The biggest reason I didn't want Noynoy to be president.

***Start Watching at 3:19***

In this interview with Senator Aquino (soon to be president), he stated that one of his platforms was to change the current educational system.

EDUCATION
We will overhaul basic education by having universal pre-schooling and strengthening our basic education system to a 12-year cycle.

In short, preschool will be mandatory before going into grade one. And grade school will probably be extended to 7th grade, and High school will be made 5 years. So instead of being able to finish elementary and high school in 10 years, Mr. Aquino here wants to add 2 more years to the already long enough labor of primary education...

Personally, I would've preferred it if he were to shorten the span of Elementary and High School. I feel the majority of the Filipino people suffer from too much expenses in tuition fees, allowances, School Supplies and uniforms. Tons of unnecessary expenses for things our children don't even NEED to learn.

On the personal side, I have 2 kids that will be elementary students during the reign of the next presidency. Having them study for 2 more extra years will be a burden in every aspect imaginable. I'm sure that I won't be the only parent who feels this way.

So if Senator Aquino does win this election, which seems like he has already, I hope this will be one of the first promises he breaks, along with the promise of ending poverty by ending corruption (both being an incurable cancer of society even in wealthy countries, but I'll talk about that some other time.)The sad part is that among all his promises, this extension of formal education seems to be the easiest to pass.

For people who came from wealthy families, this proposal might sound logical, but for the not so wealthy, two more years of high expenses is just more hard work. This also reminds me of the people who let the E-vat pass that was made only to burden the poor and middle class instead of the wealthy. (Also the reason why I didn't vote for Recto.)

So did you know this small fact before you voted for Mr. Aquino?
I hope you're not already regretting your decision.
If you did vote for him when you knew he planned this, shame on you. Try paying for our children's tuition fees and school expenses for 2 years, let's see how you like it much!

Addicted to Weeds... and Zombies!

It started out of curiosity but then the craving started and now I can't stop.

Yes, I confess I'm an addict. I'm addicted to Plants Versus Zombies.

I can't get any work done because of this. Every time I try to get on my computer and try doing some work I can't help but play the game. I start with saying I'll just play one game. Then after 1 game I day I'll just play for 30 minutes. Then after 30 minutes I say I'll just play one more game. An hour and a half later I'm still playing the darn thing! If my earnings for this month goes down I'll definitely uninstall this game... or not. Arggghh!

Are there any Plants Versus Zombies addicts out there? Please help me overcome this addiction.

My 5 Hours Voting Experience

This is my first time to vote for elections. I had myself all prep'd up since last night.

• I got up at 5am.
• We got to the school where we were supposed to vote at 6:30.
• We finally found our names at 7:30 and started falling in line.
• At 9am the line hasn't moved yet. They were prioritizing the senior citizens, which is probably a good thing.
• At 10am only 120 people have voted out of 1000 assigned to our precinct cluster.
• 11am, we finally got into the "waiting area". Imaging falling in line for 4 hours just to get into the waiting area!
• 11:45 I finally got in and started voting. The Marker gave out too much ink and almost put a hole on my ballot. But all was well when the PCOS machine said "CONGRATULATIONS! ..."
• 12:00 I finished another line to get indelible ink on my finger. Man, some people won't bother with 5 hours of heat, boredom, and a lot of conflict between the voters and the marshalls who didn't seem like they had any idea what they were doing. 

5 HOURS! DARN!
Overall it was a great experience! Reminds me of the enrollment back in college in AUP. Great thing I didn't have work yesterday and today or else I wouldn't have been so patient.

Things learned for elections:
1. Set your whole day for voting.
2. Bring some food and drinks. You'll need it.
3. Bring umbrellas. My wife and bro were burnt under the scorching sun for 4 hours.
4. Have some form of entertainment. A PSP or your cellphone. I was thinking of bringing a guitar.
5. Pray hard for patience. You'll need lots of it.

Who did I vote for? Hmm... I think I'll keep that to myself for now.

So, how was your voting experience?

Top Campaign Jingles Election 2010

Ilang araw nalang eleksyon na po. Here are the top 5 jingles out of personal choice that seem to have a great impact on surveys this last week of the campaign period. In no particular order, these are the 5 that I like the most. It's not necessarily that I would vote for this these people, but I like the song. Pretty catchy if I may say so.

Manong Johnny Theme


Kung may Erap may ginhawa!


Kay Binay gaganda ang buhay.


Bong's Otso-Otso


Pangarap ni Villar


This last one must be the most spoofed jingle of the entire campaign period.
Here's an example. Almost everyone knows this song by now.

Johnny Bilyar (Bubble Gang's spoof)

3 ways to get 1000 pageviews per day.

Goal for the month: 1000 pageviews per day.

Aside from my brother's Otaku Life Blog, I'm also working on other blogs. My goal this month is get any, or if possible, all of those blogs to reach 1000 page views per day.

What I'm doing:

Social Networks
I just learned recently how friendster, facebook, myspace, and twitter could be powerful tools to gaining blog traffic. We'll see how that goes. I'm often busy with work and I'm still recovering from my Pneumonia. My regular job is killing me.

Blog Commenting
By putting comments to dozens of blogs and adding links of the blogs I'm working on, This is a strategy that worked well with my most profitable blog. So although the other blogs are about different niches, i hope it will have the same effect when it comes to blog traffic.

Offline Campaign
Most people I know are not blogger, just regular people who check their email and read the news everyday on they're computer. So I ask then if I could put some of my blogs as their secondary homepage which will bring in Direct traffic to my blogs. Ofcourse I only recommend the blogs that they like and those that interest them.

Learning Dreamweaver

Since I've decided to make make my living only before this year ends, I've finally got myself to playing with Dreamweaver. It's one of those What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get site building tools or WYSIWYG for short. A lot of bloggers and site developers warn about using WYSIWYG software. Lots of negative comments about it but I didn't really get to figure out which. But since I'm just a beginner in all this, I decided to try it out. After running through the tutorials from TheNewBoston, I realized how complicated and how handy Dreamweaver can become once you get used to it.