Merry Christmas! Well, I just spent my Christmas with my family at home. No parties, mom just prepared foods for the Christmas Eve and just stayed at home. As the clock hit 12MN, we lit the fireworks and firecrackers to welcome the birth of Christ with a bang and boom.

Paris Hilton topped in Google news’ searches in 2006. Google zeitgeist just release its compiled year-end lists and graphs, they compared frequent queries this year versus 2005 to see what kind of things were top of mind.

Google.com - Top Searches in 2006
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki


Google News - Top Searches in 2006
1. paris hilton
2. orlando bloom
3. cancer
4. podcasting
5. hurricane katrina
6. bankruptcy
7. martina hingis
8. autism
9. 2006 nfl draft
10. celebrity big brother 2006

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In 1982, Time Magazine’s Man of the Year is the Computer but this year’s person of the year is YOU, yes! You, anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web. You, who uses the computer to share facts, information, news, pictures, videos etc. through The Internet.

It seems that the world can’t find any great men these days. Hmmm… where have all the great men gone? This only shows that the year 2006 is the year where no individual noble man outshined the principles to become Time Magazine’s Man of The Year. Because the year 2006 is full of hatred, from Iraq’s conflicts that became bloodier to the battle between Lebanon and Israel to the war haul on Sudan. For the moment nobody created a great honor, even the two times Man of the Year winner George W. Bush didn’t complete his third time because he wasn’t able to explain the war in the Middle East.

This years Person of The Year are YouTube contributors, MySpace users, The Blogger’s, and all sorts of things in the World Wide Web (The Internet). With Internet you can reach out around the world even if you are just only in the comfort of your room. You can share News and information to the whole wide world with just a click of the mouse, you can donate to Hurricane Katrina and Albay’s landslide victims online.

Last year's winners were Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono, who were cited for their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.

Who will be next year? Will it be the Cellular Phones? Your MP3 Players, or will it be Manny Pacqiauo?

One of the most popular animated TV shows in American history, The Simpsons has earned its spot in pop culture through its parodies of the "Middle American" lifestyle. The show, created by Matt Groening, is a spin-off of a series of animated shorts originally aired on The Tracey Ullman Show and has earned 21 Emmy Awards, 22 Annie Awards, and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Groening named most of the main characters after his own family members. Where does Bart's name come from?

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I just want to post this article from wikipedia to remind some people that they are such an English Grammar Nazis slash pathetic idiots. According to some research, most English Grammar Nazis are from the Philippines. I just don’t know why it is really a BIG deal in the Philippines when someone has grammatical error on his/her language, especially in a blog. This is not a Thesis anyway, why bother with the grammatical and spelling errors? and just focus on the issue instead. Duh! I don’t wanna name names but you already know who you are.

What is a Grammar nazi?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grammar nazi, spelling nazi and language nazi are all terms used to describe a participant in a discussion, online or otherwise, who criticizes or corrects the language usage of another participant. Such a person is often accused of flaming as a result of finding fault with minor details of other participants' messages and often only in opinions with which the accused grammar nazi disagrees. Participants in these discussions often end up taking opposite sides in a prescription versus description debate.

Use of these terms is often considered derogatory. However, some people do view grammar nazism as a virtue rather than a flaw and insist upon strict usage of the language in question. These individuals are more likely to wear the badge of "grammar nazi" with pride and can even refer to themselves in this manner. In some situations, a more relaxed method of speech or prose may be appropriate; it is these situations in which grammar nazis are more commonly chastised.

The many exceptions and intricacies of English language spelling can present a problem for even the most experienced user. In addition, the instantaneous nature of the Internet discourages careful editing of one's posts before submission. This, combined with the possibility of typographical errors, often makes it very easy to find a spelling error in a message with which a user could choose to find fault. In other languages with more regular spelling, other grammatical features might be criticized, such as use of the subjunctive mood or the placement of diacritics.

The grammar nazi's method of argument often ignores the content of another user's argument and focuses on its quality, distracting from the issue at hand. This method may become an ad hominem attack, which is a logical fallacy. On the other hand, errors and stylistic flaws may themselves make an argument hard to follow, and for this reason they may be deliberately introduced by trolls.

Origin of the phrase

The term "grammar nazi", along with similar coinings such as "spelling nazi", "soup nazi", and "food nazi", comes indirectly from the Nazis, members of the National Socialist German Workers Party under Adolf Hitler. The original reason for adopting this metaphor was that the person concerned stuck obsessively to rules and implemented them in an aggressive manner; obsessiveness, rule-making and aggression are considered characteristic of Nazis. However, as used today the phrase has no direct connection to fascism, in the same way that accusing someone of being a philistine does not mean they are from Philistia or say anything about people who today live in Canaan, or calling someone a vandal does not mean they are actually connected to that German tribe. The fact that these nouns have lost their original capital letter is an indication that they have become part of everyday speech with few people considering the origins of these terms when using them.

Nonetheless, these uses are offensive to some, as the controversy in the popular press over the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" episode indicates, but still the terms are used so frequently as to inspire "Godwin's Law". Alternatives used in some circles include "grammar police", "grammar cop" (a term that Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings admitted was an accurate description of himself), and even the trademarked "Grammer Cop", intentionally misspelled.

Source: WikiPedia

With my friends and officemates, we are planning long before to experience the Cagayan de Oro’s White Water Rafting. But the long wait is over last Sunday, December 10, 2006. We finally decided that it is really time to take action, since the year 2006 is about to end and we don’t want to be left behind by those tourists who are already enjoying the adventure in our own city.

The adventure was awesome great! I definitely want to experience more those mind-blowing, breathtaking rapids adventure of water rafting, and the gushing over the river rocks and boulders that you can feel while the raft pass-by and at the same time as we are paddling our way to the rapids is such an awesome adventure that I will definitely love to do over and over again. Our white water adventure stretched for about 12 kilometers with 14 rapids (the minimum), and on the side tour you can see the awesome scenery of the caves, the abrupt rocky walls beside the river, the green vegetation, the gorges and the resting haven of monkeys and snakes, wow! I never knew Cagayan de Oro has a place like that, not until I experienced the white water rafting. It is really true what they say “Huwag maging dayuhan sa sariling bayan”. You see, I am already 25 years old here on this city and still there are places here I never yet explored.

Anyway, this coming 2007, I promise myself not to deprive from exploring places here in the city. I will wander the City of Golden Friendship, The Cagayan de Oro as a whole, from north to south and east to west.

Here are some of the pictures of our white water rafting adventure.