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- Affiliation:
- Philippine Web Designers Organization, Adobe User Group - Philippines, Asian Institute of Management, UP ITTC
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- February 15, 1980
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One of the things I've been doing to get involved with AIM MBA cohorts is playing basketball with them regularly. Since the "easy" fourth and final term started, we played almost weekly.We usually play at the AFP Army Gymnasium and the Power Plant Basketball Court. Majority of players come from M...
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The Philippines and the whole world is aghast with the massacre that happened in Maguindanao in the island of Mindanao. As of this writing, the death toll stands at 57 and it could be higher as investigators are still excavating the crime scene. 34 of those killed were journalists.To quickly summ...
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I'm officially starting the Big Lakers Fan campaign to include Los Angeles Lakers guard Shannon Brown in the Slam Dunk Contest in Dallas in 2010.Shannon Brown has found his place in the Lakers' rotation thus he has seen more regular minutes. That also means that we're seeing more of his high-wire...
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After watching Paranormal Activity, I couldn't believe that it was only made with a $15,000 budget. Why? Because it carried the suspense and terror of a big budget horror flick. Directed by Oren Peli, the indie film succeeds in setting the atmosphere and building-up the story. Filmed with a rough...
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1030 was the time that we ended our learning team meeting last night. Slowly but surely, we are getting into that pace wherein we now spend less time working with our assignments as a group. I'm not really sure if it is an improvement in time-efficiency, or some other productivity thing, but fr...
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Rapper Curtis Jackson (aka "50 Cent") writes, directs, and stars in "Before I Self Destruct: The Movie," a film that's released with his last rap album for Interscope Records.The film shows the life of Clarence (played by 50 Cent), a young man who struggles to make ends meet in the inner-city. Wi...
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If I say that the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, the reaction would be like "Ho-hum. Nothing new here folks."If you ask me the real highlights were the last two minutes of the first quarter when Kobe Bryant hit two amazing shots as the Lakers pulled away from the Thunder. The ...
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Great news! The AIM Blogger is chosen one of the 100 Best Blogs for International Business Students by Online Colleges.net. The list is a selection of blogs that provide an excellent opportunity for students to find out first-hand about doing business in countries around the world, hear fro...
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The Five Years of Firefox in Manila event was held yesterday and it was a great launchpad for the Mozilla Philippines Community.I, along with Community coordinators Ren-Ren Gabas, Allan Caeg, and Mozilla Campus Reps from Colegio San Juan de Letran Calamba led by Joell Lapitan, came at 12 noon to...
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Finished taking the Macroeconomics Midterms a few hours ago. After taking the test, I found a new found respect for economists and the training that they go through. While I'm quite sure none of us will be expecting a perfect score, I am sure that at least I got maybe 4 points right. It is tru...
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DO I SLEEP OR DO I NOT SLEEP? Just got home after meeting up with friends. After the hopefully going-to-be regular habit of jogging with some of my classmates (no group name yet), I proceeded to Glorietta on foot to meet up with them. We had dinner at HG Rockstar, the former Heaven and Eggs "b...
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Let's do some simple arithmetic: Pau Gasol + Los Angeles Lakers = ?.As we saw in the game against the Chicago Bulls, you don't need to be a mathematician to see what the answer is.After missing 11 games, Pau Gasol returned to the Laker's starting lineup and scored 24 point and grabbed 13 re...
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Ninja Assassin is a throwback action movie-- it offers hard-core violence and nothing much else. But it's that one-dimensional aspect of the movie that makes it enjoyable.Starring Asian sex symbol Rain (Speed Racer), the movie is an update of the ninja movies of the 1980's and putting a video gam...
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There are many things to be afraid of,and for an MBA student, one of these fears is to be the lowest of the low in the batch, to be the outlier among outliers, to be the cream of the crap, and to fail when others have high probabilities to succeed. We all probably have this fear. Despite our be...
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Kobe Bryant became the third player in NBA history to top the 40-point plateau at least 100 times (Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan are the other two). And his 100th 40-point game was made extra special by doing a move that evokes memories of someone who is part of that elite trio:Man, that wa...
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The Mozilla Philippines Community, Globe Telecom, and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) will be hosting the Five Years of Firefox in Manila! event this coming November 21, 2009 (3pm-5pm) at the Fuller Hall of AIM in Makati City.This event is a get-together of Mozilla Firefox and web enthusi...
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Are you a long-time fan of the Los Angeles Lakers?I'm helping a USC journalism student find fans who would like to contribute to her story about the Los Angeles Lakers in their 50th year. She wants to interview die-hard Lakers fans from different generations and find out the impact of Lakers on t...
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The Mozilla Philippines Community, Globe Telecom, and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) will be hosting the Five Years of Firefox in Manila! event this coming November 21, 2009 (3pm-5pm) at the Fuller Hall of AIM in Makati City.This event is a get-together of Mozilla Firefox and Web Standar...
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The Los Angeles Lakers recently lost to the Houston Rockets and now have their first losing streak of the season.The common thread between their losses against the Denver Nuggets and the Rockets is a very weak second half. In those games, the Lakers mustered an average of 30 points in the second ...
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The Mayans predicted that the world come to an end on December 2012. Roland Emmerich takes this notion and makes it into the biggest disaster movie of the year. But is 2012 worth the hype?2012 is full of visuals Emmerich has been known for-- like Los Angeles falling appart, Mount Everest ge...
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Thanks to a tray of Big Bite hotdogs, a man from Baclaran won half a million Pesos.Leopoldo Quinto, Jr. of Baclaran won the country's first competitive eating competition via tough tie-breaker against Kyle Domingo. Quinto gobbled up 13 hotdogs in the initial round then 4 hotdogs in the extra roun...
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The Denver Nuggets reminded the Los Angeles Lakers that the road to a back-to-back is not a walk in the park.In their last meeting in Denver, the Nuggets shut down Kobe Bryant, outplayed the champs, and made the Lakers play sloppy. The end result? A 105-79 shellacking of the Lakers.A lot of thing...
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The Asian Institute of Management recently launched a new look for its website!The design is quite special to me because I was responsible for creating the design where the final template design was based. I was inspired by the "maximal" photos incorporated in nice sites today, like the web...
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The Phoenix Suns are turning heads all over the league as they returned to their run-and-gun form and piled up wins in the process. They've ranked pretty high rankings in the past weeks. With an 8-1 record, who wouldn't say the Phoenix Suns have risen from the ashes?Definitely not the Los Angeles...
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We had an event for the fifth World Usability Day event here in Manila yesterday, along with 123 other locations all over the world. Entitled “Design/Sustain,” the Adobe User Group – Philippines (AUGPhil) and the UST Information Systems Society (UST ISYS) hosted the event with ...
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If you've noticed that I haven't been blogging here as much I used to, you're spot on. But there's a pretty good reason for that.I'm working on a free book project about my experiences in studying and teaching at the Asian Institute of Management's MBA program. The free book is called "Did You Re...
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If you ask me, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) has one of the best, if not the best, holiday promo for coffee shops this year.What they are doing is that for every beverage you buy, you get a stamp in your card. You'll need twelve stamps for 1 Original Ice Blended, 1 Tea Latte, 1 Caramel Ma...
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It’s Mini-Web Design Conference season once again!The Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO) will be having its fifth Mini-Web Design Conference, the first after the major Form Function & Class web design conference. The event will be held at the De La Salle – College of Sai...
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Kobe Bryant's reputation as a scorer will never be doubted but is the the best scorer the Los Angeles Lakers franchise has ever seen? To wit, here are some of the franchise milestones Kobe Bryant is in the Top Five of (as of this blog post):#4 in Field Goals made#3 in Field Goal attempts#1 in 3-p...
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I was reading news about the NBA when I read about an issue about Allen Iverson of the Memphis Grizzlies.For a good portion of the decade, Iverson was the leading scorer the team he played in. He was a gutsy player who played with much heart and even won the league's Most Valuable Player award on...
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For the next two weeks, I'll be very busy with two community events.The first one is Design/Sustain: World Usability Day 2009 in Manila. It's the last pending event I'm spearheading as the User Group Manager of the Adobe User Group - Philippines as I've stepped down a couple of months ago. It's a...
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