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If you haven’t heard, Meralco was granted a significant increase in its distribution rate by the Energy Regulatory Commission this past week, one that will add between P 1.20 and P 2.48 per kilowatt-hour to customer bills and officially make their electric rates the highest in the world beginning next month. This follows an increase…
So the Philippines is the “social media capital” of the world, is it? What exactly does this mean? Apparently “capturing” the title — a title supposedly “awarded” the country by “pundits” — is seen to be some sort of achievement. Celebrating this “achievement” is the occasion of “a gathering of Twitterati, bloggers and other internet…
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Another big Hollywood divorce is upon us. Hollywood über-stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announced they will be splitting after five years of marriage. According to Cruise’s representative Amanda Lundberg, Holmes, former star of popular TV drama series Dawson’s Creek “has filed for divorce”. “This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her…
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Queen Sofia of Spain will be in the Philippines from the 2nd through the 6th of July next week. Her Majesty and her husband King Juan Carlos have been the reigning monarchs of Spain since 1975 and have both visited the Philippine in the past in 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2003. They will be the…
Election time is just around the corner in the Philippines again with various seats in Congress up for grabs. The stakes are high. Pressure amongst the handful of feudal clans who rule the land to keep the goods within the family is mounting as the whelps of aging lords and ladies of various manors carved…
“Co-hosting detracts from my essential specialness in the marketplace”. Larry Sanders mantra to himself as coached by his agent Stevie Grant How many of you saw this? How many of you believe this? How many of you know people who saw this and believe this? Like I have said many times before there is nothing…
George Costanza: They forgot my bread. Jerry: [under his breath] Just forget it. Let it go. George Costanza: Um, excuse me, I – I think you forgot my bread. Soup Nazi: Bread? $2 extra. George Costanza: $2? But everyone in front of me got free bread. Soup Nazi: You want bread? George Costanza: Yes, please….
All day on the 27th June 2012, Facebook social media star George Takei (2.1 million FB subscribers and Mr Sulu in the original Star Trek) no less was among the hundreds of netizens who passed around what looked like an image of the dashboard of Marty McFly’s (played by Michael J Fox) and Doc’s iconic…
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