MYMP one of the country's leading band has produced another album that went Platinum! Our congratulations to MYMP. For a transcript of their conversation, please click here.
MYMP one of the country's leading band has produced another album that went Platinum! Our congratulations to MYMP. For a transcript of their conversation, please click here.
I have prepared a simple application in ASP.NET that uses a Gridview Object to perform Searching, Adding, Editing, and Deleting of records. The editing and deleting operations will be performed in the Gridview object itself. Column Sorting and Numeric Paging of records were also incorporated.
These are some stumbling blocks to writing better and more often. I need to resolve these issues to move forward.
To get some help, I asked my friend who specializes in these things. So, I’m now starting on Creative Nonfiction, A Manual for Filipino Writers by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo.
This bracelet rosary I bought for myself in Manaoag Church here in Pangasinan two Sundays ago. My daughter egged me on visiting the shrine of the miraculous Virgen Milagrosa de Manaoag, for want of spiritual upliftment before going back to school for the second semester. Also, she wanted to buy some religious items to give as tokens to her classmates who are going for a six-month internship in Beijing, China at the end of November.
Here are more items we bought:
Mini rosaries
Bracelet with crucifix for my mother who, at 86, still fancies wearing bead necklaces and bracelets. 🙂 And oh, that is my chubby wrist in picture by the way.
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I am not really a devout Catholic, but my daughter is. She religiously goes to church every Sunday and is in fact a very active member of the Filipino-Chinese Catholic Youth. Most of the time, she admonishes me: “Mama, bakit hindi ka nagsisimba?” (Mama, why don’t you want to hear mass?)
Not that I don’t want to. But I just can’t move my butt to go to church on Sundays, especially when I have to do the marketing and grocery shopping on these days. These tasks just stress me a lot because when I get home after shopping, I have to arrange everything in the cabinets and refrigerator. You see, I usually make it a point to have everything ready for cooking before storing them in the ref. This means marinating the pork chops; segregating the chicken in packs in such a way that one pack is good for one cooking; washing and draining the fish and so on, aside from cleaning the refrigerator and at the same time getting rid of expired left overs. Hence, by the time I finish, I am already too tired that I just want to sleep the whole afternoon.
But I do pray. I have a quiet time and place, known to nobody but me. And I have great trust in God.
I also recite the rosary. I believe in the intercession of the Blessed Mother, especially when someone in the family is ill.
Religious articles such as those in the above photos are just objects. Many non-Catholics question (or mock) the Catholics’ veneration of such objects. However I beg to disagree. For me, it is not the beads that I venerate when I say the Holy Rosary. It is not the wooden statue that I worship when praying before an image. To me, all these “objects” are merely symbols. And my faith is not on the symbol itself but on what the symbol stands for.
Live and let live. Peace I give to all.
Last year, University of the Philippines barely managed to grab a spot in the Top 300 universities in the world according to a study conducted by Times Higher Education Supplement and QS Top Universities.
Although I’m not exactly very fond of ranking anything, I’m still disappointed in this year’s world ranking result, released early this month.
University of the Philippines drops from 299 to 398 (scroll down to the bottom). Ateneo now outranks La Salle as it moves 33 steps forward, taking the 451st spot and pushing the latter to 519th. UST gets the 535th slot in the ranking.
Ahhh, bullshit! There are so many far more important things that need to be done than worry about numbers and rankings. Yes?
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