Arnis: Filipino Martial Arts

If Japan has Judo, China has Kung fu, Korea has Taekwondo and Thailand has Kickboxing, the Philippines also has a deadly Martial art that the world has embraced. Collectively known as Arnis, it is a form of self defense which is characterized by the...

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Halloween Costume Ideas

Suppose you are a Costume Shop owner and because it's the eve of Halloween, every piece of costume you had were sold out. Well, not exactly because seven costumes were left ((1) Pink Fairy, (2) Borat, (3) French Maid, (4) Dumb Caveman, (5) Witch, (6)...

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New iPod Touch with Games

I was planning to buy a PSP slim (i know I'm such a loser for not owning one yet! i know!) for quite some time now. I was planning to buy one from my own money and so far according to my calculations, I'd probably get one by next month. I had a dilemma once and it involved being torn between PSP and iPod Touch. I liked iPod Touch solely because of its touchscreen navigation control and decided that...

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Flick Critique 1.05

I can't believe how busy I am right now. So much stuff to attend to and so much more lined-up. It really pays that once in a while I get to watch movies for free. Thanks to some officemates who were able to hand me DVD ripped copies of recent movies...

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Related Posts Widget for Blogger

If you would click on the title of this post, you would notice that at the end of this article there is a Related Posts widget. This widget would be helpful in increasing your site's page views because it gives your readers options to read posts on your...

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RP's Top Universities 2008

Quacquarelli Symonds, through The Times Higher Education, released the QS World University Rankings 2008 where the 500 best universities from around the globe were recognized. Though it has been receiving negative feedbacks and questions on the accuracy...

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Philippines' Richest 2008

After 13 long years of being on top, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world no more! He settled for the 3rd richest dude on the face of the earth while Warren Buffet, an American investor, now holds the title previously earned by Gates. In the Philippine...

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Philippines' Largest Airlines

After telling you about the Philippine's Tallest Building & 5 Largest Malls, I now give you the Philippines' Five Largest Airlines in terms of Fleet & Destinations. Let's start from the bottom up, shall we?Air PhilippinesSlogan: "Fly with us!"Established:...

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A Boring MRT Ride

ZAP!!! You snap back to reality and found youself seated on the blue seats of MRT. You were lucky tonight. Normally, you would have to push yourself and swim into the crowd to be seated. Like gladiators at The Coliseum, you'd fight for a place in those...

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Pinoy Urban Legends 2.0

As promised, here's the part two of Pinoy Urban Legends. Enjoy!1. In UP Diliman, a student decided to take an early morning drive with his Volkswagen of a car around campus. Later that day, his body was found a few feet from his car that had run out...

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Japanese Monkey Waiters

I love monkeys and I would actually like to have one! Monkeys are so smart and I think they make really good pets. But monkeys, as I have recently discovered, could be good waiters too! That's what Japanese tavern Kayabukiya was able to learn. The monkeys, Yat-Chan at Fuku-chan, serve hot towels and brings beer to customers before they actually order anything from the menu.Look at them donning a Japanese...

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Top 5 Biggest Philippine Malls

Filipinos love for "malling" is fast becoming our way of life. It doesn't matter if we come to malls to splurge on goodies we love or just to sit by the benches and watch people walk by, going to malls has become a Filipino identity. So it is no surprise...

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Zero to Three

It was my good friend , Red, who pointed it out to me. At first I was "No way! It can't be!". I mean there has to be something wrong. How SPOON LAGOON got an instant Page Rank of 3 after just 2 months in the blogscene is a mystery to me. It is so freakin'...

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Flick Critique 1.04

I got my hands on more than 1o DVD ripped movies from the office am so excited to watch all of them! I got Hulk, Hancock, Get Smart and so much more so that means October would be full of FC posts! Yeay! This time though, I would be reviewing these movies...Don'tMess...

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Blogomus: A Better Labels Widget

From the very common TAG CLOUD, I've switched to the new, animated, flash based BLOGOMUS labels widget. "Blogumus" is a Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plug-in for Wordpress. Obviously, blogspot owners can get one for their site too because I was able to get one. Due to an unexpected malfunction of my template, I switched to a new one. Right now,...

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No Room for Mistakes

I am CAPABLE.I will SUCCE...

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Dock! Canon Ball!

It was one of really fun days with people you've been wanting to see so much because you miss them. You are seated inside a moviehouse with your high school friends enjoying a movie called "The Last Samurai", a Tom Cruise-starrer. More than paying attention...

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Cosplay Anyone?

What is Cosplay? Cosplay, short for costume play, is a type of performace art in which the participants dress themselves as specific characters from manga, anime, comic books, video games and fantasy movies. Some are good at it; some are bad. Let's look...

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Pinoy Urban Legends 1.0

Urban Legends are modern folkloric tales thought to be factual by those circulating them. Urban legends are not necessarily false but, most often than not, they are distorted, exaggerated and sensationalized overtime. Some of the more popular Urban Legends...

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So That's What You Call Work?

I'm working. I think? Haha. So after graduating last march and passing the boards last July, I just got work! I have been training for this cert company for almost two weeks now and I must say I am enjoying it so far. Except for my work being on a night...

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Survivor Philippines

Philippine television is overflowing with franchises of international hit shows like Ugly Betty, American Idol, Project Runway and many more. It still maddens me that GMA got the rights to bring Survivor (the first ever reality show that rocked my TV...

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Philippines' Tallest Building

We all know that the World's tallest building right at this very moment is the Taipei 101 and that by September 2009, the title of the World's Tallest Skyscraper would belong to Burj Dubai. Now the question is do you know the tallest building in the...

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B.I.T.C.H.

Everyone of us had had at least one moment when we forgot about being nice and unleashed our mean side. Now don't raise that eyebrow on me, lahat tayo guilty when it comes to this. I don't blame you guys for being mean especially when the occassion calls...

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Improve your Favicon

Last time I taught you how to make a favicon with IconJ and I know some of you would have preferred a better favicon generator. Well, I've got good news. DeGraeve is so much better than IconJ in generating a kewl favicon. You have two options to generate...

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How to Add a Favicon

Favicon is a small icon located at the address bar of your browser window and is used for identity and branding of a site. Favicon is short for favorite icon and is recognized by its ".ico" extension. If you're using the later versions of firefox and...

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Free Hugs Manila

Would you a hug s total stranger? If I have to be honest, I won't hug just anybody I meet in the streets. There's just something about our Filipino upbringing that would forbid us to do that. But breaking this norm is the Free Hugs Campaign that was started by a man only known by his pseudonuym "Juan Mann". Free Hugs Campaign started in 2004 at Sydney, Australia and now everybody in the world is doing...

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Are You Ready to See the Numbers?

Country: PHILIPPINESNumber of Rural poor (million) (approximate) , 2004 31.2Poor as % total rural population, 1997 50.7Population...

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In The Not So Distant Future

.I was tagged by Red to answer this meme that IMO is actaully for married guys. Haha. I am lightyears away from marrying anybody. I'm still young, Red. Haha. Except for some questions, the meme seems fun to accomplish naman so I'll give it a try...1. When was your first kiss?Haha. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in 2nd grade that time and I had a girl for a seatmate. The night...

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Have a Picnik!

Compare the pictures below. It's the same picture but one is better than the other, right? The one on the right is better in terms of sharpness and color. I did not use Photoshop to do this. I used a free, browser-based photo editing tool to make the...

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