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====================================== I remember writing an entry when I first started blogging about my life before the computer and the internet. I have 2 reasons why I wrote that entry. One, I wanted to see if I am not alone in my observation about the impact of having the internet in ones life. Two, I wanted to have something to remind me how I survived without the computer and the internet in my life for the last 20 so years in my life. Seriously, there is not a day that I am not online since I “discovered” the internet. Why not when you can do anything online. Aside from the usual things I do on the internet like emailing, blogging and chatting, I also like to do a lot of searches. Searching what you may ask? Actually, I am searching for anything and everything. I searched for famous movie stars to former classmates in high school. One of the best search engine that I have used so far is Spock.com . I just came across this site by accident. Well, not really accident since I sear...

Benazir Bhutto was Assasinated!

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Benazir Bhutto , a former Pakistan Prime Minister was assasinated minutes after she addressed thousands of her supporters. She was in the car already leaving the venue when her supporters at the gate started chanting their support for her. So she came out of the vehicle to acknowledge them. Tha's when an assassin shot her in the neck and body then blew himself up. Here's a picture of her waving at her supporters minutes before she was gunned down. Personally, I had a case of the deja vu when I read this news. Bhutto just returned to Pakistan on October 18, 2007 from an 8-year exile . Now, isn't that something similar to what happened to Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino in 1983? Ninoy Aquino was assassinated on his way back to the Philippines from 3 years of self-imposed exile here in the states....while he was still on the plane that brought him home for the last time. Aquino's assassination eventually brought down the 20-year Marcos regime and catapulting his wife...