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mixed feelings
Posted by: rina on: June 10, 2008
At close to midnight yesterday, June 10 – that is, a couple of hours ago as I type this, the House of Representatives approved the Renewable Energy Bill on second reading. They’re targeting third reading approval by today, June 11. Yey, yey, yey! (Forgive me for not being more articulate. It’s half-past-one in the morning [...]
Exhibit day yesterday and D-Day today
Posted by: rina on: June 10, 2008
Scenes from yesterday’s opening of the three-day World Environment Day Exhibit at Greenbelt 3 Concierge Area, where the Renewable Energy Coalition is one of the exhibitors. I just have to say that our booth was the most fun, because of the give-away “Renewables Now!” toy pinwheels and and baller bands. The freedom board asking [...]
Renewables Now!
Posted by: rina on: June 4, 2008
During Earth Day last year, I and some friends at the Renewable Energy Coalition joined the celebrations at the EarthDay Jam street party in T. Morato, Quezon City giving out these babies:
The “Renewables Now!” baller ID calls for a more aggressive development of the country’s renewable energy resources in order to promote energy [...]
The Other Side of Boracay
Posted by: rina on: April 29, 2008
I’ve never been too crazy about Boracay to begin with; while the white sand beach is admittedly beautiful, I find the place too congested. As it turns out, there’s another possible reason for not being too crazy about the place. This story, posted by Dondon Marquez of Hands On Manila, is a real eye-opener about [...]
what’s our role here?
Posted by: rina on: November 29, 2007
- In: commentary
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So after several hours of self-righteous indignation, and waiting for the people’s support which never came, Sen. Trillanes and Gen. Lim’s group agreed to stand down. Before that I was all tense and worried, thinking that this could not possibly end well, that people would die, that the only way Trillanes can hope to [...]
Free Burma
Posted by: rina on: October 4, 2007
For fights that are simply worth fighting for.
Ang taray talaga ng lola…
Posted by: rina on: August 31, 2007
“They called it a good news day, a day they allowed themselves to boast the “remarkable!” showing of our nation’s economy during the 2nd quarter of the year.” — Jove Francisco reports for ABC 5
The figures are remarkable indeed: GDP growth for the second quarter 2007 at 7.5 % and GNP at [...]
A Taste of Binondo
Posted by: rina on: August 26, 2007
- In: commentary| food
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“Nibbling our way through Chinatown: Four hundred years of history and up to four hours of decadence!” says the promotional material for Ivan Man Dy’s “Binondo Food Wok.” Indeed, Binondo has such a long and rich history that its story is inextricably tied with that of the country.
Binondo, according to Nick Joaquin in [...]
128 and counting
Posted by: rina on: May 15, 2007
Just blogged about news feeds, this has got to be one of the saddest news feeds I’ve ever gotten:
2 teachers killed in torching of Batangas school
We all know that a teacher serving as an election officer has a very difficult and thankless job, and yet we ask our teachers to do it every election, and [...]
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U.P. kong mahal
Posted by: rina on: October 28, 2008
When I first heard that UP has been overtaken by Ateneo for the first time in the THES-QS top university rankings (and on our centennial year too!) and that there was some justification given about something in the methodology, I just shrugged and thought, well, of course. When you have problems with a survey’s results, [...]