Archive for July, 2007
Skills-for-Employment Scholarship Program (SESP)
The Skills for Employment Scholarship Program is a scholarship program that the OWWA offers in coordination with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), to land-based or sea-based OWWA member-OFW’s or their dependents/beneficiaries. A qualified applicant may avail of either a one-year technical of a six-month vocational course offered following the regular school year [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Book
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows which is the seventh and last instalment of the phenominal Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling is set to be released officially on Saturday. Only two days more. The blogosphere has been buzzing too much about this novel specially when the book hit the torrent sites where photographed [...]
The Top 10 TRANSHUMANIC Technology
Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on. – Michael of AcceleratingFuture.com [...]
DFA issues machine-readable passports to govt execs
MANILA, Philippines — With the supply of the old, manually prepared green passports running out, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has started issuing machine-readable passports to Filipino diplomats and other government executives since June 18, an official said Friday. Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Domingo Lucenario said the DFA will be temporarily issuing the [...]
Expandable Post Summary Made Easy
This is actually a follow-post on the post summary hack that I’ve written last week. This time I will try to make the instruction as simple and as clear as I can so that you won’t get stuck along the way, expandable post summary made easy. I hope this post will shed some light for [...]
OFW Education for Development & Scholarship Program
The Education for Scholarship Program is a scholarship grant offered to qualified beneficiaries/dependents of OWWA member-OFWs who intend to enroll in any 4 to 5-year baccalaureate course. It is given in the form of a financial assistance amounting to P 30,000.00 per semester. The OWWA pays the tuition fee directly to the school and releases [...]
WORK JOB HOMEWORK Life Before the Computer
I’ve got too much load in office lately and I’m working like a dog! Many new construction projects to maintain monitoring, free Autocad blocks MEP 2008 fine tuning, Cadd support, training… and not but not the least BLOGGING . Of course I’m feeling very busy that I take the monitoring spreadsheet of one of our [...]
Filipino Food: Pinoy Sardines & OFW
image source: pinoyambisyoso What can you say about this image?Does this reminds you of your college days?When you place easy to prepare food on your table when time is running out?When you get some “talbos ng kamote” and quickly cook it with garlic and onion?Or mix it with fresh ampalaya leaves for easy soup.. Now, [...]
How to enable post summary in old-classic blogger and new-layout blogger?
Since we started Blogging Customization Series, you and I have learned many things together in terms of blog tweaking. Stuff such as:Branding your site or your blog with a FAVICON and why install a FAVICONQuickly add a recent comment widgetStep by Step procedure of Hiding the Blogger NavbarHow to add custom header These tweaks are [...]
World’s tallest man marries a woman two-third his height
The world’s tallest man married a woman who only comes up to his elbow on Thursday, holding a traditional Mongolian ceremony with great fanfare at the tomb of Kublai Khan. Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, met his bride earlier this year after searching high and low, sending advertisements around the world. It [...]