Trillanes walks out to march along Makati..

Inquirer reports today…

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) Detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and other officers accused of leading the July 2003 rebellion walked out of their trial Thursday and marched through the streets of Makati calling for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The walkout began shortly after the trial resumed after a brief recess. Brigadier General Danilo Lim, who himself is detained and facing coup d’etat charges following an alleged failed coup attempt in February 2006, was pulled away by several soldiers from the witness stand.

Trillanes and Lim said they were calling on the Filipinos to withdraw support from the government because the President has corrupted its institutions.

“We are joining the people… because the President continues to violate the Constitution of the Philippines repeatedly,� Lim told DZMM’s Teleradyo program, adding they were “calling for the removal of an illegitimate President.�

Trillanes, Lim and the other accused soldiers were joined by civilians, including a group of militant farmers and opposition figures led by former vice preisdent Teofisto Guingona.

It was not clear if the prisoners’ guards had joined the protest, but they marched along with the accused.

Add comment November 29th, 2007

Shih Tzu pups are SOLD OUT

All my pups are gone now…sorry to those who are still asking for them…but they are sold out now…if you can wait…my dog will be in heat on Feb…hehehe…new pups should be available by start of summer ^_^

Thanks to the new owners of my pups…Loi, Shyla, Kay, and Rhenan… i know you’ll take good care of them…update me if you can and feel free to contact me for questions on taking care of them…

To the rest who wants their own pup…check out by summer… I’ll update you guys thru this site…’til then…

2 comments November 22nd, 2007

Slyt is for the GO now…Shih Tzu FOR SALE

One LAST male shih tzu pup left….so if you’re interested …contact me asap ok

1 boy left

Features:
- good champ-line
- tricolor (white, black, gold/dark brown)
- princess type
- with 2 set of 5-in-1 vaccine shot and 2 deworming
- with PCCI papers (now available)

3 comments November 16th, 2007

Bumper-to-bumper accident with a mechanic

While looking for a good image of a mechanic…I crossed over this bumper-to-bumper accident with a unique mechanic, which I want to share with you guys…heheheh…

LESSON: Deflate or take off your own bumpers…when working under the bumpers… ^_^

Add comment November 15th, 2007

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, by Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios)

This is the text of the commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. We, the editors at The Smashing Life.com, hope that the following message will always serve as an inspiration to us all when life becomes tough.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?� They said: “Of course.� My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2-billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.� It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?� And whenever the answer has been “No� for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now. This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept :  No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.� It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Add comment November 15th, 2007

One More Chance…

The most awaited come-back movie of the loveteam of John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo came out last Wednesday, Nov. 14. It was indeed romantic and will completely sweep you off your feet. There was a new story to begin with and a nice turn of events. It was not what I thought of it to be, based from the first time I saw the trailer. In short, my money was worth it!

It is also refreshing to see a new Bea Alonzo on the screen. She is more daring, had better acting, and an improved look. It is refreshing to see the new sexy and modern Bea teamed up with John Lloyd. The story may seem ordinary and like the usual love affair at first glance, but watching the full movie tells otherwise. It is about two friends, turned lovers, together with their ‘Thursday’ barkada. They were supposed to be wed until Basha (Bea) had to make a decision to love herself a little more and to find out ‘what is’, than live the rest of her life with ‘what if’. They both had a tough time dealing with the break up but it all turned out to be good for both of them. They both needed that break to realize things and to find back their real selves.

One thing nice with the movie too is their Thursday barkada, which really gave a good flavor to the story. The movie didn’t just revolved around the two of them, each of their barkada contributed well to make the story a little lighter and funny too. Especially the thin dude, I forgot his name, but he is outstanding in the movie. He made most of the comedy part and really memorable parts too. Also, the blind member of the barkada, who is also the husband of Dimples Romana. The literal, yet comic, interpretation of ‘Love is blind’ also contributed well to remember the movie.

Overall, it was nice, especially if you’ll watch it with a loved one…heheheh….coz it will be fun to live, love, and laugh with a special someone by your side. And most of all, it is great to see your honey/baby/sweety/etc cry for a romantic movie. hahahah…^_^

Here are some lines, you’ll never forget from the movie…
- “Naniniwala ka ba jan?”
- “Ang sakit sakit na!”
- “SA HOTEL!!!??? oops dude sorry, go ahead!”
- “I Love you every day….I hate to see you hurting, coz it hurts me to see you hurt…If only I could take away the hurts….”

Add comment November 14th, 2007

A Fresh New Start…

A big relief came last Friday night…(Nov. 9)…grades were released and thank God I passed my most-feared subject…and it was higher than what i expected, or at least prayed for. It was an assurance that I can still handle work and law school at the same time…and thank God I won’t have to give up any between the two…for the meantime.

We’re now waiting for just two more professors to release the grades, ACA Villches and Dean Roy. I am hoping my grades on their subjects were ok and there must be nothing to worry about. So far…so good…i can proceed to the next enrollment. It is strange that I am praying for payables to come in to me, hehehe… but if greater future comes at stake…who wouldn’t wish to pay more, right!?!

As of this moment, I have an average QPI of 85.36. Dean’s-Lister-wanna-be… hehehe… if I remember it right, 3.35 is DL in Ateneo Loyola…dat’s at least 83.75%. Then i remember a friend telling me that he almost got into DL at the Ateneo Law School (ALS), requiring at least 85.00%. If this is true and in God’s grace…i’m hanging on the limit of being a DL. (haba ng hair ng lola mo…hahahha!)

Back at the Ateneo Loyola..I was also always hanging in the middle…and was even short of 0.03 for a couple of times, until i gave up wishing and hoping. I really hope it works this time…if not…then it’s ok…the fact that i survived is still a great grace, considering the really tough job to do in ALS.

Haiz….it’s a new semester…new professors, new subjects…new challenges…Thank you Lord for this fresh new start!

Add comment November 13th, 2007

Juvenile Justice: Retributive or Restorative?

Juvenile justice is an issue that affects not only children involved in criminal activities but also child victims of poverty, abuse and exploitation. Throughout the world, children who come into conflict with the law are at the greatest risk of having their fundamental rights violated. For this reason, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) established the following as the core guiding principle for the treatment of children in conflict with the law:

State Parties recognize the right of every child alleged as, accused of, or recognized as having infringed the penal law to be treated in a manner consistent with the promotion of the child’s sense of dignity and worth, which reinforces the child’s respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of others and which takes into account the child’s age and the desirability of promoting the child’s reintegration and the child’s assuming a constructive role in society.â€? ¹

States are therefore required to establish laws, procedures, authorities and institutions specifically applicable to children alleged as, accused of, or recognized as having infringed the penal law. It is a legally binding instrument.

It is with this consideration that we seek to present relevant information on the trend of juvenile justice system in various countries, in relation to meeting these obligations. We will assess whether restorative or retributive forms of juvenile justice systems are being implemented in countries around the world. To this end, we will look into national juvenile justice systems, laws and practices based on the CRC and the UN guidelines on juvenile justice; the UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (JDLs), the UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (Riyadh Guidelines); and the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules). We approached this by looking at the state of juvenile justice in the various regions and individual nations of the world.

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1 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Available online at www.unicef.org.crc. Last Accessed October 23, 2007.

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Add comment November 9th, 2007

The day before the Judgment Day…

haiz, la lng..just want to share…magulo ang araw ko today… maybe it’s because of the sub-conscious feeling of anxiety…i can’t seem to do my thing right…i’ve been trying to read sumthing for the whole day and somehow, i get distracted every now and then…i used to focus well with what I am doing, but today is different. It’s like I want to do so many things at a very little time. I feel like a convict in line to death row…

And yes…tomorrow is the judgment day (release of grades for 1st sem of law school)….and still, i can’t make my student login account work…the heck! I am praying to pass all subjects, and at the same time i don’t want to expect too much and break my heart later on…but i also don’t want to count it in as a failure coz it might come true..hehehe…waaahhh….i am starting to get paranoid for tomorrow. haiz….may God be with all ALS students tomorrow. haiz…haiz…haiz…

Add comment November 8th, 2007

One male Shih Tzu left…Is it Spike or is it Slyt?!?

Announcement guys…there’s only one male shih tzu pup left….so if you’re interested …contact me asap ok

1 boy left

Features:
- good champ-line (15 red marks)
- tricolor (white, black, gold/dark brown)
- princess type
- with 5-in-1 vaccine shot and 2 deworming
- with PCCI papers

Cel #: 09174216701
Home #: 6453620

Add comment November 6th, 2007