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I’m not really into showbiz, but while reading today’s newspaper about how helpful and effective a treatment for eczema is to a lot of people. Suddenly I saw Alfred Vargas with Marian Rivera? Are they the newest loveteam? Nahh!

Well even if you’re not updated with showbiz, you should know that Marian’s true partner is Dingdong right? And it would be a surprise if you saw a photo where Alfred’s arm is over Marian’s shoulder? hehe!

Before my hypothesis gets deeper, I began to read what the real story is. Then I realize that it wasn’t really Marian Rivera… but someone who looked like her but arguably look better than her (*cough* as indicated in the youtube comments, *cough*… and I agree ).

The girl in the newspaper with Alfred is his Girlfriend. Her name is “Yasmine Espiritu” an Italian Citizen, which is half Filipina. I then checked the internet for more infos and it turned out that it’s not just me who thought of “Yasmine Espiritu” as “Marian Rivera” look-alike, it’s even televised .  For more of the scoop, check out the video and envy Mr. Alfred Vargas (Like I do ).

Games, Games, Gamesssss!

Yeah! Do I sound like the commercial of Vic Sotto haha!  It’s something like a life insurance for seniors for me, as they are here to stay forever, and nobody can live without. By the way I’m talking about computer/video “GAMES”. With the current generation who else aren’t playing any computer game? People even treat virtual pets online for real, and *ehem* virtual “FARMS” being a popular one

Anyway gamers, behold, there’s a new kind of 3D game in town, I just got a bit of information through the newspaper. I’m talking about “Paolo’s Journey”, it’s a new kind of 3D game which is all about Pope Benedict XVI’s Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. By the way, the game was developed by Fr. Maximo Villanueva (the image above).

According to what I’ve read, the game will be distributed for free to selected schools in the Metro, where 1000 cd’s will be given to Grade 3 students. Hmmm.. I wonder why grade 3 only???

I guess the church is just being “IN” with the generation. The church’s approach is great (I’m gonna give them 10/10 for this, I’ll be bias since I’m a computer gamer ^_^). I think it’s a nice idea to learn history via games like this. Imagine having your character venture the Philippines History and be able to see/talk with Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio etc. It’s like learning while playing, *ehem* less boring right?

Let’s bring back the days of the summer here in the Philippines. Who would have forgotten the 38-40 degrees heatwave which acted as a free fat burner pills to our body, and that we’ve suffered a lot, and where we have constantly wished summer would bid farewell asap.

Now, let’s talk about the present. Finally, summer went bye-bye, Oh, by the way, he left a bit of his sweat on the last week of June. It’s a light rainfall which stayed around 15 minutes. In that short span of time we got heavy traffic because of FLOOD!!

Whew talk about preventive measures, as usual it’s done after the effect.

Anyway I heard in the news that additional weather dopplers are being installed here in the Philippines. 10 doppler radars overall. 5 of them are expected to be operational after 2 years . If you recall Typhoon Pepeng and Ondoy, where thousands of people have died and properties destroyed amounting to billions. Well Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) were actually blamed for the lack of Doppler radars that made them fail to calculate the amount of rainfall. In the end, a lot of areas were devastated.

Until now, when Typhoon Basyang came. and still, PAG-ASA cannot perfect their forecast! Maybe its about time they change their style, their image, and lastly, their NAME, coz I think its getting hopeless rather than hope.