random points

• Tokyo = Asia's most expensive city for expats;
  globally it's 13th (ECA International Survey)
  
• Pinoy Dole Out Culture =
  http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Opinion&p=49&type=2&sec=25
• vote padding and shaving = dagdag-bawas
• lumad = Filipinos who were neither
  Islamized nor Christianized.
• Mindanao's Tri-people = Muslim, Lumad & Christian
• ABCs of tourism growth =
  http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?&aid=2008061227&type=2&