It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
Sam Levenson (1911 – 1980)

It’s my birthday today!

I’m supposed to go back home to our province to celebrate with my relatives, unfortunately, the rain’s pouring down so hard that the road back home is inaccessible due to flood. /pif

Which is why here I am celebrating my birthday alone in my dorm. Yay! House party! Stick around and join in on the fun! We’ll be having games, like “Guess which neighbor took your umbrella” and everyone’s favorite, “prevent the water from coming in to your room!”

Hungry? Here, have a serving of Oatmeal! We have nothing else to eat aside from that, but hey, it’s a party, have some more! For desert I’ll scrape the ice from our freezer and we’ll have ice cones! Yummy!

Sigh. It’s a good thing that my internet is holding up in spite of the rain, otherwise I might have gone crazy by now.

Anyways, happy birthday to me! And thank you to all who greeted me! You guys make celebrating alone bearable!

Happy blogging!

If you thought that only shampoo commercials and sinabawang gulays are the only ones who can have their own Jingle, the people behind the Philippine Blog Awards are out to prove us wrong for they have made their own Jingle about the Philippine blogosphere!

Oh, and my blog was mentioned along with the song! Yeah!

This is a post about the Carnation Food Trip that I attended back in 2008 that I never got around to post. It’s one of the best blog events that I had the privelege of being part of. Nothing can beat the free food and 2-day tour of different places in Central Luzon!

Even though I’ve been on hiatus for a couple of months, I was lucky to have received an invitation to join and experience the Carnation Family Food Trip 2008.

The Carnation Family Food Trip is a 2-day event held last July 25, 2008 where members of the press, as well as bloggers, were invited for a tour of North Luzon and get a taste of their delicacies. The said event was sponsored by Carnation and Appetite Magazine, and was made possible thanks to the Mega Publishing Group.

I heard that there were around 15 bloggers who were invited to the event, however, only six were able to go. These lucky people were: Noemi Dado, Dine Racoma, Raine Contreras, Jehzeel Laurante, Anton Diaz and myself.

This is actually an old post that I had on my old personal blog. I’ve migrated it here because I’ll be using my old blog for a different project.

I don’t usually drink. I don’t like crowded places and I hate going home late at night. I’m the kind of person who’d rather lounge around in the comfort of his room doing random stuff rather than partying late into the night.

So why did I go to the OktoberFest 120 launch at San Miguel Avenue last Friday night? Well, because I was invited to get in for free.

Call me a cheapskate, but who can resist free passes to one of the most biggest events of the year? Oh, I didn’t just get a free pass, I got a media ID that gives me access to places like the VIP media lounge, and the front of the stage. Ha!

Feeling media person

So even if I don’t like to party, this was a chance for poor-little-ol’-me to experience the OktoberFest, uh, experience. Donned with a media ID and a camera, I set out to cover the event like a good member of the media.

This is actually an old post that I had on my old personal blog. I’ve migrated it here because I’ll be using my old blog for a different project.

One of my favorite past times when I was a kid was playing a game which I call “Adbenture”. Basically, I’d choose a protagonist from my roster of toys and have that guy set on a journey around my room.

I’d set up obstacles for my protagonist to traverse using different stuff; stacked VHS video tapes become castles or fortresses, chairs for mountains, the under of my bed as catacombs and so on. I’d have him fight monsters played out by other toys (who weren’t able to get the main role). I’d have him scale shelves and cabinets while defying the laws of physics. Just with the use of ordinary stuff, added with a little imagination, I was able to turn my room into my very own little big planet.

Years have passed and I have already outgrown playing the game in favor of more mature games. But even with all the complexity and the features new games offer today, nothing beats a good game that lets you use your creativity.

Lucky for us, the guys over at Media Molecule is currently cooking something sweet for our stagnating creative side. A game which they call “Little Big Planet”.