April 2009 | Jerminix

A Bloggers Birthday

April 30th, 2009 | by Jerminix | information, personal

Apr
30

Another year as passed in my life and what better to do it then to celebrate it and post about it. Its just a moment when we realize that we are not getting any younger and time flies so fast. Today is not really that different except of course its my birthday. I can include this as another day in the office (except I was earlier then usual). The day really started with dark clouds and heavy rain as a wake up early this morning (I wrote this blog at night). I really don’t know if it is a shower of blessing or a shower of another misfortune as what happened to my previous birthdays. But anyways, I still do my daily routine to prepare for work and so on and so forth.

I mentioned misfortunes earlier for it really happened during my birthday. One is our dog died in my 20 birthday. One of my aunties died at my 13th birthday (unlucky I know).

Anyways, this is a very good time to reflect yet once again of all the things that happened in the year, and so far, it has been ups and downs (as what life naturally is). Let’s just say that its a perfect year but overall its been quite an interesting year with of course challenges and more changes in terms of perspective in life ( not that I’m getting grumpy or something). Its more like having more control in your life and decisions. I have made some important decisions most especially in my career. But just as I said earlier, its been a very interesting and a good year for me.

Just for fun: I have added some events that happened to this day.

BIRTHS
1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress

DEATHS
1945 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)

EVENTS
1789 – George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.

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Gerry Peñalosa defeated by Juan Manuel Lopez

April 26th, 2009 | by Jerminix | sports, tv

Apr
26

I just saw the recent fight between Gerry Peñalosa and the undefeated Juan Manuel Lopez. Looking at the start of the round 1 the aggression of Lopez against Gerry. It’s really sad but true that the Puerto Rican dominated the fight from the start, though Gerry exchange some blows, it is not enough to startle the champion. The fight ended via TKO when coach Freddie Roach decided to stop the fight after the 9th round (which for me is a very wise decision)even with Gerry’s heart to continue to fight. Not to mention it is the only fight for Juan Manuel Lopez for the last to fights that reached after fight after the 1st round.

Lopez improved his undefeated record 25-0-0, 23KOs, while Gerry has 54-7-0 36KOs.

Well, there is still hope for the Filipino fans as Manny Pacquiao will step into the ring in a week and may he regain the honor of winning for probably the most important fight of his career.

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Visayas Blackout / Brownout….

April 26th, 2009 | by Jerminix | events, information

Apr
26

Just recently the whole Visayas has been hit by the blackout which resulted in headaches and heat complains from people included in the area, not to mention the terrible heat with very little to none water supply due to down pumps generated by electricity.

An blackout caused by a problem with a transmission line in Leyte province hit several parts of the Visayas area Saturday morning and lasted for about eight hours, a radio report said.

The power outage started at about 9:45 a.m., but power had been partially restored to some areas in the Central Visayas region as of Saturday evening, according Visayas-based Bombo Radyo.

Visayas Electric Company (VECO) vice president for administration Sebastian Lacson said the blackout affected the entire Central Visayas region.

Lacson said 80 percent of the power supply for Central Visayas comes from Leyte.

Source: GMAnewstv

So here we go, just as they say. It’s better to have no electricity than have no water, but that’s not the case here, since out place is included in Visayas Blackout and specifically our water supply pump is generated by electricity so when there is a blackout then there is no water in the faucets which really sucks.

I hate to admit it that during the blackout there is nothing much I can do really, but to wait patiently(if asleep). The blackout started at probably 9.00 AM and back at early 4.00 PM. So being a technology reliant person makes me not as patient as others as most of my work and activities are online and obviously requires electricity. Well, the good thing is that I finally got myself to rest and not to face the monitor or other devices (except for my mobile) for some hours which is I tend to ignore over these past weeks. I hope the blackout will not happen to often ( for the bloggers sake)..:-)

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