Author: Gabriel
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Fools Rush In Book Review
I really enjoyed reading Fools Rush In, Nina Munk‘s research on the gargantuan AOL – Time Warner fiasco of the late 90’s and early 2000s. There is no better way, I think for a person to understand the Internet Bubble and dot com disaster of that era than reading a book that puts you right…
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Two Issues For Today’s Post
One : Do not buy a Motorola C651 cellfone. It is a constantly hanging piece of crap. Two : With a budget of only P1k, I am looking for another cellphone that will serve as a ‘2nd phone’, mainly for g-cash purposes. If you live in Manila and you have one in good working condition…
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Lust, Caution Movie Review
From the moment that I first saw the movie’s preview I had determined that I wasn’t going to miss it, and when I finally watched it it just went ahead and exceeded all expectations. Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) is an amazing piece of story – telling – an intricate, tightly wound tale between lovers whose…
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PLUG Meeting Notes
Note: In lieu of PLUG’s website, which is still to be reestablished, I am posting herewith notes of our meeting last 11.09.07 at Bo’s Coffee Robinson’s Galleria. The following attended the meeting (loosely referred to as ‘the group’ below): Ryan S. Ching [email protected] Victor E. Mendoza [email protected] Paolo Alexis Falcone [email protected] AC Perdon [email protected] Ian…
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Oh Lord, won’t you give me $30,000.00?*
I just read this article talking about an internet startup involving a girl and her boyfriend in New York. Of course, the word ‘internet startup’ interests me, but when I read it involved just two people, a girl and her boyfriend living and working out of an apartment in New York on a shoestring budget,…
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Kikay Exchange’s Breakthrough Day
Our baby had an important day yesterday, Nov. 9th, for the first time registering 617 unique hits, the most ever in one day. So let me just say it: Our little baby is now a lady :). Urk. Anyway, the most number of visitors was recorded at 58 concurrent at 10:00 in the morning, with…
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aaand we’re back! (again)
Finally found a good enough host for this blog, and Movie Exchange as well, which we are now re-christening as (drumroll please…): flickmaniac.com awww yeah. I admit there was a point when I was wondering if I was even gonna resurrect either blog, but I decided, what the heck. The cost isn’t too steep and…
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You gotta love Manong Masahista
I played a lot of ball most of the afternoon. As a result I’m completely bushed and aching all over, but overall I feel great. I outlasted a lot of guys mostly because, I think, I managed to get a good massage a few days ago. At this point you might think I’m about to…
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Tropa de Elite and other planned reviews
I just watched the highly controversial Tropa de Elite, which I was desperate to see after seeing just a few seconds of a report about it from BBC news and consequently Googling it up. The movie runs a narrative using the voice of Capitao Nascimiento (played by the amazing Wagner Moura), a fictional leader of…
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How our brains work according to me
I worked on the car all day and thoroughly enjoyed it. If not for the fact that it didn’t turn out as well as I hoped (I fixed something but in the process, ‘broke’ something else :P), today was a pretty good day. I think hobbies are important because it takes you away from what…