Dakitaramon kan Before the Law ni Franz KafkaSa nga’ngaan kan pintuan, igwang nagbabantay. Asin may sarong tawo man gikan sa harayong probinsya an nakikimaherak na siya palaogon nganing mahiling na niya an Batas. Alagad an sabi kan nagbabantay, dai ta siya pwedeng magpalaog sa kun siisay man sa arog kaidtong panahon. Nagsibog an lalaking gikan sa probinsya asin naghapot giraray kun pwede na siyang palaogon aro-atyan. “ Pwede na gayod,” an sabi kan nagbabantay. “Alagad, bako talaga ngonyan. Dai ka pa pwedeng maglaog.”Nin huli ta bukas-bukas man an pintuan, asin an nagbabantay yaon sana man duman, naggigibo-gibo kun ano-ano, padagos an lalaki sa pigsisirip kan laog [...]

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* <SEPTEMBER | SPECIALS> * < Mano y Mano Workshop > We’ll take you in for a ride - MANO y MANO - page to page, story to story, picture to picture. We’ll walk you through the musings of a meticulously planned photo shoot down to the calculated snapshot - and more. All set against a brooding backdrop of trinkets, bits and bobs and delicious dungeon vibe - right in the heart of mangoRED studios< or more like a sunken ship with dead treasures brought from a time machine > Be noursihed and inspired from images of things that really speak to us - from late morning to very extended afternoon happy hours Strictly 10 (TEN) slots available < email us for [...]

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TODAY'S headline story at the ABS-CBN News website confirms what I have believed all along: my former boss and now DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo could not have been on top of that bungled Manila hostage crisis.Immediately after the incident, Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado told me his cellphone was flooded by text messages: Where on earth was Secretary Robredo while Rolando Mendoza's caper was happening? The bottomline: this was not the Jesse Robredo we knew. Knowing the guy up close, what just happened was very un-Jesse.Our former mayor became equally famous, not only for his being a legendary spendthrift (the close-fisted "boksingero" in local parlance, as opposed to the open-palmed "karatista"), but also because of his [...]

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What can you say about our new Vision and Mission? VISION The University of Nueva Caceres, a private non-sectarian institution, is Bicol's first university. Guided by its motto, "Non Scholae Sed Vitae" (Not of school but of life), and attuned to the demands of a highly dynamic global environment, the University commits itself to quality and excellent education for all to transform the youth into entrepreneurial, productive, morally upright, socially responsible professionals for a just, humane and progressive society. MISSION The University of Nueva Caceres shall be a leading exponent of academic excellence, research, extension and innovative technology for sustainable development. [...]

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. ? Lalalambretta Love ? . {{{ AND VODKA-INFUSED VISIONS }}} ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ We’ve finally managed to salvage some spare time to weave random behind-the-scene snippets that you eager boys and gels might want to watch >>> . Below > Some self-portraits we nicked on the side during a recent wedding shoot in hometown Naga City ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Be in the know >>> Add us up on Facebook (mangoredstudios@gmail.com) Keep track of our published and unpublished gigs + future workshops + promos galore + news news news +++ .

If the crowning of this year’s Miss Universe will be based on internet poll then our own Venus Raj had won the most prestigious beauty event and perhaps made history as the very first Bicolana to do so.  With less than a day she’s whopping candidates in cyberspace with the highest average 3.6 rating nudging perpetual favorite Latin American beauties.  Or maybe it’s just statistics indicating how massive Filipinos are in terms of internet access, nevertheless, the online voting surely had created buzz among judges come tomorrow.  Looking at some photos from the Miss U website we’ll never know for sure – she might even pull a [...]

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Audio broadcasting evolved into podcasting brought about by apple.

A hands-on workshop on blogging and podcasting as political communications tools. June 21, Wednesday, I was talking to Dune Padre, department head of the EDP Team, proposing a new design of the 4-year old podcast service of the city, when suddenly he remembers that there is a training workshop on blogging and podcasting in Makati, to be [...]

TxtNaga is a mnemonic of (0917)8986242 or (0917)TXTNAGA, which Globe Telecoms graciously allocated to the Naga City School Board to serve as its hotline. It was jumpstarted by the need to address the low completion rates in public schools. Our data shows that for every 100 students that enter Grade I in city public schools, [...]

An pagiging omboy an saro sa dai ko magiromdoman, buot sabihon, mayo ini sa sakuyang agimadmad. Kun igwa man ining pigpapahiling na ini nangyari, ini an pagigin kong yaon ngonyan. Nag-istorya man an sakuyang ina kun pa’no niya ako ipinangaki. Tinutungkusan ko an mga pagsabi niya na ako an pinakasakit niyang rag’us sa kinaban. Apwera kan mga osipon na ini, may sertipiko nin sakuyang pagkapangaki na mapapatotoo, may dokumento kan sakuyang pagkatao asin ta nagdakula ako sa laog kan pamilya, dai napanlingaw an sakuyang mga magurang na magbalon nin mga ebidensya nin sakuyang pagkanitawo kun kaya may retrato an sakong ama sa sakuya. Ako, bilang tolong bulan na omboy. Sa likod kaini, nakasurat an midbid kong surat kan sakuyang ama. [...]

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