Brown/Yellow and blue eyed cat

This cat's one eye is brown/yellow and the other one is blue. I've seen one of them in my neighborhood a few times. I've read that blue-eyed cats are often deaf.

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Small Rocky Planet Found Orbiting Normal Star

Another one of those humankind's discoveries.

I was thinking. If an alien world somewhere same or advanced than ours is on the other side of the universe, so it must be a lot of light-years away. Then we could be able to know what happened to their solar system better than them coz we saw it light-years behind the time they are now since the light that has travelled from their galaxy only reached us after lots of years afterwards. And the amazing part is that it can be vice versa. How mutual hehe...


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060125_smallest_planet.html

Astronomers announced today the discovery of what is possibly the smallest planet known outside our solar system orbiting a normal star.

A proud barangay high school (The Manila Times, August 16, 2003)

I just saw this link while googling.. but it's not there anymore so I took a copy from the Google cache.


Saturday, August 16, 2003

GROUND LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
A proud barangay high school

“WE direly need classrooms,” said Principal Senen Paulin, when we visited again the Buanoy National High School (BNHS) after almost two decades since it was first opened in the mid-1980s. I found that this particular barangay high school has already more than 2,000 enrollees, and with only 28 classroom and four branches in other parts of town.

The BNHS has existed for well over two decades now since the mid-1980s, when it was just a foundling institution set on a donated vacant lot of less than two hectares adjoining the barangay elementary school. The fledgling national high school has been a feeble effort by the government to show rural folks how concerned it was with their education.

When it was just a few years old, and I visited it for the first time, it was a mere collection of single level ramshackle classrooms set at the fringes of a rectangle with a vacant space in the middle that passed off as a playground or a school plaza. I surmised then that the same situation must exist in other barangay high schools.

Today, almost two decades later, the buildings have been improved in hollow blocks and concrete, and hence more stable and secure. They still stand in the same location, facing the modest school grounds where the students are able to walk across to catch up with their classes in different single-level buildings.

But the high school no longer looks like a like a timid government effort to give rural youth the opportunity for secondary education as it did in the first few years of its operation. It is now a full-grown institution with an inner pride and a bit of cockiness because of the achievements it had notched, and the learning facilities it had acquired.

The once rural high school with hardly 100 students as its first enrollees has now about 5,000 students, and gravely suffering a shortage of room and chairs. Recent reports show that while the elementary school population in Central Visayas has decreased from last year, its secondary school population increased by 15,846.

Sources from the education department’s regional office said that Central Visayas secondary schools last year recorded a total enrolment of 361,199 students, while this year, the number increased to 377,045, or an increase of 4.39 percent. On the other hand, enrolment in the primary level came down to 918,226 from 929,561.

The present BNHS principal, Senen Paulin, scion of one of a respected family in Balamban, practically witnessed the growth and development of the school into what it is today. It has become the mother school of four other schools in Barangays Nangka, Gaas and Lamesa and the Poblacion night high school (NHS).

The night high school, according to Mr. Paulin, was opened to give opportunity to those who wanted to finish high school, but have to work during the day. The NHS has also become the pilot of a Department of Science and Technology program for science and math. Toward this end, DOST extended various forms of assistance to the BNHS.

But like other high schools in the country, the BNHS is faced with the same problem of accommodation for its increasing student population. Mr. Paulin solved the problem of having 80 or more students in each section from first to fourth year, by splitting the students into two daily sessions of smaller classes spread across its 28 classrooms.

The first session starts at 6 a.m. and ends at one in the afternoon. The second session starts at 2 p.m. and ends at eight in the evening. Luckily, Mr. Paulin has teachers who are quite committed, and who went along with his plan to hold two sessions each day to accommodate the excess students.

In an effort to improve its facilities, Principal Paulin has been forced to be a go-getter. Right now, the BNHS has some 47 computers which third and fourth year students desiring to acquire hands-on training in computers are allowed to use. Several computer units came from a Department of Trade program. The others were donations from the nearby Aboitiz industrial estate, where some tenants like the Tsuneishi set human resource development tieups with the school.

On the cultural side of their education, the BNHS has been able to compete and win prizes in various categories in the Sinulog mardi gras of Cebu City for four successive years now. The event, held every January of the year, is participated in by different cultural groups from the Visayas and Mindanao.

Truth is I will not be surprised if the Buanoy National High School would eventually attain the level of a science high school. Principal Paulin has been with the school since 1987, if I recall correctly. He started as a classroom teacher. But his youth has given him the impetus to grow with the school, and in 1998, he was appointed school principal.

Today, Mr. Paulin’s attention is focused on developing journalists among his junior and senior students. He said this goal should be a fitting recognition of the importance of mass communication, as well as a means of acquainting the students with our history.

Our country’s independence, in fact, was rooted in the revolution of 1898 when our journalist-heroes had the La Solidaridad as an instrument of their intellectual liberation.

Men are revengeful...

Men enjoy seeing bad people get hurt. They don't feel much sympathy but rather a sense of reward while women are still sympathetic.

True??


NEW YORK - Bill Clinton said he felt others' pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at
all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_sc/schadenfreude_study

Lasallians: The Best and the Brightest

is this Ate Kristine??? wow...

Gold Medal for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis:
Kristine del Rosario (CE)

http://www.psi.dlsu.edu.ph/students/awards/ah_9899.asp

Sending my name to the Asteroid Belt

Congratulations!

Mei Joy Paulin

Your name is traveling aboard the Dawn spacecraft on its mission to the Asteroid Belt.

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also send yours...

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnCommunity/

Sendname2asteroid/index_asteroid_blt.aspx

STARDUST spacecraft

Hmm, nganong kaduha man na nakalista si ahia? hahaha. Ako na unta to ^_^

Note: As a public outreach effort, over 1 million names were collected and placed on the STARDUST spacecraft,which will visit Comet Wild 2 in 2004.

MEIJI Y PAULIN
MIKO GANDHI PAULIN
MIKO GANDHI Y PAULIN

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/names2p6.html

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/missions/stardust.html

Ate Anne's website

Tabligan Family Home

http://www.tabligan.org/

JITSE

2004 JITSE Passers October 10, 2004

I passed the exam on Eidan's day ^_^

http://www.philnits.org/passers.html

Palaro to be revived on May (The Freeman, January 26, 2005)

PESS Central Visayas chief Vivian Giñete, regional supervisor Danilo Villadolid and division supervisors Tata Paulin of Cebu Province and Malou Ycong of Talisay City are the representatives of region VII to the conference-workshop.

http://www.thefreeman.com/sports/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050126&id=27150

Gems of Thoughts

Collection of words of wisdom from Papa Ton. Compiled by my sister Meiji from the original notebooks and encoded online by my cousin Anne. This was especially made for his birthday on 1997.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/9920/

Antonio Gonzalez Paulin

An online profile of my late grandfather which I found years earlier

A very extra-ordinary person who fights for what he believes in for the good of the country.

http://www.ngkhai.com/pointcebu/profile/paulin.htm

CompE instructors attend SOI-Asia workshop

Two faculty members from the Department of Computer Engineering participated in the School of Internet in Asia (SOI–Asia) Operators Workshop last August 28–September 1, 2005 in Brawijaya University, Indonesia.

The faculty members are Engr. Dioscoro L. Conejos Jr. and Engr. Lewel Jun Rosas.

http://www.usc.edu.ph/news.php?id=0000000709