Why did Pinoy Big Brother let the televiewers and supporters of Jon continue voting for him? It’s because the show wanted its audience to witness his forced eviction for (tampered) TV ratings and for them to have their 30 percent share of the text votes Jon has receiving since last week. They could have announced it earlier.

Yet, I welcome the rest of Kuya’s explanation.

Here are my other cents on Jon’s forced eviction:

If viewers will notice, all of the remarks for the remaining housemates delivered by the host Toni Gonzaga pertain to Big Brother as the Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Kuya over housemates. Of course, this is his show. Contestants should succumb to him. So, from that moment, you would know that Jon shall be evicted forcefully. We witnessed how justice is practiced by Kuya and Endemol, the owner of the Big Brother, with their set of house rules as they evict Jon. Rules are rules. They are made to avoid chaos. Forced eviction overrules Jon’s Head of the Household immunity (although HOH was only brought up because of Kuya’s Last Alas or last ace on the second attempt for a face-to-face nomination. We then witnessed how powerful Kuya is over the televiewers.

Bottom line is that Jon has violated several major rules which one of them is influencing the vote of other housemates. But again, as if only the first paragraph of this post was considered, then there would be no flaw on this action. Also to end the show with a louder bang, they should have released the percentage of the votes received by the Final Five which I believe favored Jon. Otherwise, PBB could have think of the easy way out of this mess – Jon received the lowest number of votes. But I guess, it’s not.

Next step for KKK or simply Kuya, he should punish also the remaining Celebrity Big Four for being accomplices of the controversial crime especially for the strong contenders on being Big Winner, Ruben and Gaby, for not being honest on their nomination. They, including the couple Will and Riza, should suffer physically and emotionally to bring out the Big Winner traits in them.

Kuya is right in saying that nomination doesn’t mean the nominated is not loved by the person that nominates. The remaining four just shows how scared they are on what the people outside would think about them. Screw Wendy Valdez and Big Winner Bea Saw on their confrontation after the face-to-face nominations. Perhaps this season’s Final Five have badly foresee that.

It was bad for me to see the last part of the program where voluntary and forced leavers Mcoy, Ethel, Baron and latest evictee Jon imprint their feet on the Celebrity Walk of Fame. They could have been my Big Four. I love rebels for a cause because I am rebel too.

And for the last one rebel standing (for her rights), go for gold, Gaby! GGG!

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I am deciding if I am going to dispose/recycle/donate hand-me-down elementary and high school textbooks that came from me. These are books on English and Filipino grammar, science and mathematics. Science laws and grammar rules will remain consistent on the Internet as compared to Philippine history which varies depending on the author. Remember the historian Zaide? No. Not the space police. Meanwhile, I think religion books are safe to be given away but if I allow my younger sister to depend on what the Wikipedia says, she might stumble upon on related articles for disbelieving Catholicism.

I need to drop Encarta compact discs too. They were outdated now. The pictures that can be included on the high school research project could be taken from Google web results. Furthermore, there are less entries about the Philippines on those encyclopedia compared to the vast sea of information where you can fish in WWW.

How about college handouts? Let’s say the typewritten UP Diliman’s Natural Science (NatSci) booklets. Will they still be the source?

Yeah, it is general room cleaning now. These things, old science books, encyclopedia and handouts, all remind me of hardcore researching. Nowadays, this generation of students depend a lot from search engines. This is very evident on how my younger sister do her research. I can’t blame her on her methodologies since it is very practical. What she does on top is to beautify her project with scrapbook thingies for extra credit. Actually, I influence her to Google things. To answer her questions, I can’t remember quite in which grade/year to look for the things she need. Believe me, there are topics already covered at earlier year or grade.

I miss the times going to libraries. I remember my first year high school when it still discussing the Philippine geography, history and civics and culture. Oh HEKASI! Nope, that’s grade school! There were no blogs yet about what I research (and no idea on what blog during that time). That’s why I decided to go the capitol’s library and need to sign up to have access on its books. Very old school. It has no online catalog of books so I have scan through sections. All the dust and bugs you’ll get. The class including the teacher knows that our own library can’t help.

I also remember a mathematics extra credit project to research on special properties, science, facts about circles. There’s this classmate who asked her mother to do the research paper for her. We were all impressed on the thickness of her project. So she ended up winning Annual Award’s Ms. Thesis Ang Project. But when I curiously check the content, I see that everything that Google returns like Britney’s Oops I Did It Again video forming a circle and cheat codes with circle character are included. I think my sister is very wise to prune the search results besides the fact that it is costly to print a page so she cuts her research.

I guess Google for students are still advisable for practicality sake during high school. But when it comes to college (or should I say in UP), you really need to have a second library card, fill up reservation forms and the like even though there are several computer shops outside the library. Well, there are computer terminals also inside the library but the most relevant topics are still found on the library. You gotta love the UP CoE and Math libraries.

Also, UP and our department discourage plagiarism. We don’t copy and paste articles. It is very important to cite them if you have. But having pages of endnote citations do not give additional credit. I seldom see a 1.0 paper with several related literatures without having it compared at least or prove or disprove the arguments the source provided.

Well so much for this stuff. I decided to post about Google researching when several students came across with my site searching for Filipino idioms and proverbs. They landed at this page: Mga Kasabihan at Salawikain. They should really be careful.

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Gerry asked us to translate tampo in English. We can hardly answer. Then, my fun begins as I search for the English equivalent of tampo as more and more Filipino words are returned by Google that has no equivalent in vernacular. This goes to English words being translated to Filipino or Tagalog.

I read a high school pamphlet on Filipino subject from my sister. I can’t help myself but raise my eyebrows on some translated and Filipino-spelled English words. Informative and narrative are being spelled in Filipino as informatib and naratib. Wah! Sounds very pilit! Bruteforced! When should be the letter f replaced by p? Ang efekto nga naman ng makabagong alfabeto. Heavy ekwipment like elebeytor? Tsk. Tsk. Calculator is kalkyuleytor? Typewriter? Makinilya na lang!

I also read a Varsitarian article Wikang Filipino: Kumusta na?. I discovered that cough was once translated to kaf. Eh pwede namang ubo na lang diva?

Well, there’s always exceptions to the rule as stated in last bullet of the how-to-spell lists.

Meanwhile, there are Filipino words (not jargon or slang) that are have no translated English terms. Or is it just that I haven’t found them yet?

• po
• tampo
• utang na loob
• suki
• kalabit
• gigil
• kami / tayo
• mabuhay
• akbay

With this new fun that I discovered, I learned that sirit is derived from share it. Smokey Mountain is boondocks of bazoora.

This post is serious. If you want the funny side of this, visit English Tagalog Translation post.

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According to my Career-of-the-Day tips courtesy of Answers.com, there are many things that I should know when that time comes. Here are the excerpts from that very interesting article. A group of people would really like this. It’s not easy. Deciding whether or not to accept a job offer can be just as stressful and time-consuming as getting to that point in the first place.

1. You need to determine your desired salary range. Research typical salaries for someone with similar experience in your industry. [That's why the never ending coffee talks are happening around. It's still numbers game.]
2. Ask yourself some important questions. How much do you need to pay your basic expenses, such as rent or mortgage, groceries, utilities, and car payment? What kind of salary do you need to live a comfortable life that allows you to enjoy yourself? What is the lowest salary you will consider? How much do you need to be able to save for the future? [This is the pitfall for some. Lifestyle changes as salary does. Sometimes, we keep on complaining while sipping a high-tag priced coffee.]
3. You need to gauge the other person’s intentions without giving away all of your secrets. [In vernacular, pakiramdaman.]
4. If the company cannot meet your salary requirements, it may be able to make it up to you in other ways. [Interesting factor that sometimes you won't think now to stay in the present company.]
5. A company is not going to offer you the highest salary they’d be willing to pay right off the bat, and most companies expect candidates to come back with a counter offer. [Moral of the lesson - have your business attire readily available for nth interview.]

Read the full article on CareerBuilder.com through this link.

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Presenting… My Dozen of Donuts Doughnuts. If there is a buffet of these pastries from top doughnut vendors, Dunkin Donuts (DD), Mister Donut (MD), Country Style (CS), Krispy Kreme (KK), GoNuts Donuts (GD) and Cello’s Doughnuts (CD), this would be my box of 12’s, assorted and not in particular order.

2 DD Choco Butternut. A Dunkin classic and best-seller. It’s not butter. It’s not nut. It’s orange but not orange.
2 CD Oreo. Yumyum crushed oreo. Try it on a chocolate dough. Don’t forget to add toblerone dip.
2 CD Cheese. It’s not an ensaymada treat but this flavor is definitely to those who stay away from chocolates. Love it while hot.
1 MD Swiss Mocha.. Bittersweet chocolate that should not be tagged with mocha since it’s not coffee. Mister Donut and Dunkin Donuts have their own recipes for a number of doughnuts with same flavor. Swiss Mocha is original and the only one.
1 DD Bavarian.. And those sugary powder. Better than MD.
1 KK Hershey’s Cookies ‘n Cream. If it’s from Hershey’s, it must be good.
1 GD Choco Caramel Zigzag. Insanely diabetic-prone delicious.
1 KK Hershey’s Dark Chocolate. Another bittersweet treat.
1 CS Triple Choco Log. Chocolate overload log with frosted chocolate on top and chocolate filling.

Delicious dozen of doughnuts is a dose of dextrose. Still…

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