Have a blessed trip Nanay

Nanay (grandmother) passed away last friday. She was the heart of the Tan family. Have a blessed trip Nanay! Rest peacefully...

Bambi meets Godzilla

this is genius! This old cartoon started Marv Newland's animation career

I.D.: Identity Tattoo Photo Exhibit

I.D. is photographer Bert Bainto's first solo exhibit. The exhibit opens on November 21 (today!) 6pm at Rafa's Deli+Cafe and runs until December 21.

YDEiA will be playing an acoustic all-keyboard set tonight at the exhibit opening. Bert is a mutual friend of YDEiA's Bullet and Rafa's' Patrick. Do check it out.

Shell ordered to pay P7B in taxes

full story here: Shell ordered to pay P7B in taxes - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Now i couldn't resist to write something about this. As you may have read in earlier news, EO839 was implemented at the height of the devastation of tropical storm Ondoy to limit the price of petroleum. Naturally, it didn't take long for the big 3 to start complaining; and Shell finally sued and filed a petition to lift the order.

Lo and behold, Shell has just been ordered by the Bureau of Customs to pay P7.34B (read: Billion) in taxes for importing unleaded gasoline and declaring it as a blending component (therefore no tax). And that does not include penalties yet. How can a big reputable company have the nerve to complain and even file a case in court while it has its own stinking 3-pronged tail cheating at the back? For all we know, they'tr just hoarding stocked petroleum to pressure the government in lifting the freeze due to "low supply". Pay up before you go asking us consumers more than what we actually get from you!

Now, the price freeze will be lifted due to pressure from the big 3, and we are expecting fuel prices to increase as much as P14 per liter in the coming weeks.

Now on Facebook

After a looooong time of thinking, i finally decided to join facebook and see what the craze is all about. Look me up if you know me.

Just 10 minutes into my profile editing, i tried to change my display name. Lo and behold! Due to Facebook's active filtering system of name changing, it wouldn't accept the name 'KC' because it "has too many capital letters". wow