Life is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

That’s probably the reason why my life is a contradiction– a tragic comedy or a comical tragedy. Some say I think too much. Others say I feel too much. Maybe I was supposed to be that way just to even things out… or else I’d go crazy.

[More pre-birthday thoughts here.]

What do I have in common with Angelina Jolie, the Dalai Lama and Oprah?

Nothing but Blue Aura!

one of the latest additions to my photographic arsenal, the nikon speedlight sb-800…

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Raven’s frustrated with Taiwanese peep’s strict accordance to the rules — no matter how stupid it is.

Hence, she shares her frustrating experiences on Haagen Dazs (e.g., “Sorry, but we don’t serve ice cream in cone”), restaurant timing problems, visa and leaving the country.

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“Mas tao si Superman sa palabas na ito. Sabi nga ni Mhay, parang sobrang kawawa siya. May iba na si Lois, at walang ibang buhay si Clark kundi ang Daily Planet at ang pagiging Superman. Sa pelikula, pinakamatindi na yata ang naranasan niyang hagupit. Biro mo’y naospital pa ang bida matapos siyang patumbahin ni Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey). May mga bagong tauhan, at bagong elemento rin sa kuwento ni Superman. At maniniwala ba kayong pati ang Maynila ay nabanggit sa pelikula? May mga katanungan din itong hatid: ang tagapaligtas, halimbawa, ay nangangailangan di ba ng pagliligtas?”

Read more at ederic@cyberspace.

People shy away from Apple computers because they think they are expensive machines. Well, they thought wrong.

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Ka-windang-windang!

Ang shamung pikstyurs na pala akong wiz nalalagay ditech! As in! So, etech na, inayos ko na syang lahat. Yung iba dyan na album tulad ng birthday ni Bossing baka hindi nyo ma-feel kung hindi naman kayo kamag-dyanakan o prenship at di nyo knows ang mga utaw sa album. Pero kung type nyo, i-sight nyo na lang. Pero wis na okray na di nyo know ever ang cast of characters pero placing ko po rin ditech at winarningan ko na kayo na mga dyumag-anak at prenship chorvas namin sila. Hokey?

March, 2006
Washington, DC

Perstaym (pramis, perstaym talaga!) na nakarampa ako sa Washington, DC. Dinala akesh ni Bossing ditech at may-i-walk kaming mag-jowa sa kahabaan ng Union Station hanggang Lincoln Memorial. Sa true ha, dito ako nakaranas (maliban sa San Francisco, CA) na na-say ko sa self ko, “Huwaw!!! Eto ang Jameyrika!!” Pagkalabas na pagkalabas pa lang namin sa Union Station, halos halikan ko ang lupa dahil so beyutipul talaga! Nirampa namin ang kahabaan ng Capitol hanggang Lincoln Memorial na kung tawagin nila ay National Mall. Marami-rami pa akong hindi pa napuntahan sa mga tatlong beses ko nang punta dito kasi medyo mas malayo-layo na sya sa mall. Pero babalik pa ako. Marami pang prenships na dadalhin sa lugar na ito.

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Touch the Sky

“For the day you die, you gonna touch the sky”

Johnny Martires was a good guy — all Johnnies are, of course. He was generous in patience, love, and other goofy-good what-not. But others weren’t as generous to him; for example, his girl. But he wasn’t crying, no, not all Johnnies cry. He was smiling from ear to ear, epilepsisyzing himself to Kanye West’s tune loudly playing in his room, conquering every sound wave from there out to a one mile radius.

Continue reading at Corsarius’ Slip of the Pen.

Superman going around the globe from Manila to Italy to France saving people reeks of American Hegemony of global security. He is portrayed as the world’s policeman, fireman, and one-man security force where everyone is beholden to him and utterly grateful to his Boy Scout acts. But still, it shows that an American Icon like Superman being on top of global affairs where he has influence over other sovereign nations makes me want to puke. Not only is he violating the air spaces of other countries, he is implying that other countries can’t take care of themselves and are always in need of Superman.

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Apparently, 1st Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards (presented by Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman) will be having a special People’s Choice award. So FB is posting the shortlisted entries on its website. The shortlisted stories in the fiction category are up now. Congratulations, uh, whoever you writers are.

Awful Things

At first look, it looks like a GameBoy Micro, but it’s not. It’s called the One Station. A video game store in SM North EDSA’s CyberZone has been selling these knock-offs at P1,999 each. The handheld is actually a portable Famicom/NES and uses a cartridge specially made for the game system. It’s powered by 3 AAA batteries and can be plugged into a TV set, for a bigger game screen.

One Station: GameBoy Micro Look-a-Like

Booster has updated his firmware launching tool, DevHook for the PSP to version 0.42 today. For those of you who don’t know (i.e. 2.5/2.6 users who have just downgraded), DevHook allows you to launch another firmware version up to 2.5 and use all of its features, enabling you to use the web browser and LocationFree player, and run UMDs that require firmware version 1.5. The firmware remains loaded in the PSP’s RAM, so after a simple reboot of your PSP, it will return to firmware version 1.5 like magic.

Here’s the changelog:

* Menu looks sharper with a better resolution.
* No UMD bug fix
* UMD Emu’s semaphore bug fix
* Changed Clock reset timing
* Changed contents of configuration data
* Changed loading & setting method from launcher
* Changed the config load at the time of starting into a memory course from a file.
* XMB’s UMD change feature is now in an external module.
* Added a CLOCK change function to the XMB shortcut.
* Clock frequency is displayed on the XMB
* Remote control compatibility with Kprintf.
* Added Japanese localization launcher version by mok

Todo:

* FW2.00 No-UMD loading
* FW2.71 reboot
* NAND driver emulation

Most of these changes are to the core of DevHook, and they improve the stability and compatibility of this program. The main differences the average user will spot are the menu resolution enhancements and the addition of Remote control compatibility with Kprintf. Those who have downgraded from 2.5-2.6 now know why 1.5 is known as ‘the magic firmware.’ You can do almost anything with it: defy the Update Machine; play 2.5 UMD’s; and, browse the Web with 1.5 Firmware!

Read more here PinoyPSP

Kahapon
Masaya ako
Abot langit tuwa ko
Taas ng lipad
Bilis ng takbo
Nakakahilo
Mahirap isipin
Pero totoo.

Basahin ng buo sa myepinoy’s BLAG

after a few shots and donuts, we closed the session of the day…

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As a freshman at the University of North Texas, Daniel Folmer would sometimes play video games for 12 hours straight. He stopped going out with friends. He sank into academic probation.

When his girlfriend came over, he stayed in his virtual world. Then she told him something that jolted him back to reality.

“She just waited for me to look at her, or acknowledge her, or hug her or whatever, and she said she fell asleep waiting,” he said. “I looked in the mirror, and I did not like who I was becoming.”

Read it here…

Santiago Villiafania’s villanelles are posted at Panitikan.com.ph.

Panitikan.com.ph is an online resource center for Filipino writers and readers

SANTIAGO B. VILLAFANIA
Anlong:

Villanelle 3: Aligando
Villanelle: tagleey tonya’y puso
Villanelle in Pangasinan

It’s only the 60th Philippine Independence, that’s the real date and what the history tells us, why change?  Read and be enlightened.

July 4 Philippine Independence, the Real Date

2nd Blogger Meet is at Italianni’s
July 4th, 2006
We’re scheduling another informal blogger meet. Here are the details:

Who: All bloggers, casual and professional
When: July 15 2006 5:30 PM
Where: Italianni’s Greenbelt 2, Makati

Read more from Jayvee’s A Bugged Life | blogged at Codamon.com

But, but, but, point is, don’t hold back from getting your wisdom tooth/teeth extracted beacause some pussy told you it’s going to be painful. I swear to God it’s not. That’s coming from a queerboy. You should be so shamed.

“It’s so surreal to hear your jawbone getting scraped and your teeth being broken and twisted– keeerunch!– but not feel a thing. It’s so dehumanizing. I felt like a car. Or a tenant to my own body….So Skeleton Key.”

Browkowzt Modern Life

Kausap ko kahapon ng umaga si Kulas. Ibinalita nya sa akin na nanalo raw si Pac Man by unanimous decision. Ang sabi nya, “Pare ang tagal ng laban, umabot ng 12 rounds, hindi kaya pinaabot talaga hanggang doon para makapag praktis ng husto si Manny?” Sabi ko di ko alam. Di ako nakapanood kasi nakalimutan ko gumising ng maaga noong laban nya.

Akala ko yon lang ang sasabihin. Pero hindi pala, ganado pang magkwento si Kulas.

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