Might go swimming - flood hits Cotabato, Maguindanao and North Cotabato

As of today, North Bound entrance to Cotabato City is not passable anymore due to the flood occurs in Sultan Kudarat Municipality particularly at Salimbao. It's sad for us Cotabateños to experience this again. Last year around July, it was experienced in the city but it was not that worse and the cause was giant water lilies struck at Delta Bridge (proposed alternate bridge of Quirino Bridge when it will be under repair).

While monitoring at radio station, the anchorman mentioned that Jose Lim Sr. St is really impassable be it light or heavy vehicle. Since Jose Lim is impassable, that could only mean that the city can hardly get goods coming from North Cotabato, Maguindanao and even from Davao City. Although there's still South Bound highway which we can alternatively use.

It was also mentioned that the Pigcawayan, Alamada and some other municipalities in North Cotabato Province.

According to old folks, during the 60's, Cotabato have experienced a citywide flood and banca or boat was their mode transportation. May we not have that again.

Last year, the city seeks help for the victim of the flood and maybe this year we will start soliciting help once again. Hopes this event won't happen annually.

As of this posting: water in Supermarket area is up to knee while in downtown area, water got through the establishments.

World of Warcraft Movie

WoW! As in World of Warcraft.

Just learned from Ark today that the famous video game was announced to have its movie adaptation under the direction of Sam Raimi who also directed Spiderman.

I felt excited about the news because I've been expecting the movie way back 2006 when I heard from my officemate that it will have its movie adaptation. Sadly, it was not materialize back then.

Now, with the official press release from Blizzard and a post from Variety. I believe there's no stopping the movie now and we should expect the movie maybe late next year or early 2011 because Sam Raimi will still finish directing Spider-Man 4 until early next year.

To my fellow Warcraft gamers let's wait for the movie and sure will enjoy it. Who do you think will be Godlike and who will drew his first blood?

I miss playing World of Warcraft particularly DOTA(Defense of the Ancient) for about a year or two now.

Megan Fox as Aspen in her upcoming movie Fathom

Megan Fox's latest movie Transformer 2 has earned $721,926,889 worldwide as of July 14,2009. Basically it's because the success of its prequel which make people watch the Transformer 2. Since I haven't watched that movie yet, I asked some of my friends who have already watched the said movie. Here's what I often get "Megan's so sexy" hehe.. When I informed my friend that after a few of showing both movies ties at $42.5M he immediately replied "i'll watch Transformer 2 again just to break that tie".

We all know that Megan Fox is one of the hottest women in Hollywood started from her debut movie Transformer. After lunch today, I decided to look for Megan's upcoming movie and I found out that aside from Jennifer's Body there is Fathom. Fathom is a comic book by Michael Turner which was debuted in 1998 and suddenly stop when the author was diagnosed with cancer.

In the movie, Megan will play as Aspen Matthews wherein she will become a sexy aquatic superheroine. Considering her sexiness, I'm starting to imagine how will Aspen be portrayed by Megan. Well, Fathom is set in 2010 so let's just wait and see.

Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill

I'm a bit surprised at Yahoo! front page today regarding the Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill. It was sooo terrifying for me who doesn't like having a credit higher than 5-digit. To be exact, the credit card bill was $23,148,855,308,184,500.00. According to the article it is 2000 times the national debt of U.S. I hope Philippines wouldn't reach quadrillion amount of debt.

23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184,000, 500 dollars.

Upon reading the article, I learned that it was just system error that causes Mr. Jon Seale's credit card bill. Here's what really happened.

"A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts," said Visa spokeswoman Elvira Swanson said in a written statement. "The technical glitch has been corrected, and all erroneous postings have been removed.”

For me, as a credit card owner, you should really be wise in handling your credit card, don't easily entrust to anyone, always review your credit card purchases and keep a copy of your receipt as much as possible.

Rally for Peace in Cotabato City

July 15. Rally for peace were conducted this morning. The event was in relation to my previous post Major establishments closed in Cotabato City but this time, it was an effort of students, parents and teachers to advocate peace in the city.

In the decades that past, kidnapping were already rampant and avoidable to businessmen. I remember when I was still in grade school, even the businessman's son who owned a not so huge capital establishment in Lugay-lugay was not let off by kidnappers. His son was kidnapped at night while they were closing their store and freed by paying hundred thousands or more.

Our neighbor who owned a small hardware at Washington (yup! there's a place here in the city named Washington for those who don't know it yet) was also kidnapped but she was saved naked by our fellow barangays.

It's not just kidnapping that we wanted to end in city but also bombing like the recent bombing event where 5 were killed and 35 were hurt. If I'm not mistaken, bombing always happened here every year. There are times I admit that I wanted to move somewhere away from here but moving is not easy for a regular employee like me. Most of the riches and middle class families in the city started to move to major cities like Davao, Cagayan de Oro, GenSan and etc where you feel at peace always and gimmick place can be found anywhere hehe.

This city has been founded 50 years ago and yet we're still left behind even by newly installed cities like Koronadal. We really need to move on, have a peaceful and more productive city in the near future.

Awang Airport's new Waiting Area

Last week, I went to Awang Airport to buy ticket for my wife who's going to Manila this week. While on my way to the entrance, I saw an almost done and well constructed building. I didn't checked what it was and proceed immediately to the ticketing office.

After I bought a ticket, I went near to the said building and took pictures of it and found out that it's a waiting area. A well-furnished building which I think would really be a pleasant to wait for your arriving family or friends.

Anyway, it's good to know that somehow we see some improvement to our old airport in the region. It's been a long since I've been seeing the place with no changes at all. Kudos!

Major establishments closed in Cotabato City

Today July 10, most of the establishments here in the city are closed as their act to condemn the kidnappings and the recent bombing happened here in Cotabato City.

As of today I have here the lists of the kidnapped. Note: Please comment if something missing.

Kidnapped	Name	Released	Comments
02/19/09	Wilson Tan / 50yrs old	02/19/09	Her daughter was with him too	Read more
05/31/09	Leonarda Tan /72yrs old	06/17/09	Released after paying P2M ransom money	Read more
06/25/09	John Kyle Tiongson / 5-year old	07/08/09	Has a fever and asthma when kidnapped	Read more

To express the appeal of local businessmen they posted a streamers in front of their establishments. I have seen this streamers about 2-3 days ago but I didn't realized that they will come up with idea of closing their establishments.

At any rate, I am still hopeful that these kidnapping cases will end very soon. May we have a blessed city. I don't want to learned that this city is moving backward.

Michael Jackson's Memorial Service - Usher's Gone Too Soon

I haven't watched last night the Memorial Service Live coverage but fortunately there are videos in YouTube where I watched some of the footage. This morning, I read from my Plurk and Twitter that Usher's Gone Too Soon was well performed, so I watched it first before the other performances.

Here's the touching performance of Usher.

We are the world, Heal the world and message of MJ's daughter Paris.

RIP MJ.

We'll miss you..

Little creature found on top of Goldilocks product

Lunch time, I went to our shopping (s) mall to meet my wife and take our lunch. Since we haven't decided where to have our lunch, we dropped by to Goldilocks to buy for pastry that we can eat when I got home after office.

While looking for pastries, we were surprised with the little creature crawling over the Brazo de Mercedez. I immediately took pictures so that I can post it here at my blog and share it to all net surfers.

After taking pictures, I called the attention of the cart crew so he can remove the said creature inside their shelves.

Eeewww.. What the!


By the way, we still bought pastry from the outlet but not the one crawled by the insect. :)

Kung Para Sa Iyo Isiak Holiday Jr. - Willie Revillame Cover

Undeniably Willie Revillame is popular person here in the Philippines through his show Wowowee. His the lead host and he sings too. Currently he has a new song entitled Kung Para Sa'yo and covered by so many Youtube users. Some Youtube users commented that they were inspired, sicked with his singing. Well, there's nothing we can do with what Willie's doing.

This morning I read from LadyProrammer's Plurk the version of Isiak , which I found to be more interesting than original version.

Here's the original version of Willie.



and here's from Isiak.



Now, who's version you like most? hehe. Enjoy!