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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
TRAVEL+LEISURE: World's Top 10 Cities
Two of Travel+Leisure Magazine's Top 10 Cities in the World are in Southeast Asia. It just so happen that the Top 1 and 2 are in Thailand! Yey!
Bangkok is the World's No. 1 City destination according to 16,000 voters. The northern Thai city of Chiang Mai came in 2nd. Last year, they were voted 3rd and 5th respectively.
This great news was a big boost to the morale of Bangkokians after the 10-week civil disorder that rocked the city. The poll stopped a few days before it happened.
Incidentally, the T+T also listed the Top 10 Cities in Asia: Bangkok (1), Chiang Mai (2), Siem Reap (4), Hanoi (8) are Southeast Asian cities that made it to the list.
Here is the full list of the World's Top 10 Cities.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Weekend BlogHop | SeptWk1
Bunch of interesting posts this week.
David Poarch reminiscing his adventures in Manila.
Franx Budi talks about aligning a relationship with the Law of Attraction.
Matt The Lost Boy posted some of his photos in Bangladesh.
Don Schumann posted photos of improvised traps during the Vietnam War.
Nguping Jakarta is an 'overheard' blog around the city of Jakarta.
AJ Matela tells us why no one wants to date him.
Cumi&Ciki had some fun with friends at Max@iHaus.
Daucus Sebastian posted controversial photos that shocked me and rants about it.
Geisha rants about the recent hostage-taking tragedy.
Bryanboy embedded a video of his two heroes - Marc J & Anna W.
Jake confessed about his fetish.
Johan writes about rice pudding and his day.
Fanzi tells the storyline of an upcoming video/film he would star in.
TAO tells us why capitalism doesn't work.
GFNI talks about exporting Indonesian Convenient Store brand "Alfamart".
Fable Frog rants about house chores.
Happy weekend, Southeast Asia!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Mount Sinabung Erupts After 400 Years
Mount Sinabung on Northern Sumatra Island in Indonesia erupted early this morning at 2:15am local time. No historical records of its eruption patterns although crater activities has been observed since 1912. More than 12,000 people has to be evacuated as a precautionary measure of the government.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
YOUTH OLYMPICS 2010 Final Medal Tally
The inaugural Youth Olympics held in Singapore has ended. Ninety-seven countries (out of 203) won at least 1 of the 623 medals to be won during the games.
How did our young athletes fared? But first, lets have a look at the Top 3 which looked like an Asian powerhouse:
1. CHINA: Gold 30, Silver 16, Bronze 5, Total 51
2. RUSSIA: Gold 18, Silver 14, Bronze 11, Total 43
3. SOUTH KOREA: Gold 11, Silver 4, Bronze 4, Total 19
Here's what our young athletes was able to accomplish:
No medals for the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei and Timor Leste.
See y'all in Nanjing!
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Friday, August 27, 2010
A Mysterious Record of Events in 1593
Here, I bet not a lot of you in the Philippines know about this... one of the earliest recorded story of what seem to be like what we modernly call: a "jumper".
Perez claimed that moments before finding himself in Mexico he had been on sentry duty in Manila at the governor’s palace. He admitted that while he was aware that he was no longer in the Philippines, he had no idea where he was or how he had gotten there. He said that moments before he arrived there, His Excellency the Governor of the Philippines, Gomez Perez Dasmariñas had been killed by Chinese pirates. He explained that after long hours of duty in Manila, he felt faint, leaned against a wall and closed his eyes; he said he opened his eyes a second later to find himself somewhere different.
Two months later, news from the Philippines arrived by Manila Galleon, confirming the fact of the literal axing on October 23 of Dasmariñas in a mutiny of Chinese rowers, as well as other points of the mysterious soldier’s fantastic story. Witnesses confirmed that Gil Perez had indeed been on duty in Manila just before arriving in Mexico. Furthermore, one of the passengers on the ship recognized Perez and swore that he had seen him in the Philippines on October 23. Gil Perez eventually returned to the Philippines and took up his former position as a palace guard, living thenceforth an apparently uneventful life.
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COOL ADVERT: "Get Them Off Your Dog" | Jakarta
This is a huge (225 square meter) sticker in a mall with people looking like cooties from the upper floors. There were actually 3 malls in a city with such a creative advert.
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Jakarta, Indonesia
Art Directors: Aryanto Salim, Joel Clement
Copywriters: Pancaputera, Juhi Kalia
Photographer: Heret Frasthio
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sin Son and Sambo
True friendship knows no specie...
Heart warming, isn't it? I'll visit both of them soon.
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