Accepting applicants: Band of Bloggers

Are you Filipino? Do you own a blog? Can you handle hanging out with really cool folk like this guy, this other guy and this other really cool guy? (I’m not cool. I jut like taking pictures and writing.)

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If you have what it takes, then join us every month for the Band of Bloggers “wala lang” sessions. Topics include:

Blogging
Monetization
Pop Culture
Photography
Reasons why my girlfriend left me and other love advice from this guy (best reason to go!)

Okay, that spiel sounded really stupid. But seriously though, the past few months has been quite interesting for local bloggers meeting up casually to exchange notes over sisig and crispy pata.

One thing I’ve noticed though. Most bloggers are practicing geeks and the latter have the tendency to get along quite well. A retinue of skills that most people in the industry posses include at least two of the following:

[] maintains a blog
[] plays an instrument
[] into photography
[] dabbles with photoshop
[] watches anime
[] knows how to program
[] girlfriend left him / her because of hobby obsession
[] knows how to use at least 2 types of operating systems
[] particiaptes in online forums and discussions

Want to contribute to the “proud to be a geek” list? Leave a comment.

The Art that is Hard Gay

I’ve been recently intrigued by how the Japanese go to such lengths to create very interesting characters like Hard Gay.

The most well-known character developed and portrayed by Sumitani is Hard Gay, introduced in 2002, as whom he finally rose to national prominence in 2005. While the official name is “Razor Ramon HG”, he is most frequently known as “Hard Gay”, or simply HG. Dressing in a tight black leather outfit reminiscent of the Tom of Finland art, he goes around performing acts of charity (yonaoshi, “social improvement”) for unsuspecting bystanders while performing trademark pelvic thrusts and vocalisations, often accompanied by “Livin’ La Vida Loca” by Ricky Martin.

Thanks Adie.

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The lighter side of search

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Question: What time does the GoogleBot come to your blog?

Answer: We don’t know. But don’t post during lunch time. It’s on break.

Image taken from here.

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Weekend ShortStat funnies

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Okay, everything looks rather normal ….. hmm … what’s this last ShortStat entry log … WTF! Now look here, I really don’t know how my blog ended up being listed with The Young and the Restless.

Errr … I watch The Bold and the Beautiful. *heehee*

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WOFEX 2006: The search for the funniest franchise name

My friend and I went to WOFEX 2006 (World Food Expo) to find good stuff to bring home, take pictures with cute mascots and search for the funniest franchise name for 2006. There were some runner ups but we narrowed it down to three.

Third place went to Balut Eggspress.

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Second place went to Soy Yummy!

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And the winner … ladies and gents… ANAK NG SIOPAO!

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We also caught Boy Bawang with his pants (and everything else) down, as seen in the picture below.

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You can check out the pictures here.