Nightshift blog

Has this ever happened to you? You are in a jeepney and all you are praying is not to be late for work that day. All of a sudden, a child beggar, about 9 years old, with his dirty clothing and no footwear, approaches you and hands over an envelope asking for money. You could see the innocence in his eyes. He won’t talk; he just expects you to give at least something. Read the rest of this entry »

Just when everything seems to be going smooth in time for the Yuletide season, here comes Sen. Antonio Trillanes asking for the resignation of Pres. Arroyo. While nothing is new to that call for the President to step down, his groups was armed with long rifles and holed themselves in the Manila Peninsula. Read the rest of this entry »

Much has been said about “Kindle,” a new product from Amazon that lets a user read contents from providers. It was released just in time for Thanksgiving tomorrow, or should I say on Black Friday. (I would expect that we would be queuing from Friday up to January 2008). Read the rest of this entry »

Our family has been a Digitel subscriber for about a decade now. Never had their service been this worst in the past year. If changing the phone number is so easy as buying a new SIM card, we could have disconnected our subscription.

Whenever you call their call center, which takes a long time before they answer the phone, all the agents could do is to file a report/update the case. One time, I asked for the reason for having no dial tone, the Bisayan accented agent said : “May network problem po.” When I pressed for more details, she just said “May problema po sa network.” Very informative. Read the rest of this entry »

I only use my cellphone when it’s really needed. I text my sisters, friends and former classmates. I call whenever I complain to Digitel. In short, I only my phone on important things. That’s why it’s annoying to receive messages from your carrier and most specially, from text scammers. Read the rest of this entry »

Twenty-three days after the Philippine Daily Inquirer frontpaged the money Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio received in Malacañang, the President’s partymates said that they are the source of the cash gift. Read the rest of this entry »

OR DO WE?

I just watched the video of Jimmy Kimmel, Live in Youtube, who made some remarks about the Philippines. Kimmel said three things about the country – the awe of Filipinos upon seeing an American, kidnapping and the lack of knowledge in the English language. Read the rest of this entry »

After I voted this morning at 7:37 a.m., (voter number 12 at Precinct Number 1, Number 56 in list) for the Barangay elections, I took pictures of the event and Edward saw me and asked about Baras Balita. I told him that it would be better perhaps if we will release the newspaper on December. I posed him the question, do we still really need the SK? Read the rest of this entry »

Just when everybody thought that last Friday’s tragedy in Glorietta 2 mall will take away the media attention from President GMA’s bribery accusation, it seems that the bombing actually confirms it. Read the rest of this entry »

Just when President Arroyo is being accused of giving bribe money to local government officials, when Speaker Jose de Venecia is being hounded of resignation calls, when Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz battles for the Cyber Ed project, a powerful blast rocked Glorietta yesterday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »