The Inconvenient Truth: Philippines

Half of Naga City submerged along with five eastern towns of the Bicol region, and between 20 million to 30 million turned into environment refugees across the Philippines.
Just read this article from inquirer.net
I can’t blog too much about this, it hurts

Philippines: Epicenter of Rice Crisis

As I have already spread out in the first part of this post, there are many factors why the rice prices are going up, way up high. Personally, I believe that there is a rice shortage, unlike the statements of our government officials disputing the rice shortage as a myth.
The Philippines has been scrambling to [...]

South East Asia: Center of the Rice Crisis

Rice is the most staple food in this country, where in every corner of this archipelago, people are looking for rice. We never thought that there would be a rice crisis - or shortage of rice production, - but here we are now, at the center of the rice crisis. The government spends about $0.46 [...]

Pollution, not just bad, it’s a sin.

Are you polluting the environment, not helping the world in reducing the effects of climate change, and not an advocate of recycling? Well, now, you are considered a sinner. That is at least, according to the new list of Mortal Sins, according to Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti this month in Vatican.
Manipulate human genes? Cause social or [...]

How about a new dance craze?

Forget the chicken dance, Macarena, and other old dance craze that has reached international fame! The PAPAYA dance from Edu Manzano’s Pilipinas Game Ka Na Ba? is the newest International Dance craze, as ABC’s Good Morning America featured it as the new Macarena. They even showed Filipino children and the Military dancing to its tune.
So, [...]

The New Seven Wonders of the Natural World

Last July, I posted in one of my blog entries the list of the New Seven Wonders of the World, which includes man-made monument from the old timer Pyramids of Egypt to the Ancient China’s Great Wall to the new world Christ the Redemeer of Brazil.
Now, another New 7 Wonders list is ongoing with an [...]

Subjunctive in EDSA II

I have been interested in this article of PDI today. And it coincides with the celebration of EDSA II People Power this week.

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Why is Halloween better than Sex?

Why is Halloween better than Sex?
1. You’re guaranteed to get a little something in the sack.
2. The uglier you are, the easier it is to get some.
3. It doesn’t matter if the kids hear you moaning and groaning.
4. Less guilt the morning after.
5. It doesn’t matter if they fantasize you’re somebody else, because
you are.
6. Forty [...]

Maki-isa: Pinoy Ako!

Ngayon ay Agosto, kaya ang How to Blog an Exploding Man? ay nakiki-isa sa buong sambayanang Pilipinas sa pagdiriwang ng Buwan ng Wika.
Kagaya ng aking ginawa sa Pinoy Yata Ako, bilang pagdiriwang sa Araw ng Kalayaan, ako ay maghahatid sa inyo ng mga blog widgets para sa inyo. Pakitandaan lang po, ang mga ito ay [...]

The New 7 Wonders of the World

Lisbon, Portugal, July 7, 2007 - The world saw the results of the global election that elevated the status of 7 man-made monumental sites as the New Seven Wonders of the World.
From the Seven Ancient Wonders List made by Herodotus and Callimachus of Greek, the election was based from internet votes and telephone/cellphone votes [...]