Gold Label

        I received a birthday gift from Rudy C. this year.  It’s Johnnie Walker Gold Label.  It’s the first time that I heard about this label from JW.  When he told me about the Gold Label, I thought it was the Fundador Gold.  Thanks again, Rudy.

        I knew about the Red, Black, & Blue Labels.  Of the three, I’ve tasted the first two and gotten drunk.  The Blue Label, which is the favorite of a former president, is very expensive.  And, I couldn’t afford it and nobody would give that to me as a gift.

         Curious, I passed by some wine stores to compare the Gold Label with the other labels.  Unfortunately, the wine stores I visited have no Gold Label.  So, I just browsed the internet.

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Green Bag

        We're running out of supplies and went shopping for groceries at SM City Fairview Supermarket this afternoon.  While my wife, Beng, was shopping, I walked around - the basement, then to the ground floor, and up to third floor.  After an hour of walk, I returned to the supermarket and found my wife still shopping. So, I got the cart and told her that I’d be going to queue to the cashier since the lines, as usual, were already long.

        Finally, she finished her shopping.  While waiting for our turn to pay, I went out of the supermarket and I approached a booth with green bags, which I spotted earlier..

        The green bags have prints on both sides, “SAVE A BAG, SAVE THE WORLD.” on the upper portion, and EXCLUSIVELY FOR SM ADVANTAGE MEMBERS on the lower portion.  On the middle portion of the one side, the logo of SM Supermarket Cares, and on the other side, the logo of Unilever Philippines.

       
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First 31 Days

        31 days or a month ago (May 23), I registered with i.ph

        My first encounter with i.ph was when I visited Atty. Adrian Sison’s blog last year.  Atty. Sison is one of the hosts of the radio program “The Broadcaster’s Bureau”.  It’s aired on weekdays over DWBR FM-104.3 khz.  I had been an occasional listener of the program while driving to work until it changed its time slot.  I revisited his blog during the campaign period this year to monitor the Ang Kapatiran Party’s campaign progress.  He’s one of the senatorial candidates of the party.

        While searching for something, I came across i.ph again.  Out of curiosity, I opened the site but had no plan of signing up.   Nonetheless, I checked whether my nickname “Tom” was still available as username, yet expecting it wasn’t anymore.  But, surprisingly, it was; and, I signed up.

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In Need of a Liver Donor

I just read this from Inquirer.net and thought of posting it here to expand the search for donor.

1 year-old Erin needs liver transplant 

Inquirer
Last updated 02:06am (Mla time) 06/23/2007

 

MANILA, Philippines – Serene Isabel “Erin” Pasimio is not your usual patient in need of a liver donor.

The daughter of Francis Robert “Sonny” Pasimio of 15 Moscow Street, Eastville Filinvest, Antipolo City, is only a year old, too young to undergo surgery.

But if a liver transplant is her only hope to survive and live a normal life, her father, an AB Economics graduate of the Ateneo University, is willing to take the risk.

“The doctors feel that the surgery should happen as soon as possible to give her a chance,” Pasimio said in his e-mail to the Inquirer.

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I Have a New Phone

It’s a Nokia 6680.

    No, it’s not a brand new phone but already used (by a former officemate).  It’s just a replacement to my Nokia 9300 Communicator, which is for repair.  The 9300 text messaging feature has already malfunctioned.  Last week, I sent text messages and received some replies that they received numerous text messages with the same content.  I opened the outbox; and the messages were still there and kept on resending.  After rebooting the phone, the text messaging worked perfectly again; but, after a while, the problem recurred.  This cycle happened several times until the text messaging failed to send.

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Bowling tourney – Week 4

        It’s week 4 and 20 more weeks to go.  Indeed, this is the longest tournament that I’ve participated.

        My first game was just fine at 183.  But my next two (2) games were dismal, 131 and 150 respectively.  I was hitting everything but the target.  My day average was 154.66 and my current average is 159.33 - increasing my handicap from 12 to 13.   My standing fell from 33^rd to 38^th place.

Luckily, on the 3^rd game, I got one of the magic numbers (58, 65, or 77) and won a special prize – a water jug.

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Number Coding

        Monday is my number coding day as the last digit of my plate number is 1.

        If you’re buying a brand new car, you could choose your number coding day by requesting LTO, through your dealer, for the last digit of your plate number.

        I chose Monday (last digit of 1 or 2).  Hence, I’d be forced to leave at least one (1) hour earlier, thus avoiding the traffic.  Otherwise, I have to commute and avoid driving through traffics.

        Today, I woke up at 4:15 AM and left at around 5:15 AM.  I dropped my daughter, Jaja, off in front of KFC near her office building along F. Ortigas Avenue (formerly Emerald Avenue), Ortigas Center.  I arrived at my parking slot (3^rd basement of our office building) at around 6:15 AM.  Then, I slept in the car for about 45 minutes.

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Ped Xing

        I saw this road sign first inside Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), the former US Naval Base.  Then, I saw them along Roxas Boulevard, Manila City.

        Ped Xing means – Ped for Pedestrian and Xing for Crossing or, in long, Pedestrian Crossing.

        It seemed a Chinese name.

Pedestrian (Ped)

        A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running, on a road or sidewalk.

Crossing (Xing)

        A pedestrian to reach his/her destination sometimes needs to cross a road.  For his protection, pedestrian lanes or crossings are placed in strategic areas of the road.  These lanes are commonly placed around intersections, to go with the flow of the traffic.  Some are placed in between intersections, where more pedestrians are crossing.  The lanes are properly marked.  Some even have signage.

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Coming Home (from Leyte Trip)

        Mission accomplished, Dan - my friend and officemate, and I left the plantsite yesterday (June 15, 2007) at 10:45 AM for Tacloban City for my 2:55 PM flight to Manila.  Instead of using a service car, Dan, who lives in Tacloban, offered to drive me in his car.

        At lunchtime, we’re in the vicinity of Carigara, Leyte (still an hour away to Tacloban City).  So, we ate our lunch in Newtown Kitchen in the poblacion.  This small restaurant is famous to and frequented by travelers going to and from Tacloban.  It’s almost full when we entered.  We ordered the favorite tinolang isda (a fish soup popular in the Visayan region), fried squids still with roes in them, pinakbet (a popular Ilocano dish of assorted vegetables), rice and 500 ml softdrink.

        We arrived at the D. Z. Romualdez (Tacloban) Airport at around 1:45 PM.  After thanking Dan, I proceeded to the check-in counter and then to the departure area.

Sad Note:  The modernization of the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport worth P3.36 billion has been delayed for another two years because of lack of local counterpart fund. (Manila Times, Jan. 11, 2007)  

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How Much of the Philippines Have I Visited?

Thanks to Lakbayan and  AlohaPenny.  I got this from her blog.

And, here is my grade:
 

My Lakbayan grade is B-!

About Lakbayan

Eugene Alvin Villar, is the creator of Lakbayan. He also go by the handle, seav, and he primarily blogs at vaes9, where he posts about technology, web development, movies, music, and some general geekiness.

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