MikeLigalig.com

hala si jonald... napahit na tingali iyang epok ug crocodile kay naa na may gisi.

PHILIPPINES
Jonald Libres, 28, walks on a tight rope over live crocodiles while wearing a Santa Claus costume as part of performances for the Christmas Yuletide season at a crocodile farm in Pasay city, metro Manila December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

FRANCE
People walk past a giant Christmas tree near a Ferris wheel on the place Massena as part of Christmas holiday season illuminations in Nice December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

CHINA
Women take pictures in front of a Santa Claus figure outside a shopping mall ahead of Christmas in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Jon Woo

FRANCE
A man dressed as Santa Claus skates on an ice rink across from the Eiffel Tower as part of the Christmas holiday season preparations, in Paris December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

GERMANY
Tourists from Japan look at Christmas decorations on a stall at the opening day of Germany's oldest Christkindlesmarkt (Christ Child Market) in Nuremberg November 29, 2013. The first official record of this pre-Christmas market dates back to 1628. A list of notices for stall holders from 1737 shows that almost all of Nuremberg's craftsmen were represented. Every year, Germany's traditional markets, such as the centuries-old Christkindlesmarkt in medieval Nuremberg, draw millions of visitors, both local and foreign. They open before the first Sunday of Advent and usually continue until December 24 at noon. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

GERMANY
A woman takes a picture of herself with part of the Christmas illumination of the main shopping mall Kurfuerstendamm boulevard in Berlin, December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

POLAND
People walk under light decorations during the annual illumination of Christmas lights at Krakowskie Przedmiescie street, part of the historical Trakt Krolewski (The Royal Route), in Warsaw December 7, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

HUNGARY
Vendors prepare food at the Budapest Christmas Fair at Vorosmarty square in downtown Budapest, December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

UNITED STATES
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama meets with the children of U.S. military service members at the unveiling of the Christmas decorations at the White House in Washington, December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

HUNGARY
People visit a Christmas market in downtown Budapest, December 11, 2013. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BRITAIN
Eric Marshall poses for a photograph after switching on his Christmas lights for the first time this year on his house in Bagby, northern England December 2, 2013. Eric spends three weeks each year setting up the display which runs throughout December to the 12th night, and raises funds for the local church. Photograph taken December 2, 2013 REUTERS/Nigel Roddis

BRITAIN
Traffic moves along under the Oxford Street Christmas lights after they were switched on in central London, November 12, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

FRANCE
People sit inside a giant Christmas ball as part of Christmas holiday season decorations in Nice December 5, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

i missed watching this with the banana republic.  sigh.

though she may be straight talking and veers on the vulgar at times (part of her showbiz persona?), pilar pilapil is truly gracious.  she told my sister, "i'll see you again next year.  hang in there."

"Whether it is a tactical at-sea encounter, or strategic dialogue, sustained and reliable communication mitigates the risk of mishaps, which is in the interest of both the U.S. and China," the official said in an email to Reuters.

Security expert Thayer said the incident was the most significant since five Chinese ships harassed a U.S. oceanographic research vessel, the USS Impeccable, in 2009, also in the South China Sea.

"There have been hints of other incidents that both sides have apparently kept quiet but not this time," he said.

"The U.S. is determined to stand by its rights in international waters and is clearly expecting China to act accordingly." (Additional reporting by Manuel Mogato in MANILA and Greg Torode in HONG KONG; Editing by Jim Loney, David Brunnstrom and Michael Perry.)


http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

The Chinese carrier, which has yet to be fully armed and is still being used as a training platform, was flanked by escort ships including two destroyers and two frigates.

Asked if the Chinese vessel was moving toward the Cowpens with aggressive intent, an official declined to speculate on the motivations of the Chinese crew.

"U.S. leaders have been clear about our commitment to develop a stable and continuous military-to-military relationship with China," the official said in the email.

The U.S. Navy said the Cowpens was conducting regular freedom-of-navigation operations when the incident occurred.

China deployed the Liaoning to the South China Sea just days after announcing a new air defence zone which covers air space around a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea that are administered by Japan but claimed by Beijing as well.

Beijing declared the air zone late last month and demanded that aircraft flying through it provide flight plans and other information. The United States and its allies rejected the demand and have flown military aircraft into the zone.

In Beijing, the Chinese foreign and defence ministries have yet to respond to questions about the incident, while China's often-nationalistic on-line platforms were filling with debate about the near-miss.

One poster demanded the Chinese navy follow-up by blazing an "independent sea lane" to Hawaii.

Beijing routinely objects to U.S. military surveillance operations within its exclusive economic zone, while Washington insists the United States and other countries have the right to conduct routine operations in what its says are international waters.

Heightened tensions over China's military assertiveness have raised concerns that an minor incident in disputed maritime waters, the South China Sea and East China Sea, could quickly escalate. Both Japan and China lay claim to islands in the East China Sea and have scrambled aircraft in recent months over the disputed seas and conducted naval patrols.

China and several ASEAN nations have competing territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The U.S. has raised the latest incident at a "high level" with the Chinese government, according to a State Department official quoted by the U.S. military's Stars and Stripes newspaper.

Another Chinese warship maneuvered near the Cowpens in the incident on December 5, and the Cowpens was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision, the Pacific Fleet said in its statement.

"Eventually, effective bridge-to-bridge communications occurred between the U.S. and Chinese crews, and both vessels maneuvered to ensure safe passage," said the defence official.

The near miss was the most significant U.S.-China maritime incident in the South China Sea since 2009, said security expert Carl Thayer at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

U.S., Chinese warships narrowly avoid collision in South China Sea

By David Alexander and Pete Sweeney | Reuters
December 14, 2013 


The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires Standard Missiles (SM) 2 missiles at an airborne drone during a live-fire weapons shoot in the Pacific Ocean in this handout photo taken September 20, 2012 and released to Reuters on September 25, 2012. REUTERS/Paul Kelly/U.S. Navy photo/Handout/Files


WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A U.S. guided missile cruiser operating in international waters in the South China Sea was forced to take evasive action last week to avoid a collision with a Chinese warship maneuvering nearby, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a statement on Friday.

The incident came as the USS Cowpens was operating near China's only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and at a time of heightened tensions in the region following Beijing's declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone farther north in the East China Sea, a U.S. defence official said.

respetohan gyod ang auhoritah ni bugol nga baby bubot.

hurot akong bilib kun mao niy paris sa snacks sa primary grade school.

mas labawng hurot akong bilib kun ang dugo nga type ni count dracula nga romanian packaged pod ug juice box.

goodness me, power after all not only corrupts, it also creates monsters.

the diamond jubilarians, pilita's batch.  talk of longevity...

Quote from: chicogon on December 14, 2013, 01:53:41 PM
Mga kuyaw ning produkto aning inyong skul el saluti

only with what is apparent.  we all know that they've been wounded like the rest of us ordinary mortals.  i still feel that with the fragility-cum-strength of the human spirit, they must have spent sleepless nights sometime in their lives thinking that they could give up what they have and what they are in exchange for a more peaceful life. 

Quote from: chicogon on December 14, 2013, 01:51:49 PM
Gwapa gehapon no? Does she live in Cebu?

she hails from liloan, where she stays most of the time, though she goes to manila now and then for her tv soap role.

she has hewed closer to her faith.  after doy laurel (with whom she hooked up for some years), an italian guy (whom she married and divorced), she's now settled with a pastor.

yeheeey!  kanta kog apil ug "usahay" ani no?  chorus tibuok auditorium.

pilita corrales opening the alumni homecoming.  did i love her singing!

hehehe, teenage crush ra gyod tawon.  she's now 62 and is thus much older than you are.   like most middle-aged women, she's so bulky now, though her shape has remained. 

i got this image from a friend's friend.  i saw pilar only when she was onstage to receive her outstanding alumna award for her work in the movies and television.

pilar pilapil arrives for the alumni homecoming during cic-cebu's 133rd anniversary.

Quote from: chicogon on December 12, 2013, 01:29:26 AM
World-class singer/performer baya jud na siya nga wa lang tagaeg break sa international industry. Pilian kaayo ang international sa ilang kaugalingong mga celebrities - mao sad ta - but we are no competition sa ubang lugar pagpadikat ug mga actors ug singers labi na sa una. Karon hawod na ta pero kutob ra pod sa text votes ug magpa viral sa YouTube... but only to that extent. We are still dependent on a Helen Generes or sn Oprah or even a David Foster to get one "really" up there.

true gyod, fr chic.  pero sige lang, at least pilita continued to regale us right here at home.  besides, gubot pa sa lukot iyang personal life at the peak of her singing career, mao tingali nga wa siya mo-bail out from our shores to make it worldwide with the imprimatur of u.s.cultural hegemony, hehe.

if it assures you any, loll, your story is repeated many times over in all government agencies.  the plot remains, only the characters change except for the starring role-- mr money.

uy, whatchamatta here?  puro na man ni sine nga naka-extra si bai hubs ug bai bugs... hehehe.  lest you forget, dihay mga hubon nga sinaw nisiwil atong sine ngs starring si pilar pilapil.  inyoha to, di ba?

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on December 14, 2013, 06:42:15 AM
nganong gainom-inom man pud ug tuba sa laing balay.

moral lesson/s: neks taym, inom ug tuba sa kaugalingong tugkaran, OR, ajaw inom ug tuba; mantinir na lang ug dom perignon.

hihihi, kanyahay ra si boy abunda gustong ma-gobernador sa eastern samar ug si aling dionisia nakaanak ug congressman nga boksidor... puro sila abilidaran.

something about red cars call for red lips, like bugsay's gff (girlfriend forever):

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 07, 2013, 10:03:13 AM
Red car for Madame Islander...

how dare you reveal my secret, hubag!   btw, i have discarded this car long ago as i have discarded the color red long ago.  type na nako ron ang itlog manoy orens.  

manilans have forgotten.

molupad kag apil ani from the bukid to the sea.

(gtg, toto.  i've promised myself to hit the sack around 12 midnight, like cinderella, so i'll never have this terrible facial zoster ever again.  or so i hope.  i've credited my loss of resistance to my sleepless nights, that's why.  so goodnight.  enjoy the ride on this spaceship called tubagbohol.  beam me up, scotty!)

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 12, 2013, 08:51:41 PM




Karaan...

i know... you and bugsay have watched this movie 30 times with your girlfriends, hihihi.

These days it is bracing to hear a leader say anything that annoys anyone. Now liberals and conservatives alike face a choice as they listen to a new voice of conscience: Which matters more, that this charismatic leader is saying things they think need to be said or that he is also saying things they’d rather not hear?



The heart is a strong muscle; he’s proposing a rigorous exercise plan. And in a very short time, a vast, global, ecumenical audience has shown a hunger to follow him. For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world’s largest church to confronting its deepest needs and for balancing judgment with mercy, Pope Francis is TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year.


TIME.com http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/pope-francis-the-choice/#ixzz2nH5blJ8z

None of which makes him a liberalâ€"he also says the all-male priesthood is not subject to debate, nor is abortion, nor is the definition of marriage. But his focus on the poor and the fact that the world’s poorest 50% control barely 1% of its wealth unsettles those who defend capitalism as the most successful antipoverty program in history. You could argue that he is Teddy Roosevelt protecting capitalism from its own excesses or he is simply saying what Popes before him have said, that Jesus calls us to care for the least among usâ€"only he’s saying it in a way that people seem to be hearing differently. And that may be especially important coming from the first Pope from the New World. A century ago, two-thirds of Catholics lived in Europe; now fewer than a quarter do, and how he is heard in countries where being gay is a crime and educating women for leadership roles is a heresy may have the power to transform cultures in which Catholicism is a growing, even potentially liberating force.

The giddy embrace of the secular press makes Francis suspect among traditionalists who fear he buys popularity at the price of a watered-down faith. He has deftly leveraged the media’s fascination to draw attention to everything from his prayers for peace in Syria to his pointed attack on trickle-down economics, which inspired Jesse Jackson to compare him to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rush Limbaugh to wonder whether he’s a Marxist. When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. Why has he not said more about the priest sex-abuse scandal? ask victims’ advocates. (Just this month, he set up a commission to address the abuse of children by priests.) Why does he not talk more about the sanctity of life? ask conservatives, who note that in his exhortation, abortion is mentioned once, mercy 32 times. Francis both affirms traditional teachings on sexuality and warns that the church has become distracted by them. He attacks priests who won’t baptize children born out of wedlock for their “rigorous and hypocritical neo-clericalism.” He declares that God “has redeemed all of us … not just Catholics. Everyone, even atheists.” He posed with environmental activists holding an antifracking T-shirt and called on politicians and business leaders to be “protectors of creation.”

This focus on compassion, along with a general aura of merriment not always associated with princes of the church, has made Francis something of a rock star. More than 3 million people turned out to see him on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro last summer, the crowds in St. Peter’s Square are ecstatic, and the souvenirs are selling fast. Francesco is the most popular male baby name in Italy. Churches report a “Francis effect” of lapsed Catholics returning to Mass and confession, though anecdotes are no substitute for hard evidence, and surveys of U.S. Catholics, at least, see little change in practice thus far. But the fascination with Francis even outside his flock gives him an opportunity that his predecessor, Benedict XVI, never hadâ€" to magnify the message of the church and its power to do great good.

amen.

And yet in less than a year, he has done something remarkable: he has not changed the words, but he’s changed the music. Tone and temperament matter in a church built on the substance of symbolsâ€"bread and wine, body and bloodâ€"so it is a mistake to dismiss any Pope’s symbolic choices­ as gestures empty of the force of law. He released his first exhortation, an attack on “the idolatry of money,” just as Americans were contemplating the day set aside for gratitude and whether to spend it at the mall. This is a man with a sense of timing. He lives not in the papal palace surrounded by courtiers but in a spare hostel surrounded by priests. He prays all the time, even while waiting for the dentist. He has retired the papal Mercedes in favor of a scuffed-up Ford Focus. No red shoes, no gilded cross, just an iron one around his neck. When he rejects the pomp and the privilege, releases information on Vatican finances for the first time, reprimands a profligate German Archbishop, cold-calls strangers in distress, offers to baptize the baby of a divorced woman whose married lover wanted her to abort it, he is doing more than modeling mercy and ­transparency. He is ­embracing complexity and acknowledging the risk that a church obsessed with its own rights and righteousness could inflict more wounds than it heals. Asked why he seems uninterested in waging a culture war, he refers to the battlefield. The church is a field hospital, he says. Our first duty is to tend to the wounded. You don’t ask a bleeding man about his cholesterol level.

The skeptics will point to the obstacles Francis faces in accomplishing much of anything beyond making casual believers feel better about the softer tone coming out of Rome while feeling free to ignore the harder substance. The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. At its best it inspires and instructs, helps and heals and calls the faithful to heed their better angels. But it has been weakened worldwide by scandal, corruption, a shortage of priests and a challenge, especially across the fertile mission fields of the southern hemisphere, from evangelical and Pentecostal rivals. In some quarters, core teachings on divorce and contraception are widely ignored and orthodoxy derided as obsolete. Vatican bureaucrats and clergy stand accused of infighting, graft, blackmail and an obsession with “small-minded rules,” as Francis puts it, rather than the vast possibilities of grace. Don’t just preach; listen, he says. Don’t scold; heal.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places, along comes a man with no army or weapons, no kingdom beyond a tight fist of land in the middle of Rome but with the immense wealth and weight of history behind him, to throw down a challenge. The world is getting smaller; individual voices are getting louder; technology is turning virtue viral, so his pulpit is visible to the ends of the earth. When he kisses the face of a disfigured man or washes the feet of a Muslim woman, the image resonates far beyond the boundaries of the Catholic Church.

The Choice: Pope Francis is TIME's Person of the Year 2013

by Nancy Gibbs
Managing Editor
Time Magazine


Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

How do you practice humility from the most exalted throne on earth? Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quicklyâ€"young and old, faithful and cynicalâ€"as has Pope Francis. In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very center of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power.

"Obama has taken a funeral selfie," Jason Feifer, the site's creator, wrote. "So our work here is done."

Schmidt claims he was surprised by the controversy his photos generated.

“I took these photos totally spontaneously, without thinking about what impact they might have," he wrote. "At the time, I thought the world leaders were simply acting like human beings, like me and you. I guess it’s a sign of our times that somehow this image seemed to get more attention than the event itself. Go figure.”


http://ph.news.yahoo.com/obama-funeral-selfie-152731325.html

Schmidt also defended the world leaders' decision to take a selfie at the memorial service.

"All around me in the stadium, South Africans were dancing, singing and laughing to honor their departed leader," Schmidt wrote. "It was more like a carnival atmosphere, not at all morbid."

Tuesday's event was not a funeral. Nonetheless, the "Selfies at Funerals" Tumblr, which documented the aforementioned trend, categorized the group's selfie as one.

That didn't stop the tabloids from splashing the first lady's reaction shots on their covers.

"Michelle's beside her selfie over flirty 'Bam," the Daily News declared.

"Flirting With Dane-Ger!" the New York Post warned.

"No Selfie Respect," the U.K.'s Sun said.

Photographer on Michelle Obama's reaction to selfie: 'Photos can lie'

By Dylan Stableford
Senior Media Editor
Yahoo News | December 11, 2013

The photographer who captured President Barack Obama, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron taking a selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday insists Michelle Obama's stern reaction seen in the photo was not directed at the group.

"I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture," Roberto Schmidt, the Agence France-Presse photographer who took the photo, wrote in a blog post. "But photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Thorning-Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance."

this must have been part of the relief items.  and it's not for sale.

really it's not.  but what happened here?  no one wishes for a centipede child... or is that a sextupede?

see what i mean?  now you have blueging...

di ba na tungod lang sa lighting and filter nga gigamit sa shot?

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 12, 2013, 09:07:19 PM
Hmm, the only way to remove her mouth?

but look closer and it's a gaping mouth there, sans a head!

sir, nganong maayo man pod kaayo ka molihay?

Artificial Snow

Snow machines shoot a mixture of water and compressed air out of nozzles.  The water comes out as fine droplets, and the air cools as it decompresses, causing the droplets to freeze.  A fan blows the ice particles onto the slopes.



You can see from the picture at right that artificial snow is made of frozen water droplets, with none of the elaborate structure found in real snow crystals.


excerpts from http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm

Irregular Crystals

The most common snow crystals by far are the irregular crystals.  These are small, usually clumped together, and show little of the symmetry seen in stellar or columnar crystals.

Rimed Crystals

Clouds are made of countless water droplets, and sometimes these droplets collide with and stick to snow crystals.  The frozen droplets are called rime.  All the different types of snow crystals can be found decorated with rime.  When the coverage is especially heavy, so that the assembly looks like a tiny snowball, the result is called graupel.

Radiating Dendrites

When the pieces of a polycrystal grow out into dendrites, the result is called a radiating dendrite (also called a spatial dendrite). 

Bullet Rosettes

The nucleation of an ice grain sometimes yields multiple crystals all growing together at random orientations.  When the different pieces grow into columns, the result is called a bullet rosette.  These polycrystals often break up to leave isolated bullet-shaped crystals.

12-Sided Snowflakes

Sometimes capped columns form with a twist, a 30-degree twist to be specific.  The two end-plates are both six-branched crystals, but one is rotated 30 degrees relative to the other.  This is a form of crystal twinning, in which two crystals grow joined in a specific orientation.

Triangular Crystals

Plates sometimes grow as truncated triangles when the temperature is near -2 C (28 F).  If the corners of the plates sprout arms, the result is an odd version of a stellar plate crystal.  These crystals are relatively rare.

Split Plates and Stars

These are forms of double plates, except that part of one plate grows large along with part of the other plate.  The picture at right shows all eight ways to make a split star.  Split plates and stars, like double plates, are common but often unnoticed.

Double Plates

A double plate is basically a capped column with an especially short central column.  The plates are so close together that inevitably one grows out faster and shields the other from its source of water vapor.  The result is one large plate connected to a much smaller one.  These crystals are common -- many snowflakes that look like ordinary stellar plates are actually double plates if you look closely.

Capped Columns

These crystals first grow into stubby columns, and then they blow into a region of the clouds where the growth becomes plate-like.  The result is two thin, plate-like crystals growing on the ends of an ice column.  Capped columns don't appear in every snowfall, but you can find them if you look for them.

Needles

Needles are slender, columnar ice crystals that grow when the temperature is around -5 C (23 F).  On your sleeve these snowflakes look like small bits of white hair.

Hollow Columns

Hexagonal columns often form with conical hollow regions in their ends, and such forms are called hollow columns.  These crystals are small, so you need a good magnifier to see the hollow regions.

Fernlike Stellar Dendrites

Sometimes the branches of stellar crystals have so many sidebranches they look a bit like ferns, so we call them fernlike stellar dendrites.  These are the largest snow crystals, often falling to earth with diameters of 5 mm or more.  In spite of their large size, these are single crystals of ice -- the water molecules are lined up from one end to the other.

Stellar Dendrites

Dendritic means "tree-like", so stellar dendrites are plate-like snow crystals that have branches and sidebranches.  These are fairly large crystals, typically 2-4 mm in diameter, that are easily seen with the naked eye.

Sectored Plates

Stellar plates often show distinctive ridges that point to the corners between adjacent prism facets.  When these ridges are especially prominent, the crystals are called sectored plates.

Stellar Plates

These common snowflakes are thin, plate-like crystals with six broad arms that form a star-like shape.  Their faces are often decorated with amazingly elaborate and symmetrical markings.

Simple Prisms

A hexagonal prism is the most basic snow crystal geometry.  Depending on how fast the different facets grow, snow crystal prisms can appear as thin hexagonal plates, slender hexagonal columns (shaped a lot like wooden pencils), or anything in between.  Simple prisms are usually so small they can barely be seen with the naked eye.

types of snowflakes

yes, it's not funny.  why a headless wife?

i like the name pwaging better.  amorado morag champorado.  pwaging is nearer swaging, hehe.

the airline that's never on time...

my ten cents' worth: manny pacquiao's defeat was a national tragedy?  oh-oh...  i don't get it.  or is the tragedy his battle with the BIR?  but then, is that a national tragedy? 

should an upset girl be subjected to this, call the guy by his full name and tell him to undergo circumcision.

a nice gesture, truly.  just to bother to spend time and make children smile is already something.

sa tinuoray, pang-exorcist the movie kana.  he, bugsay, moves forward at a perfect angle, dayon hagsa ug shot ang ulo sa lampshade.

maayo sad kaayo mangintriga ang media.  himoan ug estorya nga morag katohoan.  i would choose to see beyond those images.  split-second snapshots cannot represent the whole scene in those hours of tributes. 

the only thing that impresses me about these images is that everybody's a kid at heart.

molupad ba ni?

hmph.  bantay gyod mong duha nako, hubsay.  may araw rin kayo...

other awardees together with my sister--- pilita corrales and pilar pilapil, hahaha!  i teased my sister about it... so you're in their league, eh?  kini ra silang duha akong nganlan kay mga pop culture personalities man, mas nailhan sa uban nga rarefied ang mga accomplishments, like that awardee who is an international pianist and concertist nga niabot nag tokar sa spain. 

i must point out that pilita is a rare breed.  morag di graduate sa class of 1953, por santo wa pa man tingaliy natawo nato dinhi anang tuiga.  that makes her an octogenarian, aka diamond jubilarian.  por santo, ang iyang ka-batch nagtangag na ug private nurses, siya nag-miniskirt pa, energetic pa kaayong ni-perform.  she opened the program by regaling the crowd with 6 songs(!)--- english, tagalog, cebuano and spanish (she happens to be spanish-speaking too kay katsila man gyod tawon na siya).  whew!  she asked the crowd to sing along with her "usahay"; the crowd obliged.  wow!  what a real great singer, peformer, and trouper.  really, she's not pilita for nothing.

p.s. i knew only now that she beat olivia newton-john in an international contest sometime in the 1970s.

Quote from: chicogon on December 12, 2013, 12:42:08 AM
It's good to hear your sister is managing well... will continue to offer prayers for her and family. I will ask my Daily Mass Group and homebound prayer warriors to include her in their intentions. Gae nya ko iya name to give to my groups.

God is good!

thank you very much, fr chic.  this is great, a real godsend blessing.  i'll pm her name to you.  my sister is single.  we are her family.

this was a few days ago; call this delayed reporting thus...

my sister, who's still on chemotherapy, received an award as one of the outstanding alumni in the field of literary and speech arts during the homecoming event of our alma mater.  she had our niece, another alumna of the school, beside her, ready to receive the award for her in case all those medicines in her bloodstream get the better of her.  (i chose to stay in the sidelights.) 

my sister managed to stand up and go to the stage, in flapper-era gown and headdress (to cover her baldness) and surgical mask.  she got a standing ovation from a crowd that filled the whole auditorium!  was i teary-eyed.  how proud our father would have been had he been around to physically witness this sister who was always the bravest one among us his children.

Quote from: chicogon on December 12, 2013, 12:31:44 AM
Tinga bitaw sad so sa difference price-wise. Even more so sa sound: a canned sounding keyboard (Casio) vs a real band sound features

samot ka-weird.  ngek-ngek man tawon ang sound ug casio.  maayo rag calculator.

funny baya akong acquisition sa secondhand piano.  paid it with a postdated check kay wa tawon koy cash.  ang orig owner for sentimental reasons would not also want to sell it to just anyone.  gusto gyod niya nga someone like me nga pareha niyag alma mater.  da, tua, nautangan hinoon.  duha man god iyang piano unya wa na kunoy makasunod sa usa.  mao nga iyang gi-let go.  but just now, i'm also very excited because it had always been my dream to have the sound of real piano keys wafting throughout the house. 

kadako ba uroy sa diperensya sa presyo.  unsa ba diay nang sm.  hinoon, like any store, uban items barato, adto bawion sa kamahal sa ubang items.  i tried canvassing for a certain item once.  resulta, didto ko naalkansi sa biyahe.  penny wise pound foolish akong gawas, hihihi.

firefox akong tiggamit man god, fr chic.  unya mora man kog iring, a creature of habit, karon nabag-ohan ko sa internet explorer kay now pa ko nakagamit ug internet sa akong notebook kay napugos kog gamit kay guba man diay ang pc diri sa akong sister sa cebu.

oh, no.  i don't know how to post images with windows internet explorer...

mortal kombat?  what's next, a comics strip?  enough of this kind of show.  both are moneyed because of their government positions.  and now they think the people can't get enough of their sideshow while typhoon yolanda and bohol's earthquake victims are picking up their lives?  and they get paid on government time to display their utter mutual hatred?  it's time for both to disappear from the public.  enough.