Healthy Shabu Shabu
Published in the wee hours of August 25, 2008
Yes there’s a healthy way of doing hot pot dining, and Healthy Shabu Shabu is the place for you to try it. When I got the SMS invite for the opportunity to try it, I was apprehensive, worried that this might just be one of the few types of food and dining that I may [...]
Photos: Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2008
Published in the wee hours of August 13, 2008
I promised AJ and Poyt that I will be posting the photos I took at the awarding/eyeball event in a day’s time, so here’s the whole set. I also promised Aileen that I’ll post my first blog entry in You Got Tech; I wrote a short blurb with photos from the event, with my short [...]
Lifehouse in Manila
Published in the wee hours of July 31, 2008
The first time we knew about Lifehouse’s concert here in Manila, Hana was instantly disappointed as it’s on the same date as my mother’s birthday. She wanted to watch it so badly that she even blogged about it. (It’s a rarity for both of us these days.) When Aileen’s sweetie messaged me if we wanted [...]
A Practice in Creativity
Published at around evening time of June 26, 2008
Once in a while, we desperately need to practice our brain’s creative side just to make sure it works as expected when needed. Not many of us are actually blessed with a day job that pushes the limits of our creative bounds, which is probably why most of us turn to photography and/or writing for [...]
iBlog4 Class Picture
Published terribly early in the morning of May 12, 2008
Barely making it to iBlog4, I came in just enough to catch the group pictorials as the conference concluded. I had my camera with my ultra–wide mounted so I volunteered to take the class picture. These aren’t exactly spectacular group pics, but we’ll do better next year. You can have them in hi–res: Photo #1 [...]
iBlog4 Portraits
Published late at night of April 28, 2008
I barely made it to iBlog4, I got in just enough to consider myself an attendee, which makes me one of not too many bloggers who’ve been in all the iBlog summits. It is nice to know we Filipino bloggers have come this far. At the afterparty, I took some portraits of fellow bloggers I [...]
The BlogBank Launch
Published terribly early in the morning of March 28, 2008
Having my own company has always been a dream; I’ve always wanted my own startup. When Jayvee broached the idea of setting up an advertising network focused on local weblogs and advertisers, I knew it was going to be the perfect opportunity for me to hack away on web solutions I actually will use. The [...]
Coffee with a twist
Published in the early evening of March 4, 2008
More often than not, a typical weekend gimik involves a few (or several) rounds of beer or some other alcoholic treat, followed by very late night, actually early morning coffee, just before heading home. Now you can have both, at the same time. Delifrance brings us coffee that packs a punch, a first for local [...]
A Smile of Hope
Published mid-afternoon of December 12, 2007
The Pisay ’96 Streetkids Christmas Party is a project of our high school batch, just like the medical missions and other things we’ve done the past year or so. We understand that the long–term merits of a simple party may be questionable, but to put a smile of hope in these kids’ faces is more [...]
Google TechTalk Photos
Published terribly early in the morning of November 23, 2007
Last Monday’s Google TechTalk at the AIM in Makati was widely received with developers from various local companies in attendance. Though most were certainly clamoring for deeper technical discussions on the various technologies tackled, it would be best to see this as a sampler of things to come, especially now that it’s known that our [...]