Death of Former AFP Chief Angelo Reyes

The Department of National Defense (DND) released a statement on the death of Former AFP Chief Angelo Reyes last Tuesday.
Director Nicanor Bartomome that Angelo Reyes committed suicide by shooting himself.  In every news station  the death of Reyes was always on the headlines.

Reyes was reported to have committed suicide. According to the Eastern Police District, Reyes visited his mother's grave at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City where he shot himself on the spot.A preliminary showed that Reyes had a bullet wound in the heart.As per the Quirino Hospital sources, they tried to revive Reyes for 45 minutes before declaring him as expired MANILA BULLETIN ONLINE, Francis T. Wakefield said.

Heart Day

We are celebrating our Valentines Day in every 14th day of Febuary her in the Philippines. Other spend their Valentine with their love once.Valentine's Day is celebrated around the world, but each country has its own traditions and customs. See how different countries differ from your own celebration!


The most common story of Valentine’s Day dates back to Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr who died in Rome on February 14th, having left (so legend says) a note for the jailer’s daughter which read “Your Valentine.” Today, Valentine’s Day is consistently considered a day for loved one to present one another with similar tokens of love.

While India and most Middle Eastern countries have banned the holiday due to its focus on sexual overtones and its religious ties to Christianity, most Western cultures still embrace the message of the day and celebrate it in their own distinctive ways. Common sentiments around the world seem to echo in flowers, chocolates, red or pink hearts and messages of love. But every country has variations of these common threads with unique traditions and celebrations of this special day of love. Why not take some Valentine’s Day cues from another country?

IDEAS

• One idea can be to present your loved one with a tradition typically celebrated in his or her country of heritage.
• Another idea may be to create a themed date night, decorating a room in the aesthetic indicative of a country and follow the traditions of that country. Perhaps you and your loved one have visited one of these countries together—what a special memory-filled day that would be!
• Take a proposal idea from Japan or celebrate a “singles day” like Korea!

EUROPE

Early European society began celebrating Valentine’s Day as a way of being in sync with nature as the second week of February is when birds began to mate.

Denmark

The “Lover’s Card” is the most popular gift-exchange in Denmark—What was formerly a transparent card that pictured, when held up to the light, a man presenting a woman with a gift is now considered any colorful card given on Valentine’s Day. Another type of card known as “gaekkebrev” is a romantic custom where a man will send this card to his woman of interest. The card contains a rhyme, written by the man but is not traditionally signed by him—only a dot for each letter of his name will appear on the note. If the woman guesses the correct name, she will receive an egg from him on Easter.

Italy

Specifically in Rome, the holiday of Lupercalia is paralleled with Valentine’s Day. Most commonly now celebrated in South Africa, this holiday is celebrated on February 15th. Dating back to mythological rituals, the significance of the day was to rid the earth and air of any evils and cleanse the city for Springtime.

England

Written verse is among the most popular and romantic in Britain, where countless famous sonnets and poems were penned by its authors. Still, many publications will reserve room in its pages for poetry or written materials especially for Valentine’s Day.

Scotland

Though the Scottish typically treat the day similarly to Americans, their traditions used to be grand and revolved around a festival. An equal number of males and females would attend this party, all names would go into a hat and they the names would then be drawn together in pairs. The male and female chosen together would be each other’s companion for the night which culminated in dancing and gift exchange.

AUSTRALIA

The true tradition of Australia peaked as gold miners became suddenly wealthy and the ability to send overtly-ornate valentines became a sign of wealth. The most heavily-adorned gifts consisted of a box neatly packed with a satin cushion decorated with such riches as colored shells, ribbons and taxidermy hummingbird.

ASIA

Japan typically spend three days dedicated to similar practices of Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day itself is celebrated on February 14th as well as much of the rest of the world. On this day, women give the special men in their lives chocolates, usually homemade. Kiri-choco chocolate is for friends and family while hon-mei is for boyfriends and spouses. March 14th or “White Day” is a day when many men reciprocate these sentiments by giving women tokens of their love or even declaring their love for the first time.

Korea celebrates Valentine’s Day and White Day in the same way as Japan. For those individuals in Korea who are not in relationships, April 14th was created as “Black Day.” Not as widely recognized as the other two holidays, Black Day is celebrated when groups of friends who are not currently in relationships will get together and eat jajang (black) noodles.

Taiwan On Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) and the holiday of the lunar calendar (July 7) flowers are given to women by the men. Though they’re expensive, the flowers have great significance in their quantity. One rose means “a love” while 11 roses means “favorite,” 99 means “forever” and 108 roses means “Will you marry me?”

Franklin,M.A (2010) Valentine's Day Tradition from around the World

Febuary 14, 2011

From http://www.suite101.com/content/valentines-day-traditions-from-around-the-world-a199654

DOST to sell TABLET PCs for students at affordable price

From the old technology down to the newest technology are so amazing in our country now. According to Alexander Villafania (2010) "Department of Science Technology (DOST) is working to a project to provide low cost, for elementary students". The said project is to improve more educational system towards to the students like the elementary to the college.
DOST's Science and Education Institute (SEI) has been developing software-based curriculum in mathematics and science, which could be modified and placed into the tablet PCs.
Tablet PCs for education has already been in use in many countries, particular;y in USA, Canada, Germany, Thailand, among others. Most of tablet PCs are still branded models sold by commercial computer manufacturers.
For me i think that DOST has the right to have a Tablet PCs project, because for me that PCs are useable to the student for their school to make them not hustle to carry their bags full of books and notebooks.




             Villafania, A. (2010) DOST eyes tablet PCs for school kids.
                               Southeast Asia, in November 30, 2010

Rumors of Shutting down of Facebook

Now a days internet is very known to us. Not only in the Philippines internet was known. Even young people like students are addicted to the internet.

One day news spread about the Facebook shutdown and many people react for this rumors because some of us Facebook for them are daily routine to log in.

For me, my reaction for this shutting Facebook is not agree to discard, because many to us says that Facebook is the most visiting site. And many to us in Facebook we can see those relatives far to us by viewing their pictures and videos in their profile. In Facebook also we can have many friends to tell some problems and they also give you an advise what to do.And most of all Facebook for me is the one of my home to visit my profile, to upload my pictures and to have many more friends. So stop that rumors about Facebook shutting down.

Globe G-Cash: First Year Anniversary

Miguel 2005 was a tiangge in middle of Glorietta where the vendors were offering discounts via G-Cash. Miguel guess an exercise for both seller  and buyer in transacting via G-Cash. Buyers purchase through their cellphones.


G-Cash top-up was available through credit card. The G-Cash Machine and a G-Cash ATM from their tie-up with Bancnet through Asia United Bank. 


According to Miguel, today was their "G-Cash Kababayan Nations Day” where Globe Kababayan members could get a free 5-minute IDD call to destinations with high traffic: US (Mainland), Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Taiwan.(Miguel 2005)

The Subject TCM142

     TCM142 is the code of Technical Writing . Instructed by Ms. Jekris-Shalom Mendoza or students call him ma'am "DASH". In this subject I've learned lots of topic like how to plan a research.


     But honestly, this subject specially the paraphrasing or the qoutations is i dont know how to create. Ma'am Dash said that thhis subject was boring because this is more on writing.

Continuation of Does Thesis Important ?

     Many student says that Thesis is very hard. And some of my classmate said "makauga jud ni utok ang thesis. Title palang nosebleed na". And also some of my classmate said "kayahon nlng jud ni nato.naa naman gud ni". 

      As a graduating student of AMA Computer Learning Center. I admit that Thesis for me is so hard to determine. And like also of my classmate i also said "makauga utok, makastress". But still i am her to fight this for my study.