Limited telecommunication blackout: site of the “Feast of the Black Nazarene”
Due to credible intel on a terror plot, according to Malacañang (the group is unnamed and the threat is unspecified by the Palace) at the “Feast of the Black Nazarene”, all telecommunication signals of mobile phones at the site of the procession (from Quirino Grandstand to Quiapo church and environs) are disabled today (cellphones are used to detonate most improvised bombs). The mammoth crowd, starting at 600,000 in the morning and expected to rise to 7 million, is a security nightmare by itself. The number is about the size of a successful, small urban revolt, but they’re gathered in piety, not in protest – they just want to touch the statue of the Black Nazarene (or its replica), or wipe their hankie on the image, or touch the rope pulling the carriage. As of this writing, a hundred have been injured due to the stampede and in the past, a number have been crushed to death by the shoving and pushing.
Blog admin is not writing about the legal issues of the “no-signal” area (limited in site and time).
Because…
Okay, blog admin will say a little bit about it — the telecom blackout, being limited in site (two or three kilometers’ radius) and time (a day) is contained enough so as not to affect any kind of mass medium. You could raise due-process issues – but by the time you raise them, the case is moot – of course, that should not stop you… i’m blabbering.
Just the same, everybody should be vigilant everytime Malacañang thru the NTC shuts down forms of communication.
Because…. If my students are not able update their Facebook status….or tweet their followers…. even for a single day… you’ll have a sudden revolution in your hands.
there’s no more lucky color segment, it was pulled out of the morning show months ago.
i’ll just post the cook segment of the other morning show Sapul5,it’s a 5-minute recipe, i’ll post only those that are good for me (this excludes meat except sea food)
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i’ll post my Christmas greetings tomorrow, Christmas season is up to Jan. 18!
Late. don’t ask why. Then New Year’s greetings.
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it’s a 5-minute recipe — i will write it in 5 mins — in short-hand, too.
Fish fillet with shallots, tomatoes, and spring onions
Ingredients: Lapulapu fish fillet, salt and pepper, corn starch, butter, shallots, tomatoes, spring onions
Procedure: Pat fish fillet dry (with a paper towel of course)
Roll in corn starch.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Heat butter in frying pan. Fry fish fillet. Time check: 1.5 mins elapsed
In another frying pan, heat butter, toss spring onions and saute until transluscent. Then toss in shallots, then tomatoes (seeds removed). Time check: Running: about two minutes. sprinkle salt and pepper Add chilli flakes if you like it spicy.
Plate the mixture.
Plate the fish on the tomato mixture, garnish with spring onions, pepper. Total cooking and plating time: 4 minutes 55 seconds.
[blog admin’s note: This is a bit too buttery for me, i’d use extra virgin olive oil for this , of course it would have less flavor (not buttery) but the fish flavor and shallots and tomatoes combined would be tasty enough. butter and oils make my pimples come out at certain times of the month, like this one today: (shot yesterday) came out a week after Christmas, up to today, don’t ask why; ask my health consultant! ]
(shot yesterday) came out a week after Christmas, up to today, don’t ask why; ask my health consultant! ]