If I were tasked to organize party (my birthday party at least) in the first spa movie theatre in the country I would start with the Summer/Beach party theme with refillable popcorn, bite size sandwiches, and ice tea while everybody's watching their choice of either Seinfeld, Friends, Harry Potter on the big screen while getting their own foot spa. Then when everybody's good and ready we'll go start with the Scene It? (with the choice of the same theme as listed above) or Wii game with everybody participating and having the best time of their lives. Afterwards, we'll wind down with videoke while getting another round of scalp massage or foot spa till everyone's happy and contended with the best time they've ever had.  * * * Get to know more about this unique place by clicking this Blog Tech News entry or just go directly to the Blue Water Day Spa website for more details. 
The Night Jesus Visited
Author Unknown
It was the night Jesus came
and all through the house,
not a person was praying,
not one in the house ..
The Bible was left
on the shelf without care,
for no one thought
Jesus would come there ..
The children were dressing
to crawl into bed,
not once ever kneeling
or bowing their head..
And Mom in the rocking chair
with babe on her lap,
was watching the Late Show
as I took a nap ...
When out of the east
there rose such a clatter,
I sprang to my feet
to see what was the matter ...
Away to the window
I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutters
and lifted the sash ....
When what to my wondering
eyes should appear,
but Angels proclaiming
that Jesus was here ....
The light of His face
made me cover my head...
was Jesus returning
just like He'd said ...
And though I possessed
worldly wisdom and wealth,
I cried when I saw Him
in spite of myself ...
In the Book of Life
which he held in his hand,
was written the name
of every saved man ...
He spoke not a word
as he searched for my name,
when He said "it's not here"
My head hung in shame ...
The people whose names
had been written with love,
He gathered to take
to his Father above ...
With those who were ready
He rose without sound,
while all of the others
were left standing around ...
I fell to my knees
but it was too late,
I'd waited too long
and thus sealed my fate ...
I stood and I cried
as they rose out of sight,
Oh, if only I'd known
that this was the night ....
In the words of this poem
the meaning is clear
the coming of Jesus
is now drawing near ...
There's only one life
and when comes the last call,
We'll find out that the Bible
was true after all.
 This is the first of a series of full page comics expanding on the ideas that previously came out in strip format. Six years ago this week the title made its debut in the pages of Philippine News (Oct. 9-15, 2002 issue) making it the first comic strip, I think, in the history of the paper. * Page 1 of 4 originally came out in the second issue of Topak Magazine published by PSICom Publishing. Minor editing was done to improve some perceived flaws by the creator.
This was the one that came out today in the paper which I'm really happy about after a long time. She's wearing a short maid costume courtesy of Candy Fruit while the one off-panel's wearing something that's best left to the imagination unless you're in enough to know who she's cosplaying as. Which I'm not, really.
It was 1983 we just bought our first Betamax player, cable TV was still more than a decade away, so we went to Virramall, Greenhills to rent some tapes to watch. Among the first batch of tapes that we got (that included the first 7 episodes of the original Knight Rider, the one with David Hasselhoff) was a taped broadcast of MTV in the US. The difference with MTV back then was that they concentrated on showing music videos more than anything else. This video the British band Madness was my first exposure to total entertainment (original Nutty Boys injected humor into their music videos way, way, way before the others did). It was still a good four years before I even listened to new wave music and collected vinyl records and what these guys did totally changed my life. It was one of the few defining moments that stayed with me throughout all these years. It was their sense of humor, sense of style, rapport, and very animated movement seen in a lot of their videos that greatly influenced my philosophy in doing comics.
They did and still do define the word, COOL. * That's Chas Smash asking "Have you seen our house?" at the start (also with the trumpet and clown nose in the video), Monsieur Barson on piano, and Suggs on vocals. So you know where I got the names of the kitties.
 I am sick and tired of all these talk of corruption in the government. Of people calling the present President the most corrupt in all history. Riiiight. Like we haven't heard that one with every succeeding administration. I can't watch local news without encountering the latest updates on the same story (TV networks have this knack of scraping whatever scum remains at the bottom of the barrel be it local showbiz gossip or politics) or newspapers and tabloids screaming anarchy from the headlines. WAKE UP!!! This is just plain quarreling among thieves people! It's the media's job to hype the story to sell more papers or drive up their ratings. Can't we for once, again, think for ourselves on what's good for the country?! Do you think driving GMA and her advisers out of Malacanang will solve everything?! Do you really think you'll be satisfied with whoever will replace her? For how long? I bet you all will be up in arms again demanding the replacement step down for not being any better than his predecessor. I do agree with Carlos Celdran with what he posted in his blog about this whole mess: "But please don't tell me that all the politicians pursuing this issue aren't little piglets either (below). Getting little greasy slices of pork from projects like the NBN is modus operandi in ANY administration - it's no secret to us and it's no secret to the senators doing the grilling. It's been the modus operandi for decades! Where else would ANY administration get money to do things like, oh, give to senators and congressmen for their election campaigns? Senators and Congressmen don't come for free, ya know. Tip: instead of looking at the noisy ones, let's try and count who are the quiet ones in Senate and Congress. Perhaps they are quiet because they already were given their pieces of the pork. And it's only the squealing ones that are upset because they didn't get theirs. Hence, if it's all just piggies fighting piggies over pieces of pork that they just pass on to other piggies, then it's just politics in the end. Period. Philippine politics and governance is sick, that is as obvious as obvious can be. But will this Jun Lozada scandal be the catalyst for the great changes that need to be made? Ha! Great changes will be done in this society through small ways and on a person to person basis. Paradigm shifts don't happen through Senate hearings. Trust me, this "moral revolution" WILL NOT be televised." (More...)
Don't drag me into this mess by taking any side in the matter. Each of them is not better than the other. And the Catholic Church, who's supposed to guide their members to think and make decisions based on supposed Biblical principles is no better as some Bishops like Lingayen Arcbishop Oscar Cruz thinks his time is better spent making press releases for anti-government rallies instead of calling for sobriety. So did Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ who used the pulpit in the recent La Salle mass as his soapbox for saying only Lozada told the truth as opposed to the others as guilty of lying, bribing, kidnapping, obstruction of justice, among others when clearly the investigation wasn't yet finished. Wouldn't it better if he used the pulpit to chide the greedy parties from both sides of the party instead of implying himself to be a judge voicing God's opinion in the matter? No wonder a lot of Filipino Catholics turn away disillusioned with their faith. Sobriety, people. Don't let opinions sway your decisions, most especially those coming from the local news media.* Picture copied from the Project Retrospective Facilitation Service article, "How is your project going?"
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