2013 Election: Vote not Bet

On 13 May 2013, it is your time to exercise your most powerful right once again.

There will be no harm if you choose to take some minutes to sit down, mark your votes, have them scanned, and have your pointing finger's nail inked. If you choose not to, it may harm you for the next 3 years or worst, for the rest of your life.

Here are some useful links and tools you may use.

Precinct Finder: This will help you know your polling center and precinct so that you will no longer need to join those people crowding over the list of precinct and look for their name. It will also show your voting/ registration status as well as the availability of your Voter's ID.

Ballot Template: It's easy as 1-2-3. After knowing your precinct, you may now view the sample ballot you will be using on the actual election. Select your Region > Province > Town. This will show all candidates for a given criteria. If you are a curious person, you may also use this to view the sample ballot of other town.

List of Candidates: I don't find it quite useful after viewing the Ballot Template. But how did I find it useful? I was able to view candidates who are possible to be part of "political dynasty" in this year's election. Isn't it nice?

For more updates, news, and other 2013 election related concern, you may visit the COMELEC's website at www.comelec.gov.ph.

I've Got Cartoon Friends In Facebook

My PC was broken on the last week of November and was fixed on the first day of December, I got confused. Is it true? I've got lots of cartoon friends. Name one and he or she might be one of them, from those famous characters of my generation which still lingers its popularity in today's generation to those characters which is most likely forgotten as time pass by are present.


After learning why, I changed mine as well. A Facebook Page was made to make raise awareness about the Worldwide Violence Against Children and Child Abuse, the name of the page creator is still unknown.

Links of those foundations which supports the fight against Child Abuse were also provided. For potential donors who wants to help abused children in the Philippines, you may visit Bantay Bata for your donations.

There is also a video which is currently spread and linked my Facebook members to get the attention as well and to get you out of confusion why Mickey Mouse is already your Facebook friend.


And today, December 6 which is said to have no human face on Facebook but just an invasion of memories, even though not 100% of Facebook account owners were able to change their profile picture with their favorite cartoon character, at least those characters are dominating. Maybe that person behind this movement were not just able to spread the awareness of Child Abuse, but he/she was also been able to spread joy with those who have changed their pictures.

Bringing those old cartoon characters to life makes you think how happy it is to be a child. And for us who were lucky enough to enjoy our childhood very well will be able to think that there are still children of people in this world who suffers from painful memories of their childhood and makes us think that when we became future parents, let's give our sons and daughters a happy childhood with the help of those cartoons created by lots of talented people.