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I’ve tried turkey at last! 2008-09-11 09:11:16 My former colleagues took me to this restaurant that is said to be one of the best in Lexington one Friday night. We were discussing where to have dinner for a sort of farewell for me, and I told them I wanted to try something new. They brought me to Marikka’s, a German restaurant that [...]
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World’s most powerful accelerator switched on in Switzerland 2008-09-10 10:15:56 I was very sleepy and was about to doze off when a nerdy friend, in his excitement, PMed me just to say that the Large Hadron Collider was switched on for the first time in many years.
Now, I am also a nerd. When he mentioned “physics research” and said yes, he was referring to that [...]
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, Switzerland
It’s not racism. 2008-09-08 17:15:55 I find it weird whenever I am asked abroad if I have a degree, or if I ever went to school, or if we have this or that at home.
I just shrug it off, and answer the best way I can. I see no point in going into a long defense of who I am, [...]
Why do planes do a “pirouette” when taking off and before landing? 2008-09-06 03:36:38 I noticed that when planes
take off, they fly the other way and then turn around to follow a straight path to the destination.
And when planes prepare to land, they fly over the destination and then turn around to begin descending to the airport.
It’s like writing the number 8. You will notice because if you [...]
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Ever wondered who the tallest man in the world is? 2008-08-30 21:18:58 It’s Robert Pershing Wadlow, from Alton, Illinois. He was 8 feet 11 inches tall when he was last measured in 1940, when he was just 22 years old. When he was nine, he was able to carry his father, who was 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 170 lbs, up the stairs of their [...]
Hello from Singa Pura 2008-10-06 10:14:06 Been away for awhile. I’ve been busy exploring the Lion City, known to many as Singapore. It got the name from the Sanskrit words (lion) and pura (city).
I’ve been here since Thursday, and I’m actually on my way home. It has been a fun fun fun trip. If I didn’t have deadlines to hit and [...]
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PhotoHunt: View 2008-09-27 13:46:28 This is the aerial view of Chicago as seen from the sky deck of the Sears Tower. I just love that beautiful loop of roads in the center. It’s called Circle Interchange, one of the worst places to be stuck in traffic in the world, and it’s an example of a Spaghetti Junction.
But still, I [...]
Empty nest 2008-09-25 12:52:28 It used to be that this big, old house had 12 merry girls living under its roof. Weekday nights were filled with conversation and laughter while we sit around the television and eat dinner in front of it. Oftentimes, in the middle of the night, someone would say she’s hungry, and we’d be happy to [...]
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What on earth is PSTN? 2008-09-24 12:46:51 So I take a break from writing about cables and signals and transmissions to see if my blog is still up and decided to vent. Okay, I know what PSTN is. That’s not really what this post is about.
I was just overwhelmed these past few weeks about how much I needed to take in, especially [...]
PhotoHunt: Road 2008-09-20 10:23:20 I am back playing in PhotoHunt!
For my comeback, I introduce my beloved brother and his twisted sense of humor:
He is mentally okay, in case you are wondering if he is. He just thought it funny to pose and pretend to be asleep in the middle of a country road. This photo was taken [...]
Porcupines 2008-10-20 05:35:42 No offense to the animal that is the porcupine, because I think they are goodhearted animals. They only use their spines to defend themselves. But I think there are people who resemble the porcupine physically. They walk around with thorns all over them, even if you’re not doing anything to them. Even if you leave [...]
PhotoHunt: Family 2008-10-18 13:29:53 One of the reasons my Singapore trip was memorable was because I had a reunion with my distant cousins. Look, we have a lovely photo together!!
Sorry for the yellow splash in the middle. I try not to post frontal photos of myself here, lest someone takes my photo and paste it on a porn star’s [...]
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Why sunchoke? 2008-10-16 01:01:57 I’m sure many of you are wondering what a sunchoke is and why I named my domain after it.
You can find the answer in my long-overdue Frequently Asked Questions page. I finally got it done!
PhotoHunt: Lazy 2008-10-11 14:02:47 This is what white tigers do on a lazy afternoon:
“I am bored.”
“I wish I could get away from these people. They are starting to annoy me.”
“I should just go down to the water and cool off.”
“Whew! I love this!”
“Now my coat is squeaky clean.”
This white tiger can be found at the world-acclaimed Singapore Zoo, which [...]
Have you heard a bird count and sing in three languages? 2008-10-08 14:29:12 Well, I have. He is Amigo, a Yellow-naped Amazon at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. Listen to him count
and sing in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Malay. He is so cute!
Free ticket to Singapore. Yay! 2008-10-07 09:11:53 I am finally safely home after a turbulent 24 hours. I was supposed to be home at 4 a.m. today, but the plane I was on turned around an hour into the flight from Singapore
to Cebu. I *think* the pilot announced engine problems (I don’t know for sure what he said, I was sleeping) [...]
Oy, I am proud! 2008-11-14 23:30:39 I went mural-painting with some people from the company some Saturdays ago, and these were the fruit of our labor.
You can find those murals at the Guizo Elementary School in Mandaue City.
We didn’t get to work on the mural for the stage because there were few of us volunteers and we ran out [...]
Moving to a new and better webhost 2008-11-14 22:18:08 I’ve lost count of the number of times that my server was down, and customer support is almost always never available. I am pissed. At first, it was easy to brush off. But then when you can’t access your blog most of the day, and then it happens many times a week, then moving out [...]
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, better
Thoughts on the Proposition 8 2008-11-13 06:48:09 If bothers me to see that its supporters are defaming our temple in Los Angeles. I was an activist, I know how ugly protests can get. The temple may not be special to them, but it is to us.
Marriage is sacred. I have my beliefs about marriage and how it should be done. But I [...]
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Twilight, and my long absence 2008-11-08 13:18:43 Gee, it is November already! It’s been a long time since something has kept me from the Internet this long. This time the culprit is a gorgeous vampire named Edward Cullen.
The truth is, I got caught up with work. But the rest of my time was spent reading the Twilight
books and whatever [...]
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PhotoHunt: Scary 2008-10-25 14:13:14 Brace yourself, because even I, don’t like looking at this photo:
See the green coils around the tree?
These are green tree pythons or Morelia viridis. They are a non-venomous, arboreal (refers to animals that live in trees) snake species found in Indonesia, the island of New Guinea, and Australia. They like coiling around tree branches to [...]
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Digital Filipino Club Fellowship Night 2008-10-25 11:42:35 It looks like the blogging community in Cebu is finally kicking off and starting to catch up with the communities in Manila and Davao. I hadn’t seen that many bloggers in Cebu until Thursday night at the DigitalFilipino
Club FellowshipNight
.
The event started with a buffet dinner at the Teatro Casino of the Waterfront [...]
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