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Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggers 2008-06-06 16:19:57 I have a confession to make: I vote in Pinoy Big Brother.
I am not really a fan, but I catch glimpses of the show whenever my housemates watch it. I vote because the kids I deem deserving are not topping the lists, so I spend a few pesos to try to help them.
On that same [...]
The long overdue birthday post 2008-06-02 22:54:39 My birthday started with a bang, and this is not a tall tale. There was noise in the house so loud I was awakened from my sleep, considering that I don’t even hear two alarm clocks ringing simultaneously on normal days.
I thought it was very sweet of my housemates to throw me a surprise party [...]
Sunchoke.net is back! 2008-06-02 10:42:36 I am so relieved.
I thought I would have to reinstall the blog and start all over again, because it seemed no one knew what the problem was. I messed up my database configurations while trying to install a photo publisher on this site. It was just my stupidity, really, and I had no [...]
PhotoHunt: Self 2008-05-31 10:55:52 I’ve been meaning to play in Photohunt, which I heard through Bing, but I forget to post each Saturday. This time I didn’t!
The theme for this week is Self, and so here is my entry.
I look like a 12-year-old, no?
The photo was taken earlier this year in Boracay, an island in [...]
happy birthday to me 2008-05-27 11:00:19 Today is my birthday. At this time last year I was on a road trip from Kentucky to New York to Washington, D.C. My friends and I welcomed May 28 at an inn in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving on to spend the day in Washington, D.C.
It was Memorial Day and we were in the capital [...]
Marriage. Gee. 2008-05-25 03:56:56 My housemate, Janice, who is marrying next month, is having her and her fiance’s parents over for the traditional pamanhikan. Thus I was banished to the confines of my room lest I disrupt the business meeting downstairs.
I don’t know what has come upon this house, but three other housemates are getting married this year. Our [...]
American work ethics vs. Filipino work ethics 2008-05-21 03:27:45 I slept late last night to hear out an American
colleague’s frustrations about the American workplace. I work closely with Americans everyday, so I knew what he was talking about.
American work ethics is not ideal, as what most Filipino
s perceive it to be. Whenever I tell people where I work, they would say I am [...]
One million blog list 2008-05-18 10:08:22 There’s an experiment going on that aims to find out how long it would take to list one million
blogs.
I’ve added my blogs to the list. Quest for the True North is at #1575, and Little Light is at #1576.
Go ahead and add your blogs, my beloved three readers.
I am curious how [...]
I heart Cebu 2008-05-17 04:19:15 I just got back from Nailon Beach Resort, which is in the suburbs of Bogo City, four hours north of Cebu City.
It’s not a white-sand beach like the other beaches in Cebu that I’ve gone to, but the resort is pretty enough to lift one’s spirits. I stayed in a room by the beach. The [...]
Would you know what kind of banana this is? 2008-05-12 03:23:44 My housemate, Cathleen, brought home some jumbo-sized banana
s that she found in a market in Negros.
I have never seen bananas these big:
We placed the bottle of Sprite there for comparison. As you can see, the bananas are longer than a 1.5-liter bottle of Sprite.
It took us two days to eat these. We had to cut [...]
PhotoHunt: Bad Hair 2008-06-08 15:56:18 I thought of not joining this week’s PhotoHunt because I initially had no idea what to put out for the theme.
Until I saw this picture. I took it last year in downtown New York, where the World Trade Center used to be.
The blue thing the grandpa was leaning on contained information on the soon-to-be-built Freedom [...]
PhotoHunt: Bad Hair 2008-06-08 15:56:18 I thought of not joining this week’s PhotoHunt because I initially had no idea what to put out for the theme.
Until I saw this picture. I took it last year in downtown New York, where the World Trade Center used to be.
The blue thing the grandpa was leaning on contained information on the soon-to-be-built Freedom [...]
Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggers 2008-06-06 16:19:57 I have a confession to make: I vote in Pinoy Big Brother.
I am not really a fan, but I catch glimpses of the show whenever my housemates watch it. I vote because the kids I deem deserving are not topping the lists, so I spend a few pesos to try to help them.
On that same [...]
The long overdue birthday post 2008-06-02 22:54:39 My birthday started with a bang, and this is not a tall tale. There was noise in the house so loud I was awakened from my sleep, considering that I don’t even hear two alarm clocks ringing simultaneously on normal days.
I thought it was very sweet of my housemates to throw me a surprise party [...]
Sunchoke.net is back! 2008-06-02 10:42:36 I am so relieved.
I thought I would have to reinstall the blog and start all over again, because it seemed no one knew what the problem was. I messed up my database configurations while trying to install a photo publisher on this site. It was just my stupidity, really, and I had no [...]
PhotoHunt: Self 2008-05-31 10:55:52 I’ve been meaning to play in Photohunt, which I heard through Bing, but I forget to post each Saturday. This time I didn’t!
The theme for this week is Self, and so here is my entry.
I look like a 12-year-old, no?
The photo was taken earlier this year in Boracay, an island in [...]
happy birthday to me 2008-05-27 11:00:19 Today is my birthday. At this time last year I was on a road trip from Kentucky to New York to Washington, D.C. My friends and I welcomed May 28 at an inn in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving on to spend the day in Washington, D.C.
It was Memorial Day and we were in the capital [...]
Marriage. Gee. 2008-05-25 03:56:56 My housemate, Janice, who is marrying next month, is having her and her fiance’s parents over for the traditional pamanhikan. Thus I was banished to the confines of my room lest I disrupt the business meeting downstairs.
I don’t know what has come upon this house, but three other housemates are getting married this year. Our [...]
American work ethics vs. Filipino work ethics 2008-05-21 03:27:45 I slept late last night to hear out an American
colleague’s frustrations about the American workplace. I work closely with Americans everyday, so I knew what he was talking about.
American work ethics is not ideal, as what most Filipino
s perceive it to be. Whenever I tell people where I work, they would say I am [...]
One million blog list 2008-05-18 10:08:22 There’s an experiment going on that aims to find out how long it would take to list one million
blogs.
I’ve added my blogs to the list. Quest for the True North is at #1575, and Little Light is at #1576.
Go ahead and add your blogs, my beloved three readers.
I am curious how [...]
I heart Cebu 2008-05-17 04:19:15 I just got back from Nailon Beach Resort, which is in the suburbs of Bogo City, four hours north of Cebu City.
It’s not a white-sand beach like the other beaches in Cebu that I’ve gone to, but the resort is pretty enough to lift one’s spirits. I stayed in a room by the beach. The [...]
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: Emotions 2008-06-14 09:48:26 It’s PhotoHunt time once again.
I met this boy when I did my undergraduate thesis two years ago in Rizal, about three hours 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 no running water. The main [...]
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 [...]
Read more:Happy
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 [...]
Read more:Bright
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 [...]
I’m (I was) in Negros 2008-07-06 21:18:07 I am supposed to be in Manila this weekend, but the business seminar I was planning to attend did not push through, reason why I wasn’t at the Pond’s Taste of Beauty blogger party last Friday, like I promised.
But, as they say, when God closes a door, a window opens. When I got [...]
Read more:Negros
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