Opinions and Writings
Wala bang warranty ang 2020?
Matindi talaga ang dagok ng 2020 sa ating lahat. Patung-patong na takot ang dala nito. Kaya kahit paano ay maiintindihan mo kung bakit napaka-irational ng mga tao ngayon. Hindi naman sa dapat ay pabayaan na lang nating maghari ang takot pero kung dadaanan mo nga naman...
On panic, buying, and COVID-19
Ayan na po ang COVID-19. Padami na nang padami ang naitatalang mga kaso. At nagsimula nang maalarma ang sambayanang Pilipino. Ugali namin sa bahay na may at least two-weeks supply ng mga bagay-bagay. Hindi uso sa akin yung kapag naghanap ako ng bagay ay sasabihin sa...
Amping up the hobby
I've been fiddling with photography for over a decade now. For the most part, I had been shooting casually, taking snapshots of friends, food, and places. As for events, I only covered my old company's parties and family gatherings. I've experimented with a few other...
A gaijin in the wild
It's almost a year since but I still fondly look back at our Japan trip. I've always been a fan of Japanese food, history, rock music, and anime so Japan had been a must-visit for me. So when the family decided that we're all going to visit my sis-in-law in Osaka, I...
Boxing the fatness away
Weight loss has always seemed to be a Sisyphean task for me. We have a family history of obesity so darn genetics for giving me the fat gene. And having been obese in my younger years, my fat cells just want to swell up whenever I succeed in getting trim. My constant...
Onward to 2019
So I've been remiss writing end-of-year recaps for a couple of year now in this long-forgotten blog. It's 2019 and we're almost closing out the 2010's. I'm in my mid-30s now. I'm almost legitimately qualified to have my mid-life crisis even if I'm not sure I've even...
Polar Beat update renders H7 useless
I've had a Polar H7 heart rate monitor for about a couple of years now. I've been using it with the Polar Beat app to monitor my calorie burn and to make sure I don't overexert myself when working out. I have just recently gotten back to being a bit more active after...
The messy economics of funding gaming
I believe it was former president of UP, Dr. Nemezo (a champion of free and open source software back in the early 2000s) who intimated that piracy is the third-world reaction to the absurd licensed software costs. I can't quite recall but it's in the same vein that...
Trash or post?
After finishing my monthly online cleanup of my sites and accounts, I noticed that it's been almost 10 years since I registered this domain. I've been blogging longer than that. Ever since I shifted away from online content development some 7 years back, I only found...