Last June 27, 2011, Monday, the Earth had a close call with an asteroid named 2011MD. It was close that Earth’s gravity had an effect on it. Scientist say that it is about a size of a house (dunno how small or big that house is!!). It passed around the area of the Atlantic Ocean.. What made me concern was astronomers only discovered it 5 days before.. What if it is a big one, I hope they would discover it a lot sooner!!

If you have a Friendster account, I suggest you save or transfer you files ( photos, videos, notes, blogs,etc) to a cd or another social networking site.

Friendster announced that they will be deleting these files by the end of May 2011. THey admitted that they cannot compete with exsiting and more popular social networking sites like Facebook or Multiply.

They said that they will be evolving into a more entertainment / gaming kind of website.

Will gonna miss you Friendster (well, not really!)

Here’s one easier way of transferring pictures to your drive:

1. Login to your Friendster account and go to the photo album section of your account.

2. Browse each picture in one of your albums. This will make the pictures download faster and avoid missing photos.

3. On you Mozilla Firefox menu, click Tools >> Page Info or use the shortcut button by pressing Alt+t then Press I. This will open the Page Info window.

4. Click the Media Icon on top of the Page info window.

5. Look for Image Type files that starts with http://photos.friendster.com

6. Select all the images that you want to save. You can see the preview of each picture at the bottom of Page Info window.

7. Click Save As.

8. You will be prompted for a Directory to save the selected pictures. You can create a new folder by pressing the New Folder button.

9. Click Save.

10. You will see that your selected photos are being downloaded to your selected folder.

OR

1.  Open each photo then drag to your desktop.

Now you can use the Facebook, Multiply, or Photobucket upload pictures function and upload your newly exported pictures and your done!

Group Buying or Bulk Buying is a new online phenomenon that is spreading like wild fire. It makes it possible for clients to purchase products or services online with a big discount (usually 40 TO 90% off) from its original price. This “deal” would only push through if a certain number of purchases will be made. This is what you call buying power!

Usually, payments could be made via credit card, over the counter, paypal, or by bank deposits.

Here in the Philippines, a number of group buying sites are getting popular. Here are some which you would want to visit and tell me which ones you like:

Awesome, Buyanihan, Ensogo, Pakyaw, All Deals Asia, Deal Grocer, Deal Spot, Metro Deal, and Groupon.

But always be vigilant of yourself. Do not buy everything with a big discount, unless you really need it!

Happy Shopping!

Anyway, was on the foot of the mountain at around 3am, put on our head lamps and started trekking. At first, the trail was easy, but around 6am, the elevation started to peak and my thighs were getting stingy! Was so glad our guide offered to bring my bag (for a price, of course) so that my climb would be easier. After the elevation hike, the trail became a somewhat “takeshi’s castle”, where one wrong step and you’ll slide down a rocky n grassy cliff. Thanks to the strong winds, it became more challenging! After several 5 minute breaks, we reached the top.. I was so excited knowing that the hard climb was done and the trail was only going down from there. But……. i saw the cove where we were supposed to go and it was still kilometers away!!! $&#*%$&#

The hike going down was rocky but easier (especially without my bag!). We passed through grassy parts and portions that are burnt.  Passed by boulders and an area where we were supposed to cross a river (but it was dried up).  The last string was somewhat desert like- ashes from Mt. Piunatubo, and the sun was so high and hot!  The walk was kind of hard because we were wearing hiking shoes and it was difficult walking on sand, the sun was so hot, plus there were no trees to cover our walk.

We reached the beach, and the view was breathe taking, everything was worth it! Thought pine trees grow only in cool places, but there were pine trees on the beach! Pitched our tent and slept. For dinner, I thought a simple egg or instant food would be appropriate, but I was so wrong! Prepped and had sweet and sour fish plus ampalaya con carne with rice for dinner. Had a few drinks (my first time in more than a year now), then slept. For breakfast, had arroz a la cubana!

Swam the beach, the water was so clear and serene! Didn’t hike in going home, rode a banca instead, PHEW!

Loved the experience and can’t wait to have another one like it again!

The World Wildlife Federation designed a file format that cannot be printed. This is for the purpose of saving paper, which will eventually save trees.

This format is like the .pdf, except for being unprintable. The “.wwf” is only available on macs for now, but will be available on windows soon.

Quite interesting, but frankly, I prefer saving my files on printable formats, just in case.

A woman, after a door slamming incident declined the amputation or cutting off of her fingertip. Instead, she opt for a new procedure that will regenerate her damaged pinky. It cost her around Php80,000. Why not if you have the money, instead of loosing a body part!

Regeneration of fingers up to 16mm is now possible, but regrowing limbs maybe possible in the future, don’t you think?

My dad (soon to be a grandfather) showed this video to me last night. A very good inspiration for those you are going through trials. In whatever you do, just run your race.. doesn’t matter if you finish last, for as long as you finish it! Someone is there to support you!! Keep the faith! FIGHT!

Got so surprised when I came across this news about some Indian investor developed a touchscreen device which can let you browse the internet, read PDF files, do video conferencing, etc. Everything for less than Php 2000! If that isn’t cheap enough for you, they are trying to get the price lower to around Php 500-1000. A very cheap alternative from the now famous iPad!

Let us see if this can compete with the tablets found in Divisoria!

Ooooh feels so good listening to Luigi Sena! There’s also a touching story behind his life. He deserved his standing ovation!

This guy makes me laugh with his simple smile.