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FINALLY!!! This post has been on my saved drafts since October, I finally got a chance to post this.

It’s been a while since I last posted an update here. Aside from being busy at work, I was spending a lot of my free time outside on a long journey somewhere, or just at home updating a lot of stuff. I’m actually doing a couple of projects, both personal and professional, so most of my time are always occupied.

Going back to the topic at hand, I finally got a chance to post what most long time bloggers already have posted on their respective blogs. It’s that “The [insert item name here] that blogging bought” phrase.

It’s already late as I’ve got this quite sometime ago (I think it was last July). But anyway, here it is… the PSP that blogging bought me (including everything around it).

PSP slim

PSP slim

It’s relatively cheap compared to other bloggers that have bought a computer, DSLR camera, mobile phone, and even a car, just by blogging.

Most readers of this blog will notice that I didn’t placed any form of ads on this site. Well except for the Firefox link on the right, but that only gives me referral points not actual money. The ads only appear on my other site at Tambayan.ph. So that’s where the money is coming from.

I’m still being asked about why I didn’t placed any ads on this blog, since visitors and viewers here are already as high as those of Tambayan.ph. My only answer is this, “I don’t really like ads on a website”. Or rather too much ads can ruin what a website looks like. The ads that I’ve placed on Tambayan.ph serves (as of now) an experiment that I’m conducting. Statistics, analysis, data, research, and everything I could put up to see what would become of that website. The earnings from the ads, is just a bonus.

Oh and I put up another blog site… with ads of course… more about this on the upcoming weeks.

update: I’ve already put up my other blog site since I’ve last saved this draft last year… it is named TechieBubble.com.

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Belldandy figurine

As usual I’ve been busy with a lot of “extracurricular activities” that I have barely enough time to create a post here. And since I’m already going out, I’ll just post a quick one. Nothing special, I’m just showing you my Belldandy figurine I bought last year.

Belldandy figurine
She’s my angel and goddess.

Looking back on my previous entires, I have a lot of posts that I tagged Belldandy. A quick search for the keyword Belldandy reveals the posts I mentioned her. There was the desktop meme, the custom Belldandy theme of my computer, and of course her bio.

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Yes!!! Finally after almost a month in storage, I finally solved one of the hardest puzzle in the Cast series.

Today was our yearly year-end family reunion. It was a tradition in our family and relatives to gather every year, and was observed since I was still a kid and my grandparents are still alive. Before I left the house, I thought to bring my cast puzzle, Quartet, so I have something to do at the reunion. I never really socialize with my other relatives and mush prefer to watch at the TV or do something.

So then and there, I started tinkering my puzzle toy. After a couple of tries and re-tries, since my cousin(s) kept borrowing my toy and trying it out for themselves, I finally solved it. After about an hour or two, the first of the latches was released and followed by the other three.

Hehe. I was so happy, even my girlfriend (whom I invited to our family reunion) congratulated me for conquering this mind bending little metallic object. So I immediately got my phone to take a photo of this momentous event. Hehehe.

After separating the puzzle pieces, I tried to put them back together, which until now (as I’m typing this) haven’t had any success in putting it back in its original state. But at least I solved the 3rd part of the puzzle. Which is to form all the 4 pieces into a solid square.

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YES!

The other day while I was looking for something to do, I stumbled upon my Rubik’s cube. Yup, the one lying in the corner of my room collecting dust. That’s when I remembered that a friend of mine ask me to download some videos at YouTube. It was videos on how to solve Rubik’s cube, so I searched my hard drive to find it. I got at least 8 videos downloaded, but only two (1, 2) were worth watching.

I can already solve 1 and 2 layers of the cube beforehand, but to finish the cube I have to learn the algorithms used by cube solvers so I can finish it up. So I practiced while watching the video, and also taking down notes. I tried scrambling and solving the cube many times, so I can perfect the moves by using the algorithms.

Although I can now solve the cube, the next thing I should do is memorize this algorithms so I wouldn’t look stupid solving the cube with a paper in hand. ;)


(my handwriting sucks because I stopped using pens and papers when I was already in college. hehe)

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Every time I go out, I always bring my portable card reader loaded with a 2GB SD memory. I always copy files from my friends and/or download files off the Internet when I’m outside. There are those who ask me, why I chose to use my card reader instead of my USB flash drive. I have many reasons, but to sum it all up it is because of flexibility and safety.

Here are some of my reasons:

  • I’m using a card reader. That means if any of my friends bring along a SD card, lets say from their mobile phone or digital camera, we can easily transfer files between our units.
  • I can use my SD card as extra storage for using in a digital camera or mobile phone
  • I can use a larger capacity SD card for my card reader, thus I don’t need to buy another unit.
  • SD cards have a lock option. So if I insert it in another computer, it wont easily get infected with a virus. Lets see a USB flash drive do that.

Bringing along a USB card reader is more flexible than a USB thumb drive due to numerous reasons. Although I have to admit a USB flash drive is more durable than a USB card reader. But hey, I don’t usually drop my gadgets.

And I got both USB device for almost the same price.

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