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Entries from May 2008

Cebu Pacific is world #1 budget carrier interms of growth

May 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Yahoo! Finance reports that Cebu Pacific ranked number one in passenger carriage growth among bugdet carriers:

CEB was also ranked by the magazine as No. 23 in the world and No. 5 in Asia in total passengers carried in 2007.
CEB carried a total of almost 5.5 million passengers in 2007, up 57.4 per cent from 2006. [...]

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Tags: Transportasyon · Turismo

Elite schools, success, and a child’s sense of self-worth

May 13th, 2008 · 26 Comments

A couple of weeks ago The New York Times came out with an article about “elite” Korean schools which groom their students to enter Ivy League universities.
Reading the following passage made me reminisce about my high school alma mater, which with its reputation and demanding curriculum, such stories are not unusual at all:

One graduate was [...]

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Tags: Buhay · Edukasyon · Kabataan · Karir at Propesyon

Sidney Snoeck of My Sari Sari Store is signing off

May 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sidney Snoeck, author of my favorite photo blog, My Sari Sari Store, announced that he is signing off due to some unexpected personal circumstances.
I have been viewing My Sari Sari Store regularly for the past three years and to say that his photos inspired me is but an understatement. His style is a major influence [...]

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Tags: Blog · Potograpiya · Turismo

A portrait of a software developer as hero

May 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Cross-posted from .NET @ Kape ni LaTtEX
When Microsoft came up with its Heroes Happen {Here} campaign as part of Launch {2008}, I found the campaign name cheesy. “Hero” is something you reserve for people who do truly great things, and hardly fits into the portrait of a software developer — someone like me. A flawed [...]

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Tags: Karir at Propesyon · Teknolohiya