DECISIONS
1 year ago
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Inauguration Day
Today is the inauguration Day of Noynoy Aquino and Jejomar Binay as the newly-elected President & Vice President of the Republic of The Philippines.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Go down memory lane with Luis & Billy (The Philippine Star)
Which show popularized the line “Kaya ikaw John, magsumikap ka!”? Which JoBoxers song was a hit in the ’80s? Who joins Red One, Green Two, Blue Three and Yellow Four in BioMan?”
Prepare to bring back the times of your life as you answer questions like these on ABS-CBN’s Panahon Ko ’To! Ang Game Show ng Buhay Ko, (PKT).
Join hosts Luis Manzano and Billy Crawford as they challenge viewers and contestants with questions and puzzles on everything pop culture from things to people, music, movies, ideas and events in the past five decades.
Luis said the show promises a fun and yet nostalgic experience as it takes the whole country down to memory lane and back with questions from as early as the ‘60s to the present.
“In PKT, you only need to look back at your previous experiences to find the answer. And in the process you also remember memories from the past, which makes the show a lot more fun because Filipinos just love to reminisce,” he said.
Billy also believes PKT will be another hit.
“This is the type of show that you want to watch if you want to bond with your friends or family. You don’t only get to remember nice things about your generation but also learn the fads and popular things during your parent’s or grandparent’s time,” he said.
At the start of the game, there will be five teams with three members each who come from three different generations. One is aged between 13 and 19, one is from the 20 to 45 year-old bracket, and one is 46 years old or up. Each one of them will be in charge of answering the questions or puzzles about their respective generations to advance to the next rounds.
Catch the pilot episode with Tetchie Agbayani, Gladys Reyes, John Manalo, Beverly Salviejo, Nikki Valdez, Makisig Morales, Nanette Inventor, Jay-R Siaboc, Josef Elizalde, Joy Viado, Rubi-Rubi, Kiray, Dindo Arroyo, Yayo Aguila, and Queenie Padilla.
Prepare to bring back the times of your life as you answer questions like these on ABS-CBN’s Panahon Ko ’To! Ang Game Show ng Buhay Ko, (PKT).
Join hosts Luis Manzano and Billy Crawford as they challenge viewers and contestants with questions and puzzles on everything pop culture from things to people, music, movies, ideas and events in the past five decades.
Luis said the show promises a fun and yet nostalgic experience as it takes the whole country down to memory lane and back with questions from as early as the ‘60s to the present.
“In PKT, you only need to look back at your previous experiences to find the answer. And in the process you also remember memories from the past, which makes the show a lot more fun because Filipinos just love to reminisce,” he said.
Billy also believes PKT will be another hit.
“This is the type of show that you want to watch if you want to bond with your friends or family. You don’t only get to remember nice things about your generation but also learn the fads and popular things during your parent’s or grandparent’s time,” he said.
At the start of the game, there will be five teams with three members each who come from three different generations. One is aged between 13 and 19, one is from the 20 to 45 year-old bracket, and one is 46 years old or up. Each one of them will be in charge of answering the questions or puzzles about their respective generations to advance to the next rounds.
Catch the pilot episode with Tetchie Agbayani, Gladys Reyes, John Manalo, Beverly Salviejo, Nikki Valdez, Makisig Morales, Nanette Inventor, Jay-R Siaboc, Josef Elizalde, Joy Viado, Rubi-Rubi, Kiray, Dindo Arroyo, Yayo Aguila, and Queenie Padilla.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The most intriguing health trivia By Willie T. Ong, MD (The Philippine Star)
The human body is like a machine that is full of wonder. Here is a collection of unusual health trivia — ranging from anatomy facts to medical anecdotes gathered from various sources.
• The human brain cell can hold five times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• The average number of nerve cells (neurons) in the brain is 100 billion.
• The brain is soft and gelatinous — its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• Though it makes up only two percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body’s oxygen and calories.
• The time until unconsciousness after loss of blood supply to the brain is about eight to 10 seconds. (So don’t let anybody squeeze your neck.)
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
• The hearing range for a young adult human is 20 to 20,000 Hz. For an elderly person, hearing is less at 50 to 8,000 Hz. In contrast, a cat can hear better at 100 to 60,000 Hz, and a dolphin has the widest hearing range at 200 to 150,000 Hz.
• The auditory pain threshold is 130 Db. The threshold for hearing damage is 90 Db for an extended period of time. A rocket launching pad is equivalent to 180 Db, a jet plane to 140 Db, an automobile horn to 120 Db, a nagging wife up to 75 Db, and a soft whisper, 30 Db. Interestingly, the sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a drill.
• There are 9,000 taste buds on the tongue. We lose a lot of these taste buds as we get older.
• If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your depth perception.
Lungs & Heart
• A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
• According to a German study, the risk of a heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. Probably because Mondays are stressful days.
• An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
• Every day, the average heart beats 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood.
• By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (computing on an average of 70 beats per minute). Therefore, an average person has three billion heartbeats to spare. That is why some doctors believe that drugs (called beta-blockers) that slow down the heart rate may help prolong life. Generally, unhealthy people have faster heart rates while athletic individuals have slower heart rates.
• Even properly performed, CPR delivers less than 30 percent of the heart’s normal flow of oxygenated blood to the brain.
• Fewer than five percent of cardiac arrest sufferers survive to hospital discharge. If a victim of cardiac arrest is given good CPR, gets shocked by a defibrillator within four minutes, and drugs are given within 60 minutes, the chance of survival can go up to 60 percent.
Skin & Body
• A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands. Each foot can sweat the equivalent of half a glass of water per day.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. That’s why feet are so smelly.
• Your teeth start growing six months before you are born.
• What’s the hardest substance in your body? It’s the enamel in your teeth.
• You use 200 muscles to take one step.
• Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three bones.
• Every 12 years, we humans have an entirely new skeleton due to the body’s continual replacement of its bone cells.
• Your heels bear 60 percent of your body’s weight.
• There are more than a hundred different types of arthritis. You have a one in five chance of experiencing some form of rheumatic disease, such as arthritis, during your lifetime.
• 75 percent of adults do not know that antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses.
• On the average, the chance of contracting an infection during a hospital stay is one in 15.
• Most deaths in a hospital happen between 4 p.m. and 6 pm. This is said to be the time when the human body is at its weakest.
• Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer in humans, such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene.
• Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the illegal drugs in the last century.
• There are 18 doctors in the US called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also one dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch, and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
• What are the 10 human body parts that are only three letters long?
Answers: eye, ear, leg, arm, jaw, gum, toe, lip, hip, and rib.
•PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO VOLCANOKONIOSIS (45 letters), a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles, is the longest word in the English language dictionary.
• Your thumb is the same length as your nose. Try it and find out if it’s true. (Just make sure no one is watching or they might think you’re crazy.)
• The human brain cell can hold five times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• The average number of nerve cells (neurons) in the brain is 100 billion.
• The brain is soft and gelatinous — its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• Though it makes up only two percent of our total body weight, the brain demands 20 percent of the body’s oxygen and calories.
• The time until unconsciousness after loss of blood supply to the brain is about eight to 10 seconds. (So don’t let anybody squeeze your neck.)
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
• The hearing range for a young adult human is 20 to 20,000 Hz. For an elderly person, hearing is less at 50 to 8,000 Hz. In contrast, a cat can hear better at 100 to 60,000 Hz, and a dolphin has the widest hearing range at 200 to 150,000 Hz.
• The auditory pain threshold is 130 Db. The threshold for hearing damage is 90 Db for an extended period of time. A rocket launching pad is equivalent to 180 Db, a jet plane to 140 Db, an automobile horn to 120 Db, a nagging wife up to 75 Db, and a soft whisper, 30 Db. Interestingly, the sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a drill.
• There are 9,000 taste buds on the tongue. We lose a lot of these taste buds as we get older.
• If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision, but all your depth perception.
Lungs & Heart
• A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
• According to a German study, the risk of a heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. Probably because Mondays are stressful days.
• An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
• Every day, the average heart beats 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood.
• By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (computing on an average of 70 beats per minute). Therefore, an average person has three billion heartbeats to spare. That is why some doctors believe that drugs (called beta-blockers) that slow down the heart rate may help prolong life. Generally, unhealthy people have faster heart rates while athletic individuals have slower heart rates.
• Even properly performed, CPR delivers less than 30 percent of the heart’s normal flow of oxygenated blood to the brain.
• Fewer than five percent of cardiac arrest sufferers survive to hospital discharge. If a victim of cardiac arrest is given good CPR, gets shocked by a defibrillator within four minutes, and drugs are given within 60 minutes, the chance of survival can go up to 60 percent.
Skin & Body
• A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands. Each foot can sweat the equivalent of half a glass of water per day.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. That’s why feet are so smelly.
• Your teeth start growing six months before you are born.
• What’s the hardest substance in your body? It’s the enamel in your teeth.
• You use 200 muscles to take one step.
• Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three bones.
• Every 12 years, we humans have an entirely new skeleton due to the body’s continual replacement of its bone cells.
• Your heels bear 60 percent of your body’s weight.
• There are more than a hundred different types of arthritis. You have a one in five chance of experiencing some form of rheumatic disease, such as arthritis, during your lifetime.
• 75 percent of adults do not know that antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses.
• On the average, the chance of contracting an infection during a hospital stay is one in 15.
• Most deaths in a hospital happen between 4 p.m. and 6 pm. This is said to be the time when the human body is at its weakest.
• Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer in humans, such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene.
• Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the illegal drugs in the last century.
• There are 18 doctors in the US called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also one dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch, and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
• What are the 10 human body parts that are only three letters long?
Answers: eye, ear, leg, arm, jaw, gum, toe, lip, hip, and rib.
•PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO VOLCANOKONIOSIS (45 letters), a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles, is the longest word in the English language dictionary.
• Your thumb is the same length as your nose. Try it and find out if it’s true. (Just make sure no one is watching or they might think you’re crazy.)
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Who is Joey Papa and why is he badmouthing Batibot now? By Bibsy M. Carballo (The Philippine Star)
When we first wrote in this section about the return of the children’s show Batibot to Philippine Television specifically TV5, we received a deluge of e-mails. Apparently, there was more on Facebook, YouTube and other social networks we neither have the time nor knowledge to access. That gave us the first indication of just how popular this show was.
Then, we got informed that some of the original members and staff of the children’s show were not happy with the article that failed to mention some important details and contributions of a lot of people involved in the success of Batibot. We waited for a request for corrections but received nothing.
Almost two weeks ago, a Joey Papa called us up on the landline quite incensed about the same article we wrote about Batibot. What have we failed to mention this time, we asked the person on the other end of the line? He said he was the owner of the Batibot title which he claimed in no uncertain terms was stolen from him by the writer Rene Villanueva (deceased) and Lyca Benitez Brown, one of the co-producers. When was this? We asked, and he replied it was when Tita Conching Sunico was in-charge of the Metropolitan Theater’s programming and he put on Batibot shows on stage. But that’s way back in the ’70s at least, we told him. Why was he complaining only now? And why did he wait for Rene to die before raising the issue?
Apparently, because of our article, he remembered his complaints in the past, how he wrote the press about it and nothing happened, how Rene called him up in 1984 to say, “Joey, pa-arbor ng Batibot mo” which he claimed were his exact words. Joey says he did not agree to give him the name, but Rene went ahead anyway and used “Batibot” for the TV show in 1985. He said he was bringing Lyca to court. He said he had the proof and was sending them to me — programs, ticket stubs, photos that showed everyone who was involved in the original Batibot shows like Tony Mabesa, Behn Cervantes, Hajji Alejandro who played Batibot, Gary Lising, Debraliz Valasote, Menggie Cobarrubias, Bibeth Orteza, Naty Crame Rogers and Boy Abunda. He would send us this proof so we would be convinced as to who owned Batibot.
We waited. In the meantime we were able to reach Lyca to settle issues regarding missing attributions in the article. We informed her of this latest issue from Joey Papa. She e-mailed us back. “As for Joey Papa’s claim that I stole the idea for Batibot from him.... I first heard about him from the late Rene Villanueva who mentioned that Joey Papa was making this claim. I honestly do not remember who Joey Papa is or what role he played (if any) in the project but I can categorically say that since Batibot was not my creation but the collaborative effort of many people, any claim that a single individual was responsible for the project would have to be taken with a grain of salt.”
A week later, Joey Papa informs us that he is no longer sending us the material he promised. His lawyers, he said, advised him against it right now. What then was he waiting for? A lawyer friend surmises, perhaps the best time would be when the show goes on the air and becomes the stunning success it is expected to become and he will have more to gain from a court suit that has already waited 25 years anyway. Very interesting premise. He would then have to deal with TV5 and Feny Bautista, one of the original producers of Batibot.
All we know is that all this to-do about Batibot has had some rather interesting developments. Lyca Brown e-mails us, “ …the good news is that your article prompted us to start a project to write an unexpurgated History of Batibot (from its earliest days as Sesame) so I really do want to thank you for giving us the impetus to do this.” We wonder if they would by this time need to ask permission from Papa?
What next? As they always say, Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
Then, we got informed that some of the original members and staff of the children’s show were not happy with the article that failed to mention some important details and contributions of a lot of people involved in the success of Batibot. We waited for a request for corrections but received nothing.
Almost two weeks ago, a Joey Papa called us up on the landline quite incensed about the same article we wrote about Batibot. What have we failed to mention this time, we asked the person on the other end of the line? He said he was the owner of the Batibot title which he claimed in no uncertain terms was stolen from him by the writer Rene Villanueva (deceased) and Lyca Benitez Brown, one of the co-producers. When was this? We asked, and he replied it was when Tita Conching Sunico was in-charge of the Metropolitan Theater’s programming and he put on Batibot shows on stage. But that’s way back in the ’70s at least, we told him. Why was he complaining only now? And why did he wait for Rene to die before raising the issue?
Apparently, because of our article, he remembered his complaints in the past, how he wrote the press about it and nothing happened, how Rene called him up in 1984 to say, “Joey, pa-arbor ng Batibot mo” which he claimed were his exact words. Joey says he did not agree to give him the name, but Rene went ahead anyway and used “Batibot” for the TV show in 1985. He said he was bringing Lyca to court. He said he had the proof and was sending them to me — programs, ticket stubs, photos that showed everyone who was involved in the original Batibot shows like Tony Mabesa, Behn Cervantes, Hajji Alejandro who played Batibot, Gary Lising, Debraliz Valasote, Menggie Cobarrubias, Bibeth Orteza, Naty Crame Rogers and Boy Abunda. He would send us this proof so we would be convinced as to who owned Batibot.
We waited. In the meantime we were able to reach Lyca to settle issues regarding missing attributions in the article. We informed her of this latest issue from Joey Papa. She e-mailed us back. “As for Joey Papa’s claim that I stole the idea for Batibot from him.... I first heard about him from the late Rene Villanueva who mentioned that Joey Papa was making this claim. I honestly do not remember who Joey Papa is or what role he played (if any) in the project but I can categorically say that since Batibot was not my creation but the collaborative effort of many people, any claim that a single individual was responsible for the project would have to be taken with a grain of salt.”
A week later, Joey Papa informs us that he is no longer sending us the material he promised. His lawyers, he said, advised him against it right now. What then was he waiting for? A lawyer friend surmises, perhaps the best time would be when the show goes on the air and becomes the stunning success it is expected to become and he will have more to gain from a court suit that has already waited 25 years anyway. Very interesting premise. He would then have to deal with TV5 and Feny Bautista, one of the original producers of Batibot.
All we know is that all this to-do about Batibot has had some rather interesting developments. Lyca Brown e-mails us, “ …the good news is that your article prompted us to start a project to write an unexpurgated History of Batibot (from its earliest days as Sesame) so I really do want to thank you for giving us the impetus to do this.” We wonder if they would by this time need to ask permission from Papa?
What next? As they always say, Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)