Steve vs. Steve

by on 30. Jun, 2008 in Brainbuster

Friday last week, Microsoft’s co-founder, Bill Gates, retired from his 33 years of work. Click here for details.

I feel disappointed about his retirement. It felt like he accepted defeat in the battle among Microsoft Corporation, Apple Inc., and Google Inc.

I also wonder how Steve Jobs feels nowadays. Maybe he has been cheering with his comrades, triumphing anticipated success.

On the other hand, Steve Ballmer takes Gates position. The latter said that they’ve already made “quests” that would continue to bring the future of computers in our lives.

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I Love Pokemon

by on 11. May, 2008 in Brainbuster

Since yesterday, I’ve been watching and researching the 11 movies of Pokemon. Not only did I do that. I also knew almost everything about the 493 pokemons!

 It was just like a moment ago when I was a little kid, watching the first season of my favorite anime series. At that time, there were just 151 types of pokemon, and I even memorized them all! Togepi was then considered a special pokemon in our local area. But after several years, it was declared that it has 2 evolutions.

 Right now, I’m watching the movie Pokemon 4ever that features Celebi, a rare pokemon. Perhaps it’s not that bad watching kiddie shows when in fact I’m too old. I get many lessons from those Pokemon movies, especially from the sensible lines of Meowth in the first movie.

 “We all see the same sky, star, and moon. We all sit on the same ground. If we all see the common things among us, there’d be peace and harmony.” ~Meowth

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Thanks so much to those who have watched Boyfriend Reaction!

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American Idol Songwriter 2008

by on 22. Apr, 2008 in Brainbuster

Have you listened to all the entries? Do you find all songs good for our Idols?

“Something Like Heaven” is so moving, while “Here I Am” is soothing. Well, I’m not good at rating songs because I’m not a musician, but these two just sound so good to me.

Please vote for your favorite song on www.americanidol.com.
By the way, Happy Earth Day!

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My Colgate Fresh Confidence Experience

by on 17. Apr, 2008 in Experience

This is absolutely incredible. I joined the search for the next Colgate star. Ha ha! Thanks to all the support and text messages of encouragement from all of you guys. You’re a part of this “success” as I may consider.

It all rooted from the idea of Mr. Cliff Venzon. Actually, at first, I didn’t like to join because I wasn’t interested in joining tv contests until a momentous happening occurred. I felt that I needed something to pour out from my being. I felt that I needed to grab other opportunities just hanging around.

Oh well, here you will see some snapshots of our 3-day shooting. The video was shot in 6 different locations so as to comply with the tips of Lucky Mark (the guy you see in the current colgate tvc).

I edited the video using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Don’t expect to much from my creation. I don‘t usually like making complicated video effects. Rather, I want simplicity and elegance. I don’t also like to make any infringement.

The original video size was 2.3 Gigabytes because I accidentally saved it in .avi format. The second export hit a size of 30 Megabytes that was pretty good for me. But when I checked Colgate’s website, I found out that the maximum upload was only 10 Megabytes. So from 30 MB, it was compressed to 5.2 MB. Actually, I had difficulties in the upload sessions. Whenever the upload completes, an error message appears. I had to send e-mails to colgate just to know why there were errors.

Colgate called me twice to tell me that my video was successfully uploaded and it was finally viewable. They even asked me to create more videos. So there.

Please do VOTE for me. I have to beat that 100,000 votes of the first contestant. Those who have voted, thank you very much guys! May balato kayo pati mga nag-leave ng comments (if ever mananalo). Pero ok lang talaga kung hindi manalo. Hehe.

Just visit www.colgatefreshconfidence.ph. CLICK HERE or just click the “View all videos” and you’ll see my video entitled “Freshness.”

This is my Colgate experience. Thanks to Cliff!

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Pinoy Big Brother Emo-ness

by on 03. Apr, 2008 in Brainbuster

At last my semester is over, as every engineering student would say when April comes. Just like now, most of us in the College of Engineering suffer from nosebleed final examinations and ridiculous requirements due this month. I had one subject of which I had to take the final exam on because I failed one long quiz. I found injustice when I knew that I had to take it even if my pre-final grade is good enough to be encircled on the class card.

On the other hand, I get to feel satisfied whenever I stare at the magazine pages that were designed by me. It’s a project in EEE31 to create a magazine for high school seniors, and its content would be related to electronics. Yeah, we got the highest grade, and guess what that rating is…a freaking 92%. So does that mean 92% is the prize of the five-day burden of layouting? It doesn’t even pay off the “super efforts” our group exerted. We even had to pay around 700 pesos for the magazine’s printing.

I just can’t believe that the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dep’t has super high expectations with regards to that project. In fact, I would be pleased if another group would get a 98% to a hundred. Okay, enough of that.
ONE WEEK of vacation. It surely is not enough for me to rest. Right now, there are so many things I am arranging, and those include papeles, papeles, and papeles. Nevertheless, I get to find my leisure time — WATCHING PINOY BIG BROTHER Teen Edition Plus. Even though it’s baduy for me. Nyaha!

I can’t see the sense of entering the house, but maybe, for others, they really find a reason for joining. What I can say about the teen housemates is that they are so emotional. It’s not that I can’t relate with their stories, but there hasn’t been a good reason for them to cry and cry and cry during the first days of stay. Hello? They are already grown-ups. Almost all of them have above 16 years of existence. Moreover, they barely know each other well, so why show feelings immediately knowing that they aren’t yet comfortable with each other’s company?

Another thing, about the inclusion of the Atenean and La Sallean, I think ABS-CBN is just making its viewers idolize the two and their respective schools. Wait, wait, I don’t envy them. More so, it’s not that I come from UP, and that I have to set negative impressions on them. It’s about me, being open-minded.

Cry there, cry here, cry everywhere. Big Brother, they’re so emo.

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