Tag: Thoughts and Musings
My Life
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Remembering the days we used to review WiFi hotspots
I’m reposting a piece I wrote together with Eva Gubat from 2006. This was a time when the blue & black Linksys routers were a status symbol at home because the “next frontier” was being able to add WiFi to your home. It was the age of Apple’s iBooks and PowerBooks — of being able…
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My green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) photo featured at the Tubbataha Reef 25th Anniversary Exhibit
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Tubbataha Reef’s declaration as a world heritage site. I consider myself proud and honored to be one of the contributing underwater photographers participating in a roving photo exhibit around Ayala Malls. Above is my photo of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) taken during my 2011 Tubbataha charter…
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Nokia Lumia 620 pegged at PHP 11,600
Nokia has put a price tag on its entry-level follow up to the Lumia 610. The new Lumia 620, pegged at PHP 11,600 comes with the following tech specs: 5MP main camera and secondary front-facing VGA camera Windows Phone 8 software PhotoBeamer (free) for photo sharing Snapdragonâ„¢ S4 Dual-core 1.0GHz 3.8″ LCD screen microSIM slot…
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My Dive Gear
So Lilliane started this so I decided to follow with my own list of dive gear. I’ve divided the list into skin diving gear, SCUBA gear and underwater camera gear. Skin Diving Gear Black SCUBAPRO Spectra Mask The current mask I’m using now. I like the black skirts instead of transparent ones because it gives…
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So will you buy Crocs after they’ve reinvented themselves?
About three years ago I bought my first pair of Crocs. It’s akin to the first time you experience anything in your pubescent life — and then grow up to realize that what you did was a bit overrated. So despite being comfortable, the lot were in agreement that the “awkward” fashion sense outweighed the…
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One skin care product all men should consider using
[Off topic] Happy weekend! There are such rare occasions when I get invited – not directly, but as a date to beauty events. Such is life, and the last “beauty event” I attended was the new Shu Uemura store launch at The Powerplant Mall in Rockwell. I didn’t care much for the make up and…
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Watchmen the Movie: Criticizing the Character Costumes
There’s really no need to introduce Watchmen. For any fan of comics, Alan Moore’s creation is coming to the big screen in 2009. Watchmen symbolized the pinnacle of graphic novels and turned the tide for a comic book series to actually win a Hugo Award and a Time Magazine 2005 “the 100 best English-language novels…
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New Media is all about conversation. Spam NEVER talks back.
I recommend Stowe Boyd’s post on PR Spam. In the Philippine context, what he’s saying is that PR practitioners should engage bloggers and journalists through social tools like Twitter or Facebook, and not through the email inbox. That way, it looks more like an invitation to join in on the conversation, with our time well…
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The Perils of Being a Freelance Writer in the Philippines
This morning, “Big Brian” Ligsay made me listen to a radio drama he read titled Kawatanan ng Rentas Internas which is the sad yet humorous reality of applying for a TIN or tax number at the Bureau of Internal Revenue in this developing country I’ve come to love. Now that I look back into my…
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Naked Meme: What’s on your iPod?
A few chapters through The Perfect Thing, it was revealed that one of the factors that made th iPod a huge success was the feature that it could hold your entire library of music. Looking into one’s iPod was almost like baring that person’s soul as taste in music revealed a lot about a person.…
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