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:) MR. 300 I am happy to announce that out of the top 700 advertising creatives in the Asian region, Brandie Tan ranked #319. Congrats bro!

+ + \ Con"flu*ence \ , n. [L. confluentia.] 1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. 2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage. "A new breed of adventurer is roaming the globe. Armed with a GPS and an eye for a quirky mission, these men and women are seeking out the spots on the earth's surface where lines of latitude and longitude cross. Their aim - to create a picture of the world." BBC NEWS Anyone in the Philippine with a GPS and a digicam? Maybe you can help map out the confluences in our 7,100 islands. Click here to where these places can be found.

The Prometheus Curse Or WHAT’S IN THE BALIKBAYAN BOX?! When Prometheus brought back fire from the gods, he didn’t know what he was getting the human race into and in particular, us Filipinos. I’m talking about that lovely, heartwarming, cumbersome tradition of bringing pasalubong. When I went to the United States to visit some relatives, half my suitcase was filled with pasalubong. I carried 40 pounds of hopia, balut, butong pakwan, daing, dried mangoes, Skyflakes and miniature jeepneys. I was a mobile sari-sari store. Note that some of the stuff I was made to carry was illegal according to US customs law. Not only was I a sari-sari store, I was also a smuggler—all for the sake of my kamag-anak. I half-expected my mother to ask me to hide sampalok in my socks. While in the land of milk(duds) and honey(nuts) we spent half the time looking for –what else?—pasalubong. So what if all these things we were buying were available at the duty-free shops (for convenient pasalubong s