Homura, on Haiku

Throwback: Homura, on Haiku “Hey, I miss this one!,” I said to myself when I went to my archives. For this week’s throwback, I’m going to share a post circa April 2011, and at that time, one of the best series that I’ve watched called Puella Magi Madoka Magica was airing. This is what I’ve thought Akemi Homura will write if she does a haiku about her relationship with protagonist Madoka Kaname. ...

July 12, 2016 · 2 min

Japanese Design Today 100 + more— 9 July 2016

Yesterday, the Japanese Design Today 100 exhibit of the Japan Foundation, Manila at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila had an Open House, so I decided to go check it out. From classic designs to furniture, housewares, tableware, cookware, apparel, accessories, stationery, hobbies healthcare, disaster relief and transportation, the exhibit curated by design critic Prof. Hiroshi Kashiwagi of Musashino Art University, Masafumi Fukagawa, design director Shu Hagiwara and Journalist Noriko Kawakami. ...

July 10, 2016 · 3 min

Travel Madness Expo — 8 July 2016

Last February, I went to the Travel Tour Expo at the SMX Manila. This July, I went to see the 5th Travel Madness Expo at the same spot. I think that’s something. Here are the photos from the event earlier. Taiwan Tourism Bureau I was able to try out their simple dessert — shaved ice, sugar syrup, beans and condensed milk. It was delicious even if the ice had already melted minutes later. ...

July 8, 2016 · 1 min

On OpenSocial, OVI, and Google Chrome Extensions

View this post on Instagram Me, circa 2010. This is just some of the posts that you will see on my Instagram thanks to Timehop. ...

July 6, 2016 · 3 min

Safety precautions while playing Pokémon Go

[Photo] A frame of the official Pokémon Go commercial released in September 2015 Today’s trend on social media — including Facebook — is Pokémon Go. It’s the new augmented reality mobile game that’s available to be played on smartphones. At present, it’s available in select countries like Australia, but some found a way to circumvent this barrier by sideloading the APK file, which I do not recommend because of the fear of having ads pop up in a split-second no thanks to Ghost Push. ...

July 6, 2016 · 2 min

Throwback: MeiDolls Cafe

Now this is a proper #ThrowbackThursday post. This dates back to January 2011, and the back story behind this post is that I did this after my high school class. Back then, I was so curious of my surroundings that I even walk long distances — and from where I study in the Cainta Municipal Compound, I walked all the way through the Saunterfield Building facing the Brookside Subdivision. The last time I saw them, MeiDolls was in a small space inside the building — it was not big way back then, and its size was at an estimate of 10 square meters prior to their move at a bigger space in the same building. ...

July 6, 2016 · 4 min

“Ulam,” Viand, Dish.

I’m not sure if I have posted this, but I have a cooking video before that I failed to recover, only to see its frames in the Recuva window. Here I was cooking a dish with tomato sauce, skinless longanisa, string beans and some guisado on the side. The frames are really grainy as the lighting sucks, but hey, at the very best I got to enjoy dinner that I cooked myself before I got a job. ...

July 5, 2016 · 1 min

Team Starseeker

Let’s take a look at our 2016 delegates to the World Cosplay Summit Sending this video here for everyone to see — this is a video from Davao, where Team Starseeker won the WCSPH National Finals for 2016 and will represent the country in the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan. I’ve taken a look at the Facebook profiles of the team, and based on their info, both of them are craftsmakers, who own their own respective cosplay craft shops. One of them, Yukari(who also posts under the name “Endlesseight Cosplay”), also served as co-host of the 7th Mindanao Toy Convention of Gaisano Mall Davao (not associated with ToyCon PH). ...

July 4, 2016 · 1 min

Caliraya — 1 July 2016

(Also in the next segments of this post: Personal Events Calendar) I was at the Caliraya Resort Club in Laguna yesterday for our company outing, and I actually ended up getting more videos instead of the usual photos. The scenery from both sides of the Sky Bicycle route. One memorable scene there is the Sky Bicycle, where I rode a bike. All that I had to do is to close my eyes and scream when I’m in panic, and pedal all the way to the endpoint back and forth. ...

July 2, 2016 · 1 min

Social Media Day (#TayoPH) — 30 June 2016

Believe it or not, this is actually the first Social Media Day celebration I’ve attended — and it fell on a busy, busy day. Imagine, this is the day where the new administration of President Duterte begins, and this day also falls on the period of Ramadan (which will end next week, July 8). TweetUpMNL organizes this event since 2012 in different locations, and this is the fourth year they’re doing so. ...

June 30, 2016 · 2 min