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04.05.08Go, Mountain High!
Courtesy of Wild Avezians
Congratulations to these two groups of students from the Mt. Province General Comprehensive High School (MPGCHS) in Bontoc who won blogging awards sponsored by the Southeast Asian Ministries of Education Organization, Regional Language Center (SEAMEO-RELC) in Singapore. Here’s the report courtesy of the Philippine Information Agency.
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03.28.08Department of Shameless Self-Promotion
Crossposted at From the Boondocks:
Ay kakabsat ken kakailiyan, hehe, i-promote ko man daytoy barbaro nga blog ko. I felt guilty and silly writing sponsored posts in this blog and in our other blog so I decided to come up with a new blog where I can do sponsored posts shamelessly. Eh dahil malapit na din ang Olympics and one of my first ever writing assignment years ago is to do an Olympic story so I decided to come up with The Olympian Blog.
I need your feedback on how to improve it further. It is still a work in progress so all suggestions, criticisms, etc. are welcome. Can I also shamelessly beg for a love link from your blogs? I will link back of course hehe.
Visit our newest blog here and fire away. Thanks, friends.
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03.20.08Quicklinks: 20 March 08
* Want to travel the Southeast Asian seas? The BSU Blog has the details on how you can apply to the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP). Application ends 11 April 08, so you still have time to prepare whatever requirements they will ask from you.
* Know more about the betrothal practice in Kalinga by visiting The Mountains of Kalinga blog.
* The Baguio City 2008 Yearbook is out according to Jack Cariño. Among others, the yearbook features the Ibaloi beauty queen, Chainus Guirrey. More at Chi from the Cool Clouds.
* Rex Pe blogs about myths regarding Igorots and presents the facts to debunk said myths. Read it here.
* Maurice has interesting reads on our culture of uprightness and honesty and our view on heavenly bodies.
* Remember the song that goes, “Small circle, small circle, big circle” which you sing while drawing circles? Page 101 has a post about it here. Join our discussion :-)
* Padma has a must read piece on the music of our lives a.k.a indigenous music. I was planning to steal it but I think it’s best if you read it at the PCIJ website.
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03.10.08Help, I Need Your Feedback
I’m just wondering if this blog looks weird for those of you who are using Internet Explorer as well as those using any other browser that is not Firefox.
Today, I added navigation links at the bottom as well as at the upper right corner of the blog but when I tried to see how it looks with Internet Explorer, I noticed that the contents of the middle sidebar (Regular Updates, Recent Comments, etc) are pushed down to the bottom so there’s a big amount of white space in the column.
I’m not sure whether this is a problem in the past which I haven’t noticed before or whether it happened because of the recent navigation plug-in I added. I hope that it’s only the Explorer in my computer that makes the blog look weird.
Thanks so much and I really appreciate your feedback. Iyaman kasin kailiyans!
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03.08.08Living to the Age of Methuselah
Scott Wainer has a post on aging which raises the question of why anti-aging research has not gotten much attention. He advances several possible answers (the urgency of other health or social problems, religion, the certainty of death or the-we-are-all-going-to-die-anyway mentality, etc.) and suggests that more research should be done on aging.
He also asks bloggers to add their two cents on the issue and get US$20 in return plus a back link from his highly-ranked blog. Pretty good return on investment, eh? So you should take up his challenge as well before someone else grabs the 100th spot.
Anyways, of those suggested by Scott, I would think that probably the most important reason as to why anti-aging research has not gained much attention is the fact that there simply are more urgent problems out there. If you are a government official with a limited budget for instance, would you spend your money funding research on aging or would you spend it on AIDS research? The latter appears to be the more urgent problem so it won’t be surprising if the official pours the fund on it instead of the former.
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03.07.08Blog Quick Links
* Is there racism in the call center industry? Yup. What about in English language teaching jobs? Yup. In Philippine society? Yup. [Call of Nature]
* It’s the year of the rat but sometimes we should scare the rats away especially if they are destroying our rice plants and our rice terraces. Join the “Tagtag id Asipulo” scheduled this coming April. [sitmo via bessmaat]
* Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya law students join their nationwide peers in calling for GMA to resign. [Nueva Vizcaya and Beyond]
* Hannah Sue Eming of Apayao State University is crowned as the “Miss Solid North 2008″ besting 13 other candidates from the “solid north”. Unfortunately, we don’t have any picture of her. [Pangasinan Star]
* Hey internet addicts, you should go check out this new Benguet website. [Benguet Online]
* Merrychery is a young doctor who is serving our kailiyans in the Ilocos-Cordillera boundary. You can read her posts here, here and here. Because her term will be ending in seven months, let’s give her some blog traffic as our way of saying thanks. Mag comment na rin tayo sa blog niya :-)
