cruz</a><br /><a href="http://www.bikoy.net/">Victor Villanueva</a><br /><a href="http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/">Victoria Gaerlan</a><br /><a href="http://www.vinceleste.com/">Vince Celeste</a>*<br /><a href="http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/">Von Totanes</a><br /><a href="http://www.hulag.blogspot.com/">Wangbu</a>*<br /><a href="http://gormful.com/">Will Garcia</a><br /><a href="http://techie.prepys.com/">Wilson Chua</a><br /><a href="http://www.batangyagit.com/">Winston Almendras</a>*<br /><a href="http://wysgal.blogspot.com/">Wys Gal</a><br /><a href="http://yolynne.wordpress.com/">Yolynne Medina</a><br /><a href="http://www.yoshke.com/">Yoshke Dimen</a><br /><a href="http://citizenonmars.blogsome.com/">Yusop Masdal</a><br /><a href="http://www.kontrapelo.com/">Zaldy Dalisay</a><br /><a href="http://zeniamai.wordpress.com/">Zenia Mai Enriquez</a><br /><a href="http://www.belolats.com/">Zobel Certeza</a><br /><br />*with entrecard </p>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-28520615071114518442008-02-25T16:00:00.043+08:002008-02-25T06:47:33.806+08:00An International Dread of Iron Fist<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R8HzkK0CuMI/AAAAAAAAAGw/CATSm4wOp4c/s1600-h/Iron+Fist.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170681649901516994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R8HzkK0CuMI/AAAAAAAAAGw/CATSm4wOp4c/s200/Iron+Fist.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify">Two years and two decades ago a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSA_revolution">human barricade</a> in flowers and prayers, marching along the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epifanio_de_los_Santos_Avenue">Epifanio de los Santos Avenue</a> in Manila, toppled down a mad man who pathologically ruled the Philippines for 20 years. The strategy was noted to be far effective than any saliva, ink, blood, torches and effigies scrambled in in earlier attempts to break through the trigger-addicted, money-driven, terror-friendly regime. The human barricade succeeded since its soul was not just among those elbow-linking thousands in the capital but extended to the million freedom seekers in every habitable island in the archipelago which seemed to be every Filipino except <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos">Ferdinand Marcos</a>, his family, cronies and worshipers. That spirit of solidarity under the wings of freedom from an Iron Fist gave birth to the world's first ever <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSA_revolution">People Power Revolution</a>.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Each member of this global society recognizes some years of living dangerously which often fell between the span of mid 30's to mid 90's which was characterized by Soviet ventriloquisted communist Europe, Che-Guevara-inspired Latin rebellion, post- colonial African republics' wrong concept of democracy, and Asian economic rape and strangulation. Iron fists themselves came in variety internationally such as: open absolute controllers (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochet">Agusto Pinochet</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Macías_Nguema">Francisco Nguema</a>) or lurking political manipulators (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win">Ne Win</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonín_Novotný">Antonin Novotny</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_García">Anastasio Samoza</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi">Mohammad Reza Pahlavi</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito">Josip Tito</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulko_Chervenkov">Vulko Chervenkov</a>); justifying oppressors (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao">Mao Zedong</a>) or benevolent kleptocrats (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Peron">Juan Peron</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunda">Kenneth Kaunda</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Torrijos">Omar Torrijos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro">Fidel Castro</a>); genocide gods (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco">Francisco Franco</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto">Muhammad Soeharto</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_pot">Pol Pot</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceauşescu">Nicolae Ceausesco</a>) or opponent vindicators (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ubico">Jorge Ubico</a>, <a title="Nur Muhammad Taraki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Muhammad_Taraki">Nur Muhammad Taraki</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam">Mengistu Mariamu</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_García_Meza">Luis Tejada</a>, <a title="Zine El Abidine Ben Ali" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali">Zine Ben Ali</a>); and freaked warriors (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Rojas_Pinilla">Gustavo Pinilla</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moammar_Al_Qadhafi">Moammar al-Qadhafi</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha">Sani Abacha</a>) or dreaming megalomaniacs (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_de_Oliveira_Salazar">Antonio Salazar</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_A._Odria">Manuel Obria</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin">Idi Amin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega">Manuel Noriega</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadam_Husein">Sadam Husein</a>). The unique cultic ideology which spun around the brains of these notorious persona ran down their nerve endings and crossed skins to create a prolonged hair raising sensation in every contingent of their nations. Their eras were marked by changes from maps to marital statuses, from fellowships to food allocation, from culture to concept of truth. Hoodlums come from the government, from people in black robes, from men in uniform, all spreading terror. Every opposition was a rebel, every rebel was executed, every execution was concealed. Companies grabbed from the elite, and soul sipped from the marginalized. The knowledgeables bled, the innocents sweat. Grand projects proposed, started and fell while IMF dept rose. Nearly everyone lost someone or something. Too ghastly to recall, yet too vivid to be forgotten.</div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">To understand it all, Iron Fists were also humans perverted by psychological stresses reaching values critical enough for them to cause such social-politico-economic problem. Such social problem requires only one type of solution – human solution – such as the people power revolution. The success then of depends on the critical mass of individuals (mostly the oppressed) in dread of iron fist who are willing to participate in recollecting the national soul and reviving its people, its government , its economy and its culture and redirecting its destiny.</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-65362141877854643412008-02-22T06:49:00.003+08:002008-02-24T15:52:05.054+08:00Weeding Wandering Wordiness<div align="justify"> I don't talk a lot, though I soulfully understand that talk deals, talk feels, talk gears and talk heals. But lately, with some few word outs I have done, I was reminded that talk also jails and talks could kill. </div><div align="justify"><br /> There was a group of sophomore medical students sent to the hospital one night to observe clinical procedures done during a normal delivery. While waiting for a patient to arrive (or not to arrive), I toured them around the wards, the labor and delivery rooms and gave them a “welcome-to-the-hospital introduction” including brief patient care, basic ward routine, and chart rounds. As a big brother in medical field I also left them some tips on how to apply the three-year theoretical knowledge in the actual clinics. The sharing of my personal experiences to others is always a learning process on my part as it reminds me of my own errors. That group's 12-hour obstetric exposure, however, ended without a single delivery. Not even a patient to labor watch about. Quite rare in the department which on the average have 3 to 9 deliveries each night. </div><div align="justify"><br /> That unlucky joke of time resulted to my name and my words which were just popping out that night being lollied, tongue volleyed like a candy, crunched to bits, swallowed and digested down to the sophomore medical students' exposure report paper. My colleague who was able to read those feedbacks called my attention. He laughed pronouncing it loud. I felt so ashamed and on the brink of finding a suturing set to hand tie my lips. What have I done? There was really nothing in the papers that can jail or kill me since I also did not spread a 10th degree gossip but an unslanderous personally experienced hospital life. But the idea that every sense and nonsense words I sent out were absorbed by my younger sibs in the med field who are still in the earlier levels of opinion evolution kills me. They won't forget those nonsense words. And I won't too. </div><div align="justify"><br /> Despite I don't talk a lot, even I am not into gossips, though I keep on minimizing information miscommunication, simply because I talk I am vowing to weed my words out. Talking words or too powerful. Let us weed our wandering wordiness because talks could kill.</div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-51820113467324573092008-02-18T23:36:00.003+08:002008-02-20T23:39:42.956+08:00Cautious Candle Consumption<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R7xJi60CuLI/AAAAAAAAAGo/LY09W1SlPfo/s1600-h/candle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169087336566405298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-xc0s-lTqFA/R7xJi60CuLI/AAAAAAAAAGo/LY09W1SlPfo/s200/candle.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">We are like candles as our living earth is. We eat ourselves. But we are not picked-up sticks, wick-moistened till ignition and left vaporizing to waste candelas of lumination to nothingnity. We have to be consumed clean, fragrant and ritualistic as possible. We have to practice responsible self-consumption. </div><div align="justify"><br />To feign a dictionary, consuption is the action and effect of using or spending property or utility to meet needs or desires. In the world of exchange, it is the final stage of economic process where good or service of some value to the consumer subject are either directly destroyed or transformed into another type of goods or services. The 21st Century is challenging more and more our pattern of consumption. The world government amidst global prosperity, are taking steps to reduce it, reusing the reusable, recycling the recyclable, almost to project a creation-destruction ratio of 1:1, which even in artificial computations remains a project. I say we do not have to stop or reduce burning ourselves as candles deserve to be consumed till the last paraffin molecule. Human satisfaction must not be sacrificed to ephemeral matter. We just have to spend cautiously day by day. </div><div align="justify"><br />Responsible consumption is mortal awareness that everything we gobble has barter cost: physiologic, financial, social or environmental are a few. Each time we spend we pay with our calorie dump, our monetary earnings, and our specie from our core family to the man world periphery, and the Earth itself – the then green and blue Earth we were educated of. OK, less talk here. Just reflect with a candle. </div><div align="justify"><br />Again, we have to be consumed clean, fragrant and ritualistic as possible.We have to practice cautious candle consumption. </div>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464980039087965809.post-65035769767631597942008-02-14T06:40:00.005+08:002008-02-14T06:49:18.088+08:00Come What May<p><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H7l0O7nCgmI&rel=" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" border="0" color1="0x5d1719&color2="></embed></p><p></p>hulaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02382695315405735877noreply@blogger.com3