The Perfect Sunset

Mar 23 2008

Posted by Jim as Editorials

I've always dreamt of experiencing the perfect sunset.  I think all my life, I've never really met one, sad to say.  Not really sure if one exists, but I'm still in the lookout for that perfect one. I tried searching on google's, yahoo's, flickr's, photobucket's and whathaveyou's to find someone else's perfect one.  I seem to have found a few that excited my emotions, some tingled my fancy of having a coconut with a straw and me sipping it oh so dramatically, some just awed me at how perfect it was that at that time, an old ...

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In greener pastures abroad, Filipino workers turn ‘milking cows’

Feb 02 2008

Posted by Jay as Editorials

The “modern heroes” of the Philippines are being stabbed in the back – by their own government. These legitimate heroes are of course the millions of overseas Filipino workers, the OFWs around the world who labor far away from their families and under difficult conditions in alien lands to be able to live decent lives which their government could not afford to give them. Already reeling from the sharp cut in their purchasing power with the continuing appreciation of the Philippine peso, the OFWs recently woke up to find another dagger embedded on their collective back – courtesy of their ...

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Filipinos up against Neanderthals of US television

Oct 06 2007

Posted by Jay as Editorials

First they lambasted Filipino doctors and the entire Filipino race for that matter. Now they’re calling former Philippine president Corazon Aquino a “slut.” What insult will these sissies say next? Are the American TV networks going nuts or what? Do they think their shows would rate higher by bashing other people’s heads? Civilization for these Americans has indeed taken a gigantic leap backward into prehistoric times. Who, if not a boorish Neanderthal, would utter such a despicable word against Cory? For the information of these Neanderthals, Cory Aquino is a revered icon in the Philippines known for her clean living and religiosity. ...

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A triumph of justice in the Philippines

Sep 12 2007

Posted by Jay as Editorials, In the News

Contrary to expectation, the conviction of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada on Wednesday, Sept. 12, was greeted calmly by the Filipino people. Former president Joseph Estrada leaves the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court in Quezon City shortly after the court handed down its guilty verdict against him. There was no massive outpouring of anger against the government of President Gloria Arroyo as only about 300 supporters of the deposed president trooped to the street outside the special anti-graft court which earlier sentenced Estrada to a maximum of 40 years in jail for the crime of plunder. The muted reaction was in contrast to ...

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It’s A Good Thing He Won’t Be President

Aug 05 2007

Posted by Benj as Editorials

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Look at the face of this man. This Republican representative from the state of Colorado recently said something so xenophobic that even the US State Department had to stand up and react. Representative Tom Tancredo stated in a forum that he will deter any aggression to the United States by assuring the rest of the world that an attack to the US should equate to an attack on Muslim holy sites. He further defended this claim by saying that someone who wouldn't do the same is "unfit to be president". Just hold it right ...

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The Seven Wonders Fiasco

Jul 09 2007

Posted by Benj as Editorials, In the News

A lot of people knew that coming up with a new list of "wonders" was a bad idea to begin with. Great monuments and exemplary architecture need not be compared with each other to be ranked according to beauty, relevance and durability. Doesn't it make more sense to actually appreciate these "wonders" from a personal perspective rather than using a populist and unscientific and purely subjective method to adjudicate the merit of structures? It seemed quite clear that the movement to name the "new seven wonders" was going to hit major potholes when Egyptian authorities asked for the Pyramids at Giza ...

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XDR-TB: No, It’s Not An Android

Jun 26 2007

Posted by Benj as Editorials, Health Features, In the News

XDR-TB may sound like  an android from a science fiction novel but if you've been reading up on recent news developments, you would know that the acronym actually stands for Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Despite the fact that tuberculosis still claims a lot of lives yearly, advances in pharmaceuticals and disease management has dramatically improved the prognosis for patients who have the unfortunate burden of bearing the disease. Tuberculosis is a caused by  a mycobacterium that inhabits various organs in the human body. Though the disease is commonly associated as a disease of the lung, the microbe can also colonize parts ...

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Thoughts on Community Blogging

May 17 2007

Posted by J. Angelo as Editorials

Blogging has been defined many times, many ways. It's mostly about personal publishing, and most would agree. A person starts a blog, and he or she writes about his/her interests, daily musings, and would usually link to interesting things elsewhere. Some would move on to write about more non-personal items, treating their blogs like magazine or newspaper columns of some sort. Some even move on to blogging for income. I should know, I blog for a living, myself. But in most of these cases, blogging is done as a one-man (or one-woman) thing. When the SplashPress team conceptualized Froodee, our ...

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We’re Online!

Apr 28 2007

Posted by J. Angelo as Announcements, Editorials

Woo hoo! We’re online. Watch out for more as we unravel Froodee in the next couple of weeks!
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