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When I was 13, I joined a TV quiz show representing my school. One of the questions were: What is the first day of Lent? ...I didn't know. :p We lost but what the heck. I was 13 and I was on TV. lol. Some funny things at the Ash Wednesday mass I attended over lunch break at work. - When everybody stood up, there was this 6 foot tall intern standing in front of a lady colleague who was less than 5 feet tall. Poor lady couldn't see the priest! - After we were all given ash crosses on our foreheads, a male colleague took out his handkerchief and began wiping his face and forehead, then suddenly exclaimed, "Ay! Nabura ko!(I erased it!)" hahaha... - Then the Shutdown meeting snack later that day was siopao. (Bread with pork inside).(Note: Abstaining from pork during Lent is a Catholic practice.. in case you didn't get why it was funny! :p) On a totally unrelated topic, here a creepy photo of the moon I took a couple of weeks ago when it was full...(click to enlarge)

Photos from the Manila Ocean Park Here are some photos from when I visited The Manila Ocean Park with my girlfriend for her birthday last year... I found Nemo (in Manila!) - I knew it! Creepy looking fishy eggs that sort of look more like lizards than fish... I bet your eyes would be this red too if you had to sleep with them open. :p I can talk to fish 'cause I'm a Pisces. :p Happy Valentine's Day Liz. I love you! a Theme Thursday post

*** The Honest Scrap Award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog’s content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant! *** I received this award from Fren over at Because It's Human Nature to Communicate where she wrote that my blog was "a very informative, flexible and a jovial blog, authored by a fellow UPian; a link from Chase Images; ‘bet you, you’ll be amused at the many choices and links you’re about to see because of his excellent blog presentation.:)" Thanks Fren! The Rules? When accepting this auspicious award, you must: Write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to said person so everyone knows he or she is real. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have 7 friends. Show the 7 random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them t...

Oble - UP Oblation The statue dearest to my heart is called the " The Oblation ". The Oblation is the symbol of the University of the Philippines, the university I went to for my Engineering degree. I have so many wonderful memories of UP. It was where I met my girlfriend of course. Haha.

I know Gary Granada from his winning the Grand Prize in the 1998 Metropop Song Festival for his song "Mabuti Pa Sila". I'm familiar with the song because we sang it in the UPCC from 2000 to 2004. The last line of that song is probably how Gary Granada felt before he made this recording... "Di tulad kong lagi na lang nag-iisa..." ~CLICK THE GREEN PLAY BUTTON~ Gary Granada vs GMA Kapuso by dosomethingworthwhile "And you have the audacity to tell me that my composition is OUR collective effort." This proves to be a case of ignorance on the side of the GMA Kapuso Foundation. I am theorizing that after they received the test copy from Mr. Granada and didn't like it, they handed it over to another composer. And because of they were constrained by time, they resorted to just changing the melodic line and retaining the rest. I think they did not know that Gary Granada would be able to identify his work because for them, all they hear is the m...

From Coffee Messiah : Sometime last year a fellow blogger started Theme Thursday, and anyone who wanted could post something on their blog on Thursday relating to the theme. This week's topic is KITCHEN . Here's my Theme Thursday blog... The first thing that came to my mind about KITCHEN is, of course, that it's where people cook. I don't really cook. I just really eat. So in the absence of food cooking stories and photos of our kitchen, I thought to share some stuff about kitchens and scary movies... __________ 1. As a young boy, I loved watching horror movies even if they kept me up half the night. After a good intense scaring, I would lie in bed with the blanket covering my whole body (the feet too! coz I was scared zombies would grab my feet) and with only my eyes and my nose showing. On one particular night, after watching Freddie Kruger almost kill Nancy on "A Nightmare on Elm Street", my elder sister scared me half to death telling me she could hear a t...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! This is freakin' hilarious! Apologies to all the "serious" bloggers out there who are reading this, but it was just so funny I had to blog about it. This was only the second time that I heard this new Britney Spears song, and I only listened (deliberately) again because I was curious about an article on Google News about some Parent groups saying "If You Seek Amy" is too dirty for radio and should be banned. I'm like, "What? Why?" So I listened again... The chorus goes: Love me hate me Say what you want about me But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy Got it yet? :p Think dirty thoughts and listen... Here's a youtube vid of it (audio only): If You Seek Amy Talk about making a controversial song for a controversial celebrity. lol.

Are you wondering what the Year of the Ox will bring for you? I was born in the year of the Dog, 1982. How about you? What year were you born? Check out your horoscope here: Chinese Horoscope by Yahoo! To all my Chinese colleagues and Friends... KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!!! Welcome the Year of the Ox! Photo from Wiki

On January 14, Pro-Palestinian activists in Lebanon attacked Starbucks, causing the branch of the U.S. coffee shop chain to close its doors. The protesters accused the coffee chain of supporting the Israeli army and the attack in Gaza, basing their protests on a letter that indicates that the company’s chairman and president, Howard Schultz, has been donating money to Israel. Starbucks has vehemently denied this on their website and apparently the letter was published on an Internet site by an Australian anti-Zionist, who made it clear that he wrote the letter as a parody... Unfortunately, the same violent protests have still been happening, not in only Lebanon but in other parts of the world as well. Hmm. Can Starbucks sue that Aussie dude for libel? In other news, I am personally boycotting Starbucks until they give me my free Starbucks Planner for 2009. I have checked a dozen Starbucks shops in the past 2 weeks, and they're all out. :p The one in SM Batangas even said I have t...

The Conficker worm is spreading worldwide, now affecting around 10 million personal and business computers. A report from F-secure says it leaped from 2.4 million to up to 3 times that number in just 3 days. Are you scared yet? The worm can be acquired through a vulnerability in the Microsoft system which could allow remote code execution if an affected system received a specially crafted RPC request. This is not a problem if you already have the patch they sent out in October. The worm can also “mutate” and launch “brute force attacks” that relentlessly try thousands of letter and number combinations in codes to steal personal passwords and login information. Lastly, the worm can infect removable devices and network shares with an autorun file that executes as soon as a USB drive or other infected device is connected to a victim PC. This last one may be most common for personal computers, so protect yourself RIGHT NOW and turn off your AutoRun. I think you can do this by right...

(See the complete list of nominees at the end of this post.) Of all the Best Picture nominees for the 81st Academy Awards, I've so far only seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's easy to see why it received 13 nominations, but when I saw that one of them was for Best Actor... wha wha what?? Taraji P. Henson's nomination for her turn as Benjamin's momma was well deserved. She was as convincing as an old woman as she was a young lady. And everytime she was in a scene with Brad Pitt, you just had to keep watching her. And Benjamin, despite being so curious looking, seemed to blend into the background. The Best makeup nom is a shoo-in as well. The way they made everyone go from young to old (or vice versa) seemed amazingly well researched. I would even say that Cate Blanchett deserved an Oscar nod if only for her ballet dancing. (Wow, she looked really young.) Does she really know how to do ballet? But Brad Pitt, whose "best" scene in the whol...

Inquirer.net/Intel-announces-RP-operations-shutdown http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123249785750100437.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Holy crap...I cannot believe it. I have been reading so much about the recession and the economic downturn and how so many people have lost jobs and how businesses have closed up shop in countries like China and USA, but still it surprised me when I read that Intel is shutting down it operations in the Philippines... I searched my mind trying to think of friends or acquaintances who worked for Intel but couldn't pin one down. Still, it's too close to home to not be worried. Intel is the world's largest semicon company and has had operations in the Philippines for 20 years. Their Cavite facility handles flash memory manufacturing. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the big chip maker has not reported a net loss since 1986. But CEO Paul Otellini, in an internal Webcast to the company's employees said the first quarter was too clos...

!!! ~~~~~ LINK TO UPCAT RESULTS ~~~~~ *updated 20-Jan-09 5:30PM CONGRATULATIONS FOR PASSING THE UPCAT!!! CASTUERAS, CELINE ALMIRA PACHECO, LOS BANOS BS EE MICLAT, ARMANDO III TUALLA, DILIMAN BS BA WOW! WOW! The UPCAT results are out! I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the UPCAT results are now online. :p During my time you had to really go to UP to check the results. I distinctly remember that day when our batch's UPCAT results came out... It was a weekday, the day before the JS prom and we were all in Pisay, but some of the parents were already at UP searching for our names in that really short list they put up on boards near the Registrar's Office. There were no cellphones then so I had to call by payphone to my house. There was a line at the phone booth already! When it was my turn, my mom told me that my sister had called her earlier (also by payphone) that my name was there! Oh! The exhiliration of learning that you didn't mess up the exam...Haha! After worrying...