Viral: For the content, babae dinilaan ang bentang hotdog saka ibinalik sa warmer sa 7-11. Lalaki, naglagay ng deodorant sa kilikili sa grocery store saka ibinalik sa shelf. >>> These pranks are going too far.
Septembah quickly opened with the usual Jose Mari Chan meme. As they say, IFYYK: If you know, you know. >>> Chan is around 80 years old, I would learn randomly. He says he stays healthy by avoiding pork and beef. Ouch.
Stories came out of how people survived the all-day-long traffic at NLEX because of flood in San Simon, Pampanga.
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Para umano may maipambayad sa utang dahil sa sugal, nagkunwaring dinukot ang isang estudyante sa Lipa, Batangas.
May video pa siyang umiiyak at naghahabilin para magmukhang legit at magbigay ng ramsom ang kaniyang mga magulang.
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"Bagong hanging bridge sa Indonesia, biglang gumuho habang pnasisinayaan. Agad nirescue ang mga nahulog sa ilog." >>> Lintek na engineer ang engineer nyan. O baka substandard na naman ang ginamit na materyales?
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Nine days after disaster, two pulled alive from Nepal hydropower tunnel
A new silly dance craze is performed to the tune of "Para lang sa yo ang giling giling ko." >>> Reminds me of a photo of a random man I posted on social media that earned laugh reacts despite his serious demeanor. When I took a closer look, his shirt has a large red heart with the caption, "SOLO ka sa puso ko."
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A warrant of arrest was issued to VP Sara Duterte.
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While Luzon was being overly drenched, a severe drought was slowly devastating the rest of the country, it is reported. Talk about climatic irony.
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Oh, what fun steps: NSync's I Want You Back dance trend. Every step looks like it's been made for me.
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Fires are smoldering on the surface and underground in Indonesia, which is in a severe and widespread drought.
Some of these are tropical peatland fires, which burn slowly, release higher amounts of air pollution, and are notoriously difficult to extinguish because they smolder at low temperatures and often burn underground.
this affected air quality in the philippines
Steel bars recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in Angeles City, Pampanga, were traced to a steel manufacturing plant under investigation, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said Thursday.
The disclosure was made during the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs’ second hearing on the domestic steel industry, where lawmakers continued to examine the possible use of substandard steel products in buildings and other structures.
US feminist icon Gloria Steinem dies at 92 - Everything in her obit about women's rights at a time when women were second-class citizens seems agreeable until you learn about her "abortion rights" advocacy which easily sounds "mass murder of innocents" if you think about it.
A postmortem: When the Bhotekoshi–Trishuli floods tore through Nuwakot, Nepal, they swept away almost everything in their path. Homes, roads, and entire structures were destroyed. But one house remained standing.
Footage of the house quickly went viral, and much of the internet called its survival a miracle. The engineering, however, tells a different story.
The house survived because of how it was built. It had a reinforced-concrete frame, with steel reinforcement running continuously through the foundation, columns, and beams. This tied the entire structure together into a rigid system capable of resisting forces from different directions.
Many of the homes that collapsed were made from unreinforced stone and brick. These structures can carry heavy loads from above, but they are highly vulnerable to powerful sideways forces, like those created by a fast-moving flood.
The house also had two other major advantages: a compact shape that helped split and redirect the water and debris rather than acting like a wall, and a deep foundation that resisted the scouring effect of the current—the erosion around a building’s base that can undermine its foundation.
In other words, the house didn’t simply withstand the flood. Its design helped divert the force of the water around it, while its reinforced structure and deep foundation kept it anchored to the ground.
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At 9:20 in the morning, Rajendra Dawadi received a phone call.
Minutes later, the school he was standing inside would be gone.
Rajendra is the principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nepal's Trishuli Valley.
On August 26, 2026, a friend upstream warned him that a massive flood was racing toward the area.
Around 900 children were already inside the school.
Hundreds more were still arriving.
Rajendra didn't wait to see how bad it would become.
He rang the school bell.
Teachers emptied the classrooms and began moving the children uphill toward higher ground. At the same time, Rajendra called the school bus drivers and ordered them to stop or turn around.
One bus had barely crossed a nearby bridge before part of the crossing collapsed behind it.
Then the flood arrived.
From the hillside, the children watched as powerful water, mud and debris swept through the valley and destroyed their school.
Rajendra later described the moment simply:
“We all climbed uphill, and when we looked back, we saw the whole school was washed away.”
The school had 1,643 students.
All of them were kept out of the disaster zone because adults acted before there was time to hesitate.
No complicated rescue.
No extraordinary equipment.
Just a warning, a school bell and one decision made quickly enough.
The classrooms can be rebuilt.
Those 1,643 children cannot be replaced.
How many lives can depend on one person being willing to act before everyone else realizes the danger?
DOUBLE SUMMA
For many students, earning one degree with the highest academic distinction is already an extraordinary achievement. For Javi Gamboa, it became the culmination of a journey that led him to graduate with two degrees and summa cum laude honors from the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gamboa completed a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Management, graduating summa cum laude. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the School of Arts and Sciences, likewise graduating summa cum laude.
Stranded motorists endure hunger, fatigue in almost 24-hour traffic in NLEX
The Philippines’ flooding crisis has been building for more than eight decades.
Mahar Lagmay, executive director of the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute and head of Project NOAH, said repeated flooding in Metro Manila and other parts of the country reflects decades of failure to carry out a master plan drafted in 1941.
Like a cliffhanger of movie was this search and rescue operation done for the potential survivors or, worse, casualties of an SUV that fell into Tarlac River when a span of Agana Br. they were crossing at the height of torrential rain and flood in Tarlac suddenly broke off. One survivor arose, saying he tried his might to save himself, while one body showed up one after another in unexpected places: Dagupan and Bayambang in Pangasinan and Bauang in La Union. Not long after, the car was recovered too in Tarlac River, but one boy remained missing.
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦! 🚨𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗼’𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 😲🌿
After nearly two decades, the critically endangered Mindoro Bleeding-heart (𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘦) in the forest of Mindoro has been captured on camera, a remarkable moment for Philippine biodiversity and conservation.
I'm pleased to introduce the Tawi-Tawi Imperial Pigeon (Ducula tawitawi)—a new species from the rainforests of Tawi-Tawi Island in the southwestern Philippines. I described and named this bird in an article published today in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. It has a distinct song and a pure white throat, which distinguish it from its closest relatives.
National Artist for Literature Resil B. Mojares joined our Creator on September 5, 2026.
A highly regarded writer whose works are inaccessible to the likes of me. I am puzzled that I am not familiar with his work despite myself being an omnivore. Must hunt down his books online.
Lea Salonga receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star
Vice President Sara Duterte did not have a mugshot taken during her booking at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, with her lawyer saying she instead submitted her own photographs to the court on Saturday.
People have become afraid of crossing certain bridges and experiencing torrential rains.
Three bodies of missing drowning victims in Tarlac unexpectedly turned up in our town and in faraway Dagupan. The one still missing is named Harvey Collado, the driver and owner of the SUV they rode in, and a nurse and graduate of PSU-Bayambang Institute of Nursing. Another victim was also a nurse, two of them were teachers, and the lone survivor is a student. >> Sad day for all
Nepali woman found live days after family began mourning rites.
Former House Speaker Martin Romualdez was arrested while he was admitted at a hospital. Former senator and boxing icon Manny Pacquiao returns to government service as lead convenor and secretary of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
Through Proclamation No. 1414 s 2026, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has declared 10 new national artists, four years after the last ones were named.
The new National Artists are Nicanor Tiongson and Gregorio Brillantes (Literature), Imelda Cajipe Endaya and Nunelucio Alvarado (Visual Arts), Gabriel Formoso (Architecture), Rafael “Nonoy” Froilan (Dance), Maria Beatriz “Patis” Tesoro (Design), Armado “Bing” Lao (Film and Broadcast Arts), Teodoro Hilado (Theater), and Alfredo S. Buenaventura (Music).
This year’s declaration, signed by the president on September 1, is the first to have a woman in the visual arts category in Endaya, a master printmaker.
It is also the most declarations to date since the award was given in 1972. >>> Been waiting for upturned eyebrows on any of the names mentioned, but so far each honoree seems to have received "no objections, your honor."
For some reason, people seemed to be hopping on an AI-generated '80s trend. Since I lived through that era as a high schooler and college student, I didn't have to use ChatGPT. I just have to go find and dust off my old school photo albums. It must be somewhere around the house, somewhere long forgotten.
Ex-Anthropic researcher: AI could "kill us all by the end of the decade."
Five killed and 80 missing after Philippines ferry fire.
Cayetano siblings left Philippines, BI confirms. Rumors had it that Legarda and son as well.
a “junglegate” tempest brewed in literary circles,
San Pedro man sold his left testicle for P23 million pesos. >>> Looks like poverty is solved ultrafast, when you're willing to lose
Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara lived to 105, worked 18-hour days into his centenarian years, and believed most people age themselves faster than biology demands.
He argued against conventional retirement at 65, stressing that loss of purpose and social bonds accelerates decline.
As a leader at St. Luke’s International in Tokyo, he transformed Japan’s preventive health policy and helped make it the world’s longevity champion.
His spartan routine—restricted diet, stair climbing, long-range scheduling, and sustained curiosity—defies popular wellness dogma.
Emerging research now confirms that isolation, purposelessness, and chronic stress trigger inflammation and cellular aging far beyond genetics alone.
Another controversy: Francis Libiran's appropriation of the Maguindanaon inaul fabric didn't sit well with the culturati.
Two priests in just one parish in Cubao died almost at the same time of illness in the hospital.
after former Inquirer Sports columnist Recah Trinidad left us, PDI founding chair Eggie Apostol also passed away
Viral: A dog placed on a high chair at Pizza Hut drew ire widely among the dining public.
Most puzzling! >> Tragic NYC duo killed in subway crash ID’d as longtime friends, recent Rutgers grads just starting out in their careers
S. Korean drug lord tried to flee from PH prison using heavy-duty drone
If clothes are called pre-loved clothes, then are unused clothes unloved clothes? No, probably just ill-fitting.
Word of the month: Amici curiae
POSISYON SA 16-VOTE THRESHOLD PARA MA-CONVICT SI VP SARA
Nagbigay ng kani-kaniyang opinyon ang apat na inimbitahang “amicus curiae” o friends of the court tungkol sa 16 na kinakailangang boto para ma-convict si Vice Pres. Sara Duterte.
Mula sa 24 na bilang ng mga senador, apat ang hindi nakadadalo sa paglilitis ng Bise.
Nakakulong kasi sina Sen. Jinggoy Estrada at Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, nagtatago si Sen. Bato dela Rosa, at naka-medical leave si Sen. Loren Legarda
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century: the tilcayo miniature leopard
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte made his first in-person appearance at International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday (Sep 16) to face charges over his "war on drugs" that killed thousands.
The 81-year-old first attended court in The Hague via video link and skipped several hearings as he was too ill, claimed his defence team.
Six have been confirmed dead while 17 are injured in a school shooting in Banga, South Cotabato, according to DSWD.
everybody seemed to dance to the tune of Mapapa-ooh-la-la sa giling ko
For some reason, people are hopping on an AI-generated '80s trend. Since I lived through that era as a high schooler and college student, I don't have to use ChatGPT. I just have to go find and dust off my old school photo albums. It must be somewhere around the house, in corners long forgotten.
BLUMENTRITT DESCENDANTS TURN OVER RARE RIZAL LETTER, OTHER 19TH-CENTURY ITEMS TO NATIONAL MUSEUM
LOOK: Descendants of Austro-Hungarian ethnographer Ferdinand Blumentritt have turned over three sets of 19th-century heirlooms to the National Museum of the Philippines.
The collection includes an unpublished three-page letter Jose Rizal wrote to Blumentritt from Dapitan, two watercolor portraits of Blumentritt’s daughter Dolores painted by Juan Luna in 1899, and a 19th-century Japanese silk parasol embroidered with the Philippine flag.�
The items had been kept for more than a century in Kufstein, Austria, by Blumentritt’s descendants. | via A
September 21 was made a holiday in Manila
Mga bahagi ng katawan ng 27-anyos sinilid sa suitcase at ice box, suspek sariling kapatid > Let us not forget that heinous crimes like this which was nauseatingly numerous during Noynoy's time as president is what gave rise to Duterte's massive following
