This is the third annual summit of bloggers in Mindanao which will be held in Cagayan de Oro City. The first two summits organized really made a blast with an aim to promote the beauty, culture, and identity of Mindanao. I’m looking forward to this year’s event to be influential and be able to invite more bloggers to take part in changing the perspective of outside people about the land and to communicate understanding of culture among us Filipinos.

Mindanao Bloggers, see you there!

Wondering how the secret recipe of Jillian (Angel Locsin) of ‘Only you’, “Aligue Bibimbap” otherwise known as “Talangkanin”, tastes? Wonder no more for Kaya Restaaurant offers the Talangkanin Meal in the following branches to let people experience its blissful flavor: Jupiter, The Podium, Rockwell Powerplant, Glorietta VI, Paseo Center, Robinsons Place and SM Megamall.Invited bloggers tasted their special Talangkanin meal for lunch. The meal is based on the signature dish developed for the remake of the koreanovela ‘Only You’, the Aligue Bibimbap (means “mixed rice”). With the meal price of Php220.00 for Kaya’s express branches and Php310.00 for their fine dining branches, you get to savor the delectable taste of the famous Talangkanin meal.

Run to the nearest Kaya Restaurant and order Jillian’s secret recipe, Talangkanin, and satisfy your craving palates and growing tummies with its unique flavor.

I found a new social network online that able one to recreate a playpen and get in touch with people known since one is very young. You may build network of friends even those you’ve known since you were a toddler. It’s fast, easy and mobile.

It is Sandbox - a portal that brings content and services you love on the web all in one place. In it, you can create a profile and update your status for your friends to see. It’s the easiest way to get a dose of the ongoing in your family and friends’ lives. You can upload and view photos and videos, write a blog or join a forum discussion.

This new network community was first introduced to bloggers at the start of the year but reportedly to have failed because of usability issues, now with Smart’s re-launched of MySandbox.com, I assured you of easy navigation and usability. MySandbox spiced up my web experience even I am away from my laptop. All the services are available on our mobile phones at affordable prepaid and postpaid rates. Aside from you may download music tracks and mobile games from it, you may also enjoy watching popular tv shoes and specials. What is even more exciting about it is that – it has services like friendster but with online store and also services like facebook but with online store. With all services Mysandbox has, it made blogging and accessing social networks on the mobile phone very cool!

Dying to experience Sandbox too? Check their website!

Truly the magic begins in Enchanted Kingdom as they invited 50 lucky bloggers to experience a special adventure in their magical world.

Invited bloggers met at Makati and taken by the service provided by International Travel Exchange Inc. (ITEX), the exclusive Shuttle Service Provider of Enchanted Kingdom.

When we arrived there, we were group to five (5) teams for an exciting activity in the afternoon. Our first stop was to watch “Journey to the Center of the Earth” starring Brendan Fraser in the 4D theatre. The experience there was cool, you will really sense the special effects, and you’ll get wet and feel the adventure in screen, simply 4D!

After the lunch that they prepared for us, we played Enchanted Kingdom’s version of Amazing Race called Magicalymips! I was tagged in the Yellow team, the Elephant team, with Azrael as our team leader. We had fun the whole afternoon completing the task in whole theme park, including the rides. The challenges were set up in rides as station to complete. Our first task was the “Keep-the-water-inside-the-cup-on-your-head” while riding the Log Jam, then the quiz in Rialto, “Tomato catching” in Anchor Away, “bump and get the flag” in Dodgem, then the “find-the-landmark-quiz” on the Wheel of Fate, “the Puzzle” after Flying Fiesta, after that we went to the Rio Grande for a charade, then on the Grand Carousel where we study social behaviorism, sung “Gold” in Steeplechase Archade, and lastly the all out “longest line” in Junior Kart Trak. We were so tired but fun, we did not endure the heat of the sun because everyone is smiling and enjoying.

Unfortunately, our team did not win. The green team took home the good-for-2-overnight-stay in Tagaytay (each member) prize as winner of the race. After the awarding we were given free time to enjoy the other rides. Winston, Mica, Jhelo, Jason, Bryan, Evan, and I skipped the Enchanté Summer Special: An Under the Sea Experience! to ride more rides and to just bond and take some pictures. It was fun! Really fun!
The fireworks display ended the day. The experience is simply magical, until now I can’t get over yet.

Call Anywhere in the Philippines at P 0.50? I can’t believe it, so I did my own research and I found out that according to Red Mobile Product Manager Darvin Sy Su, “Cellphones have been the defining mode of communication in the country because of its practicality and mobility”. “By expanding the scope of our services to 2G handsets, more consumers among the estimated 14 to 16 million Filipino mobile phone users will enjoy the competitive rates offered by our network.”

After that I was really convinced that Red Mobile offers the lowest rates in prepaid networks with red to red voice and video calls at 50 centavos per minute. And it does not compromise the quality of communication, and it is Better than unlimited because you may use it practically whenever you want to.

Now compatible on both 2G and 3G platforms, Red Mobile is starting to take shape as the future of mobile communications – value driven and fully powered.

Susan Boyle, 48, from West Lothian stunned the judges on Britain's Got Talent singing 'I Dreamed A Dream' from Les Miserables. Her YouTube video "I Dreamed a Dream" has now been watched over 11 million times in little more than four days.

See the full version Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent.

I've repeated this video more than 10 times and still get the heebies every time she starts singing. What a totally honest and pure reaction she got from everyone. I hope she comes to the Philippines.

What is amazing with her performance is that she collectively put that audience in their places by teaching them never judge a book by its cover. They deserve everything good and wonderful that her heart and voice will bring to them.

Truly, angels come in all shapes and sizes. Thank the Heavens for Susan. She has become an inspiration to all.

Actually, it’s Hell Week. I might not be able to blog until after finals week (end of March). I might have a few minutes for plurking though. But yeah, I’ve lots of papers to submit, projects and machine problems to complete, and plus the project presentation for correcting the Navier-Stokes equation this Saturday.

My work has its share also for giving me stress. Good thing I had some overtime hours from my working on previous project that I offset for vacation leave which I spent for reviewing and completing my requirements in school.

I hope this will be over soon. Hell week is hotter than summer. You'll feel the heat in UP during this period.

Toxic.

Some things I realized: UP did eat me alive this school year. At some point it stepped on my pride, deflated my ego, dampened my spirits and rained on my parade but you know what? It keeps me motivated for excellence!

"UP is a stress factory."
In UP, you will only have two states: either stressed or super stressed. But stress is healthy specially in graduate school.

Pray for me.

P.s. I hope that someone will provide me a web hosting for my future web projects.