If you can read this, I have successfully transferred data to another server where I have more control of overall site maintenance.

As for me, I have moved to Singapore where I have more control over my future (financially, at least). I had been here for almost three months now and am enjoying it so far. There are still a lot of places I've yet to visit.

As for myiloilo.com, I have enabled profit sharing here. Just put in your Google Adsense publisher ID in your profile here and you can earn from clicks on your blog pages. It won't be much at first but the more blog entries you submit, you get better chances of visitors clicking on you ads.

I'm not trying to fuel enraged Filipinos but what do you think of this.

The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places are the following:

Top performing schools with 100 or more examinees:

Top performing schools with 30-99 examinees:

Complete school performance statistics.
List of successful examinees A to C
List of successful examinees D to K
List of successful examinees L to Z

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao and Mexico's Marco Antonio Barrera will fight a rematch in Las Vegas on October 6, promoters announced here Friday after reaching a deal to settle legal disputes.

Officials of Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank agreed to a settlement that includes a debate on who had rights to Pacquiao, setting the stage for a super featherweight rematch of their November 2003 meeting at San Antonio, Texas.

Being swamped with regular work lately with another project coming in, I can't find time to write. Not even about the recent election results. Not even a review of three more restaurants we tried this month.

The news is that we have closed a one year advertising deal with the number restaurant in Iloilo City. The ad will begin to appear on the first day of June. Meaning, MyIloilo.com is going to be around yet another year. The deal came just in time for the renewal of the domain and web hosting.

FYI, if you haven't notice already that MyIloilo.com is supported by Google Ads since it's inception June of last year. For all its worth, it is not enough to pay for it's hosting. Luckily, it's hosted on my own development server which hosts my projects and other sites. The point is it won't survive if it was hosted on its own server.

Now, back to regular programming.

1,893 new lawyers will take their oath on April 25, 2007 in Philippine International Convention Center after passing the Bar Exams.

The top 10 bar passers:

1. Noel Neil Malimban - 87.6% - University of Baguio

2. Deborah Acosta - 87.4% - University of the Philippines
Ricardo Pilares III - 87.4% - Ateneo de Manila University

3. Erika Ana Andrea Jimenez - 86.6% - Ateneo de Manila University

4. Maria Charizza Carlos - 86.1% - Ateneo de Manila University

5. Gina Lyn Rubio - 85.75% - Far Eastern University

6. Anjuli Larta Tan - 85.7% - Dr. V. Orestes Romualdez Educational Foundation Inc.

7. Karen Gaviola - 85.68% - University of San Carlos

8. Ismael Al-shwaid - 85.65% - University of Cebu

9. Timothy Joseph M. Mendoza - 85.55% - University of the Philippines

10. Alain Charles Veloso - 85.5% - University of the Philippines

The 2006 bar examinations has 6,187 examinees translating to 30.6% passing rate. Click here to view complete list of successful bar examinees. Here's another page worth reading.

Here I am trying to put some sense on the frantic and frequently nocturnal goings-on of "bully boys" of political leaders. See I couldn't even make sense of the lead sentence! Whenever I see political streamers, posters and other ads of politicians trying to outdo each other for retention in the consciousness of the voters, it is the Ilonggo gusto for "palusot" that often amazes me. If you look carefully now, political ads now printed on unbiologically friendly plastic sheet are plastered on walls, fences, electric and lamp posts especially during the wee hours of the morning (ah the feeling of using that trite expression again!). And I thought there is an ongoing Comelec ban covering this practice.

Come to think of it, who can stomach the political ads when lumped in a public place? Trying to rationalize, I found myself recalling the acronym, A-I-D-A. AIDA is an old-school formula for marketing intentions. The first letter, A stands for awareness. Candidates who must forcibly thrust themselves into the consciousness of voters and pray for a long-term recall ought to package themselves so as to arrest attention. Thus the use of primary colors preferably red and yellow is prevalent. Interest or rather instilling and sustaining interest among the voters on themselves and their cutesy come-ons comes next. Here we are regaled with cue words such as "Itanim," "utol," and "anga" in the effort to lasso in our affection through the use of homespun terms of endearment. I hesitate to use the term, desire because of its rather romantic allusions but what can I do, it's the fourth letter in the acronym.Stoking the flame of desire seemed to be one of the objectives of political rallies. Rallies seemed to retrogress from once flowing rhetorics to fiery speeches to a new low - a song and dance number from the senatoriables! How low can you go? And this is not the line from Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock." Finally and perhaps the challenging step of all is arousing action from the voters. Much as I like to rant more on this, time and space won't allow me. Till next blog.

Baby boomers - Ilonggos born between 1945-1949. Today they are either venerable captains of industry or many have been relegated to seeing the twilight of their lives in nursing homes listening to dzRJ(?), heaven forbid!

Local politics - The colorful arena and staging ground of past political personalities who, by sheer force of their persona (and wealth)launched their political careers riding on the voting power of the economic class c and d with the monicker, "Timawa".

Wish list: 1) Baby boomers with a progressive set of agenda for Iloilo City culled from lessons learned when they were fighting it out in the various battlefields: corporate, academe, foreign deployments, scientific laboratories, military arsenal and what-have-you;
2) A partylist composed of baby boomers who can rally the silent majority from self-imposed stupor and have a go at it again (and again!).
3) Baby boomers who can emulate the grit and colorful language of a Roding Ganzon, the quiet dignity of a Paeng Lopez-Vito, the business savvy of a Fermin Caram and other leaders who can transform Iloilo City into what it ought to be today and not just the "next big thing."

Until then, I'll just dream on.

Most people relish the idea of being somebody else, for reasons intelligible only to themselves. Or so I thought. A perusal of freshmen psychology books suggests that people have many views about themselves. If that Joe and Harry Luft were so acceptable of their "true" selves they would not have named their mental contraption, the 'Johari' window. Ah so!

In fairness to their idea, it (finally) dawned on me that people do walk through life assuming many identities. I doff my bandana (whenever I can) to my lecturer over at "Unhan Patyo" who was fond of constructing/deconstructing paradigms in our class. "Meanings are in people." I guess he meant that only the introverts among us are significant. Poor extroverts they are reduced to the barely minimum threshold of insignificance. Well anybody can second guess me that this interpretation doesn't hold water at all.

Anyway tracking back to the main stream of thought, I have an acquaintance of long bygone years, Ernest. He was the Pinoy version of Tom Cruise even before Tom went on a cruise on the Venetian canals with his lady love. His eyes glint on a foreboding mischief bordering on the already familiar "usliton". Among ourselves and we were not that many, Ernest was a person with promise: articulate, willing to learn, proactive, in brief a go go guy.

His career in government service was greatly helped by this personable character. He ended up as head of the administrative division and enjoyed the perks of the position thanks to that kind of power that only grows when you are always near the power center - affective power. Perks however have a darker side too. The more you enjoy them, frequently you crave for more. Insanely insatiable.

Well, the system indeed has ways to gooble you up, make you lose whatever decency you may still have clinging steadfastly. Me? Been there, done that but I have my share of perks too but not that kind... you know I go for those perky *@#%.

I received a notice of subscription rate increase from SkyCable. They will be increasing it by Php 25.00 effective April 1st, 2007. So now, we'll be paying Php 575.00/month. Not much, really. They're adding another channel as our consuelo de bobo. If you dig Lifestyle Network, you might want to check out the new 2nd Avenue channel on, you guess it, April 1st, 2007.

Do you notice they're not as strict as to payments as before? We always pay our cable not less than 3 months delayed. They can cut it off for all I care. Internet has replaced cable for me. I can't stand channel surfing anymore. And what was once cool in cable is not anymore. Anybody remember how was MTV like during their heyday?