Archive for July, 2008

Featured on Inquirer.Net Video

Inquirer.Net Reporter Alex Villafania interviewed me about Level Up Games’ latest website a few days ago and it’s now uploaded on the Inquirer website. There’s also a corresponding article on Hackenslash, Inquirer.Net’s gaming website. I think this is the third or fourth time I was shown on Inquirer.Net and it’s mostly been about online games. [...]

Philippine Senate Field Trip: Senator Waukster?

I was at the Philippine Senate today to meet some clients and it was really fun walking around the building. You get to bump into very interesting people there and I was also able to get a glimpse of the hearings this afternoon. Of course my day wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t take any [...]

2009 P1.4 TRILLION Budget = Campaign Funds?

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be asking congress to pass a P1.4-trillion budget for 2009. She explains that it will go mostly to paying off our debts and to boost infrastructure and social welfare projects. While there maybe a chance that the money does go into the projects that they’re being planned for - I have [...]

My Meez Avatar

I’ve heard of Meez for several months now but I never bothered checking it out until today since Mich asked me to make my own avatar. I was a bit hesitant at first but I eventually ended up having fun making my own “mini-me”! Now If you noticed, I already replaced my profile picture with [...]

I’m on Plurk!

Hey everyone! I recently signed up for a new twitter-like service called Plurk. It’s basically a timeline of what I do everyday or what I want to say at anytime during the day. I embedded the widget on my blog and you should be seeing it in the right sidebar. I’d like to invite all [...]

SONA: PGMA Feeling Dark Knight?

If there’s one thing I learned from today’s State of the Nation Address - it’s that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo idolizes Batman too much and she probably internalized the Dark Knight movie. She feels like that her unpopularity is a result of good decisions that will pave the way for a better and brighter Philippines. In [...]

In Anticipation of PGMA’s SONA

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) later today. It’s expected that the administration people would clam up and defend their leader and it’s also expected that the opposition would do everything they can do discredit the President. What about the Filipino people? Well if you guys believe in surveys, [...]

Mang Jun the Barber

When I was in High School, I used to go to this Barber Shop near Kamuning called Sunday Barbershop. It was my favorite place to get a haircut and a shave because the barbers there gave a long and excellent massage after. I usually gave around P50-P100 to my regular barber, Mang Jun, as tip [...]

Congress Spends 200M to Refurbish Batasan

At a time when prices of all goods are going up, especially oil, people usually tighten their belts and spend money on things that only matter the most. That’s not the case for our congressmen. Instead of using money for programs that would address the insanely rising prices, they would rather renovate their office using [...]

Turning Gaming into E-Sports

I’ve always been a gamer all my life and for the most part of it, I was very competitive. Maybe that’s the main reason why a career in gaming was so attractive for me. When the opportunity presented itself, I literally grabbed it with both hands and did my best to prove not just to [...]

Level Up! Games Celebrates 6th Year Anniversary

Level Up Games, the first and leading online gaming company in the Philippines, celebrated 6 years of operations yesterday. It was an insane day since all the departments were assigned different country themes. We all had to dress up our areas and ourselves as well as prepare food from the assigned country! I was very [...]

Reflections on the Power of Fiction

I’ve been reading a lot of fiction books lately and there are a few things that I learned that made me realize how powerful books can be. Fiction books can fill your mind and heart with a sense of wonder and longing. You want to break out from the routine and try to live the [...]

Quezon City Police Anti-Riot Defense Postures

This really reminds me of 300. Well, not 100% entirely. There are no spears and chisled abs but at least they got the shield formation right. Here’s a video that I got from Inquirer.net showing Quezon City’s finest demonstrate defense postures in riot-situations. This comes at a good timing since we’re expecting a lot of [...]

Level Up to Launch Crazy Kart - First Online Racing Game in the Philippines

Might as well post it here! To those who don’t know, I’m currently working for Level Up Inc., an online gaming company. We recently had a press conference for our newest game - Crazy Kart. This is the first online RACING game in the country and we really expect a lot of things from this [...]

Another Impeachment Case Filed Against PGMA

Do you guys remember Elly Pamatong? He was the 2004 presidential candidate who was disqualified and eventually ended up scattering spikes along EDSA to get attention. A lot of people branded the guy crazy and KSP and it looks like he’s at it again. He recently filed an impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I [...]