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A tour Around Jolo, Sulu

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  Assalamu Alaykum! (Peace be with you!) I just realized... I haven't talked much about my videos about Sulu in this blog. I have a playlist which you can watch if you are interested in seeing (or maybe visiting?) my dear homeplace.  Just check it out here: JOLO, SULU PLAYLIST You can watch this instead:      Yup, that is all for today.   PS. I am mulling over the idea of transferring my blog from blogspot to wordpress...  hmmmmmm    

Texting. Love. And the Danger it Brings.

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Bismmillah. Isang image na hiniram ko lang sa google image. At least credit sa sino man may-ari nito. Every now and then I would receive a lot of 'chain messages' with either of the following texts: "If you love Allah, you must send this dua/text to 15 people..." "I love Allah and His Messenger, now send this to 20 people... you will get rewards..." "If you ignore it, you will be punished. And if you send to 10 people you will get good news after 10 days bla bla bla." Other texts would even share stories of family members being killed if you do not pass the message. SCARY. And indeed REALLY FUNNY. Funny how people had started this kind of idea of using 'religion' and 'family' as making SPAMS, or useless messages and make others send them to as many numbers in their phone-books. But much more funnier is amidst the knowledge that these things are not true, there are still amny of us who fall victims to these kinds of...