And my BADGES goes to...

(its token-time, but its not what u think)..:)

The first badge goes to ...
a. “GEENA”,

For politely-firing my chatbox with crappy questions on re: my skyrocketting score at the Pinoyworld Blog of the Week Poll.

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Prior to my badge-giving, First, her integrity-besmirching letter, in verbatim…

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"congrats on the votes. paano po ba iboto ang sarili ng multiple times a day? sabi kasi ng isang blogger sa poll you are using proxy servers daw kaso di ko alam gawin yun. gusto ko rin kasi manalo sa isang poll tulad ng pinoyworld. thanks po" - Geena .21 Sep 08, 06:15

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Dear "Gee", No-thanks for demeaning my rank. As per multiple-voting?, SORRY, you are barking at the wrong tree! I’m a writer not a software-weirdo' 'huh. Remember that N.A.S.A-hired Pinoy turned infamous by his I-love-you virus”?, "Go look after him"!- or bring your hearsay issues to PinoyWorld's attention. Lest you opt for fair fights, (and if you believe your website is commendable), try these non-hocus-pocus tips to guide you & your kind:
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1.sign up, connect and endorse your nomination in a number of blog-community-directories & other social networking sites i.e, friendster, facebook, ringo, tagged, blah-blah - and see for yourself the magic they weave. Need more? what are you contacts & chatmates in yahoo,hotmail and gmail's doin'..?

2. Missed-not the cyber long-arms of your friend’s relatives and your relative’s friends! – believe me, the power of two will caught your contest

like a wildfire.
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3. discard cheating. lawbreaking is a waste of time. poll-host limits one (1) IPR per day. So even you sit & sweat your a*s-around your neighborhood’s Internet Cafés, your win-win effort is futile. Why? small-time I'C's normally share common servers.
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Ditto, maybe next time you and that rumormonger blogger should hit me next time with valid URL (for my & my virtual bud's charitable votes) & your E-add (for AJ's private-whacking, I mean, messaging!) :D . For your peace of mind, I'm giving you this:

my next badge goes to -

b. “SERGE”

The next day, another(?) commentator-in-pseudo seconded Geena's motion. He added insults to my injury when he vaguely wrote…

"hi AJ, cool blog you got here. To Geena - i don't know why you want to win in pollhost. it has been proven that it can be manipulated by using proxy servers. i know how to do that. just e-mail me".

"I also believe that this blog deserve to win because its cool and this blogs' opponents are just plain wuzz. i do believe thou that AJ cheats. sorry AJ. peace man". SERGE - 22 Sep 08, 18:31

Dear Serg, No-Thanks for your half-hearted compliment. Man, your one great thinker. Your self-confidence? .. oozing!. 'Be glad to meet you in flesh and blood. Not for your "technical-wizardry" or know-how in rigging servers, but to find out where is your gift of mockery and suspicion coming from! In case you corroborate your sourgraping facts, then its YOU vs. the Republic of Blogging; or YOU against the contest masters & winners. For your amoral disposition, I therefore award you this...

Now I think of consulting my blogger-friend Attorney Lawstude ( a silent rival in the Poll) on bylaws that could litigate people like you; Oh, the brainy guy deserved your Mea Culpa too for calling him plain "WUZZ” (what is Wuzz, btw?) Txs Panero for your unique display of sportsmanship when at times, mine overshadowed yours. So when you earned the 4th, I was happy; 1st Week went to Pretty Life Online. I was 2nd those times. Now, where's "Abracadabra" there!"? - Their badges below.

Serge's goofing around isn't over yet. After my fairygod designer Tchell (herself a victim of "anonymous" terrorism) grabbed the "all-knowing" bull-Y by his horn, It came as no surprise when "d bull-Y" return and re-insist....
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"Come on guys, Get Real!!! Proxy server is easy. Just google it and you will have hundreds of proxy server that will hide your IP. We all know that Pollhost is on per IP basis. Do not show your ignorance here twinks. Or maybe you are. Try it and you will see that I am telling the truth. I am sorry to burst your bubble AJ. Peace".23 Sep 08, 17:12serge:

Peace & Sorry after purposely calling me cheater, my buds ignorant and "wuzz"? hmm...

Alright. Let's move on. As I was saying in the past, I'm not after all those freaking honors & badges. What put me down is the CRAB MENTALITY that remain a norm in our say, competent & respectable culture. Now I understand why excellence amongst us is certainly a difficult task. While this topic was disregarded by some. I chose to deal with it .

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As of this writing, my site continue to reap scores and now being leapfrogged to the so-called "Hall of Famer". And once the new badge is ready, it will be forwarded to my future sourgrapers who think that my winning is tantamount to cheating.

Once again, I thank those who gave me their honest votes from my time in Composed Gentleman to PinoyWorld. Your trust is not in vain. TGIF.

“Nangarap, Nanalig, Nanalo Sila” :PDA Talk P-2

And so Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 had its parting the other nite. Highlight of which, is the announcement of the year’s top victor, LAARNI LOZADA from Sultan Kudarat. Mindanaoans must be sailing their colourful vintas, chanting, and raising their Lapu-Lapu sword in celebration of her landslide victory.
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For an independent someone whose been decade away from roots, Laarni’s success in the City doesn’t comes cheap or easy. A struggling promdi, she has been through thick of things and lowest of lows. And your guess is as good as mine – the nitty-gritty of her dramatic life will soon be in Mam Charo's MMK.

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She too, gave me rounds of amusement each time she croon on-stage and cry a river inside the house/school. And may that notorious mood-swinging of hers be guarded against the showbiz jungle's starving vultures and snakes hiding under a sheep clothe - whose purpose is "to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs".
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But then the Crying Diva's last wailing on-cam is of joy. And it’s just proper to share that incredible moment with the people who dear and detest her for being "herself"- i.e., texters, mentors, juries, rivals, counting the luckless young hopefuls at the audition who’ve faced fear and abandon shame before the smiling eyes of the entertainment-hungry world.

By and large, PDA 2 is late-time-worthy to watch. Hosts were excellent!, Mentors were outstanding! (bar the latter's "bagets" production number). The nightly twists and turns does help to pull its sleepy rating in the lead and the awarding gala kept me at the edge of our bedbugs-infested seat. As for the likely contest of rabid fans and sour-raping cynics,... nothing new. - they'r part and parcel of contests since time immemorial.

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Talking of gripes, one example is the case of my other bet, Liezel Garcia from PG & Dubai. The meteoric singer had turned fallen when her star plummeted to the shocking 4th during the finals. Eventually losing its shine to romantic balladeer of Muntinlupa - Miguel Mendoza. Tsk. Tsk. The girl with a golden voice was beaten black and blue by the boy born w/ a golden spoon. In my opinion (and this is shared by many), Text [is sometimes] thicker than Talent - and that I guess the easiest way to ouch a brilliant someone. OUCH! hehe :)

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At the extreme bottom were hotties Cris Pastor of Paranaque and Van Roxas of Cebu who may not be having the finest voice but did won cosmic share of crowd in the looks and titillating dept (ask Direk Joey, the Terror!). Suffice to say, shrieking gays and girls for Van and hot-blooded male for Cris.

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The fanciest of the six is 2nd runner-up Bugoy Drilon - who wow his audience everytime he gone berserk in his manly singing san his girly dancing. HE or they say SHE, was the masses’ Hero! No doubt. No question. There are just some points where "Boogie" becomes silly foxtrotting a sentimental song. But the Farmer's son of Camarines Sur was a true idol when he borrowed a poor man's quote from Ejay Falcon (that PBB Teen Champ) - “Kahit simpleng tao, puwedeng mangarap”. The same rings true in Laarni's tear-jerking/prize-winning song "Manalig Ka"; In the freaking character of our favourite PDA scholars we espy every nite; In reality TV like this. So it says": Winning comes by sweating. Living the Dreams comes by trying and believing! Kita-kits ulit tayo on PDA 3, Kapamilya! :)

photocredits: wwww.abscbn.com

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Mga Munting Bampira

Something's eating AJ this Ramadan.

what the heck are THEY ? better read 'em by the rhyme...

Pagsitsit ng kuliglig
at sampalan ng talahib
ibong Magdalena
nironda na piping paligid,
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tulad nila -
maging mapagmatyag,
kung maari nga

wag nang kukurap

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pagpikit mo’y paggapang
ng mga buwitreng
binubundat, binubuhay
ng makasalanang dugo

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butong hugis di piho
kirot nama'y sapo
sa tarak ng

malahigad na uslo
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malapiratang sumalakay
duwag namang kaaway

pagbungad

ni haring liwayway

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alagang pulgas ni Dracula
mga insektong bampira!

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- sa dugo kong tumagas
para sa gahamang lakas,

- sa mga gabing balisa

at sugat pang sariwa

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malagim na kabanata

sa lipi nyo nagbabadya

mga SUROT na kutong-lupa!

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JEEZ. I supposed not to exercise conduct unbecoming this Holy Season. But one could easily shift into vendetta-mode once sleep deprived, yah?

Believe it or not, I never saw Bedbugs in the Philippines. Neither I knew how those bloodsucker bites. Not til’ I travelled from million miles, get-up one morning and discovered my sterilized bedsheet all dotted with creepy red marks.

How they invaded our privacy and foreign space is a mystery for my neat-freak household to decipher. Meantime, we did hired some armed goons to exenorate those nocturnal little leeches. They can intrude no more in our sleeping career again. Never.

On the other hand, my evenly anemic Mama retries befriending my tongue with ampalaya to help me regain the "red liquid" I lost.

T.G.I.F. 'wishing you all GOODNITE! :D

(Ramadan Special part 1): The Holiest Month has begun

RAMADAN KAREEM! The crescent moon's sighting beckons the Islamic community on more Prayer, Worship, Renewal and Piety, and: If I may boldly add, - more lucrative business in the trading sector.

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Before I proceed, I'm not inviting any military-junta here huh'. This Quran-Believing country, matter-of-factly, has been my 2nd habitat for 7?, 8 freaking years I guess. So I aged well with those wallet-pulling SALE in major retail stores which I started to despise for over-scratching my debit & credit cards (my fault anyway), more road accidents and traffic fine fees emitted from starving motorist who are racing home for Iftar and scenes of more underground industry of professional begging by fat paupers who plane themselves over to commerce their "ragged" selves in the Emirate's less-walked streets and congested subways, as well as in the doorsteps of the country's oblivious residents.

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Geared with on-commission basis children as props, affiliate of this on-crackdown syndicate prey at one's sympathetic stance where partakers during this solemn period, are said to be earnest in the teachings of pity and charity for the poor.

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I've much observed these 3 F's too: Daytime Fasting came-in-combo with Nitetime Feasting (traditional breaking of the bread aka as Iftar) and, yep, the veiled breaktime Fast-Eating habit of "no-to-hunger strike" Pinoy Christian workers, like yours truly. :)
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The year is incredibly short. It seemed like only yesterday when I remissed to post my similar encounter on this supposed all-solemn event. With purest intention [and a bit of wit on the side] I'm glad, I could blog now those heavenly visions dancing in my head.
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Ramadan for the benefit of the absentminded and naïve, was dubbed as their [Muslim] sacred month where each and everyone (excusing the very young) - submit themselves for a month-long of abstinence against eating, drinking, smoking, loud sound-tripping and ungodly thoughts from dawn till dusk. This being the time of the year where the general public learn to renounce their comfort zones and carnal pleasures in favor of constant spiritual reverie.

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(photo: muslim women praying together)

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On the other hand, Non-Quran believers in the region, neither nor they wish to be penalized and be transported in the penitentiary are therefore expected to conform with Ramadan’s do's and don'ts emulating the Romans once-upon-a time saying “Dura Lex, Sed Lex” “the Law maybe harsh, but it's the Law”. Having me said this, let us tell those planning OFW we knew - to conform with such, esp in the Mid-East where Law is more faithful and religious during this holy month.

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Not to be missed amongst my deluge of trivia, is the Ramadan Kareem (peace and love) greetings and hadiya or gifts (mine are sweets) I garnered from my dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters around and online. Shukran khatheer (Thank you very much) in return. I commended u all for the noble sacrifice throughout this season. Mabrookh'.(Great one)

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Soon, a new moon will sight. And the same marks the end of Ramadan. They call it Eid ul-Fitr where big celebration took place. I'll get back to you on that.
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(photo: Muslim Men having Iftar together)

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photcredits: http://www.timesonline.com/ & http://www.gulfnews.com/

To know more about RAMADAN, pls click here.

...TO BE CONTINUED.

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