Early this morning i had a plan ( with my gal’z friends ) to visit our school. It will just take a couple of walk from our house. Upon arriving there, i saw my “Apple of the Eye”. He is Matt ( Just a Secret name ). Tall, dark, and…not really handsome but i’m sure he could knock out the other handsome boys by his charming face. He lived in the same barangay with me, since our barangay is too huge we couldn’t still see each other everyday. I think that’s enough information from matt. I have a crushed ( did i spell it correctly..?) to matt since high school and now that we both graduated, i don’t still have enough courage to show my admiration.

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There’s nothing like the so-called life of a teenager – and both the lyrics and the video to “1979″ illustrate the apparent nothingness of the lives of disaffected youth in suburbia.

Said to be based on Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s “idealized version of teenagehood”, the video reflects the careless freedom and audacity of youth which, tied in with the song’s lyrics (we don’t even care / to shake these zipper blues / and we don’t know / just where our bones will rest / to dust i guess / forgotten and absorbed into the earth below), make for the perfect teen anthem.

Watch and rate “1979″ and other music videos on 100 Best Music Videos

Which is better? Joost or Democracy Player?

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All thanks to a nifty program called “CrossOver Mac”, Apple users can now access Metrobank’s internet banking facility (otherwise known as MetrobankDirect).

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leftovers. the less you’ve eaten, the more leftovers. the less you have let go, the more leftovers. the slower you move on, you’ve got leftovers.

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It doesn’t take me hours to find that one elusive tag or attribute I have to style. It’s less complicated. It’s easier to remember what I’ve forgotten because I’ve written everything on my own. I don’t have to sift through numerous and mind-boggling codes when all I want is a clean and functional design. I know my own needs which I try to meet. I just do without all those fancy stuff that other themes offer. I’m in charge, so everything makes sense to me. A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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Here’s something I got from the old Philippine Animal Welfare Society website (they have a new one here). I do think there are still a lot of people out there who see spay&neuter as something as taboo for their beloved cats and dogs. They couldn’t be more wrong…[Read on]

This is the big surprise, friends.

I’ve gotten permission to post video excerpts of “Rama at Sita” on the Web! By special arrangement with Franco Laurel and Ayen Munji-Laurel of ML Entertainment, owners of the copyright to the musical, clips of “Rama at Sita’s” major musical numbers are now available on YouTube, the first time this musical will be seen on video since its last curtain call in 1999, or eight years ago.

Bless the generous souls of the Laurel couple, who are giving all of us a chance to enjoy this musical masterpiece absolutely for free. No need to buy a DVD copy (none is available anyway, whether bootleg or original); just pop over to YouTube via the track links I’ve provided below, and enjoy the show! (Note: Except for the clip of the opening number, embedding has been disabled to ensure copyright protection.)

Take note, there are no plans to re-stage this musical. The rights to the Cayabyab-Lumbera parts of the musical–the “Rama Hari” excerpts–have lapsed, and reacquiring them to mount “Rama at Sita” anew is an impractical option at present. Which means this may be our one last chance to savor, at least on video, the “engrossing audio-visual feast” (Raul Teehankee, Manila Bulletin) that–at a reported cost of P40 million, every cent of it represented by the lavish artistry on stage–made for a high-water mark in the evolution of Philippine musical theater.

Teaser video, YouTube links and complete post here.

I am so out of it. I only realize today that it was around this time of the year that I took my first backpacking trip to overseas. So what was I doing on May 21, 2006?

Looking at my photo directory, it appears that it was the day I made my way from Ko Samui to Ko Phangan. Ah, yes, how could I forget?

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Interesting article about Thailand vs Philippines. Hope to keep this momentum going

I’m finally now back in the UK. I was impressed by my time in the Philippines, which, after the recent travails of Thailand actually appears to be an increasingly attractive alternative destination in which to live and invest, if you select your destination carefully. No sooner had I decided to write about it, than a big article appeared in the Wall Street Journal echoing my own increasingly favourable impressions of the Philippines from this trip. It gave the recent example of Texas Instruments building a second, 1 billion US$ assembly plant there, in preference to China which has seen land prices, rents and salaries soar on the east coast, and because they don’t want to put all their eggs in the China basket.

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Marami talagang nagaganap sa lahat ng inuman. Heto yung mga pangyayaring talagang tatatak sa mga isipan at kapag naalala ang mga kaganapang iyon, tatawanan talaga. Pero walang silbi ito kung kayo ang lasing at kayo ang pinagtatawanan. Basa pa!

A few days ago, Jayvee Fernandez announced a cosplay photo shoot at the Intramuros Golf Club; leaving an “open invitation” for online friends and acquaintances to take part in a very informal shoot on a Sunday afternoon. He was expecting 5 or 6 friends to come and join him on it; much to his delight, about fifty people showed up.

The lesson Jayvee wants us to learn here: Never underestimate the power of viral marketing within the blogging community.

Click here and read complete article and view other photos.

“It is truly amazing that Filipinos are not a patriotic people. Yet, a decade and a hundred years ago this country teemed with patriots – Sancho Valenzuela, Flaviano Yenko, Aniano Diokno, Maximo Abad, Luciano San Miguel, Eugenio Daza, Julian Santos, Faustino Guillermo, Macario Sakay, Simeon Ola, Arcadio Maxilon, Martin Delgado, Urbano Lacuna, Juan Cailles, Licerio Geronimo, Sixto Lopez, just to name a few. But today ineptitude, helplessness, indifference and disregard for law and order prevail. Seekers of favor, privilege and position outnumber those who are willing to make sacrifices for the country. And not one among contemporary public officials show any real interest in leading the people out of poverty, ignorance and apathy. The puzzle becomes even more pronounced whenever the question is asked why the likes of Aguinaldo, Rizal, Bonifacio, Jacinto, Del Pilar, Luna, Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce are nowhere to be found. Had no one emulated them? Had they died for naught? ”

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After nine long years, the much-anticipated sequel to the classic Blizzard Real-Time Strategy game StarCraft is finally here….

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Got this SecretSauce.TV video parody of the combined United 93 and 300 films through Jozzua….

I don’t usually have the patience to watch lengthy videos in full, but this one is an exception.

Haha.

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Google’s Picasa is undeniably the best and most user-friendly photo editing software out there. It’s free and what’s more, using or through Picasa itself, you can upload pictures you want to share into Google’s equally user-friendly free photo sharing service, Picasa Web Albums.

A recent great improvement in users’ photograph-sharing capability in Picasa Web Albums was the addition of a feature that enables users “to create nifty portable Flash slideshows that you can easily embed in any blog or web page”….

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We jumpstart the 100 Best Music Videos blog with the first video ever aired on MTV, ironically titled “Video Killed the Radio Star”.

First shown on MTV when the channel debuted on August 01, 1981, the song’s catchy melody and the video’s quirky and “futuristic” elements make for a memorable music video and a fitting forefather to all music videos aired thereafter.

View and rate the “Video Killed The Radio Star” music video at 100 Best Music Videos

All the details you need to know about Blizzard’s new game – StarCraft II was compiled by gameshogun.ws Blognet, the Premier Gaming Blognetwork in the country and the region.

Here are the links:
StarCraft II – Press Release
StarCraft II – Official Details
StarCraft 2 Screenshots
StarCraft 2 Video Trailer
It is Official: Next Big Game of Blizzard – StarCraft 2

Rock Ed Radio’s Keep Your Promises series of concerts demands that the winners of the elections to do as the title says and keep their promises.  I love hearing about events like this – that’s why I’m blogging about it.

On the other hand, I’m also pretty skeptical about them.  Why?  I’m a cynic and a pessimist – but that’s only the very short answer.  A longer one is here…

I’ve never liked having my picture taken; in fact my earliest memories of me and a camera was me running away from one — unless I happen to be peeking through the viewfinder (something I actually enjoy). I’m so used to the glaring looks mom shoots at me while we’re having family portraits taken. “Smile!” she always shouts at me exasperatingly — which only makes me want to do anything but. Days later, when we’re looking at proofs trying to pick one where we all look pretty decent, I hear my sisters sigh, as if I had ruined all the shots. But I can’t blame them; they’re usually right.

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