One Day Blog Silence – in honor of victims at Virginia Tech

 

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Is Your Exercise Program Right For You?

I came across these questions in My Yahoo! and thought of posting it here. If you are in an exercise regimen, ask yourself these:
1. Do I look forward to this? (hey, no point in pursuing an activity that you have to drag yourself out of bed for, right?)
2. Do I enjoy doing it? (is it [...]

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Pastoral Letter re Elections 2007

I just came from the website of the Archdiocese of Manila. They posted there the pastoral letter that was supposed to have been read in all parishes last April 22. I am pasting it below for those of you who missed it (or like me, must have had my mind somewhere else and don’t remember [...]

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The Big C

Just recently, a good friend of ours experienced the biggest challenge of his life — he was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, an aggressive form of cancer that hit his colo-rectal area.
Like us, they belong to a prayer community so it was not long before news of his condition went around. At that time, they were looking [...]

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The P500 Kasoy

Last month, I arrived at the yoga center without having had the chance to take my afternoon merienda.  So when I saw I was early, and my yoga friend Chona was there, I asked her to accompany me downstairs to buy some fries from McDo.
Chona dissuaded me, claiming we still had to do our warm-ups [...]

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Julia, adopted Pinay

The death of Julia Campbell in the hands of a Pinoy made me shudder. After all, here was a foreigner who left the comfort of her First World country to become a Peace Corps volunteer in our own land and made it her own. She learned how to speak Tagalog and Bicolano (in fact [...]

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Janette Toral’s Book Launching

I had the privilege to meet and chat briefly with Janette, one of the organizers of the recent iblog3 summit.
This coming May 2007, Janette will be launching her e-book and of all things, she is giving away 100 free copies under certain conditions. Check out her blog site if you want one too. It would [...]

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Traveling Unaccompanied Minors

I just took another baby step towards letting go — our 2 boys (aged 15 and 13) took their very first plane ride bound for the province by themselves (a female cousin was with them but she was also just 15).
For those of you who are still single, you probably cannot empathize with the anxiety [...]

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Cebu Pacific’s Online Reservations and Ticketing System

Online booking and ticketing is making its way into Philippine homes. Convenient! Or so I thought….
Our 2 boys are headed for the province soon so the other night, I logged on to Cebu Pacific’s website and began booking their tickets. It was a cinch! The pop-up windows first showed me the available promo rates [...]

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