There are some things in life that are just sooooo good that it can't be right! Right now, for instance, I am so hooked on champagne and sashimi. When I have these two terribly tremendous things, it feels like it's almost sinful, cos it's just so good!
I get teary-eyed when eating sashimi, and drinking champagne makes me smile. It's terrible! It feels too damn good to the point that it feels like it's a sin! Forgive me, then, but I just can't resist.
SHE'S TELLING US, ALRIGHT!
Watch out for Erica Marks. Such talent! And it looks like she's got star personality too!
Let's wish her luck and pray she doesn't turn into (another child wonder) Michael Jackson. You don't get it? Then CLICK HERE! Hehehe.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE
Each and every one of us has
a child in our lives. Be it your own son or daughter, a niece, nephew,
godchild, grandchild, cousin, or just a neighbor. Fact is, they are there.
There are also kids who aren’t there anymore. Perhaps abducted by malicious
souls with twisted minds for online child pornography.
* There
are more than 100,000 child pornography sites on the Internet
Ref: 2002 report by ECPAT Int'l and the Bangkok Post
* Over a 13-year period in the U.K., the number of child-pornography offenders increased by 1,500%
Ref: NCH, Child Abuse, Child Pornography and the Internet (2004)
* Up to 20,000
children appear in pornographic images. Interpol has a picture database with 20,000 images of child pornography and estimates the number of exploited children shown to be between 10,000 and 20,000
Ref: p.7/52 in "Beyond all Tolerance", published by 'Save The Children' in Sweden
* Cyberspace is home
to more than one million images of tens of thousands of children being
subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation
Ref: ECPAT Int'l, Violence Against Children in Cyberspace
* Online child
pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry - estimated to be several times
bigger than online music sales. Based on estimates with data from the US FBI and the Council of Europe, the size of the commercial child pornography industry is now US$20 billion anually and is projected to increase to US$30-35 billion annualy by 2009. By comparison, the total global revenue in 2004 for the online music industry was US$3 billion.
Ref: P.35 of 96, "Violence Against Children in Cyberspace", published by ECPAT Int'l., McKinsey analysis, "Authorized downloads jumped from 2 million in 2003 to 60 million in 2004" - P.224/584 of "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2005-2009, published by PWC
* Children
3 years and younger are victims of child pornography. 19% of persons arrested in the U.S. between July 2000 and June 2001 for possession of child pornography had images of children younger than age 3.
Ref: Janis Wolak et al, Child-Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings From the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study
I do hope you guys take 5
minutes off to visit their website and light a candle for the innocent victims
of online child pornography. Their online petition ends on December 31, 2006,
so light your candle now!
KIDS SAY....
For sure everyone misses the show "Kids Say the Darndest Things". I know I do! So I ended up searching the web for some kiddy quotable quotes and here are some that really made me laugh!
* One
summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small boy
into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in
his voice,
"Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I
can't, dear," she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."
A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice:
"The big sissy."
* After
putting her children to bed, a mother changed into old slacks and a droopy
blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more
and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin.At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed
into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings.
As she left the room, she heard her three-year-old say
with a trembling voice, "Who was that?"
* The
child was a typical four-year-old girl -- cute, inquisitive, bright as a new
penny. When she expressed difficulty in grasping the concept of marriage, her
father decided to pull out his wedding photo album, thinking visual images
would help. One page after another, he pointed out the bride arriving at the
church, the entrance, the wedding ceremony, the recessional, the reception,
etc.
"Now do you understand?" he asked.
"I think so," she said, "is that when
mommy came to work for us?"
* The
restaurant where I took my two sons for a meal was crowded with fans watching a
sporting event on television. The harried waitress took our order, but more
than half an hour passed with no sign of her return.
I was trying to keep my kids from becoming restless when
suddenly shouts of victory came from the bar.
"Hey," commented my 11-year-old, "it sounds
as if someone just got his food."
* While
working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used
to take my four-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly
intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers
and wheelchairs.
One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking
in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she
merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe
this!"
* Brittany had an earache and wanted a painkiller. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a childproof cap and she'd have to open it for her.
Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked, "How does it know it's me?".
Just read this article from Y!News and thought I'd post it here, since I know so many Filipinos who can text really, really fast!
The current record holder, who is from Singapore, typed this SMS message in 41.52 seconds. Perhaps someone from back home would like to have a go at it?
"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the
most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a
human."
I did not laugh at all today. But let me share with you the last thing that made me laugh out loud, which was while watching "Becker" last night (big thanks to Star World comedies for always cheering me up!).
Chris bans smoking from the diner, and Becker is furious (as usual. hehe). She tells him to just smoke while walking to work, to which Becker answers,
"I don't like to smoke while I walk.
It blows back in my face,
and second-hand smoke is dangerous!"
Wahahaha!!
STILL SMILING
I am still fussing over my new toy!
I bought a 1GB memory card so I can record and store more videos and stuff in it. Yipeeee! And I still can't get over how it covers most anything and everything high-tech that I need and want... A videocam, digicam, webcam, recorder, memory card reader, mass storage device, mp3 & movie player... All that in one tiny gadget (its dimensions are 102x50x20 mm.only)! It has a charging deck, which also serves as its stand for when you want to hook the thing up to your PC or TV.
I just found a program which edits videos. I'm gonna be real busy studying how to work it so that I can post some vids from my new toy in here real soon! Wish me luck!
CRAZY COUNTRY CHICK
Now don't get me wrong. I love Faith Hill! I think she's beautiful, and I love her songs. But this video made me (and everyone else, I guess) shake my head and say, "tsk, tsk".
She claims her reaction was a joke. Yeah, yeah. Hehe.
CLICK
My eyes looked horrible last night cos I cried buckets of tears watching this movie! Yes, it's a comedy, but the moral of the story is totally hard to miss (as with all of Adam Sandler's movies). I mean, how many of us are so caught up in our careers to the point of failing to spend quality time with the family?
Kudos to Adam Sandler for hitting home once again!
TOMMYLAND
I want this book!! Reviews state that this book on TLee's life is funny, witty, and really makes you feel like you know him.
Click here to read the awesome review on TLee's book.
Oh, and ladies, FYI, TLee says that overweight chicks rule in bed! He says that, "she'll be a screaming, crazy hot, big yummy time, trust me".
Keidis of RHCP agrees, decribing it as "some of the best road sex imaginable"
