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Reasons Why Miriam Defensor-Santiago Was Least Voted For Philippine Presidency

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<span style="text-align: justify;">The Philippine National Election is almost in near finish. 53+ million voters had already casted their votes to elect the new government officials that will serve them for the next three or six years (In case of the president, the vice president, and the 12 senators). So far in the unofficial tallies as of this moment, it is the Mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte that leads the presidency while the Representative of the Third District of Camarines Sur, Leni Robredo leads the vice presidency with a small margin against Senator Bongbong Marcos.</span></div>
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As a voter myself, I also casted my votes on the precint where I am voting, somewhere here in Makati. I voted, of course, Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos as my vice president. After I vote, I just spent the day waiting for the election results and the results shown on TV were.</div>
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<li>Rodrigo Duterte</li>
<li>Mar Roxas</li>
<li>Grace Poe</li>
<li>Jojo Binay</li>
<li>Miriam Defensor-Santiago</li>
<li>Roy Señeres</li>
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I am satisfied of the result that was shown on the television but it also made me notice that Miriam Defensor-Santiago is on the second to the last rank. As I researched her <a href="http://miriam.com.ph/aboutmiriam.php" target="_blank">background</a>, on all the presidential candidates, she is the most qualified. Rodrigo Duterte comes second to her. The election result that was shown had made me conclude these reasons on why Miriam was least voted for Philippine Presidency.</div>
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<li><b>She has the least exposure.</b><br />Yes, indeed she has the least exposure on the campaigns. In my observations from the start of the campaign, I didn't even managed to see a "Miriam for President" TV campaign. Same on the radios. I didn't even managed to hear such campaign. What she did was just show herself on the debates and explain her platform on different issues in our country and also, she appeared as guest speakers of some conferences and some school-related activities. Another thing is that she used the social media and its youth users to campaign for her, thus made her the least (None at all rather) spender on the presidential campaign.</li>
<li><b>She has cancer, she'll die in office.</b><br />This reason was made out by those persons who didn't voted her. She was not voted because she is sick? On all the reasons I listed here, this is the most unreasonable. As I can see on the personality of Miriam, I know she can overcome anything in order to serve the country and cancer is just a little problem for her. Yes, we care for her that's why we didn't voted for her but she cares a lot for the Filipino people that she decided to run for presidency even if her body is infested by cancer.</li>
<li><b>She picked Bongbong Marcos as her tandem for vice president.</b><br />I think everyone (Especially the Martial Law victims) was shocked when she announced that she will go a collaboration with Bongbong Marcos on the campaign going to the Malacañang. I know she had the valid reasons for picking him as her tandem and no one would even attempt to question it to her. Bongbong Marcos was even her student way back, but as we all know, Marcoses (The family itself) had created a very negative hype to the Filipinos because of the Martial Law, the assasination of Ninoy Aquino, as well as the ill-gotten wealth of their family. Knowing that she will have a tandem with a Marcos, it became a large factor that made her the least to be voted in the elections.</li>
<li><b>The Filipino Perfectionist Stereotype</b><br /><b>(This part is my own opinion already)</b> We all know that Miriam is a very intelligent person, No one even managed to go mudslinging with Miriam because of her intelligence. This intelligence she possess is one of the reasons why she is the most qualified to run the Philippines as its president, but this intelligence is also the reason as well why she is the least voted in the elections. Filipinos had stereotyped her as a perfectionist, and will not listen to the Filipino people if they had ideas that are helpful but not perfect. Most of the Filipinos are poor and somehow, want themselves to have a comfortable life under a good-governing president. These Filipinos feel that Miriam deserves to be president but because of stereotyping, they feel that if she wins, she'll just ignore their ideas for a comfortable life because it was not perfect or good after all, and it will not give a win-win result. Miriam is known to decisions that favors both parties a win-win result but with an attitude of Filipinos "that wants to gain the upperhand at all times", I think that made Filipinos stererotype the highly intelligent Miriam.</li>
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She had already ran for presidency for three times on different ocassions, She was defeated by Fidel V. Ramos in 1992, by Joseph Estrada in 1998, and this 2016 by Rodrigo Duterte. Because of the results of the past presidential elections she participated in, she was dubbed in social media <i>"The Best Philippine President We Never Had"</i>.</div>
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So far, I don't have a credible source if she will retire in politics after this. Somehow, she had long served the Philippines already for so long.</div>
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Reasons Why Miriam Defensor-Santiago Was Least Voted For Philippine Presidency

The Philippine National Election is almost in near finish. 53+ million voters had already casted their votes to elect the new government officials that will serve them for the next three or six years…

11 May 2016

10 Creepy Things Kids Said to their Parents

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There are lot of stories that kids tell to their parents. Some are interesting, some are funny and there also some really creepy and scary. These are the top 10 most creepiest things on the internet shared by their parents.</div>
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<b>1. The Bad Man</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why are you crying?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Bad man”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What bad man?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“There.” Points behind me at a dark corner of the room</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lamp on bookshelf next to said darkened corner falls off as soon as I turn to look.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She slept in our bed that night.</span></blockquote>
<b>2. Soon Grandma, Soon</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not to me, but to his grandmother.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was cuddling with her and being very sweet (he was about 3 at the time). He takes her face in his hands, and brings his face close to hers, then tells her that she’s very old, and will die soon.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then he makes a point of looking at the clock.</span></blockquote>
<b>3.  I want to peel all your skin off</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was sound asleep, and at around 6am I was woken up by my 4 year old daughters face inches from mine. She looked right into my eyes and whispered, “I want to peel all your skin off”.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The backstory here is I had been sunburned the previous week, and was starting to peel. In my sleep addled state however, it was pretty terrifying for a few seconds. I didn’t know if I was dreaming, or what was going on.</span></blockquote>
<b>4. The White Wolves</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My co-worker’s four year old daughter always thought that the rattling of the water pipes in the kitchen cupboards were “white wolves” and the sound always scared her.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">One day she was sitting at the kitchen table and she said, “Mom. The white wolves aren’t bad… they’re our friends!”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her mom encouraged the idea by saying, “Yes! The white wolves are protecting us. They are our friends.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then her daughter added in, “They’re our friends, but not the man who crawls on the floor and stands by my bed.”</span></blockquote>
<b>5. The Pretty Girl</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My 3 year old nephew was at my cottage. He’s asked me numerous times about the “girl over there” while pointing at one of the back bedrooms. The place is small, and there is definitely nobody there so I just dismiss it as a really active imagination (he has lots of imaginary friends).<br />Then some friends are visiting and they have a daughter around the same age. She has never met my nephew. Twice in the one day she asked about the “pretty girl” while pointing at the exact same room. Definitely caught me out and I didn’t know what to think.<br /><span style="background-color: white;">Then at Christmas my family was over at my place and my nephew points at a picture of my wife and asks if she is coming to visit us here or does she just stay at the cottage. My wife died ten years ago. Personally I don’t really believe in paranormal stuff so it’s probably just my logical brain putting together a bunch of kids ramblings but it definitely got my attention.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<b>6. Looking for my sister</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My wife was getting my 2yr old son up one morning. He was standing in his bed/crib. As she said good morning and walked over to him he picked up her shirt a little and crooked his head to the side. She asked him what he was doing and he said, “looking for my baby sister in your tummy.” She laughed it off as a weird kid imagination thing. We found out later that at the time she was 2 weeks pregnant and it was, in fact, a girl. We are due in September. We had never really had the talk about where babies come from nor did we talk about having another child at all around him. So spooky.</span></blockquote>
<b>7. That's where the dead babies go</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A good friend of mine and her husband bought what is considered an ‘old’ house around here. (Western Canada…not many houses over 100 years old). They were renovating the basement one day while I was visiting. I was down there alone with their son, who was barely 2 at the time, and could not yet speak in full sentences. He took my hand and led me over to a brick chimney-like thing thing, with a rusty metal door on it. He looked up and said “That’s where the dead babies go.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I was horrified. Firstly, because, like I said, the kid could barely talk, let alone say something like that. I doubt he even knew what ‘dead’ meant. I’m positive that no one would have told him that, and there were no older kids around that would have said that as a joke. Still creeps me out to this day.</span> </span></blockquote>
<b>8. Come here, buddy</b><br />
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When my son was in Kindergarten I received a call from his teacher while at work saying he refused to go outside at recess time and was sitting there terrified. He said there was a guy named Otie who had brown hair and a brown beard who kept telling him to “come here buddy” over and over while he was playing outside before school started. They reviewed tapes and didn’t see anyone. Scared the crap out of me that some man was trying to abduct him but I’m pretty sure he either sees ghosts or has a very active imagination. He also said this guy talked to him at the bus stop or outside his window (on the 2nd floor). He also refused to go anywhere near an entire half of one of our old homes when he was 1-2 years old. He would just stand in the doorway and point.</blockquote>
<b>9. Elmo and Dinosaur Train</b><br />
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My daughter said to me that there is a woman who watches her watch movies in her room and sleeps on the ceiling above her bed when she sleeps. she also says it dose not like me and wants to eat my heart. my kid watches Elmo and fucking Dinosaur Train. where in the hell did she get this from?</blockquote>
<b>10. The Man with big yellow eyes</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a three year old who says some pretty strange stuff….</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last night: “Mommy.. the man, the very big man with big yellow eyes is looking at you.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I look.. nothing. I tell him there is no man and he is make-believe. My son laughs, “Oh he is hiding now.” — 2 minutes later, “Oh no Mommy, you made him very mad. Now he says he will come when you are sleeping.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Few weeks ago he tells me, “I’m not going to be four. I’m doing to die. And you will put me down, down, down in the hole.” I tell him that isn’t true, and who told him that. He gets quiet and goes, “The man told me. But I will be scared, so after three night-nights you die too and come with me.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sheesh. As if I didn’t have bad dreams already.</span></blockquote>
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Do you know some kids that tell some creepy things to you? why don't you share it on the comment box below!</p>

10 Creepy Things Kids Said to their Parents

There are lot of stories that kids tell to their parents. Some are interesting, some are funny and there also some really creepy and scary. These are the top 10 most creepiest things on the internet …

11 May 2016

Iyakin ang mga Pilipino

<p>Naniniwala ba kayong bobo ang mga Pinoy? Ako HINDI. Pero naniniwala ako na ang karamihan ng bobong Pilipino ay botante. Ano ba ang depinisyon ng pagunlad sa mga Pinoy? Pag nakakatangap ng Isang kilong bigas kada buwan? Pag may libreng Cake tuwing Birthday nila? May libreng School supplies at sapatos tuwing pasukan? Ang mga bagay na panandalian lang ay hindi pag unlad.<br />
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Yung mga taong sumigaw para iboto ang isang kandidato ay sila din ang sumisigaw para pababain ito sa pwesto. Iyakin ang mga Pilipino, Wala silang ginawa kundi magreklamo. Nagrereklamong wala silang makitang trabaho, pero hindi nakapag tapos dahil mga tamad at gago. Kinukuwento nila sa mga ka inuman sa tanghaling tapat ang mga kupal na pulitikong nagnanakaw pero sila din ang bumuto. Kachismisan ang mga kumare habang nagtatantos sa kard ng bingo. Tapos magtataka sila kung bakit sila naghihirap. bakit nga ba? Kase Bobo ka.<br />
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Walang alam gawin kundi umiyak, manisi at magreklamo. Ayaw na ayaw nilang masisi sila o aminin wala silang ginagawa. Lahat isisisi sa mga nakapwesto. Bakit sino ba nagsabeng iboto mo? Eh kung hindi mo binoto, Sa tingin mo kung nanalo ang binoto mo, magbabago ang buhay mo habang nakaupo sya ng anim na taon? TANGA. Wag mong sisihin sa Gobyerno kung bakit wala kang makitang trabaho kase ang baba ng grades mo nung college. Tanga, wag mong isisi sa gobyerno kung wala kang makitang trabaho kase Highschool lang ang inabot mo. Ang dame kong kilalang HS graduate na may tabaho kya wag ako. Wag mong iiyak, di mu lang matangap sa sarili mong tamad ka kaya isisi mo sa iba. Ang dameng nakatakas sa kahirapan dahil nagsumikap sila. Hindi sila umunlad ng nagrereklamo sa buhay habang may umiikot na baso sa harapan nila.<br />
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Kahit anung galing pa ng nakaupo kung ganyan ang pilipino, wala ng pagasa ang pilipinas. Sigurado ako. Kahit anung galing pa ng Guro, kung wala naman  balak matuto ang mga studyante nya, walang mangyayare. Tandaan mo ang bobo natuturuan basta gugustuhin nya.<br />
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Kung natamaan ka, malamang iyakin at bobo ka din? BOBO kaba tulad ng iba?</p>

Iyakin ang mga Pilipino

Naniniwala ba kayong bobo ang mga Pinoy? Ako HINDI. Pero naniniwala ako na ang karamihan ng bobong Pilipino ay botante. Ano ba ang depinisyon ng pagunlad sa mga Pinoy? Pag nakakatangap ng Isang kilong…

06 May 2016

PLDT Home BRO/Ultera Review

<p>I have been a subscriber of PLDT Home Bro for several months now and thinking to upgrade my plan or change my ISP right after my contract with them end, but before I do that let me have a review for this ISP.<br />
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Home BRO was previously known as Smart Bro, it is a wireless canopy-based broadband by PLDT and Smart. For 990/Month with free installation you can have a 2mbps wireless connection at your home.<br />
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If you will visit PLDT website today, you will notice that once you click the Home bro link it will just redirect you to their new product, the Ultera. It is because <b>PLDT started killing off its Canopy and expanding its new wireless service using LTE</b>, which is currenltly the most advance wireless technology today.<br />
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If you're also a home bro subscribers like me, I guess you too have received some phone calls from their representatives offering you a free upgrade to their Ultera. The first time they call, I said that I will think about it, when I surf the net for reviews about their experience with ultera I haven't read anything positive. Their main complain is the maximum data usage per month, you can have a 30gb per month at their plan 990 and once you reach the maximum usage per day, <b>your speed will drop to 256kbps.</b><br />
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My cousin is been a subscriber of Ultera for quite some time now. He said that the data usage allowance is not only the problem, but also the speed reliability. Ultera is offering 3 plans. 3mbps for 990, 5mbps for 1599 and 10mbps for 1999. Yes, you cannot expect that you can always have the speed you ask and they offered for, but at least the 50 percent of the speed you paid for? My cousin said that speed he experiencing right now is like he's already reach the maximum usage per day.<br />
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And what if he reach the maximum usage per day? His facebook loads like forever, He get always disconnected on Clash of clans and in some online game. Youtube automatically set its video quality to 144p. Ouch.<br />
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Base on my research on some reviews, some people also get reliable speed fom their Ultera. For the first 2 months or less and after that the speed drops and some are close or within the LTE coverage in their areas. But I will not risk my 36 months lock-in period because a very few people experience a 'reliable' speed.<br />
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So when they called again, I decline for upgrade and said that I'm planning to upgrade for a DSL broadband.<br />
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My first month as a Home BRO user was just like hell. websites are just keep loading. Images and links are always broken. But when I called their customer service and fix my canopy everything turn fine. <b>I get an average speed of 0.7 mbps to 1.3 mbps for my plan 990</b>. The only thing I notice that every time the month is about to end my speed always drops at 0.22 Mbps, this is when I found out that they also have a maximum data usage per month. I ask them what is their monthly allowance for canopy user but they told me that they don't have the information regarding the maximum data allowance on Home Bro, I read on some website that it's 30gb to 50gb per month.<br />
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Another thing that I hate about PLDT is their customer care, I'm also a subscriber of Globe postpaid and Sky Cable but I don't experience any problem with them. Yes they do respond on my Facebook messages but it will took days for them to respond. When I'm calling their customer hotlines, my average waiting time for just to connect me to one of they're agents is 15 minutes. Unlike with Sky Cable, I even have a long conversation with one of their agents in Facebook about my inquiry about their broadband.<br />
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That's it, And my final words are that before you subscribes to any internet plan available in our country research for some reviews first, we cannot trust their advertisements anymore. It is best to ask your neighbor or anyone near your location what is their ISP and their experience with it. Because yes, location matters, even if the Globe is the worst internet provider here in the Philippines, there are still some place experience a reliable speed from them. It's still up to you and your knowledge where you will invest your money.<br />
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PLDT Home BRO/Ultera Review

I have been a subscriber of PLDT Home Bro for several months now and thinking to upgrade my plan or change my ISP right after my contract with them end, but before I do that let me have a review for t…

20 Aug 2015

Dulaang UP Presents '#R< /3J': A Shakespear's Story in Modern Day Manila

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Attention theater enthusiast, <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">After 39 years of staging exceptional plays spanning from the classics to the contemporary and producing renowned directors, actors, designers, production and stage managers and technical directors, </span><span style="line-height: normal;">Dulaang UP will celebrate it's 40th theater season  </span><span style="background-color: white;">with the theme “20/20 Vision: Clarity. Originality. Perspective.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Romeo and Juliet is set in the city of Verona, a </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">restless milieu of politics and glamour ruled by the</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">fights for a chance to love a Capulet. Everybody </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">knows what happens next. We blame the system</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">and the oppressive circumstances that result from it. </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">We blame two lovers who only felt that they had no </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">other choice. But what if the story happened today?</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">In this adaptation, “#R</3J” (hashtag R broken-heart J) retells the star-crossed lovers’ narrative transforming Verona into a concrete jungle at the heart of Metro Manila teeming with corruption, revolt, advertisements, sex, social media, and condominium units. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The play </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">captures the essence of the most enduring tragedy </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">juxtaposing the young lovers’ romance with our </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">present society’s many forms of commodified love. </span></span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Can genuine love exist in a world of alterations and foolery? Exploiting our hyper-real </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">contemporary moment – globalization, ultra-violence, internet foolishness, generation gap – </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">the theatrical project seeks to dramatize, through a psychedelic mix of all available art forms, </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">the postmodern tragedy of our generation. Destroy the city, the family, the government – even </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Shakespeare – but never destroy the will to love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">This is the world of #R</3J, a radical, multimedia hallucination on Shakespeare’ timeless </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">masterpiece.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">team are Krina Cayabyab (music composition and design), John Batalla (lights design), Ohm </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">This  </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">project features the Dulaang UP Ensemble and the works of young choreographers, video </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">#R</3J runs from August 26 to September 13, 2015 at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, 2nd</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">floor, Palma Hall, U.P. Diliman. For tickets, reservation, sponsorships, and show buying </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">inquiries, call Samanta Hannah Clarin or Camille Guevara at 926-1349, 433-7840, 981-8500 local </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">2449 or email dulaangupmarketing@gmail.com. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">Like their official Dulaang UP page at </span><span style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://facebook.com/DulaangUnibersidadNgPilipinas.">Dulaang Unibersidad Ng Pilipinas.</a></span></div>
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Dulaang UP Presents '#R< /3J': A Shakespear's Story in Modern Day Manila

Attention theater enthusiast, After 39 years of staging exceptional plays spanning from the classics to the contemporary and producing renowned directors, actors, designers, production and stage manag…

06 Aug 2015

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Review

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<i><span lang="EN-PH" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 252); line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care.
The man means nothing to me; he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to
Rem"al, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to
get back to my wife, well then, then that's my mission.” – Captain Miller (Tom
Hanks)</span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Saving Private Ryan is a story of a
group of U.S soldiers sent to a new mission to go beyond enemy line to retrieve
a paratrooper whose other brothers have been killed in action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The movie begins in the invasion of Omaha
Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), And that 25 minutes of opening
sequence detailing their landing on that beach is the Strength of the film.
That was really based on the situation in the beach during World War II and
allows us to see the horrors of War. The direction of Steven Spielberg and
cinematography of Janusz Kaminski allows the viewers to experience and to feel
what happen on that beach or describe as “the closest thing to hell on earth”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first 25 minutes of film is so
intense that you can’t even breathe, it will you leaving hanging until you
realized that it’s over. The film mainly concern on a rescue mission lead by
Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) with his men who had almost killed in Omaha, their
mission is to go beyond enemy lines and bring home a soldier whose other
brother is had already been killed in action. As their missions continues, the
movie shows different events in war, but mostly tragic, like in a scene they
see burned warplane with a man wearing a helmet with a star (High Rank), and
not far away is bunch of injured American soldier walking, this show a
graphically realistic depiction of the horror of wars. When some of their
fellow soldiers were being killed in action, some in the group begins to
question the logic of losing more lives to save a single soldier. There is also
a scene that Tom Hanks breaks down and Cry which is really a heartbreaking,
even though the film didn’t show much about the detail of the supporting cast
viewers can feel their and pain in the movie. The film shows that a real
soldier is just following orders. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Saving Private Ryan made a total of
$481.8 million dollars worldwide making it the highest grossing film of the
year. The film was later nominated on for eleven academy awards and bagged
five, including Best Cinematography and Best Director. The film also won the
Golden Globe for Best Picture. It current rank #38 in Top 250 films of all
time. Saving Private Ryan was a critical success and credited for contributing
resurgence in America’s interest in World War II.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Review

“Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The man means nothing to me; he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to Rem"al, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me th…

30 Jul 2015

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