But when I was totally cracked up when I came to this scene.

Fuuko hits Ichi with a book(?)

That high school scene from almost 10 years ago came back. Haha. I was so irked with the teasing from my classmates that I shoved a hard-bound book on my friend's head. ^^

Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB)
&
ADMU Disaster Response and Management (DREAM) Team

TASK FORCE NOAH
for the victims of Typhoon Frank

Typhoon FRANK (International Codename: Fengsen) caused vast damages to lives, properties and livelihood of our follow countrymen over the weekend. As of the latest report, the number of casualties has been increasing. Damages were greatly felt in some regions where the actual path of the typhoon crossed. Almost all of the province of Iloilo is submerged in water. People are still stranded on top of the roofs of their houses for two days now in some towns of Iloilo. Other areas of the Visayas are also calling for aid.

General Information:

As of 23 June 2008:

• 10,000 families (40,000 individuals) affected of 20 provinces, 10,000 families are in 275 evacuation centers and increasing.
• Under State of Calamity: Provinces of Iloilo, Capiz, Masbate. Cities of Iloilo, Roxas, Zamboanga (selected areas). Municipalities in Bulacan-Paombong and Marilao
• NDCC: Floods, storm surge and landslides mostly in the Visayas and Southern Tagalog have affected 366,444 people. Of the total number of affected people, 182,686 were in the Western Visayas, including 155,005 in Antique province alone.
• Stranded 5,095 passengers, 288 rolling cargo, 90 trucks, 59 passenger buses, 48 small vehicles, and eight sea vessels.

ILOILO Facts “BULIG ILOILO”

• Philippine National Red Cross; based on field reports from PNRC staff, the death toll had reached 229, with 101 reported in Iloilo alone.
• Iloilo Gov. Neil Tupas earlier said 59 people drowned in the province while another 40 were missing. "Almost all the towns are covered by water. It’s like an ocean," Tupas said, adding thousands have been displaced in the province that is home to 1.7 million people.
• Health Secretary Francisco Duque also said he received reports that the Aniway District Hospital in Iloilo, was submerged in floodwaters as deep as six feet.
• Almost all of Iloilo’s 42 towns and this city, including those that had not previously experienced flooding, were under water according to Jerry Bionat, Executive officer of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC).
• Power outrage reported in Iloilo City; including Odiongan town, Romblon and Antique Province

Our contacts in the Philippine Air Force are willing to fly even round-the-clock relief operations for Typhoon Frank’s victims but unfortunately they tell us there are no relief goods to airlift. We are appealing for donations like ready-to-eat goods, water, clothing and/or cash/check for the victims of Typhoon Frank. Primary target of this initiatives are the heavily affected communities and areas not normally reached by relief operations. We intend to send the relief donations immediately for the urgent need of the victims.

DONATION MECHANISM

GOODS

You may directly donate your goods: ready-to-eat goods, clothing, water at Room 102 Cervini Residence Hall, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Contact Person: Mr. Tim Gabuna
Trunkline: 426-6001 local 5932
Direct line: 426-6119
Mobile number: 0920-9609802

CASH/CHECK

Direct deposits may be made to:
SIMBAHANG LINGKOD NG BAYAN (Account Name/Payee)
Bank of the Philippine Islands (Loyola-Katipunan Branch)
Peso Checking Account Number : 3081-1111-61
Dollar Savings Account Number : 3084-0420-12

Or channel to:

Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan
Loyola House of Studies
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights 1108, Quezon City

Contact Information:
Landline : 426-6101 loc. 3440/3441
Telefax : 426-5968
Mobile : 0922-8600-752 (SUN-8600-SLB)
Web: www.slb.ph
Look for: Ms. Marj Tejada

For proper acknowledgement:

• Please fax a copy of the validated deposit slip to SLB through telefax 426-5986
• Kindly indicate contact information: Name, address, email, land line/mobile
• Those who wish to be anonymous may skip this procedure

FOR GCASH TRANSACTION:

1. Any Globe or TM subscribers should be registered first in Gcash before doing any Gcash transaction.
2. To register, just text the syntax:
   REG_4 digit M-PIN/mother' s maiden name/first name/last name/address and send to 2882
   Ex: REG 1234/Getino/ Liwanag/Ferdinan d/766 Metrica St. Sampaloc Manila and send to 2882
3. When the subs already done with cash in, he may now able to do donate or any Gcash transaction he wanted
   To Donate: Just text the syntax
   DONATE_AMOUNT_ 4 digit M-PIN_INSTITUTION CODE and send to 2882
   Ex. DONATE 100 1234 SLB and send to 2882

BRO. ISMAEL JOSE CHAN-GONZAGA, S.J.
Executive Director
Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan

MR. ADEL BRIONES
Associate Director, CCS
Ateneo School of Government
Convenor, ADMU DREAM TEAM

Quoted from Steve Wiig, Lars' assistant in an interview by MetClub:

I hear it all of the time. I can't get away from it. I'm usually in or around the studio with them. There's some fast stuff, heavy stuff, slow stuff. There's some stuff on there that sounds a little bit closer to the "Fade to Black" / "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" / "One"-style. the clean riff thing, a great melody. Verse stuff with the heavy chorus and the ending blows the shit out of the roof. It's cool to hear them doing that kind of thing again. [...]

They're like my no. 1!!!! music of all time. I hope I could also hear some pure instrumentals like the ones they did in their 80's albums.

Let's just wait and hear... September 2008 is the scheduled release of "Death Magnetic".

I heard how great you are from my previous Java-enthusiast boss. I've seen all posts regarding your company in the small mailing list which I, too, am a member, though obscure . And judging even from how your current over-all boss "unabashed" plugs, I am truly amazed by how your name has spread onto the community. You wouldn't have become this popular if you're not good.

One of my ideals is to work enthusiastically, passionately and not to work for money. I'm proud to have experienced this when I joined THE organization. But that didn't last long. I would agree with the recent thread in the ML, when there's something missing the manager's seat, not everyone is happy. With that, my ideals of a great company collapsed. I can't live with that for long. Besides, we sure do have our material dreams to fulfill. Thus, leaving THE organization was inevitable.

When I saw how you organized positions in your company, I became very excited. A small-scale company with very competent and idealistic people. I began hallucinating. What if... I was in the position of one of your mid-level developers? Would I find nirvana in learning and implementing new frameworks and coding techniques again? Would it be like in the old days when I was with THE organization and working was so much fun?

It would be utter dishonesty to say that I love every bit of my current job. I do love the cat-mouse chase I play with my sole team mate, QA and users' demands, if we're talking about "that kind of rush" we always look forward to while doing our programming jobs. But I'm kind of tired that I think we'll be having another mis-management issue just like I had in the previous job soon.

Now I've been more enlightened, I know I wanted a company that that handles its employees well. I want to be under the nurturing arms of a good IT manager.

I have the nerve to believe that you're of that kind. And so I'm begging you. As long as I can still live decently and keep my place, I'm willing to be enslaved by you.

Sincerely,
*desperate Java whore*

Among all the personalities we expected to see, guess who surprised everyone the most?

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I don't know what kind of magic did this but I guess it has something to do with what creases my browse lately. I've really been wary of my site's stats from search engine results since May. From an average of around 600 - 700 visitors a day, my stats dropped to 100 - 300 a day. That's half of the traffic I got the past recent months (hence, my stats at the Topblogs.ph dropped quite significantly).

I also recently found out that my homepage is out of Google's site searches! Before, cureless.net is no. 1 for the search keywords "cureless" and "yoru". (Now, I can bravely offer my soul to anyone who's seen my homepage in the searches.) All that's left in the searches are some of my old posts from waay back in 2004. The most recent pages are gone! I must admit that my site's traffic lives on Google's referrals. See what happened when Google scrapes off my excuses for content? Traffic drops significantly.

Now I don't think this is Google's ways of penalizing naughty webmasters. I got a feeling that it's got something to do with how my pages are crawled by the busy Google bots. If my site shutdowns, only to be replaced by some piece of Internet junk pages (worse than mine), googlebot must be confused to decide whether to put my pages on the search results or not. (But I already examined the stats from Google Webmasters Tools and there are only few instances when googlebot wasn't able to find some of my pages.)

I already asked my host about the inaccessible site, but they haven't replied yet. My speculations might be downright wrong. And who knows it might just be my internet connection that's preventing me from browsing my own site.

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