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I’m torn between a DS and a PSP. XD The reason for wanting a DS is this. You can some screenshots here. It’s not a sequel to the FFXII PS2 game, but it’s intended for new audience. The game’s art doesn’t look as good as the PS2 game with the almost-similar title. I still want to play it because it’s just FF. I don’t have a DS though. Maru and I should probably sell our old GBs here to be able to buy a DS. Then when he goes to US or Canada, he’ll buy the PSP. XD

Our parents will freak out when the CC bill arrives.

This school term’s finally over! YES! I miss blogging and checking my Google Reader. In just a matter of days, I already have a lot of unread feeds. I’ll try to catch up soon. I missed some entries with my LJ flist too. Aww~ But there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t think visiting every LJ of my friends is a wise thing to do. Wednesday til Thursday morning, Maru and I were up doing his design. I made him promise to help me with my plumbing layouts that was due yesterday. He ended up not helping me. SHIT. I got pissed, but I didn’t have time for that. Mac helped me though with the drainage diagram. That was already a big help because it takes a long time to do that. I worked til 6AM, Friday morning. I didn’t mean to sleep, but I was getting lightheaded. I set up the Winamp alarm by 7:30AM. Stupid Winamp of mine fucked up and didn’t alarm. I woke up by 11:30AM when our maid told me it was time for lunch. That’s when I started panicking. I got to pass that by 1:30 and I also have 3 reports to do. I got pissed more and more at my brother. I don’t know how many times he broke promises like that. I still help him with his projects even though I don’t want to because, one, I care that much and, second, my parents will get mad at me if I don’t help him. That kid takes advantage of me a lot. *shakes head*



From moetron, the opening of the Romeo x Juliet anime is You Raise Me Up. It will be sung by Lena Park. (Wow, a Korean artist again after BoA.) You can hear a sample in the Romeo x Juliet official site. I don’t use normal computer speakers, so it’s hard for me to hear clearly whether the song is in Korean or Japanese. You know, I’m not that pleased with the anime’s character art. I wish it was done by Clamp, so it would look Code Geass-ish. Also, I want them to use a different OP theme. I think I’ve heard enough of You Raise Me Up. It wouldn’t be so bad if they did a remake instead of just changing the language.

Man, I’m so hungry!

Update 4/3/07 Satur Ocampo ordered released by SC on P100K bond, walked out the Manila City Jail today a welcome development for a nation suffering from credibility problem. ----------------------------------------------- Well, they finally did it....... it is now out in the open that GMA's henchmen errrrr advisers are the biggest recruiters of the CPP-NPA with the arrest of Satur Ocampo, Bayan Muna's President and currently House Minority Leader. Ocampo was arrested by Manila foolish errrr police at the Supreme Court when he filed for a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) causing a scuffle between Ocampo's supporters and riot police outside the SC. This one is for the books, some lie errr law enforcers are known for their notoriety in "planting evidence", well what do you call this one “Naglilipat-lipat siya ng bungo [He has been transferring skeletons],” Ocampo said in accusing...

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I love reality shows. I loved Pinoy Big Brother. I was a big fan of the first season.

But this season, they totally screwed it up.

Why are the housemates all artista-wannabes? How can it be the Teleserye ng Totoong Buhay when the housemates do not even look like the rest of the Philippines, specifically their target audience -- the mass?

And why are they all crying? Why did they enter the house for the purpose of proving themselves, or finding who they really are?

Last time I checked, Big Brother is a contest. With a prize of one million pesos plus other shit. They did not enter the damn contest to make friends.

They better turn this thing around before it ends. If not, they better stick with Pinoy Dream Academy. At least that show has a defined purpose. It was a talent show after all.

Ugh, I cannot believe I dedicated a whole post to a TV show.

The Philippine 2007 elections is becoming the butt of text jokes these days, putting to rest the infamous pestering of Ederlyn and those double meaning witticisms that have been going around like spam. We are all too aware about what a circus it can become, a serious matter an election may be. The wooing started [...]

Sorry if this blog has gotten quite old, as I've been awfully busy these past few days doing PJR Reports and the elections news monitoring project of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility/CMFR (which by the way has a new look, thanks to old pal RV).

CMFR's monitoring project of the news media coverage of the 2007 national elections showed that the leading television news programs and the three largest Manila broadsheets covered the Arroyo administration’s Team Unity (TU) candidates most in the first three weeks of the campaign.

Here's CMFR on the results:

CMFR MONITOR OF NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE
OF THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTION

First Report (February 13 - March 2)
TV, broadsheets covered TU most in first three weeks of campaign


The media advocacy group Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has found that the six leading television news programs and the three largest Manila broadsheets covered the Arroyo administration’s Team Unity (TU) candidates most in the first three weeks of the campaign. CMFR is monitoring the 2007 elections coverage of selected media organizations.

But CMFR deputy director and University of the Philippines journalism professor Luis V. Teodoro said no bias was evident.

“The TU’s getting more coverage was driven by the conventions of newsworthiness,” Teodoro said. “One indication is that due to his prominence, opposition leader and former President Joseph Estrada was more frequently quoted in the news accounts than administration personalities.”

The CMFR March 12 report also said the Genuine Opposition (GO) was a close second to TU in the coverage by both television and the broadsheets from February 13 to March 2.

The six monitored television news programs’ coverage of the senatorial and party-list elections ranged from 8.74 percent to 41.90 percent of total airtime during the first three weeks of the senatorial campaign, according to CMFR.

There were 158 newspaper reports about the TU candidates, while GO candidates were among the subjects of 128 reports.

But the reports were mostly about the controversies involving candidates in both teams, said CMFR. Among these was the decision by former oppositionists Edgardo Angara, Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, and Teresa “Tessie” Aquino-Oreta to join TU.

CMFR is monitoring the elections coverage by the Manila Bulletin, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and The Philippine Star. The TV news programs CMFR is monitoring are TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN 2), Bandila (ABS-CBN 2), 24 Oras (GMA-7), Saksi (GMA-7), Sentro (ABC-5), and Primetime Teledyaryo (NBN-4). It has trained 30 journalism student-volunteers from the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UPCMC) to generate the data.
CMFR said that while coverage of the Senate elections seemed ample, the party-list elections seemed to be getting little attention.

The gay-lesbian group Ang Ladlad was the party-list group most covered by all six TV news programs, with a total airtime of only 4.28 minutes. It was followed by Bayan Muna, Gabriela Women’s Party, AnakPawis, and Kabataan Party.

Of the twenty senatorial candidates most covered by the TV news programs during the period, 11 were from TU, eight from GO, and one independent.

TU’s Cesar Montano – who replaced Leyte Gov. Jericho Petilla in the administration’s senatorial line-up last February 16 – had the most combined airtime coverage by the six television news programs at 79.32 minutes. Ralph Recto (also of TU) was a far second with 58.57 minutes, followed by Alan Peter Cayetano (GO), Francis Pangilinan (Independent) and Prospero Pichay (TU).

The most reported senatorial candidates in the three leading Manila broadsheets were almost exclusively from either the administration or opposition parties. There were only 26 reports on the independent candidates. Most of these focused on the decision by Pangilinan to run as an independent bet despite a previous GO announcement that it was adopting him as a guest candidate.

Much lesser coverage was given candidates of the Marcos-era party Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) – with practically all the reports focusing on the party’s controversial candidate, Joselito Pepito Cayetano and his adopting the nickname “Peter”. The campaign jingles of various candidates and the ad spending of various candidates were also noted in the reports, particularly in the Inquirer. The Inquirer covered extensively the marital spat between celebrity couple Kris Aquino and James Yap, and its effect on the senatorial campaign of Ms. Aquino’s brother, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.

The feud between couple Vilma Santos and Sen. Ralph Recto with the latter’s brother, Batangas Vice-Gov. Ricky Recto, over the gubernatorial contest in Batangas was also consistently covered by the paper.

The Inquirer was the only paper that reported on Ang Kapatiran Party and its candidates, focusing on its advocacy of non-traditional politics. Although the Inquirer gave the party and its candidates much-needed public exposure, the reports did not include the party’s program of action.

Among the senatorial candidates of the administration, the most covered by the broadsheets were Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay (20 reports out of 101), Recto (18), and Cesar Montano (13).

The most covered GO candidates were current Senate President Manuel Villar (20), Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero III (12), and Taguig’s Alan Peter Cayetano (12).

Pichay, Recto, and Villar were cited in a recent study by Nielsen Media Research Philippines (NMRP) as the biggest television advertisement spenders in the first two weeks of the campaign.

Of all the senatorial candidates, according to NMRP, Pichay spent the most, at about P33 million, for TV ad spots in the first two weeks of the campaign, while re-electionist senators Villar and Recto spent P30.29 million and P22.79 million, respectively.

The CMFR monitor will continue until the end of the campaign period in May. It is issuing reports on its findings every two weeks, to culminate in a final report by June. CMFR has been doing elections coverage monitors since its founding in 1989. It did a first ever citizens’ monitor of the national elections in 2004, the findings of which it published that year (Citizens’ Media Monitor: A Report on the Campaign and Elections Coverage in the Philippines, 2004).

Visit the CMFR website for the report and other details.

What would your reaction be if your complete name, birthday and complete address can be seen in the internet for public viewing? This came to my attention when a friend of mine showed me the address of the website and I am really shocked and infuriated.

WELCOME TO THE COMELEC NCR WEBSITE! The SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION through its national advocacy office fully supports this publication of the voters list in pursuit of transparency to the end that the stakeholders in our election will trust COMELEC more. This shares with all the responsibility for cleansing the voters list. View it and inform us of corrections to be made: inclusion of omitted voters, exclusion of voters who should not be included by reason of death, transfer of residence, conviction, loss of citizenship, double registration, etc. Let us all work together for truthful elections and living democracy!

Fully supporting a publication where you can see the voter's list along with their complete address, birth date and complete address is just plain STUPID. My name is listed there and the people who I know is also listed. I'm really paranoid on regards about my personal information. The website's tagline "bring back the people's trust in the comelec" is a joke. The website is a breach of privacy and trust to the COMELEC. As Gelo already said: That’s an invitation for several crimes right there!

I'm a registered voter and my identity is sacred to me and knowing that there's no one else who has the same name as mine in NCR or anywhere else in the Philippines is big thing. What if someone is mad at you? what if someone got a hold of your credit card? What if those people who has delicate online accounts? Also just imagine how much kidnappings will rise. Flying voters and all that. I don't know if I should be angry or cry.

And don't even get me started with the website's layout.

UPDATE (16 March 2007, 15:50):

The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net :
Comelec to take down online voters’ list amid privacy issues
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=55248

As of a few minutes ago, the list has been taken down from that specific site.