MYX Daily Top 10 (July 20, 2009) Featuring Green Day’s “21 Guns”

The South Korean girl group 2NE1 reclaims the number 1 spot from David Archuleta with their hit song “Fire” in today’s countdown.

SpongeCola’s “Ayt” is still the top OPM artist while 6Cyclemind returns at number 10 with “Walang Iwanan.”

Top Ten

01. 2NE1 - Fire
02. David Archuleta - Touch My Hand
03. Taylor Swift - White Horse
04. Green Day - 21 Guns
05. SpongeCola f/ Gary Valenciano - Ayt!
06. Linkin Park - New Divide
07. Jonas Brothers - Paranoid
08. Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
09. Super Junior - Sorry, Sorry
10. 6Cyclemind - Walang Iwanan


Here’s the video of the biggest gainer in the countdown: Green Day’s “21 Guns.”






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MYX Daily Top 10 (July 17, 2009) Featuring Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas."

David Archuleta reclaims the top spot on today’s countdown with his song “Touch My Hand.” Yesterday’s number one 2NE1 settled for the number 2 spot.

6Cyclemind fell off the top 10 leaving SpongeCola as the only OPM artist in the countdown.

Top Ten

01. David Archuleta - Touch My Hand
02. 2NE1 - Fire
03. Taylor Swift - White Horse
04. David Cook - Come Back To Me
05. SpongeCola f/ Gary Valenciano - Ayt!
06. Jonas Brothers - Paranoid
07. Green Day - 21 Guns
08. Linkin Park - New Divide
09. Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
10. Jesse McCartney f/ Ludacris - How Do You Sleep

Here's the video of Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas."





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MYX Daily Top 10 (July 16, 2009) Featuring “Nobody” by Wonder Girls.

The South Korean girl group 2NE1 (pronounced as "to anyone" or "twenty-one") is at the number 1 spot for two days in a row dislodging David Archuleta from the top spot with their debut single “Fire.” The group includes Sandara Park who once had a successful stint in the Philippine entertainment scene. She is now known as Dara.

Do you know what 2NE1 means? According to various sources, it stands for “New Evolution of the 21st Century”. “NE” means “New Evolution” and “21” stands for the “21st Century.”


Meanwhile, another South Korean group has re-entered the countdown. The Wonder Girls claims the number 10 spot with their song “Nobody.”

Top Ten

01.2NE1 - Fire
02.David Archuleta - Touch My Hand
03.Taylor Swift - White Horse
04.David Cook - Come Back To Me
05.SpongeCola f/ Gary Valenciano - Ayt!
06.6Cyclemind - Walang Iwanan
07.Jesse McCartney f/ Ludacris - How Do You Sleep
08.Linkin Park - New Divide
09.Green Day - 21 Guns
10.Wonder Girls - Nobody

Here's the number 10 song on the countdown: "Nobody" by Wonder Girls.




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Filipino students won 27-medals from global math tilt

This is just a quick post to congratulate a couple of Filipino high school students who went home with 27 medals from the recently concluded 10th Invitational World Youth Mathematics Inter-cities Competition (IWYMIC) which was held in Durban, South Africa from July 5 to 10.

Based on a report from abs-cbnnews.com, the students who grabbed individual bronze medals are the following:

Geraldine Baniqued (St. Paul College-Pasig)
John Russell Virata (Gideon Academy)
Zheng Rong Wu (Zamboanga Chong Hua High School)
Matthew Chris Chan (St. Stephen's High School)
Vance Eldric Go (St. Jude Catholic School-Manila)
Elvis Jeremy Ayroso (Philippine Science High School-Main Campus)

Meanwhile, the following bagged individual merit awards:
Adrian Raphael Co (Xavier School)
Ostin John Ong (Bacolod Trinity Christian School)
Arielle Elise Chua (St. Jude Catholic School)
Paolo Manuel Iyulores (Ateneo de Manila High School)

In the team contest, the three Philippine teams were awarded bronze medals apiece. The Philippine Team A composed of Banigued, Chua, Virata and Wu won first runner-up while Philippine Team B whose members were Chan, Co, Go, and Ong got the second runner-up. Philippine Team C composed of Ayroso, Iyulores, Janssen Kotah (Philippine Cultural College) and Hanz Vladimir Cabanes (Zamboanga Chong Hua High School) was awarded a Merit Award.

Sarah Jane Cua of the Pangasinan Universal Institute won a bronze medal in the individual contest and second runner-up in the team contest as a borrowed member of the International Girls’ Team.

According to reports, this is the first time in the country's participation in the contest that all Filipino contestants won a medal each. The Mathematics Trainers’ Guild (MTG) trained the contestants for the competition.

The Filipino students competed with about 228 high school students from 19 countries including Canada, China, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Netherlands, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and the Philippines.

Mabuhay ang mga estudyanteng Filipino!



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MYX Daily Top 10 (July 13, 2009) Featuring Linkin Park’s “New Divide.”

There’s not much change in the MYX Daily top ten today. David Archuleta is still at the number one spot with “Touch My Hand” followed by 2NE1’s “Fire.”

The biggest gainer is Linkin Park’s “New Divide” which jumps from number 10 last week to number 7 on today's countdown.

Top Ten

01.David Archuleta - Touch My Hand
02.2NE1 - Fire
03.Taylor Swift - White Horse
04.Jonas Brothers - Paranoid
05.David Cook - Come Back To Me
06.SpongeCola f/ Gary Valenciano - Ayt!
07.Linkin Park - New Divide
08.Green Day - 21 Guns
09.Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas
10.6Cyclemind - Walang Iwanan

Here’s the video of Linkin Park’s “New Divide.”






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I was tagged again!

I was tagged yesterday by Melissa, the leader of our Blogging for Fun group. I love to do tags occasionally because it gives me an easy topic to write about, but this one is not easy as I need to reveal a couple of things about myself hahaha.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random and/or revealing things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog
6. Let the tagger know when your post entry is up on your site.

So here are a couple of revealing things about myself:

1. My real name is not Leomar. It is only my pseudonym. It is a combination of my Zodiac sign and my nickname. I started using this pseudonym when I was in college. I also used the name when I was writing for magazines and comic scripts in the vernacular. I got the idea from my classmate in high school who first used this pseudonym. He was also born as a Leo and he also uses Mar as his nick name. So when we graduated from high school and we were no longer classmates, I took the liberty of using the pen name as my own.

2. Okay, this has been mentioned above. I used to write comic scripts and magazines in the Filipino language. My first short story was published in “Liwayway”, the oldest existing Filipino magazine in the Philippines, when I was still 16 years old. And believe it or not, I also wrote romance novels at one point and some were published. Now, you can laugh, hahaha.

3. My first job was as a warehouseman on a department store in Quezon City. I was still in college then but I needed to work to help in our family’s finances.

4. If you have been following this blog, you know that I’m working as a call center agent. So I’m being paid to talk but outside of my work, I don’t speak much. I’d rather listen to other people’s discussions. I am more of an observer and I don’t want to be the center of attention.

5. I’m the youngest of four children. I have two sisters and a brother. My mother was already on her early forties when she gave birth to me.

6. You can call my teenage life as boring but honestly, I never tried any illegal drugs during my teenage years. I don’t smoke either. I know, it’s dull but I just don’t get the hang of it.

Well that’s it. I hope I didn’t bore you. Now I have to pass this on to six other people.

http://eng-poeticallyyours.blogspot.com/
http://femmepower.crunchystyle.com/
http://www.thecraftista.com/
http://www.mywrittenxpressions.com/
http://www.mymeryl.com/
http://www.thejoysofsimplelife.com/

It’s time to hear your secrets.



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My Top 10 Emerging Influential blogs for 2009

A blogger friend Badong introduced me to the Top 10 Emerging Influential blogs for 2009 when he included me in his personal list. I didn’t know that this award exists but I was very much honored with the nomination. Unfortunately, when I checked the website of the organizer, it was then that I read that one criterion to be eligible for a nomination is that the blog should be created from May 1, 2008 to the present. This blog started last April of 2008. So I’m definitely not qualified.

Nevertheless, I am posting my own list as I would like to express my support for this endeavor as it not only honors bloggers but it also inspires us to make a difference in our continued efforts to express our thoughts, share our knowledge and insights to the world. Besides, I also received requests from fellow bloggers who wanted me to consider them in case I decide to post my own list for this award. It's hard to say no to such requests hehehe.

Please note that I will only be listing blogs that are eligible for the award based on the organizer’s criteria. There are so many great blogs out there but there are only few new blogs that stand out. In fact, I already have a complete list of top 10 about a week ago (before I got sick) but I decided to remove one blog from the list. The reason? I commented on this blogger’s article about a week ago and I didn’t even receive a reply. So I will have to put my nomination for this particular blog on hold, hehehe.

So without further ado, here is my personal pick for the top 10 Emerging Influential blogs for 2009. This is not yet final as I can still update this list until August 2 based on the rules.

1. The Joys of Simple Life
2. Femme Power
3. Zorlone
4. Xprosaic's World
5. Dear Bloggery
6. The Struggling Blogger
7. Writing To Exhale
8. Jologs na Yuppie
9. Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0
10.



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