Since Halloween is coming e-Poll conducted a survey featuring the 20 Creepiest Celebrities. Marilyn Manson topped the list of scariest celebrity. He is an American artist and musician well known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead vocals of a group called eponymous band.
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Henry Sy is the richest man in the Philippines aka Pinoy's Bill Gates!

Forbes Asia Magazine released their list of the richest Filipinos! Henry Sy tops the list as he and his family owns SM Investments Corp. Banco de Oro Unibank and other companies as well.
Lucio Tan stays strong in second spot with his Philippine Airlines and brewing and mining companies.

The Ayala dropped to third with their conglomerate Ayala Corp. Here’s the complete list of those bastards rich guys! Give it to them, as they didn’t earn their money thru scamming people. I wonder when will Manny Pacquiao be on this list?!

1. Henry Sy - $4.0 billion
2. Lucio Tan - $2.3 billion
3. Jaime Zobel de Ayala - $2.0 billion
4. Eduardo Cojuangco - $840 million
5. George Ty - $830 million

6. John Gokongwei - $700 million
7. Tony Tan Caktiong - $575 million
8. Andrew Tan - $480 million
9. Emilio Yap - $350 million
10. Oscar Lopez - $315 million
11. Enrique Razon Jr. - $285 million
12. Andrew Gotianun - $280 million
13. Enrique Aboitiz - $275 million
14. Alfonso Yuchengco - $225 million
15. Menardo Jimenez - $210 million
15. Gilberto Duavit Jr. - $210 million
17. Ramon del Rosario - $205 million
18. Felipe Gozon - $180 million
19. Beatrice Campos - $160 million
20. Luis J. L. Virata - $150 million
21. David M. Consunji - $145 million
22. Bienvenido Tantoco Sr. $140 million
23. Betty Ang - $115 million
24. Manuel Villar - $110 million
25. Mariano Tan - $100 million
26. Rolando and Rosalinda Hortaleza - $90 million
27. Oscar Hilado - $85 million
28. Vivian Que Azcona - $80 million
29. Manuel Zamora - $75 million
30. Magdaleno Albarracin - $73 million
31. Jesus Tambunting - $70 million
32. Frederick Dy - $65 million
33. Tomas Alcantara - $60 million
34. Lourdes Montinola - $50 million
35. Salvador Zamorra - $45 million
36. Antonio Roxas - $40 million
37. Wilfred Steven Uytengsu Sr. - $38 million
38. Philip T. Ang - $35 million
39. Marixi Prieto - $30 million
40. Manuel Pangilinan - $25 million

Ateneo de Manila University is now the leading tertiary school in the Philippines, topping University of the Phillipines on a “problematic survey” that the UP itself did not participate in. This is based on The Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds (THE-QS) World University Rankings 2008.

The ranking was based on criteria including peer and employer review, faculty-student ratio and citations of teaching staff (UP perhaps got low points on these categories: employer review, faculty-student ratio).

Ateneo Tops UP in World List on a “Problematic Survey” - Ateneo Official Seal

The survey revealed that the Jesuit-led Ateneo was leading the pack in the Philippines, followed by UP, De La Salle University or DLSU, and finally University of Santo Tomas or UST.

University of the Philippines (UP), ranked No. 2, falling from the top position in 2007. But the UP dismissed the results of THE-QS’s study saying the surveyor’s “methodology is problematic”.
Ateneo leaped from between 400th and 500th position last year into 254th place. Ateneo ranks between London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

UP, the country’s premier state university fell 20 places short of Ateneo. It is now in 274th place, up from 398th last year. UP was placed between two German universities—the University of Hamburg and Ulm University.

DLSU and UST are both fresh entries and they ranked 415th and 470th, respectively. Both DLSU and UST were not in the top 500 last year.

Of course Ateneo was happy about the result. The Inquirer on the other hand reported that UP raised doubts on the survey’s validity, saying the university did not take part in this year’s survey.
University of the Philippines vice president for public affairs Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo said the state university did not join because the survey organizers refused to disclose where and how they got their data.

“Since it does not specify who are surveyed or what questions are asked, the methodology is problematic,” Hidalgo added.

For this year’s survey, UP was not invited to participate, she said.

Hidalgo said UP president Emerlinda Roman only received an e-mail message from QS Asia Pacific director, Mandy Mok, notifying her that UP had “gone up in the rankings.”

The QS e-mail also informed UP that it could advertise in the 2009 Top University Guide and join the university fair for a fee of $49,000, Hidalgo said.

“UP can hardly be expected to spend more than P2 million on publicity for itself involving a survey conducted by an organization that refuses to divulge where it obtains its data,” Hidalgo said.
Question, did Ateneo pay P2 million? How can you win a contest you didn’t even join?

Welcome Back Bill Gates

Bill Gates is back as the richest man in (at least) in America. This is based on Forbes Magazine’s richest Americans report.

Congrats to the guy who recently “retired” from Microsoft lol.

Bill Gates tops the other 400 richest bastards in America with a net of $57 billion (Bill Gates please don’t buy my country).

Bill Gates toppled Buffett, thanks to the slight downfall of Berkshire Hathaway investment group’s share.

And thanks to web fanatics and social networking addicts, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook joins the club with $1.5 billion.

And why I am blogging about them? Well since I can’t join them, I might as well talk about them LOL.