Merry XXXMas!

Don't drink and... open gifts.



Bwahahaha!

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This Kid Can Kick My Ass any day

Elo. I'm back. And yes... I LOL'd at this:



ROFLMAO!!!!!!

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Acapella Tribute to John Williams

And yes, I'm a Star Wars geek. Can you tell which Star Wars films the lines came from? =D



Here's the video info on his YouTube video page.

JOHN WILLIAMS IS THE MAN!
(A Star Wars-themed four-part a cappella song)

GET THE MP3 (AND READ THE LYRICS):
http://www.moosebutter.com/starwars

A BIG thank you and ALL musical credit goes to the a cappella comedy group Moosebutter (from Provo, UT), who greatly assisted me in the making of this video and memorizing their brilliant song "Star Wars" from their 2002 album 'see dee'. This video was done with their blessing and their support. Check out their website here:
http://www.moosebutter.com/

Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! =D

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OMG! Sweet sweet Internet!

How sad that someone in my field has to live without decent internet access. Take note: DECENT.

Yes, I've been gone for a while. Yes, I haven't updated my Multiply, Facebook, Friendster, Plurk and Twitter in almost a month. Yes, it's sad because, aside from losing karma in Plurk (I've probably lost my dancing banana again), I've also lost a lot in terms of updates, keeping in touch and what not. I can't even log into my YM to chat up my friends and colleagues.

See it's quite simple. My home ISP sucks. And there's nothing I can do about it.

Thankfully, there's a net cafe outside our place (short walk but hey I need the exercise anyway), and, for emergencies like today, it's a welcome retreat. Had doubly urgent files to send and my ISP, as usual... FAIL!

The one thing that got me the second I got to the net cafe though was the number of people actually hanging out here. There are about 40 stations here and only a handful are free. Second, there are people hanging out in the coffee tables, not even using the internet... just hanging out. Third, there are only two bookmarks on the browser: Friendster and YouTube. And last but not least, the girl behind me is talking to someone from the province via the available earphones with built in mic... via Yahoo Messenger.

That pretty much sums up the usage of the Pinoys in most net cafes. And it's quite interesting to see that the internet really is an invaluable part of a person's daily pastime. I see students, people in house clothes, gimmick clothes, office clothes and one in a nurse uniform. My guess is most of them dropped by the place beforedeciding to head home.

And the end cost? Php 20.00. Which is already expensive in these parts. And the net access is fast too... so definitely well worth the price of admission.

Just to fill you in though on my current status, aside from my home ISP making me go bonkers (I can't even send an excel file some hours of the day... I have to wait early morning to be able to do some real browsing), my Mac died on me. Yes. My new office-issue Mac which wasn't so new at all... went kaput. Hard disk was unreadable. All my data... gone. Furthermore, the temporary PC I have in the office is such a sad excuse for a PC that I can't even run powerpoint without my explorer hanging. Multiply Tabs in Mozilla are worse... they really crash the system. And my YM... blocked by the firewall.

So yes ladies and gentlemen, I've been hit by virtual karma... too much net browsing and the digital gods are telling me to slow the frick down.

Thank God for accessible net cafes. I'll be back... I'm going to tour the net cafes around the area and see which has the best... ambience!

(Repost from my Cnet Asia Blog)

Ateneo (ADMU) now Outranks UP in the World's Best Universities Ranking. De La Salle University (DLSU) Nowhere to be found in the top 400 overall

Here's the comment which was posted on Mama Noemi's Blog:

Times Higher Education World Universities Ranking 2008 is out!

Ateneo now outranks UP, though both schools made huge improvements from last year’s result.

2007 2008
UP 398th Ateneo 254th
Ateneo 451st UP 276th

Ateneo and UP also made it to the top 100 in two categories:

Academic Review (Arts & Humanites)

Ateneo 79th
UP 82nd

Employers Review (Graduates Employability)

Ateneo 76th
UP 82nd
La Salle 92nd

La Salle and UST didn’t make it to the over-all top 400.

Congratulations!
( and hopefully, more Philippines schools will be recognized next year.)

Which is why I was saying... the greenies should focus on more important matters, and not such trivial things like 'a little bonfire'.

And I'm gloating. Gloat. Gloat. Gloat. Kick 'em when they're down I say.



Lol just kidding. Upakan ako ng mga barkada kong Green-blooded.

But I'll still gloat. (insert Plurk banana dance here)

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What's this Fascination with Celebrity Bloggers? O_O

Wrote about blogging eklavu again in my Cnet blog (hmmm blogging about blogging... IS THERE NOTHING SACRED?!). Anyway, was linked to Miriam Quiambao's Blog and then got me thinking of all the local celebs that have been making the rounds already.

Here's an excerpt:

With Filipino internet users displaying the highest affinity towards social media, it's no wonder that well-known personalities--from showbiz and entertainment to politics--are also making appearances in social networks, blogs and more. Just today a new celebrity blog was linked by DigitalFilipino's Janet Toral via Plurk... former Bb. Pilipinas Ms. Miriam Quiambao! And a few weeks back, possible presidential hopeful Mar Roxas added me on FaceBook!

Hope you drop by my Cnet blog and leave a comment. Or not. Wahtevar. Blogging about blogging... that's just genius.

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Awesome Photo in IR

This is a photo my Brother-in-Law took in IR. He's a budding photog, though in all honesty he's had lots of practice already and is getting really really good!



Astig ano? =D

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Zeros Over Tokyo

That's our band. ^_^

And these are our songs.
Listen to 'em please! (But please don't mind the low quality of the recording... I just used a videocam to record these haha).

Recorded at Love One Another Studios.

Title: No Matter
First song we put together as a band. Meng's composition before he had to leave. Miss ka na namin boy! Lyrics by Lara.

Lyrics by: Lara Lardizabal

Unsteady hands
fumbling to hold mine
I clutch at it afraid,
afraid of losing your grip

Chorus:
Afraid of losing your grip, your grip..
but your hands still fall
I'll reach for it no matter

Eyes forming pools
you're full to the brim
of people pulling you down
you're already drowning

2nd Chorus:
You're already drowning
You're drowning
but I'll drown with you
I'll drown with you no matter

Bridge:
Mist from your lips
put your mouth over mine
fill me with what poison
you've been full of since

3rd Chorus
And through this
may life shine again in your eyes
even as they dim in mine
no matter, no matter

Title: Disappear
First collaborative effort ng band. This is how we knew that we 'gelled' so well... I just started hitting a few notes, instrument by instrument we started filing in, and then Lara started singing from her song book... new song was born!
Zeroes Over Tokyo

Disappear

Is this all there is?
Nothing to look forward to,
nothing beneath the surface
but hazy empty clouds
leading only god knows where

Chorus:
I'm done, I'm done
done finding, done fighting
I'm done, I'm done
done trying, done dying

Is there nothing to see
nothing to hear, nowhere to turn to
for someone to just find me
Is this all I/we ever can be?

(chorus 2x)

Tell me what is it in me?
Is there anything to see
cause I can't feel anything real,
can I just completely disappear.

(chorus 2x)

Title: Brand New
Second collaborative effort. Same as Disappear, only it wasn't me that started the jam... Chris and Vince and then Rica's mala-Pedicab beat. Lupit talaga 'tong song na to! Haha! Kapal! Again, Lyrics ni Lara.


Brand New

Lazy mornings wrapped in juniper blue
Cotton candy clouds and some sunshine too
Relishing waking up next to you
My head is reeling, the feeling is so...

Freesia blossoms and honeysuckle dew
perfumes the air, coloring every hue
Wanting nothing more than to cozy up with you
can't get over the feeling, it's so...

Chorus:
New.. I'm feeling new
so brand new
I'm feeling new
so brand new

Untitled as of today.
Same style as Disappear... it just happened. Music by the band. Lyrics by Lara, as usual. This is by far my most favoritestsest among our songs.


Untitled (draft)

The tension cutting like
a chilling gust of wind
making me shiver, terrified
of what's to come next

The silence reverberates
every awkward minute..

Dreading each day
yet still looking forward
to when sheer memory
comes full circle

Forces us to the present
where there is nothing left
but the unexpected

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Carrier Single ng Zeros Over Tokyo - No Matter (NAKS! JOKE LANG)

This is our band's first compo. Written while our first guitarist was still with us.

Recorded October 8, 2008, at Love One Another studio. Just forgot to publish it lol.

"THE" Ateneans - Repost and Commentary by... Someone else

And obviously a bit irked at the blue-blooded folk. But shouldn't it read: The "Ateneans" (since, intonation-wise, the sarcastic-emphasis should fall on the pronoun and not on the 'the')? O_o

Na-gets nyo ba? It took me a long while to formulate that sentence...

Anyway, here's an excerpt from his rant:

Wala itong kinalaman sa UAAP na kung saan "TIU"mamba ang Ateneo sa pagkapanalo sa Season 71 UAAP. Hindi sya tsamba. "THE" Ateneo is the better team this year. Wala din itong kinalaman sa UAAP Cheering competition na kung saan naglitawan ang mga ABS ng Ateneo Blue Babble Batallion na talaga nga namang nakakahumaling at nakakatuksong tignan. I was there kaya alam ko. And believe me, nakanganga ako habang pinapanod ko sila.

This is about "THE" Ateneans. Base from my experience.. "THE" Ateneans are snob. Parang parang, pag hindi ka Atenista, FUCK OFF. Parang ganon lang. Sa totoo lang, ang mga Atenista parang ang hirap nilang i-approach. Feeling ko lang to ha, tipong nag excuse ka lang titignan ka from head to foot. OI. feeling ko lang to ha. HAHA. :) Tipong magkwekwento ka kunwari sharing and shits lang.. sasagutin ka nga.. pero ang dating nung sagot ganito. "OK. SO?" or "OK. SO WHAT's THE POINT?" Owned ka dba? Barado to the NTH Level. Kaya minsan nakakatakot makipagusap sa mga "THE" Ateneans eh. Mababara ka lang.

FOR ME, Atenistas have their own little world na kung saan Sila sila lang ang nageenjoy and stuffs. Para silang mga tao yung sa movie na "The Village," na kung saan may sarili silang mundo. Lasallites, Upinians, Thomasians and other schools are the "ONES WE DO NOT SPEAK OF" hahahahahaha! :)

Siguro, ang pagiging malayo sa Outside world ng School ng Ateneo ay nakakadagdag sa pagiging "snobbish" attitude nila. Paglabas mo ba naman ng Ateneo, ano bang makikita mo? Wala. Kalye na punong puno ng kotseng nagdadaan. Parang dun lang talaga yung entertainment nila. Sa loob. Buti pa kami, sanay na sanay sa usok ng mga Jeepney. sa ingay ng mga pedicab boys. sa mga magnanakaw. I THINK, only "THE" Ateneo is not prone to holdap, rape, and other crimes. (sana tama yung sentence ko) Except na lang kung wala ka sa ADMU vicinity ha. Pero doon sa school nila, secured ka talaga. FEELING ko lang ha. FEELING.

Oh well. iba talaga pag "THE" Atenean ka. Sila ang "Cream of the Crop,""The Untouchables," and so on. Wala ata akong kaibigan or schoolmate or classmate na nakapasa sa Ateneo. Kayo? Meron ba kayo? nagbago ba ang pakikipagsocialize nila sa inyo? Or ganon pa din? If hindi nagbago, Well Lucky you. Hindi pa sila nabrebrainwash sa sistema ng isang Atenista. LOL Just kidding. haha. Pero wala pa akong kaibigan talaga o schoolmate o kung ano man na nag aral sa Ateneo.

Now don't get me wrong. Some Ateneans may even actually agree with him... but to generalize is the same as jumping to a conclusion and the same as putting your foot in your mouth. Not all persons of a certain educational and socio-economic class are elitist, and not all elitists come from the same school. In fact, it has always been a common misconception that it's all heavenly shores inside the Loyola campus--you can be as easily discriminated inside the same school as you can be once outside it.

Besides... I make tusok-tusok da pishballs too you know. Hehehe.

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PepeTee: Ang Tee na swak sa'ting mga Pepe

ROFLMAO!!!!

I'm a big statement tee geek, especially the funny and crass ones. And the more Pinoy (or in my case the more geek-speak) the better.

Thanks to Shar, I just landed me another gem:



LOLOLOLOL!!!

Anyway, their site reads:
Pepetee Haute Couture – Pepe at Nene style.



LMAO!!!

Be sure to drop by their Multiply page (pepetee.multiply.com) to see the new designs they've got coming up. And yeah, their Multiply page design is wicked awesome as well.

GUJAB!


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Where the hell is Matt?

In case you guys haven't seen Matt Harding, well, now you have.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

And the next time you see a bunch of people dancing in the street somewhere in say Malate or Tagaytay or Mall of Asia... don't hesitate to join in. ^_^

Check out all the comments on the main page @ Vimeo.

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Look ma, I'm on TV! ^_^;;

Hey folks! In case you're not doing anything tom morning around 10AM, I'll be interviewed by TJ Manotoc and co. in their morning show, Tech Talk over at ANC.

The interview segment will be about Universal McCann's Wave 3 Study on Social Media... sounds boring? Actually, I'll be talking about Filipinos uploading 1M photos everyday in Multiply, about the 12M or 2-point-something Filipino users in Friendster traffic daily,  about the more than 30% increase in blog readership in the Philippines over the past year and about the 9 out of 10 Filipinos online who watch Moymoy Palaboy.

Hope you guys can watch! ^_^

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