I read the news today, Oh boy!

A Beatles song "A Day In A Life" goes "I read the news today, oh boy...".

A month ago, I read a news from my company email, the subject reads "US Trip opportunity is in discussion for you". The message was intended to me and Jay (my team lead). So that was the buzzed all about when officemates pass by and would tell "Pasalubong". I was clueless when they're saying that and was not aware when I haven't read the email yet. After reading that email, first thing that come to me was "S***, I don't have a passport yet!" I was planning to have one but not this too early. So now, I really need to apply for it and was scheduled for appearance in DFA on March 20th.

Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...

It was almost 2 months ago but I think it was still good to share, as a proud father of my son Wacky. So why "Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...", first off the title was a ripped off from a Beatles filler song "Revolution 9" from the album "White Album" in which that track started with "Number 9...Number 9...Number 9..." then followed by various sounds and whatsover stuffs on the filler. Moving on, enough of that, this was not really about that filler, it's about my son!

Number 9, Wacky was among the outstanding student in his class "Junior Kinder - St. Anne", he's in number 9 spot in their 2nd grading period. He was not in the Top 12 during their 1st grading period and out of nowhere snicked in to top 9 in 2nd grading period. What's his motivation? Just promised him to buy his desired toy that time, the "HotWheels Wall Track" and a trip to Manila Ocean Park & Star City during the Holiday break. And guess what, it worked! He's in the 9th spot!

He was also been invited to join their school's Academic Contest held on January 24-27 (24th-English, 25th-Math, 26th-Science, 27th-Filipino). Somehow we got disappointed when he got elimated at the first round in all those contest, seems that he was not yet for contest like that. He really needs to work on his concentration on things that he have to do because he has tendency to be destructed so easily in people around him. Nevertheless, I'm still happy with what he had achieved so far, I did not really expect him to make it to the Top 12 in his class and was just asking him to do his best but he did exceed our expectations.

Right now they are already in their 4th grading period, I haven't seen the Outstanding Student list for the 3rd grading period yet because it wasn't posted yet in their bulletin board but we already saw his grades for the 3rd grading period. Sad to say that he dropped a notch in each of his 3 subjects (Filipino, English & Science) but amazingly raised 4 points in Math hence his 3rd grading period average actually increased a point and may lead him to stay on his current spot or rise a bit or even more. So it may not be just "Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...", we'll see... 2 months from now.

MyPhone T23 Duo WiFi Review

It's been a month since I purchased my mobile phone "MyPhone T23 Duo WiFi", a very cheap WiFi ready, touch screen mobile phone from a Filipino-made brand "MyPhone". Is it cheap because it was Filipino made? Is it because of its quality and functionalies? Well I don't care much about that, since this item saved me money from buying those expensive branded mobile phones or to make it short, I can't really afford to buy one of those branded mobile phones ranging from 10K and up!

I'm actually satisfied about this phone though I was not really expecting too much from it but it gives me satisfaction especially in listening to music and watching movies in it. I was actually surprised that this phone can read AVI files unlike other hitech mobile phones. Though I still need to convert my AVI files to MP4 format because I wanted to store more music and movie files in my 2GB miniSD. Oh by the way, miniSD is not yet included upon purchasing this phone. The music quality is great!

Taking pictures and capaturing videos is clear as it has 2MP camera in it. The WiFi is working well, I just don't know why staff from SM can't make it work when I was purchasing it first from them and I ended up buying it from its MyPhone booth within SM Sta. Rosa too. Anyway, I thought I need WiFi functionality but I ended up not really using it even if I am riding a bus with WiFi.

You can also install some Java games in it, downloaded some in UmNet.com but not all of the games I have installed worked, it also have pre-installed games but to they are all in Demo mode and it says you still need to download the whole game.
There are also widgets that you can place in the screen if you want to fill your screen with widget, I haven't really explored all the widget here and was just happy with "Sheep & Butterfly" widget in my screen to which this Sheep sleeps, eat, look around the screen and there is a butterfly that keeps passing by.

One thing that I don't like here is having a hard time typing text messages in QWERTY mode, I think the key was small or perhaps my finger was just big to fit each keys here. I always end up pressing "O" when I wanted to press "P", the "L" instead of the "backspace".

It was really a Filipino inspired phone because the back cover of this phone have Philippine map in it and have various design/color, mine was blue. It also have prayers in it which was a really Pinoy because we are commonly religious but actually I am not, hahaha.

Overall I am really satisfied in this item, it keeps me accompany when I am travelling to work and back to home. It actually gives me the opportunity to watch movies that I have downloaded that I haven't been watched in the house. I actually 1 movie per day using it, that is around 30-45 minutes riding bus going to work and back home. More importantly, it gives me something to do while waiting for my company shuttle to pick me if I missed it and have to wait for another 30 minutes in Forbes Park.

So how much does it cost, I bought it for only Php 2,888.00. Just don't know how much it cost now after a month, hehehe. Super affordable right? And I was able to support our own brand! Amen to that!

The b-sides concept

I thought of this blog's concept last year when I was thinking of something to blog about good stuffs about myself, my kids and everything that I may think worth blogging of like funny stuffs, hilarious incidents... some sort of those. I have wrote other blogs before but was never been active updating them. There are times that I got easily bored, lazy or would think that what I may write isn't the blog should contain of. I guess my concepts before weren't as solid as these one. (hopefully I can keep up on updating this one, hehehe)

I took the idea of b-sides from Eraserheads song "FruitCake" in which a line from this song goes something like "There are b-sides to every story, if you decide to have some fun...", hence this blog may contains fun and happy stuffs or things I can make fun or laugh about myself or others, everything that I may consider sharing or willing share to others.

People who knows me knows that I am not the type of person who shares too much about myself but I guess I can make this blog speak on behalf of me.

So continuing the lyrics of FruitCake goes "take a bite, it's alright!". So go ahead, take a bite, read along, laugh at my barok english and make fun out of me, hehehe. "Life is a piece of cake!"