New Chief Justice - Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno

Since the last Chief Justice Renato Corona has been impeached and convicted for betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution, President Benigno Aquino III officially appointed Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno as the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court dated August 24, 2012.

Statement of the Presidential Spokesperson on the new Chief Justice, August 24, 2012

Statement of Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda:On the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines[August 24, 2012]
In the midst of this period of deep mourning for the loss of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, the President is cognizant of his constitutional duty to appoint the next Chief Justice of the Philippines. He has therefore decided to appoint Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno as the 24^th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The President is confident that Chief Justice Sereno will lead the judiciary in undertaking much-needed reforms. We believe the Judicial Branch of government has a historic opportunity to restore our people’s confidence in the judicial system.

Background

"My Way" Song of Frank Sinatra is Banned

It is said that the song of Frank Sinatra entitled "My Way" is banned and almost all the karaoke bars in the Philippines already removed this song from their song list. This may sound crazy but the reason for this banned is because there are at least half a dozen of people were killed just because of singing this song not to mentioned those who were severely injured.

According to authorities, they also not sure what had happened or what really the real reason is. But of those killing incidents, it would end up on their investigation that those who were killed or severely injured were last seen singing the said song.

People in the Philippines were divided base on the reason. Some said that maybe the song itself is having some sort of a curse that whoever sang it will die. But some said that maybe because of being a very known song, many people also knew the proper way of singing "My Way". And maybe those who sang this song who were killed or got into some sort of a violence acts didn't sang it properly or maybe they just don't really have the right tone. With that, those people who really idolized that song got angry and came to result to violence.

Holiday on August 20, 2012 - No Work and No Class

This is a little bit late, but for those who don't know yet, Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III had declared August 20, 2012 as a regular holiday. In short, there will be no class and no work on that day. This is inline with the Proclamation No. 455, s. 2012.

Aquino declared August 20 as a regular holiday to promote cultural understanding and integration, the entire Filipino nation should have the full opportunity to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in the observance and celebration of Eid’l Fitr, a celebration by the Muslim World for three (3) days after the end of the month of fasting. One more thing, it is in order to bring the religious and cultural significance of the  Eid’l Fitr  to the fore of national consciousness

This proclamation was declared last August 13, 2012.

Philippines is Trending Quite a While

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Philippines is still trending in Twitter for quite a while now. This is a good news for we knew that lot of people knows Philippines. But the twist there is that Philippines became trending not because of a good news but because of its one of the most worst experience.

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• Kobe Trending event
• #18ThingsIWant
• #10ThingsIGetAlot
• #BangonPilipinas
• Mr. Sun
• Marikina River
• Philippines
• Keep Safe
• #ReliefPH
• #nowplaying

For some of those who still don't know, some part of the Philippines is now experiencing a catastrophe. This was started when a typhoon named Ferdie enter in the Philippine Area of Responsibility last July 18, 2012 and it lasted until the 26th day of July of this year. But when Ferdie was not completely got out from Philippine Area of Responsibility, a new typhoon was developed last July 26, 2012. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration (PAG-ASA) named it as the typhoon Gener. Gener lasted until August 04, 2012. But last August 1, while Gener is still hitting the northern part of the Philippines, a new Typhoon started to hit the Philippines, they named it as Haikui.

Because of these typhoons that keeps hitting the Philippines, some dams overflowed. They reaches their maximum level of water stored. That creates the whole nearby Barangays on flood. Plus heavy rains are still pouring down.

Because of these floods, many schools canceled their classes same as some agencies, especially Government agencies.