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Good News First - Unionbank!

Paypal and my local bank Unionbank seem to have shaken hands quite well, especially after Unionbank’s last round of upgrades. It used to take 5 banking days before a withdrawal from my Paypal accounts reflected in my EON savings account, but now it’s down to 4! I made the withdrawal request [...]

As a last check before I made this post, spottt.com was down for maintenance and was serving a pacman game on its homepage instead. For the past two days it had been displaying its own ad instead of a member site’s and although the pink puppies were cute, I was wondering if I had miscalculated [...]

The establishment of college loans in the Philippines may be an alternative answer to rising tuition costs in the country.
A militant student group on Saturday questioned the non-inclusion of private schools in the tuition moratorium announcement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, saying this has left a greater number of the country’s students to the mercy of [...]

The following account is based purely my own experience and is not meant to cast aspersions on the dead, but to explain why I have been boycotting Jayross Lucky Seven Tours since late last year.
I confess I was one of the people who used to stand along EDSA trying to get a ride home in [...]

The road to 2010 is paved not only with dubious intentions but also with election signs and political signs disguised as community service announcements. On almost every electrical post and tree trunk there are eye-catching slogans and mottos, accented of course by the mugshot of your friendly district congressman