Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
hugs
EVERYBODY NEEDS A HUG
No matter who you are, you need one
no matter what you do, you want one
No matter if you are uptight or smug
everybody needs a hug
Even if you are up or even if you’re down
even if you’re flat on the ground
Even if you feel like you’ve got some kind of bug
everybody needs a hug
Maybe you’re a millionaire
or maybe you have no underwear
Maybe your life sucks and your beer is full of suds
maybe you just need some hugs
When you can’t seem to get around
when you have to look up to see down
When all you have to eat is one small spud
sounds like it’s time for a hug
If you’ve been dragged over the coals
if life is taking it’s toll
If you’re being chased by a thug
just open your arms and give him a hug
Sometimes people are very rude
just because they’re in a bad mood
You should get up close and snug
Then reach out and give their ass a hug
When everyday all you see is bad omens
when life keeps feeding you lemons
When for the things you are owed, you never get paid
screw maki
Paquito Diaz
(UPDATE) After battling complications from suffering a stroke in 2004, Paquito Diaz has passed away at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 3. He was 73.
Diaz's daughter, Joanna Diaz-Gallent sent a text message to ANC's Boyet Sison confirming the news. Sison tweeted "my friend Joanna Diaz-Gallent has confirmed that her father, veteran actor Paquito Diaz, has joined his creator. Rest in peace Tito Kits!"
Diaz will be remembered for his effective character role portrayals, most of which came from his antagonist parts in almost all of "Da King" Fernando Poe Jr's films. Moviegoers have always known him as the irreverent tough guy who always made life miserable for FPJ and other action stars like Rudy Fernandez, Phillip Salvador, Bong Revilla, Robin Padilla, and even Joseph Estrada in a career that spanned half a century.
His toughness is legendary and the cinema audience would never miss his unrelenting bravado, his incredible persona, and yes, his fearful demeanor that always pushed the lead star to the brink of helplessness. But of course, the script always commanded him to lose in the end.
And, yes, this script has been utterly mean to him, and done so much injustice to the real man—that softer, gentler side, given that he’s, in real life, a doting, responsible and caring father to two children who entered show biz, Joko and Cheska, and a loving husband to Nena, who had been on his side through the years.
Here we see the real Paquito, facing trials and sufferings like anyone else, and succumbing to the pitfalls of humanity, that is, the delicate nature of health.
In recent years, Paquito’s health had been failing since the 2004 film “Pakners,” incidentally the last film of FPJ and his, wherein he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. Since then we’d seen less and less of him, until public affairs programs from the different networks revealed an emaciated figure drawn out through years of illness.
On March 3, Paquito, 73, gave up the good fight and passed away.
According to reports, Paquito had been rushed to the Estevez Memorial Hospital in Daraga, Albay weeks ago due to another stroke and a serious bout with pneumonia and a sepsis infection. Diaz died in his home in Daraga, Albay one day after being discharged from the hospital.
He had been residing in Daraga since his abrupt retirement from showbiz in 2004.
Joko appeared on air earlier this month to reveal his dad’s deteroriating condition.
"Matagal ko nang hinanda ‘yong sarili ko. Pero siyempre noong natanggap ko na ‘yong balita medyo nahihirapan akong analyze-in ‘yong sitwasyon. Si daddy ko kasi ‘yon, siyempre iba kung papaano ako brining-up ng dad ko. I'm very proud of him," Joko said on the ABS-CBN showbiz news program “SNN”.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Bananas: The ultimate hunger buster
Ever grab a snack but then feel hungry again 20 minutes later? Next time, reach for a banana. It’s loaded with Resistant Starch (RS), a healthy carb that fills you up and helps to boost your metabolism. Slightly underripe medium-sized bananas have 12.5 grams of RS—more than most other foods. Ripe bananas give you 4.7 grams of RS, still enough to keep hunger pangs away. Check out these tasty ways to work in this wonder food.
Health.com: 8 reasons carbs help you lose weight
Banana "Ice Cream"
Peel, slice, and freeze 1 small banana. Place frozen banana pieces in a blender with 3 tablespoons 1% low-fat milk; blend until thick. Top with 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts.
Banana Salsa
Make a quick salsa with 2 diced peeled bananas, 2 tablespoons minced red onion, 1 tablespoon minced cilantro, 1 teaspoon minced serrano or jalepeno pepper, juice of 1 lime, and brown sugar and salt to taste. Use it to top fish or pork tacos, jerk chicken, or jerk pork.
Health.com: 8 tasty taco recipes
Broiled Bananas
Slice 1 peeled banana in half lengthwise. Put banana pieces, cut sides up, on a rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle the banana pieces with 1 teaspoon brown sugar, and broil on high until the sugar bubbles and the bananas brown (about 2–3 minutes). After broiling, sprinkle with cinnamon—or drizzle with 1 teaspoon rum for an extra-special treat.
Health.com: Surprising health benefits of cinnamon
Coffee and Banana Smoothie
Place 1 sliced peeled banana, 1 cup 1% low-fat milk, 1/2 cup cold black coffee, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 1/2 cup ice in a blender. Blend until smooth—and enjoy.
Health.com: 11 healthy milk shakes and smoothies
Tropical Fruit Salad
Make a fruit salad with 1 sliced peeled banana, 1 sliced peeled kiwi, and 1/2 diced peeled ripe mango. Squirt juice of 1/4 lime over the salad, and serve.
OFWs issued travel documents to leave Libya
HONG KONG – Fleeing for safety, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who escaped from Tripoli and other parts of strife-torn Libya either lost or left with their respective employers their Philippine passports.
Fortunately for them, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario was with them in Tunisia and issued them travel documents as their exit pass from Libya.
Rosita Garfin, principal of the school for the Philippine community in Tripoli, was profuse in expressing gratitude for the efforts of the secretary and Philippine
ambassador to Libya Alejandrino Vicente, who supervised the processing of their travel documents out of Libya.
Del Rosario flew to Tunisia immediately after he was sworn into office last week by President Aquino as acting Foreign Affairs secretary and concurrent presidential adviser on foreign relations.
Saying she is probably the oldest OFW working in the Middle East, the 70-year-old Garfin expressed her appreciation for the assistance given them by Del Rosario. She noted that the secretary personally directed the evacuation being undertaken by Philippine embassy officials in Libya to bring OFWs to safer locations like Tunisia and Dubai.
Patrick Patani, a civil engineer also working in Tripoli, told The STAR that they feared for their lives while traveling by land for more than four hours to Tunisia and then to Dubai. From Dubai, Patani said they were taken to an aircraft chartered by the Philippine government that brought them to Hong Kong, from where they were to take their flight to Manila.
Garfin and Patani were among the first batch of 180 OFWs who were processed out of Tunisia by Philippine embassy officials under the supervision of the Foreign secretary.
Garfin relayed her experience of fleeing from the civil strife in Libya to Sen. Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee who was here on a stopover en route to Vietnam to attend the United Nations International Strategic Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) conference where she is the “regional champion” for Asia-Pacific.
Legarda took the opportunity to talk with OFWs in transit at the Hong Kong airport before flying back to Manila. As chair of the foreign relations committee, Legarda sought out information and the experiences of the OFWs on how the Philippine embassies in the Middle East are handling the situation, especially in attending to the needs of those stranded by the civil strife in Libya and Egypt.
“I would like to hear from you the sense of urgency, the sense of anticipation by our Philippine embassy officials in those foreign posts in attending to the needs primarily of our OFWs,” Legarda told them.
Garfin and Patani told the senator that they have already identified to Philippine embassy officials other areas in Libya where there are large concentrations of OFWs waiting to be rescued.
“I’m glad to hear that your needs were very well attended to by our embassy officials,” Legarda told them.
Patani was specially concerned for the safety of other OFWs left behind in Tripoli and other parts of Libya because of the presence of many armed men who take away mobile phones, laptops and even food. He said even their transport van that was supposed to take them out was seized.
Fortunately, he said, his employer was kind enough to provide another vehicle that took them to safer ground.
Their problem, he said, was they cannot identify who are friendly and who are not because whether they are for or against the Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, they forcibly take away private properties at gunpoint.
Obviously elated they would soon be coming back to the Philippines, the OFWs eagerly posed for photo with Legarda.
Fortunately for them, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario was with them in Tunisia and issued them travel documents as their exit pass from Libya.
Rosita Garfin, principal of the school for the Philippine community in Tripoli, was profuse in expressing gratitude for the efforts of the secretary and Philippine
ambassador to Libya Alejandrino Vicente, who supervised the processing of their travel documents out of Libya.
Del Rosario flew to Tunisia immediately after he was sworn into office last week by President Aquino as acting Foreign Affairs secretary and concurrent presidential adviser on foreign relations.
Saying she is probably the oldest OFW working in the Middle East, the 70-year-old Garfin expressed her appreciation for the assistance given them by Del Rosario. She noted that the secretary personally directed the evacuation being undertaken by Philippine embassy officials in Libya to bring OFWs to safer locations like Tunisia and Dubai.
Patrick Patani, a civil engineer also working in Tripoli, told The STAR that they feared for their lives while traveling by land for more than four hours to Tunisia and then to Dubai. From Dubai, Patani said they were taken to an aircraft chartered by the Philippine government that brought them to Hong Kong, from where they were to take their flight to Manila.
Garfin and Patani were among the first batch of 180 OFWs who were processed out of Tunisia by Philippine embassy officials under the supervision of the Foreign secretary.
Garfin relayed her experience of fleeing from the civil strife in Libya to Sen. Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee who was here on a stopover en route to Vietnam to attend the United Nations International Strategic Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) conference where she is the “regional champion” for Asia-Pacific.
Legarda took the opportunity to talk with OFWs in transit at the Hong Kong airport before flying back to Manila. As chair of the foreign relations committee, Legarda sought out information and the experiences of the OFWs on how the Philippine embassies in the Middle East are handling the situation, especially in attending to the needs of those stranded by the civil strife in Libya and Egypt.
“I would like to hear from you the sense of urgency, the sense of anticipation by our Philippine embassy officials in those foreign posts in attending to the needs primarily of our OFWs,” Legarda told them.
Garfin and Patani told the senator that they have already identified to Philippine embassy officials other areas in Libya where there are large concentrations of OFWs waiting to be rescued.
“I’m glad to hear that your needs were very well attended to by our embassy officials,” Legarda told them.
Patani was specially concerned for the safety of other OFWs left behind in Tripoli and other parts of Libya because of the presence of many armed men who take away mobile phones, laptops and even food. He said even their transport van that was supposed to take them out was seized.
Fortunately, he said, his employer was kind enough to provide another vehicle that took them to safer ground.
Their problem, he said, was they cannot identify who are friendly and who are not because whether they are for or against the Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, they forcibly take away private properties at gunpoint.
Obviously elated they would soon be coming back to the Philippines, the OFWs eagerly posed for photo with Legarda.
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