movies

Movie Review: Snowpiercer

The movie was quite long at around 2hours of screen time. However, it didn't really give me much time to criticize it or even ponder at the next turn of events. The plot was very new, very unique. Imagine an entire humanity inside a very long, self sustaining train.

My 2014 Chinese New Year present

I just received a surprise this Chinese New Year dawn! feeling loved, feeling lucky!

Kung Hei Fat Choi 2014!

It's time to bring out the rice cake! Tikoy galore!

A positive social networking resolution

Don't 'collect' friends by the numbers.  Pick the good ones who influence you positively.

Veggies for dinner

I didn't make a resolution not to eat rice, but now into four days without rice makes me feel better about myself.  And, no more binge eating! I used to eat even right after breakfast.  Then, I tried switching my binge eating to protein to aid in fat

Crazy for smoothies

I highly recommend trying a pear & mango combination for your next smoothie!

Dancing with Nginx

So, you're on Nginx. That alone is an awesome move. As long as you're sure that everything you need is within Nginx, no need to load up on features that you won't use (from Apache). Some of the things important to keep in mind

Life's Irony

There's a big truth to this!  If there's something you'd like to change this year, try reading his observation and pick the ones you'd like to live your life doing.  I'm sure it will be life changing! George Carlin The

movies

The Living Proof

Have you seen the movie "The Help"? I'm listing this movie along with my all-time favorites.  It is truly inspiring. The feeling of being an invisible person but with a very strong personality.. is indescrivable; but this movie will open your eyes. Lyrics It's

photography

Building gifts?

I took this photo using SONY NEX F3.  They look like buildings wrapped in lights looking like gifts! These are in fact Rockwell buildings in Makati. If you're looking for a good camera, I highly recommend getting one from the SONY NEX brand line.  The NEX-F3 is particularly

I'm excited to breakup with you, 2013

Let's see. What has been 2013 for me like. January, as always was quite busy for me, preparing plans for the whole year, and cleaning up the past year's loose ends. February is eventful because my sister celebrated another happy birthday. We also ran the Condura

quotes to live by

Imagination

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts.

Our Lady of Manaoag

It's a wonderful gift to visit her again.  Thank you for all the blessings.

xmas

Merry Xmas, 2013

I created this video from several clips I took from Rockwell. My first masterpiece on video editing!

My Hello Kitty Bedroom Slippers

Look what I got this morning! 🙃 happy

Sorry, command-not-found has crashed!

As I was fixing sendmail in an AWS box, I encountered this error: Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug Please include the following information with the report: command-not-found version: 0.2.44 I went looking for a solution, and this

Take me I'll follow

I was doing some cleanup of old stuff, and I found this piece of paper from my elementary days.  This was our graduation song.  Somehow the lyrics reminds of true friendship, rare but very valuable. Tired of feeling all by myself Being so different from everyone else Somehow you knew

Anomalies

An anomaly is something that is out of the norms.  Google defines it as: I have always fascinated myself with the right and the wrong ever since I knew how to inquire.  What really defines something as right? What really defines something as norm? -- Mark Twain To most people,

Who do you prefer to be?

Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots but none of them are done by a person with integrity.

Fixing CURL issues on Maverick

I was doing a CURL to an external API which requires signing and the gem I used was doing it via CURL.  As I moved to a new admin account and did some more setting up, I found some secret underlying problems. When I ran my CURL calls, I end

Bullies and Beatitudes

I just learned today that a kind, wonderful friend is being bullied at work.  That's right.  Is the workplace now becoming the new nest for bullies?  Have they gone beyond schools?  Maybe its time to rethink our laws so that it extends protection to those who are in

How I went from Facebook to News

Let's face it. How many people do you know doesn't have a Facebook profile? But, do we really need it? Facebook is for personal, social networking needs. In a tame description, its for keeping in touch with friends and family. In a wild manner, its for

So, be yourself

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.John W. Gardner Antes de elegir entre camisetas históricas de fútbol, merece la pena comprobar el uso previsto entre colección, exposición y uso diario. La decisión queda mejor respaldada al comprobar el estado indicado y la

Where's the share?

Ever wondered how you can get the shares made for your url?  Here's a ruby library that might just save and put some color to your day! require 'open-uri' module SocialUtils def self.get_facebook_shares(url) f = open("http://graph.facebook.com/?id=#{url}

Closing the OpenSSL problem

So, you've fixed your initial deploy setup.  Not yet a final hurrah? You're running an ROR-Paperclip-S3 setup.  Works fine locally, but not in production.  Server boots, pages do load up, but no love for assets?! OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError (SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3