The sounds of fire crackers crackling, spreading across the world. Everyone is in ecstasy, dancing, shouting and jumping to the tune of the coming year. The New Year has come but let’s not forget the turbulent year we have just passed.

Wow, I don't know if he has xray vision or something

The last year was pretty much not the ideal year for humanity. Well there’s Bush’s reelection, one of the dumbest move of the American electorate. Then we the Filipinos did our share of mistakes- namely the reelection of the peap squeak GMA.

The world has not change this past year, still the war in the middle east is on going and add to that we have another problem- that of Iraq, one of biggest flops in American foreign policy.

The war in Iraq intensifies. Would the coming election really suceed?

Then locally we had the fiscal crisis supposedly by GMA’s mismanagement of our budget. Then the rising sensations of the AFP comptroller who had managed to extract money from our government and still up to now nothing has happened in that case.

Then we also had deaths, first it was Arafat and then locally we had the Panday’s death and the death of Devenecia’s daughter.

It was a surreal year for everyone. Especially the deaths that we have faced- and particularly two events that are too close to our homes. First was the deadly successive typhoons which hit parts of Northern Luzon triggering landslides which killed hundreds of people. Then after that the region faces the greatest natural disaster after 40 years. 120,000 dead and still rising, encompassing almost 12 countries in the region. And as if trying to spread more deaths before the year ends- a concert fire in Aregetina killed hundreds of sprawling and young teens as well.

It was clearly a difficult year for humanity, marred with the violence in Middle East, the spread of diseases such as the avian flu, political turmoil in various countries and great natural disasters which took human life.

But despite this despair the great redeeming value of humanity is that we are able to survive and not just survive- we help one another to survive. Despite the deaths in Aurora and the disaster in South and South East Asia humanity stood up to the cause. Here we see that despite the bad nature of humans, we still have that good in us, which makes us all, survive this world. As of now the world has rallied more than billions just to help the survivors of the tsunami, and that is not exclusive only to government or aid organizations- It is clear now that people around the world are awakening to the fact that in order for us to all survive, we should all look out for each other, help each other- care.

The greatness of disasters is that they bring out the best in humans, and my only dearest hope is that is renewed awakening of “being involved in the world” be passed through in the coming year.

So despite the predictions of those fortunetellers that the New Year isn’t going be any better. Well at least we now know how best to cope with any disaster or scrouge that will hit us and that my friends is through altruism, helping each other in times of adversity.

Happy New Year!

May this New Year be a year where humanity realizes its latent potential to bring about a “good life”

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I found this comment somewhere in the net and I found it to be plain S-T-U-P-I-D

Listin up all u Kerry Fans; change ur vote to BUSH!!
*Kerry and Clinton are both DEMOCRAT...September 11th wasn't Bush's Fault; it was CLINTON! If Kerry is elected we will prolly have another terorist attack on American soil killing many!
What? Clinton????

response:Do you even know that the democrats are against out sourcing?(well its good for us filipinos but bad news for you since you voted Bush)

*Kerry is ment to be left in the "ketchup" family, not the White House.
responseare you Bush?
*No one wants a President who looks like Frankenstien!

response:He sure looks ugly- but atleast he's doesn't look like a monkey

*If Kerry and Edwards are voted into office, the world is going down! If Kerry and Edwards are voted into office they prolly will stop everything in Iraq and they will hate us because we will not help them out with the capturing of their people that are very mean and kill for a living and we will not reconstruct their country with them.

response: Do you want me to pound something on your head inorder to come to reality? They already hate you in the middle east because you always, always intrude in their affairs. Now look what you did in Iraq, it was better of when Sadam was heading it.


GO BUSH!! W'04!! GO BUSH!

response:Yeah he won, well that sucks for the whole world.

I don't want to leave this kind of life but well it's classes tommorow there's nothing I could do.

Time to be serious again, should not miss that chance again to be dean's lister. I almost got close last term..

You still know them, do you? If not then you have forgotten those ladies who push yakult carts and eventually sell their yakult packs(if they can that is)

Before they usually sported the yellow uniform by yakult but nowadays I see them only in their casual clothes- that is if I still can see any of them. They are already rare, like the calesas- fast becoming extinct.

I feel symphaty for them whenever at manage to see one selling- All day long they toil the streets, uncertain if they can sell their product.
I don't know but I saw one on a rare ocassion a few months past. And I felt that I should buy from this lady- seemingly enough I asked her if she had a hard time selling her lacto bacili packed lactose based drink, and sure she did had a hard time.

I wonder... will these yakult ladies still survive, I hope so.

Speaking of Yakult, I heard from a friend that yakult can be a good mix with the right alcohol + some good old cerulean pills(I don't advocate this though)

I wonder...(Yes I am wondering again)

Ano mas ok?

May driver, o may kotse?

(Ops, baka magpilosopo kayo na "kung walang kotse ano crive ng driver? "Ano yun kakandong na lang kay mang driver? Ibig ko sabihin dyan sa tanong na yan eh ano mass ok, kung may driver kayo kaso hindi mo drive yon, oh may kotse kayo kaso walang driver- ikaw yung driver ngayon)

Bloggers are coming to the rescue in the wake of South Asia's deadly tsunami.
- Doug Tsuruoka
article by Doug Tsuruoka


With the recent tsunamis in south east asia it was suprising to know that we bloggers hand at a hand in circulating vital information and aid.

Some posted links to various organizations which needed revenue to bank roll their aid operations. Some went out to post their symphaties on the tragedy. Some went all out to even encourage others to donate.

So it's really suprising, depiste what other people have said about "blogging", no matter how self centered it may seem. We still had a hand in the efforts for those who needed aid.

Dakila ang mga blogger.

I have been barin storming on this story for days already. And this is just my first draf of it. It goes along the line of a post apocalyptic filipino based fiction, with some anito and juedo christian and kabala references in it.

A land where no man rests, god plays with him in the sun bathed lands, the devil feeds on him on the moonlit sky.

A place where death calls upon death, a allegory of a chilling past
Where demons haunt our thoughts, wrangling them to obscurity.
With god as their handler, bringing despair to the whole archipelago

- from a journal in the tomes of Katiklan

The darkness of the acacia tree brings wonder, they say. That fruit of the forbidden god, hiding beneath the mangrove infested waters of that ludicrous island they call Bora. The waves beneath the placid ocean near that island hold secrets, which no man should even know.

It has been said, and passed down to us people here in Guimaras, that the fruit is the key to the place which name cannot be said, or face persecution and death. It is the city once touted by all in the lands of this archipelago- that long lost city encased within the gates of time.

I am a lost soul, wandering this god forsaken world. I have died two years ago, facing the demon they call Tikbla. His hard and clove hooves, pounding on my chest, crushing it with a powerful force, driving the song of madness and death to my heart, and as I clutched his hooves with my frail hands, trying with all my power to stay alive, my soul eventually waned but you’d have to expect that there be an afterworld. I was waiting at that time for god to call me into his divine judgment hall; waiting for his cherubims to sing their songs of redemption and praise. Their wings and sphinx like body, greeting me to eternal paradise. I also was waiting for the face of god- Metatron to guide me to the divine providence, as he promised me, as I face the demon lord Tikbla - but I was wrong, no one was there, not even a single chime nor hush from the cherubs, nor the familiar fiery flames of Sinai from Metatron, nor did his brother Sandalphon, the angel of prayer heeded my pleas for help, please for acceptance to the eternal heaven in the skies. It was as if I only fleeted my physical body. And now I am stuck in this plain of existence, struggling between the metaphysical and “real world”.

“Bah rubbish I tell you, you know if you continue to say crap like that I’ll gulp you whole”

And so I continued to pester Maria, with my absurd yet true knowledge. But I knew Maria was a skeptic, being a mananangal and all, well, let’s just say manangals like her don’t believe humans, or souls like me.

“all just rubbish I tell you Juan,”she continued, her tongue slithering about, searching for frogs within the area.” If god where dead? Then wouldn’t Samael take his reins right now?”

A nigga- feeling japanese with a samurai sword, who masturbates at the fact when he kills those vampires. Who’s that nigga? It’s Blade you fool.

Ok, The first was was good enough to merit my interest, the second one failed because of those unclean graphics, and now the trinity has come- and let me tell you, I wish it never came.

Ok, the basic premise of Blade was that here’s a half vampire, half human who is also a vampire hunter. Who wouldn’t like that? It’s a cool idea, but then again I haven’t read the comics yet, so let’s reserve this review for the movie version.

What the Blade series always offered to me was good bloody action- and in “trinity” they did not fail me in that department. The action in Blade Trinity can be compared to those Nintendo side-scrolling games, from the likes of ninja turtles to the likes of Moonwalk by Micheal Jackson. It was all unbelievable mayhem. Blade here was like an unstoppable force, barging along countless number of anonymous henchmen, killing them one by one- in a snap.

But action can’t even save this movie in my eyes- Sure you could dazzle with me with those cool weaponry and special moves but like those side scrolling games this movie had no story to even support it.

Basically the story was this, we are presented with a notion that Dracula or rather Drake- cula was from the ancient sumerian region, near the river tigris and Euphrates. Cool isn’t it? But let me tell you the idea was cool but the execution was zero. What we have here is unlike the gentleman, classic Dracula what we have is an Arabian boy, who sucks blood, but he even sucks big time with character portrayal. Dracula in this movie is a no-brainer, he had no character, and he was stupid. Basically the only words that I remember from that poor excuse, as the vampire overlord is honor, shit now he’s talking samurai as well. He’s like the reverse version of Blade- blade gets seismic orgasm when killing vampires, drake-cula on the other hand gets magical orgasm when he kills people. And that’s it, no secret plans, no back drop of his past, no even explanation why he even slept for a thousand years. What’s even more dumb is that he get to transform into a Diablo-esque monster. Sure its cool but it’s just that no matter how fierce looking and abominable he may seem, he still had no character to fill the void. Well he did have a character but it was a stupid character to begin with. He talks of honor and the like, but where is the honor when he killed that blind woman. What’s his honor anyway, he didn’t even explain that, he just kept on babbling it.

Then there were the other characters; Van Wilder is still type cast as Van Wilder- he can‘t get out of his role as a comedic stud. Then there was that girl with the bow and arrow- she was cool, but the arrow, the bow and the discman where the only things that I could remember form her(well she’s hot though, girls with bows and arrows turns me on XD) The there was Blade- there’s only little that I could say about him- M.C Hammer with a bad hairdo and a sword. The only characters I cared about this flick are the blind woman and her daughter- the others I don’t have a care in the world what happens to them.

On the visual side it did a very good job except for that one scene where drake-cula and blade were jumping to each other- man, did that look fake as Michael Jackson’s face.
But yes, you’ll be please with it visually but that’s about it.


To sum it up, Blade Trinity was like a Biker boy- Vampire Hunter cross over. With all those pimping songs, and popping music I couldn’t care less about this film- it sucked big time, I should have watched kung fu hustle.