Manila Design Week 2009 gathers all graphic designers – local and international, established and up and coming – to celebrate the emerging graphic design scene in the country today. The first of its kind in the Philippines, it aims to bring Philippine Graphic Design into the mainstream. More than …

Spending so much time updating your social-networking profiles? Here’s a more productive way to use your time online.

With Every Click Counts, an online fund-raising program by Amway’s vitamin and dietary supplement brand Nutrilite, you can start off a virtual kick and contribute $0.15 to Amway’s One by One campaign to promote child welfare worldwide. Each $0.15 donation will be given to the Website visitor’s country. Pinoy visitors giving a virtual kick will help the Philippines’ One by One Campaign, which focuses on increasing literacy among Filipino children.

By Antonio Graceffo

The continuing saga of a Brooklyn monk come to Manila to study EMT. Stumbled onto this randomly? Read this article first.

Second of four parts. Read Part 1.

The EMS guys and all the bigwigs with titles went home, and I shared the radio room/bedroom with two firemen who couldn’t speak English. Because I was the oldest, they let me sleep on the trolley cart. It was so unbelievably uncomfortable, I felt bad for the patients. Part of the issue was that the mattress was covered by a wooden spineboard. Back at school, our instructor Sir Aidan had been a staunch opponent of these injurious boards. All spineboard advocates should try sleeping on one, once before recommending them for use on others.

The TV apparently didn’t work, but the computer did, and we watched Rambo IV. The firemen were curious and tried to ask me about the war in Burma. Unfortunately their English and general knowledge were so limited that it was impossible to explain it to them.

One blogger wrote “the poster stirred up very deeply rooted feelings of pride and nationalism.” Manila City Legal Officer Renato de la Cruz thinks otherwise as he ordered their removal “to comply with a constitutional provision prohibiting unnecessary …

Sports champion Manny Pacquiao becomes the first Pinoy athlete to be immortalized in a Philippine stamp, says this report from Philboxing.com. Regular and special edition versions will be issued this week by the Philippine Postal …

Birdwatching is an activity that young and old would enjoy. The youngest of our birdwatching delegation at Candaba was two.

Planning to go birdwatching? Here are some basic tips for first-time birdwatchers from the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines:

1. Wear clothes in colors that blend with the environment, such as green, dark brown, and gray. Don’t wear anything bright or you’ll stand out and scare the birds away.
2. Apply some sunscreen. Birdwatching usually goes on for hours so you want to make sure you’re protected. Wear light, long-sleeved clothes. Bring a hat as well.
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