The Partners

 

 Five years after graduation, these are the faces of the business partners 

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"Hindi lungkot o takot ang mahirap sa pag-iisa kundi ang pagtanggap na sa bilyon-bilyong tao sa mundo, wala man lang nakipaglaban upang makasama ka."

It's not loneliness or fear that's tough to face when alone, but in acknowledging that of the billions of people in this planet, nobody fought just to be with you.

BUHAY - LIFE
(Tagalog & English Quotes Collection)
By: Bob Ong

[TRAILER] The Vampire Diaries NEW SEASON 3 “The Year of the Original”

Based on novels of the same name, Vampire Diaries follows Elena, a young heroine, who is the object of passion for two vampire brothers. Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, DeGrassi: The Next Generation) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, Everwood) are still trying to cope with their grief and move on with their lives. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her sadness from the world. As the school year begins, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, Army Wives). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, and Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a centuries-old vampire, struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder, Lost) is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality. Now these two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - are at war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia.

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"Pare, isa kang totoong tao at walang halong kasinungalingan. In English, FACT you, pare. Totoo ka. In English, FACT you!"

Hey friend, you are a genuine person and there is no tinge of falsehood in you. In English, FACT you, friend. You're the real deal. In English, FACT you!

BUHAY - LIFE
(Tagalog & English Quotes Collection Part One)
By: Bob Ong

Things just happen, things that we may never understand but we just have to believe that it's for the best even if it doesn't always seem that way.

As for me, it was not a happy ending but at least I knew and understood why it happened that way.

Hyacinth Yen, sorry, I forgot about the dinner the other night... i was sound sleep when you called me... L'll catch up to you next time...

back to GY next week... back to dim light and dark&thick curtains in my room...

Ano namang mapapala mo kakaisip sa nakaraan at sa mga pwede pang mangyari? Wala ka naman sigurong super powers para maibalik ang nakalipas na. Dapat matuto kang pahalagahan ang mga nangyayari sayo sa kasalukuyan. Isipin mo yung ngayon. I-enjoy mo lang ang buhay. Wag kang emo. Hindi ka talaga magiging masaya kung di mo tutulungan ang sarili mo. Natural lang na makaramdam ng lungkot paminsan-minsan pero ang pagiging miserable? Wag kang hibang choice mo yan.

What will you get from thinking about the past and what should have happened? You don't even have superpowers to bring back the past. You just need to appreciate the things that are happening at present. Think of the now. Enjoy your life. Don't be emo. You really will not be happy if you won't help yourself. It's natural to feel sad every now and then but to be miserable? Don't be crazy, that's your choice.

BUHAY - LIFE
(Tagalog & English Quotes Collection Part One)
By: Bob Ong

it's lunch time...

Friday acoustic night swimming — at Marriott Outdoor Swimming Pool / Bar.

Friday acoustic night swimming — at Marriott Outdoor Swimming Pool / Bar.

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.

due to frustration... Ang ending sa Pancake House

HINILAWOD: Tales From the Mouth of the Halawod River

Discover the Epic

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Hinilawod is one of the many pieces of oral literature passed from one generation to the next, changed and morphed by the mananalaysay (storyteller) to one degree or another as he told it to his audience.

Hinilawod was first discovered “by accident” in 1955, when F. Landa Jocano, Filipino anthropologist became interested in native folklore. He traveled the hinterlands of his home province, Panay, with two colleagues collecting folk songs, stories, and riddles. It was during one of those trips to the upland barrios of Lambunao, Maasin, Janiuay, and Calinog in Iloilo that his attention was called to a long and popular tale called Hinilawod. Portions of the story were sung to him and his colleague by an old man called Ulang Udig.

Returning the following year, together with a radio technician from Central Philippine University, he then recorded a portion of the story on tape in 1956.

However, when he returned, in 1957 to make a recording of the complete story, Ulang Udig refused to cooperate . Weeks later, he was introduced to a mountain singer named Hugan-an, who, after much cajoling, allowed herself to be tape recorded as she recounted both her story and the Hinilawod story. It took three weeks to complete the recording of the 30 hour epic poem.

A concise version of the story of Hinilawod can be found in the book, Philippine Mythology, authored by the Filipino anthropologist, Dr. F. Landa Jocano.

The other books of F. Landa Jocano are as follows:

Epic of Labaw Donggon (1965)
Outline of Philippine Mythology (1969)
The Adventures of Humadapnon, Tarangban I (2000)
The Adventures of Humadapnon, Tarangban II (2011)

Gala on the White Sand

I choose the right battle, and that battle is not about you... You don't matter anyway...

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

The TRIANGLE series of POLYGON @ THIRDPLACE continues!

The TRIANGLE series of POLYGON @ THIRDPLACE continues! It is a run of informal talks about the diversity of a young adult's life, and takes place in a very cozy ambiance.







Like a triangle that has different elements, a yuppie's life has similar characteristics. There are conflicts to resolve, take-it-or-leave-it decisions to be made, toxic work conditions to endure, and daily battles to fight.


Unwind and chill out with other young professionals from ages 22 and above as they enjoy good food and refreshing drinks while listening to speakers who share their tests and conquests in life's triangles.

The next session will be this Saturday, June 25, 6:30pm at the Center.

TOUCHPOINT
J. Panis Street (Old Banilad Road)
Between Ginza Restaurant and Patio Isabel
Banilad, Cebu City
Tel. No. (032) 234-1185
email: bread_cebu@yahoo.com

TRIANGLE SERIES of POLYGON @ Third Place

There is more to triangle than just being one of those plane figures we know in Geometry. Its elements and characteristics, when looked at closely, are very revealing.

Take for example, this three-sided polygon's midpoint called the Centroid. When propelled, a triangle can be balanced only if the pressure belt is placed at this particular point. Positioning the propeller somewhere else on the plane would merely mean volatility. And the farther it is placed from the Centroid, the greater will be the tension.

Life is like a triangle. One can only find balance when one knows where the real Centroid is. And the farther one goes away from the epicenter of life's triangle, the greater will be the strain.

So join other young professionals ages 35 and below in learning how to stay close to the Centroid of life's triangle!

Don't miss the TRIANGLE SERIES of POLYGON @ Third Place, 6:30pm, on Saturdays of June 11 and 25, and July 23.
Mark your calendars!

TOUCHPOINT
J. Panis Street (Old Banilad Road)
Between Ginza Restaurant and Patio Isabel
Banilad, Cebu City
Tel. No. (032) 234-1185
email: bread_cebu@yahoo.com

Philippines launches electric tricycles

MANILA — The Philippines wants to replace millions of petrol-powered tricycles with electric ones as part of efforts to clean up the nation's polluting mass transport system, President Benigno Aquino said Friday.

The government will initially replace 20,000 tricycles that ply minor streets across the capital Manila and eventually expand the project throughout the country, Aquino said in a speech to government employees.

It is hoped the scheme will save the impoverished country tens of millions of dollars annually.

"The (project) is an ambitious multi-year plan to wean public utility vehicles from the use of gasoline and diesel and to encourage them to shift to alternatives like natural gas, electricity and hybrid engines," he said.

"I would like to see the day when nearly all public utility vehicles... run on alternative fuel, freeing the public transport sector and commuters from the threat of unreasonably high oil prices and unhealthy levels of air pollution."

Aquino did not give a definite timetable of the programme, which was launched this week when 20 so-called "e-tricycles" hit the streets of a Manila suburb.

Manila-based Asian Development Bank, which is funding the initial stage of the project, said transport sector emissions accounted for 30 percent of all pollution in the Philippines.

In Manila, vehicle emissions account for 80 percent of all pollution, it said.

"A sizeable proportion of vehicle emissions are attributable to inefficient public transport, particularly from tricycles, jeepneys and buses," it added.

Jeepneys are colourful small buses that make up the backbone of the country's chaotic mass transport system, locally assembled using second-hand truck engines and transmission systems imported from Japan.

Sohail Hasnie, an energy specialist at Manila-based ADB, said more than 3.5 million tricycles operated in the Philippines.

These emitted more than 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and burned nearly five billion dollars of fuel yearly.

"Every 20,000 e-trikes that are introduced to Manila's streets will save the Philippines 100,000 litres of foreign fuel imports each day, saving the country about 35 million dollars annually," Hasnie said.

Though the electronic tricycles, which use rechargeable lithium ion batteries, are costlier, older petrol tricycles are more than twice as expensive to operate in the long run, Hasnie added.

The carbon footprints of the e-trikes, which are locally produced, would be less than a quarter of conventional tricycles, the ADB said.

ADB officials said the Manila-based lender was now in talks with the Philippine government on supporting the expansion of the project.

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Have a techie cinema experience

A new technology will be killing the long line at the box office.

Filipinos will no longer have to endure the long lines at the theater just to watch the hottest movies. SM Cinemas now has the "bcode" feature, where a person's favorite movie is just a text message away.

With this, people just have to buy a ticket online. Then, they'll receive a text message with the date and time of the movie as well as a bar code.

Moviegoers will just have their mobile phones scanned at the theater lobby and their tickets will be printed out.

"You don't need a special app. You don't need an internet connection. All you need is a normal cellphone that can accept text messages," said Manuel Christian Fong III, Chief Information Officer of eCom.

On top of that, moviegoers will also have an educational experience with SM Cinema's "Film Literacy Program."

Paul Arugay of SM Cinema said that this is their way to use the film as an educational tool. "We are going to the schools and we want to offer this to schools," he says. The venue for the program could either be the school or the SM Cinemas.

Film director and historian Nick Deocampo will pick the featured documentaries and movies. After viewing, the audience will have a discussion about the film, using the study guide and syllabus that Deocampo prepares for them.

Through this, people will have a richer movie-watching experience—and most probably avoid scratching their heads just in case they do not understand the plotlines.

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Why things taste bitter for Pepsi

After decades in the shadow of Coca-Cola, Pepsi has slipped to third place in the war of the cola brands, ousted by Diet Coke


Life can sometimes be conveniently distilled down into very simple choices, such as cats or dogs, black and white, bus or car. And when it comes to beverages, two of the most powerful businesses in the world have spent the hundreds of billions of pounds over decades to try and make the choice of what to drink equally simple. Coke or Pepsi?

In a battle more enduring and expensive than most global conflicts, the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo have been locked in a marketing blitz over their core products, Coke and Pepsi. The Cola Wars eclipse all other commercial rivalries.

Recent sales figures however, suggest the war may be over. And Pepsi lost it. Last year Diet Coke outsold Pepsi-Cola by 927 million cases to 892 million cases in the US. This relegated the drink to third place in the national cola league below Coke and Diet Coke. The news has sent commentators scurrying to build aluminium can-shaped coffins for Pepsi, often seen as the eternal underdog.

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Food Inc.

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Hip Hip, Bantayan, Island in the Sun

Working as risk management analyst is sometimes nerve-wracking... we need some time to relax and free ourselves from work stress. The result, Business Card Team BingGO made an escape to Bantayan Island.

For a brief description on the place, Bantayan Island is currently Cebu's semi-secret little Island Paradise located just off the northwest tip of Cebu's mainland.

Different from the way of life in the city, Bantayan Island is largely undeveloped and definitely not over crowded. It's also very old fashioned and peaceful and life is much slower as there are no big city shopping malls, hotel chains, mega movie theaters or metro discos, etc. It's a perfect place for us seeking peace & quiet, blue skies & clean air, with spectacular turquoise water & great white sand beaches, along with some of the most beautiful sunrise & sunsets in the world! 


We stayed at the Sugar Beach Resort. The place is very ideal for a team building.

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One of the favorite games we did was this messy one. It’s called the flour blowing game. We put some coins under the bowl and covered it with rice flour. The representatives from each team will be in a contest in blowing the flour and getting the most coins only by mouth. This was a truly exciting game as we loved getting messy.

This was the rolling of the orange with an eggplant. Each team was given time to create their own strategy on how to roll the orange with eggplant tied in a string. This was very exciting game as everyone was challenged in rolling the orange without arms holding the eggplant and the string.

On the left is Janine and Joan playing the Message Relay Game. The idea is to accurately relay a message between team members as fast as possible. The twist on this game is that the messages are in Spanish. On the right is Joan and Dylan doing the Banana Eating Game. The winner is the one who can eat the regular sized banana faster.

And of course, for a get-together party like this in a beach, as darkness falls, bonfire activity is present. It's an opportunity where everyone shares thoughts and stories, a way of knowing each other more.

To enjoy this pristine and powdery sand beach, everyone slipped in to their swim suits and gears and began posing in front of cameras. Bantayan Island is never really crowded and therefore provides natural, beautiful and peaceful environment to relax and enjoy.The natural environment and picturesque views of the beach make it a great place to take photograph.

A Shoot for a Cause