Sa Halagang Piso Lang!

It is my 3rd Apple Graduation from:
Powerbook 160 (Circa 90's). I cannot imagine how they improved from this paper white laptop that virtually runs on nothing. Wayback then, it does not even connect to the internet with that lazy apple talk! My Lolo gave this to me; I think I dropped it and it started not working. Not a big loss. I was in fact relieved to sort of see it sit there useless; a month later, another shipment. A replica of the same model from my folks. Groundhog Day!

iBook (Circa 2000-2004). This was a gift from my cousin. Though it was shouting in 80's colors I was amazed by how the screen color rendering was, the speed and portability. See it closes like a clamshell, and there is a handle at the back so you can carry it like an attache case. I think the introduction of these units (read: in cleaner, sleeker, curved designs) marked apple's success in luring the market to "want" these products.

Macbook Air (Circa NOW). I fell in love with it in an instant.

The Good:
Thin that it will fit a Manila folder
Light (13 inch screen, 3lbs.)
Fast (On a core 2 duo, 1.6 GHz chip, 2G RAM, OSX Leopard)
Can slice someone annoying into two
Lit Keyboards
Bright screen
Decent Battery life (3-5 hours, depends on the applications running)
Good ventilation
Decent 80GB HD
Mouse is a thing of the past. Mac trackpad is ultra intelligent and responsive

Apple also introduced Time Machine. A mind boggling application (needs an exernal drive to run) that lets you go back in time to find your old lost files, applications, pictures, everything! When your system crashes, or you decide to replace your Mac, everthing from applications to how everything looked like can be migrated by Time Machine. With a blackhole swirling in the background, I got the impression that the effects were a rip off from Mortal Kombat.

Since I take a lot of pictures, features like batch edits, rotates and photo alignment are also a breeze using the multi touch trackpad. It reads your gesture and executes it in an instant.

The Bad:
Hinge grip is weak
It sweats your hands after carrying the unit for sometime
Seems like it would break if you drop it
Localized heat from the upper left corner
1 USB port

I just sent my Macbook Air to the Apple care center today, due to loud Fan Noise. Apple offers a very expensive extended warranty plan called Apple Care Protection Plan (Php 12,000)

Essentials (the extras I bought to compensate for it's shortcomings):

1 TB (1000Gig) MyBook External HD

 Octopus USB (since it only has 1 USB port - unbelievable!)

120 Gig External USB powered HD (for portability)

Time Capsule (500 Gig, DVD, external HD, ports and peripherals - All wireless)

"The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed, the creation of profits with principles."

These Phrases need to park!

Though maybe "you could care less," the scholars in question keep track of linguistic mangling and overused buzzwords in a database called the Oxford University Corpus. The voluminous record keeps track of books, magazines, broadcast, online media and other sources, watching for new overused, tiresome phrases and retiring those that fade from use (or misuse).

The great hierarchy of verbal fatigue includes:

1 - At the end of the day. We used to joke around this because everyone cannot exit a meeting without saying it. Why does the conclusion need to happen at the end of the day? Saying it does not make the sentence intelligent.
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science

and these are some of mine...

11 - Actually, 12 - Basically,  13 - I don't know about you, but "for me", 14 - Back in the day, 15 - Are you serious?, 16 - No Kidding?, 17 - Literally, 18 - Ironically, 19 - "blah, blah, blah" when used as a filler for other words, 20 - Moving Forward, 21 - Good Job.  Which I just used a while ago. I think Good Job are for animals on training, or children who performed some idiotic task, 22 - YOU KNOW? When someone says 'YOU KNOW?' my brain signals an autonomic response of 'I DON'T!'

Of the reality TV show "Flip This House"

FLIP THIS HOUSE (web link)

 

 

I am amazed of such people who promotes our lovely Manila. I came across of one brethren one fine Saturday. GP knows him from Benilde, I know the person he was promoting Manila to from TV. I was making kuha-kuha while they were making tusok-tusok.

http://manilastreetwalker.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/on-one-steamy-saturday-morning/

http://www.freewebtown.com/oldmanilawalks/

Told Ya' I was just really going to Eng Bee Tin to review the new Mr. Ube noodle house and their new line-up of Hopia!

Serendipitous. See you on the Binondo WOK this Saturday!

I was hunting for a good gustatory find, and since the last flavor release of Eng Bee Tin's famed was the "combi" Ube-Pastillas, Ube-Keso, Ube-Langka (...to be continued)

Hey this belongs to the review section!

So I was in Binondo, hunting for yet another Gustatory find. Trying to decide what street to take, GP said "Wow, tourists in complete production". I panned to where he directed me to and saw a familiar face. I know him, but I can't say for sure since he sprinted too quickly inside the Binondo church. Like the Polar bear who just jumped out of the bed from hibernation, I chased the Gazelle (I know, there are no antelope's in the north. I just wanted to use Gazelle since it reminds me of Marv as this is one of his transformational animals. I will use Black Mamba next time, in another apt scene). So I went through the church, exited the left wing and saw him.

Lo and behold! It's not Ian Wright, It's not Nigella.

It's Anthony Bourdain eating fishballs! He really is "without reservations". The shots were not staged in any way, he just stopped by a vendor; got a barbeque stick, stuck it into the fishballs and dipped it into the god-knows-who-else-did sauce and ate it. He must have a porta-let in his van!

This is his Blog about the Philippines:

http://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/read/pressure-drop

I have just recently discovered that I have an empirical threshold for the egomaniacals. How does one endure listening to so much crap?

Them who talks so much about:

A. Themselves. Like.
  “Donald Trump stole my idea.”
  “I was the (insert previous Job title here) before you knew me.”

  “I am God's gift to Humanity”
  
B. What they do. Like.
  “I ski in the Alps whenever I get the chance to”
  “I do not move a muscle. People do things for me.”
  “I built a replica of the great pyramid” 

C. What they wear and where they shop. Like.
  “I do not wear textiles exposed to the non-airconditioned tiangge's”
  “I only wear (insert brand here). And I only get it from (insert store name here).”
  “Just right above my skin, is a lycra suit made of the same material as what Clak    Kent wears.”

D.What they are not. Like.
  “I am not who you think I am. I do not have delusions of grandeur.”
  “I like not-repeating my lines from A, B, and C to every human I meet. In every conversation I join in.”
  “I like not talking about myself.”

and

  “I am impervious to errors. And you are wrong for thinking that I am.”

Despite these lines sounding like I exaggerated them. Some of it, in the time of the cretins execution, will hypnotically sound like they are just their usual daily deals.

I think I have surpassed the stage of being annoyed by these insipids as I find it now more entertaining to observe them blabbermouths and how they manage to put a halogen spotlight in the distance of 1 millimeter on their noses without getting skin cancer everytime they talk about their favorite topic anything under the Sun, and yes EVERY thing under the Sun has a relation to their success, power, personality, and other verbal diarrheas.

Half of the credit goes to the audience (myself,included) – as we continuously learn the art of acting interested in every bit of repeated and beaten information that the cretin mentions like it was the first time.

Though wide eyed, amused, drooling for more and throwing random “Talaga?” “Really?” and “Hindi Nga?” lines.  I've voluntarily stopped flowing blood in my brain and I am already in a state of Coma, all I could think about is you should go to hell and be doomed to clean toilets with your tongue like other dead politicians on those urinals beside you.

Lea, it has been an honor doing a review for you. Thank you for reviewing my review of Cinderella!

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I was fascinated by how science could infuse art in this apple I picked up from a stall today.
The surface is smooth, as if the drawing was grown with the apple - naturally.

Despite my suspicion that this accomplished through irradiation. I still ate it.

I like apples.

as twisted as the cables. as strong as the metal knots.

Wednesday, March 19.

TRAFFIC VIDEO

(One of these unfortunate cars was mine, and inside it is a deranged man at wit's end)

The worst traffic I have ever experienced in my entire life.

Two attempts going to work. Two hours on my first attempt, another two on the second. That is almost equivalent to Baguio from where I live!

As I contained myself in a mobile asylum, I learned to laugh at a very annoying situation. At one point I even reclined my chair, and started asking questions that I am sure my ceiling wasn't able to answer. I was wishing that my Honk would send out this HUGE sonic wave and clear out everything in my path.

If Bus Operators were a bit wiser, they should have strategically scattered these terminals all over the Metro versus dumping it all in Araneta Center.

If Katamaris (a magical adhesive ball that picks up and rolls together large objects into a giant ball and then turning them into planets) were just real - I am the first one there to scoop the mess and turn it into our very own Filipino Planet to solve exploding population problems.

My out of body experience stops everytime the light turns green. Reality sinks in that I never moved an inch.

1. Dell D410 (Personal)

2. Laptop Bag

3. IBM Lenovo T60 (Work)

4. Sting Ray Skin wallet

5. Generic Vitamin C

6. Car Keys

7. iPod Video

8. Blackberry

9. Nokia Luna

10. Journal (Personal)

11. Journal (Work)

12. ID

13. Toothbrush

14. Book, Twilight

http://www.nabaztag.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag

All of us had this experience. At some point, we've each said through our tears, "I am suffering for a love that's not worth it". We suffer beause we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

Paulo Coelho

Randy featured in Wired Magazine for his development of Halo 3 last September 07. I was expecting the XBOX 360 in the box, not the just the magazine! Dagummit!&%$@

Geek genes, it runs in the veins.

 

 

 

Brad Renfro died January 15, and a week after on the 22nd was Heath Ledger. I was not a big fan of either but I watched some of their movies namely Brad's - The Cure from 1995, and Heath's most famous Brokeback Mountain; though during those Academy moments my bet really was for Brendan and Sandra's Crash.

Interestingly enough though, when I average their age of death it gives me 27. They could belong now to the 27 Club also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club, a popular culture name for a group of influential artists who all died at the age of 27, sometimes under mysterious circumstances.

Worth mentioning on that note is a death of someone who was just epidemic and probably as popular within the Filipino tele-serye community; Rico Yan who also died at the age of 27 due to an undisclosed cause.