Crimson Crusader

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2009-04-01T15:37:00.001+08:00

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2009-04-01T15:36:00.003+08:00

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2009-04-01T15:36:00.001+08:00

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2009-04-01T15:27:00.001+08:00

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2009-04-01T15:23:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 13:02 Image018

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2009-04-01T15:22:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 13:01 033120091235

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2009-04-01T15:05:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 13:01 033020091219

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2009-04-01T14:39:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 12:59 032820091185

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2009-04-01T14:34:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 12:58 032820091177

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2009-04-01T14:03:00.001+08:00

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Wed 04-01-2009 12:54 032820091176

Gg4

2009-04-01T13:50:00.001+08:00

Gg4, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 04-01-2009 12:54 032820091174

Gg3

2009-04-01T13:43:00.001+08:00

Gg3, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 04-01-2009 12:51 032820091172

Gg2

2009-04-01T13:41:00.001+08:00

Gg2, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 04-01-2009 12:48 032820091171

Gg1

2009-04-01T13:38:00.001+08:00

Gg1, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 04-01-2009 12:47 032820091170

Look oh, paha.

2009-02-15T15:26:00.001+08:00

Look oh, paha., originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 02-11-2009 19:46 pahanga pa.

After the operation

2009-02-15T15:24:00.001+08:00

After the operation, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Wed 02-11-2009 19:46 - in bed

Kulitan Portion #2

2008-12-31T02:37:00.001+08:00

Kulitan Portion #2, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

9:04 PM Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Pacute ulit si Bupep

Kulitan Portion #2

2008-12-31T02:29:00.001+08:00

Kulitan Portion #2, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

9:04 PM Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Pacute ulit si Bupep

Kulitan Portion #1

2008-12-31T02:25:00.001+08:00

Kulitan Portion #1, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

9:02 PM Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Pacute si Bupep

Haller

2008-12-30T19:43:00.001+08:00

Haller, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

3:45 PM Monday, December 29, 2008 Lazy Day

Rider boy

2008-12-28T23:25:00.001+08:00

Rider boy, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

5:35 PM Sunday, December 28, 2008 Go Tonyboy!!!

Senior & Junior

2008-12-28T16:27:00.001+08:00

Senior & Junior, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

5:28 PM Friday, December 26, 2008Ton laki at Ton le-et

Pooh Bears

2008-12-28T16:24:00.001+08:00

Pooh Bears, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

8:00 PM Thursday, December 25, 2008Pooh and PoohPep?

White Christmas ulit

2008-12-28T14:16:00.001+08:00

White Christmas ulit, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

7:58 PM Thursday, December 25, 2008 Nok twa naman dyan

White Christmas Daw

2008-12-28T13:57:00.001+08:00

White Christmas Daw, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

7:58 PM Thursday, December 25, 2008 Merry Christmas

As tall as a palm tree

2008-12-28T13:52:00.001+08:00

As tall as a palm tree, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

3:03 PM Saturday, December 20, 2008 Palalakihin kita.

Work mode.

2008-12-23T22:56:00.001+08:00

Work mode., originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Tue 23/12/2008 22:23 Sleepy, darn code work! Hehe.

Honor Society Member at last.

2008-12-15T19:09:00.001+08:00

Honor Society Member at last., originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Mon 15/12/2008 09:19 Honor student recognition. Congrats nok! At last, sa third year, pumasok din... Kaya naman eh, pasaway lang. Hehe.

Diving with no H2O

2008-12-14T21:41:00.001+08:00

Diving with no H2O, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sun 14/12/2008 21:33 wawa naman

Sleepy pa

2008-12-14T06:53:00.001+08:00

Sleepy pa, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sun 14/12/2008 06:04 Pepep

Cool Military Jeep

2008-12-13T20:19:00.001+08:00

Cool Military Jeep, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:49 Carshow

Honda Whoa!

2008-12-13T20:15:00.001+08:00

Honda Whoa!, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:50 Carshow

Bili tayo fishball

2008-12-13T20:13:00.001+08:00

Bili tayo fishball, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:59 At the carshow

Mini Coopahs

2008-12-13T20:09:00.001+08:00

Mini Coopahs, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:55

Nice sound setup

2008-12-13T20:07:00.001+08:00

Nice sound setup, originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:54 Carshow

Naks, the lights.

2008-12-13T20:05:00.001+08:00

Naks, the lights., originally uploaded by I am Choi.

Sat 13/12/2008 17:46 Motorshow

Motorcycle Myths and Misconceptions

2006-11-13T14:32:00.000+08:00

Just finished reading an interesting article in which I totally agree with the author's point of view (though you may see me as being biased due to the fact that I love my bikes). Still, you cannot deny the fact that many non-bikers and cagers are guilty of concieving wrong impressions against my favorite 2-wheeled mode of transportation.

Be informed on which of the things you know about riding motorcycles are facts, and which are pure fiction.

Read on and be a convert.

Earthquakes!!!

2006-10-22T12:00:00.000+08:00

Wow, we had earthquakes for like 2 days in a row now, the with the last one felt very early today, between 3 to 4 am in the morning. I checked the USGS Earthquake hazards program by the US, a website displaying earthquakes around the world (URL was given to me by my friend Steven. Thanks dude!), and found the epicenters of all 5 recorded earthquakes we experienced.

Here's the link to the infos to each of the individual earthquakes we felt:

Magnitude 5.8 - MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
Magnitude 5.7 - MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
Magnitude 5.7 - MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
Magnitude 5.5 - MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
Magnitude 4.5 - LUZON, PHILIPPINES

Hope no dormant volcano is stirring up from its slumber, waiting to unleash its fury once again into this poor city. Guess its my wild imagination that's just stirring up instead. You would feel the same though if you grew up and live in a place surrounded by green mountains that used to be active volcanoes. God Bless America (err, I mean Philippines... hehehe). God bless us Filipinos.

Hurrah for Paypal!

2006-10-12T17:31:00.000+08:00

Good news for all Philippine based online citizen. You can now create you account in Paypal using your Philippine address. Although a Philippine-based account is still limited in terms of functionality, it still is a good start. All hard work of those fellow filipinos who strived to make Paypal notice us is now bearing fruit, especially Paypal4PH.com.

Just created my Home-based Paypal account now. Hope we can tie-up our local paypal account with our local bank very soon.

Python and .NET

2006-10-09T21:25:00.000+08:00

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language which runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Amiga, Palm OS etc. It is becoming a favorite language by programmers due to it's portability and fast performance. It doesn't matter if your a seasoned programmer, or just started creating your first "Hello World!" program. You can learn the language in just a few days. It's really very easy to install and offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools.

I started dabbling with Python a few years ago, creating quick solutions and a few libraries for my personal software needs. I was then given an opportunity to be a part of a web-based software development using C# and .NET Framework. Although I still tried creating small and quick solutions in Python, the .NET project I am working on prevented me from fully integrating Python into my application. Don't get me wrong, I really love C#. But Python has somehow captured my fancy.

Then came Google. I was amazed to learn that the Python was a major powerhouse behind the company's powerful applications. I was more amazed in learning that Python played an important role in the development of MMORPG's like Eve Online, my favorite Civilization 4, and even Star Wars: Episode II.

Acting on the excitement building up in me, I started looking back again at Python and started researching on ways how I may be able to implement it on the .NET Framework and be able to have it interoperate with my existing C# applications.

My research narrowed down to two solutions, IronPython and Python for .NET. It is really a good thing to know .NET programmers and even Microsoft people are now taking notice of the Python language's capability.

Unlike the Python for .NET package which "does not produce managed code (IL) from Python code", IronPython does enable you to compile your program into bytecode (IL). It makes .NET libraries available to your Python program, and even extend your existing Python applications by importing libraries and assemblies in .NET.

In terms of execution speed, benchmarks conducted on IronPython produced positive results.

The future of running Python on CLR looks promising. Can't wait to try my hands on this new found toy.

Weathering Typhoon "Milenyo"

2006-09-29T14:37:00.000+08:00

The Storm Proper

I woke up last Thursday from the sound of the wind banging on my galvanized roof. The storm is really on it's full rage. I was informed last night when I arrived home that we will be experiencing storm signal no. 2, but something feels not right. The winds tells me this is not an ordinary storm.

We stayed inside my house the early part of the day, with me undecided if I should leave for makati or just stay inside home. I can't even open my doors or windows because of the strong winds which I reckoned to be around 100 to 130kph , exactly the same feeling of the wind on my face which I get when I'm travelling on my bike at the same speed. This can't be signal no. 2, so I decided to stay home.

I can't open the tv for the news, I can't listen to any radio station, can't even turn my computer on and go online. We lost power early morning. Another precautionary move from Meralco to prevent any electrical disaster from happening. They usually turn off the electricity when there are heavy rains.

I decided to go out when I learned that 3 of our trees was uprooted, with one of the tree getting entangled in the process with my electrical line, telephone and cable lines, snapping all three (3) of them in the process.

I had to be a electrician, telephone lineman, and a woodcutter all at the same time to clear off this mess, or at least just some of it.

The Aftermath

The strong winds stopped later in the afternoon with my house and my parent's house still standing proud. We are still blessed, a neighbor just a few blocks away from our place lost her entire house when it collapsed. Although it was really a sad sight to see our favorite place for siesta will not be the same again.

I walked around our compound to check the condition around. Galvanized sheets lying around.

Our rambutan and mango trees uprooted and was thrown like 2-3 meters from the place where it was originally rooted. A sad sight, these trees always bears fruits for us for the last 8-10 years

I had the chance to survey the rest of the city later in the afternoon and saw the sad condition the city was in. The city's favorite Mango tree which stands proud in the middle of the city plaza was battered.

A lot of neon signs was either blown, damaged or hanging on the electric post or electic wires.
McDonalds "golden arches" sign on top of a steel post which stands like 20 - 30 feet up high fell down on one of the store below.

Jollibee's sign fell down too, falling down on a car but was held suspended by electical wires, which saved the car and it's passenger from critical damage (the car was moved when I took the picture and can be seen on the leftmost part of the image, with a guy standing in white shirt).

With the current state the city was in and the damaged that the storm made, I assume power won't be back up for another 2 to 3 days. Sigh....

Still, it still feels good to be alive. And just like what Noah saw after the "Great Flood", a rainbow appeared after the storm. A reminder of God's promise to never again destroy the world by flood and to remind us of how powerful God is.

Count all your blessings!

Web 2.0

2006-09-21T22:16:00.000+08:00

Web 2.0... What is it? What's up with all the hype. Why is it that almost everyone I talked to online (at least the geeks, hehe) are talking bout it?

Social-networking(Friendster, myspace, etc.) , blogging, phlogging, wikis. These are just some of the samples that fall under Web 2.0.

The use of the world wide web is drastically moving towards online interaction and social networking, in which contents are dynamically created and contributed by it's users. Traditional static websites is slowly getting less attention if not becoming extinct. User-dependent web portals are generating more traffic, thus making Google Adsense a common buzzword by bloggers.

People always wants to interact. Thats probably the main reason why interactive learning is more successful than reading static, and boring texts on a book. People wants to be able to speak and be heard, to contribute and be part of a social circle. To collaborate and work with other people. To be in control of particular online project and owning data. These are some (if not all) of the qualities of a Web 2.0 application.

It seems that this time, the web is has been given a new life. Web 2.0 is on the brink of becoming a gigantic tidal wave (or so I hope).

Time to bring out the old surfboard and start riding the wave. Hang loose brah!

San Pablo City Councilor Assaults Mediaman

2006-09-13T07:22:00.001+08:00

Councilor Edgardo "Egay" Adajar again???
Adajar was also in the news about a year ago when he went into a brawl with another city councilor while in session. Well this time, he was caught in this video assaulting a local media person, so there's no denying for him.

Honestly, I did respect him (Adajar) once, when I was an active president/officer of the San Pablo City iCafe Owners Association (SPCICOA). He was one of the active politician who is helping the association to fight off a proposed local bill/resolution that will hinder the growth of the iCafe sector since the bill was implying that the iCafe business is synonymous to gambling, video games and other forms of bad vices. Absurd! I guess the person who thought about that bill is still back in the nintendo family computer or atari days. He should get himself exposed more to the modern day computer. The local bill was still passed but is now under a more better terms.

Well, anyway, back to Councilor Adajar. Thats one vote less from me for him this coming election (and to think I did voted for him last election).

I am more interested in IT development, new technologies, breakthroughs and useful links, but this is one of the rare ocassions that politics and their moro-moro stunts amuse me. See the video and decide for yourself.

Paypal for PH

2006-09-11T23:47:00.001+08:00

I am letting everyone know that as of now, I am fully supporting Paypal for the Philippines. I have signed up and have given my digital signature in hopes that the initiative will bring paypal to our country.

There are a lot of untapped potentials and opportunities for our local manpower waiting to be unleased if this pushes through (and hopefully, it will).

I have been waiting for Paypal to be available here in our country for the last 3 years. I have a paypal account but am using a US address of one of my friends in Florida. Problem is, my account got frozen when I tried to access it a couple of times (the IP was tracked and blocked my account when it was traced to be coming from outside the US)... sigh!

Well, the sooner the better. There will be a lot of grounds to cover I know, such as the finance and banking sector plus the current state of our government. But this movement will hopefully this will be a good start.

More updates on the petition later. Ciao!

Flash webcam app

2006-08-09T13:31:00.001+08:00

Been trying to make the artist cam work and finally succeded after 3 days, whew. Trouble shooting something that you never developed in the first place is really a pain in the arse. Literally, since I have to sit in from of my glowing monitor the whole day. Ouch! my eyes hurt. Not to mention the growing spare tire around my waist. Hardiharhar!

Krugle.com

2006-08-07T15:18:00.001+08:00

Developer? Programmer? A technical person? I think you will find Krugle.com a valuable addition to your growing list of online resources. I recommend checking it out. They claim they are not an affiliate of Google.

I like the way they tabbed the results that you get when searching for codes, technotes and projects. Another one to add to my favorite link.

TipidPC.com

2006-07-19T14:38:00.001+08:00

Been trying for days to get in my account but to no avail. Darn yahoo is blocking any emails coming from the site (i guess a lot of spams or maybe a violation has been done using that domain, reason for it to be listed on the blocked domains).

Sigh... I have to create a new account using hotmail.

The Wayback Machine

2006-07-09T19:35:00.001+08:00

Say hello to old favorite websites that you thought went down permanently.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

A friend showed me this website and I immediately typed in URL(s) of long lost websites I can think of... Whoa!!!

This is really cool! Even old websites I created from way back 1999 was there. Really cool. Can't really express how happy I am, since now I can really prove that these sites that I developed before (and is now extinct as I say) used to exist.

Thanks to my friend Steven. :)

Country of Fraud

2006-07-08T08:22:00.004+08:00

I came upon a website that has lots of DNS tools. A very handy site when testing your server. http://www.dnsstuff.com

I tried the tools and was happy with the results it was giving, until I tested the "City from IP" tool that uses IP to find city and location. I was curious whether the results would give me my location so I used my static IP and got this result:

IP: 210.213.xxx.xx
Country: Philippines
City: Unknown
Country Code: PH
Merchant Note: Country may have high rate of fraud [1]
Currency: PHP [Philippines Pesos]
Private IP? No
Known Proxy? No

What??? high rate of fraud? Darn! and to think I live in this country. I cannot believe what I saw so I tested another one of the tools the site have, "IP Information". Got this result:
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IP address: 210.213.xxx.xx
Reverse DNS: 210.213.xxx.xx.pldt.net.
Reverse DNS authenticity: [Could be forged: hostname 210.213.xxx.xx.pldt.net. does not exist]
ASN: 9299
ASN Name: IPG-AS-AP (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company)IP range connectivity: 1
Registrar (per ASN): APNIC
Country (per IP registrar): PH [Philippines]
Country Currency: PHP [Philippines Pesos]
Country IP Range: 210.213.64.0 to 210.213.127.255
Country fraud profile: High
City (per outside source): Unknown
Private (internal) IP? NoIP address registrar: whois.apnic.net
Known Proxy? No
Link for WHOIS: 210.213.122.74

DANG! Fraud profile on all time "High". Saddening, very saddening to see that the country I live in is considered a place where fraud is rampant.

Tell me, how about the US??? I bet not...

To leave, or not to leave

2006-07-08T07:20:00.001+08:00

Another Saturday morning, another meeting. Woke up early, and feeling ok, but not really refreshed. I am stressed out. Should I go to the meeting or not? Sigh...

If only I could hide my head under a pillow and wish everything will just take care of itself. Augh!

Snow White and the 7 dwarves. All that the 7 dwarves do is work, work, work. Sigh :~(

In my own version, there is actually an 8th dwarf, me. Darn, I feel like a zombie now. Time to unwind...

Sleep Deprived

2006-07-07T11:31:00.002+08:00

Ouch!!! my head is aching today when I woke up. I guess my work is taking it's toll on my body. Augh! I need to get more sleep I think. I feel my head is about to split in two. Signing off now... ta-ta...

My Virtual World

2006-07-06T14:39:00.001+08:00

Welcome to the virtual world. A place I where I spend almost 80% of my time everyday. This is where I choose to work, to play, communicate, to get news, learn and entertain myself. A world where I can be anyone I chose, perform impossible feats, develop new ideas, and be equal with corporate giants.

It is also a place where I can easily be kicked out with just one pull of the power cord or if my bills are not payed. Sigh... Welcome to the real world!