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Experiencing Spike Jonze's "I'm Here"

2011-05-15T20:41:00.000-07:00

Why are the most beautiful of love stories usually the saddest? I'm Here: A Love Story in An Absolut World, a short film written and directed by Spike Jonze, had me pensive and a little sad. I had thought, "Wow. This is The Giving Tree of contemporary times," and then after digging up some background information, I found out that the children's book by Shel Silverstein was indeed the inspiration

Facebook Mothers' Day Meme

2011-05-06T23:31:00.000-07:00

Wondering why your friends seemed to have aged a bit in their profiles? Don't worry. May 8, 2011 is Mothers' Day, and here's the Facebook status that started it all: "In honor of Mother's Day, change your profile pic to a picture of your mother (solo or not) and keep it there till May 9. I did and so have several others. If you like this idea, please repost this as your status so everyone gets

Attack Caught on Cam

2011-04-19T23:50:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since my last post here. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I just have to share this morbid news that I picked up from The Korea Herald: Photo credit: The Korea Herald Qian Liu, a 23-year-old Chinese student at York University in Ontario was found half-naked and dead in her apartment by the Toronto police. This was a couple of hours after a friend from China

"What's on your mind?"

2010-10-16T05:37:00.000-07:00

Anything you post WILL be taken against you. The Internet is forever. Think before you post.

How to Become Unemployed Courtesy of Facebook

2010-09-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

Who can forget last year's Ashley Payne, the former high school teacher in Georgia, who was forced to resign after a parent complained about the impropriety of one of her vacation photos? Where this photo is from: "Straight from the A" Looks harmless enough, don't you think? She was, after all, on a Euro trip, and you know what they say... "When in Ireland, do what the Irish do--drink a

Spell "trouble": S-T-A-T-U-S U-P-D-A-T-E-S

2010-03-14T08:22:00.000-07:00

I know that you're only reading this entry because my amazing work of art has caught your attention, so I won't keep you long. Anti-Facebook blog sickfacebook.com quoted Australian psychologist Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg as saying that people who post status updates (and tweets) "could be suffering from insecurity... [they're] sending a message out to everybody that rather than just quietly getting

Facebook is selling WHAT?!

2010-03-07T23:10:00.000-08:00

Take a good look at this picture: Is this what you see? If online dating is the new singles bar, then Facebook is open bar 24/7, what with over 400 million ACTIVE users. From the soft-light profile photos to the catchy status updates (not to mention the ubiquitous "Like" thumbs up icon), Facebook has the particular charm that online dating sites SHOULD have but, unfortunately, don't. And

Mad Hatter Craze

2010-03-05T22:59:00.000-08:00

It's Mad Hatter Day! With Johnny Depp playing the role in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, it's no question that the Mad Hatter is more talked-about than Alice herself. But did you know that in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, the author didn't refer to him as such? Carroll named him as the Hatter or "Hatta," and it was the Cheshire Cat who alluded to him being "mad." Also,

Who the Filipina Is

2010-03-01T19:22:00.000-08:00

Of the Earth's creatures, only humans are fond of confining each other in boxes and sticking labels all over them. If there's one thing I feel really sad about, it's that some people believe they can look down their nose at others. I am tired of Filipinas being typecasted as nothing more than domestic helpers and mail-order brides. Sure, many pinays aspire for better lives for their families by

Who started Doppelganger Week on Facebook?

2010-02-13T19:23:00.000-08:00

That is the question. I'm asking because I want to know who to thank. Until the last week of January, visitor stats to my relatively new blog was over 500 but definitely far from a thousand. Within the next 2 weeks, it rapidly skyrocketed to over 3,000 hits! I attribute these hits to one particular entry--how to find your doppelganger. This is all thanks to the latest and most viral of Facebook

Cebu Dancing Inmates with Michael Jackson's Choreographer

2010-01-27T02:25:00.000-08:00

As if you haven't seen it yet, the most recently memed Youtube video in the PI within the last 2 days is this: Cebu's world-famous dancing inmates! Oh, but it's not just another dance video from the viral hitmakers who rose to e-lebrity status via "Thriller" in 2007. Michael Jackson's (and Lady Gaga's as well) choreographer Travis Payne trained and danced with the inmates of Cebu Provincial

Cure That Facebook Addiction

2010-01-22T04:01:00.000-08:00

Do you find yourself tweeting or Facebooking when you should be working or studying instead? Like everything else, extreme activity on social networking sites is bad for you. It's counter-productive and unhealthy. Some employees have been fired--or received disciplinary action at least. Some friendships have been broken. Don't even let me get me started. I should know. I was a self-confessed

Taser: From stun gun to spying tool?

2010-01-09T21:15:00.000-08:00

The days when Taser is simply known as a law enforcement device are over. The Taser (an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle) trademark has provided both young and old a sense of security since developing the stun gun in 1969. Its popularity resulted in the use of the word "taser" as a noun referring to any electroshock weapon, in general, and stun guns, in particular. The word has also

Online New Year's resolutions, anyone?

2010-01-01T21:51:00.000-08:00

HAPPY 2010! It's that time of the year again. In my Sunny Side Up! blog, I wrote about making and keeping your New Year's resolutions. As I've mentioned there, placing your New Year's resolutions where you can regularly see them is important. So I thought, for the cyber folks out there, what better way to remind yourself of your promises than posting them online? For one, you can't tear it down

Myphone: Pinoy Pride, Pinoy Heart

2009-12-30T08:21:00.000-08:00

Myphone is truly made by and for the Pinoy! When Solid Group, the Filipino manufacturer of the Myphone, launched the T22 Duo just two years ago, I was impressed by the innovative idea. It’s indeed very Pinoy to maintain two SIM cards for a single mobile phone and pull a switch-a-roo whenever necessary. While others would find it funny--if not downright weird--it is not unusual for us to instruct

Confessions of a Facebook Addict

2009-12-26T21:37:00.000-08:00

(Photo credit: http://www.symbianize.com) I can’t say exactly which came first: the desire to test my unofficial hypothesis or the mania caused by my 289 class to fit everything, including fb, into a framework. All I know is what my Internet log tells me—I have doubled, sometimes even tripled, the frequency and duration of my Internet use, specifically logging into one site: fb. Not that I don’

Paulo Coelho Christmas Freebies

2009-12-25T18:54:00.000-08:00

Did you fall in love with "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept"? Did "Veronika Decides to Die" change your life? Did you understand human nature better with "The Devil and Miss Prym"? If you have all these three titles of Paulo Coelho's On the Seventh Day trilogy, then you are indeed a Coelho fan. Best known as the best-selling author of "The Alchemist" and as one of the world's most

Thanks for dropping by on my blog!

2009-12-24T22:29:00.000-08:00

My Facebook Hypothesis (as published in HerWord.com)

2009-12-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

Last semester, I submitted a paper for my Conflict Resolution class in which I particularly focused on the Change Management part of the syllabus. It was an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) as an empirical tool in change management. Well, just to describe SNA, it’s a fusion of psychology, sociology, and mathematics, wherein SNA software can measure the interpersonal relations of the

My Holiday Personality

2009-12-21T23:49:00.000-08:00

It's 2 days before Christmas, but my brain has already decided to take a vacation leave. Actually, I should be working on a writing project for my father-slash-client, so I've been negotiating with my brain--in vain, I must add--for 2 hours now. In the end, I found myself taking a holiday personality test instead--as if there's not enough of them on Facebook already. There's no place like

Use Facebook emoticons: Go from zzz to snazz

2009-12-20T22:22:00.000-08:00

It's Christmas week, so everyone (me, especially) is already into the I'm-on-holiday-thank-you-very-much mode. If you're like most of my Facebook friends, you're either in a tagging frenzy with your office party photos or making status updates on a per-minute basis. Fortunately for you, I'm trying to get into Santa's Nice List this year, so I'm sharing some of the Facebook emoticons and symbols

Morph your friend into her fave celeb!

2009-12-19T19:17:00.000-08:00

Yay! It's 5 days 'til Christmas! Any girl knows that there's no such thing as "too late for Christmas shopping" BUT if you're on a tight budget, don't fret. Here's a little suggestion: turn your friends into celebrities! You don't need to be a kingmaker to do that. You don't have to spend a single cent even. With MyHeritage.com's face recognition system, you can upload your friends' photos and

Things I know about life I learned from the Web:

2009-10-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

In the tradition of Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, I'm posting something that I wrote back in 2005. This was way before I got addicted to Facebook--for which I'm making a new list. (The pathos and conflict on my News Feed puts it in a class of its own. lol.) Things I know about life I learned from the Web: Always remember where to use which password

How to find your doppelganger

2009-10-21T03:41:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, an old friend from high school who is now based in London sent me this message: "You look just like Myleene Klass. My husband agrees." My first reaction? Google Images. Needless to say, I was thrilled. I hope that you will pardon me for such vanity, but you're likely to feel good about being described as a dead ringer for a celebrity, especially when it happens to be

Google Adsense disabled???

2009-09-11T02:52:00.000-07:00

Wow. It's been a while since I've had the time to write for my own blog. Unfortunately, this comeback is a sad experience. I just found out that my Google Adsense account has been disabled. I know what you're thinking: "What did she do?"Good question.I'm wondering about that, too. For one, my application for Google Adsense was disapproved the first time, because I have the misfortune of living in

homecourt advantage: the benefits of working from home

2009-04-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

For so long, people have found the concept of working from home quite appealing. Who can blame them? Prior to the Internet, which took telecommuting careers to a whole new level, the set-up used to be associated only with positions high enough the corporate ladder that they merit a flexible work schedule. Today, whether you are a blogger, data processor, freelance writer, graphic artist, or an

planning to work from home?

2009-03-26T20:32:00.000-07:00

For so long, people have viewed globalization and the Internet as a threat. According to the World Internet Usage Statistics, however, the number of Internet users from 2000 to 2008 increased by a whopping 338%. While the reasons for going online may be for business, education, entertainment, or social networking purposes, a number of people now make a living by working online. With the economy

Amazon Kindle 2: e-books reinvented

2009-03-14T02:58:00.000-07:00