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PhotoHunt: Pointed 2008-07-06 11:01:00 I’m late again for PhotoHunt, but what can I do? I am never home on weekends. I just got back from a weekend of beach and sand in Negros. Will post about it later.
My entry for this week is a shot I took last year of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.
It looks [...]
Cebu bloggers meet-up 2008-06-30 13:14:00 When I first came to Cebu, I often wished that the blogging community here was more active. In fact, I was the only blogger present when Aileen Apolo first came here as Google representative in 2006. Around the time I left Manila, the bloggers
there were starting to come together. I’d always hear about blogger [...]
Speaking up on the MV Princess of the Stars disaster 2008-06-28 15:56:11 I rarely watch news on TV. The few times that I do, I am reminded that the Philippines is hopeless.
I’ve been following the news on the disaster that struck MV Princess
of the Stars, but it was my first time to watch it on TV last night. It’s different reading about the news from actually [...]
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PhotoHunt: Bright 2008-06-27 23:18:56 This is the Crown Fountain, a fountain of many colors in the Millennium Park of Chicago. The park boasts of one-of-a-kind art pieces, this fountain by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa among them.
The fountain changes colors every few seconds or so. Sometimes a face of a person or a collage of several faces appears on the [...]
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Snow Leopard coming soon 2008-06-24 13:38:41 Less than a year after releasing Leopard
, Apple announces Snow Leopard at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
It will be the newest Mac OS X version in a span of seven years, after Cheetah (10.0), Puma (10.1), Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), and Leopard (10.5).
Earlier this year we were told that the 10.6 version would [...]
PhotoHunt: Water 2008-06-22 13:25:37 When I found out this week’s theme for PhotoHunt, I immediately thought of its purest form—that which flows from a mountain. I couldn’t think of any mountain better than Mt. Banahaw.
Mt. Banahaw is a mystical mountain in Quezon province in the northern part of the Philippines. It is said to be one of the psychic [...]
Back from Bicol 2008-06-20 20:59:46 I got what I went there for, except the Donsol part. We were told that we needed at least a day to see Donsol, and the boss would have none of it. If it was up to me, I would have gone seeing places first before doing fieldwork. (I am just kidding, future employers. I [...]
Happy 100th birthday, UP! 2008-06-18 12:17:19 While most people say their high school memories are their dearest, I remember my college years more fondly.
I started living on my own and began spreading my wings, so to speak. I found out that the world was so much bigger and that I had barely seen even a speck of it.
I was taught by [...]
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PhotoHunt: Emotions 2008-06-14 09:48:26 It’s PhotoHunt time once again.
I met this boy while I was doing my undergraduate thesis two years ago in a remote area in Rizal, about an hour away from Manila.
We had to walk up a slope and then cross streams and log bridges to get to where he lived. The area had no electricity and [...]
Off to Bicolandia 2008-06-10 13:14:32 I am finally going to set foot in the land of Bicol Express! I want to try an authentic version of the dish. I want to see the Mayon Volcano and the Cagsawa Ruins. And I want to visit Donsol, home of the butanding (whale shark), the world’s largest fish.
And because there is no direct [...]
PhotoHunt: Hanging 2008-07-26 01:15:19 This is the Delirium, a thrill ride at the Kings Island Amusement Park in Mason, Ohio. (Trivia: This park is the biggest in the Midwest. It was once featured on The Partridge Family and Brady Bunch.)
Riders are seated on a ring facing outward with their legs dangling in the air. A giant arm swings the [...]
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iLife 08 Exhibition 2008-07-24 10:29:22 I am drooling. Digital Hub is hosting an exhibit of the Apple iLife this weekend at Robinsons Ermita. There will be demos, tutorials, photo sessions, and Q&A sessions on iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, GarageBand, and the OS version Leopard for two days.
Filmmakers Dante Nico Garcia, director of “Ploning,” and Joaquin Pedro Valdes, director of “Bulong,” will [...]
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WordCamp Philippines 2008 2008-07-23 07:32:53
Yay! WordCamp is coming to town!
I didn’t think it would ever come to the Philippines
. It would be the first WordCamp in Southeast Asia, thanks to the folks at Mindanao Bloggers who organized this event.
WordCamp, by the way, is a conference where Wordpress users and developers discuss codes, tips, and updates.
I’m obviously a [...]
If you were in front of him, what would you tell him? 2008-07-19 03:44:04 I found out today that the head lawyer of Sulpicio Lines belong to the same organization as I.
I had seen him before in previous functions and I had read about him in the papers, but I didn’t make the connection until this morning, when he was the butt of friendly jokes at our leadership training.
I [...]
On entrepreneurship 2008-07-18 11:38:02 One of the good things about being with a business organization, aside from the lunch meetings at posh restaurants (paid for by the company, of course), is the exposure to the exciting world of entrepreneurs.
See, I believe in osmosis. I like it that I am picking up principles here and there, even from random conversations. [...]
Cebu bloggers attend presscon with governor 2008-07-15 22:56:48 Two big events are about to happen in Cebu: the 17th Visayas Area Business Conference, which will be held here for the first time, and the Mandaue Business Month, both of which will run in August.
In preparation for these events, the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry through event chairman Wilson Ng tapped bloggers
in [...]
PhotoHunt: Support 2008-07-12 06:03:01 Can anything be more apt than this?
This is Atlas carrying the world. In Greek mythology, he was punished by Zeus to bear the weight of the Earth on his back.
According to Wikipedia:
One of Heracles’s labors was to collect the apples of the Hesperides. Heracles went to Atlas and reasoned with him. Eventually, Atlas agreed [...]
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Marriage is a not a race 2008-07-12 03:51:47 I write this out of frustration. I am annoyed when people ask me when I’d marry, especially people from church. They are the ones who are obsessed about it.
I am only 23 freaking years old. I am not in a hurry. I am not even looking around for someone.
I still have a lot of plans. [...]
PhotoHunt: Dark 2008-08-09 12:18:31 Those are my hands. It looks like the photo was set up, but it is candid. One of my college organizations used to meet on Monday nights outside our dormitories. We used candles at our meet-ups because we were cheap like that. I was playing with the candle one Monday night when a friend caught [...]
Food Trip: Dampa 2008-08-07 12:33:27 I’m ashamed to admit that I lived in Manila for more than four years and never heard of dampas.
A dampa, I just learned, is a wet market where you can buy fresh seafood. Near it is a string of restaurants. The catch is that, you buy seafood from the market, and then choose from among [...]
The Visa as a Ticket to a Better Life 2008-08-07 01:45:55 One of the unlikely places to hear about the dreams and aspirations of random strangers is at the US embassy. There’s this lounge where you wait for the visa interview. On one side of the room is a line of booths where the consuls are. The consuls decide whether you can enter the United States. [...]
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PhotoHunt: Clouds 2008-08-01 13:44:26 Do you see what I see?
I snapped these photo soon after taking off from the Legazpi Airport. It’s on the northern part of the Philippines, by the way, right where the world-famous cone-shaped Mayon Volcano is.
I thought the clouds looked like a bear hiding in the bushes.
Look, he is standing up and scratching his right [...]
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Contacts or eyeglasses? 2008-08-01 06:09:35 I am half blind these days. After my left contact lens was torn last month while I was trying to remove it, a torn piece “got lost” in my eye, and the doctor told me to stop wearing contact lenses for awhile. She said it was to avoid possible infection, even though a test showed [...]
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Would you drink coffee made from animal droppings? 2008-07-30 12:20:09 Am I the last one to know that coffee can be made from animal droppings?
I saw these jars while having lunch at Abaseria Deli and Cafe, a Filipino restaurant that also sells accessories, native houseware, and delicacies that can’t be bought anywhere. I was looking over the shelves when a friend pointed these out to [...]
Food Trip: Twizzlers Twist and Some Odd Squash 2008-08-21 15:41:29 Okay, this is not really a food “trip,” but a list of foods that caught my fancy in this land far, far away.
The day after I came in, someone in class passed around a plate full of what I thought were red twisted candles. LOL. My newfound friend, Sarah (who has a palmtop that I [...]
PhotoHunt: Colorful 2008-08-16 11:12:11 It’s midnight where I am, and I can’t go back to sleep. I’m still on Philippine time, I guess. I thought I’d better do my PhotoHunt until sleep comes upon me.
I am featuring here some paintings made by children for the Art for Heart, an exhibit set up by the Port Authority of [...]
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Off to the Horse Capital of the World 2008-08-14 13:35:03 It wasn’t even a wish, it was more like a passing thought. I wrote in my journal at the beginning of the year that I wanted to go back, and look, it is coming true!
I’m leaving later today for Hong Kong. From there I’ll be flying to Los Angeles, and then to Dallas, [...]
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, World
Vote for these blogs in the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards 2008-09-18 09:02:54 Two of my friends, Winston and Maya, have been nominated for the Bloggers Choice Award in the prestigious 2008 Philippine
Blog Awards
. Winston, the web prodigy, is the most promising batang yagit I know. He’s probably the only yagit who owns several web sites, flaunts a wireless-capable phone, and takes photos using a DSLR.
On the [...]
I was at WordCamp Philippines 2008 2008-09-12 13:40:40 .. thanks to my boss who allowed me to cut my training short so I could go back to the Philippines
in time for it. I had to make up for the lost days, such as having marathon meetings everyday, but it was worth the sweat. After all, I was only going to the first [...]
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