The Bookworms Realm Publishing made it possible for Pinoys to read books on the go. Without the hassle of bringing an actual book, about anyone could read Tagalog pocketbooks o their laptops, tablets, cellphones and other e-readers.

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I was about to blog about my New Years Reso but decided against it to give way to a more pressing issue, the tragic aftermath of a super typhoon.

I was once a victm of a super typhoon myself. Our house was submerged to a chest-deep flood when Ondoy hit Metro Manila September 26 of 2009. I lost a lot, yes. I threw away about two hundred books, less than a hundred magazines and a couple of textbooks. The typhoon took away my television, component, washing machine, double-sized mattress, CPU, DVD player and a handful of clothes. But everything, the inconvenience, the destruction, ended there.

Imagine what the typhoon took from other victims. Others lost

“Let me win, But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”

 

It shamed me the greatest that I wasn’t able to cheer as for the Philippines special athletes much as I wanted for the 2011 Summer Special Olympics held in Athens, Greece last June.

I promised myself to personally watch the 2011 World Games four years ago, I was totally sold to the idea of scrimping and saving so I could fly all the way to Athens and cheer for my favorite athletes. But sad to say, I fall short on the saving department.  Unfortunately, apart from ESPN, there was no way I could watch the games in front of my telly to rally for victory.  So what I did was check Kaye Samson”s Facebook account on a day to day basis to keep me posted. Kaye Samson’ s the head coach of  the Badminton team.

 

I didn’t have the entire list of winners, so if anybody could give me names,  I would be very grateful and would edit this entry…

The Philippine Team brought home 49 medals in the recently concluded 2011 Summer Special Olympics held in Athens Grace. The team bagged 22 GOLD, 11 SILVER, and 16 BRONZE medals. We sent 38 athletes, yet yielded 49 medals! Congratulations to our athletes, their supportive families and hardworking and ever passionate coaches!

Andrew Dominic Lim 4th and Benrafii Tuazon Omar 3rd in Men’s Singles (Badminton)

Ma Angelica C. Manzanares f4th and Anna E L Mahweng Se 2nd in Women’s Singles (Badminton)

Rythmic gymnastics team bagged 2 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze medals

Luis John Decolongon, 22, won the gold and silver medals in the power lifting division.

 

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Lemme quote Ms.  Samson,  ‘Thanks all… Team Philippines will be coming home singing to “Jingle Bells” sa dami ng mga medals….’

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Lik the community page  we made to express our love and undying suport for our special athletes!

WE LOVE SPECIAL OLYMPICS PHILIPPINES (SOP)

Yara Alonso writes for Bookworms Realm Digital Publishing. She gave us a taste of her talent when her debut novel, Cosmopolitan Series 1 : I Believe In A Thing Called Love became available through pay per view and kindle. Now, she will will be back to enthrall us with another bestseller and one sure excellent tale of love with her second novel (this time far from her usual chicklit genre as she will give us an action drama packed with kilig scenes) Valiant Brotherhood 1 : Will You Still Love Me (Lester Falcone).

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Teaser :

Is there really such a thing as two hearts drawn together bound by destiny?

Julianna Rae. Celebrated multi-awarded actress. Accomplished singer. She wanted to forget a very tragic childhood. She managed to put all the tears and pains behind, until she met…

Lester Duane Falcone. Special Forces Ally. Unprecedented warrior. He lived and will continue to live for his past. His crusade involved avenging a violent childhood. But how would he carry out his plans if one look at the famous Julianna Rae dissolved everything else but his desire to make her all his?

What if fate had a different plan for them? Will they make a memory worth remembering? Or will they forget what each of them struggled to accomplish for years and will succumb to unadultered passion and sizzling romance?

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Can anyone be kind enough to enlighten me if we have any presidential decree or any approved bill regarding the use of paper bags in the Philippines? Because if there’s none and this initiative was because of fastfood chains and resto’s way of saving Mother Nature, then I highly commend them for a job well done. Despite other people’s negative reaction about paper bags’ easy deterioration (once soaked, they broke thing), I still think this idea is brilliant.

I was at the mall earlier with mother and niece Jellycia when, upon seeing brown paper bags @McDo, decided to have my orders “to go” instead of “for here”.

 

 

(with my niece Jellycia)

(photo taken last week)