Archive for the 'Just Up' Category

If you have some free time, you might want to try out this game at www.freerice.com. It’s a multiple choice game vocabulary game. For each correct answer you get, they donate 10 grains of rice. If you check out the totals, it seems that the trend is upwards and they are getting to give away […]

For Sale: CANON 350D

Guys and gals! A friend of mine is selling her CANON 350D. I’ve seen the unit and its still in great condition. Just look for a battery grip and it’ll be a great buy. The details are below, feel free to contact her directly for any questions.
Update: Camera has been sold. Only the lens is […]

I have been playing a few casual games such as those made by Big Fish Games. I just discovered how addicting they are. A ‘regular’ game would have a tutorial round where they give basic and real-time instructions to learn how to play the game. These games are usually simpler than their full-cd or dvd […]

While listening to the local radio on my way home, I heard that Nokia was officially recalling batteries. My dad own two Nokia phones, so I was listening to the reporter just to know how we can find out if our phones’ batteries have to be replaced. Good thing Nokia has a site that make […]

Last Sunday, I was amazed that there was already a ‘Prayer for the Rains’ being said after the masses. Before, they had ‘Prayer for Peace’ because of the Mindanao conflict and also the ‘Prayer for Unity,’ but to think that we actually had to pray for rain makes the reality of the water and, consequently, […]

I had always thought that non-tropical countries would not hit the 30-degrees Celcius mark, but it the news today just mentioned that a heat wave just hit Europe. We are used to a mean temperature of 20-33 depending on the time of the year. We are, after all, a tropical country—hotter, more humid, and more […]

Here’s a movie that a friend wrote. Let me know what you think of it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsUBPBbN5sg

In the news last week was OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet—for the children. It says that:

After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world.
Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project is bringing Intel on board as a […]

Guilty as charged. I was over at the Meralco theater for an afternoon with the kiddies. Literally. More than 60% of the theater were kiddies probably aged 15 and below. A friend of mine invited me to watch it together with her three year old niece, so there we were four adults accompanying one kid.

I was having a late dinner with two of my classmates, they shall remain anonymous, for their safety and my own well-being, and henceforth shall be known as #1 and #2.
A little background: #1 is a gamer, but doesn’t look like one (depending on how she poses for the picture), owns her own company, and […]