PBB Double Up: The Big 5

The Big Night is fast approaching. Who’s gonna be the Big 5 and the Big Winner?

Here’s my well bet and fearless forecast.

Big Winner – Melai, winning the game “Big Jump To The Big Night” making her to be automatically into the Big 4 (now Big 5) deserves to be the Big Winner of this season.

2nd Big Placer – Jason, the love interest of Melai and father of Dengue will be the 2nd big placer because of his good attitude towards housemates despite of being lazy in household chores.

3rd Big Placer – Paul Jake, the richie rich from Cebu has given all his strength and wits to all the tasks and games making his worth to be in the Big 5.

4th Big Placer – Johan, the student waiter from Quezon City and former Starstruck Avenger will surely get a place because of his fans although he doesn’t showed much.

5th Big Placer – Tibo, the dad of steel from Butuan City. Even though he doesn’t have a fan base like what Melason and Johan have, Tibo showed his love for his family that he sacrificed a lot for them.

How about you, who’s your bet?

City of Biñan

At long last!

On February 2, 2010, a plebiscite to ratify Republic Act 9740 will be held and that means converting the municipality of Biñan into city. Biñan wil lbe the fourth city in the province of Laguna.

Last October 30, 2009, the President of the Republic of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo approved the cityhood of Biñan and it will be known as City of Biñan.

The 25 Barangays of Biñan:

1. Biñan
2. Bungahan
3. Santo Tomas (Calabuso)
4. Canlalay
5. Casile
6. De La Paz
7. Ganado
8. San Francisco (Halang)
9. Langkiwa
10. Loma
11. Malaban
12. Malamig
13. Mamplasan
14. Platero
15. Poblacion (City Proper)
16. Santo Niño (San Anton)
17. San Antonio
18. San Jose
19. San Vicente
20. Soro-Soro
21. Santo Domingo
22. Santo Tomas
23. Timbao
24. Tubigan
25. Zapote

Splash Island and Pavilion Mall are two of the popular tourist attractions here in Biñan.

The City of Biñan has prestigious and exclusive schools like Brent International School, University of Perpetual Help System Laguna, Sta. Catalina College, Colegio San Agustin, De La  Salle Canlubang, Alpha Angelicum Academy, Colegio San Antonio, Saint Michael’s College, La Consolacion College, Caritas Don Bosco School and Lake Shore Educational Insitution.

It really feels good to be a Biñanense.

5 Facts I Discovered When Riding Jeepneys

Jeepney is the most popular means of public transportation. I bet there are only few of the Philippine population who do not ride jeepneys because: (1) they are moneyed enough to afford Bugatti Veyron; (2) they are blah-blah yadda-yadda. I couldn’t think of any at the moment but I know there are lots. I’ll update this someday or you can make some comments for this one.

Riding jeepneys everyday has brought numerous anecdotes to me. Mixed emotions are felt when I’m inside. I anticipate the scenario. Will I get mad? Will I laugh hard? Will my seatmate smell terrible? Will the jeepney driver ask for overindulgence fare? Well based from my own experience, I gather 7 facts I learned when riding jeepneys.

1. The seats are on a first-come-first-serve basis. It doesn’t matter if your destination is the nearest. As long as you came late at the terminal, you’ll get the worst seat. Worst seat means lesser space, farthest from the jeepney entrance and behind others baggage and stuffs.

2. Jeepney drivers and passengers are mortal enemies. Jeepney drivers and LTO officers are mortal enemies. LTO officers and passengers are mortal enemies.

3. The 10-seater can accommodate 11 persons while the 9-seater can hold 10 or more passengers.

4. Sitting near the jeep entrance may lead you to “assault”. I suppose many of us encounter Badjaos who sing and give you envelope for donation. Personally, I prefer sitting near the opening so that I could get off the jeepney right away. Suddenly the Badjao came with her improvise drum. She gave us envelope with a letter asking for some donations and start singing like their usual routine. And like the passengers routine, they (we) gave back the envelope. The little Badjao begin saying unknown words and I bet those are curse and profane words. Then, before leaving the jeep she thumped the thigh of the person near the entrance. That was me.

5. The irony. Usually when you’re in a hurry, you’ll be getting a driver who refills his tank first, stop over to put money on jueteng lady or drop by to a hardware store to buy light bulbs. When you’re not in a hurry, you’ll be having a driver who’s like being chased by Death’s Advocate.

Everybody’s Changing And I Don’t Feel The Same

Happy New Year! Whew. I’m glad to have my first blog for the year 2010. Last year’s been very amazing, fun and weird. Well, every year does.

Last night I kept on thinking what will happen to me in the near future, am I going to be luckier this year than the last one, stuffs that a lot of people may as well think too. I remember my teacher in Social Studies when we’re high school sophomores told us, “Nothing is permanent in this world except change”. He’s totally right. Now, everybody’s changing and I don’t feel the same. Dwelling in the past somehow brings bad vibes or aura so I’m going to cut off the drama and hmm try to enumerate the most noticeable changes I’ve witnessed with the people around me.

* Sipping massive alcoholic drinks spells “gimmick” to numerous people. It doesn’t matter if you’re a minor or not, as long as you are able to post something on your Facebook wall or brag about the shots you had with your friends.

* SOME people tend to forget the essence of selflessness. If you ride on jeepneys, I’m quite sure you experience sitting in squashed manner while the others are comfy doing sight seeing during the ride.

* The discrimination of Filipinos to fellow Filipinos gets worse. Instead of helping correcting others’ errors, SOME laugh and make fun of it.

* Filipinos are more fashionable. Everyone look as if they developed his/her sense in style. It’s actually good. Many are able to express themselves through clothes and accessories. The masses are now conscious on how they appear in the eyes of the public. Perseverance is the key to cosmetic surgery. I believe not only the wealthy personalities tried breast augmentation and rhinoplasty. Persistent people love to have Angelina Jolie’s lips and Brad Pitt’s nose without thinking the result will look like Allan K.’s and Diego’s due to malpractice.

* The religion views of several beings are still mix and match.

“We’re ready 2010!” shouted out by a friend. “No you’re not”, I murmured to myself. We are never prepared for what we expect. We just have to be more faithful and devoted to our Almighty Father for with Him in our lives, everything’s going to be fine.

If Google Wasn’t Invented…

Google came from the misspelled word “googol” which refers to 10¹⁰⁰ or the number one followed by one hundred zeros. Did you know that Google’s original name is BackRub since the strategy of the said search engine is to check backlinks to calculate approximately the importance of a site?

Google has been part of our techie beings. According to Hitwise.com, Google is the most used search engine with a 72.29% market share as of December 12, 2009. Yahoo got 15.10% while Bing acquired 8.99%, ahead of Ask.com (2.56%) and Aolsearch.com (0.31%). To give you the latest update this week, Google still ranks first, followed by Facebook and then Yahoo as the most visited site.

Actually I googled the information I obtained about Google. 

Google really helped a lot of people, knowledge-wise. So I wonder what would happen if Google wasn’t invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

5. Librarians are mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets.

Did you experience being scolded by a mad librarian for no reason? Or try searching for a certain book in huge book shelves in the library? If Google was not invented, students will prefer to go to library to search for the information they need. The result? I bet it would be really hard for the bookkeepers to manage the vast number of students taking time for their research, sorting of the disheveled books and the likes. If Google wasn’t invented, book lovers and researchers won’t be able to find their target books or topics in just a spur-of-the-moment.

4. Students will fail.

Admit it. As a student, you do your homework with the help of Google. Most of the students want their homework be done quickly for them to be able to have time socializing with friends, virtually or not. Without Google, students will take for granted their assignments. Since using other search engines and searching in the library will not provide accurate answers. With Google, voila! assignments are done, research are finished and students have lots of time for Tumblr and Facebook.

3. Jerry Yang and David Filo will yodel and shout Yahoo!

The founders of Yahoo! will be the kings of all search engines. Jerry and David will save large amount of money since they don’t need to better promote Yahoo!. Without Google, Yahoo! will reign the search engine industry.

2. There will be less number of SEO Companies.

I guess there would be no SEO companies that specialize in organic SEO and prioritize backlinks like ElementSEO.com if Google was not invented.

1. I will be jobless.

I really rely on Google when it comes to gathering all the information I need. I learned Front End Developing through searching on Google. I didn’t stay in the library for my homework. I didn’t fail my subjects because I do my assignments with the help of Google. I was able to go to far places by means of Google Map. I learned about SEO. With all the results I got because of Google, I now have my job.

Don’t know about Google? I google that for you.