First posted 17:55:52 (Mla time) April 27, 2007
Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Educators, led by the Wika ng Kultura at Agham Inc. (WIKA), have asked the Supreme Court to nullify two government directives that required the teaching of English to children starting in the first grade in public and private schools.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive [...]
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Its official, i now have my first libel case. The office has confirmed the case and a story was already written about it.
Here is the link to the story: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=62691
I received congratulatory messages from friends in the industry and jokingly asked me if i already have the money for my bail…actually no…hide? hehehe. JOKE [...]
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me and my fiend JC had a non-verbal fight this time about the phone line…actually the telephone in his cubicle. i have a phone cord that is connected to that phone and since i am prohibited from using HIS CUBICLE, i’ve decided to remotely use his phone. everytime he checks on the phone, he knew [...]
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I got my grade on my Constitutional Law 2. i know now that law school is not a picnic. in order to survive, i have to burn my eyebrow with a blowtorch which is why my expectations and contentment has been reduced. I am so used to getting a grade that is hanging [...]
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What a way to start my week. I have just received a news from a colleague that we are co-respondents in a libel case filed by an audio expert…so to speak (i’d rather not put name names here to be on the safe side). He said the libel case which was filed, mind you, in [...]
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Its been almost a week and a half since my last entry. Why? Well, because i became an addict. Yeah…you got that right, i became an addict…a computer game addict. I’ve been playing from 9 pm up to 2 am or worst 3 am. I’ve been really obsessed about erasing that top score and putting my name [...]
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By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 04:43pm (Mla time) 04/19/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez on Thursday said US Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell may have tempted fate by being “careless and irresponsible.”
“She was careless and irresponsible. She took a lonely walk by herself in [that] deserted area,” Gonzalez said.
Campbell went missing Easter Sunday in Batad, [...]
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By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 03:44pm (Mla time) 04/19/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Continuous replays of the Manny Pacquiao-Jorge Solis fight on cable television may violate Republic Act 9006 or the Fair Election Act, an election lawyer said Thursday.
“We want to know how long this replay will be. This gives an added advantage to Pacquiao against the other [...]
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“Since my dad died, I feel like someone ripped my stomach…I laugh everytime I remember I will never gonna talk to him again because it sounds like the stupidest thing but I cant believe its real…”Thus said Dr. George O’Malley to his girlfriend Dr. Calliope Iphegenia Torres before he proposed to her. His father died [...]
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AS usual, me and my mom went to the Salubong today. Its been a family tradition to attend to a “Salubong” every Easter. When i was young, it was me, mom, my dad, my brother and sister, every time either one of us gets tired, my dad would carry us. He never gets tired.
Well, anyway, this [...]
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