Major Events During My Birth Year

January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
January 7 - Brunei becomes the 6th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.

January 24 - The Apple Macintosh is introduced.


February 1 - Medicare comes into effect in Australia.

February 3 - Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
February 28 - Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy Awards.
February 29 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announce his retirement.


March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren (the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded).
March 23 - General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.


April 4 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
April 12 - Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed).
April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 - The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 - Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.


May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 5 - The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley.
May 8 - The longest game in Major League Baseball history begins at 7:30 PM between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game is played over the course of 2 days, lasting 25 innings, with a total time of 8 hours and 6 minutes.
May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 14 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 23 - Methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England kills 16 people.
May 27 - An overnight flash flood rages through neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 15 inches of rain falls in some areas over a four-hour period. 14 persons are killed.
May 31 - Mecklenburg Correctional Center - 6 inmates - including James and Linwood Briley escape from a death row facility, the first and only occasion this has ever happened in the US.


June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Tempel in Amritsar.
June 6 - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, killing an estimated 2,000 people.
June 8 - A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 22 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Sanliurfa.
June 22 - Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
June 28 - Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker," murders his first confirmed victim.
June 30 - John Napier Turner become Canada's 17th Prime Minister.


July 14 - New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon calls a snap election and is heavily defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
July 18 - Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.
July 25 - Salyut 7: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.


August 4 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
August 11 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
August 21 - Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
August 28 - Joseph Fritzl drugs and incarcerates his daughter Elisabeth in secret cellar, in Amstetten, Austria; she was released only after 24 years of sexual abuse and mental ordeal.
August 30 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.


September 2 - Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra Massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney.
September 4 - The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.
September 5 - The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
September 5 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 18 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.
September 20 - Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
September 26 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.


October 4 - Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
October 11 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 19 - Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popieluszko Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
October 23 -The world learns from moving BBC News TV reports that a famine is plaguing Ethiopia where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards . Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed. Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.

November 2 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

November 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

November 19 – A series of explosions at the PEMEX Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

November 25 – Band Aid records the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. The all-British act, led by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, includes George Michael, Bono, Phil Young and David Bowie as well as the members of bands including Status Quo, Spandau Ballet and Bananarama.

November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

November 30 – The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.

December – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.

December 3 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

December 4 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.

December 19 – The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.

December 22 – In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.

December 31 – Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen gets in a serious car accident, severing his left arm.

Filipino Classic Movie

Cuatro Vidas: Love Stories

Cuatro Vidas (1957, LVN) is actually the story of four loves, as played by Cecilia Lopez and Carlos Padilla, Jr., and Nita Javier and Leroy Salvador, Eddie Rodriguez and Rebecca del Rio and, for comic relief, Oscar Obligacion and Ludy Carmona.
Four young people and their rendezvous with destiny,' the blurb read. The director is Manuel SIlos, noted for the classic Biyaya ng Lupa, which co-starred Salvador and Padilla Jr. Cuatro Vidas was based on a Hiwaga Komiks novel by Rico Bello Omagap.

My Sims 3 Game Images and The Story Behind

Transformation and coming of age is seen from this young lovely lady metamorphosis turning from being a timid teener into a young responsible adult ready to take on the world on her shoulder. go on and support your own family.
Sweat yourself while pushing yourself in the treadmill to expose some abs and stretch and bulge your arms with your muscles while pumping the irons.Doing some rounds and building your discipline make up a strong man in you.
Put some nice bait and have a good catch. Never undermine a small fish for it may give you a valuable catch or a hearty meal. You can sell it at the supermarket, send to mount it or have a good meal using your fresh catch
The evils are dead from starving.. Two evils in one stone.. They are being summoned to join the grim reaper to the gates of hell..
The lovers are having a woohoo something that they do when they are in love with each other but it is discrete and hidden. A profession of mutual love and respect. Something they can cherish forever in happiness.

My Sims 3 Game Images and The Story Behind

The first walk of the baby at home when she was taught by her father.
The siblings and a lover and guess who among them? They are watching TV while have a good coversation.
The youngest daughter is watering the plants and take care of the household early because she is the first one to wake up and having a good rest before returning back to work.
This is the community's signboard welcoming guests and tourist from all over the world. Sunville is a small coastal town of 30,000 people and living peacefully and blisfully together.

Filipino Classic Movie

Although the Huramentado title referred to Eddy del Mar (later Eddie), Leopoldo Salcedo got top billing and lead role in the movie. Then, in the 40s and '50s, he was one of the country's top actors along with Rogelio de la Rosa and Pempe Padilla.
Eddie del Mar would later achieve fame for his Jose Rizal role, which also gave him a Best Actor award. Introduced in Huramentado is Evelyn Villar, later becoming one of the leading ladies of LVN.


Note that then one word movie titles were in vogue. With the Huramentado layout was the announcement of coming releases: Pugante, Kulaborator, Infanta and Bisig ng Mangagawa. Other Pol Salcedo starrers: Sakay, Capas, Looban, Tampalasan, Magkapatid, Kamagong - one word titles all.

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In December, 2008, a man in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, kissed his girlfriend so passionately that it popped her eardrum and she went deaf in that ear.

Indiana residents are not allowed to smile for their driver’s license photo.

Princeton University students in Trenton, New Jersey, USA, have an annual chess tournament against prison inmates.

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Don had doubts and didn’t dare do anything to endanger the duenna.

Quotable Quotes of the Day

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         “The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

                                                                                                                 H.L. Mencken

        “A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.”

                                             John Updike

       “Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.”

                                                                                                                Hal Lancaster

        “May you like all the days of your life.”

                                                                                                                Jonathan Swift

        “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.”

                                                                                                                William Saroyan

        “Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

                                                                                                                Rose Kennedy

        “Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

                                                                                                               Charles Caleb Colton

My Christmas Is Ruined by A Simple Badmouthing But It's OK

            My Christmas is ruined by a simple badmouthing. I was about to leave to hear mass at the church for the  last night when after I took bath I was reprimanded for taking bath at night when I easily got a runny nose and catch cold if I take a bath at night. My simple reason is that this is only one time because I need to before I attend mass but my reason is unaccepted and ignored instead he got so mad at me that he bewailed me with curse words. I was bedeviled last night that I lose my interest to hear mass. I went to sleep bitter hearted and so frustrated and so lonely. I missed Christmas back at home for two years since I am away at work in 2007 and 2008 and thought this is my last chance to enjoy back Christmas at home because maybe next year 2010 I'll be travelling and going to another place again but I never did. Maybe its just I need to be away and find the happiness that I want. Someone who could help me and afford trips for me and be my travel companion. I just want to be away from  home because I was so bedeviled in this ugly place. I don't want to plant anger and hatred to anybody and I can forgive because even God forgives so do I but I just need to live and work in a far place and not here. I need to find a job outside the country and hopefully settle there for good the rest of my life.

Christmas Symbols Significance in My Life

         It’s festive season once again. It’s time to rekindle strong family bond and ignite the fire of loving and sharing. It’s the time when good friends and enemies reconcile and reunite jealousy/envy and hatred were put aside and peace and accord reigns. These significant values during the most joyful time of the year is nurtured and nourished brought by the food we prepare, gifts we give, graces we share and party that gather and unite as all. These things and activities, though it’s a natural occurrence during special occasions such as these have a big impact and influence over our lives. It may bring positive outcome that rejuvenate ourselves and have a feeling of goodness for others. I have my own list of symbols which relives me experiences, enrich me with wisdom and virtues in life and provide me with a good feeling that resonates a positive consequence throughout a lifetime.

Doves – We have doves in our backyard we take care of for years. Doves are symbol of peace, purity in spirit and hopes for the future. I have meditated to find peace and to find it, it must begin with myself – peace of mind and living which if nurtured will influence the world over and peace itself will be presented in front of me. Purity of thoughts, acts or in speaking is synonymous with peace. Purity by all means will spur peace and peace will bring forth purity. Hope is positive virtue which I practice most of the time and is proven effective coupled with faith in God. Hoping for the better in steadfast faith yields us into fulfilling what we are aspiring for. However hope without action is foreseeing future in uncertainty and without direction. Reinforce hope with action to produce results. The doves are tame and waiting to be fed without any sound and faction. Just like doves, I live and wait in peace and silence without complaining much.

Nativity Scene – The holy family is the main reason of the celebrations. This joyful season of the year commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ on a humble place somewhere in Bethlehem with his mother and father by his side. Thus, the main reason for celebration for this occasion is our family – rekindling ties and forging strong our relationship with our loved ones. I’ve spent the last two Christmas away from home – away from my family. In 2007 I spent my Christmas with my relatives and in 2008 I spent Christmas at work so I feel lonely because it’s my first two experience of Christmas away from home and away from my family but I just realized something. Family does not necessarily means you and your immediate family like your father and mother, brothers and sisters, grandparents, relatives and other extended families but a family consists of any individual, it maybe your in-laws, friends, lovers, co-workers or even complete strangers, for whom you have shared the passion of love and sharing, whom you feel comfortable and at peace with, and whom you have entrusted yourself. It reminds us that wherever you are, whether you are orphaned or away from your loved ones, you can find a family in persons where you presently along with – share them your love and kindness, in any form and by any means and you will no longer long for someone or lacking something because you made a family that you can call your own.

White Christmas – Living in a hot tropical country where it never seen, felt or experience snow, I am always dreaming of having a white Christmas. How it feels and lives in a place where there is a time of chill and shiver. I sometimes imagine myself doing snow balls, playing with it and throwing at other people, riding the cable car or snowmobile, creating a snowman, alpine or cross-country skiing, tobogganing, and bobsledding. Winter season also ensure the intimacy and privacy of a couple and reunion forging ties for the family. It draws to a point for me that I’d rather spent a life in a cold place warmed by the kindness of human hearts than live in a warm place chilled by the cold stone and unforgiving human hearts.

Sheep – Sheep has been a witness to the birth over savior Jesus Christ. Like the sheep, he humbles himself and led us to greener pasture. We are his sheep taken care of and protected by him. I watch the Greatest American Dog season finale last night and I can’t help but fell for them and my eyes are swelled with tears. In every episode, the dog always amuses me with their feats and indomitable spirits to overcome every challenge setting high expectations in their showings.  Like the sheep, meek and humble, so are the dogs to their owners who obeyed them for respect, loyalty and affection just like their owners do to them. The show provides a stronger relationship between the dog and the owner, enhance their capability, release their maximum potentials and unraveling their identity. But the real score here is to show us that even dogs or any animals can act and think like humans if treated in humane ways. It only proves to us that animals can be human enough to exemplify such kindness and humility where human turns into animals or savage beast. I love animals that I treat them like humans and would love to spend a lifetime living with these cute creatures.

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The Vendee Globe is a solo, nonstop yacht race that circumnavigates the world.

Like, Duh! Upon finding her birth certificate, 106 year old Lena Thouless of Bowthorpe, Norwich, England discovered that she had been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day for more than a century.

Lewis Manilow, 81, and Jack Shore, 82, of Chicago, Illinois, US, met for the first time in 2008 and discovered they were brothers – living only 6 blocks apart.

71 year old Pero Ajtman of Karanac, Croatia, has drunk nothing but Coca Cola for the past 40 years.

A Baby was born with 16 toes, 8 on each foot in Leizhou, Guangdong, China, in November 2008.

In the 1950s and early 1960s US automakers sold dashboard record players for cars.

Born without lower arms, 15 year old Cornel Hrisca – Munn of Whittington, England, took second place in a National Drumming Competition.

25, 27, 3, 12, 6, 15, 9, 30, 21, 19 – Which of these numbers can be added together to have exactly 50? Answer: You can add 25, 19 and 6.

In 2006, The Police Department in Hagfors, Sweden, bought toilet paper for the first time in 20 years – in 1986 they accidentally ordered hundreds of “Pallets” instead of “boxes” and ended up with enough paper to fill 12 garages.

Believe It Or Not! a new word is added to the English language every 98 minutes.

More than 12 million people in the world live in some type of slavery or forced labor.

The Hartsfield – Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, serves 85 million passengers a year – more than the entire population of Germany.

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Riddles

How can you tell that a cat likes the rain?

     Lengthen it.

How can you make my watch a stopwatch?

    Don’t wind it.

Idioms

to have a card up one’s sleeve

     to have some surprise or secret in reserve

ex. It seemed as if the minister had lost the argument, but as usual, he had a card up his sleeve.

Tongue Twister

 Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better batter.

Quotable Quotes of the Day

“People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it.”

                                                                                    Howard Newton

“Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.”

                                                                                    Anonymous

“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. Some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

                                                                                   Abigail Van Buren

“Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.”

                                                                                   Buddha

“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”

                                                                                  Will Rogers

“Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others, unknown work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.”

                                                                                   Voltaire