Category Archives: Current Events

How to Prepare When Typhoons Come

Preparing one’s home in case of a typhoon is one of the more practical things we can do to be able to go through a day or two or even possibly a week-long survival from the different effects it may bring our way.

Expect brownouts, water leaks and very cold weather. For the more extreme weather condition, expect fallen down trees (no!!! we have trees beside the house), longer power interruptions and flood (noo!!! we almost got flooded inside the house two years ago).

Just in case, the most logical thing to do if these extreme weather condition come your way, better prep an “emergency kit” with the following:

  • non-perishable food items like canned goods, dried fruits, cereals
  • store bottled water
  • fresh batteries and flashlights with working bulbs
  • candles and matches (or have your rechargeable lights charged)
  • blankets and jackets

Charge all gadgets before the storms are in your area and reserve the battery for emergency cases.

Keep in touch with people just in case something happens.

Above all, keep safe in your home if your home is safe enough. Evacuate when needed and go to safer places. You don’t want to be the one being rescued like you see in the news, right?

 

I Hope Tomorrow is a Better Day

Today was a very tiring day for me, even if I didn’t go anywhere because I canceled my appointment with a student. If only we are able to do telecommuting via MegaMeeting Enterprise Software installed in my laptop and still have our session, I’d be glad to do it, even if it means I’d take a small chunk off my professional fee 😉

IF only this student has internet connection at home or even allowed to go near a computer, argh.

Why so tired when I just stayed home the whole day?

I woke up to the news that an earthquake occurred around the time I went to sleep. Must have been exhausted because I didn’t feel a thing but  where my parents are, they have felt it and got very scared.

Morning gave way to news of accidents, a bus going off an elevated highway, a multiple car collision, another vehicular accident and a storm now category 2. Landslide and flooding elsewhere happened too, sigh…

Twitterverse was abuzz the whole day with so many info about these sad events.

Classes have been suspended for tomorrow and so my worries about the kids getting stranded on their way home from school is now far-fetched.

I hope tomorrow is going to be a better day.

Proclamation No 84: Regular and Special Non-Working Holidays for 2011

PROCLAMATION NO. 84

DECLARING THE REGULAR HOLIDAYS, SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAYS, AND SPECIAL HOLIDAY (FOR ALL SCHOOLS) FOR THE YEAR 2011:

A. Regular Holidays

New Year’s Day – January 1 (Saturday)

Araw ng Kagitingan – April 9 (Saturday)

Maundy Thursday – April 21

Good Friday – April 22

Labor Day – May 1 (Sunday)

Independence Day – June 12 (Sunday)

National Heroes Day – August 29 (Last Monday of August)

Bonifacio Day – November 30 (Wednesday)

Christmas Day – December 25 (Sunday)

Rizal Day – December 30 (Friday)

B. Special (Non-Working) Days

Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Sunday)

All Saints Day – November 1 (Tuesday)

Last Day of the Year – December 31 (Saturday)

C. Special Holiday (for all schools)

EDSA Revolution Anniversary – February 25 (Friday)

Download the PDF here for more info.

Mark Zuckerberg: Time Person of the Year 2010

Mark Zuckerberg has been named as TIME Person of the Year 2010.

But if it was me, I’d have Julian Assange as my personal choice who was#1 and got 382, 024 votes from readers like me (I voted for him, LOL) but for personal reasons I would rather not specify here why I chose him, since this post is about Mark Zuckerberg (who got 18,353 votes).

Not that Mark Zuckerberg aims for world domination with 550 million members in Facebook and where there is one out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account and with 75 languages plus collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. No one, can beat that because the numbers are changing fast.

And we have this guy to thank for for being able to track down childhood friends we haven’t seen for decades, cousins/aunts/uncles once or twice removed, exes, former teachers and even for some, they found half-brothers and half-sisters.

Though there may be issues that people have to put up with especially about their privacy, still Facebook is THE one where people’s online activity converge.

And yes, I’ve known people who stopped blogging once they were in Facebook.

Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg for being TIME Person of the Year 2010.

Pinoy Christmas

What would constitute a Pinoy Christmas?

Below is a checklist of things Filipinos love to do during the festive season of Christmas:

  • Misa de Gallo and that includes puto bumbong, bibingka and tsokolate-e
  • putting up Christmas decorations and playing Christmas songs as soon as the -ber months come (and yes, these Christmas decors in the malls are displayed alongside candles for All Souls’ Day)
  • food! be it a big slab of ham or a small one, queso de bola, fruit salad, pasta or noodle dishes, special meat dishes, and even the “borrowed” roasted turkey, a Pinoy Christmas is equated with feast (and lots of medications for queasy stomachs after the binging)
  • shopping: whether one shops at the poshest specialty stores or haggle with salesgirls at the Divisoria, gift giving is a responsibility one takes to heart. And yes, no matter what happens and how little the budget is, people are none the wiser and say “It’s the thought that counts”
  • borrowed traditions: like the turkey, Pinoys are adept at borrowing traditions and acting like these have been their practice for years (insert rolls eyes emoticon here, LOL) : Santa Claus, jour après Noël, Christmas stockings, Christmas village with mini houses and even moving skaters on frozen pond (miniatures and not the real ones)

Ok, bring the snow and let’s all have a white Christmas then, at the mall of course 😀