Entries from July 2005

31 July 2005

What does my birthday mean?

I stumbled upon this from another’s blog. I don’t know if this is true…

Your Birthdate: December 26

Your birth on the 26th day of the month (8 energy) modifies your life by increasing your capability to function and succeed in the business world.
In this environment you have the skills to work very well with others thanks [...]

31 July 2005

St. Ignatius of Loyola, Soldier of Christ

SUSCIPE, Domine, universam meam libertatem. Accipe memoriam, intellectum, atque voluntatem omnem. Quidquid habeo vel possideo mihi largitus es; id tibi totum restituo, ac tuae prorsus voluntati trado gubernandum. Amorem tui solum cum gratia tua mihi dones, et dives sum satis, hec aliud quidquam ultra posco. Amen.

TAKE, O Lord, and receive all [...]

30 July 2005

Best Friends

The term “best” logically points to only one.
But why do we have a lot of “best friends?” That thought had just ocurred to me when a “best friend” just called me a few days ago to tell me that he just got out of the seminary (no, he just took his vows) after two years [...]

29 July 2005

Something to break the seriousness…

For once I want to blog about something less than serious. For a change, let’s not talk about what is happening in this country, in my professional life (though, I must say, I’m handling one of the biggest cases of my life right now…but more about that some other time…) or about my personal life. [...]

28 July 2005

WTF?

Heal the wounds of Edsa I, II and III…

So here’s the way our President would do it, at the rate she’s going and all for her political survival:
1. For EDSA I: Allow FM to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes) in Fort Bonifacio.
2. For EDSA II & III: Grant amnesty/pardon [...]

27 July 2005

Now you’re talking!

The President is presently giving a press conference today. I think she’s filling in the gaps of her State of the Nation Address, filling in the details of her “Phase 2″ and somehow downplaying “Phase 3″
Seems that she’s heeding our calls. Now she’s not playing to the gallery (ala “Braveheart”…) but to those outside…
Of course, [...]

27 July 2005

Something to really clap about…

One of the things the gallery should clap about during the President’s State of the Nation Address is the passage of Executive Order No. 358
It reads:

MALACAÑANG

Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 358
TO INSTITUTIONALIZE A LADDERIZED [...]

26 July 2005

Dear Commission on Audit

26 July 2005
Honorable Guillero N. Carague
Chairperson, Commission on Audit
Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City
Re: Travel Expenses for the 2005 SONA
Gentlemen:
I am a Filipino Citizen and a taxpayer.
Please initiate an inquiry on the travel expenses of all the local executives present at yesterday’s State of the Nation Address. I would like to know if my hard-earned tax money [...]

25 July 2005

The SSS Crowd

Jove Francisco stated in his report that she would be giving a SSS speech. Short, simple and straight to the point. (I would like to add “safe.”)
Instead of focussing on the President’s 2005 State of the Nation Address, let me focus on the crowd.
With the boycott, the President was obviously playing to a friendly crowd. [...]

25 July 2005

Why Answer?

MLQ3 pointed out this news item that a certain Pedro Ferrer filed an answer “ex abudante ad cautelam (with extreme caution, usually an answer filed without prejudice to how the court would treat the complaint, or in this case, whether Congress would shoot down or transmit the impeachment complaint to the Senate)” to the Lozano [...]