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Sad kaayo no? He was so young, was a father of a 2 year old, his career was just starting, life was just opening everything.

I do mourn for Mr. Ledger, and for his loved ones that lost a great Son, Father, friend, brother.

I also learn from this. That life, life is unpredictable. Life can never be truly predicted, God knows that. And to me Mr. Ledger lived a good life, though short it was, and as far as I know he was a practicing christian and a man of faith. I'm sure that Heath is in peace now, no longing or pain fills his heart, for he would have been united with the Heart of Christ. Where there is neither pain, affliction, anguish, guilt, but only complete peace. Beyond what we in this valley of tears can ever imagine of experiencing in our mortal lives.

We have to learn from Mr. Ledger's life and death. And most of all, know that life is unpredictable, we will never know when its our time to 'go home' until the moment we do. So I say, go and tell your loved ones , all of you that you love them. And may you all walk with the peace and love of the Lord. Who is complete and utter Love.

Thats true, Mr. Ayag. I personally would like to retire in Bohol some day because of the 'total' care one gets  so long as you have the capital to hire workers to care after you. In particular, my grandfather is already 81 years old, though he is a strong man in spirit and in body, he is a stroke victim. His entire left side of the body was affected by the stroke he had back in 1996, thank god it was in the right side of the brain that was affected not the left side, the problems affected only include (minimal):     
   * Paralysis on the left side of the body   
    * Vision problems   
    * Quick, inquisitive behavioral style   
    * Memory loss
whereas a stroke that affects the left side, which my Lolo did not have, thank God, is     
   * Paralysis on the right side of the body   
    * Speech/language problems   
    * Slow, cautious behavioral style   
    * Considerable Memory loss

But Lolo has been able to live with his stroke, actually strengthened his right side of the body, he does pull ups in his wheel chair, can dress himself, shower himself etc with just the use of his right side of the body. Aside from his strong spirit, it is the help of the hired hands that we hired to care for our beloved Lolo. They're trained in giving him medication, preparing his food, etc, though the only thing they have to worry about is the food aspect because Lolo, like me, has a large appetite, LOL. Im just thankful for the workers that care for my grandfather because they keep an eye on him 24/7. I personally want to retire in Bohol because of family, and i don't want to be stuck in a nursing home here in the states where one is easily abused or 'left alone'. That is a nightmare to many Americans, including myself.

I've heard from my Auntie, who is in the top level of the DILG, the Asst. Provincial Director of Bohol,  that this is a deal. Word comes from high up in the echelon of government.
And I personally think that it is a good thing. I don't think that we have to worry about so much of a devastating effect on the ecological fauna in Bohol because the millions of tourists that the supposed Panglao International Airport is supposed to take in are not coming to Bohol for 'night-life' action, urban development and what not, I mean why would they? Cebu is literally right next door. The tourists that will come to Bohol are coming to the island for the environmental aspect, to see the local fauna, the infamous and world-known "Chocolate Hills of Carmen". (Last week I just drove to Erie, PA and went to the mall in Millcreek and saw a huge poster on Bohol's Chocolate Hills in the Travel Agency department. Thats how 'well known' Bohol is over here, specially in North Western Pa. Americans going to Bohol go there for its relaxed and comfortable setting, they don't want to see the island get 'remodeled' as you or I do. The airport will only provide the basis for more tourists, which translates into more capital for tourist destinations in Bohol, more capital for the transportation sector, or hotel and housing sectors.

Bohol is blessed with all her wonders, which many other provinces in the Philippines could only DREAM about having, to even be considered in having an international airport built in, in particular.

Quote from: lumine on January 25, 2008, 08:52:16 PM
hello kuya jun! he's better now. thank God!

hello dong onic! i'm hugging baby matt as i read your post. he's very active again. he doesn't want me to hold him when he 's walking.

hahahahaha mao ba? ayay di diay shya gusto i-pa hold when he walks? cute na cute! LOL.
Im happy that your baby is in good health again, 'te. He's a strong little boy. He has the fiery spirit of the Filipino from his mother.

God Bless all of you, please extend my regards to your husband as well.

My heart felt condolences goes to the families of those who were killed in this horrible accident. Please keep us updated on this, Leo. Thank You, kaayo.

Greetings!

Hey Ford! Welcome to Tubag Bohol, or in Bisaya we would say "Kummusta man ka diri uy! "
So what part of the 'states are you from man? Im currently in northwestern PA at the moment.

Seriously man, welcome to the group! We need more American members over here hahaha!

What? Taken while I was at the gym. LOL.

As of right now:

Exhausted (just came back from the gym)
Frisky
Frisky

Mike if you ever need anyone to vouche for you in Tagbilaran, I can tell my Aunt. She probably knows alot about the situation, perhaps you know her. Ma. Louisella Lucino, the Asst. Provincial Director of Bohol.

Quote from: BlueAngel on January 26, 2008, 05:00:45 AM
nah kinsa may ma firing squad on Valentines Day hah?

what about candle light Dinner? corny hmn?

nahala ka-ang ug laklak nalang

What about you Ms. Blue? What are you and your Valentine going to do on V-day? A stroll in Berlin? A dinner in Hamburg? eh? eh? lol!

Mao bitaw. I think Ill just stick with my original SUV until she gives out. I was just thinking about 'getting' a new car and I couldn't bear giving my baby away to another person. They might abuse her

You dont know how to drive yet diay, 'te?

I know, hahaha i feel the same way. What I really want is a Volvo XC90 but my parents told me thats outside of the budget.

Here are the ups and downs on the posted SUV models:

Montero Sport
Pros: Mid size SUV, excellent in rough terrain, smooth on rough roads, sticks to the road, feel little to no bumps at all, affordable within the 25-30k $ range.
Cons: Gas guzzler (18 mpg in city roads, 20 mpg in highway roads), needs check ups

Endeavor
Pros: Mid size SUV, smooth in roads, has similar capability with Montero Sport, more affordable than Montero Sport
Cons: Gas guzzler, brand new SUV (not as time tested as the Montero,Montero Sport, Pajero)

Outlander
Pros: Compact size SUV, great with gas (25+mpg), decent on rough terrain
Cons: Not as firm as Montero Sport, Endeavor, can feel bumps

I'm considering trading in my 2003 Mitsubishi Montero Sport V6 LS model for a newer Mitsubishi SUV models.
I don't know tho, I still feel bonded with SUV though.




Snow tires, she rips through ice and deep snow covered roads like knife through butter.








Here are the models that I'm considering replacing for:

2008 Mitsubishi Montero Sport V6 XLS




2008 Mitsubishi Endeavor V6 LS



2008 Mitsubishi Outlander






What do you guys think?

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever
Psalm 23





Come Rest. Rest a while.

So who in here has a 'Valentine' for Valentine's Day?
Doing anything fun? romantic? yummy? during this event?

Hahaha hmm, i wonder who my valentine is. 

Quote from: Ginger on January 10, 2008, 04:57:30 AM

Gorgeous. I have an urge to just climb the hill and yell out "Yodellehihooo yodellee yodellee yodellehihooo"

LOL

As far as what I know, yes 'te.

You know what's interesting, there are people in China (in the province of Hubei) that still use alovera juice from alovera plants as a form of soap. For thousands of years, these people used the same soap and enjoy a rather high immunity level from diseases.

Herbal and 'all-natural' products seem to become increasingly more legit as time passes.

Energy Crisis: Renewable Resource-Hydrogen and Natural Gas
Published by: Allegheny College
Author: A. Lorenzo Lucino Jr
2005

Throughout the history of mankind, societies have always implored the use of natural resources in order to advance their civilizations from one age to the next. An example of this would be the human civilizations thousands of years ago during the B.C periods of the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Parthian, Han, and Hindustani Empires consuming wood and coal to further their populace as well as exploiting copper, iron and ore to produce weapons. The present civilizations, especially in the United States, Canada as well as Europe have depended on petroleum trade as its primary natural resource of exploitation. There have been observable advancements for the renewable resources such as wind power, solar power, hydroelectric power and hydrogen based power, which would overall lead to the lessening of the dependence on the monopolistic hold the non renewable resource industry has on society. The more the reason why we need to study non-renewables such as natural gas and renewables such as hydrogen power is to understand their contributions in technology, economics, environment and politics.

   Both energy sources differ in daily consumption and public knowledge of each source. One can attest to this because most citizens know what natural gas is, but there are a few who do not know of the hydrogen “economy”. One particular example of this lies in the fact that natural gas is a large provider of power and energy, whose amount of consumption is growing by two to three percent annually. This is a difference natural gas and hydrogen share in the societal spectrum; as natural gas consumption rates continue to skyrocket, hydrogen remains pale in comparison of consumption rates with natural gas. Natural gas and hydrogen differ simply because there have been more investment in tapping natural gas by international countries, whereas the investment for hydrogen power for domestic use in the past half century have remained stagnant with a little increase in the last two decades (Meadows, Meadows and Randers 70).

   One needs to understand the basic background and history of hydrogen in order to begin a comparison of natural gas and hydrogen power. The idea of hydrogen as an energy provider is new to the ears of a lot of people, but is a good idea for a solution to the addiction the United States and other industrialized nations have with petroleum. Hydrogen is perfect for nations who are conscious about the effects on the environment and the fact is that the emissions hydrogen gives off are far less destructive to the atmosphere, as compared to petroleum and other non renewable natural resources, which actually give off high amounts of carbon monoxide and destructive hydrocarbons (Hydrogen 1). Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen in 1776, but it was not utilized commercially until the 1920s and even from then it was harvested and consumed in small amounts (Rifkin 180-181).

   The use of hydrogen in the past was primarily as an experimental fuel for submarines, battleships, automobiles and locomotives. Today it has changed. For example, the world produced 400 billion cubic meters of hydrogen in 1999. This is used in fertilizers and the hydrogenation of agrarian products, however it has been ignored as an actual fuel for transportation use since the post World War II era until the energy crisis of 1973. During that time, scientists and government officials realized the dire need for energy and started investing in the research of all-purpose hydrogen (Rifkin 182). Throughout the late 20th century, however, hydrogen was utilized in new areas such as Soviet jets and US test airplanes. Recently in 1994, Belgium utilized hydrogen-powered buses, which showed that hydrogen has been a growing factor as an energy provider for the international community (Rifkin 183). Something of similar feats was achieved not only in Europe, such feats were also found in the economic super power state of Japan in recent times. Lately in Japan, hydrogen has been used as fuel in cars, as well as a growing energy provider in the “land of the rising sun” and should be a catalyst for other nations (Hydrogen Economy). Compared to natural gas, which is processed after its extraction from faults underneath the earth by pipes, hydrogen is produced from a process that strips the hydrogen atoms from natural gas and leaves carbon dioxide as a byproduct. The process of using steam to reform natural gas, is the fastest and most widely used way to make hydrogen (Rifkin 185) (Hydrogen Economy).

   The history of hydrogen is quite long, stretching back as far as 1776. Nevertheless, it was not used commercially till the 1920s, whereas natural gas was found in the 18th century but was put into use during the early 19th century. Natural Gas was put to use in the United States of America in 1821 and found great fame with the oil phenomenon of the 1850s in the eastern United States (Barlow and Tussing 9). From its infancy and throughout the nineteenth century, manufactured gas was used exclusively for illumination. Gas works spring up around the country beginning in the 1820s and soon displaced tallow candles as the chief source of light. Manufactured gas was able to garner a price after it outpaced its largest competitor, whale oil, which brought the whaling era to the end (Barlow and Tussing 10-14). Industrial and electric-utility markets for gas were relatively small until after World War II when natural gas became a major source of energy and available for the domestic household, primarily in the United States and developing nations (Smil 142-143). This is a reason that favors one source over the other. At the time of both world wars, both natural gas and hydrogen were consumed by the militaries of both axis and allied powers. On the other hand, after the war, hydrogen power was placed in the side and lacked in advancements and investments, whereas natural gas was heavily invested on and was one of the primary domestic energy sources with oil and coal (Natural Gas) (Barlow and Tussing 11).

   On way of comparing these two energy sources are investigating the kinds of technologies put into them. There are multiple technological ways in producing hydrogen; such an example would be the use of resources such as coal, biomass and water. In the case of water, electricity is used from hydroelectric, geothermal and photovoltaic to make hydrogen via electrolysis (Elam, Hock and Sandor). The technological advances in the field of hydrogen has allowed for advances in the use of wind turbines, which has led to the lowering of the cost of wind electricity. This becomes another technological advance in ways of utilizing a hydrogen-based economy. Hitherto, the new technologies for hydrogen use are implemented in wind turbines and propellers as well as natural gas electrolysis (Elam, Hock and Sandor). Hydroelectric power is another potential source of hydrogen production, in that when water evaporates it falls back as precipitation and allows hydroelectric power to create and generate electricity. This power is utilized as a renewable source for the electrolysis of hydrogen (Rifkin 191). Fuel cells are utilized as another form to aid hydrogen. Specifically, they can be used as batteries, but they continue to work and convert chemical energy using a process that is the reverse of electrolysis and could produce enough electricity needed for towns. In the future, this could also be true for cities and nations (Rifkin 192-193). The technologies for a hydrogen-based economy are interdependent on other electric producing renewable energy sources and dependent on their own advancements.

   Natural gas technology differs in this because natural gas is not interdependent on another energy source’s technology, whereas it has its own. Natural gas technology has primarily relied on the use of 3-D/4-D seismic imaging, CO2 sand fracturing, coiled tubing and offshore drilling technology (Natural Gas). During the early days of natural gas, especially in the 1960s, the United States invested in coal research to find gas. As soon as natural gas was tapped, extraction was used via tubes and pipelines and processed natural gas in barrels in plants. It is then shipped all over the world. This procedure has remained the same, with development in chartering, mapping and extraction procedures that have resulted in less damage to indigenous ecological systems. Due to technological advancements, new explorative techniques, vibrational sounds, and faster extraction, it has become faster and smoother to serve and provide the public with natural gas as public demand continues to skyrocket (Scamehorn 139). This is one difference in which natural gas and hydrogen have, the fact that natural gas has already reached its prime and can no longer find newer technology besides improving the current technologies it already utilizes. Hydrogen power on the other hand has not yet reached its prime in technological advancements since there are newer technological advancements for wind power, biomass, hydroelectric power and fuel cells being implemented annually. As the age of natural gas closes, the age of hydrogen has yet to start completely.

   The study of the economic aspects of these energy sources are quite similar to the technological sector in that natural gas is deeply intertwined in the economies of the international community simply because it is a primary domestic energy source, whereas hydrogen’s impact in national and international economics have been minimal at best (Natural Gas) (MacAvoy 17-18). The non-renewable resource called natural gas is no doubt a vital component of the supply of energy in the world, providing that this colorless, odorless, and shapeless source has impacted the way of life. Natural gas has allowed for the basic comforts of home such as heating the home, cooking  food and providing electrical power for the average American and international household (Natural Gas) (Rogers and Feiss 187). So intertwined are the American and international household and natural gas that natural gas’s consumption rate has grown from a 308 billion cubic feet in 1975 to today’s rate, which is over 10 times that amount (Scamehorn 142) (Natural Gas). In fact, total world consumption of natural gas has increased to over 90 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with Russia not too far behind with 21 trillion cubic feet (Natural Gas). The dependence society has on natural gas can be observed on a first eye view. Such views can be seen in the four primary sectors of society, which are commercial, industrial, residential and transportation (Natural Gas) (Scamehorn 140-141).

Hydrogen and economics is a growing partnership, as we know it. Hydrogen based fuels have grown extensively throughout the world, especially in places such as Belgium, Japan, China, the United States as well as some western European nations. A hydrogen economy is realistically the safest economy if ever implemented. Hydrogen based fuels can be easily produced with the cheap cost of wind power electricity and hydroelectricity, which in turn is used to create man made hydrogen, however have great obstacles in their path (Schneider, Rosencranz and Niles 450). The economics of hydrogen as a fuel derive from the comparison with our existing hydrocarbon fuel framework. Once you take into account the cost of releasing hydrogen from molecules, the use of hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen, the less-than-hoped-for benefits of decreased emissions, the costs of inputs, the much lower energy intensity of hydrogen relative to hydrocarbons, and the costs of transporting hydrocarbons and/or water so they can be processed into hydrogen on-site. It becomes pretty clear that hydrogen is not likely going to be ready for economic prime time for a while. Most estimates put commercial fuel cell vehicles at 10-30 years in the future to be used widespread (Natural Gas) (Hydrogen).   

The United States and most of western Europe continue to be the largest importer and consumer of natural gas primarily because they are the most industrialized in the world and with that comes facilities and houses that need to be fueled b natural gas in order to work. This is the reason why we can implement the conclusion that natural gas industry affects the economies of nations for without it, households wouldn’t operate. Without the operation of households, the operation of daily jobs of civilians would not work; civilians are the essence of nations and states and hence in a broad perspective nations could not operate without natural gas and its sedatives. This is the reason why natural gas is, at the time being, the current in demand energy source compared to hydrogen.

The environmental impact of these energy sources are supremely favorable compared to other energy sources such as oil and coal, which actually emit large amounts of sulfur dioxides, carbon dioxides as well as large amounts of nitrous oxides. Natural gas along with hydrogen emit minimal amounts of these green house gases and commit less damage as compared to the primary non-renewable resources that have been extensively used throughout the late nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century (Schneider, Rosencranz and Niles 10-11). Natural gas technology has intensely advanced in its methods of tapping natural gas wells and as a result, a reduction in environmental damage. During the 50s and 60s the technology in finding natural gas wells were using dynamite and drilling holes in natural gas speculated area, thus causing tremendous damages to valleys, coastlines and shore areas, but in modern times these methods have been completely abandoned. The advancements in technology, as pertained earlier, has reiterated that the use of 3-D/4-D seismic imaging and CO2 sand imaging has resulted in decrease of environmental damages (Natural Gas) (Rogers and Feiss 180). The extensive use of pipelines and safety regulations that are being implemented in the United States, Russia and former Soviet states, China, Japan, Canada, and industrialized Western European states have resulted in little or no natural gas leak incidents (Rogers and Feiss 182) (Goodstein 384-385) (Natural Gas). Natural Gas is the cleanest fossil fuel that is composed primarily of methane. The main products of the combustion of natural gas are carbon dioxide and water vapor, the same compounds we exhale when we breathe:
Coal and oil are composed of much more complex molecules, with a higher carbon ratio and higher nitrogen and sulfur contents. This means that when combusted, coal and oil release higher levels of harmful emissions, including a higher ratio of carbon emissions, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO2). Coal and fuel oil also release ash particles into the environment, substances that do not burn but instead are carried into the atmosphere and contribute to pollution. The combustion of natural gas, on the other hand, releases very small amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, virtually no ash or particulate matter, and lower levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other reactive hydrocarbons (Natural Gas).

Like natural gas on terms of environmental impact, hydrogen is effective in reducing the amounts of green house gases and maintaining a healthy and effective ozone layer and atmosphere. Hydrogen, unlike other fossil fuels, emits absolutely no green house gas such as nitric oxides, carbon monoxides, sulfur dioxides, besides water vapor (Hydrogen). In places such as southern California, where there is a reasonable consensus that the current and projected levels of local air pollution from internal combustion engines are unacceptable, hydrogen infrastructure costs seem very tolerable. Although current PEM fuel cells are expensive due to their micro scale production, projections for high volume production estimate capacity cost of $300 per kilowatt compared to $25-50 per kilowatt for internal combustion engines (Hydrogen1). This is the reason why environmentalists are puzzled why consumers continue to partake in the consumption of natural gas and petroleum. Despite the fact of the advancements in that particular energy source technology, there are still amounts of green house gases being emitted in the atmosphere, while hydrogen does not.

The political spectrum is one of the most debated within these energy sources dealing with the allowifcation of drilling companies to continue to drill in national reserves or near urban areas to the allocation of funds from one energy source to another energy source. Hydrogen has gone through world wide attention, especially in places such as Western Europe, North America, China, India, South America and developing parts of Asia where individual governments have placed grants in investment for fuel cells and a reality of the ‘hydrogen economy’ (Schneider, Rosencranz and Niles 460-461). Within the United States alone there have been quite a few lobbyists in disagreement. The researchers realize they are small players in the hydrogen storage field; in fact their grant is a fraction of the 150 million dollars doled out by the Energy Department for Hydrogen storage research. However, there have been small leaps within the field of hydrogen power. One particular example of this would be the 2003 Bush implementation of a bill to support natural gas advancements research in which would allocate approximately 1.2 billion dollars for hydrogen fuel initiative to decrease America’s growing dependence on foreign oil by developing technology for commercially viable hydrogen power:
The President also encouraged lawmakers to put a comprehensive energy bill on his desk by the end of the year. Las year’s energy bill, which included drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and billions in tax breaks for renewable energy and conservation programs, never made it to the president’s desk. Through Bush’s 500 million dollar Freedom CAR initiative- which is a public private partnership with automakers to advance high technology research for mass production of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles and the 1.2 billion dollar hydrogen fuel initiative, the Energy Department estimates that U.S. demand for petroleum may be reduced by over 11 million barrels per day by 2040. (Porteus)

Natural gas has been an international politics contributor, causing rifled relations with foreign nations on basis of territorial sovereignty of nations and their right to drill natural gas as well as strengthening political ties. Such examples of this would be the Spratly Islands debacle, which is a confrontation of nations of China, Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam. Each country claims part or the entire Spratly Islands because within the islands are large pockets of natural gas, estimated to be about 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Each country will not release their claim on the oil and natural gas rich Spratly Islands, causing naval clashes. The major belligerents in the region would have to be the Philippines and China, primarily because out of all these countries these two have the largest navies (Rogers and Feiss 190). Another example would have to be the Iran-Paki-India Natural Gas Pipeline, which would actually foster better relations of all three nations, bring wealthy and energy to all three states as well as stabilize the south central Asian region (Shamila). Politics within the United States on the basis of natural gas has implemented a looser governmental control of natural gas companies; hence lead to a large annual growth of consumption and a fairly cheap price (Natural Gas). Politically speaking, natural gas and hydrogen have seen international advancements as well as drawbacks; nonetheless, progress in the capitalist world is seen.
   
Natural gas and hydrogen are both excellent and reliable energy sources, with their positives and negatives on the economic, environmental, political and technological spectrum. We have seen the damages on the atmosphere and ozone layers by hard fossil fuels and realize that it is imperative that we find an immediate replacement for them. We find this in both natural gas and hydrogen power, however, these energy sources, particularly hydrogen power needs investment and time to be the primary energy provider. In two to three decades, such advancements will hopefully be seen. During the course of the century, the trade rights between the OPEC nations as well as with the western states continue to rise as the consumption rates of oil and natural gas as well as natural resources continue to rise proportionally in these developing nations. It is this dependence rations hip that allows the middle east to harbor great respect and dependence from far more industrialized and developed states such a s the Unite States of America, which truly depends on the amount of oil the middle east procures for the allowing of the function of the United States. The preliminary purpose of this paper is to reiterate that the Middle East can function without the united states, but the united states cannot function without the middle east, unless it substantially alleviate itself from its current slavery to non-renewable resources by allocating funds to the development of Hydrogen Fuel Cells and or other renewable resources therewithin.

Hhaha bitaw no? Very nice collection of games, there PSD
How is Tomb Raider? I haven't played any of the Tomb Raider series since its first game came out for the PS1.

Btw, how is Super Mario Galaxy?

Mike, all I can say is to hold on to your own ground, despite his attacks. It is very noble of you, despite being attacked, to hold your head up high and not attack back. It is a measure of your character, my friend.
Its better lang not to think about it because thinking or worrying about it too much will only hurt the heart, and in the scheme of things, bro, it really doesn't matter. Stay strong, bro.

Against Race



Against Race, is a puissant literary piece that points out the prevailing social assumptions of the south during the pre-American Civil war and or forthwith after the ending of the Civil War, during the Jim Crow Law Epoch. A superlative source in understanding race relations and the social dynamics of the United States in regards to ethnic disposition; or the understanding or close to understanding of the psyche and legitimization of the said psyche.

The first chapter of Paul Gilroy’s book “Against Race” talks about how African Americans, African Canadians, African British and other decedents of Africans are actually part of the “Black Atlantic”, which he covers in later chapters. The first chapter primarily focuses on introducing to the reader of the presence of racial identities and how racial identities are perceived by society. The introductory parts of the first chapter discusses African slavery and the strives African descendents made in trying to gain respect as humans and not as descendents of human cartel. Gilroy’s first argument was the crisis of raciology. Gilroy notes that the construction of race depended on gene oriented definition of race. He talks about how this ideological thought was pervasive not only in the 18th century but in the 19th to the early 20th centuries. He makes reference of the development of Darwinist theories that erupted as a result of the white man’s quest to define himself as the superior to the inferior enslaved black. Gilroy makes a specific reference to Frantz Fanon, who was a Martiniquean psychiatrist and anticolonial activist whose work frames these concerns, observed this dismal cycle on the lives of both black and white men as he states, “the Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.”   

Gilroy’s second argument in the first chapter was Genes and bodies in consumer science. His second argument talked about the Lacks tissue cell that was used to cultivate other tissues and studied worldwide. The lack of use of ‘blackness’ and thought on raciology was observed in that scientists didn’t care where the tissue cell itself came from. The second argument also notes the famous black artists and movie stars that play an important role on the showing of black artistic nature and natural body beauty in the media. Gilroy goes into credible detail on how the established psyche of the human mind associates ‘blackness’ with brutality, idleness, pessimism and uneducated yet that psyche is changing with the continual exposure of black artists such as Mike Tyson, Spike Lee, and Tyra Banks as glamorous superhuman-like individuals.

Gilroy’s third argument was the thought of beyond the new racism. Gilroy’s third argument stated that the new racial thought wasn’t as bold as raciology itself but was conscious on ethnic and cultural difference. This new racism that Gilroy speaks about endorses the annexation of the ideal of natural difference by the claims of mutually exclusive, national cultures that now stood opposed to on another. In the political geometry of nation-states culture was offset not by nature but by other cultures. In this concept, Gilroy makes specific reference to the use of sociobiology and statements made by Dr. Barker, a sociobiologist.
Gilroy’s fourth argument involved ecology, ethics, and racial observance. Gilroy notes the works by German geographers Friedrich Ratzel and Karl Haushofer and the early twentieth century Swedish geopolitician Rudolf Kjellen; Gilory uses these to support how the Nazis used racial science and how this racial science has been utilized not only by the United States but by Middle Eastern, Asian and European states on ethnic minorities of individual nation states.

Gilroy completes the first chapter with his own long ended report on the observance of race and how not only the leaders of nation states introduced this observance of race but also by the media. The first chapter of Against Race is an exceptional read that allows the reader to analyze and pick the reasons for the presence of racism and the art of raciology and its continual contribution to the psyche of society, either it be European, Asian, Latin, African or Middle Eastern.

Mike, why does Mayor Lim have a clash with you?

You know that back in the 18th to early 19th century, soap was made out of Whale blubber fat?
One of the reasons and antagonists that almost led to the extinction of supra-echelon species of whales: the blue whale, humback whale, the sperm whale (the book Moby Dick illustrates the man vs nature correlation and importance whaling for 'soap, candles' had on the social fabric of Western society)

Thank the Lord for the inception of biochemical substitution, now we can just chemically create 'whale blubber-like proteins' that are essential for the creation of soap.

Quote from: PrincessSaDagat on January 26, 2008, 01:39:22 AM
You are right.  I wanted "active" games for my daughter. We love it!

Did you guys try out the 'Wii Sports'? I love that , hahaha.

I can just be content watching my little brothers play 'game baseball, or game golf' hahahaha!

You should get your daughter the game 'Trauma Center', its pretty cool. Surgical-oriented game.

Quote from: svetlana on January 25, 2008, 04:38:42 PM
pastilan! ka multilingual ba gajud ni Bran oi! hahaha

hahaha
Maybe you can learn some cantonese with me, Sheila. So we can start bursting out some chinese in this hizzie. LOL

or are you only fluent in Spanish?

Congratulations, P!

Wii is one of the best systems I've played, its not about the graphics, but about the playability. Its rather interactive, specially when it comes to the controller. Its very reminiscent of the classic NES system. The Wii is popular for younger kids, my younger brothers love it. I'm more of a hardcore XBOX360/PS3 player.

If you're into graphics and speed, the 360 and the PS3 is a 'Must'.

Welcome, Deromski!

Quote from: BlueAngel on January 25, 2008, 04:25:43 PM
Dong,
arang taasa sakit akong mata ops soricho
unsaon nag dahap2x naman c Eya

but its really informative whoi

Thank you so much, Ate for reading it uy. Its something that you all can do, its really not that hard, once you get into the research. Ako galing, before i started doing the research, i was intimidated by all that had to be done, and i doubted my ability to do it. But you know what? I always pray and ask for the Lord's guidance, and he raised my hands and provided me with the will and perseverance that only the Lord God can provide. I would be nothing, a piece of feces without HIM.

And that is the truth. 

Quote from: st. agnes on January 25, 2008, 04:23:34 PM
Enzo,,, maayo paka taas nag tulinn aw.. saba ni human na ni?
kami sad sa akong groupee cge himo sa among study..
ang tittle sa among Study Enzo... (basin naa kay ika tampo..)

"The Factors Affecting Health Care Services rendered by Nurses in Mandaue City Hospital"

Wa pa ni na human, Elsie, i finished smaller projects, but this one is my Senior Thesis. Hahaha wa pa galing ko ning start sa 'writing' process, well formally write it, that is. I'm still in the laboratory phase, which is so time consuming. Since this senior thesis involves not only the biology, biochemical and organic chemistry aspect, as well as hisotriography of the lake, ang requirements sa kaning project is to supplement data, graphs, as well as methods, results, discussion, historical references. It has to be no less than 50 pages long. God willing, I will be finished with lab-work by the end of this month and I can finally begin writing the historical aspect all throughout Feb, and March. The final paper is due on March 31st, and I have an oral defense before a review board (my advisor, and 2 other professors in the biology and history departments).

So basically, im really really scared.
But God will provide and he has been with me throughout this entire process.
I ask for his aid, and he provides. All glory and honor goes to HIM.

Mr. guangdong, maybe you can teach us Filipino-to-Cantonese or Cantonese-to-English/Filipino translations?
Oh that would be great, sir!

Guangdong, what part of Guangdong province are  you from? My great-grandfather (Tan Ngai Feiyi, or Mariano Tan) was from Guangdong province as well, specifically in present day Macao. I still have many distant relatives that live in Guangdong.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on January 25, 2008, 08:53:19 AM
I have seen studies of world climate by studying ice and glaciers in Alaska. Time is trapped inside the glacier. They are boring holes and the deeper they got, the older the time. They noticed significant amounts of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere during the industrial revolution of Europe (coal age). They also detected high amounts of CO2 estimated during the time of Mt. Pinatubo's eruption.

There is also one study that concludes dust from the Sahara destroys corral reefs in the Carrebean.

You have some sophisticated aparatus there Lorenzo.

Very interesting case study, Mr. Ferniz. This past winter (Jan 2007) I went with Prof. Ostrofsky and several other students to Lake Pleasant, which is a limnologic site in northwestern Pennsylvania, about 35 miles due northwest from my college campus. We were able to core deep into the lake bed, and actually extrapolated not only raw sediment strata, but went far down and hit glacial chalk. Upon further analysis, Prof. Ostrofsky was able to tell vis-a-vis carbon-nitrogen sequestration, that the glacial chalk was during the pre-primordial epoch (say 150-200 thousand years ago). What was interesting was that in analyzing the N:C:P:S (nitrogen-carbon-phosphorus-sulfur) content, there was actually a fine balance of carbon and phosphorus levels, all within the range of maintaining a stable ologotrophicity within the lake. There were trace levels of minor nitrogen, which can be in turn explained due to the limited presence of nitrogen fixing bacteria as compared to now (there is a prevalence of the latter). Its amazing as well because CO2 levels were minimal at best, a fraction in today's standards. What was also interesting, which i observed myself, was the presence of pre-primordial diatoms of biota matter (zooplankton, phytoplankton; most of which are extinct by now--or have evolved into today's species of freshwater zooplankton).

It was humbling for me, because here I was touching and inspecting with an electron microscope extinct living beings that lived within 200,000-1 million years ago. Even before the rise of man, during the adolescent years of Mammalian-Kind.

Lei hao ma guangdong! Wo jiao Lo Ren. em goi for joining Tubag Bohol! Do wan sai sai!

Quote from: junayag on January 25, 2008, 03:11:36 PM

Why Philippines is attractive for expats as a retirement haven it is because of our culture of sincere domesticated service and loyalty for someone who has helped in one way or another....ang tawag ana "mounong".

In the west, it is full of IMPERSONALISM.. kon wala nakay gamit or ayo, ignored ka or neglected. pero dinhi matigulang na ka unya maayo ang imong kinaiya mounong gyod nimo hangtod ta molangyaw sa laing kalibutan.

Well said, Mr. Ayag. And I hope that the Philippine tourism sector taps into this resource, which, if properly handled, could generate thousands of jobs and result in a 'trickle down' effect for the country.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in India Friday for a state visit aimed at boosting political ties, pushing for a bigger share of the booming Asian economy and revitalising weapons sales.

Defence contracts will be high on the agenda, with India ranked as the biggest weapons buyer among emerging nations and expected to spend an estimated 30 billion dollars over the next five years.

France was the second largest arms supplier to India after Russia but has now been overtaken by Israel.

Sarzoky jetted into New Delhi without girlfriend Carla Bruni, although French and Indian media have speculated that the ex-supermodel and pop singer may join him later.

During his two-day visit, the president will be lobbying to revive a Eurocopter bid for a 600-million-dollar (410-million-euro) helicopter contract that New Delhi cancelled in December.

Indian defence sources said Eurocopter used a local go-between despite an Indian ban on middlemen in defence deals. India is to float a new tender and Eurocopter plans to bid again for the contract to supply 197 helicopters.

However, French firms are expected to be invited to upgrade India's fleet of Mirage fighters in a contract worth up to 1.5 billion euros.

Talks will also touch on a nuclear cooperation agreement that has been in the works for years to allow France to supply equipment and fuel to India once it has cleared hurdles with the UN's nuclear watchdog.

India, home to 1.1 billion people and with an economy expanding by nine percent annually, has identified atomic energy as a crucial element to sustained growth.

But because of nuclear weapon tests in 1974 and 1998 India is currently banned from buying fuel for atomic reactors and related equipment.

The French deal hinges on the outcome of negotiations between India and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and with the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls the global nuclear trade.

he United States and Russia are also competing for a place in that market, just as they are for military contracts.

While the deals are expected to fall far short of the 30-billion-dollar trade bonanza Sarkozy signed recently in China, the state visit will "bring new impetus and significant depth to relations between our two democracies," said Sarkozy's spokesman David Martinon earlier this month.

The Indian foreign ministry said the visit was expected to yield agreements "in the fields of defence, railways, science and technology and education."

Sarkozy is lined up for talks with President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Hindu nationalist opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani. On Friday he will be guest of honour at India's annual Republic Day parade.

The latest French diplomatic foray in Asia has risked being eclipsed by intense media speculation over whether girlfriend Bruni would accompany him.

"As far as the delegation list that we have received, she is not coming," Indian foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters on the eve of the visit.

He added, however, that Sarkozy was expected to make a private visit to the 17th century Taj Mahal -- India's famed monument to love -- in Agra, prompting fresh speculation Bruni may be visiting despite a reported denial.

A senior Indian foreign ministry source had said Indian diplomats have been in a protocol quandary over how to treat Bruni.

In October, Sarkozy became the first French president to divorce while in office when he ended his stormy 11-year marriage to his second wife Cecilia.

Italian Premier Romano Prodi resigned Thursday after his center-left coalition narrowly lost a Senate confidence vote, a humiliating end to a 20-month-old government plagued by infighting.

Italy â€" which has has now seen 61 governments fall since World War II â€" faces the prospect of early elections or efforts to form another government, a decision that must be made by President Giorgio Napolitano. Prodi will stay on in the meantime in a caretaker role.

Elected in April 2006, Prodi had a shaky government from nearly the start. It lurched toward collapse this week after a small Christian Democrat party, whose votes were vital to his Senate majority, yanked its support in the latest coalition spat.

The government lost 161-156 after a fiery debate during which one senator was spat upon, fainted and had to be carried out on a stretcher. Lawmakers from the conservative coalition of former Premier Berlusconi cheered and popped the cork on a bottle of sparkling wine as the defeat was announced.

Berlusconi, the billionaire media magnate who lost to Prodi in 2006 and is eager to return to office, called for swift new elections.

But some lawmakers are pushing for an interim government to reform an electoral system blamed for contributing to Italy's chronic political instability. Decades of revolving-door politics have produced 61 governments since World War II.

It was the second time that Prodi was forced to resign because of betrayal by his allies. His first term as premier ended after two years in 1998 when he lost the support of the radical left.

Italy's political climate stabilized in recent years, with Berlusconi's conservative government lasting for a full five-year term starting in 2001.

But Prodi's coalition â€" ranging from pro-Vatican centrists to Communists and Greens â€" began to squabble soon after his victory over Berlusconi.

Known for his unemotional speaking style, Prodi appealed to senators before the vote to let his government continue so it could carry out badly needed reforms.

Among the changes would be an overhaul of an electoral system blamed for giving small parties disproportionate weight in fragile coalitions.

Prodi, 68, had also pledged to reform Italy's costly pension system and boost growth by liberalizing many areas of Italy's economy, from insurance and banking services to taxis and pharmacies.

But the reforms were often watered down after street protests or under pressure from the radical left in the coalition. Italy's economy, while emerging from a period of zero growth, remained sluggish.

Other campaign promises remained unfulfilled, such as giving legal rights to same-sex couples, a bid which angered some centrists in his coalition.

"The country leaves Prodi here and moves on, I don't see him as a meaning political figure in the future," said Franco Pavoncello, a political science professor at Rome's John Cabot University.

On Wednesday, Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies, where his coalition forces have a comfortable majority.

He said he went through with the riskier Senate vote "not a gesture of stubbornness but of being consistent." But he lost his gamble that his allies might close ranks and that Italy's seven senators-for-life could rescue him as in the past.

Berlusconi said his conservative lawmakers would veto any push for a "technocrat" government, an idea supported by lawmakers who want Parliament to enact reforms of the electoral system.

"We need to go to the polls in the shortest time possible without delay," Berlusconi was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency ANSA.

But the leader of the largest party in the government, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, contended that early elections would only "push the country into a situation of dramatic crisis."

Veltroni, the head of a leftist group of former Communists and pro-Vatican centrists, is considered the likely candidate for the left.

The presidential palace said Napolitano would start consulting with political leaders Friday on what to do next.

During the debate, one senator, Christian Democrat Nuccio Cusumano, stood up after Prodi's speech to announce he was breaking with his party to vote in favor of the government.

Some lawmakers from his UDEUR party â€" the group that defected from Prodi's coalition earlier this week â€" responded with calls of "traitor" that resounded through the Senate.

Cusumano was spat upon, fainted, and was carried out on a stretcher. He returned to vote "yes" a few hours later.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out his plan to reform the international financial system and restore stability to markets around the world in a Financial Times comment piece Friday.

Writing as hundreds of policymakers and business leaders were gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, Brown -- who served as Britain's finance minister for a decade before succeeding Tony Blair in June -- wrote there was now a window of opportunity to implement change.

Brown was himself set to address the Davos event later on Friday morning, and take part in a round-table discussion in the afternoon.

According to him, recent turbulence in the financial markets, which he described as the global economy's "biggest test in more than a decade", has "exposed four big questions and issues for policymakers around the globe."

Those four issues were a transparency deficit throughout the financial system, a lack of cross-border co-operation between national regulators, the role of fiscal policy in supporting monetary policy, and the threat of protectionism.

Brown wrote that countries "now need not only strengthened national regulatory frameworks, but also strengthened international co-operation ... We need a clearer, more authoritative watchdog."

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should be at the heart of this reform ... To be effective for a new era, the IMF should act with the same independence as a central bank -- responsible for the surveillance of the world economy, for informing and educating markets, and for enforcing transparency through the system."

He also called for more transparency in financial transactions, a commitment to free trade and open markets, and governments to ensure that fiscal policy played "its rightful role" alongside monetary policy.

The prime minister called on "progressive business and government voices ... (to) come together to agree a manifesto for successful globalisation."

"That manifesto needs to stand behind free trade, open markets, flexible economies and investment in people as the only way forward for rich and poor alike."

He pledged to "redouble" his efforts to help reach a fair world trade deal.

In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent.

The bank called the fraud "exceptional in its size and nature," and said it apparently went undetected for more than a year by its own multilayered security systems.

It would place the young trader, identified as 31-year-old Jerome Kerviel, atop the pantheon of rogue traders for a scheme from which bank executives said he apparently did not make a personal profit.

Societe Generale Chief Executive Daniel Bouton said Kerviel's motivations were "totally irrational" but gave no further clues to his motive.

The bank, France's second-largest, said Thursday it had learned of the fraud last weekend. And the timing could not have been worse: The bank was forced to sell Kerviel's contracts just as stock markets were plunging worldwide. It took the bank three days to unload them.

Societe Generale said the losses amounted to 4.9 billion euros, or about $7.18 billion â€" one of history's biggest banking frauds. It led to immediate calls for tighter regulation.

The fraud also raised comparisons to Nick Leeson, the trader who bankrupted British bank Barings in 1995 after he lost 860 million pounds â€" then worth $1.38 billion â€" on Asian futures markets, wiping out the bank's cash reserves.

Leeson himself told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday that he was not shocked such a fraud had happened again, but "the thing that really shocked me was the size of it."

Bouton insisted Societe Generale is still financially sound. But the bank said it would need to raise about $8 billion in new capital, partly by selling shares in a rights offer underwritten by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley.

The company said it expects to post a net profit of 600 million to 800 million euros ($874 million to $1.16 billion) for all of 2007 â€" even after the fraud and another 2.05 billion euros ($2.99 billion) lost in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Moody's Investors Service late Thursday downgraded Societe Generale's bank financial strength rating to "B-" from "B" and assigned a "negative" outlook to the rating, which means the rating could be cut later. Moody's also downgraded the bank's long-term debt and deposit ratings to "Aa2" from "Aa1" but kept those ratings' outlooks "stable."

The downgrade was primarily driven by the fraud losses but also follows Societe Generale's announcement of the credit-related write-downs, Moody's said.

Kerviel, employed by the bank since 2000, had worked his way up from a supporting role in an office that monitors trades to a job on the more glamorous futures desk, where he invested the bank's own money by hedging on European equity market indices â€" making bets on the future performance of the markets.

Described as a "brilliant" student by one of his former university teachers, he shocked executives with the complexity and scale of his trades. Bouton called the fraud "extraordinarily sophisticated."

Kerviel was involved in what the bank calls "plain vanilla," or the more basic forms of hedging, with limited authority. He took home a salary and bonus of less than 100,000 euros, or about $145,700 â€" relatively modest in the financial world.

The bank said he went far beyond his role â€" taking "massive fraudulent directional positions" in various futures contracts, betting at the start of this year that stock markets would rise.

He apparently escaped detection by using knowledge of the bank's control systems gleaned in his earlier monitoring job.

Most of his positions went unnoticed by colleagues and superiors as Kerviel covered his tracks with what the bank described as a "scheme of elaborate fictitious transactions."

He got caught when markets dropped, exposing him in contracts where he had bet on a rise.

Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of the bank's corporate and investment banking, said he is convinced Kerviel acted alone. Three union officials representing Societe Generale employees said managers at the bank told them Kerviel was having "family problems."

Analysts were stunned that such a huge fraud could have occurred more than a decade after the one at Barings.

It shows banks "are still under the threat that an employee with a good understanding of the risk management processes can (get around) them to hide his losses," said Axel Pierron, a senior analyst with Celent.

Societe Generale said Kerviel had admitted to the fraud and had been dismissed along with some of his bosses. Bouton offered to resign, but the board rejected his offer.

The bank also filed a legal complaint Thursday accusing Kerviel of fraudulent falsification of banking records, use of such records and computer fraud.

Elisabeth Meyer, Kerviel's lawyer, said on French television network BFM that her client "is not fleeing" and is "available for judicial authorities," but did not specify where he was.

The lawyer said Kerviel had been suspended on Sunday, and was awaiting formal written notification of the suspension.

The Bank of France, the country's central bank, said it was immediately informed of the fraud and was investigating. Its governor, Christian Noyer, said the trader had an abnormal knowledge of Societe Generale's trading systems, and measures would have to be taken to prevent this happening again.

Traders are usually kept to tight spending limits, told "you may trade this much and no more," said Robert Kolb, a professor of finance at Loyola University Chicago. Those controls apparently failed in this case.

Kolb said he expected "a lot of soul searching" in the industry, and predicted that one upshot might be new measures to prevent people who have previously monitored traders later becoming traders themselves.

"It shows that we are in a very troubled period for banks, and I think that it's in such troubled periods that difficult things happen," said Gilles Glicenstein, president of asset management at France's largest bank, BNP Paribas.

Societe Generale's shares, which have lost nearly half their value over the past six months, were suspended in Paris on Thursday morning, then dropped 4.1 percent to close at 75.81 euros ($111.16) after they resumed trading.

Founded in 1864 after a decree signed by Napoleon III, Societe Generale employs 120,000 people in 77 countries.

Egyptian border guards moved to close the border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, forming a human chain and blocking movement of Palestinians into Egypt with their riot shields, eyewitnesses said.

The Egyptians were allowing passage only to Palestinians seeking to return to the strip after visiting Egypt in the wake of the demolition of large stretches of the border wall by Hamas militants.

Egyptian officials had warned earlier that Gazans' brief bliss of freedom, shopping and visiting relatives would soon end with the resealing of the border.

On Thursday, for the second day in a row, scenes of frenzy, chaos and joy played out at the border. Guards channeled crowds through a handful of openings, where Palestinians pushed, shouted, and jostled their way into Egypt, braving a gauntlet of cows, camels, fertilizer, food and truckloads of cement.

The scene did not play out without violence: Israeli aircraft killed four Hamas militants overnight in missile strikes around the border town of Rafah, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Friday.

Two Hamas militiamen were killed as they drove near the shattered border fence with Egypt and two more were killed while driving in Rafah town, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military described both strikes as being against "terrorists".

In what looked like a first step toward restoring a border, Egyptian security forces turned back Palestinians who attempted to travel deeper into Egypt â€" though they did nothing to stem the flow of Egyptian goods making their way to the frontier region to replenish rapidly depleting stocks.

Dozens of Hamas militants dressed in black stood on the Gaza side of the border, in front of the fallen wall, checking people's bags and packages for weapons, drugs and other prohibited items as they re-entered Gaza.

As the presence of Egyptian and Hamas security forces grew, so did the crowds, as Gazans sought to stock up on basic supplies before Egypt made good on its word to reseal the frontier.

By all accounts, this week's breaching of the Gaza-Egypt border has provided a significant popularity boost to Gaza's Hamas rulers, who can claim they successfully broke through the internationally supported Israeli closure that has deprived the coastal strip of normal trade and commerce for nearly two years.

"Hamas has won the strategic battle," said Abu Ali, a 45-year-old Gazan dressed in a business suit, who was on the Egyptian side to buy materials for his construction company.

"Ask anyone here how they reached this place, and they will tell you it was because of Hamas."

Others, however, acknowledged that a temporary border breach did not constitute a solution to Gaza's growing isolation.

"In another day or so the border will be closed again. This is not a practical solution. We want Hamas to get us an official, working border," said 26-year-old Bahij Najar.

Both Egypt and Israel restricted the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza after Hamas won parliament elections in 2006, and further tightened the closure after Hamas seized control of the area by force last June.

Najar and others said they hoped the temporary opening, created after Palestinian militants used explosives Wednesday to blast down the border wall, would become permanent.

The issue turned into a verbal spat between Egypt and Israel when Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Israel gradually wants to relinquish responsibility for Gaza, now that the territory's border with Egypt had been blown open.

It was a position echoed by other Israeli officials, who said the border breach could pave the way for increasingly disconnecting from the territory. However, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, speaking to The Associated Press on the sidelines of the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland, said he didn't want to "go too far in my interpretation of this."

Egypt angrily rejected the Israeli ideas and said it would not change border arrangements.

"The border will go back as normal," said Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki. "The current situation is only an exception and for temporary reasons."

Warning that militants were among the Palestinians who entered Egypt, the Israeli military raised its level of alert Thursday, fearing an attack on Israel. The military closed the highway along the Israel-Egypt border.

Egypt began positioning armored vehicles Thursday along sections of the breached, seven-mile frontier.

In a previous major breach, after the Israeli pullout from Gaza in 2005, Egypt closed the border after four days. Gazans were issued a deadline for returning home, and Egyptian troops searched for, detained and fined stragglers who were then sent to their side of the border.

Egypt also lined up armored personnel carriers and riot police as a makeshift border barrier, and eventually rebuilt a small border fence.

This time, however, Palestinian militants destroyed the major border wall, which might slow Egyptian efforts to seal the frontier.

Egypt would presumably need Hamas' cooperation in securing the border, but Hamas official Salah Bardawil told the AP on Thursday that the torn-down wall need not be replaced. Instead, he said, Egypt should reinforce a smaller border fence that already exists on its side.

Hamas has used the breach â€" carefully planned, with militants weakening the metal wall with blow torches about a month before blowing it up with a series of blasts â€" to push its demand for reopening the border passages, this time with Hamas involvement. Such an arrangement would in effect end the international sanctions against the Islamic militants.

However, Egypt would likely be reluctant to have an open border with a territory ruled by Islamic militants â€" despite the fact that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been under intense public pressure at home in recent days to alleviate the suffering of Gazans under blockade.

Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who visited Israel on Thursday, said that while Hamas was to blame for Gaza's shortages, it was up to Egypt to restore order at the frontier.

"We have great sympathy for the thousands of Palestinian civilians who have suffered because of this crisis," Burns told reporters in Jerusalem. "We see the residents of Gaza as victims of the poor leadership of Hamas."

At one point, while the Palestinians were crossing the border freely, they were not being allowed to travel beyond El Arish, which lies slightly beyond Rafah.

Egyptian border guards were patrolling access roads to the border Thursday. Police in helmets and with sniffer dogs used batons to beat the hoods of private cars and pickup trucks that massed at the border to carry Palestinians further into Egyptian territory.

Other guards lined the makeshift border passages and steered the crowds.

"Everyone is rushing into Egypt before they seal it off," said Mohammed Abu Amra, a Palestinian walking with crutches. He slipped and fell as he passed into Egypt.

"I fell because everyone is pushing, everyone is rushing," he said, dusting off his pants.

In downtown Rafah, Palestinians could be seen buying cows, camels and horses and leading them back through the passage into Gaza. Men loaded with electronics equipment struggled to step through the broken opening.

Badr Abu Rekaa, a 52-year-old woman from central Gaza, came to Egypt to find cement to build a proper Muslim grave for her son, who was killed several months ago in Hamas-Fatah infighting. She said acute shortages in Gaza were behind the border breach.

"The more we are squeezed, the more we will explode," she said.

Major U.N. Security Council powers have agreed on an incremental increase in sanctions on Iran, including a new restriction on exporters doing business with the country, diplomats said Thursday.

A draft resolution also calls for more monitoring of Iran's military and financial institutions, broader travel bans on Iranian nuclear scientists and other key officials, and freezing the assets of people and banks linked to weapons proliferation, Security Council diplomats told The Associated Press.

Diplomats from the five nations with veto power on the council â€" the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France â€" spent a third day negotiating a final agreement on principles that would form the basis for a third round of U.N. sanctions on Iran. They were joined by Germany, which has long been involved in efforts to resolve the Iran nuclear dispute.

The general terms were hammered out in Berlin earlier this week, chiefly through negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Those elements have been closely held, though they have begun circulating among the rest of the 15-member council.

Russia and China, which have strong business ties with Iran, resisted earlier British and French draft principles pushing for harsher sanctions if Iran keeps refusing to stop enriching uranium â€" a process that can provide fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a bomb.

Iran says its nuclear program seeks only to generate electricity.

The Bush administration continues to press the case that Iran tests ballistic missiles, enriches uranium toward building an atomic bomb, hides information and remains in violation of two previous U.N. Security Council resolutions.

On Wednesday, Russia said the new resolution would not impose harsh sanctions against Iran.

But Nicholas Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, rejected that claim Thursday, saying the resolution was "meant to be punitive."

He said the draft increases travel restrictions on Iranian nuclear scientists, bans trade in items that can be used for nuclear purposes and freezes more Iranian assets.

Because it lacks significant trade with Iran, the United States must rely on influencing other major nations to apply economic pressure on the country.

Security Council diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations were sensitive, said the new resolution would impose new credit restrictions on exporters. Such measures could complicate matters for nations such as Germany and Italy that are major trading and investment partners with Iran and have billions of dollars of export credits at risk. The proposed resolution would make it more difficult to obtain those credits.

Diplomats say a third round of sanctions is unlikely to be approved until next month after the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog based in Vienna, receives more answers from Iran. Iran agreed to answer all remaining questions about its nuclear activities after IAEA director Mohammed Elbaradei visited Tehran in January.

Bush's contention that Iran poses a worrisome threat suffered a setback when U.S. intelligence said in December that Iran halted active work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

That has "made things complicated" for the United States, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Thursday.

"It's important to get the international community focused on Iran," she told the AP. "I do think it's not just an American issue."

Burns, who was in Israel for talks that focused on the Iran nuclear dispute, said he hoped the new resolution would showed that the world remained determined that Iran comply with U.N. orders.

"The Iranians have been kind of crowing publicly that the Security Council is not going to act, the Security Council is not unified, and I think they saw that the five leading members, the five permanent members, are united," Burns said. "Iran should now understand that it remains in isolation."

Burns said the possibility of a military strike against Iran's nuclear program did not come up in his talks with Israeli officials. He rejected as "very extremist" remarks in Israel this week by John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., that Israel must gear up for its own attack on Iran.

"We are not giving up on diplomacy and we will not give up as long as there is a chance it can succeed," he said.

Pakistan on Friday successfully test-fired a medium-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, an event witnessed by the nation's new army chief, the military said.

The Strategic Missile Group launched the Shaheen-1 missile from an undisclosed location at the conclusion of the army's annual field training exercises, a statement said. The missile has a range of 420 miles.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan routinely tests the various missiles in its arsenal, designed to match that of neighboring archrival India.

Friday's launch was witnessed by army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, who congratulated the troops on achieving "high standards of training and excellent results" during the exercise, the statement said.

Kayani recently took over as army chief after President Pervez Musharraf gave up that role in the face of Western and domestic pressure.

The statement quoted Kayani as saying that Pakistan's armed forces were a "highly professional, motivated and well trained force" and were "capable of safeguarding and securing nuclear assets against all categories of threat."

Pakistan and India have a history of bitter relations and they have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947.

However, relations between them have improved since 2004 when they started a peace process to resolve all disputes, including their competing claims to the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.

Pakistan became a declared nuclear power in 1998, when it conducted underground nuclear tests in response to those carried out by India. Pakistan also tested its first missile the same year.

The U.S. general in charge of rebuilding Afghanistan's decimated air corps said Thursday that it will be at least 2013 before the force is ready to fly combat missions now done by foreign airmen.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Jay Lindell said the fledgling 8-year rebuilding program is suffering from a lack of aircraft and spare parts and a relatively old corps of Afghan pilots, some of whom haven't flown in 15 years. Afghanistan hasn't trained a new pilot since 1992, he said.

"It'll take many years to develop the Afghan air corps," said Lindell, who commands the 130-member U.S. and Canadian team assigned to the project.

"We're well on our way," he said, noting the program started last spring now has some two dozen planes and helicopters and that Afghans are flying daily supply and transport missions. He said those are the most urgent and critical needs right now of Afghan ground forces, who are taking on an increasing role in the battle against the Taliban.

The U.S. and NATO-led counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan depends heavily on Western air power to transport troops to remote battlefields and to target militants in bombing missions.

Afghan pilots "are picking up every day more and more of the mission" that foreign forces used to fly, Lindell said. But training in those transport missions â€" and others such as medical evacuations â€" will remain the focus for the next few years.

The force won't be trained until 2013 or 2014 to play combat roles such as providing close air support for the Afghan National Army soldiers, Lindell told Pentagon reporters via videoconference from Kabul.

The size of the fleet will build slowly to 61 aircraft by 2011, he said. The NATO-US training mission has set a goal of rebuilding the corps to 112 aircraft â€" including some two dozen attack planes â€" and a 7,400-person air force by 2015, he said.

"It's not just air frames that we have to acquire," Lindell said "It's obviously the training of the pilots in this close air support role."

Lindell said that although Afghan pilots are very competent and can fly the missions they are assigned, their average age is 43 and many are nearing mandatory retirement.

Some of the pilots now flying will have to be pulled off duty for English language lessons, as well, he said.

Lindell hopes next year to start training 48 pilots a year.

"We plan to bring this air corps up to date with Western technology and do business similar to how ... the U.S. Air Force (does) and teach them close air support so they can take over this mission in Afghanistan," he said.

Afghanistan once had a strong air force that included hundreds of helicopters and Soviet-built MiG-21 and Su-22 warplanes. But that fleet was devastated by two decades of war.

Calling the event the "birth of our air force," Afghan President Hamid Karzai last week opened a new $22 million U.S.-funded military hangar opposite Kabul's international airport.

It is sad that this kind of human trafficking is occuring, Mr. Jun Ayag. The more it angers me when it involves my own people. I don't want the Philippines to be like Thailand, where it is known in the west as an 'den of lust' or 'sex capital of the world'.

As far as I know, Americans and Canadians know the Filipino as a 'honest, hard working, christian, intellectual, conservative' individual. We as a people are respected around the world and to many others are even envied due to our success in wherever we go, wherever we immigrate.

I want the Philippine government to enforce its anti-child abuse laws, anti-prostitution laws, etc. May pedophiles and sexual monsters be rebuked by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and by the eyes of God. May they be anathematized.

Quote from: Ginger on January 23, 2008, 06:03:23 AM
   
   

We may not be so impressive as other species with our physical abilities: powerful muscles or weaponry like fangs, claws, horns and so on. But we have evolved to excel in one issue: sex. Not regarding sexual activity - as it has been shown that the bonobo (which is also wrongly named "dwarf chimpanzee") has more sex and much varied than the human being - but penis size.

Man is the ape, the monkey and the primate with the biggest penis! Gorilla males,
which could be seen as dwarf humans in body size, have minute penises compared to ours, no thicker and longer than a pencil. Other apes do not reach even this size. In some African countries, 'hanging like a gorilla' is considered an insult.

So, in the end, who is the owner of the largest penis in the world? A 2006 UK Channel 4 documentary called 'The World's Biggest Penis' solved the mystery: it appears to be the New Yorker Jonah Cardeli Falcon (born July 29, 1970). His willy is 9.5 in (24.13 cm) flaccid, 13.5 in (34.29 cm) erect! The average human penis is 6 in (15 cm) long...

Jonah is not a nameless person: he is an American actor and talk-show host, which appeared in some sitcoms, British television shows and Hollywood movies. He was born in Brooklyn and identifies himself as bisexual.

But the huge penis is not a blessing. It rather condemns him to loneliness: there's no match babe. He lives with his mom and his whale penis, without a girlfriend for 12 years.

"When I meet people they find it hard to look me in the eye, they just see what’s in my trousers. It’s become a real problem. When I was younger I went out in tight pants and would sleep with a different person every night, but I became burned out and disillusioned. My last relationship ended in 1996. Now I just want to find a steady girlfriend who doesn’t think I’m a freak show", Jonah told "The Sun" two years ago.

Though at first some might translate the size of his genetelia as a societal plus regarding the inter-personal relationship with the opposite sex (or same sex, there is no conclusive evidence that the individual is not homosexual,bisexual, active, non-active etc), however there are evident physiological problems that comes with such unnatural growth of the penile region. No doubt it is due to excessive transcription of the AER (apical ectodermal ridge, which is responsible for the production of fibroblast growth factor {FGF} as a result of inductory effect of the Hox gene, found within the phospholipid and sugar backgbone of a particlar DNA strand. It is this AER that is responsible for either limb development, hinderage of development or outright inhibition of development). There are negative consequences for excessive penile sizes, one of which is the thinning of the peripheral nervous system, particularly in the uro-genitary tract, hence a decreased sensation effect for men with larger peni as compared to men say with lesser sized peni. One problem with excessive sizes is the effect in vasodilation, due to excessive size, it takes longer to retain and maintain temperal and liquid homeostasis in the said uro-genital tract. Due to the size, vein sizes are larger and sometimes the appearance of veins is a result of poorly functioning valves in their testicles, which is a problem with this physical phenotype.

Genetically and biologically speaking, having such sizes is unecessary considering the size of the vaginal tract is no more than 4-5 inches and a girth size (in natural state) is 2-3cm in circumference, the insertion of this patient's external reproductive gland onto a woman could have devastating effect, as in rippage of striated muscle tissue found within the linings of the urethra, the vagina, and excessive rompage would undeniably lead to deterioration. The purpose of the vaginal tube is to properly house the male reproductive gland (for proper release of the male's XY genetic codets to merge with the female's XX genetic codets) and ultimately for the proliferation of the species. Nothing more, nothing else.

Quote from: ms da binsi on January 25, 2008, 12:24:04 PM
I just got the book i ordered, Love In Times of Cholera...

shalan ngano gud naa man cholera sa title???

Please tell us all about this book when you're done, Ate Belle. I'm captivated already.

Currently reading my least favorite book, a text book for my Medical Statistics class, entitled Understanding Research Methods and Statistics.

Overall, the reading isn't bad, though I find it rather boring. Its repetitive, which helps at times in building retentive memory, hyperbolic variance, internal reliability, external reliability, erroneous factors, variability theories and its subtopics.

Highly recommended for all those interested in economics, hospital management, medical technology or medicine proper, nursing.

Will read into this.

Thanks for the link, Mr. Ferniz.

5th acid digestion sample in assay.
Conclusively finished 16 sediment strata vis-a-vis acid digestion. 5 more samples to complete before analyzing trace metals.


Aliquoting 2x 3 mL of HNO3 (concentrated nitric acid)


A sample, actually this is test tube #256, representing an assay of 45-46 cm depth strata. One of the 300+ samples I've collected--hours have been lost to cases of insufficient effervescence-effect, excessive hydrocarbonic reaction. Very time consuming.




More to come.

An independent Bohol? Interesting..

Quote from: ligiah on January 24, 2008, 10:48:30 PM
ah grabe... hangtud karon mohilak gihapon ka?

ako karon... i don´t cry anymore... but i do think of them often. besides, nalingaw na man sad ko diri...

That is good. It shows the content of your character, you are a strong woman.

It's funny because my friends here in college think that I'm 'super serious' kono, in fact ive never showed any sentimentality in terms of crying outwardly till the death of one of our closest friends this year. Since then, i've slowly tried to change that aspect. You know what really hurts? Not being able to tell a person that you Loved them when they were still alive, despite the many chances we were given. Its funny how this mundane human socio-psychosomatic construct known as 'pride' can get in the way of the most important things. Pride, is the worst sin a person can have, specially when it affects our ability to truly expose our sentimentality either in homesickness, longing for loved ones/friends etc.  Cinerem cineri, pulverem pulveri

i concur, Hazel.

Quote from: Ginger on January 25, 2008, 03:59:12 AM
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - nangita ni sakit sa lawas?

raucous - kani pud nangita bun-og?

arc, cos, sou, sacs, sac (20 secs)

extempore

Extempore

rope, pore, more, ore, met, tore, romp, pet, pom, mop, meet, mope, temper (1min 12 sec)

Existentialism

Quote from: preciousNpolite on January 25, 2008, 07:09:28 AM
last month a foreigner and his filipina partner had to close down their business in a busy tourist spot here because they had transported and recruited some children from out of area places and they were performing naked in the business establishment.
It's getting so uncontrollable out there in the world these days.

In bohol? By any chance do you know what country the foreigner came from?

Specifically, how do you, my fellow Boholanos and Filipinos feel about the position of the Philippines after post-colonialism? I attended a historical forum debate earlier this week at Pennsylvania State University, Erie County Campus. The topic that was discussed was "South East Asia after European Colonization: Pros and Cons". One of the major subtopics that was discussed by the Historians and Professors in the forum debate was the Philippines. Particularly in relation to the Kingdom of Spain. I wish I videotaped the discussion and conversations in the forum to share on youtube, however, we were prevented from doing so. One of the professors in the forum was an individual by the name of Dr. Emilio del Valle Escalante, who is an Associate Professor of History in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Studies Program. Dr. Emilio del Valle Escalante pointed out the transgressions the United States instilled in the Philippines regarding the predisposed Hispanic Culture that blossomed in the Philippine Archipelago for almost 4 centuries. Dr. Emilio del Valle Escalante pointed out that even to this day in Spain, the government refuses to accept the Spanish-American War as a legitimate conflict, and points out that the conservative parties in the Spanish Cortes still urge the Cortes Real  to include the Philippines in the map of Spanish territories, claiming that the Philippines is a lost territory and one that needs to be united.

Hearing such words as 'united' and Spanish territorial right somewhat sent chills down my spine. No doubt I have a strong sense of love and adoration for Spain, as they provided the basis for the unification of the local Malay population under the veneer and auspices of a Republica Filipina, as well as provided our people with European thought, per se Christian morality, Roman law, agricultural revolution, and the stewarding towards an urban concept. Despite these influences, that does not give the Spanish the right to claim the Philippines as a territory, particularly after a century of Hispanic absence.

My question to you are as follows:
1.   Do you think the Spaniards, though only a several few conservative rightists hold this view, have the right to regard the Philippines as a ‘lost territory’ a ‘lost Eden’?
2.   Do you think it would have been better had the Philippines remain independent without American patronage, per se, do you think that the country would have been better off had the United States not invaded the Philippines during the Philippine-American War?
3.   The concept of colonial mentality, in which the inhabitants of a particular former territory idolize the colonizer’s culture, physical phenotype, holding them in superior regard compared to the indigenous people, was a phenomenon brought about during the Spanish Colonial Era or during the Era of American Protectorateship? Note, that the Philippines is not limited to colonial mentality concept; the citizens of present day India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, parts of coastal China (Macao, Hong Kong) have this societal phenomenon as well



Looking forward to reading your answers.




The following video was composed and made by a Spanish Historian, in regards to the 'Yankee-fication' of the 'Spanish Bastion in the Orient' a.k.a The Philippines.
Perhaps this video can better give an illustrative picture of the Colonizer's point of view and justification.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5lCeTN_qc&watch_response

Argo? I think I saw that in Walmart the other day! They had on sale for like 4.99 for a whole gallon.

'te Belle, Ivory is very good. Its like the top brand, diba?

I use Dawn with Pacific Breeze scent.

Its actually good because it has hand soothing formula. Works well with pots and stains.

Quote from: bol-anon_ko on January 25, 2008, 03:06:14 AM
pila ka rounds man diay pinakadugay nmu ligiah?

Pre ...  wla ko kasuway ana  viagra api palang tiguwang ta...  just use a cock ring to have your erection last longer.. but be careful it could be harmful also..

Cock ring? LOL! Pre, di mo gawas ang ring ug i butang nako sa neck lagi hahaha kuyawa pood na uy!!
Wa jud ko mo think ana hahaha! All natural ra gud, pre.

Hahahaha so ning 'you're welcome' pood imong partner, Linds?

Quote from: ms da binsi on January 25, 2008, 02:51:55 AM


mao ni among meal for today...

mmm. so mouth watering..

hahahaha o m G! ma matay pood ko uy if 5 times straight, sus marihosep (maybe 4 times, LOL). Di ba ma buslut ang bajit ug non-stop ang action? haha, pre, ma evaporate ang 'man juice' sa laki ana. Hahahahahaha! Ning try ba ka ana?
Depende pood uy kai some men last more than an hour to orgaze, some though are quicker. Imagine--ug 5 times--so sigoro 5+ hours long pood na uy! Or sigoro mo 'time-out' sila. hahahaha. Kinky baja.

Wow gorgeous photography skills, Elsie! It feels like I was there in Pilar as well.

Very soothing and calming effect.

Quote from: ligiah on January 25, 2008, 02:36:56 AM
hoo pastilan! way mubo mubo ana Bran! Hangakon man sad ta ana!

pero beh suwajan!

hahaha i-try lang.

Next word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Quote from: swakee on January 24, 2008, 10:30:08 PM
Bella, ug 3x a day di kaha ta ma-myahok anang kalakiha? ahahaha... saunz...

3 times a day? di ma kapoy ang laki ana? hahahaha
taga-i lang ang bana mo electrolytes liquids afterwards: Gatorade, Powerade.
So i-pa rejuvenate pood ba. hahaha

hahaha, pre. unsaon man na, natural man gud na atong 'lower extremities' mo turn on ra man lagi ug naa'y guapang baji. Sus intawn, harder lang lagi for us to control our urges diba?

on, no, dock, codon, nook, noob, bond

58 seconds.


Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious   

Give an extra warm hug to the little boy for me, Ate Lumine.
Hope he's feeling better, i hope you all are alright back home.

Quote from: bol-anon_ko on January 25, 2008, 02:09:10 AM
maayu nang magkasinabut daan pre... lisud na bsin ingnun ka hoy patuboa sa na.. i need at least 12 inches.. ahahhaa.. na yati na.. maggamit nalang tag penis extender ani.. hahahaha

hahahahahahahaha pre!
Okey ra man atong size uy, ang important ani ay naa ta 'gifted' girth. So long as kaibao ta mo 'utilize'.

@ Els, yea i just woke up for quick stretch. I had a wonderful 7 hour nap.

hahaha i concur.



La chica gusta y El chico gusta.

Yup. lol

Are you sure?

hahaha kuyawa pood nang question, pre.

Congrats, Ligiah!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ctVI5baftFo

God Bless the United States of America. And our  Fighting Men and Women.

By Kenny G

Wow, this is a classic love piece. 

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Instrumental performance by Kenny G

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For all those who lost a family member, friend, loved one.  

Careless Whisper

performed by Brian Mcknight, instrumentals by Kenny G

Exquisite!

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The Promise

by Tracy Chapman

I really really love this song.   
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Fast Cars

by Tracy Chapman

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ah mao ba, Ate Ging.

ah bahala pood. dili man na necessary sa excessive length uy. ma guba intawn ang vaginal tube sa baji ana. i can only imagine the gynecological effects.

Quote from: grazie7y on January 24, 2008, 04:06:18 PM
Or, they said to count 1 to 100 before reacting to something namakasuko.  Daw beh kay I count like this: 1, 2, 3, 98, 99 100!

hahaha mao ba, 'te? this is probably the same counting method my mom uses on my dad. LOL!

whoa, lucky guy.

Elsie, we have to get Sheila to sing "Kung mawawala Ka" with Teng.

hahahahaha but when you hear me sing, you will understand what i mean, Elsie. LOL!Sige mo practice ko, but you asked for it

@ Sheilameila.

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 02:35:45 PM
Bueno, por lo menos ahora que está claro. hahahaha

Su maestría de la lengua española es reputable. Pensé que usted no entendía español. Conjeturo que era incorrecto. A propósito, todavía pienso que usted tiene gusto de Teng.

Quote from: st. agnes on January 24, 2008, 02:33:40 PM
panahon man nas akong papa..
pero infairness, nindot sya...
sige deal ha...
inag ari nimu sa Pinas, then mga videoke ta...
mag duet ta ani Enzo ha...

kani nga classe sa kanta Enzo, mga linya ni ni Sigbin...

hahahah di ko. i can't sing for anything. LOL.
Tom or Don can sing on my behalf, hahahaha,mo observe lang ko ba.

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 02:29:28 PM
En la imparcialidad al individuo, él no es ese malo sino que para mí él es justo un amigo

Yo entiendo, Sheila.

Quote from: st. agnes on January 24, 2008, 02:04:57 PM
total eclipse? wala ra.. taas man kantaha...
"that dont Impress me much!"
kani akong gi kanta... hahahaha

so you sing only english songs diay, els? dili bisayan oldies?

kani may' paborito nako:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1X8fe6ip7kM

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 02:04:08 PM
Oh, but you're mistaken Mister. I am definitely not interested in him!!!!

ayayayayayay! la chica vindicatamente! pero Srta. ¿es usted seguro usted no tiene gusto de él?

btw, great translation.

So what songs did you sing, Elsie?

I can see you singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
you seem the romantic type. LOL

True ba or false?

hahahahahhah? ha?

hahahaha it eas very easy. there are key words that give the meaning up
a sige, i PM nako ang meaning ha

sige hold on

Quote from: mae_flor on January 24, 2008, 01:50:04 PM
hahahahaha!!! ajaw tawon ug palayo ni teng oi kay searching pa raba intawon si teng

Sra. Mae Flor.
la muchacha está definitivamente interesada en la etapa del individuo Teng. primer, allí es negación. Después de, ella elasticidad enferma adentro a ella. Le aseguro.

LOL!!!

**trying hard to breathe**

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 01:47:39 PM
Oh yes, you can do better than this! Try harder!!! hahaha you started this..... ggrrrrr

You two are too much! LOL.

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 01:46:29 PM
nah..... ayg ininsik Bran! wahahaha

di man to ininsik uy, espagnol lang, hahahahahahha. Na unsa man ka, Sheila? did cupid's arrow take its toll?


ROFLMAO!

Quote from: st. agnes on January 24, 2008, 01:44:34 PM
imo naman gi explain tanan woi...
wala nay angay pang e saysay diri..
bitaw guys... tinood tanan nang gipang wayway ni Svets...

hahaha omg i love you guys, i cant stop laughing.

Quote from: svetlana on January 24, 2008, 01:42:27 PM
Hey there's no secret!!! that was pure clean fun! I swear! OMG Elsie this has gone too far!!!!! Explain to everyone!!!!!!!!!

hahah lagi lagi, mo believe ko nimo.

Congrats Lindy!