A Reuters article said scientists have rediscovered pygmy tarsier in Sulawei Island, Indonesia. Rediscovered? A lot of Filipinos violently reacted and commented on Yahoo! News, including myself. There’s a lot of tarsiers in the Island of Bohol, Philippines. Anybody claiming tarsiers were extinct is out of his mind.
However, we were wrong. The tarsier specie that was found was a totally different one from our Philippine Tarsier. Pygmy tarsier has a …

The result of the 2008 Chemical Engineering Licensure Examination result was released last November 7, 2008. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 308 out of 577 passed the Chemical Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Chemical Engineering in the cities of Manila and Cebu this November 2008.
Dennis Cristoffer Babista Tagaza of UP Diliman topped the exam with a score of 85.30 percent, followed by Fabrienne Michelle Denoyo …

Coffee drinkers in the whole of Sugarlandia are all abuzz with the news. Starbucks will be opening soon in Bacolod City! Yup, the first Starbucks in Western Visayas will be opening soon at 18th-Lacson St., bacolod City. I am a coffee drinker though I’m not the type who’s into gourmet coffee. As long as it has caffeine, that’s good enough for me.
However, I’m having second thoughts on drinking coffee upon …

Ploning which stars Judy Ann Santos will be the Philippines’ official entry to 2009 Oscars for the best foreign language film. The Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) has chosen Ploning over Sharon Cuneta’s Caregiver.
Ploning is a 30-year old promdi lass from Cuyo, Palawan. The story revolves around her and her relationship with a boy she has sort of adopted. It’s about love, friendship, selflessness amidst the backdrop of life …

Forbes Magazine has recently released The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA) of the Philippines is on the list at No. 41. PGMA was even considered more powerful than the Queen of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II is rank No. 58. Topping the list is Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. This is the third year in a row that Merkel was ranked as the world’s most powerful …

Bad news for Harry Potter fans. The film screening of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was moved by Warner Bros. from November 21, 2008 to July 17, 2009.
Warner executives said the date change was a business decision and not due to any production delays on “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Production on some of their films were delayed due to a recent strike of the Writers Guild …

“China invented civilization in the East, but as well it invented corruption for all of human civilization.”
Sounds familiar? That’s because it’s what Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said during the peak of the senate hearing on the NBN-ZTE deal last year. She apologized for that remark when the Filipino-Chinese community expressed their indignation.
But it seemed to me, that quote from Inday Miriam is haunting the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Allegations of the …

Today is the scheduled Bigfoot Press Conference in Palo Alto, California. At 12 noon to 1p.m. in Palo, Alto, California today, both critics and fans of the Bigfoot will know whether the Searching for Bigfoot Inc. indeed have proof of the Bigfoot.
What’s good about attending the Bigfoot Press Conference is that you can actually see, touch, and even smell this creature that they claim to be the real Bigfoot. If …

News of a Bigfoot body found in Georgia has stirred interest on this creature. People, including myself, are searching for as much information on the internet about the Bigfoot body found in Georgia. We can’t wait for the press release tomorrow, August 15, 2008. We want to see proof if indeed Bigfoot is real or just a product of a fertile imagination.
There are only two possible expected outcomes of this …

The search is over, “Bigfoot” body found, claimed SearchingforBigfoot. The website claimed that the remains of Bigfoot was found in the woods in northern Georgia. The creature has been the object of folklore for years, however, no concrete evidence ever proved it existed. Could it really be Bigfoot they found? Or was it just the body of a gorilla with a bad case of gigantism?
Well, if you’re curious enough and …