Sa GMA 7 mayroon silang special na program na "Isang Tanong", kung saan binigyan nila ng pagkakataon ang mga simpleng mamamayan para magtanong sa mga tatakbo sa susunod na Philippine Presidential Election. Nais ko sanang magpadala ng sarili kong isang tanong, pero hindi ako makapagdesisyon kung anong tanong ang ipapadala ko. Dahil sa totoo lang hindi kasya sa iisang tanong lang ang mga nais kong malaman mula sa mga naghahangad na ma-upo sa mataas na pwesto sa gobyerno.Kaya naman naisipan ko na...

Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of good or bad luck, but often bad luck. In the Gregorian Calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year. Any month's 13th day will fall on a Friday if the month starts on a Sunday. In 2009 this applies to the months of February, March and November. The next instance of this appears on the calendar for the...

If there is one thing I hate about the people in the Philippine government specially it's officials, that would be that they don't have brains. These people always boast of their educational backgrounds or during the election they would always lay down their beautiful plans to improve things here in the Philippines. But even if they graduated with degrees or graduated from a reputable and well known university, their credentials are nothing more...

by: Bong Barrameda, Pinoy Trivia Vol. 3 Q.  On a yearly average, how many typhoons visit the Philippines? A. 20 For the Record.  You can determine how far away a thunderstorm is without using any special instruments.  First, wait for a lightning flash.  Then count the seconds that pass until the sound of thunder is heard.  Sound travels about 1 mile (1.6km.) in five seconds.  Thus if there are five seconds between...

Barely a week have passed when typhoon "Ondoy"(international name: "Ketsana") ravaged and caused so much damage in Luzon here in the Philippines.  The cities and families that was affected have just started to recover from the damages, these five days after "Ondoy" have left the country. But as if Ondoy's damage is not enough, another typhoon is now entering the Philippines and once again it is going to pass Luzon. According to the Severe...

Yesterday, the tropical storm named "Ondoy" by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), wreaks havoc to all the places that it passed by as it moves through Luzon.Me and my family personally experienced it's devastating force as it passed by out town, trees are plucked from the ground, part of our roof got blown-off by the force of the wind, and water came in and flooded part of our house. But compared to other places I can say that what we have...

Somewhere in Georgia back in the 1800's a poor farmer and his wife were expecting their 5th child. The farmer knew that he and his wife could not provide for this child because crops had been bad that year and he could barely feed his family of six.When the wife went into labor the farmer called for the doctor. Unknown to the wife, the farmer and the doctor had already made arrangements to get rid of the baby. Their plan was to take the baby...

DEFINITIONAn urban legend, urban myth, or urban tales is a form of modern folklore with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing or horror. It's consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them., the term is often used to mean something akin to an "apocryphal story" involving incidents of the recent past. Like all folklore, urban legends are not...

Due to problems with my Internet connection I wasn't able to update my blog for a long time, but now with a new Internet Service Provider, I am back. The long period of being offline gave me time to think of other topics I want to share here in the owlery, starting with this topic.Last week news came out, stating that the Philippines would face a problem with power shortage as announced by the Secretary of the Department of Energy Angelo Reyes.In a budget hearing at the House of Representatives,...

PROBLEMSProblems, everybody has them, no body is exempted from having problems. Whoever you maybe or whatever you do, you would always face problems everyday. It doesn't matter how big your problem is, what matter is how you tackle these problems to come-up with a solution. Problem solving is one of those abilities that allegedly distinguishes human beings from other animals. Though many creatures can solve problems, and some even uses tools,...

FEARFear is an emotional response to a threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some Psychologists John B Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear is one of a small set of bsic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger. Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which...

GREEDGreed is defined in the dictionary as an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.Greed is the excessive or rapacious desire and persuit of money, wealth, power. It is generally considered a vice, and is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism.Buddhist believe greed is based on incorrectly- connecting material wealth with happiness. This is caused by a view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object;...

SLOGAN ORIGINA slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish and Irish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, sluagh meaning "army", "host" and gairm meaning "cry". The battle cry of the Old Highland clans were said to be the name of the clan or the leader of the clan, repeated again and again by the soldiers in unison as they...

HUMAN HEADIn humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones, consisting the cranium and the facial bones. The cranium is formed by 8 bones: the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, the occipital bone in the back, the ethmoid bone behind the nose, and the sphenoid bone. The face consists of 14 bones including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw). Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined...

TEARSTears are the liquid product of a process of crying to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation,(from L. Lacrima meaning Tear) which can be also spelled as lachrimation, may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying. Strong emotions, such as sorrow or elation may lead to crying. The process of yawning may also result in lacrimation. Although most land mammals have a lacrimation system to keep their eyes moist,...

MALE OR FEMALE?It's quite difficult to tell if a goldfish is male or female, for the only time male and female goldfish look different from each other is when they are ready to breed. The male develops small white spots, called tubercles, on his gill covers. The female, on the other hand, will fill up with eggs and look fatter than the male.FISHY TIPSIf you can afford it, thaw frozen fish in milk, for it draws out the frozen taste and produces...

COINCIDENCEa striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.the condition or fact of coincidingACCIDENT COINCIDENCETwo brothers in Bermuda were killed while riding the same motorcycle in the same street by the same taxi and by the same driver, carrying the same passenger; but exactly a year apart: 1962 and 1963OH BABYIn Detroit sometime in the 1930s, a young mother must have been eternally grateful to a man named Joseph Figlock. As Figlock was walking down the...

LEAP SECONDFour or five million years ago, a day lasted only 22 hours. The lengthening of the day is due to the very gradual slowing down of the Earth's rotation on its axis. Since the introduction of the "coordinated universal time" as the world's standard form of time measurement in 1972, one "leap second" has been added onto the last second of each year to make up for the planet's deceleration.THE TIME IT TAKESThe durations, in seconds, of...

COLOR BLACKBlack is the total absorption of all color and the absence of light. It was used for mourning by the Egyptians and Romans, today almost all countries associate it with death and mourning. Black has also been recognized to imply humility and secrecy. It is frequently associated with witchcraft. In India and other countries in Asia, black represents the serfs and slaves. In the Hindu Upanishads, the black color of the fire was considered...

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species, in everyday usage it almost always refers to the Ovis aries. Numbering a little over 1 billion, domestic sheep are the most numerous species in their genus.Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia. One of the earliest...