You may want to consider selling your DNA. They pay $5000.

Aside from that come-on, you also help researchers. But beware, they could actually hold the patent to your DNA (insert The Twilight Zone music here *)

"Thanks to the U.S. Patent office, your DNA can be patented, protecting your blueprint and putting your DNA on file for scientific purposes."

Like it's a good thing. Or is it?

Hopefully no one is suffering from voter's remorse as we find out who are next bunch of leaders are ... Got this in a forwarded email. Just want to post it here for everyone.


Miriam Defensor Santiago was featured in Correspondents last week.

ANG SARAP MAGING SENADOR!

Maganda rin naman ang naidudulot ng pagiging prangka ni Senador Miriam
Defensor-Santiago. Ayon kay Santiago, marami ang tumatakbong Senador
dahil sa laki ng budget na ibinibigay sa kanila kada buwan.

Lumalabas na P35,000 suweldo nila kada buwan ay pakitang-tao lang sa
milyun-milyong budget ng bawat senador. Kada buwan ay may Fixed
Monthly Budget ang bawat Senador ng humigit-kumulang P2 Milyon.

Sa opisina pa lang nila ay humigit-kumulang P500,000 and budget nila
sa Maintenance and Operating Expenses (Rental, Utilities, Supplies at
Domestic Travels) at P500,000 para sa Staff at Personal expenses. Kaya
para makatipid ang ibang Senador, kaunti lang ang staff na kinukuha
nila. Nagtataka ka pa kung bakit mayroong mga Ghost Employee?

Bukod diyan, may P760,000 allowance pa sila kada buwan para naman sa
Foreign Travel. At ang masakit pa nito, hindi na kailngan i-liquidate
ang mga resibo ng mga gastusin 'yan kundi Certification lang ang
Requirement.

Heto pa, lahat sila ay Chairman ng mg Komite sa Senado. Ang Committee
Chairman ay tumatanggap din ng budget na sinlaki ng tinatanggap ng mga
Senador na humigit-kumulang P1 Milyon din! Hindi sila mawawalan ng
Komite dahil 24 lang ang ating mga Senador at 37 naman ang Committee
sa Senado. There's food for everybody 'ika nga! Lumalabas na doble ang
kanilang benepesiyo at kita kapag sila ay nabiyayaan ng Committee
Chairmanship.

Sa P200 milyon na Budget para sa Pork Barrel ng mga Senador bawat
taon, awtomatikong may 10% na S.O.P. o kita ng Senador na P20 milyon.
Ito ang porsiyento na ibinibigay ng mga kontratista sa mga Senador na
nagbibigay sa kanila ng mga Infrastructure at Livelihood Project.

Bago matapos ang termino ng isang Senador, kumita na siya ng P100
milyon sa Pork Barrel pa lang. Yung ibang Senador mas gahaman, hindi
lang 10% kundi 20 - 30% ang komisyon hinihingi sa mga kontratista.

Pansinin niyo na lang ang pagbabago ng buhay ng ilan sa ating mga
Senador simula nang manungkulan sa puwesto. Kung dati ay simple lang
ang kanilang pamumuhay ngayon ay nakatira na sila sa mga eksklusibong
subdivision, maraming bahay sa Pilipinas at abroad at mahigit lima ang
sasakyan.

Ngayon nagtataka ka pa ba kung bakit gumagastos ng daan-daang milyong
piso ang mga Senador sa kampanya para sa isang posisyon na P35,000
lang ang suweldo kada buwan? Bawing-bawi pala ang gastos kapag naupo
na!

ANG SARAP MAGING SENADOR ! ! !

Maintaining multiple blogs can be quite crazy at times. The reason why this blog (this being the original one too) has been so unupdated is because I have two other blogs:

• my food blog "where in the world shall i eat today"
  
• Dui's blog
• and others which i've just forgotten about :)
  

It goes without saying that I am not touching Dui's blog. This is more for family and friends.
But what to do with this blog and the foodie thingy?

What with customization now possible here in multiply plus the fact that blogcharm isnt "making me money" (as it claims it would), why bother? I also noticed that the most commented/visited items here in multiply are in fact my foodie related posts. Oh, and setting privacy here "seems" to be better.

Anyway ...
I'd love to hear from anyone out there who pops in here, even once in a  while. :)

If you have nothing to do, or want to just kill a little time, try this funny quiz. Kind of long-ish though (and I gave up halfway through because I couldnt admit my real age, among others ...)

"Have you been thinking about putting yourself up for sale lately? Ever wonder how much money you could get on the open human market? HumanForSale.com will attempt to place a value on your life using a variety of criteria in 4 basic facets of life (physical,mental,lifestyle,personality). This is obviously a very subjective matter and is not intended and does not claim to be scientifically accurate."

Note the disclaimer. I know for a fact that I am priceless ;)

... no not me, the people at this site!

If can take the heat, go get your site reviewed here. If not, just lurk, like I do.

I find this site weirdly inanely addicting and entertaining. And you learn a lot too (yeah yeah).

Go visit if you aren't fainthearted. You've been warned!

What makes a Pinoy a Pinoy? A number of things! But we do have our tabo to be proud of! I thought you would enjoy this site which is dedictaed solely to TABO!

"We, the members of the Tabo Travel Troupe, do hereby agree to take a tabo (any kind of tabo be it metal, plastic, big, small, ornate, or antiquated) with us on all our travels and take photos of them in various locations all around the world.

Thus the tabo becomes a metaphor for the Filipino diaspora - similarly diverse and dispersed, yet, unmistakeably Pinoy, quirky, and reassuringly familiar and hospitable wherever they're found."



"Take your tabo and travel!"

Came across this in one of those forwards.

If you are in the US or Canada, deal with $$$, or just plain curious ... this site may be of interest ...

"Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out.

All you need to do is enter the denomination, series, and serial number of any US dollar bill, and your current USA ZIP or Canadian Post Code in the box below.

If you are from Canada, be sure to check out Where's Willy (www.whereswilly.com)? to track your Canadian Currency!"

For example, one Dollar Bill, Serial# K244 I Series: 1999 has travelled 4,191 Miles in 3 Yrs at an average of 3.8 Miles per day!

Photo courtesy: www.blogcharm.com/interlab

According to this:



Now, how do I REALLY cash on on this?
 

Got time on your hands? Some games you can play while you are downloading/uploading something big, or just enjoy ...

... watching your cube grow? (Grow Cube)
... gobbling up falling food? (Hatch)
... just trying something new?

The games are made by a Japanese in his/her spare time. No instuctions, as they are quite intuitive. Can be addicting ... so beware!

Was looking at what was popular on Technorati and had to share this with everyone out there: Postsecret. For those uninitiated in the blog-o-sphere, this is an incredibly talked about blog where people send in, anonymously of course, their secrets in the form of postcards.

Some secrets are tragic (see photo), some funny ("I am afraid of revolving doors"), some are typical ("I want to eat Reese's pieces all day long") ... well, the secrets run the whole gamut of human emotion. Talk about airing your dirty laundry, go check 'em out yourself. I know you're curious.

The "project" just came out with their book. The original postcards are in travelling exhibits too. The site is completely ad-free. Help support the site by buying the book.

Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives


Maybe you'll see YOUR secret in the next book they put together...

Maintaining a blog is HARD. I've been at it with Dui's site for a few months now. While I enjoy it, entries do not magically appear when I remember something worthwhile.