News for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Shell cuts prices by P0.25 a liter
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation Monday initiated a new round of P.25 per liter price rollback for all its feul products effective 12:01 a.m. this morning, Sept. 15.
Enrile: 1987 Constitution ‘dangerous’
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Monday the 1987 Charter crafted under the Aquino revolutionary government is “the most dangerous Constitution we have in the entire history of the country’’.
Erap questions Ping's motives
Former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada, in an interview on 24 Oras, denied allegations of Senator Panfilo Lacson regarding his systemic corruption when he was still president.
House panel swiftly approves OP budget
The proposed 2010 budget for the Office of the President (OP) breezed through a House spending committee without any discussion after an opposition lawmaker moved for its immediate approval.
ERC asked to explain power rates increase
A congressman-son of President Arroyo asked the Energy Regulatory Commission to explain the new round of electricity rate adjustments triggered by government’s missionary electrification program.
Cop saved hundreds in SuperFerry 9 sinking
It could just be a regular part of the job for SPO3 Loreto Justo as a sea marshal, but for hundreds of SuperFerry 9 passengers, they owe him a lot.
Senators grill Customs chief on onion smuggling in Luzon
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile challenged BoC Commissioner Napoleon Morales to vacate his post if he could not contain the unabated smuggling of onions in Luzon.
3 presidentiables share common background
Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, and Senators Noynoy Aquino and Chiz Escudero share common political backgrounds, qualities, and a connection to the country's political "king-maker".
40 distressed OFWs arrived from Abu Dhabi
The OWWA assisted 40 distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who arrived in the country from Abu Dhabi on board Gulf Air flight 154.
Noli to Lakas: Don’t rush me
Vice President Noli De Castro has told the administration Lakas-Kampi-CMD party to proceed with its process of selecting a standard bearer.
Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 19:25-27.
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online
intestate • \in-TESS-tayt\ • adjective
*1 : having made no valid will
2 : not disposed of by will
Example Sentence:
Mark and Joan worried about what would happen to their child if they died intestate, so they hired a lawyer to draw up a will soon after the baby was born.
Did you know?
"Intestate" was borrowed into English in the 14th century from Latin "intestatus," which was itself formed by combining the prefix "in-" ("not") and the adjective "testatus," meaning "having left a valid will." "Testatus," in turn, derives from the past participle of the verb "testari," meaning "to make a will." Approximately a century later, English speakers returned to "testatus" to coin the word "testate," which also means "having left a valid will." Other descendants of "testari" in English include "detest," "protest," and "testament," as well as "testator" ("a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force"). The antonym of "testator" is the noun "intestate," meaning "one who dies without a will."
Your money’s worth today
Source: XE.com
US$1 = Php48.36
Teaching for the day
Source: Engr. Paul Elmer Morala from Duisberg, Germany
God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some
expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Joke for the day
Source: Art’s Funbox
Ang pagbabalik ni Boy Bastos
Nasa isang mall si Boy Bastos nang bigla siyang ma-jingle. Pumunta siya sa pinakamalapit na CR pero sarado ang men'sroom. Dahil desperado, sa women's room na lang siya nag-CR. Nang palabas siya,nahuli siya ng janitor.
Janitor: Hoy, bakit dito ka umihe, hindi mo ba alam na pambabae itong CR na to? Inilabas ni Boy Bastos ang tite at ipinakita sa janitor.
Boy Bastos: E bakit ito, hindi ba ito pambabae?
Naguusap si boy at ang tatay nya...
tatay: boy, anong gusto mong gawin paglaki mo?
boy: parang ginagawa mo tay! tatay: ang galing naman ng anak ko! gusto ring mag-abogado! boy: hindi tay! gusto ko ring tumira ng katulong!
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