Captain Rolando Mendoza, a highly decorated former Senior Police Officer who was relieved from his post due to an extortion and robbery complaint against him took Hongkong tourists into hostage, Monday August 23, 2010 inside the Hong Thai tourist bus in front of the Quirino Grandstand, Manila.

After 10 hours of hostage drama, 7 hostages and the gunman himself were killed and 18 survived, 1 civilian and an officer injured.

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I was not really serious in watching the Pilipinas Got Talent. But my eyes were glued on the TV screen when the Velasco Brothers performed their breath taking stunts through dancing. Wow! Amazing.

Here’s the youtube video of their yesterday’s performance.

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On the night of October 31, people will celebrate a very popular holiday, the Halloween. I am not sure if Filipinos really celebrate Halloween. But when I was still in College, I once attended a Halloween Disco held in Tacloban City. Halloween is actually a shortened name of the festival called, “All Hallows Even” which [...]

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It’s a Shaw Brothers flashback as the legendary Lau Kar Leung directs and stars in Drunken Monkey, a 2003 action film with old-school kung-fu charms! Lau Kar Leung stars as Man Biu, master of the Monkey Fist, and its alcohol-influenced variation, the Drunken Monkey Fist. But his own brother betrays him with the help of [...]

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We the brethren of Brother Luwi are very happy for the success he got in the Philippine Web Awards. His SuperLuwi – Pinoy Na Astig website earned the People’s Choice Award during the 9th Philippine Web Awards.

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My wife and I brought our son, Carl Justine, to the Hinunangan Community Hospital last Monday, May 2, due to the amoeba infection. The medical technologist of the Hinunangan Rural Health Center found traces of Amoeba from CJ’s stool, and we were advised too by health workers in the center to admit CJ in a hospital for treatment and for the prevention of dehydration.

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I found again videos of the religious debate between the Iglesia ni Cristo and the Roman Catholic Church. The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) was represented by Brother Jose Ventilacion while the Roman Catholic Church was represented by its apologetic and the Director of the Catholic Answers,  Mr. Carl Keating. The topic of the debate are: [...]

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Engr Daniel Dingel, Found Guilty of “Estafa” It was reported that Engr Daniel Dingel is found guilty of Estafa and is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a “water-powered car,” has been convicted of “estafa” [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial [...]

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The late great Kuroki Kazuo’s The Youth of Kamiyo Etsuko presents a stirring conclusion to four decades of filmmaking. Director Kuroki passed away in April 2006, months before the release of this critically acclaimed film. Continuing with the themes of Tomorrow, Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima, and Face of Jizo, The Youth of Kamiyo Etsuko delves into [...]

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I Am Sorry, I Love You is a sad, heartbreaking K-Drama about an extreme, death-defying love. Cha Mu Hyeok (So Ji Sub) is a man who faces death every single day. Abandoned by his birth mother, Mu Hyeok was raised by an Australian family since the age of two. But Mu Hyeok left his adopted [...]

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