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The Ivan Brothers Invade 2010 NCAA March Madness!

Manny Pacquiao on the mitts with Freddie Roach

Manny Pacquiao training on the mitts with veteran trainer Freddie Roach. Manny is getting ready for Joshua Clottey for their bout on Saturday, March 13. It will be televised on HBO PPV.

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

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Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle the present with confidence and prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling.

And even more beautiful is… knowing that you are the reason behind it.

Enjoy your day with a heart of gratitude.

Have a great day.

//aj

Source: Forward Email (edited)

These videos are getting old real quick but this specific one made me smile today. Hope it does for you too!

Bondi Beach Gets Flipped! Towel Surfing – Flip Video Flash Mob

Below is IMDb’s top 25 movies of the decade. I’ve bolded the one’s I’ve seen so far.

1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
3. City of God (2002)
4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
5. Avatar (2009)
6. Memento (2000)
7. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
8. WALL-E (2008)
9. Amélie (2001)
10. The Departed (2006)
11. The Pianist (2002)
12. Spirited Away (2001)
13. The Lives of Others (2006)
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
15. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
16. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
17. Up (2009)
18. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
19. The Prestige (2006)
20. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
21. Downfall (2004)
22. Gran Torino (2008)
23. Sin City (2005)
24. District 9 (2009)
25. Batman Begins (2005)

Not bad. Not bad at all. I’ve seen 16 of these 25 movies. Great list IMDb!

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In partnership with Microsoft Philippines, PHP User Group Philippines presents PHP Developers Summit 2010. We are inviting you to come and join us in this gathering of the country’s best tech-talents, professionals and web developers promoting the use of PHP and open source solutions in the enterprise and schools. Free flowing coffee with lots of freebies and raffle prizes!

So what are you waiting for? Registration starts at 8 AM. See you all there!

Date: January 30, 2010, Saturday
Time: 8.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Venue: Hotel Rembrandt
             26 Tomas Morato Extension Quezon City, Philippines
Location Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=13146968077348134590&q=hotel%2Brembrandt%2Bquezon%2Bcity%2Baddress

Speakers:
Dominick Nowell A. Danao (CEO of Happy Mobile Inc.)
- Former VASHead of Sun Cellular.  Founder of Pinoymail which he sold to Smart’s Orlando Vea for P100M back in the early 2000s.  He is also a Palanca
Awardee.  He will discuss PHP Development with Yahoo Developer’s Network.  He recently won in the Yahoo Open Hack’s Day in Indonesia.

Bing Bryan Tan (President and CEO of Brewed Concepts)
- Keynote Speaker

Paolo Alexis Falcone (Senior Developer, Friendster Inc.)
- Will discuss PHP Scaling

Alezandra Nicholas (Microsoft Developer Evangelist)
- Website spark and Bizspark

Rodney Jao (MCP)
- PHP in IIS7 (using Fast CGI) and about PHP and ASP.NET interop via SOAP

Rick Bahague, Jr. (Computer Professionals’ Union)
- Windows Cache Extension for PHP

Globe Labs
- Globe Labs API

Sponsors:
Microsoft Philippines
Zend
Globe Labs

Limited Special Offer
If you register early and pay within the year 2009, you’ll get a ticket for only Php 1,000.00 and we’ll give you One (1) FREE Microsoft limited edition thumb drive.

Registration and Ticket Payment Instructions
Online registration website is currently being tested right now. In the mean time, you could pre-register by sending your name, position, company and contact details to chean@phpugph.com and by settling your ticket payment through bank deposit:

Bank Name: Banco de Oro (BDO)
Account Name: PHP User Group Philippines Inc.
Savings Account No. 290226988
Branch: San Juan Branch

To all who would pay for the event tickets, kindly send me a scanned copy of the deposit slip for payment confirmation.

Cherrie Ann B. Domingo
President
PHP User Group Philippines Inc.
Web: http://www.phpugph.com

[AWESOME] Shorewood High School Recreates ‘500 Days’ Musical Number

One of the most original concept I’ve seen in a long time. Students from Shorewood High School made this SUPER DOOPER AWESOME viral video! They did it in one unbroken take. Oh, and they did it backwards. THIS IS A MUST WATCH!!!

Video below:

This is a video of his daughter Michela who for several months just can’t get to sleep without waking up every 2 hours. So the dad had enough and decided to help her sleep, but would not recommend this to anyone as it kind of backfired on him. His height is 5″ 10 in. and managed to fit in the crib.

Made my day.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody in High Definition 1080p

Awesome!

Sound of Music’s Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do @ Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)

More than 200 dancers were performing their version of “Do Re Mi”, in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started the 23 of march 2009, 08:00 AM. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of “The Sound of Music”.

It made my day.