3 Day Challenge - Day 1 1:37pm

its 1:37pm here.. cuz of boredom somethings urging me to use social networking site.. i can still control it.. let see where will the wind will take me.. im still distracting myself in reading different things hope i dont get bored soon..

Heres what am reading guys!!
McDonalds History

Word Play

Tagalog Words and their origin.

Kusing : a Tagalog sound-switching of the Spanish cinco.

Tikoy : from the Chinese ti-que, meaning "sweet cake".

Balbon : from the Spanish barbon, meaning a "long bearded man."

Baro : from the Persian baju, meaning 'coat' or 'outer' garment

Alahas : from the Spanish alhajas, meaning "gems" or jewels."

Hukbo : from the Chinese hok [conquer'] + bu ['militia']

Apura : from the Spanish apurar, meaning 'to hurry' of "to worry"

Kulisap : from an early Bisayan word which means "lice" or "hair" infestation.

Pateros : Spanish for "duck-raisers."

Batya : from the Spanish batea, meaning "wash tub or tray. "

Karaoke : Japanese for "empty orchestra."

Bulakbol : Tagalog corruption of the English slang black ball, meaning "truant" or "out cast."

Akala : from the Arabic aqala, eaning "to have intelligence."

Anghit: from the Malay hangit, meaning "the odor of something burning."

Lastiko : from the Spanish elastico, meaning "flexible", but without the e

Kalapati : a corruption of the Malay perpati, meaning "turtledove."

Ilong : from the Malay hidong, meaning 'nose'.

Kubeta : from the Spanish cubeta, meaning a "small bucket or barrel," by extension of meaning a "pail for refuse."

Deadma : came from the show "Going Banana's" meaning patay = dead ; malisya = ma

Sirit : came from the english word "Let's hear it"

30 facts you may not know (Pinoy Edition)

1. Gustave Eiffel, the guy who built the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, also built the San Sebastian Church in   Quiapo, Manila.

2. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is Asia's first professional (pay for play) basketball league.

3. Eugene Torre is Asia's first chess Grandmaster .

4. Pancho Villa (Franciso Guilledo) is the first East Asian to win a world title in professional boxing.

5. Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden in Malate, Manila was the first zoo in asia.

6. Only McDonald's in the Philippine serves spaghetti, if not, the first to compete with Jollibee.

7.  Contrary to popular notion, the symbolic name "Juan de la Cruz" is not a Filipino invention. R.   McCulloch-****, a Scottish born journalist, coined the generic tag while working for the Manila Times in the early 1900's after discovering it was the most common name in police blotters and court dockets in and around Manila.

8.  "JEPROKS" - came from the word project pertaining to BLISS HOUSING PROJECTS during the 70's, instead of providing decent home to some families, the housing project became an enclave of somewhat many squatters that yields lots of unemployed and "istambays" later on we called as jeproks!

9. "JOLOGS" - somewhat related pero ang etymology nito ay from"DYOLOG" from Daing tuYO itLOG, the usual food of lower income families.

10. Davao City is the biggest city in the world in terms of area.

11.  Considered the first full length comedy film in the Philippines was "The Three Tramps," which was release in1927. It starred brothers Manuel and Augusto Silos, vaudeville queen Miami Salvador, and Enrique Espinosa.

12. First Filipino Olympians David Nepumoceno, who ran the track sprints at the 1924 Paris Games.  

13. Manuel L. Quezon was the first Filipino president to use a telephone.

14.  The first school lunches in the country were served at the American-run Meisic Intermediate School in Manila 1907. A sample daily menu for the 2000 or so students: "two kettles chicken soup with macaroni, 300 pieces of pandesal with salmon, 100 slices fried bread with mashed potatoes and corned beef, two freezers of milk ice cream, 600 square crackers, 100 pieces rolled jelly cake.

15. Consummatum est!" ("It is done!") were Jose Rizal's last word.

16. Palawan is geologically the safest province in the Philippines, away from volcanoes and earthquake faults.

17. Apo Hiking Society  was the first  foreign entertainment group allowed to stage a concert in Saudi Arabia.

18.  Paeng Nepumoceno was the youngest bowler to win the World Cup. He was only 19 when he ruled the event for the first time in Tehran, Iran, in 1976. He again won the World Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1980, and a record third time in Le Mans, France, in 1992.

19. Anak by Freddie Aguilar was inspired by his 1 year old daughter Shiaianne.

20.  Over 50% of the country's estimated 800,000 ethnic Chinese (1.4% of the Philippine population) live in Metro Manila. Almost all Chinese immigrants to the Philippines were lower-class males, mostly from Fukien province of mainland China.

21.  Like the volatile it hosts, Taal Lake has a quirky history. Its waters were once upon a time salty, but now considered "fresh." Shark, in fact, were among it;s inhabitants until about 1940. There also have been tales of crocodiles being thrown thirty meters into the air during one of the volcano's more violent eruptions. Taal Lake's original name, by the way, was Bonbon Lake.

22.  The Tagalog slang kenkoy, for 'funny' or 'comical', derives from Kenkoy, the popular cartoon character created by Tony Velasquez for Liwayway Magazine in 1929. It was Kenkoy who introduced into our consciousness such terms as weitaminit, barok, and kolokoy.

23. Levi Celerio was the only Filipino musician ever featured on the U.S. television show That's Incredible! Levi Clerio, making music with a leaf. He reckons he has composed between 1,300 and 4,000 songs in a career spanning nearly half a century.

24.  Jones Bridge in Manila is the first cabled suspension steel bridge in Asia.

25.  Manila Hotel is the first air conditioned hotel in asia.

26. The world first saw the name "Filipinas: in official print in 1861 on gold coins bearing the bust of Queen Isabel II of Spain. the coins - in denominations of one, two, and four pesos - were minted in Manila.

27. Ben Villaflor was the youngest Filipino who become a world champion, he won the WBA junior lightweight title on April 25, 1972, in Honolulu, at age 19.

28.  The minor planet "Biyo", which has a diameter of four to nine kms. and was formerly called planet 13241, was named after Dr. Josette Biyo a teacher of Phil. Science HS. in Iloilo City who won the Int'l. Excellence in Teaching Award during the Intel Int'l Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) held in Louisville, Kentucky in 2002. The Massachusetts Intistute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory in the United States game the name.

29.  The Philippines was the first country to score a hundred points in an Olympic basketball competition. They defeated Iraq 102-30. The members of that team:
 

Coach: Dionisio Calvo
Players: Manuel Araneta
Ramón Campos
Eduardo Decena
Andrés de la Cruz
Felicisimo Fajardo
Gabriel Fajardo
Edgardo Fulgencio
Antonio Luis Martínez
Lauro Mumar
Francisco Vestil

30. Balut is not only popular in the Philippines. It is also popular in Cambodia and Vietnam.

 

 

 

 

 


   

3 Day Challenge - Day 1 9:21 AM

I posted on FACEBOOK and MYYEARBOOK page last night that i will be absent for 3 days on all the social networking site.. this will be from today till thursday (Sept 14-16) i will be back on friday.. It will be a big challenge for me.. i know its just 3 days but believe me am an addict so im on both pages the whole day kinda like 24/7 thing.. so i know its gonna be hard..

So.. here's what am gonna do I will make a journal from time to time on whats happening to me on the whole 3 days so am not gonna get lost or something..

I just came in the office and opened firefox.. so i skipped on typing FACEBOOK on my browser (yey me!) coz normally thats the 2nd thing i type after entering the office.. so i checked my mails and all... and now back to work.. more updates later!!

Take time to live

email from reah aristan.

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.

Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough".

The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom".

They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry.. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?".

Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking,
but why is this a forever good-bye?".

"I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be
for my funeral," she said.

"When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?".

She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone". She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said , 'I wish you enough', we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude
bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
 

 She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but then an entire life to forget them.
* Only if you wish send this to the people you will never forget and remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you. If you don't send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.
TAKE TIME TO LIVE.....

Sad Wallmart Story

email from ese quimpo.

YAHOO IS TRACKING THIS!!!!!!!!!!

A sister and her brother were inside a new Wal-Mart. The sister at eight years of age and the brother seventeen years of age. The brother was wanting to buy a present for his little sister beacuse her birthday was coming up. As they were about to leave, she had to go to the bathroom. Her brother showed her where the restrooms were and he began looking at earrings he thought she might like for her birthday.

As he started to buy the earrings, he saw people running from the end of the store screaming and yelling with fear. In the next moment he smelled smoke and saw flames. He ran to his little sister as fast as he could but when he got to the bathrooms the fire was already blazing. He knew he had to leave to make sure help was coming. When the firetrucks arrived it was already too late.

They assured the family that there were no survivors. Two days later the family got a call from the hospital. They told them that they had someone there by the name of Sandy . They asked, 'How did you get this number?' The hospital replied that the little girl had a purse clutched in her little hand with a card that gave her name and number on it. The family drove to the hospital to see their little While they thanked God for her survival, they noticed  her arms were burnt so severely they were both amputated and her face was burned and she needed surgery. The family didn't have any health insurance and very little money to cover the bill. This family needs our HELP!

NOTE: Everytime someone forwards this story, YAHOO will donate $2.00 towards the IS TRACKING THIS!

Please forward this as 'Sad Wal-Mart Story'. God knows who you are. Karma knows it could happen to you $2.00 off the hospital bill, that is a lot for two seconds of your time'. God knows who you are
 

Tao nga naman

Minsan nakakainis noh kasi meron taung ginagawa at alam natin sa sarili nating para un sa ikakabuti ng lahat pero may mga tao talagang will pull u down when everything starts to clear up. parang nde cla masaya na nakikita kang nag gro-grow. What hurts me most eh ung tipong kailangan nilang i-judge ang buong pagkatao mo without knowing the whole story, napaka one sided diba. well its the truth kahit anong gawin natin meron at merong taong ganon. wish ko lang na maging open cla sa mga bagay at wag maging stereotype!