A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Maybe there's a reason why I don't have any drawing skills. Probably because I'll abuse it this way:

It's been a year since I've arrived here in the US. It's a wonderful experience and an adventure only made more meaningful because I'm sharing it with my best buddy. But it's not always fun and sunshine here in the Sunshine State. You sometimes get the occasional local meanie or the ignorant or the arrogant Oreo (brown on the outside white on the inside). I especially hate the term ...

NEW PLANET FOUND! NO NAME IN SIGHT! MILKY WAY - While trying to avoid what officials said to be "that nasty business" with Uranus, scientists are scrambling to find a suitable name for the new found planet, Planet X. "We can't keep calling it Planet X," said one highly paid nerd. "We already received emails from Marvel Comics and Spike Lee about the use of X". While they're also avoiding the ...

Some days, it's just harder to get out of bed: * Explosions rock London underground and buses * Season's First Hurricane Moves Toward U.S. * Arroyo asks cabinet to resign Oi. It's enough to drive one to Prozac. But Tom Cruise wouldn't approve. Prayers and thoughts to everyone who have found themselves in harm's way today. Especially to the cabinet members who didn't have a "lapse in judgement" and yet found themselves being ...

"Imoral ang walang sawang pagtatamasa ng mayaman at makapangyarihan habang paunti nang paunti ang itinitira sa dukha. Imoral ang pagkamanhid at katiwalian ng pamahalaan samantalang kinakapos ang mahirap sa gamot, paaralan, tirahan at tubig. Imoral na pabayaan ang mga kaaway ng ating demokrasya na takutin ang ating mga anak, paralisahin ang ekonomiya at ipahamak ang ating kinabukasan dahil ang pinaka nahihirapan sa lahat ng ito ay ang mga ...

Yeesh. Via BoingBoing: A 4-year-old boy on a family vacation died Monday afternoon after he passed out on a Disney World ride at Epcot. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. on the Mission: SPACE ride, according to Disney officials. The ride spins passengers on a multi-armed centrifuge to simulate a launch into space. It exerts more than twice the normal force of gravity on occupants. (rest of the news story) ...

A bit late on picking this up, among other things. I caught this bit on a CNN broadcast and wasn't able to follow up on it. I usually tune out most discussion on the situation in Iraq but during the last portion of the segment, a mere footnote really, was what really caught my eye. The talking head on the broadcast was saying that a soldier by the ...