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Away from home

I’ve been having a blast for the most part from our holiday trip to the US. I actually started posting pics in the gallery… which is a work in progress.

The only bummer in this trip is that it’s so hard for me to get an internet connection. My aunt and uncle’s house only has one PC which can connect, and it has a couple of issues:

  • It connects via dial-up (the MPB doesn’t have a dial up adapter)
  • It had a resolution of 640×480
  • It had 16 colors (yes, 16 colors, not 16-bit color)

  • Its OS is Windows 98

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During the weekend

Everyone knows that a lot of things happened during the weekend. The whole Super Typhoon Reming issue was enough to keep everyone busy.

Palawan

We were slated to have a concert in Culion, Palawan, and Jowi, Jampao and I went ahead of the group… about a day before – this was before Reming was even a problem.

The group was scheduled to leave on a Friday. Sure enough, their flight was cancelled – and tension rose for the three of us in Culion (well, actually only Jowi was stressed since she was the point person for this, Jamps and I were just taking it easy). Would there be a possibility that the group not make it at all?

One joke we had was actually pulling off the concert with only three of us – after all we had a guy, a girl, and a pianist. So if we switched repertoires to all solos it would’ve been quite feasible. Still, nakakahiya sa mga organizers, since they booked and paid for everything – the prospect of a half-assed performance [with only about a fifth of the members] wasn’t an option.

Fortunately God as usual, seemed to be on BP’s side, and the rest of the group was able to reach arrive the next day, and everything fell into place afterwards.

Now I’m back and I have a fever… I’m hoping it’s just due to fatigue over the weekend, and not symptomatic of more a serious illness (e.g. Malaria, Dengue, etc.)

No regrets though, we had a blast – and have pictures to prove it! Read More

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Hello PSN listeners!

NOTICE

If you’re reading this post anytime after November 2006;
be sure to check out the music page in case new
songs have become available.
Most of the songs listed below have been updated/re-made.

I’d like to greet all the Project Studio Network Podcast listeners out there.

For all other people that have been reading this blog, remember that post I made which was in preparation for something? Well this is it!

I have been featured as an… er… “featured artist” in one of the Podcasts I love listening to. And it’s a very humbling [and terrifying!] experience to have a segment in a show which also had interviewed industry heavyweights such as Grammy Award Winning sound engineer Charles Dye among others.

For the PSN listeners out there, think of this post as a “supplemental” reading to the interview. I was really nervous – and in case you didn’t know, my thoughts can really go all over the place when nervous. Big Al promised to make me sound smarter than I really did, but just in case he didn’t have enough material to salvage, this post should set things straight. Read More

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Videos from [my] MacBook Pro sessions

Here are real-world examples of how the new MBPs perform. The purpose of the videos isn’t so much as to show how much faster (or slower) it may be compared to other systems – but to ease Apple users’ minds should they be considering an upgrade.

First I’d like to apologize for the horrible video quality. I was using an external iSight which had a hard time focusing (it would switch focus every few seconds, so I had to kill the auto-focus) The movie was captured using a small resolution setting so YouTube then blew it up… and ergo the blurriness.

Below, you will find a blow-by-blow recap of what I was doing in each video. Read More