I got a forwarded e-mail and I’d like to share it.  It’s about an article sent by Dr. Arsenio Martin of Fort Arthur, Texas.

THE DIFFERENCE

The difference between the poor countries and the rich ones is not the age of the country: This can be shown by countries like India & Egypt , that are more than 2000 years old, but are poor.

On the other hand, Canada , Australia & New Zealand , that 150 years ago were inexpressive, today are developed countries, and are rich.

The difference between poor & rich countries does not reside in the available natural resources. Read more »

Noynoy Aquino’s political ad campaign involving prominent Filipino celebrities, including Kris Aquino, Sharon Cuneta, Boy Abunda, Marian Rivera, Dingdong Dantes, James Yap, among others.

Do I see former Ateneo basketball player Enrico Villanueva in the clip?

I received an e-mail about change in leadership selection today (2010 elections is fast approaching).  Basically, it’s an alternative way of choosing our leaders. This initiative is inspired by Lead India.

Here’s a quote from Scholastic Javier Alpasa, SJ, the one who started this initiative: Read more »

If this is authentic, I would say “Told you so!”. They are all corrupt (except GMA, hehe). OK, I think I heard somewhere that Jun Lozada has admitted to being one of the actors in this conversation.

Let’s disregard, for a minute, the fact that this wire tap is illegal. If Abalos’s (did I type that right?) threat is true, I can understand how he could think of threatening Jun Lozada. It seems they were laughing at the expense of Abalos, hehe.

However, threat or no threat, if we are to believe everything Jun Lozada says, let us not forget that he should be included as guilty to graft and corruption as well since he was insinuating that if the “commission” is lowered to about 20% of the ZTE contract price, the whole endeavor is good to go. What’s worse, I don’t think I heard any violent reaction from the opposition senators upon hearing the acceptable 20% “commission” rate.