Mental Shutdown

I’ve been outdated lately in the movie scene as I still am unable to watch some of the latest movie flicks despite the fact that I already have a digital file of most of them (thanks to Pirate Bay).  This weekend, or in the next few days, I intend to watch the following:
1. The Curious Case [...]

Rollin’ Ron

 
 
 
 
The following is my Icebreaker speech, the first speech I delivered at Toastmasters.  Feedback was generally good–good show of confidence, unique manner of presenting a speech (I used PowerPoint), well-written speech with poetic touch, well-articulated words–save for the fast pace in which it was delivered that left the audience running after my words.  Probably because [...]

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

My Chinese sign, the sheep, is not fortunate this coming year of the Ox.  Even before the Chinese new year starts tomorrow, I am already having financial problems, mainly how to pay a steep credit card bill that’s an offshoot of the lavish Christmas spending that we did.  I just hope I can recover from [...]

Ebola Lalala…

Lately been busy with school work–exams, presentations, reports and all.  In our chit-chat (with classmates) over lunch, we learned that there is already a case of Ebola virus transmission to a human from pigs, a pig farm worker in Bulacan.  The person is believed to have caught the virus 6 months ago and he tested [...]

The magic of magic realism

Just finished reading “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,”  the Pulitzer-winning debut novel by Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz.  It’s about Oscar, a fat geek who reeks of sci-fi and dreams of becoming a Dominican version of Tolkien and his strange family who are very much alive in their characters that they can live out of the book’s pages.  [...]

Finally, a true iPhone killer

 

Almost two years ago, I wasn’t one like the many who fell for the iPhone and its cool features.  Instead of waiting patiently for the phone to be available here or have a unit from the States sent here for unlocking at my friendly Greenhills cellphone store at Virramall (despite the risk of malfunction), I got [...]

Getting the hang of it

Just finished with a presentation for one of our subjects.  The feeling of talking in front has never been more enjoyable to me than lately, especially when I signed up for Toastmasters.  Preparation and confidence plus resourcefulness and creativity are the keys to a good presentation.  Slowly, after painstaking readings, viewings on the Internet, and [...]

My first Toastmaster experience

I finally got to attend our club’s Toastmasters meeting, the first for this year, as a guest (I haven’t submitted my application form and haven’t paid the membership dues).  Full of new-year optimism, the meeting was packed by members, new and old, and guests like me.  Even before the program was over, I thought that it is [...]

Post-Christmas Shopping

After the Christmas season, malls now abound with SALEs, getting rid of their stocks that accumulated because they weren’t bought by people.  Probably because of the economic crisis or because in the midst of the rush to buy gifts for other people, they forgot to buy for themselves.  No matter why, one thing’s for sure:  [...]

Information Stress

I’ve read in an article about Information Overload being described as a condition afflicting people who are online most hours of their waking state.  Online–connected to the internet, glued to my cellphone, iPod, and other gizmos–most of the time I am.  I am guilty of this.  I simply can’t wake up and go to sleep [...]