THE 2008 PHILIPPINE BLOG AWARDS

Wow..it was a long blog absence.I was occupied with so many works...aside from Teaching,here comes the Board Exam-preparations which was truly a bit exhausted...promise I was drained during the exam.


On the lighter note,I directly checked the Blogosphere and everything has changed so fastly.The Philippine Blog Awards 2008 was over and I failed to attend the Awards Night held at One Esplanade last September 21.
My warm greetings and applause to the winners and of course the success of the Awards...below are the winners:

Here are the list of winners of the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards

SPECIAL AWARDS
Best Blog Design: OctTwelve
Best Plugin/Extension : Daily Top Ten
Best Free Custom Theme : Una WordPress Theme
Best Network Blogger : Juan Mandaraog
Best OFW Blogger : Samjuan
Bloggers’ Choice : Batang Yagit

BEST BLOG & POST

ARTS & CULTURE :
Blog : Gibbs Cadiz
Single Post : EJ: Ang Pinagdaanang Buhay nina Evelio Javier at Edgar Jopson - A Review of a Rocking Relevant Musical
by Jester in Exile

BUSINESS :
Blog : Pinoy Web Startup
Single Post : Ang Tibay Naman by Senor Enrique

COMMENTARY :
Blog : Creature Lover
Single Post : The Problem of R.A. 9439 by Tess Termulo

ENTERTAINMENT :
Blog : The Professional Heckler
Single Post : Manila’s Movie Theaters by Senor Enrique

FOOD & BEVERAGE :
Blog : No Special Effects
Single Post : Marketman Learns How to Make Tinapa from Scratch!!! by Market Man


FAMILY & LIVING :
Blog : The D Spot by Dine Racoma
Single Post : Me and Tia Inez by Senor Enrique


FASHION & LIFESTYLE :
Blog : Pinoy Guy Guide
Single Post : Camo Comes Out Of Hiding by Bearbrick Lover


HOBBY/RECREATION :
Blog : Comicology The Study of Awesome
Single Post : Limatik (Blood Leeches): An overview by Pinoy Mountaineer


NEWS & MEDIA :
Blog : tonyocruz.com
Single Post : Confessions of a “New Media” Heretic (or, the jester in exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM “priest caste”) by Jester in Exile

PERSONAL :
Blog : Atheista
Single Post : Out of school, part 1: Forks by Martin Perez

PHOTOBLOG :

Blog : Best Photo Blog: lostphotograph
Single Post : Urban Cave by Reginald Balanga


SPORTS :
Blog : The Bull Runner
Single Post : garmin vs nike a test of accuracy by Jaymie aka The Bull Runner

TECHNOLOGY :
Blog : PinoyBlogero.com
Single Post : The Making of Lakbayan (Part1& 2) by Vaes9

TRAVEL:
Blog : Ironwulf.net: En Route
Single Post : How I broke a ritual taboo in Batad by Estan Cabigas

VIDEOCAST & PODCAST:
Blog : CokskiBlue Pinoy Vlogs, Videos and Vodcasts
Single Post : Episode 28: We Love Trinoma! (A Video Spoof) by AJ Matela, Joe Datinguinoo, Kring Elenzano, Poyt Salazar and Coy Caballes
(Source: 2008 PBA )

Among the winners,were my Friend whom I just met through blogging: Ferdz of Ironwulf.et and Coy of CokskiBlue.
Pictures below were taken during the PBA 2008.

(source: www.annalyn.net)


Source: www.pinoyguyguide.com)

SEPTEMBER COUNTDOWN FOR CHRISTMAS

Sorry for the long blog absence..been busy these weeks.Month of September is almost comes to an end.
Philippines has the longest Christmas celebration in the world.The celebration of the yuletide season started in the month of September because of the close word of "ber" to December.
Hearing radio stations partially playing the Christmas songs really makes me happy and worry too.I felt this urgency inside of me to save enough for the gifts but on the contrary my earnings isn't much on the excessive level.
Well,the exact date of Christmas is still way far from its due.....

LISTENING IN THE STILLNESS

Was there a point in your life when you felt so tired and were ready to give up on life? Or have you felt that you were a victim of frustration and fate seems to be unkind?
Have you felt at times in your life that you were just going around in the cycles ,nowhere to go?
In life's journey, we sometimes find ourselves in the middle of despair and lost in a barren wilderness of frustrations.Just last month,fears and anxiety had made me restless and caused my insomnia to attack me every night up to now.
As I look the fast changes of this world,worrying for the future brought so much trouble in mind as if tomorrow is the end of the world.Searching for a better future or stable job is the impossibility of the possible.
I always dreaming of getting out the country just to try my luck...since the grass is more greener on the other side.
My job doesn't give me satisfaction financially especially that I am getting on in years.As I always begging the good Lord to open the door of opportunities abroad,He answered my humble request unknowing that it wasn't really the perfect answer given by God but a sort of trials to test my patience.
A petition letter from USA had just arrived unexpectedly for a missionary call,but to my excitement everything went in vain because of the financial scarcity I had then.
Doubt questions popped out and asking the Lord so many Why's...
I was disappointed and spiritually drought that apathy started to grow in my heart.For a couple of days of refusing to talk to the Lord,I gave in and offered a peace offering for the Lord.
Just realized that God invites me to stop for a while and be still and silent before Him over my dreams of going to US.Indeed, sometimes God emptied my pockets so He can fill my hearts of love.
Now,I don't let the noise of my dreams drown the voice of God.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL....AFTER ALL

Life is beautiful....the wonderful sun rises,a new day bursts with loving family,cheerful friends,don't they make life Beautiful? Amidst of the crisis,wars,corruption and chaos happening around..still life is beautiful.
What an amazing life we have,seeing mountains,hills,and seas free from sorrows and miseries,in a world full of mysteries.
Watching the kids playing and laughing around makes the world go round and merry,isn't it?
After all,we are living in the world filled with beauties,God created them for us to appreciate life....may it be good or bad we still have to appreciate life as it is.
Let me tell you about Life through the pictures posted down...let them do the talking..




















No matter how are we going to shield ourselves from the ugliness of reality,still God makes our life Beautiful.
No one knows why we were brought to life and why how it is became to be.
Its a question everyone asks One another.
Life is like a biotech as most people say as I would too.
It has its ups and downs.
You may like your life at one moment and hated it next.
You have to live life as it was given to you and Live it as he gave it to you.
Don't try and change the future or the past that's something that you can't choose.
Life is to learn how to deal with it.

THE POWER OF PRAYER

These days,I always like moving on two hyper speeds...maybe it's because of the problems that kept on coming....hyper speeds in the sense that I want everything falls rightly in place,perfectly.
That is my roundabout way of saying when I am confronted with onerous problems.I think we each have our own struggles with managing problems.
According to a certain poem " On the street of this position of God's world I feel a neighbor to a rat, so brother of a worm;Forever chasing rainbows at muddy margins."-Quemadas Poem
I don't know if life isn't worth living nor empty and meaningless,or full of challenges.There are times,I go for glitters and gold selfishly...however,God is still in controls...Prayer is the only propellers I used to heal the broken pieces in me caused by problems.
Prayer is the answer to every problem in life.It puts us in tune with divine wisdom which knows how to adjust everything perfectly.So often we do not pray in a certain situation because that from our standpoint the outlook is hopeless.But nothing is impossible with God.
Nothing is too entangled that it cannot be remedied.No human relationship is too strained for God to bring about the reconciliation and understanding.
No habit is too deep-rooted that it cannot be overcome.Noe one is so weak that it cannot be made strong.No one is so ill that He cannot be healed.No Mind is so dull that it cannot be made brilliant.
Whatever we need or desire, if we trust God, He will supply it.If anything is causing worry and anxiety let us stop rehearsing the difficulty and trust God for healing love and power.

UNSINKABLE AMERICAN POOL STAR

Source:msnSports
The world is widely looking to an American water bullet phenomenon Michael Phelps.Before he became magnificent in an Olympic history,Michael Phelps threw screaming fit terrified of putting his face in the water accordingly.From great things start from small beginnings,he swam to ties Olympic record holder Mark Spitz.
Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time.In the sport of swimming,he's the talk of the town and the center of the Water Cube were world's media glued on him.

"At 15 he became the youngest person to hold a world record and also the youngest male in 68 years to be selected for the US Olympic Swimming team.Extraordinary in the water,Phelps has an ordinary boy-next-door persona outside the pool.He does nothing to hide his affection for his mother,Debbie who follows him all his meets.He loves hip-hop music,video games and watches DVD's endlessly while relaxing between races.He has a gigantic appetite,eating industrial quantities of food to fuel his exertions and relishes the company of friends."-Reuters

Eight gold medals in eight events and seven world swimming records made him to be a god in Olympia.


Source:YahooSports

ANALYZING PRINT ADS

Just saw these ads in the net and some of the articles being printed about the nude ads posted along the high ways...Even in the Philippines,Bench has been copying Calvin Klein as the most vulgar ads in terms of advertising its undies publicly...do they need to post nude males/female models just to attract their buyers to buy?

Advertising surrounds our students and kids; advertising is unavoidable. Before the school day begins, adolescents encounter numerous forms of advertising. Whether it is on the radio, billboards, newspapers, magazines, TV, or online, students need to be aware of what they are subjected to. We live in a consumer culture and adolescents are very much a part of that culture. In fact, a large number of adolescents have a disposable income since they are still living at home and being supported by their parents. It is extremely critical that we teach adolescents to critically analyze advertising since they are at an impressionable age and are at the heart of developing their individual identities. As teachers, we want to inculcate into our students the importance of thinking critically about the world around them and to adopt ideologies based on their own personal beliefs, values, and attitudes. Today’s adolescents need to develop their own ideologies rather than the advertisement industry telling our adolescents who they ought to be.

Adolescents must understand how to be critical analyzers of advertising and also understand the process and strategy that the advertising industry assumes. The ability to critically analyze advertisements allows adolescents to place advertisements within a particular context and culture. Rather than allowing advertisements to position adolescents as particular audiences, adolescents, engaged in critical analysis of advertisements, will be able to take a step back, distance themselves, and objectively partake in advertisement viewing. Part of learning to critically analyze advertising is learning about the advertisement itself and also the context in which the audience responds to the advertisement

Does Calvin Klein sold us sex eroticism?


What does this billboard say about youg adults?
Do you see adolescents portrayed here?
Can you identify with this image?
What is the purpose of this image?
(Source:Teachingmedialetiracy.com)