Filipinos in Peterborough United

The growing population of Filipinos in Peterborough and its surrounding towns and villages have formed a community association, Filipino Community of Peterborough (FILCOP) last 17 January 2010, which realised the long-standing dream of uniting themselves towards a common good.

Peterborough is a dynamic and thriving multi-cultural city with a population of 167,000 (2007 estimate) located in the county of Cambridgeshire. It is famous for its beautiful cathedral, considered one of the finest in England with a history dating back over 1,350 years and the current building approaching its 900th foundation anniversary. Peterborough is also one of the four Environment Cities in the UK and is now working to become the country's Environment Capital.

Torn t-shirt

Cean took this picture of me wearing my favourite house t-shirt, a torn light blue Gap pocket tee. He used my Dell Streak's 5mp camera and with a few tweaks with the special effects feature, a dull picture is turned into a work of art (of sort).

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The driver

Note: I got this story from an email from a former work colleague back in the Philippines.

After getting all of Pope Benedict's luggage loaded into the limo, (and he doesn't travel light), the driver notices the Pope is still standing on the curb.

'Excuse me, Your Holiness,' says the driver, 'Would you please take your seat so we can leave?'

'Well, to tell you the truth,' says the Pope, 'they never let me drive at the Vatican when I was a cardinal, and I'd really like to drive today.'

Writing for the web

People read online differently to print. We therefore have to write differently.
People rarely read web pages word for word. Instead they scan the page to see if they can pick out what they are looking for. And the longer the text, the more skimming they will do.

People probably haven’t come to a web page for the fun of it. They have come because they want to find information or do something as quickly and easily as possible.

Unfortunate names

A few weeks ago, I read the post Naming your child could be catastrophic from fellow Bol-anon blogger Edik.

In that post, Edik shared how he encountered some weird sounding names of students while doing a scrapbook project for a school.

Edik himself has an unusual name for somebody in the Philippines. Nowadays, it seems that Filipino parents have a penchant for unique names for their children.

Silence of the blog

This blog is eerily silent for some time now.

There is no dearth of materials nor ideas to write about. In fact, every week if not everyday, I think of and/or come across some topic that I want to blog about.

There is no lost of interest to blog either. In fact, my two other blogs are active. And I also have plans to start two or three blogs more.