I had an audio-visual feast of the cars in the Bangus Fest Auto Show, which runs from April 22 to 23, 2006 at the Dagupan City Plaza. This event is one of the featured events in conjunction with the Dagupan City Bangus Festival.

One of the outstanding and notable cars on display is my kumpare Arwin Joel Laguit’s Toyota Revo which was enhanced and equipped with MTX Thunder 2160 amplifier for the subwoofer.

Adding to the quality and clarity of the sound output, the car was installed with a Blaupunkt amplifier for the voice output, a Coustic crossover, and six Kicker speakers and two tweeters for the vavavoom! It also boasts of its GVOX DVD head unit, complete with three LCD monitors.

The audio enhancement was done by Harry Arzadon of JA Audiotek. 513 motors did the paint job that housed the sound system.

Crisp, clear and vivid sweet music. Yummy to the ears!

I Heart Earth.

(Coincidentally, EARTH is a jumbled form of HEART. So Earth = Heart)

Today is Earth Day.

Every one of us can show our love and concern for Mother Earth. Not just today but everyday. We do not have a luxury of choice. It’s the only Earth we’ve got!

What could we do? How can we help save our planet? Or at least slow down its inevitable demise?

Recycle. There are a lot of ways to recycle. Eversince I started teaching, I let my students use recycled papers for quizzes and projects. Buy products that are recycled (Recycled products use less energy and resources when manufactured). May pera sa basura! Collect empty plastic bottles and aluminum cans and bring them to recycling centers. 

Practice Garbage Segregation religiously. Law or not, let us practice it in our homes and workplace.

Join environmental projects. There are several projects in your barangay and town/ city and civic organizations that could benefit our Mother Earth. Volunteer today. Or start a project.

Save energy. I use a laptop instead of a desktop computer. Although I have an old laptop, it still consumes less energy than a desktop computer. Instead of switching the AC (airconditioning unit) during the day, I open the windows and enjoy the summer breeze. Turn on the light only if it is needed.

Go organic. If you have a space for gardening, plant vegetables and raise poultry, hog or goat. Make sure the surrounding is clean. Enjoy GMO-free vegetables and clean meat products.

Buy a Tango . That is if you can afford it. Otherwise use hybrid or electric/ solar/ fuel cell powered vehicles or at least fuel-efficient vehicles.

Use alternative fuel like coco biodiesel and biogas. We should not be slaves to oppressive and foreign controlled oil prices.

Pressure the Senate and Congress to pass the Biofuels Act of 2006 now. Remind them that there are a lot of endeavors than asking for PGMA’s head (but if it can be done, do it quickly and legally). There are laws to pass. Junk those who do nothing. Election is a year away. Make them realize this.

Stop pollution. Down with tarpaulin and billboards of politicians. The best proof of the project is the project itself, not the tarpaulins that emblazon their names and despicable faces. It’s taxpayers money that fund projects. Simple as it is, this is a form of corruption.

How about you? How will you show your love to Mother Earth?

Know more about Earth Day and things you could do to to save our planet:

http://www.earthday.net/

http://www.earthday.gov/

It’s like missing one half of your life. This is how I feel after not making it to the 2nd Philippine Blogging Summit. This could’ve been a great opportunity to learn the rudiments of blogging from the Philippine’s "top bloggers". Top bloggers in the sense that the resource persons are pioneers, experts, successful bloggers in their own right, in their chosen blog categories.

No, I didn’t get lost. Although I am an UST alumnus, I’m very familiar with the UP Diliman campus as I frequently visit high school classmates, Anna, Ginny and Harvey way back in college. And the map was pretty clear.

I even prepared the T-shirts I was supposed to give out to some bloggers during the summit. The Bangus Festival 2006 T-shirts were courtesy of Bitstop. I guess I have to send them through Fed-Ex.

I slept with baby Luke (my wife is still in Manila for her last week of affiliation) and planned to transfer him to my parents’ room before I leave. I was ready to leave at 3 AM (Dagupan City to Manila is about 4-5 hours by bus), when suddenly he opened his eyes, stared and smiled at me. Who could resist a baby’s smile? I also realized that Luke is now 6 months old.

I’m still fortunate because Filipino Librarian live-blogged the event in three installations: 1, 2, 3. By Jove had three entries complete with pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4. Punzi blogged about it as  a day of days, and Yuga shared his PowerPoint presentation online.

If missing iBlogs2 was like missing one half of my life, missing Luke’s 6 months-day would be missing MY ENTIRE LIFE.

  or   ?

It was a no contest.