Thursday, 14 February 2008
D-day!
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me,
I'm gonna eat some worms.
Big fat juicy ones, little slimy skinny ones,
Hope they don’t have germs!
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Ssshh
I'm hiding. I'm moving back to this blog, temporarily.
;P
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Saturday, 13 January 2007
Moving on
Kitakits ;)
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Thursday, 07 December 2006
Hindi na manhid
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Thursday, 23 November 2006
Whatdaf*$#?!
Barge with Guimaras debris sinks off Misamis
By Grace Cantal- Albasin, Joel Guinto, Leila Salaverria
Associated Press, GMA7, Inquirer, INQ7.net
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- (5TH UPDATE) A barge commissioned ferrying 750 metric tons of sludge and debris from the Guimaras oil spill to Misamis Oriental sank off Polo Point in Plaridel, Misamis Occidental Monday night.
Master Chief Petty Officer Bernard Nacua, commander of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Misamis Occidental, told the Inquirer that the barge, Ras, was being towed by MT Vega when it was overturned by huge waves.
It was supposed to dock at the Holcim cement plant in Lugait, Misamis Oriental where the debris would be incinerated.
"The records showed that MT Vega has eight crew members while Ras has two. It is owned by Harbor Star Shipping based in Makati City," Nacua said.
Nacua said based on the investigation of MT Vega's captain, Jeremy Caperio, water breached the barge's hatches, causing it to sink some two miles from shore.
The two crew members manning the barge were rescued and are safe, he said.
According to the Philippine Coast Guard, the captain of MT Vega decided to cut the line that connected his vessel to the barge when the waves hit and rescue the barge's two crew members. The barge subsequently sank.
Nacua said they checked the portion of the sea where the barge sank but saw no indication of an oil leak. "We are monitoring the area and it has not shown any signs of spill or leak," he said.
Hye said workers at the Petron Bulk Plant in Jimenez town were on standby and would remain so to allow them to respond immediately in case of a leak.
Misamis Occidental Gov. Leo Ocampos told the Inquirer that Petron had assured him the sinking of the barge would not cause any destruction of the province's fishing grounds. Plaridel is part of the province's fish sanctuary.
He also said Petron officials told him the debris was tightly packed. According to a report from the PCG, the debris was packed in 59,649 sacks.
But Ocampos said he was not taking Petron's assurance at face value.
"Well, we cannot just accept what Petron is saying. We need to alert the disaster council and the municipality to monitor the areas near the site where the barge sank, considering that we have a fish sanctuary there," Ocampos said.
He said Petron also assured him it would be sending spill booms and oil-sucking equipment as soon as possible.
Energy Secretary Rafael Lotilla said he would also send a representative to Plaridel to monitor the incident.
But the international environment group Greenpeace immediately reacted to the sinking, saying Petron "must be held accountable by the Philippine government to the fullest extent of the law."
Greenpeace campaigner Beau Baconguis, in a statement, said: "Petron has yet to fully answer for its disastrous oil spill in Guimaras, but here it is again with another environmental disaster in the making."
"This is truly deplorable, and betrays once again Petron's serious lack of diligence in ensuring that the company's operations are safe and secure," she said.
Bencyrus Ellorin, spokesperson of the Task Force Macajalar, an environment group based here, said Petron should be punished for its recklessness in handling pollutants from the Guimaras oil spill.
"Even in its state now, tar balls from the oil spill in Guimaras could release noxious substances like hydrogen sulfide, so it will have an adverse effect on the fragile coastal eco-system in Misamis Occidental, where some of the more advanced and successful marine and coastal conservation efforts are located," Ellorin said.
PCG spokesman Lieutenant Commander Joseph Coyme said the debris would contaminate the environment and could also be toxic.
"To a certain degree, it will cause contamination of the environment because a foreign substance was introduced into the environment," Coyme said.
The sunken barge was carrying 630 tons of sand with bunker oil that was cleaned up from the Guimaras, where the tanker Solar I sank August 11, spilling some of its cargo of two million liters (500,000 gallons) of fuel. The Solar I's cargo was owned by Petron.
The oil spill displaced 39,000 people and damaged 220 kilometers (140 miles) of coastline that includes pristine marine reserves.
Coyme said personnel from the PCG's Marine Environmental Protection Command had been dispatched to the site of the barge sinking to assess the extent of the damage caused by oil debris.
He also said the debris, which had solidified, had likely sunk to the bottom of the sea because it was heavier.
According to Coyme, the damage to be caused by the oil debris might be lesser than the one caused by the sinking of the Solar I tanker because it was unlikely to reach the shore.
The leaked oil from the Solar I reached the shore of Guimaras Island, damaging marine resources and affecting fishing grounds and the livelihood of the people.
With reports from Joel Guinto, INQ7.net
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Reality Bites
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Bummed to the point of despair
It doesn't matter if your week starts on a Monday or a Wednesday, it will still take only one short phone call to ruin the rest of it.
X-( :'(
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Sunday, 22 October 2006
Not a lot of things to be happy about...
... pero maraming salamat anyway! :)
:hugs:
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Sighing on a Sunday
You can't hide behind social graces. So don't try to be all touchy-feely. 'Cause you lie in my face, of all places. But I've got no problem with that, really.
What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.
And I've got no illusions about you. And guess what? I never did. And when I said, when I said I'll take it, I meant, I meant as is.
Just give up and admit you're an asshole. You would be in some good company. I think you'd find that your friends will forgive you. Or maybe I am just speaking for me.
'Cause when I look around I think this, this is good enough. And I try to laugh at whatever life brings. 'Cause when I look down I just miss all the good stuff. And when I look up I just trip over things.
And I've got no illusions about you...
You can't hide behind social graces. 'Cause I don't buy it, like eveyone else. And you can lie in my face, of all places. Just don't lie to yourself.
And I've got no illusions about you. And guess what? I never did. And when I said, when I said I'll take it, I meant, I meant as is. As is.
Ani DiFranco
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Thursday, 19 October 2006
Sometimes an Advil just won't do
Pain comes in all forms. The small tinge. A bit of soreness. The random pain. The normal pains we live with everyday.
Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out anything else. Makes the rest of the world fade away. Until all we can think about is how much we hurt.
Pain. You just have to ride it out. Hope it goes away on its own. Hope the wound that caused it heals.
There are no solutions. No easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside.
Most of the time pain can be managed. But sometimes the pain gets to you when you least expect it. It's way below the belt and doesn't let up.
Pain. You just have to fight through because the truth is you can't out run it.
And life always makes more.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy
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