jhay on July 28th, 2008

State of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the 2nd Regular Session of the 14th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines 28 July 2008 (source)
Thank you, Speaker Nograles. Senate President Villar. Senators and Representatives. Vice President de Castro, President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen:
I address [...]

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jhay on June 22nd, 2008

While waiting for some official announcement or news as to whether classes in the tertiary level would be suspended tomorrow, I chanced upon this short story about Samsung pondering on the idea of opening a factory here in the Philippines.
“As far as I know, Samsung Electronics and the Philippine government are talking about the plan. [...]

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jhay on June 16th, 2008

An article on the The New York Times discusses the idea being proposed by big US ISPs that “internet metering” would make a come back and possibly stay for good.
Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files.
For [...]

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Price Lock Prepaid Fuel Card can be used to buy 20 liters of gasoline (G5 X-treme and Unleaded) from any SEAOIL participating stations. The selling period is from June 10-16, 2008. Each card costs P1,070 and is valid for 10 weeks (June 10 up to August 16, 2008).

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jhay on July 14th, 2007

I rarely write about politics, social issues and topics that would reflect my Left-leaning frame of mind and advocacies (except for health or environment-related ones) here on the Four-eyed Journal ever since I got this .com.ph domain + hosting for free. They were reserved for my all-Filipino blog, Sumilang.
However, since this blog gets more [...]

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In my previous entry, I mentioned that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts were present at the launching of the One La Salle Scholarship Fund and gave away all the donuts they had with them for free to all the Lasallites (my use of this term would be explained later on) who nearly stormed their tiny stall.
Right before [...]

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