Here we go again… Senator Antonio Trillanes and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim marched to the Manila Peninsula Hotel after they walk out of the Makati City Regional Trial Court on Thursday morning.

Here’s the statement read at the press the conference:

“Today, we address all decent Filipinos to announce that now is the time to end the sufferings and miseries inflicted upon us by the illegitimate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government and start a new life, a new Philippines. The die is cast pursuant to our constitutional mandate as protector of the people and state.

And by these acts the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police supported by the masses of our people and the various political forces give substance to the constitutional provisions which says the Philippines is a democratic and republican state.

Sovereign peace resides in the people and all government authority emanate from them. That we take the faithful steps of removing Mrs Arroyo from the presidency and undertake the formation of a new government.

Mrs Arroyo had occupied the presidency under a questionable mandate publicly disputed by a vast majority of Filipinos. She stole the presidency from President Estrada through unconstitutional and deceitful means and later manipulated the results of the 2004 elections to perpetuate herself in power.

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This local McDo ad is about a teenage girl named Karen and her memory-challenged lolo, who had Alzheimer’s. While having their burger meal at McDonald’s, the grandfather kept calling Karen, “Gina.”

No matter that she kept reminding him, “Karen po.” Karen bore her growing dismay in silence. And then, lolo sliced his burger in half and, while wrapping it, he said, “Ito, para sa paborito kong apo. Si Karen.” Beloved Karen smiled happily.

Karen Delos Reyes, or Glomirose Delos Reyes in real life, played the teenage girl in this commercial, which became her stepping-stone to teen stardom.

Love your Lolo

A Pa. doctor and his wife are fighting deportation to the Philippines after more than 20 years in the US. The story of the Servanos started when they were sweethearts in the Philippines. After he graduated from medical school in 1979, Pedro Servano went often into remote areas to see patients, and Salvacion, a nurse, sometimes accompanied him.

While they were waiting to receive visas to the U.S., her father told them people were talking about their trips together, so the two eloped and married in 1980. Salvacion came to the U.S. in 1982, and Pedro followed two years later. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia, and she continued nursing. They had a formal marriage ceremony in 1987.

They moved to California to be close to Salvacion’s family, and in 1990 they applied for U.S. citizenship. During the process, an immigration official accused them of having misrepresented their marital status.

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It’s good to know that there were no Pinoy seaman crew in a South Korean container ship which collided with a Bay Bridge tower that resulted to thousands of gallons of oil spill into the San Francisco Bay. According to Yahoo report the all-Chinese crew was being detained at the Port of Oakland by the Coast Guard as part of on-going investigations.

A language barrier between the vessel’s pilot, Capt. John Cota, and the ship’s all-Chinese crew was not likely a factor in the crash, since the ship’s captain and officers are required to speak English, officials said.

TechCrunch, the tech blog giant reported that ABS-CBN Interactive managed to ink a deal with social network Multiply. Maybe ABS-CBN is starting to take noticed the online behavior of Pinoys specially the OFWs that’s why they’re jumping into social networking. Im thinking now maybe GMA-7 will follow this time with Facebook?

The Philippines is one of the most pronounced examples of their large international following. Alexa ranks Multiply as the 5th largest site in the Philippines - with more than 2 million unique monthly visitors. We had earlier reported that 39% of the site’s traffic comes from the Philippines. Therefore it’s no surprise that they’ve managed to land a multi-year ad deal with one of the Philippine’s largest networks, ABS-CBN. ABS-CBN has 67 televisions stations, 19 radio stations, 30 websites and reaches 97% of the Filipinos with televisions. Under terms of the agreement, ABS-CBN interactive will sell advertising and mobile services for Multiply’s Filipino users, with the two companies sharing revenues.

An online petition to save the life of Marilou Ranario, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) facing death sentence in Kuwait. The appeal for Ranario is addressed to Kuwait’s Amir. Ranario, 35, left a teaching job in the Philippines to work as a domestic helper in Kuwait in 2003.

She was jailed and convicted in January 2005 for the murder of her female employer. Kuwait’s Court of First Instance sentenced her to die by hanging eight months later. The Court of Appeals upheld the sentence last February.

The case is on final appeal before the Cessation Court, Kuwait’s highest court, and the final verdict is expected to be out in January or February 2008.

Please see the complete online petition here.

Is it true or just another unconfirmed report but according to a Yahoo news (you need a Spanish translator), Philippine president Gloria Arroyo is studying the prospects of reviving the official language status of Spanish by January after the country education system abandoned it in 1987.

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The Philippine Peso Wednesday gained a fresh seven-year high of 43.60 to the dollar on the news that interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve and more remittances coming in from overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and foreign investment inflows into the stock market piling up this long weekend.

OFWs and exporters are asking the Philippine government for dollar rate intervention but no avail. Ohh Bhoy!!