Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Unitel, in the tradition of Crying Ladies, came out with another exceptional comedy in La Visa Loca.
I never imagined I would like a Robin Padilla flick, but I changed my mind with this movie. His carabao-ish English provides the perfect personification of Filipino-everyman Jess Huson in his quest for a better life in the U.S. [...]

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This is what I call the “Rush hour disappearing act.”

This is another old photo that I took back in 2003, at the MRT Taft Station. Waiting by the doorway whilst another train arrives, I readied my cam anticipating people running late for work (same as me :p ).
I just wanted to have a blurred [...]

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Alex Papadimoulis of The Daily WTF posted a rather amusing entry regarding asking help for really really bad software design. He hit the nail right on the head: a lot of programmers would rather try using both an old shoe or a glass bottle instead of making good sense and using a hammer. Unfortunately if [...]

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Ilang araw pa lamang ang nakalilipas matapos ideklara ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang isang “all-out war” laban sa jueteng nang ideklara ni Hen. Arturo Lomibao, hepe ng PNP, na nasupil na ang jueteng sa tatlong rehiyon sa bansa.
Kakatawanan, sapagkat kung higit sa tatlong araw lamang pala ang kailangan upang maitigil ang jueteng sa tatlong rehiyon [...]

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Okay okay, so the title is lame. Blame it on the Star Wars Ep3 fever thing.
I just wanted to try out flickr and have this picture uploaded. Hello doesn’t seem to work today.
Here are some more:

CJ posing for the cellphone cam

CJ and daddy. She’s obviously bored.
Star Wars Ep5 Trivia:
When Star Wars Episode V - The [...]

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Continuing the issue discussed in my last post, LJ blogger paperdull has some pictures that I want to post myself. Let’s see some pictures right off the respective sites, specifically that of Emma Mori’s artworks vs. those of Bayo:
Emma Mori’s Bambi vs. Bayo’s Shirt:
Emma Mori’s “Bambi”:

Bayo’s Shirt:

Emma Mori’s Poodle vs. Kids of Bayo’s Poodle Icon:

Kid [...]

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Recently one of the major issues in the Philweavers mailing list is a plagiarism case accusing Bayo, one of the major Filipino fashion boutiques, for ripping off illustrations from different Japanese artist-illustrators.
Among the supposed rip-offs are:
1. TADAHIRO UESUGI’s untitled artwork for a japanese magazine (top shot of a girl in a bikini sun bathing) was [...]

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One of the blogs I’ve recently been reading is PostSecret, where people anonymously mail in homemade postcards to share their secrets.
I really like it in a way, not really because you’d figure out there are so many lonely people in the world, but because someone has set up a venue for where people can pop [...]

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Sunset over Ortigas (January 17, 2003)
I took this picture of the famous Manila sunset over two years ago. The building on the left is Orient Square, the building on the right is JG Summit, and those buildings on the background are the skyscrapers of the Makati CBD.
This is probably one of the best [...]

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The other week, my four month old daughter just squealed “mama” and “papa” for the first time.
We were just playing with her when all of a sudden, she started babbling. At first they were just incomprehensible coos, but as if crossing some enchanted line, she suddenly uttered those wonderful, magical words. Looking at her mother [...]

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