Holy Week: a week to repent our sins

Palm Sunday: March 28,2010

A day which people celebrating the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before of his Passion. I'm a "Sakristan" or so called Knights of the Altar, every year i join and witness this event. I remember way back 2008 during Palm Sunday many people in our Barrio starts preparing, making and designing their own palm leaves before Palm Sunday. And when mass ends they flutter it to the right and left because the priest starts to bless all the palms. Many superstitious beliefs says that these palms when blessed and placed somewhere it can blown away bad spirits.

Holy Monday: March 29, 2010

After palm Sunday, in our province we reminisce holy Monday by doing "Pasyon" or singing the words in the holy bible. When the clock points at 3:00 pm we have a procession of the black Nazarene called "Estasyon Heneral", it is the station of the cross but different stations are in different houses that the cross will route.

March 31, 2009: Holy Wednesday

We don't have any event in Holy Tuesday but in that day our parish have a Film Showing of "Passion of the Christ" a film by mel gibson, even repeated every holy Tuesday still the show touch our hearts and everyone knows it. In Holy Wednesday, at 4:00 pm we have a "kumpisal" or repenting sins, at 6:00 pm after mass we have the procession and it is the reenactment of what jesus have done when saving us from our sins. We cried, we grieved but who nailed him? looked down and we will saw the hammer on our hands. the crucifixion and the death of jesus reminiscing our sins, that we people nailed him in order to save us.

Maundy Thursday: April 1, 2010

5:oo pm Mass of the Last Supper initiates the Easter Triduum, the tree days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday and commemorate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of jesus. It is normally celebrated in the evening, when according to Jewish tradition Friday begins. And after the Mass is the surveillance and praying for the "santisima trinidad(the father, the Son and the Holy spirit)".

Good Friday: April 2, 2010

At 3:00pm a tribute to the cross which people walking using their knees to reach the cross and kiss the image of crucified jesus. When the mass ends, a procession again and this is the reenactment of jesus when died in the cross, And when the clock points at 8:00 pm the parish have a procession called "Soledad", it is the grieving of mary when jesus died, we do this by walking barefoot or without slippers together with the statue of mary.

Black Saturday: April 2, 2010

We commemorate this in our parish by the blessing of fire and water. In our barrio, people brings candles, match and different bottles with water which the priest blessed by holy water. Many Filipinos celebrate Black saturday as a family get together, swimming, walking to park, and have some picnics.

Easter Sunday: April 3, 2010

Easter Sunday also ends the 40-day Lent that reminds the world once again of the sufferings of Jesus for the salvation of mankind. There are Angels which are the Little girls who remove the veil of mourning of the blessed mother shortly after processions at Easter dawn, signifying the resurrection of Jesus. This ritual is popularly known as "Salubong" because this is done in a procession where the men and women are separated and coming from different directions. But they Eventually meet in front of the church. The men are led by the image of the Resurrected Christ and Juan Bautista and the Blessed Mother, Still Covered in a black veil, comes int front line of the women. After the procession in our barrio there is a game call egg hunting, inside the egg has a different cost of money so many youth participate in the game because of the prizes.

Thats all.. and may the lord be with us Godbless :) let us repent our sins this holy week

iPad is just an over-sized iPod Touch

"iPad is just an iPod Touch with iBooks and a little features"

Having this Device leads to a different Detriments/Disadvantages:

#1 No Adobe Flash

Scott Forstall(Senior vice president of iPhone Software) said "iPad is the best way to browse a website", but how can you view a Flash based websites. Some websites contains flash plugins or completely flash-based. Like me, How can a play Ninja saga on my Facebook, ninja saga is a flash-based game. Like this sites we can't view it on the iPad. Thus, this gadget is for reading only? errr we all know iPod touch can't view a flash based websites too, but atleast iPod touch is a little bit smaller than this gadget.

#2 No for SMS Applications, No camera and No Video Conferencing

Steve Jobs(Co-Founder,chief executive officer of Apple Inc.) said that "iPad will be better than your netbook and way better than your smartphone”. But how can it be better when this device has no SMS applications. How can u make Video Conferencing when the device doesn't have a Camera unlike an iPod touch a camera and SMS applications has on it. For me, iPod touch is yet better than this device.

#3 There are no USB ports, no HDMI port, and no GPS.

Although some of the features of iPad triggered my Interests, still it is a damn shit for me. Errr im a laptop user and how can i transfer files from my usb without USB ports. How can i track places without gps. iPad is a good viewer for pictures and videos but specifically how can i easily transfer it from the tablet!?. I live in the Philippines and we haven't an AOL(american Online or free Wifi) that iPad is capable with. Hmm maybe i would choose to buy a mini laptop than this tablet.

Now, iPad's qualities has more bad than good. the iPad is basically a larger iPhone. Is this really worth it?

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Thanks, BUT.....

LENOVO's U1 HYBRID

"LENOVO's U1 HYBRID: is it an Ipad killer!?"

what is LENOVO's U1 hybrid : it is a notebook with a removable tablet.

This is absolutely COOL!!
it is a notebook at the same time a tablet..

For notebook users lets admit it! it is better than iPad.Why? Read the specs below. If i could, I would carry this one with me.

Let us know its specifications:

General

its type is Hybrid (can be a tablet and a notebook), Bundled Os is Windows 7. pretty cool!!.

i cant wait to have this coz i can use all the features of windows7 touch screen. The detachable resistive multi-touch display amazed me! when detached the tablet uses a linux Os and that was very impressive, I can use 2 Os in 1, I can have 2 gadgets in 1 which is laptop and tablet and more features when you get this gadget and more importantly portability is there!.

Display

11.6 inches in screen size, its type is LCD (Active, Color, Backlit, LED), and Yes! it is touch screen. Almost like an iPad or i should say Almost better that iPad hehe.

Processor

its processor is made by Intel , family is Core2 duo and CPU model is U4100.

1GHz Snapdragon processor for tablet . T

he gadget consists of different features like other laptops has. so laptops without a tablet is no good for me hehe because now the portability is the key.

Networking

Supported by WIFI 802.11 b, g, n and wifi encryption is

WEP, WPA, WPA2. Supported by Ethernet

10/100/1000 [Gigabit] and yes it has a 3g for Mobile broadband. Wow amazing I can have it in hand while walking surfing what's on my mind.

Memory and storage

Hard drive(s) of the tablet is 16 GB (total) SSD / integrated pretty big for tablet users. The Dock has 4GB DDR3 RAM (max),128GB SSD. It has a big storage of videos, pictures and songs.

Input

Like other laptops the dock has a keyboard and for pointing device is the track pad. And here "The Tablet" has its own keyboard there is a preferred button so the on-screen keyboard will display on it and of course the tablet is a multi touch! no haggard for slow mouse pointers your fingers will be the mouse itself.

Connections

For Bluetooth and USB Lovers the device has it. The USB supports 2.0 (3 ports) and the Bluetooth has 2.1 + EDR. Wow, i can have my photos from my phone by sending it via Bluetooth unlike iPad no USB ports and maybe Bluetooth.

Price

Availability is not yet on the market, but the given retailed price is $999, Ouch! how can i get this it is very expensive. Yes, the disadvantage having this gadget is the price itself but for us gadget users we look for a better technology and money don't cost a thing for those who has a lot of golds to shed in this hybrid tech device. Maybe, i try to work harder to have this!.

Additional Specs

It is built in microphone and mono type speakers with 3.5mm audio outputs. A memory card Reader that supports SD, MMC, Memory Stick PRO and Memory Stick. For Video outputs, it supports HDMI, VGA and has a SATA storage interface and it also has eSATA.

A little background experience

It's built around a six-panel interface. The GUI is slightly different than the Skylight huh?, which can be customized with email, RSS, calendar, and social media widgets, and especially there's a finger friendly four-panel screen with image, music, video, and e-reader widgets. The tablet also turns into a pretty good e-reader,when flipped to portrait to read a preloaded PDF and the accelerometer kicked right in. The slate itself is essentially a touchscreen version of the Skylight smartbook: it runs the same Skylight OS on a similar Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, and it seems to be pretty quick, though there's a bit of lag in between switching windows. The on-screen keyboard is enough to enter some data.Unfortunately, the screen itself was pretty complete, with horizontal and vertical viewing angles, it basically disappeared at 45 degrees off axis. That's probably not optimal for a hand-held device, and we're hoping Lenovo sorts that out before release.

"the features is proving a nuisance to others!"

hmm have a nice day fellas thank you for reading :)