It was a Macro-Encounter last May, but this time it is an Encounter God Retreat for those who missed the Macro-Encounter.  The 3-day Encounter is scheduled from July 17 to 19, 2008.  Venue is the Villa Narcisa Vinoya Resort in Labrador, Pangasinan

A larger contingent is expected to register this time around because there were brethren who missed the Macro. 

This Encounter is to be handled by Solid Rock Bible Congregation G12 cell leaders led by Rev. Charlie Loranza and his wife Marites. 

The planned format would be to separate the men from the women to ensure a homogeneous encounter for both sexes.  It’s like having two Encounters at the same time.

For more information and registration, please contact Rev. Charlie Loranza at mobile no. 09203290415.

Below are some pictures of the staff during their incubation yesterday at the SRBC worship area.

No, definitely. Manny Pacquiao is a different breed of fighter compared to Rodel Mayol.

The frustrating loss of Rodel Mayol in his bid to capture the WBC miminumweight title from Eagle Kyowa of Japan could be largely attributed to poor training. The fading stamina of Mayol going to the fight’s homestretch was a clear evidence of lapses in his training regimen. Although he was all gassed up in the first six rounds, it was also in those six rounds where his power resided. His training was only good for six rounds when he was supposed to last for 12 sapping championship rounds. The knockdown in the final canto was more a case of trying to buy time instead of a power hit by the champion.

Even the champion, Eagle Kyowa, was probably not in tip-top shape but his training was obviously more superior to that of Mayol as he had the fresher legs and harder hits in the crucial moments of the fight.

The thing with championship fight is that protagonists should make it a point to be in superb shape founded on excellent training. Champions are especially wary of their challengers because they have everything to lose if their challengers are better prepared than they are. It’s a given that challengers will pour everything out for them to snatch the titles from the champs.

The preparations done by Mayol and his team may have been better than the ones they had in earlier fights, but in terms of adequacy and quality, those preparations were not enough. Ask Kyowa to find out why.

Erik Morales, in his loss to Manny Pacquiao, admitted to poor training going to the fight. Manny Pacquiao, on the other hand, has been consistently trained by Freddie Roach in all his A-1 battles. He was in superb condition in the Morales rematch and that’s not even a championship fight.

Will Manny be duplicating the Mayol case? With Freddie Roach keeping an eye on PACMAN, I doubt a duplication. What may be duplicated is the consistent annihilation of Mexican greats by Manny. Oscar Larios will have to learn it in the ring what it is to trade punches with the Great PACMAN come July 2.

There is concern aired by some fans of Manny Pacquiao that his next opponent, Mexican former champ Oscar Larios, is a dangerous opponent. Well let’s have a little look at history from Ringside Report.

The first three years of Manny Pacquiao’s career (1995-1997) he fought an amazing 23 times, with only one of those being a loss. The last time Manny won a decision was on September 13, 1997; which moved his record to 21-1, 13 KO’s. Since that time, “Pac-Man” has had 23 fights-two draws and a loss to Morales. That leaves twenty victories. All twenty of those have come by way of stoppage. If that does not sound impressive enough, or you think maybe his competition was not that good, the combined win/loss record of those twenty contestants is 590-72-14. For all of us statisticians, that is an 87% win ratio.

We don’t have to talk about Larios’ records to see if Manny Pacquiao can beat him. Manny’s records tell what will happen to Larios.  Needless to say, Manny has confirmed that he’s going to train in Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym.  Larios should prepare seeing stars in the morning of July 2.

The Jologs program of the GMA 7 has the making of a potential hit.  It delves into the day-to-day hassles that most of us go into as we walk through the rigors of life.  But instead of adding insult to injury, Jologs actually shows the enlightened and lighter side of life’s commonplace requisites.

But the main attraction of the program is the meaning of Jologs.  Who is a Jologs?  Well, if my opinion is not different from that of a real Jologs, I must say that he or she is one who has some sort of intelligent insanity or an ignorant intelligence.  Get what I mean?

Oh, it takes an Ethel Booba to understand me and if you’re not Jologs, how can you ever understand?  By the way, do you remember when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that she won’t run in the 2004 presidential elections and yet she actually ran?  Also, did you get what she really meant when she said “I am sorry” on national television only to say that she is really elected by the people?  Is our President some kind of a Jologs?  JUst a question.

There is word that it’s not easy to register to the marcobarrera.com if you are pinoy.  Perhaps the bad blood brewing from Pacman’s camp and Barrera camp is getting hotter and hotter.

My message is “Save the Internet from censorship.  It’s not even possible.”

Thanks to Burke J. Balch, J.D., and Randall K. O’Bannon, M.A. You may find these thoughts of theirs helpful.

Proponents of physician-assisted suicide frequently begin by advocating its legalization for those who are terminally ill, although they have moved far beyond that category. But, as this article will demonstrate, 1) treatable depression, rather than the terminal illness itself, usually accounts for such a patient’s expression of a wish to die; 2) after a diagnosis of terminal illness, a person normally goes through a series of stages of coming to terms with impending death and resolving unfinished business in his or her life, a valuable process that is cut short by acceding to a depression-induced request for assistance in suicide; and 3) given growing pressures to contain medical costs and prevailing social attitudes, if assisting suicide is legalized, many terminally ill patients will be led to feel they are burdens and have a duty to die.
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Has it ever occurred to you that many top government positions are manned by Pangasinenses? Read on.

This former mayor is a sort of great wall in his city, winning all his three consecutive tries in the city mayoralty race. And being an ally of the “best person” herself, he got the job as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID). Yup, your guess is right, Al Fernandez is the man.

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