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Thank You & Happy New Year!

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This is the time of the year when I look back and recall what actually happened to me for the past 12 months. Some are uncontrollably bad, but I know God has a reason for that. There were few trials, but I remained strong. I had some shares of failures and mistakes - I fell and now I stand...proud. Struggles were there only to remind me that I should be contented and learn to accept things as they are. I got mad and disappointed but I learned to forgive and forget. I loved, and will continue to love...unconditionally...with all my might.

And there you are - the very person who brought me joy and inspiration, who influenced me to become better, who taught me how to do what is fair and right, who helped me uplift other people's lives, who makes me feel I am worthy of trust, respect and love. No words can describe how grateful I am to have become part of your 2010.

Maraming maraming salamat and Happy New Year!

Endless Japanese Jumping Into a Pool




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Auction Results: Morbid? Wrong? Ka-Ching!



On November 25, 1963 in Washington DC representatives from more than 90 countries came to President John F. Kennedy's funeral. Millions watched it on tv.

In Forth Worth, Texas Lee Harvey Oswald's body was laid in a simple, pine coffin.

A fierce legal battle erupted between Marina, Oswald's wife, and Robert, his brother. People didn't believe Oswald was really the one who was buried in that pine coffin.

On a crisp autumn day in October 1981, the coffin was dug up and Oswald's body pulled from it. Tests were run to determine if it was, indeed, really Oswald's.

Water had seemed into the burial vault and damaged the coffin. Oswald's body was reported to be covered in a "most of mold". (Note: I urge others not to read the medical autopsy report as I mistakenly did out of curiosity while eating lunch.)

One of the funeral directors who participated in the autopsy swapped the old coffin for a new one and kept it in storage. Then he decided to put it up for auction in December 2010.

Bidding opened at $1,000 at an auction house in Santa Monica, California. And soon escalated. It finally closed two hours after deadline to an anonymous bidder for over $87,000.

The coffin originally cost $300.

Oswald's brother tried to stop the auction. He wasn't aware of the auction and felt the coffin should have been destroyed in 1981. He was the one who originally paid for the coffin.



Image from Nate D. Sanders, Inc. Auction.

BSP Launches the New Designs of Philippine Peso Bills; Cory Aquino Joins Ninoy Aquino on Redesigned 500-Peso Bill

The Bangko Sentral of the Philippines (BSP) released on Thursday the newest Philippine money. The highlight of the change is the inclusion of President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's mother - the late former Philippine President Corazon "Cory" Aquino with the image of her husband, the late Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., on the new P500 bill.




President Noynoy, whose signature is now on the new bank notes, led the launching in Malacañang.

"It does make me happy, as a son and as a Filipino, to have my parents on the same bank note. It is a testament to what they sacrificed for our people, and a testament to their love for our country," he said.

He pointed out a major difference between his parents and himself: "It also serves as a constant reminder for me that my parents were more fortunate than I in finding that person that made them whole and allowed them to achieve the heights that they did."

This elicited laughter from the audience.

BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said the new bank notes took three years to conceptualize and print. The idea to include Mrs. Aquino on the P500 bill, however, was conceived when she passed away in August 2009.

Tetangco said the BSP decided to include Mrs. Aquino on the bank note even before President Aquino announced in September that he would seek the presidency.

The BSP will start producing and circulating the new bills this month, but the old bills are still considered legal tender and are expected to remain in circulation for around three more years.

All six denominations — P20, P50, P100, P200, P500, and P1,000 — have new designs and security features. Below are the new designs:


P20 bill
Obverse: Manuel L. Quezon
Reverse: Banaue Rice Terraces and a palm civet from the Cordilleras, which are famous for producing the civet cat coffee or kapeng alamid.


P50 bill

Obverse: Sergio Osmeña
Reverse: Taal Lake and the Giant Trevally (locally known as Maliputo), a delicious milky fish


P100 bill

Obverse: Manuel A. Roxas
Reverse: Mayon Volcano and the "butanding" or whale shark, the world's largest fish and the main attraction of Donsol, Sorsogon




P200 bill

Obverse: Diosdado Macapagal
Reverse: Bohol's Chocolate Hills and the Philippine tarsier, one of the world's smallest primates


P500 bill

Obverse: Corazon Aquino and Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.
Reverse: Palawan's Subterranean River National Park and the blue-naped parrot, which thrives in the forests of Palawan and Mindoro


P1,000 bill

Obverse: Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente P. Lim, and Jose Abad Santos
Reverse: Tubbataha Reef Marine Park and the South Sea Pearl, which is produced by oysters that thrive in the South Seas of which the Sulu Sea is part

The images of the national figures on the obverse side of the bills show them at a younger age. Fe Dela Cruz, director of the BSP's corporate affairs office, said in an ambush interview the youthful images were chosen because the public servants and heroes on the bank notes served the country during their prime.

The image of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo taking her oath of office after the second EDSA Revolution, which was on the reverse side of the old P200 bill, is now on the obverse side. The image, located on the lower left side, is much smaller.

The new security features of the bank notes include embossed prints, serial numbers, security fibers, watermarks, security thread, optically variable device, optically variable ink, and a see-through mark. The amount of features increase as the value of the note goes up.

The see-through mark is the word "Pilipino" written in Baybayin, a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system, which can only be seen completely when the note is viewed against the light.

A bank note's design is first conceptualized before it is drawn by an artist into a prototype banknote. Once the prototype has been approved, printing plates will be produced.

The production of bank notes consists of litho printing; intaglio printing; sheet inspection; numbering; tenning (where numbered sheets are inspected every tenth sheet to check if there are defects); and finishing which includes cutting, counting and packaging, according to the BSP.

Present during the launching were relatives of the heroes and officials shown on the bank notes.

Luli Arroyo, Mrs. Arroyo’s daughter, was present at the ceremony to represent her mother and grandfather. She and President Aquino, her mother’s political adversary, only shook hands briefly when the Arroyo family was asked to come onstage for the unveiling of the new P1,000 bill.

Source: GMA News


PLDT Launches PLDT TELPAD Smart Desk Phone


Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has just introduced their newest top of the line product called PLDT TELPAD Smart Desk Phone.

PLDT TELPAD is a Filipino made innovation that features a bundled landline telephone and myDSL internet service and a 7" touch screen tablet with a 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor, Android 2.2 and a two-megapixel camera - so you can not just make and receive phone calls but can also browse the internet, do video conferencing, accessing e-mail, use VoIP applications and download numerous applications from the Google Android store.


PLDT TELPAD Specifications

The PLDT TELPAD tablet is powered by a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor and runs on Android OS version 2.2. The unit has a 2GB internal storage space which can be extended using an SD card and USB slot for extended hard drive. It has a 2-megapixel front camera for still video conferencing calls. It can run undocked up to 40hrs on standby mode.

This product is made by Philippine company Neugent Technologies, Inc., a world-renown developer and manufacturer of high-end surveillance Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and other multimedia communications solutions.


Media formats supported by TELPAD

TELPAD tablet supports H.263, H.264 (in 3GP or MP4 container), MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC (in MP4 or 3GP container), MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, FLV, DivX, AC3, MIDI, MKV media formats.


TELPAD Price


The PLDT TELPAD is currently available to all existing PLDT myDSL and landline subscribers. Service plans starts at 1,849 pesos for a 1Mbps connection. Other plans available are the Plan 2099 for 1.5Mbps, Plan 3095 for 2.5Mbps and Plan 4100 for 3.5Mbps.


Official Holidays in December 2010


Malacanang has released the list of official holidays for December.

In an advisory issued Monday, the Palace said that the official holiday season starts on December 24, 2010 and ends on January 3, 2011.

Palace clarified that there are three working days within the said period: Tuesday (December 28); Wednesday (December 29); and Thursday (December 30).

The non-working holiday for Rizal Day (December 30) has been moved to December 27, the nearest Monday.

The official holidays: Friday, December 24 (Additional Special Non-Working Day); Saturday, December 25 (Christmas day; Regular Holiday); and Friday, December 31 (Last Day of the Year; Special Non working day) As well as Saturday, January 1 (non-Working Day) and Sunday, January 2 (non-working day).

Photo by Associated Press


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