We’ve seen The Fight that made the world stand up and watch. Manny Pac­quiao has silenced doubters with a scary anni­hi­la­tion of Ricky Hat­ton inside Two Lop­sided Rounds that made the Eight Lop­sided Rounds last Decem­ber against Dela Hoya no longer a fluke (if it ever was con­sid­ered one).

60: Church Simplified">

I first heard about them when my office­mates gave me rave reviews about their expe­ri­ence of a dif­fer­ent kind of Sta­tion of the Cross in Boni­fa­cio High­street (see video below). I even­tu­ally became a face­book fan, and as with many things face­book, the rest is his­tory (hehe). I found myself res­onat­ing with many things they espouse, and while I can­not talk about their phi­los­o­phy and the­ol­ogy at length since I have not joined any of their ser­vices myself, I think the con­cept of a Church that is sim­ple, open to very cre­ative ideas, and one that does not pros­e­ly­tize, is a real breath of fresh air, and some­thing that appeals to me.

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I am fea­tur­ing what I think are the 10 Most Mem­o­rable Com­mer­cials to ever grace Philip­pine TV. The choices are based on research (other people’s votes and blog posts of a sim­i­lar topic) and my own recall of the com­mer­cials that I still remem­ber years after I first saw them on TV. There are other com­mer­cials wor­thy of note: Palmolive’s I CAN FEEL IT that brought a young Alice Dix­son to star­dom, The Pure­foods TJ Hot­dogs GOODBYE CARLO, the funny TIDE IS TIDE, the series of com­mer­cials about Lumen and her fam­ily in Surf, Lucky Me with Luis and Edu Man­zano, San Miguel Beer with Fer­nando Poe Jr, the KFC com­mer­cial that had a guy “come out” to his friends, and more recently, the Colt 45 Series on men act­ing like real men. But these ten, to me, stand out.

This ren­di­tion of Lupang Hini­rang is intended for reflec­tion. It is not meant to replace the offi­cial anthem nor­mally played as a march.

Recently a tal­ented and nation­ally known film direc­tor, Mae Paner, crafted a new and mov­ing ver­sion of our national anthem. This unusual audio visual pre­sen­ta­tion of “Lupang Hini­rang”* has been shown many times in var­i­ous events and has con­sis­tently touched the hearts and minds of view­ers to the point of tears of awak­en­ing and gratefulness.

10 Greatest Self-Made Men in Philippine History (Part 2 of 2)">

Yester­day, we had num­bers 10–7 of the our list of The 10 Great­est Self-Made Men in Philip­pine His­tory.

They are:
10) Pres­i­dent Ramon Magsaysay
9) Sen­a­tor Ninoy Aquino
8) Pres­i­dent Fer­di­nand Mar­cos
7) Sen­a­tor Manny Villar

While #s 10–7 are lumi­nar­ies of the polit­i­cal world, the rest of the list come from another sphere. We con­tinue with the rest of the Top 10…