This is my 2007 Year-Ender blog post… “My Top FLOSS Applications”, this is Part 1: Goodbye 2007!!

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Philiblogs.com presents The 2007 Philippine Twerp of the Year! Guess who it is. Read on …

Everyone, I’m raffling another laptop bag and it’s good until January 3, 2008 only. Again, joining is easy. Interested? It’s just right here. Go on, click.

Do you remember your college friends? How much fun you used to have hanging out in the cafeteria and lamenting school and aping professors and gossiping about boys? Fifty years after college, do you think you would still have the same fun your college friends as you used to have? Do you think that you and your college friends would still be glamorous and cosmopolitan and energetic as you were then? Or would you and your college friends, having lost all your hair and teeth would be rocking away the rest of your years in nursing homes? Or perhaps, you could be like The Amigas – five women in their 70s and 80s, chatty, glamorous with their dyed hair and designer clothes, adventurous, and galllivanting around Indochina and generally causing our quiet Phnom Penh lives in fun and riotous disarray.

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Leche flan is a favorite dessert that is ever present in many Filipino families’ dinner tables. This is especially true during special occasions, like Christmas.

I myself do not care what occasion it is or even if there is one, I just love leche flan that I find myself cooking it many times in a year.

There are many variations to cooking leche flan. I have tasted many different kinds throughout the years but only to come back to my mother’s recipe. Hers is a tedious and tiring process so I will just share the quick, no frills way to a similar tasting dessert.

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Every year I always share my experiences whether naughty or nice. This year was a blast as I am starting to enjoy what Canada can offer.

Here are the list of what transpired in my first year of living here in Vancouver:

• I got a used 1995 Acura Integra as my first car and early Christmas gift for myself.

• I got my US visa which will be good for the next 10 years.

• My former employer Easywash gave me a chance to travel to Las Vegas for the annual Car Care Expo presented by the International Carwash Association. I attended some seminars regarding on how to increase profit in the carwashing and detailing business. I was also lucky to be flying on 1st class seats and checked-in a suite room overlooking the Sin City at The Hilton. Tried a bit of gambling but just the slot machines and I won over $300. Went on hotel hopping at the best hotels at The Strip.

• For my birthday I got myself a DSLR. Its a Canon Rebet XT which came with an 18-55mm kit lens. I also got additional lenses which are CANON EF 50 f1.8 II, SIGMA 70-300 F4-5.6
  APO DG Macro and CANON EF-S 17-85 F4-5.6 IS USM.

• On the summer I went to Whistler North America’s Best Ski Resort and tried River Rafting and bungee jumping but I chickened out to try bungee.

• I had to say goodbye to Easywash who gave me lots of opportunities on my career growth here in Canada. Easywash was a wonderful company but I have to move on and try new ventures.

• I am now a part of The Kaltire Team of Branch 663 in Vancouver. My new job as Service Technician is exciting because I have to drive in different vehicles everyday. Most of them are expensive such as Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, and others to name a few.

• Last Boxing day I tried to shop for great deals and I got some audio stuff for my car. I got a new Panasonic MP3/WMA deck, TMA Speakers, and Rockford Fosgate Subwoofer. Next year I’m planning to get a 52″ Plasma LCD HDTV.

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It’s been my tradition in my blog to post a yearend entry. I usually post the most memorable things that happened to me from the very first day of January until December in my year ender specials, and in 2006, I’ve also included a list of my favorite entries for the whole year. But this year, I decided to make seven lists of seven. The lists talk about the best of 2007 except for the news category. I’ve also added notes here and there, and some are potential spoilers so be warned!

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To the Asshole who shutdown my computer,

Hi! How does this day find you? I hope you get hit by a fucking bus today. Thanks to your little activity, I have lost several important files that I was working on. Sure, MS Excel has this recovery thing, but that didn’t save all of it! What’s worse is that you didn’t even fucking call me about it. My phone number’s all over my email signature. It’s even in the directory. You just left a little gay note. You even used my post-it. Asshole. I bet you used my pen too, huh?

Read more of An Open Letter to an Asshole and New Year’s Resolutions

Happy New Year everyone! 2007 has come and gone, and has assraped us all so awesomely.

Google image search for “New Year”. Let the WTFs roll.

This year has like been the worst year of my life for reasons I can’t blog about lest this turns into a mushy emofest like LiveJournal. So instead I’ll distract you from badgering me about the details of my sucky year and present you with the obligatory best of 2007 post. I did this last year, and this is one of the few times where I actually do a meme of sorts, and for my new readers, this is a chance to sift through the best of my overly convoluted archives. Read the rest of this entry »

Having the impression of both struggling from being a third-world country in the South East Asia, now, let us have a brief look on the energy planning of Philippines and Thailand.

While Philippines is continuously promoting for higher utilization of indigenous natural gas sources for power generation, Thailand, on the other hand, has started to reduce its dependency to its Natural Gas resource due to potential depletion of its gas reserves in a few decades. Thailand’s electricity source is largely dependent on natural gas which is 66% of its energy mix. Read more>>

The year of 2007, dubbed as the year of blog events and controversies of the Pinoy blogosphere. A round where Filipinos extended the activity of blogging from the simple act of blog posting to the establishment of proper community relationships – all thanks to the number of offline and online blog events which has encouraged such interactions.

It is evident that 2007 has been a good year for the growth of the Pinoy blogosphere. Every event, no matter how big or small, controversial or not, is an important milestone which marks every step of the pinoy blogging community.

Let us take a look at these important milestones and see how far the Pinoy blogosphere has grown in the year 2007.

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Clark Development Corporation (CDC) proudly announces the launch of RACE TO THE FUTURE – The 2008 Clark Freeport International Marathon.  This major sporting event has been in the planning stage for several months and CDC is proud to say that all the hard work is now coming to fruition.  To attract participants from all over the world, CDC is providing a track route that meets international standards and is offering world-class prizes totaling to 1.8 million pesos.  International marathon runners from Singapore. Malaysia, China, and Korea will also be joining the event.

International Marathons have gained great popularity all over the world, involving runners from all walks of life.  It is high time the Philippines gets involved in the international marathon circuit, a Clark Development official reveals.  Also, this is now the chance for every Filipino to win great prizes and international recognition.

Determined to comply with international standards and regulations, CDC has been conferred the sanction of the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (PATAFA) and the endorsement of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).  Recently, CDC held a contract signing with ActivAsia, Inc., a frontrunner in corporate events and product activation.  The contract signing officially launches the event and is headed by Mr. Liberato P. Laus, the President and CEO of CDC.  With the involvement of Locators at the Clark International Freeport, the event is expected to be a resounding success.

The marathon is set on January 13, 2008, Sunday.  It is expected to draw in spectators from all over the country. For more information, everyone is invited to log on and register online at http://www.clarkmarathon.com.

I wanna share to you guys my new online hang out, it’s a cool website for teenagers to enjoy, not only to have fun but to have support about dealing their peer pressures in daily life! Well, I don’t have much more to say about it, since I am busy on the site meeting new people, so I will just give you the link and guys, please do come and enjoy livewire!

Its funny how a lot of people mistake “banoffee” as being made up of banana and coffee. I can only say that it is primarily due to how the word banoffee is pronounced that is causing this confusion.

Banoffee is actually a dessert made of bananas, cream and toffee on a base made of pastry or crumbs of graham or biscuits. That is the foundation of the delicious dessert but can be enhanced to contain nuts, chocolate, or yes, even coffee. So the term Banoffee is really a word combined from “banana” and “toffee”. If only people here pronounced it correctly as banofi rather than banowfi. Even the Red Ribbon commercial says it incorrectly.

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New theme, new post. I wanted to rant about the asshole who created this new theme that I’m using. What’s more is that I’d like to have a conversation with him and tell him personally what sucks in his theme. Because I’m too lazy to contact him, and because email is not personal (duh?!). Also, that girl in the picture is…Read on.

OMG! I thought I already posted the winners last night. I was typing this post and then found myself asleep in front of the monitor after 3 hours. Oh no!

So here are the winners. There were 3 entries and all of them are winners. Since there were only 3, it was so easy to raffle it. I wrote the names on a sheet of paper, shuffle them more than a hundred times and let my wife pick the winners. First pick got the 3rd prize, and the 2nd pick won the jackpot. The remaining sheet won the 2nd prize. Just like announcing the amatuer singing contest champion. So here they are. Read More

Our house has been officially named… “ang bahay na patawad” (a.k.a the house that does not entertain carolers). I laughed when I heard my yaya tell us about how she heard some street kids talk about our house to other street kids.

It has always been the tradition in the Philippines, for kids and adults alike, to set out and go from house to house in the neighborhood singing carols and asking for money for their efforts. They often shout – “Namamasko po” at the top of their lungs hoping someone would come out and give them money.

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Peace, wherever you are

The World’s Most Peaceful Countries in 2007

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I decided to do a top 10 in place of last year’s top 15 list because although some tracks deserve to be in this year’s list, I excluded them because they already were in last year’s countdown. Again, no one should have the gall to find fault in this countdown (not even because not all of them were released in 2007) because only I could ever come up with an “in_sneakers Top 10 Songs That Made Her Happy This Year.”

10. Phantom Limb by The Shins
One of the reasons One Tree Hill is one of my guilty pleasures is because I get to hear good songs from lesser-known bands, like this one. I liked it more when I saw The Shins perform this track on Saturday Night Live. I love it because of the “wooooh” parts.

[MP3] Phantom Limb by The Shins

Check out the rest of the list here.

Let’s go talk about the Philippines and the spread of GNU/Linux in this, as PGMA calls it – 2nd World Country.

“A Computer for Every School” or ACES is a government project aiming to put at least one (1) computer in every school in the Philippines. But with the budget limited, they are now considering using GNU/Linux instead, with that, I strongly recommend using Edubuntu.

Why you ask? Continue reading here to know why…