Flashback SUHS 1988 days

I made my first product in Windows movie-maker.
It is a compilation of photos of high school classmates.
It is fun doing this windows movie maker.
I have no other song in my library except APO Highking Society which was uploaded by a cousin before.
But it isn't bad, as a background.
We' re going to have our twentieth reunion this year.
A couple of exciting activities are lined up in Dumaguete.
The class is donating a something to the high school.
There is an outreach project.
But thats ten percent of the affair.
The other ninety percent consists of nocturnal, intoxicating events.

Limkaichong-Paras oral arguments at Supreme Court

I picked up the following news story, in the Inquirer website, of the legal battle between Rep. Joselyn Limkaichong and the wife of ex-Rep. Jing Paras.
The news is that the case will be set for oreal arguments on August 12, 2008 before the Supreme Court. Here is the Inquirer story:

Status of Negros Oriental solon to be argued before SC

By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 19:53:00 07/29/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- The Supreme Court has granted Negros Oriental Representative Jocelyn S. Limkaichong’s request for an oral argument of the case she filed on the conflicting Commission on Elections (Comelec) decisions on her status as an elective official.
The high court en banc set the oral argument for August 12 after Limkaichong, through her lawyer, Pete Quirino-Quadra, said it was necessary to clarify issues involving questions on jurisdiction and constitutionality.

“We respectfully pray that the...cases be set for oral argument on the...jurisdictional and constitutional questions that we have raised,” Limkaichong said.
Limkaichong, who ran and won under the administration Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, won by 7,746 votes over her rival Olivia Paras, and less than 40,000 votes over former representative Jerome Paras, in the May 14, 2007 elections.
The four cases filed over Limkaichong’s elective status -- the one she filed and those filed by Louis C. Biraogo, Renald Villando and Olivia Paras -- have been consolidated.
Limkaichong refuted the arguments of her rivals that the June 29, 2007 Comelec en banc resolution affirming the May 17, 2007 resolution of the poll body’s second division disqualifying her is final and executory because of her failure to file a petition for certiorari within five days from the promulgation of the en banc resolution.
She said she received the June 29 en banc resolution on July 3 and filed a petition for certiorari before the high court on August 1, within the reglamentary period of 30 days.
Limkaichong also urged the Supreme Court justices to resolve the conflicting decisions of the Comelec involving her candidacy and proclamation.
She was referring to the May 17, 2007 resolution of the Comelec second division and the evenly divided June 29, 2007 Comelec en banc resolution affirming the second division resolution disqualifying her from running for a seat in the House.
A day after the May 17 resolution was issued, the Comelec en banc promulgated Resolution No. 8062, ordering a “suspension of proclamation of winning candidates with pending disqualification cases...without prejudice to the continuation of the hearing and resolution of the involved cases.”
“These conflicting rulings of the Comelec on Limkaichong’s proclamation and the disqualification cases need to be clarified by our Honorable Justices during the oral argument. These vital issues must be resolved by the Court, in the interest of substantial justice,” the solon’s petition said.

Holidays are anti-poor

I woke up this morning to be greeted by news that classes in all levels in Metro Manila are suspended.
The official reason for the suspension of classes is supposed to be the typhoon, which is not passing the country, but headed for Taiwan.
Then, after lunch, I went to the city prosecutors office for a hearing.
Offices too were suspended there.
According to a staff member, the Department of Justice declared a half-day for all DOJ personnel and that included the staff members of the prosecutor's office.
Then I remembred that today is the state of the nation address.
I don't know why schools and offices have to be suspended when the President delivers the state of the nation address.
The people already know the state of the nation.
This is a nation of holidays too.
In the coming month of August, there are already two scheduled holidays, August 18 and 25.
We need to have more work days, not holidays.
Holidays are detrimental to the lowest paid members of the country's workforce---the daily wage earners, the casuals, the non-regulars.
If it is a holiday, its no-work-no-pay for them.
For each holiday, hardly will they be able to bring food on the table for their families.
Scrap those worthless holidays.

Best lecture was 'The Last Lecture'

I have just been through one of the best lectures about life.
This came from the famous "Last Lecture" by Professor Randy Pausch, whose famous last lecture last September has earned more than three million hits on You Tube.
Its a rather long lecture, one hour and sixteen minutes, but I find it the best inspirational lecture one can ever hear about how to lead one's life.
By the way Randy Pausch just died today, July 25, 2008 (if you are in the United States).
He succomed to pancreatic cancer, at the young age of 47.
He left a wife and three children, a daughter just celebrated her second birthday.
In the Youtube post, here was how the lecture post was described:
"Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals"
What moved me was his demonstration on how to focus on others, and not yourself (Watch it).
Another very touching moment was when he asked the audience whether they figured out "the second head fake".
Of course, I couldn't pass away his sentence when he said brick walls are are there for us to prove how badly we want things.
It's filled with a lot of humor too, as when he tells what his "death bed conversion" was.
You know, when somebody is at the brink of death, the others around will begin talking about conversions "from-darkness-to-light" things.
But Randy's got a different death-bed conversion.
I gotta post the one-hour "last lecture" here:

Twin requirements under Maceda Law

With all due respect to this law, R.A. 6552, it could've scribbled clearer phraseology.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court has ruled on cases which make things clearer.
In a nutshell, there are twin mandatory requirements that a seller must do in case the buyer defaults in installments.
First is a notarial notice of cancellation.
Second, seller must refund the cash surrender calue, in accordance with the forumla stated in the law, which generally, is fifty percent of all the paid installments.