• Irish Valenzuela Wins Summer Bike Race, Roger Bannister Quote, and Bicycle Joke (Perlas)Tuesday, 06 May 2008

    We see them every summer and we love watching them! They just make everything seem so easy. They always look like they’re in their first 10 minutes of the race. And they are the only males who look good in lycra - I’m talking about…

    “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” — Roger Bannister (first man to ever run a mile under 4 minutes - May 6, 1954)

    Q: Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up on its own?…

  • Pacquiao vs Diaz, James Byrnes Quote, and LSD Joke (Perlas)Friday, 02 May 2008

    Mark your calendars for June 28, 2008 for the Manny Pacquiao vs David Diaz WBC Lightweight Championship Fight in Las Vegas. But wait! Something’s not right. I just read a news report that Pacquiao only started training yesterday, less than two months before the fight. And in his Abante column, our “Pambansang Kamao” was too busy talking about…

    Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
    — US government official James F. Byrnes (May 2, 1879- Apr 9, 1972)

    LSD Joke… A teenager asked his granny, “Grandma, have you seen my pills? They are labelled LSD.” Granny replied…

  • Filipino-American NBA Coach, Saint La Salle and Web History (Perlas)Wednesday, 30 April 2008

    37-year old Erik Spoelstra is making history with the Miami Heat. Not only is he the first Filipino to become a head coach of an NBA team, he is also the youngest head coach in NBA history…

    Our quote today comes from St. Jean Baptiste De La Salle, a French educational reformer and priest, who was born on April 30, 1651. He put up schools in France as a way to help the plight of the lower class. He lived with…

    Exactly fifteen years ago, the board of directors of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that the World Wide Web (W3) would be free for anyone to use and to develop. And since then “the web” has been…

  • Suportahan Ta Ka (Vote for Marco Torres as a Torchbearer in the 2008 Beijing Olympics)Saturday, 22 September 2007

     Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger).
    -Olympic Motto

    There is a growing online movement to support Marco Torres in his goal of being chosen as one of eight foreigners/expatriates in China who will carry the torch for the Olympic torch relay. I think that with the growing number of bloggers and internet users in the Philippines, we […]