May 09, 2009

Posting an audio in Blog



I was looking how to add audio book and music in my blog post and as I browsed over the internet. I found imeem website. In imeem website you can post audio or mp3 music.

Imeem is like other social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselveswith media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests.

uploading an audio or mp3 music in imeem is like uploading video in You tube. You upload the music then copy-paste the embed code to your blog post.

You may visit my audio book in imeem.

May 07, 2009

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!



All mothers are exceptionally great, though at times they vary in ways of showing it. I'd like to greet and laud all mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day to every mothers of every nation and region.



And to this very moment, I'll make a tribute for my wonderful mother, Happy Mothers Day, Mama and We love you so much. If God is the Maker, you are the Molder, without your guidance, love and sacrifice we are not who we are right now.

Make this day truly a Mother's Day for your Mom. Here are tips and suggestions how to celebrate:

1. Be creative

Being creative is not about grand presentation but the sincere effort that really counts. Do a hand-made card, compose a song or poem for your mom, make a video in tribute of your mom or anything unique you can think of. Think of something uniquely plan or hand crafted of the whole family.

2. Treat and Surprise your mother

Every queen deserves a royal treat and your mom is the sole queen in your home, so she deserves a royal treat as well. Why don't you start with a breakfast in bed complemented with flower or rose. Bake some cookies or cake or give a mother's day gift.

If you're not at home, fly back home, she will be surprised and be very glad of the effort you did of going home. You are her child, thus you know your mom very well, you have the idea what can utterly surprise her.

Your mother is worthy of your treat and this Mother's Day they deserve a special treat and fabulous surprise because they are number ONE.

3. Most importantly your words of love and thanks, your actions of hugs annd kisses.

Complete your mom's day with hugs and kisses. Say " I LOVE YOU and THANK YOU MOM!" These words outweight any thing. Spend the whole day with your mother because a mother's joy is her children's time spent with her. Sometimes, we spend less with them because we're preoccupied with something else. Today make it up to your mother.

Or you may let your maother take a break from the kitchen, instead you're the one will prepare for breakfast or dinner. The highlight is you spend worthwhile moment with your mom. That's what mothers really appreciate the most, giving the feeling that they are appreaciated and special.

We can be daughter and son once in our life time. So make everyday a Mother's Day, kiss your mom always and tell them you love them, don't wait for Mother's Day only.

May 05, 2009

Resurrection of Meteor Garden Mania: Boys over Flowers


The Meteor Garden drama series of Taiwan aired in the Philippine television brought by ABS-CBN on 2003. It was then when Filipino viewers started having fancy to shows from our neighboring Asian countries like Taiwan, Korea and Japan. The Meteor Garden t.v. series is originally adapted from Manga series Hana Yori Dango, then a cartoon drama series, eventually a popular television show.

The Meteor Garden televesion drama was a big hit in Taiwan likewise as it was introduced here in the Philippines. The Filipinoes crazed about Meteor Garden drama Taiwanese version, especially teenagers. Brought by its phenomenal success, Meteor Garden became a fad. Avid viewers became Shan Cai (Barbie Hsu) look alike and F4 boy band (Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Ken Zhu) wanna-be.

Meteor garden from comic book series to television drama is a Cinderella type of story. An ordinary citizen girl from a common class society whom a famous good looking rich man fell in love to.

This summer ABS-CBN will bring back once again the Meteor Garden fever among Filipino viewers by introducing Meteor Garden Korean version Boys over Flowers with new charming Korean F4. The Boys over Flowers is Korean adaptation of Meteor Garden, it has 25 episodes broadcast by South Korean KBS2TV television network in January 2009. Is Korean F4 will dazzle teenage girls and young at heart ladies again?

Cast of Characters

Koo Hye Sun: Geum Jan Di
Jan Di is from a poor family with a fierce and weed-like determination. She first liked Ji Hoo, who was the only one who showed any compassion while she was bullied. Eventually Jun Pyo begins to fall in love with her, and as he expresses his feelings towards her, she gradually begins to reciprocate those feelings. Jan Di later is determined to pursue the medical industry after realizing she can't swim because of her shoulder.


Lee Min-ho: Gu Jun Pyo
Jun Pyo is the hot-headed leader of F4. Exasperated by Jan Di's act of defiance, he makes her a target of bullying. But as time passes, he begins to admire Jan di's determination and will and falls in love with her. He is the heir of Shinhwa Group, and after his father passes away, he inherits and begins to run the Shinhwa Group along with his mother.



Kim Hyun-joong: Yun Ji Hoo
Ji Hoo is a calm and soft-spoken boy who likes to play the violin, piano and guitar and conduct an orchestra. Seo Hyeon was Ji Hoo's first love, after she helped him overcome trauma after the death of his parents when he was little. He attempts to fight for Seo Hyeon's love by following her to France. When he comes back, he has already realized that he had fallen for Jan Di. However, Jun Pyo has already announced his love of Jan Di. Ji Hoo decides not to betray his friend by trying to fight for Jan Di. He is a grandson of Korea's former president.

Kim Bum: So Yi Jeong
A playboy who often flirts with girls, Yi Jeong is himself a reputed potter. He is from a family of well-known artists, who own an art gallery exhibiting national treasures.



Kim Joon: Song Woo Bin
From their origin in the underworld, Woo Bin's family now runs a prominent construction business. The family owns real estate throughout the country.



* Kim So Eun: Chu Ga Eul
Ga Eul is Jan Di's best friend since kindergarten. Ga Eul starts developing romantic feelings for Yi Jung after he helps her get over her boyfriend who just played with her.



Synopsis

A middle-class girl,Geum Jan-di , becomes admitted to a rich, prestigious school known as Shinhwa. The school is filled with rich people who can afford to go there. She becomes admitted after saving a man from committing suicide. At the school, she meets people with various personalities. There are the mean girls, fake friends, and last but not least: The F4 consists of 4 people:Goo Joon Pyo,Yoon Ji Hoo , So Yi-jung, & Song Woo Bin . Goo Joon Pyo is the head of the F4 and is also the heir of the shinwa group.At first, he insults and makes Geum Jan-di 's life miserable. The only person who seemed to have sympathy for her was jihoo. However, as the drama progressed, Goo Joon Pyo developed feelings forGeum Jan-di . It turned out to be a twisted love triangle between geum jan di, goo jun pyo & Yoon Ji Hoo .

Differences between the other versions

• In the Taiwan version, Jan Di's character was an only child. In the Japanese and Korean version, she has a younger brother.
• In the Taiwan version, the heroine attends college. In the Japanese version, the characters are in high school in season 1, but F4 (minus Domyoji) attend Eitoku University in season 2. In the Korean version, the characters are also in high school, but the F4 move on to Shinhwa University from episode 13 onwards. Shinhwa High School and Shinhwa University are located within the same campus.
• In Taiwan and Japanese version, Jan Di’s character was already studying at the university for rich people. In Korean version, Jan Di was admitted after saving a boy for jumping off the roof of Shinhwa High School on a swimming scholarship.
• In both Taiwan and Japanese version, the relationship between the two characters: Sojiroh and Yuki ( also known as Yi Jung and Ga Eul in the Korean version) ends up no where. But in the Korean version, the relationship between these two become more than just close friends.
• Akira, the fourth member of the group, seems to be the youngest in Japanese version, and is unknown in Taiwanese version. In Korean version, Song Woo Bin seems to be the oldest of the four.
In the Taiwan version, it is not so obvious that Ji Hoo's character is in love with Jan Di's character, but in the Korean Version, it is obvious that Ji Hoo's character is in love with Jan Di's character where he eventually confesses his feelings.

May 04, 2009

Royal Bibingka in Vigan



My younger sister arrived yesterday from attending a wedding in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. Well, returning home is incomplete without a pasalubong or bringing home something. Right?

I've heard Vigan is known for their one of a kind Royal Bibingka delicacy, that's why we specifically requested for it to be our pasalubong. So she took at home two boxes of Marsha's Delicacy Royal Bibingka from Vigan. I can't wait any minute so I grabbed one.

True enough, I wasn't dissapointed. Royal Bibingka of Vigan delicacy is so delicious that it's a must to bring home some because if you miss it. Oh! You'll be sorry. You're visit in Vigan Ilocos Sur isn't satisfied without taking home Royal Bibingka for pasalubong.

Marsha's Delicacy Royal Bibingka is a top chioce to bring home. It tastes not too sweet just enough for your tastebuds and each bite of fine sticky rice is creamy and soft which make you grab for more. If you happened to visit in Vigan and looking for pasalubong you may consider bringing home Marsha's Royal Bibingka located in National Highway Cabalangan, Bantay, Ilocos Sur (077) 722-8119 and in Galleria de Vigan, Folrentino St., Vigan city (077) 722-2548.

May 03, 2009

Manny Pacquaio knocks out Ricky Hatton in second Round



With his second-round destruction of Ricky Hatton, Pacquiao continues to cement his reputation as the world's best fighter, pound for pound.




The fight summary is one paragraph. Pacquiao knocked Hatton down twice in the first round, dominated the second and caught Hatton with a vicious left hook as the round ticked down. Hatton's eyes rolled back and his body fell, like a sack of potatoes, flat on his back. Referee Kenny Bayless knelt over him for several seconds, then waved his hands, with one second left in the round, to signify that the fight was over.

The aftermath was a bit scary. Hatton didn't move right away, and soon there were many people with concerned looks on their faces, kneeling and hovering. Hatton may have been on his back longer than he was on his feet during the fight.

Eventually, they brought his stool to the middle of the ring and got him on it, and a few minutes later he left the ring under his own power, waving feebly to a crowd of Brit fans who may have been driven to drink by the result. Of course, any result would have driven them to drink.

Pacquiao, the Filipino powerhouse whose record went to 49-3-2 (with 37 knockouts), weighed in Friday at 138 pounds and went to 148 by fight time. Hatton, now 45-2-0 (with 32 knockouts), weighed in at the limit of 140 and gained 12 pounds by fight time.

A measure of how dominant Pacquiao has become is that this victory marked his fourth different weight-class win in the last 14 months. His previous conquest, of boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya at 147 pounds, sent De La Hoya into retirement. Hatton is only 30, two months older than Pacquiao, but may be pondering a similar path. The pubs of Manchester are a lot safer than Pacquiao's left hand.

Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, now the pound-for-pound best corner man in his sport, pretty much called the shot again, just as he had against De La Hoya on Dec. 6. He said Pacquiao would knock Hatton out in the third round. Pacquiao apparently had earlier dinner reservations.

"This fight was no surprise to me," Roach said.

The star trainer always seems to have a secret strategy, and he revealed afterward that, for this one, he had watched hours of film of Hatton -- "I knew him better than my own fighter," he said -- and realized that Hatton was wide open for the right hook.

"Hatton pumps his fist before he throws," Roach said. "We also knew he'd be looking for the left," Pacquiao's main weapon.

The first knockdown in the first round came via a right, the second with a left. Hatton had actually survived somewhat better in the second, despite Pacquiao's quickly evident superior hand speed, foot speed and punching power. But the left that finished him started at about 7 o'clock, landed on Hatton's face at about 12 noon and made the likely obvious result official.

Hatton didn't attend the post-match news conference, because he was taken to Valley Hospital. Before he left, he said, "It was a hard lot, but I'm OK. I really didn't see the punch coming, but it was a good shot."

Pacquiao, ever the diplomat, said, "I'm surprised the fight was so easy. I worked hard in training camp and he was open for the right all night. It was nothing personal. I was just doing my job."

Bob Arum, whose Top Rank Promotions handles Pacquiao, called his boxer "a monster" afterward, and started making noises about Pacquiao's becoming boxing's "all-time great."
source:Los Angeles Times

" I laud you Manny Pacquaio, once more you never fail to bring honor and pride to our country. As what you always say that your fight is for the Philippines, your victory gives enjoyment and happiness to every Filipinoes. I just feel sorry for Ricky Hatton, though he's knocked out, hope he's okay."