remoteworld

ayung restaurant sa good earth emporium sa sta. cruz, circa 70's ma mon luk, hong ning What I miss from them was the mami, siopao, pancit canton.....then there was this cheeky waiter who hides the coin change under the receipt. It was a trip how they scrouge tips!!!!

rasa singapura at scout ybardolaza st. it's owned by a singaporean cook named eddie ong. it used to be a favorite hangout of presidents, pba players, movie celebrities, etc.

due to a lawsuit, it transferred to rotary club in roces avenue, then it went back to ybardolaza (infront of its old site), then i lost track of it. i hope it still exists. their miki sate beef, char kway teoh and pot chicken were tops

this is not the same as the new rasa singapura in megamall and araneta center

try nyo venezia and avenrose... maganda sya talaga

everytime i'm in legaspi i always look for a new hotel to try. somehow i always end up staying in venezia. hahaha.

it's comforting to know venezia's guests are mixed foreign and local tourists. maybe venezia knows how to handle a hostage crisis. hehehe

during breakfast inside their cafe, you can tell the foreigners are carrying blankets inside those big backpacks, meaning, they'll probably sleep overnight inside one of the sinuous channels in hoyop-hoyopan cave (favorite of europeans) or somewhere near mayon volcano (favorite of americans).

my main complaint of hoyop-hoyopan is the presence (non-existent 4 years ago) of electric lights inside. the trips inside the dark cave were more thrilling with only lamps and flashlights to go.

as for the cagsawa ruins (as well as the hilltop daraga church), gone are the postcard-perfect shots. thanks to the proliferating souvenir stalls that will now become part of your pictures when you shot those scenic spots. shouldn't there be a law prohibiting such profanity? these very stalls are the ones that will lessen the number of tourists going to those places.

governor jopoc and mayor lomex32, i'll settle for a strict zoning law

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Another thing I really didn't like about what he said last night was his larger concern about media suppression.

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there was this reporter who delivered the blow-by-blow account in 'die hard 1', it's a small wonder bruce willis socked the reporter as soon as he saw him.

chopsticks express the best siomai kaso it's closed na tagal na din.

emperor at wilson st.

hongkong chef at macapagal hk sun plaza

david's tea house in tomas morato

le ching masarap yung chilli garlic oil matching the siomai..

hap chang the original malate

king bee, e. rodriguez

mini laptops with multi touch screen - What brand do you recommend? I saw a lenovo a few weeks ago, medyo mahal - about P30,000

Are there cheaper alternatives? Thanks.

asus has its own tablet version. i think the price is about 23k(?). it has a built-in pen for a more 'precise' touch control

however, for both brands you need to install the win7 premium or ultimate to get the full benefits of their touchscreens.

sidenote: the touchpad of lenovo is so small

if you're planning a 2-day weekend trip around cebu, i suggest the following:

from the airport, your group may go to lapu-lapu shrine, beside it is sutokil (shoot to k*ll or sugba-t'ola-kilawin, t'ola is short for tinola) where you may have your lunch. then you may go hotel hopping in mactan before proceeding to maribago blue waters for a swim in their postcard-perfect lagoon. by 5pm, i suggest your group take the climb up going to tops, where you'll see cebu city (and mactan) down below. as night falls, the buidling lights are being turned on one by one. and more often than not, you'll experience being inside a cloud in tops. night life in cebu is aplenty: from sleazy mandaue clubs to slick comedy bars.

on the following morning, go picture-taking at heritage. beside it is a generations-old museum-like house which should you should indulge. several blocks away is the mactan's cross (better get your fisheye lens ready) and church of santo niño, then it's off to guitar-making alley and fort san pedro (oldest fort in the philippines). lastly, shop at ayala cebu, where in my opinion has more beautiful chicks per square kilometer than anywhere else in the country

the EMPANADANG ILOKANO at Scout Tuazon St. near corner Roces Ave. is open from 10am to 10pm. it's a small wonder why their ONLY 2 tables are always full. the small kitchen is really geared towards 'take-out' orders.

all empanadas are giant sizes: one is enough to fill a meal. their 'special', priced 50 bucks, consists of crispy (albeit a little oily) wrapper, egg, finely chopped vigan longganisa, munggo beans, finely sliced cabbage and spices. their 'double' contains 2 eggs and 2 longganisas and priced at 75 or 85 pesos

empanadas for pulutan? why not, they taste real yummy especially when each bite is followed by a gulp of cold, cold beer

may branch sila sa likod ng quezon city hall. sarado na ba yun?

 

miss ko na ang Cindy's.

there used to be more than 100 cindy's. it's owned by astrovision and banko san juan, with hq at pangasinan.

kung walang meat, may protein galing sa eggs, sa milk, soya, fish...

pero nothing beats protein from lean red meat...

i agree, tsaka parang nababawasan ang aggressiveness and optimism pag puro gulay. i should know, i'd been in and out of vege-diet for years. nababawasan pagiging go-getter

Cellphone, wallet, watch, license and house keys

dual-sim cellphone,

camera

wallet with cards

keys

ipod touch or gps unit

When I eat at restaurants I'm very meticulous with their softdrink straws. That is why when I get one or they gave me a straw I always see to it that the inside is clean otherwise I won't use it at all. Some of the restaurants with dirty straws are:

 

Kenny Rogers Megamall

 

Kenny Rogers Greenhills

 

Wendy's Shopwise Cubao

 

Tokyo Tokyo Alimall

i read in an article somewhere advising not to use straws, there are plastic 'dusts' that will be carried on inside your body. don't drink from plastic cups either.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Nokia_N900-1.jpg/788px-Nokia_N900-1.jpg

 

just bought 1, but im having a hard time getting familiar with it, any suggestions or comment would be highly appreciated

ang tindi mo tsong, di nagpapahuli sa uso. hehehe.

i've read the reviews and overall it's being lauded as a great phone. pero how's the keypad, masakit ba fingerin?

like any toy, the excitement always comes off after a month imo, pero dahil lang siguro matanda na ako.

KINABUCHS, Rizal Avenue, Puerto Princesa

i was informed of this place by my customers soon after we left our afternoon meeting. this is where foreign tourists

flock to taste the exotic dishes of crocodiles and woodworms, both abundant in palawan's wildlife.

i can understand why others find kinabuchs hard to locate (look at their sign and try to make out the name)

by the way, they are open only from 5pm to 2am (in puerto princesa, all ktv's, bars, etc stop serving alcholic

drinks at 2am. maybe the mayor thinks drunkards in the street will scare off the tourists. another advantage:

less marital fights!)

looking at their menu, it really takes a leap of faith to order out-of-the-ordinary dishes. suppose they have bad aftertaste that lingers for weeks?

suppose it does harm to your body? but i'm a sucker for adventure so i ordered a plate of croc meat and a plate of live worms. alas, i was told the

tourists beat me to it, the worms (called tamilok) are out of stock and i've to settle with the 'croc adobado'. however, the next table was enjoying

the 'worms' raw by dipping the headless delicacy in vinegar before biting them and sipping their beers. hmp, how i wish i were in their place.

then came my order: the 'croc adobado' was not a disappointment at all, the meat was tender and light sauce was made of garlic,

onions and pepper were just thinly mixed to make the taste of the crocodile dominate. why, i even found someone

in puerto princesa who shared the same opinion. hmm, yummy!

BALINSASAYAW, Rizal Avenue, Puerto Prinsesa:

this place is a 3-minute ride from the airport if your tricycle (like zamboanga, they have no taxis there)turns right

balinsasayaw means 'nest of a certain species of bird' and a bowl costs 350 bucks

it was a rip-off, it tastes just like a generic nido soup. but since it's my palawan host who's paying

and he thought i'd be enjoying its taste, i did not raise my complaint. i digged in my spoon and could

count the thin strands of what they call 'nest'. the egg whites was simply overpowering in sight and taste.

later i confronted the headwaiter but was told the nest was really tasteless but nutricious to our health.

i supposed one can't argue with that canned explanation, but i felt nasty inside

i was not disappointed with the 'binakol na manok' (it was cooked like a chicken tinola except buko replaces

the papaya slices). the coconut flesh was a bit sweet and soft, not salty compared to run-of-the-mill tinolas

the rest of the orders were garlic shrimp (nothing extraordinary, easy to peel off the skin, just a few drops of

butter were added) and 'balinsasayaw fried rice' (but this time i did not bother anymore to check its 'nesty' taste)

wacom fun and touch tablet. takes getting used to, after all, i'm a 'mouse person'. anyway, it's fun using it until i used autodesk's autosketch pro. the cursor is 3" 45-degrees to the left. i must admit it's quite sensitive -- hovering on top of it drags some icons around, very unnerving to a guy who's been using a tablet for 20 years

If you're in QC, there's a Wanchai in Morato

there's no more wanchai in morato. the owner replaced it with yakimix (now, at the second floor), an eat-all-you-can joint

For long travels I prefer the backpack. Can pack a lot in it, especially for the occasional overseas trip.

 

For the daily commute though, the shoulder bag is better, especially if you have to ride the MRT.

10 years ago when notebooks used to cost 100k or more, it's 'wise' to use a plain-looking bag for it. now that notebooks are passe and the prices have dropped tremendously, putting them in fashionable bags is in. after all, part of the reason why you bought that laptop is 'para i-porma', di ba? well, if you plan to bring in the charger as well, better buy a bag with extra pocket for it. but if your intention is limited to flaunting it, better leave the charger home

it's always practical to use a backpack (as long as its sleeves inside are adequate to protect your laptop), especially in travels. the charger and wires that go with it will add excess baggage and bulk in your designer shoulder bag.

I'm also interested in buying one of these phones specifically the Torque DQ500.

San sa tutuban yung mura ang mga ganitong phones bro?

 

I want to get one because I don't want to bring two phones. Okay pa yung mga features niya for the price

me torque kiosk sa cyberzone, megamall. i'm sure they'll handle the warranty issues better

qt23 ng myphone just got 1 ok naman pag nasira sa sony service center ang bagsak hehehe

the usual complaint on myphone is the charger. the tip is VERY thin and fragile. and since the unit's warranty is limited only to the phone (and not the charger) you'll end up buying a lot of chargers.

compared to cherry mobile, myphone's batteries have to be charged more often. also, the latter's plastic parts do not last long: mine developed cracks in the keypad in 2 months, then those cracks worsen -- the cracked keys fell off.

yet i bought again a new myphone to replace my cherry mobile (my only complaint with cherry is its faint ringtones, i keep missing calls and messages -- a no-no for a cellphone). this time i got a myphone B21 Duo, the Pinoy Phone.

i'm back to myphone (B21 Duo) after being fed up with cherry mobile's teeny weeny sound. moreover, cherry unit's red button conked out after a mere 2 months of use

a client paid part of his payables with a brand new ipod touch 32gig.

it rocks coz if this toy will take care of my entertainment and if my samsung camera for all my picture taking, that means i don't need to upgrade my cellphone every now and then. heck, i can even buy the CHEAPEST phone without guilt!

it's just day 1 so i loaded it with videos, applications (kindle + books, motion-sensor based maze games, autodesk sketchbook, astronomy programs, diet and exercise, to-do productivity programs, etc). man, with so many FREE apple apps and games, what more can you ask? this is HEAVEN! right now i'm watching math videos (free and courtesy of itunes university of course)

HEAVEN? no, it's one step short. it doesn't have a gps antenna!!! guys, don't buy maps from ITUNES Store is selling. if you are in a wifi zone, tap on MAPS, bring the cursor to metro manila and you'll see the metro manila map is as complete as you want!

please give exact address of this place ... i'm sure the die-hards won't mind if we call some of those 'ulam' as 'pulutan'

 

i was in bicol (camarines norte, camarines sur and albay) last holy week for a big reunion. and guess what? it was also a reunion with bicol 'pulutans'.

 

kinunot tops the list of my bicol favorites. it's shredded flesh of hammerhead sharks or stingrays (both are endangered and thus, there's a law that forbids catching these species but the bicolanos still cook them non-stop. after all, once shredded, how can you distinguish them from other fish? hehehe). the stingray flesh is not as white as the sharks' and the latter tastes a level better. both were spiked with sili and some 'gata' and both hard are to describe until you eat them. you need cold beer to douse the hotness

 

dinuguan is the same as dinuguan in Pancit Malabon (near National Bookstore, Scout Borromeo) except the bicolano variant has 'gata'. best eaten when HOT. goes well with hard drinks or beer

'kinunot' (stingray not hammerhead) and other bicolano dishes are available from 60 pesos and up at sm marikina supermarket every weekend. their taste are below my expectations but good enough

Bosch Digital Laser Rangefinder Kit

and

DeWalt Heavy-Duty LaserChalkline Self-Leveling Line Laser

para walang patsamba-tsamba!

I actually saw a "static stylus pen" being sold that says it works for the iPhone/iPod touch... maybe it will also work for the iPad?

if you're referring to the pogo stylus, i believe its tip is kinda special

we use autodesk sketchbook installed in my daughter's itouch and also in our desktop (with wacom tablet). sketching with your finger on a small screen takes a lot of time and effort, not fun at all. you'll be using the eraser tool a LOT. sketch programs like this are welcome applications in i-pad and lenovo s10-3t. in fact, i think i-pad and lenovo tablet are great for sketchers. but both are incapable for painting and drawing programs (corel painter and photoshop) that require pressure sensitivity. i want to see the day we can use an i-pad or any tablet pc for by directly drawing on the screen. that's the reason i was so curious about i-pad, i thought its screen is pressure-sensitive for stylus. alas, it's not meant for stylus. anyway, in a couple of years' time, who knows, maybe its screen would have improved by leaps and bounds. but for the moment, i'm already considering buying one -- konting improvement na lang. hehehe