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Public Service: Calamba City Hall NEW Main Number (6349) 5456789

Posted on 05 August 2010

Public Service: To all Calambenos, Calamba City Hall *NEW* Main Number: +63 (49) 5456789 One number. One city. One Calamba. Continue Reading

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To: XX XX XX Thru: XX XX XX From: Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera-Marmol Parent XX XX Re: Request for dialog with XX’s parents August 5, 2010 Dear XX XX, Greetings! Forgive me for opting to skip the usual niceties and allow me to go straight to discussing my concerns that compelled me to write this [...] Continue Reading

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Local News, News, Philosophies

What does it mean to be free?

Posted on 12 June 2010

{ I write this two days short of a one month blog hiatus. Yes, I have returned — hardly-missed, I know, but I wouldn’t miss to write an independence day post for anything. My brain is hard-wired to write about independence day come hell or high water. :) } One hundred and twelve years ago [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Personal, Philosophies, Politics, Sad Thoughts

Death by Suffrage

Posted on 14 May 2010

Death by Suffrage I don’t know how or where to start. Writing long and winding articles have always been where I’m good at. I have also been believed to have the gift of expression — I find it easy to say (or write) exactly how I feel. But now I can’t seem to mince words [...] Continue Reading

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Causes, Elections 2010, Personal, Philosophies, Politics, Videos

Search This Heart: A Voter’s Prayer

Posted on 09 May 2010

Search This Heart: A Voter’s Prayer by: RJ Marmol ~~~ As we look back on our troubled past and look ahead to the future laid before us, I, along with 50 million voters, come before You Lord and pray that You search this heart. Of feelings of doubt, cynicism and pessimism — search this heart. Of feelings of distrust, dissent and [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Breaking News: Gibo Teodoro leads presidentiables survey

Posted on 08 May 2010

Update as of 6:00PM of May 10, 2010: Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro and running-mate Edu Manzano are both leading in this blog’s online EXIT POLL. I will not be surprised if this result is reflected in offline exit polls as well as in the actual tally of votes happening tonight. ~~~ For the first time in [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Securing First 8 Copies of ERs: Safeguard Against Automated “Garci”

Posted on 07 May 2010

If we want to ensure credible election results, we must guard the printing and safekeeping of the first 8 copies of ERs (election returns) at the (clustered) precinct level prior to hooking-up the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machine online. This was the suggestion made by former COMELEC Chairman Christian Monsod this morning when asked [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Iglesia ni Cristo Endorses Aquino-Roxas, Mixed Senatorial Lineup

Posted on 05 May 2010

The Iglesia ni Cristo has released their official endorsement for the 2010 elections. In a statement read in today’s service to all their followers, INC has officially endorsed Liberal Party’s standard bearer Noynoy Aquino and vice-presidential candidate Mar Roxas. The Iglesia ni Cristo has been wooed in previous elections by aspiring candidates because of their [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics, Tips

Latest Issues Plaguing Comelec as of May 4, 2010

Posted on 04 May 2010

Image by rjmarmol via Flickr ~~~ Latest updates: As of 3PM of May 6: Testing of PCOS machines using new CF cards was 100% successful. As of 10PM of May 4: As reported by GMANews.tv, the so-called software “glitch” has been corrected. Burning of the CF cards should be done by Thursday and testing will [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Are you ready for Erap 2.0?

Posted on 29 April 2010

When the last pre-election survey result comes out, the real battle for the presidency begins. ~~~ Counting Unhatched Eggs? I once wrote “Screw the Surveys”, “The Problem with Noynoy”, “Gibo Should Bolt Out Too” and a few more articles that didn’t sit well with the so-called ‘public sentiment’. Note however that I use the term [...] Continue Reading

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Blogging, Elections 2010, Foreign News, Internet, Local News, News, Personal, Philosophies, Politics, Quickbytes

You are What You Read

Posted on 21 April 2010

I just realized that with the information overload we’ve been recently subjecting our brains to, selective and conscientious reading is now a must not just for those who write but for anyone who is a living and thinking animal. I don’t need to inundate you with links or a litany of examples to prove the [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Proud and Prejudiced

Posted on 16 April 2010

Former president Erap Estrada warns Sen. Noynoy Aquino not to be too cocky. And why not? Aquino seems oh so complacent these days — what with the latest survey results showing him leading by a comfortable 12 point margin against Sen. Manny Villar. And since he has concluded this to be a “two-man race” which, [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Just Because

Posted on 09 April 2010

Like most people in the blogosphere, particularly the political blogging community, I got this now extensively-blogged black propaganda against survey-leading presidentible Sen. Noynoy Aquino most probably about the same time as everyone else got theirs. And it didn’t even take beyond the first few sentences to see through another pathetic email campaign trying so hard [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Local News, News, Politics

Who’s to blame for Villar’s drop in surveys?

Posted on 07 April 2010

If you’ve been reading the news, I think you already know the answer. Or at least, you know that Manny Villar’s camp is taking the blame — owning up to their inability to aggressively protect their image by issuing strong counter statements to disprove the many allegations thrown at them. Villar himself said in a [...] Continue Reading

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Blogging, Elections 2010, Internet, Politics

Is Your Blogging Self-serving?

Posted on 06 April 2010

Blogging and a slew of social media sites, it has been said, have somehow revolutionized the way we do politics. Some think that this ‘new media’ is slowly challenging, if not fast eclipsing the credibility, accuracy, relevance and timely news delivery of mainstream media. Photo by underminingme Some are even quick to conclude that the [...] Continue Reading

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Philosophies, Quickbytes

No Greater Week

Posted on 30 March 2010

This Holy Week is a welcome and much-needed respite from the harried lives we have become accustomed to — specially with the national elections due in a little less than a month. Truly, there is no greater love than God’s love for us. And there has never been a greater week in the entire history [...] Continue Reading

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Blogswarm, Causes, Events, Foreign News, Local News, News

Earth Hour 2010

Posted on 25 March 2010

A year after we topped Earth Hour’s list by being the country with the most number of cities that participated in the event in 2009, we appeal to you once again to join us for this year’s Bloggers Unite Earth Hour 2010. Don’t miss this chance to participate in this year’s Earth Hour event happening [...] Continue Reading

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Elections 2010, Politics

Consider the “Donkey Vote”

Posted on 17 March 2010

A refresher on “Swing” votes Benign0, the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com, in a post exclusively written for Blogwatch.ph expressed his concern (he says he is neither undecided nor particularly fussed about who will win) over an underrated and underestimated group of voters known as the “undecideds” or the “swing voters”. *** Note that the term “swing” [...] Continue Reading

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