Philippine Numbers

Interestingly,  there is something special about statistics in the Philippines concerning education and the government. I would rather take the numbers stated here as belonging to "Philippines' Sex Number System" for the time being.  I would like to add another number here: 


92 million + 11 million = 103 million: the  estimated population of the Philippines who were products of intelligent sex. The 92 million people are loyalists that's why they are in the Philippines while the other 11 million Filipinos live overseas. I belong to the latter group.
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Numbers 

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 11:46:00 07/17/2010

Filed Under: Health, Education

80: Total number of elementary public schools in the country where sex education modules were pilot tested when classes opened last June 15. The project of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, called “Institutionalizing Adolescent Reproductive Health through Lifeskills-Based Education,” was pilot-tested in Grades 5 and 6 classes in Olongapo City, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Masbate, Bohol, Eastern Samar, Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Sultan Kudarat.


79: Number of public high schools that participated in the sex ed pilot testing


29: Number of schools in which the Education department and the United Nations Children’s Fund launched in March a program designed to raise awareness among students on the importance of abstinence, making the right decisions, and the consequences of “sexual experience either by choice or due to pressure from peer groups”


5: The appropriate starting age for children to receive mandatory sexuality education, according to a report by the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization. The 98-page report, called “International Guidelines for Sexuality Education,” was released in 2009 and offers students 5 to 18 years old a “universal lesson plan” that includes an “informed approach to effective sex and relationships” as well as HIV education.


65: Estimated number of representatives in the incoming 15th Congress who are in favor of passing the Reproductive Health bill, according to Ramon San Pascual of the Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development last May. The RH bill calls for sex education in all schools, among others.


2 out of 3: Proportion of women in the Philippines who did not know that the HIV/AIDS virus cannot be transmitted by sharing food with an HIV-positive person, nor through mosquito bites, according to the 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) conducted by the National Statistics Office among women 15 to 49 years old.


2 out of 5: Proportion of women from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) who had never heard of AIDS, according to the same study.


20 to 30: Estimated percentage of condom use among groups at risk of HIV infection (e.g. sex workers) in the Philippines, according to a study by the National Center in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. According to the study published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, RP has the lowest rate of condom use in Asia.


30 to 35: Estimated percentage of overseas Filipino workers among the total number of reported HIV cases in the country, according to the same study.


700: Number of HIV cases recorded in the country during the first five months of 2010, according to the Department of Health.


31: Percentage of births that were unplanned among women aged 15 to 19, according to the 2008 NDHS.


26: Percentage of Filipinos aged 15 to 25 who have experienced premarital sex, according to the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI) and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation.


Compiled by Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Sources: PDI Archives, foxnews.com, United Nations, UNESCO


Attribution:  http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20100717-281645/Numbers
                     http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=philippine+population
                     Both  retrieved on July 20, 2010

Refudiate: New Entry in the English Language

It was born out of Sarah Palin's tweeter post about the mosque being built in New York City that "peaceful muslims should "refudiate." When Palin found her quote the subject of scoffs in the tweeter community, she deleted it and replaced "refute...." instead. According to her, the word refudiate means to "misunderestimate" or "wee-weed up."  For some viewers, Palin must have meant "repudiate" because the context that her message wanted to convey was for the Muslims to reject the validity of the mosque being controversial in New York.


Not to be outdone, she compared herself with Shakespeare when she said: "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words, too. Got to celebrate it."


The question is: Who would like to use the new word?


See  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/palin-invents-word-compares-he.html

The Wisest of the Jailbirds

It only takes some lazy thinking to get even with the jail guards. Read on......

Jail Mail

A prisoner in jail receives a letter from his wife: "Dear Husband, I have decided to plant some lettuce in the back garden. When is the best time to plant them?"

The prisoner, knowing that the prison guards read all mail, replied in a letter: "Dear Wife, whatever you do, do not touch the back garden. That is where I hid all the money."

A week or so later, he received another letter from his wife: "Dear Husband, You wouldn't believe what happened, some men came with shovels to the house, and dug up all the back garden."

The prisoner wrote another letter back: "Dear wife, now is the best time to plant the lettuce."

from arcamax

Funny Funeral

Funeral Comments

Three friends die in a car accident and they go to an orientation in heaven. They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you?

The first guy says,"I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man."

The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher which made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow.

The last guy replies, "I would like to hear them say ... Look, He's Moving!

from arcamax

Which Bone Are You?

Organization Body

The body of any organization has four bones. Which bones do you belong to?


1. Wish bones are those who spend all their time wishing someone else will do all the work;


2. Jaw Bones are people who do all the talking and very little else;


3. Knuckle Bones are those who knock everything that everybody else tries to do;


4. Back Bones are the true workers who get under the load and do all the heavy jobs.

From Arcamax

Is chocolate really that bad?

It's  a known fact that chocolates are fattening and  not good for the health. But a recent research tells us otherwise. No wonder this black thing was considered "food for the gods" in ancient time. It must have had beneficial effects that the production of chocolate bars or brews were just for the royals.

See http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20100710-280273/The-Seven-Blessings-of-Chocolate

Take Cat Naps

Power Naps cannot be avoided in the office. See the excusable excuses below:

Excuses If You Get Caught Sleeping In Your Cubicle

1. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."


2. "This is just a 15-minute power nap like they raved about in that time-management course you sent me to."


3. "I was working smarter-not harder."


4. "Whew! I musta left the top off the liquid paper."


5. "Oh, I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on our mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"


6. "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"


7. "I was testing the keyboard for drool-resistance."


8. "I was trying to remember where that difficult "Z" Key was, and now it is indelibly imprinted on my brain, or at least my forehead."


9. "I'm in the management training program."


10. "I'm actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend."


11. "This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!"


12. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?"


13. "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."


14. "Uh, hey, whaddaya expect... the coffee machine is broken..."


15. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."


16. "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"


17. "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"


18. "I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands."


19. "The mailman flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot."


20. "Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day." 

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ArcaMax Jokes ezines@arcamax.com

What's UP?

Pondering UP

Read until the end......you'll laugh....

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.' It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky
or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP , and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.

At other times this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble,
line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look UP the word UP in the dictionary.. In a desk-sized
dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about
thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but ifyou don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time is UP !

Oh.....one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U P !

Did that one crack you UP ?

Don't screw UP . Send this on to everyone you
look UP in your address
book..or not...it's UP to you.

Don't forget when you're angry at someone it's Up Yours!!!!!

Now, I'll shut UP.

Attribution: http://www.blogster.com/mamakat/pondering-up#comment-ycz4

One That Runs Fast

Buying a Car

A husband and wife were debating on buying a new car. She wanted a fast sports car. He wanted a pickup. As time passed on, her birthday came up and she thought it a great time to fulfill her wish.

She told her husband, "Look, I want something that can go from 0 to 200. Furthermore, I want it to be able to do it in just a few seconds!"

The husband bought her a bathroom scale.

ArcaMax Jokes ezines@arcamax.com

One Good Cowboy Advice

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket".

I should have known this earlier! I always thought of the bank that could make it but the 0.50 % per year is far too little for a thousand Baht!!! 

Attributionhttp://www.angelfire.com/ga/sweetgeorgiapeach1/advice.html

What Does Bangkok Mean?

Bangkok (Krungthep) as the capital city of Thailand is recorded to be among the longest place names in the world- in Thai, of course. But the transliteration of the original name of the city makes it so.

The original name is:
Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudya
mahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwes
mahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit

When in Thailand, one often hears Krungthep and not Bangkok, among the natives. I just later realized the symbol (the sign that looks like "7") attached after Krungthep which means that it was cut short or that there is something following the word. It can be deduced therefore that the next words to Krungthep are: mahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudya
mahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesmahasatar
namornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit

The translated meaning of the full name is given below:

The land of angels, the great city of

immortality, various of devine gems,

the great angelic land unconquerable,

land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital,

place of the grand royal palace,

forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits,

predestined and created by the highest devas.

Attribution: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/name.html

Not Good W's In Thailand

1.WHINING- when one is discriminated on the basis of his color that he receives as much as half the salary of his whiteman's counterpart in an institution....

- when one is discriminated on the grounds of "disability" to mimic the uneducated-backpacker Englishman's* way of saying TROUSERS, BIN, or TROLLEY. Does it matter when the children don't even know their A's from their E's?
*so they say
- when a teacher is discriminated due to his teaching the youngsters the differences between:
RUBBER and ERASER; HOLIDAY and VACATION; BREAK TIME and RECESS; HEAD TEACHER and PRINCIPAL; CARETAKER and JANITOR; etc. etc.

2. WISHING WINTER TO COME- it never comes here!
3. WHEELING SLOWLY- afraid that speeding cars will run over me...
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If the basis for monthly remuneration for foreign teachers in Thailand is 'race/color', then the following wage schedule should fairly fare:

1. For Whites > 60,000 Baht
2. browns (Filipinos, Malaysians, ejusdem generis) > ฿ 30,000
3. blacks > ฿ 15,000
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Or, when generosity is absent in the school manager so that debit may prosper in his bank account:
1. W= 20 grand Baht
2. B= 10 grand Baht
3. Bl= 5,000 Baht

There seems to be fairness here....
Accounting that follows logic should tell us so....
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Hypothetical situation:
We may as well consider the little king's decision to cut costs because the school is into bankruptcy. Accordingly, the foreign teachers' budget is pulling too much from the little king's coffers and he doesn't like the tallies on the balance sheet. To curb this, he issued a memorandum with the attached new wage schedule that looked like this:
W = 10,000 Baht
B = 5,000 Baht
Bl = 2,500 Baht

Upon seeing this, B, being sensible, elected to volunteer teaching and so the little king re-adjusted W's salary to 5,000 Baht....

How Credible Is Online Education?

Nearly every webpage that I visit shows ads about online education. Some big and small, private and state universities all over the world offer online degrees. Others even bid for scholarships that are available through some schemes or agencies which are purportedly genuine. Career development required by employers in these days would let their employees seek an easier and affordable way of complying to the demand. If education for education's sake is strictly followed, the standards would mean a backbreaking  endeavor on the part of the student. But what makes one to choose online education is its time-saving, convenience and flexibility to learners characteristics.
The question is: How credible is Online Education? or Is Online Education producing Diploma Mills?

How To Accomplish Application Forms

McDonald's Job Application

This reportedly is an actual job application a 17-year-old boy submitted at a McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida...and they hired him because he was so honest and funny!

NAME: Greg B. (Name withheld to protect the guilty)

SEX: Not yet.

DESIRED POSITION: Company's President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be applying here in the first place.

DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

EDUCATION: Yes.

LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.

SALARY: Less than I'm worth.

MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.

REASON FOR LEAVING: I hated it

HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.

PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS?: Of what?

DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be "Do you have a car that runs?"

HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing house Sweepstakes.

DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job no, on my breaks yes.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.

DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?: Yes. Absolutely.

SIGN HERE: Aries.

From:
ArcaMax Jokes ezines@arcamax.com

I Just Can't Remember Where I Read This Anecdote

Yes, really. I came across this anecdote before and I'm sure the story is about two elderly men who were sharing their thoughts on going to a clinic for some "Memory Upgrade"..something like that. And here I find the introduction is different but all the same it talks about forgetfulness. Not to make offense to my age group, this is also true to the young ones who sometimes are at a loss in their conversations when the brain doesn't cooperate..
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What's that Restaurant?

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen. The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, "Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly."

The other man said, "What is the name of the restaurant?"

The first man thought and thought and finally said, "What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know... the one that's red and has thorns."

"Do you mean a rose?"

"Yes, that's the one," replied the man. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, "Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to last night?"

Attribution: ArcaMax Jokes ezines@arcamax.com retrieved on 4 July 2010

Run, Paul, Run!

What would happen to "Paul the psychic octopus" when the German team in 2010 FIFA World Cup will realize defeat? Paul recently predicted that Spain will win the games. But what really  irked the German people is that Paul did not show how grateful he was to his host country when he chose the plastic box marked with Spanish flag instead of the German's.

Although he is endowed with eight legs, it is very unlikely that he will be able to escape except when the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero will provide octopus bodyguards.


See http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/185803/viva-espana-says-paul-the-psychic-octopus
  
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus