Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

I had fun at last Friday’s Buhay Coke ng Blogger’s event at Taste Asia in SM Mall of Asia. It was too bad that I wasn’t able to bring a digicam to the event.
Ironically, I was lugging a tripod I had bought earlier that night.
I had fun hanging out with Tess, her friend Aiyleen, and [...]

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After a week of staying at home suffering from parotitis, I will be going back to the office tomorrownext week on the verge of new challenges: a training session, a new project, and some leaving colleagues. Not a pretty picture, but life’s like that.
Anyway, while I was at home I thought I would be able [...]

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A couple of weeks ago The New York Times came out with an article about “elite” Korean schools which groom their students to enter Ivy League universities.
Reading the following passage made me reminisce about my high school alma mater, which with its reputation and demanding curriculum, such stories are not unusual at all:

One graduate was [...]

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I’ve just received a death threat from a guy allegedly named Stevenson Salvador:

Highlighted text roughly translates to “stop this if you want to stay alive where you’re going”
From above, his email address is stevenson.salvador@linksys.com. His IP address is 66.114.104.164
UPDATE 1: I find it rather sad that the IP address above resolves to a Navitaire DNS [...]

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I am amused at how the popularity of photography using digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex, or in simpler terms, “professional”) cameras simply exploded in the past three years. Most every colleague I know owns one, and obscure photography terms like, depth of field, aperture, shutter speed, and “bokeh” have become vernacular.
Even Quiapo’s Hidalgo St. is [...]

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Bo Sanchez, in his book “8 Secrets of the Truly Rich”, talked about how one fateful night, he was fueled by so much passion and excitement that he wrote down a 15 page Word document containing his dreams in so much detail. He said that it was important to be able to do this, that [...]

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Around a month ago Sidney Snoeck (who maintains the excellent photo blog My Sari Sari Store) posed a challenge to my blog entry Mariannet Amper and the Gospel of Hopelessness.
In that blog entry, I posited that the “the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer” mantra was part of a “gospel of hopelessness” [...]

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A wondrous Happy New Year to all!
One of the new year’s resolutions that I’ve been wanting to make is to be able to post more regularly to this blog. To say that this is difficult is by itself an understatement — my work schedule only allows me a few blocks of genuinely free time, which [...]

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UPDATE: An interesting discussion on this topic ensued at MLQ3’s blog post Worse than Marcos?.
Yesterday, Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com twitted about “Experience of a first time OFW“, an article on the Kabayan Hotel OFW blog that discusses the thoughts and feelings of first-time OFW Gilbert Roque.
Gilbert’s plight is something that most of us have heard [...]

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Around lunchtime today, my officemates and I all suddenly thought we were going dizzy, realizing a few moments later that we were already feeling an earthquake.
The US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program pegs the quake at Magnitude 6.0, with the epicenter at 16.037°N, 119.906°E, Northwest of Manila.
Firing up Google Maps and keying in the coordinates, [...]

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