I don't know, but it sure gave some light. ^__^

Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

Idealists at Work
Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. They are naturally drawn to working with people and are gifted with helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potential both on, and off, the job.

Conscience looms large for you; in almost any situation, you feel compelled to measure yourself, other people, and the conditions of the environment against your personal morality. You have a tendency to perceive questions of meaning in even trivial matters and to worry about far-flung consequences of your actions. In your ideal job, you are free to pursue depth rather than breadth and quality rather than quantity. You feel rewarded when your projects and daily tasks allow you to immerse yourself in your process as deeply as you "need to" in order to satisfy your inner standards of quality. You are uncomfortable with the notion of authority per se and may avoid leading, as well as being led, either consciously or unconsciously. As you experience them, adhering to fixed roles and rules amounts to an abdication of your responsibility to exercise your conscience.

Take the test here: www.keirsey.com

...clearly, I have a lot of time at work to do this test. haha.

A couple of weeks ago, a study approved by the Vatican publicized that men are most likely to commit lustful sins whereas women are beholden to pride. Last year the Vatican proposed seven new sins that are seen as more contemporary: Genetic modifciation, human experimentation, polluting the environment, social injustice, causing poverty, financial gluttony and the taking or selling of drugs. Of the now 14-Vatican certified sins, which one do you struggle with the most?

Top Male Sins:

1. Lust
2. Glutton
3. Sloth
4. Anger
5. Pride
6. Envy
7. Greed 

Top Female Sins:

   1. Pride
   2. Envy
   3. Anger
   4. Lust
   5. Gluttony
   6. Greed
   7. Sloth

In case the original 7 deadly sins aren’t enough for you, the Vatican has come up with seven additional
"social" sins to be wary of:


1. ``Bioethical' violations such as birth control


 

2. ``Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research

 

3.  Drug abuse

 

4. Polluting the environment

 

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

 

6. Excessive wealth
 

7. Creating poverty

SOURCES:

http://www.intent.com/blog/2009/02/23/seven-deadly-sins-breakdown-sex-and-surprising-results

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5755481.ece

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Okay, when I first heard of these new social sins and degree of sins men and women commit that we should be aware of, I suddenly had a flashback of a certain scene in the movie Dogma where the Catholic church, in an effort to revitalize Catholics to be active churchgoers again, created a fictitious religious Jesus icon named "Buddy Christ" to uplift the image and modernize Jesus Christ, deeming the crucifix image as a "wholly depressing".

They called the campaign "Catholicism Wow!"

Although I know Dogma is basically a parody of the Catholic Church, well, it did strike a nerve to me. I used to like going to our local church every Sunday. It was something I knew I had to do, an obligation I had to fulfill. Now, I hardly go to Church anymore, and it's not because I've lost faith in God, it's because I don't like our parish priest, believe it or not. Every Sunday, he solemnly tries to convince us the importance of modesty, sacrifice, and stay away from the lure of material wealth, then, after mass, he goes to his parish house where his two cars are parked, pats his high maintenance dogs, and enters his very very grand (but modernized) house, while our parish church still looks like a gym than an actual church (despite the second collections). 

What a hypocrite. I travel to another parish when I have time and listen to the mass there.

Got Christ? The Buddy Christ. He's smiling, he's encouraging, he's...cool.

Two ex-newspaper reporters, Christopher Ortiz and David Young, have started Stuff Journalists Like, listing in random order "all the little eccentric silly things journalists like  and things reporters say they hate but must secretly love. Some entries touched a nerve, some were hilarious, and some were just plain sad.

According to one of the creators, Christopher Ortiz, they were writing the site "exclusively for journalists, either by profession or passion."

Take for example, Stuff Journalist Like # 84: Writing Standing Up

"If you ever see someone writing on a steno pad while standing upright odds are they are a journalist.

According to a recent study, journalists write standing up 95 percent of the time. The other five percent is split between sitting and squatting. Journalists like writing standing up because they tend to think better on their feet. Ask any reporter why they got into the business, and writing while vertical is at the top of the list. Journalists like to write standing up in the cold, snow, rain, tornadoes, hurricanes, press conferences, town hall meetings and zombie attacks. Given the option of taking notes while sitting or standing, majority of journalists chose the latter.

The only thing better then writing while standing is writing while walking. It takes years of practice to perfect this technique.  Some advanced journalists are even able to hold a voice recorder while walking and writing, just in case they can’t read their shorthand later. Often walking and writing is reserved for special scenarios where the interviewee doesn’t have patience time to deal with the press.

Be prepared to walk and write if you are interviewing a politician, musician, athlete, coach, lawyer or anyone who doesn’t want to be interviewed. With budget cuts and smaller staffs in the industry, some journalists are also required to take photos, record video, update the web, blog and Twitter while standing and taking notes."

or my ultimate fave which made me crack up but made me go, "hmmm", Stuff Journalists Like #51: Jargon

"On the record, journalists abhor jargon, better known as fancy technical words used to explain everything from bureaucratic processes to police investigations and court trials to economic trends. Editors are always bemoaning the use of it, since journalists' mission, technically, is to make complicated matters easy to understand for readers.

But look at any newspaper article and journalists will have written phrases like "non-life threatening injuries" and "looming fiscal budget crisis" instead of "the guy's going to survive" and "the state's running out of money."

Why do journalists like jargon? Because while it's true that many reporters are learned people, a good number of working, daily-grind journalists graduated from college with a major that probably didn't require much class attendance or brain power. History. American Studies. Liberal Studies. Sociology. And the granddaddy of all the questionable majors, Communications.

It comes down to journalists wanting to sound like they actually learned something in college between the keg stands and drug binges.

Which isn't to say journalists aren't smart. But they're probably more street smart than book smart, so when a journalist is covering something and uses jargon in a story, it's usually explained by two main reasons: there's so much jargon in the subject matter that some of it slips through and using it makes journalists feel like authorities on a subject they've spent half an hour Googling.

Plus, it makes readers think journalists know what they're talking about. So throwing in some jargon is a subconscious way of throwing them a bone. And since journalists are increasingly covering a little bit of everything, they can usually hold a casual cocktail party conversation on almost any topic for about 10 minutes. Go past 10 minutes, though, and they'll most likely try to change the subject."

Did it get your attention? Read more about it through the official blogsite, Stuff Journalists Like. Just don't forget your beat your deadline for today. hehe.

To love and love others is a golden rule to living life to the fullest. We fall in love, get hurt, and move on. But it's harder when one undergoes that process with someone else that's not your wife or husband.

So build a solid foundation of trust and care while you're still in a relationship, and come marriage and it is jarred loose by a shockwave of adultery, at least that foundation will still be there. Make your wife/husband your ultimate recreational partner. Married couples guilty of committing adultery is rooted to the fact that their significant other has little or no more intimate time for the other anymore owing to either kids, work, or both. It might not be the same as before, but if both parties are willing to make it work, and try to make it work, then it will work.

Love will wane sooner or later in a marriage. You have to work hard to keep it from totally leaving you in darkness.

Marriage is not taking your partner's physical and emotional needs for granted. Marriage is a lifetime courtship

Okay. Intermission over. Back to work.

TIGER WOODS, illustrating the right body gesture of "meh".

O sige na nga, sasali na rin ako sa hype. I've taken hundreds of online tests, but this one is, how should I say this...swak. yeah. Try it out: http://www.goldinuniverse.com/. Thanks myla for the link!

Name: mj
Date: 11/17/2008
Colorgenics Number: 31247506

You are striving for a life full of activity and experience and, perhaps even more, an environment where you would be able to forge a close bond with a person who can offer full emotional fulfilment.

You are trying to improve your position and prestige - be it in your life or in your workplace. Things are, at this time, OK - but they could be better. You feel that it is essential that you break down any opposition that could possibly lurk in the shadows. You know that you are quite capable of achieving this set goal because you have to and because it is essential to your self esteem.

Conditions are rather confusing at this time. You would like to involved with a particular person or a particular situation butyou are holding back. You find it difficult to make a decision.

You are holding back. You need to find friends in whom you can trust and once they have proved themselves beyond all possible doubt you will be prepared to give them your all. The existing situation is not of your liking - you have an unsatisfied need for mental stimulation with others whose standards are as high as your own. Trying to control your instincts the way you do restricts your ability to open up to others and the way you feel at this time is suggestive of 'total surrender'. This is not to your liking as you consider such thoughts as weaknesses that need to be overcome. You feel that only by control, controlling your innermost thoughts, are you able to maintain your air of superiority. You want to be admired for yourself alone and not for what you can do or for what you may have done. In essence 'you need to be needed' and at the same time 'you need to need'.

You really like doing what you do and, more than that, you like yourself. Your attitude to work and to life is that 'If its not fun - then don't do it'. You want to be liked and respected, not for who you are but for what you are - and it seems to be working.

I'm starting a multiply account to promote my hometown Lubang Island and provide necessary information for travelers and Lubangeyos about it. So laking gulat ko na lang when I found out that a youtube member (lubangdeathsquad) has posted a picture slideshow about Lubang...with pictures that I took during my last two holy week visits to Lubang from my flickr account. Luckily, they acknowledged my flickr account (drunkwithyakult) at the end of the video, so okay lang, although some of the pictures had the wrong captions. Nagulat lang talaga ako dahil hindi siya/sila nagpaalam. Kahit nag-comment na lang man sila sana sa flickr account ko that they've already used my pics for a video prod.

I'm all for promoting Lubang and all. Pero I still want to know when my pictures are grabbed. Syempre, may pride din naman ako sa mga pics ko kahit papaano kasi pinaghirapan kong kunin 'yun. kahit digicam lang siya.

Anyways, I'm going back to find more materials for the site. At least, with the help of lubangdeathsquad, meron na akong videos na ilalagay sa video section.

Apparently the washingtonpost held a contest in which high school teachers sent in the “worst” analogies they’d encountered in grading their students’ papers over the years. (I place “worst” in quotes because many of these actually strike me as quite witty). The top 25 of these have been circulating around the “Sandra Bullock” (”net”, get it?) recently, but I decided to post all 56 that I was able to find. Here they are, in their order of objective funniness (in my opinion):

1. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
3. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
6. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
7. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
8. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
9. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
10. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
11. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
12. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
13. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
14. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
15. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
16. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
17. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
18. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
19. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
20. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
21. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
22. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
23. Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it hadrusted shut.
24. He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.
25. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.
26. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
27. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
28. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
29. “Oh, Jason, take me!” she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.
30. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
31. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
32. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
33. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
34. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
35. Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like “Second Tall Man.”
36. The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
37. The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
38. She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
39. Her pants fit her like a glove, well, maybe more like a mitten, actually.
40. Fishing is like waiting for something that does not happen very often.
41. They were as good friends as the people on “Friends.”
42. Oooo, he smells bad, she thought, as bad as Calvin Klein’s Obsession would smell if it were called Enema and was made from spoiled Spamburgers instead of natural floral fragrances.
43. The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton.
44. He was as bald as one of the Three Stooges, either Curly or Larry, you know, the one who goes woo woo woo.
45. The sardines were packed as tight as the coach section of a 747.
46. Her eyes were shining like two marbles that someone dropped in mucus and then held up to catch the light.
47. The baseball player stepped out of the box and spit like a fountain statue of a Greek god that scratches itself a lot and spits brown, rusty tobacco water and refuses to sign autographs for all the little Greek kids unless they pay him lots of drachmas.
48. I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something, but I don’t speak German. Anyway, it’s a dread that nobody knows the name for, like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don’t know the name for those either.
49. She was as unhappy as when someone puts your cake out in the rain, and all the sweet green icing flows down and then you lose the recipe, and on top of that you can’t sing worth a damn.
50. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
51. It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
52. Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.
53. You know how in “Rocky” he prepares for the fight by punching sides of raw beef? Well, yesterday it was as cold as that meat locker he was in.
54. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.
55. Her lips were red and full, like tubes of blood drawn by an inattentive phlebotomist.
56. The sunset displayed rich, spectacular hues like a .jpeg file at 10 percent cyan, 10 percent magenta, 60 percent yellow and 10 percent black.

grabbed this from www.losteyeball.com/index.php/2007/06/19/56-worstbest-analogies-of-high-school-students/.

This really brings back high school English compostion classes. bwahaha

Yey! I finally found Nodame Cantabile (Anime & Live Action) OSTs. They're separated into 2 CDs, and they more or less contain the music played in both the anime and the live action series. They even got the eight-second Piano Sonata for two pianos that Nodame played on the first episode before Chiaki smacked her on the head. haha.

If you've got an account in Megaupload, then you can download the 2-CD OST here:

Orchestre de Nodame Live Disc 1                        Orchestre de Nodame Live Disc 2

Track List

DISC 1
1. Orchestra Tuning - S Orchestra (Concert Master Ryuutarou Mine)
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Op.92, 1st movement (Drama theme, On air version)
3. Beethoven: Piano Symphony No. 5 Op.73, "Emperor", 1st movement (Chiaki experiment, Anime version)
4. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13 "Pathetique" (Nodame Drama and Anime version)
5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op.25, 1st movement (Timpani Get Out Drama and Anime Version)
6. Mozart: Piano Sonata in D+ for Two K.448, 1st movement (Uncoordinated version)
7. Mozart: Piano Sonata in D+ for Two K.448, 1st movement. (Nodame and Chiaki, drama and anime version)
8. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24, 1st Movement (Mine and Chiaki's Exam Scene version)
9. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7. Op.92, 1st movement (S Orchestra 1st practice with the Oboes and Clarinet only, drama and Anime Version)
10. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op.55 "Eroica" 1st movement (S orchestra Concert Scene Anime Version)
11. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op.55 "Eroica" 2nd Movement (S Orchestra Practice scene Jimi Hendrix Style Anime Version)
12. Beethoven: Symphony No.3, Op. 55 "Eroica" 1st movement (Nodame Piano Anime Version)
13. Chopin: Sonata No. 5, 1st movement. (Board Chairman "Jewel of the Orient", Piano Anime version)
14. Bartok: Allegro Barbaro (Nodame Piano, Nina Lutz Music Festival, Anime Version)
15. Dvorak: Symphony No. 5 Op.76 1st Movement. (Chiaki and NIna Lutz Music Festival, Anime Version)
16. Gershwin (Hattori Takayuki Arangement): Rhapsody in Blue (Pianica gakuensai drama edit version)
17. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 68, 1st Movement. (Chiaki & Stresemann A Orche, Drama & Anime Version)
18. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 68, 3rd Movement.
19. Rachmaninoff Duet: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 68 1st Movement. (Nodame & Chiaki, Drama and Anime Version)
20. Purigorota Theme, Purigorota March

DISC 2
1. Noda Megumi: Onara Taisou
2. Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte No. 1 11 Movement. (Saiko's ‘lovely' spirit, Anime)
3. Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Percussion with Piano as companion (Masumi's Graduation, Anime)
4. Lizst: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, "Dance in the Village Inn", Edit Version. (Chiaki Graduation, Anime)
5. Saint-Saens: Violin Sonata No. 1, 1st movement Edit Version (Chiaki, Strong in front of my grandfather, Anime)
6. Elgar: Violin Sonata No. 1 (Chiaki & Nodame, Chiaki's Home Anime)
7. Bach: Violin Solo Partita (Mine becomes Kiyora's apprentice, Anime Version)
8. Mozart: Oboe Symphony K.314/285d Movements 1 to 3 Drama Edit Version. (Kuroki Pink Version, Drama & Anime Version)
9. Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Op.68, Movements 1 to 4 (R*S Orchestra Drama & Anime Version)
10. Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16 D845 No. 1, Drama Edit Version
11. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavia Book 2, No. 16
12. Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 4
13. Lizst: Transcendental Etudes No. 5 in BFlat "Feux Follet" (Will o' the wisp) Nodame Piano Anime Edit Version
14. Brahms: Paganini's Variations Op.35/1 No. 5-8
15. Ravel: "Gaspard de la Nuit", 3rd movement "Scarbo"
16. Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse, Edit Version
17. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 K310 (K300d) 1st to 3rd movement
18. Schumann: Piano Sonata No.2, Op.22, 1st movement
19. Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op.22, 4th movement
20. Stravinsky: Petrushka's 3rd part, 1st movement "Russian's dance" (or: Three movements from Petroushka - 1st Movement: Russian Dance)
21. Tomita Isao: Today's meal
22. Stravinsky: Petrushka's 3rd part, 1st movement "Russian's dance" (or: Three movements from Petroushka - 1st Movement: Russian Dance)
23. Tomita Isao:Todays meal
24. Stravinsky Petrushka's 3rd part, 3rd movement. (or: Three movements from Petroushka - 3rd Movement)
25. Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, 4th Movement
26. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op.92, 1st to 4th movement. (Chiaki Shinichi R*S Orchestra Suuntory Hall Christmas Concerto Drama Version)
27. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Drama Ending Version

Thanks auxelle (livejournal) for the tracklist. ^__^

Last week was something that I'd like to consider, "something that a scriptwriter from Iisa Pa Lamang would've concocted", involving absurd accusations, unprovable claims, running away from home on a bicycle, violence, lots and lots of drama...and lacrimal secretion. Someday, I will write a script, or better yet, a novel about this, change the identities of the persons involved, and probably sell hundreds, if not thousands of copies to twenty-something women who need escapism from the turmoils of their own lives and minds.

To love is to endure, n'est c'est pas? Maybe that's why I felt for Charlies Simms' (Chris O'Donnell) situation in Scent of a Woman.

Photojournalists and Photo Enthusiasts invited to join Photo Contest on

Climate Change

The Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines, together with the

Philippine Center for Photojournalism, Inc, enjoins all photojournalists and photo

enthusiasts to submit entries for a photo contest on the theme of "Climate Change".

Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to the

Philippines said that the photo contest is being launched in line with the European Union's

commitment to address the global challenge of climate change.

The European Union has long been in the lead in international efforts to cope with climate

change and global warming. Ambassador MacDonald said that this photo contest aims to

help draw public attention to the challenge of climate change, and to the need for global and local action to address this issue, and to protect the futures of generations to come.

Mr. Jimmy Domingo, Project Manager, The Philippine Center for Photojournalism, Inc.

said that the Center is pleased to collaborate with the Delegation of the European

Commission to the Philippines as the contest is a good opportunity to harness the talents

and skills of photojournalists and enthusiasts, to professionalise the industry and, at the

same time, to encourage photojournalists and enthusiasts to use the power of the images to

combat climate change.

An exhibition of the winning and outstanding photographs is foreseen to be held in

universities and malls such as The Podium and The Block. The contest is being supported

by JT Photoworld and Kodak/Tech Trends Corporation.

An online version of the exhibition will also be uploaded to the websites of the sponsoring

organizations. The competition is open to all Filipino (a citizenship verification system should be made or should be in the entry form) photojournalists and photography enthusiasts except for staff of the Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines.

Photographs, published or unpublished, taken in the Philippines from June 2007 to

November 2008 covering the theme "Climate Change in the Philippines" (causes,

consequences and responses to Climate Change) are eligible as entries.

A maximum of ten (10) standalone single photos may be submitted by a participant. In

addition, participants may submit up a maximum of five (5) photo stories comprising 5-12

images per photo story. All images in the photo stories will also be considered as

standalone photo entries. Entries should be taken with any camera using at least 135 mm

film and/or digital camera with at least four (4) megapixel in size and set at the largest

image capture mode.

Entries taken with a film camera must be digitized and all entries must be saved in a

compact disk recordable (CDR) for submission.

The Board of Judges will be composed of respected photojournalists/artists as well as

officials from the Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines, Philippine

Center for Photojournalism, Inc. and partners. General criteria for judging the single photos will be: Relevance to the topic and theme – 50%; Technical excellence – 25%; and, Visual perception and creativity – 25%. The photo stories will be evaluated on their strength in terms of the flow and cohesiveness of the included single images arranged as a visual narrative.

All entries must be submitted on or before 12 noon on 6 November, or postmarked not later than 3 November 2008 to either of the following:

EC-PCP Climate Change Photojournalism Contest 2008

The Delegation of the European Commission to the Philippines

30/F Tower II, RCBC Plaza

6819 Ayala Avenue, Makati City

Phone: 8595100

EC-PCP Climate Change Photojournalism Contest 2008

The Philippine Center for Photojournalism

c/o European Press Photo Agency

Unit 2-D, Michel Apartment

Mabini Street, Malate 2030 Manila.

Awarding of prizes will coincide with the opening of the exhibit of winning and outstanding

entries in the early part of November 2008, at a date and place to be announced.

All winners will each receive a trophy plus in-kind prizes as follows:

First Prize (Singles); € 1,000

Second Prize (Singles): € 800

Third Prize (Singles): € 600

10 Honorable Mentions: Certificates

Special Prize (Photo Story): € 800

Five Honorable Mentions (Photo Story) Certificates

Special Prize for a Photo on EC response to Climate Change: € 800

For Further info: http://www.delphl.ec.europa.eu or http://philippinecenter4photojournalism.org/

*Intermission*

The Leaden-Eyed

Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.
Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

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Okay, back to work.

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*squeals, fan-crazed* Okay, so January 27 pa siya next year pupunta.Pero syet! Something definately to look forward to.

"David’s first concert after the Idol tour will be a one-off show in the Philippines January 27th. The US tour begins shortly thereafter," according to mjsbigblog. The venue of the concert is yet to be announced, but hopefully, it'll be Araneta.

You can listen to his radio interview with 104.5 Chum FM at http://www.chumfm.com.

Can't wait. See you soon David!

Racoon!

So where am I now amidst all this raucous that pessimists so unceremoniously call "life"?

Squeezed between some really restless mob, my face stuffed and (slowly being suffocated)  in some woman's rather large chest, my hands are being tugged at by some unknown hand preventing me to move.

I tugged helplessly back. A feeble and futile tug.

I would've loved to wake up and realize it was just a dream. Just a dream, just stuck in one of Richard Linklater's Waking Life sequences. Let's go salsa dancing with my confusion, shall we?

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"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life? The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room."

That's a comforting thought. Right on.