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"Kwaderno ni Kiko" is my silent way to shout my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. As you read along this humble blog, get to know and learn more about me at "Kwaderno ni Kiko".
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Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts

Jul 24, 2011

Weekend Tech Notes

I just want to inform my blog readers and followers; specially those who are asking me about tablet PC specs that I've decided to focus more tech news and reviews; that is why I'm inviting everyone to my new tech blog: Weekend Tech Notes. I already made a Facebook Fanpage and Twitter account there. I'll update the blog every weekend (since it is my only free time to write some blogpost.); so keep connected for the latest updates on tech news and gadgets.

For those who leave some questions on my popular blogpost; aPad (iPad Clone) Buyers' Guide; don't worry because I made a special category for that: Readers's Corner. Here, all the questions asked by my readers will be answered by a full blog post (unlike before that I just replied on your questions thru comments). I'll do my best to cover up all the questions that have been post there.

Thanks for all your support. See you at Weekend tech Notes!

Apr 6, 2011

Crazy Love Conversation


PUSO: Mahal ko talaga sya, Isip...
ISIP: Alam ko, sobra pa nga di ba?
PUSO: Alam mo naman pala eh! Bakit pilit mo sya kinakalimutan?
ISIP: Kasi ayaw kitang masaktan pa.
STOMACH: Makinig ka naman kay Isip, kasi sa sobrang pagmamahal mo, di ka na kumakain. Tulala ka madalas.
LIVER: Korek! Palagi ka pa umiinom, naapektuhan na kami ni Kidney!
KIDNEY: Tttaaammmaaa!!!
LUNGS: Ako din, nahihirapan na kami ni Kidney.
KIDNEY: Korek! Isang malaking CHECK!
PULSO: Basta wag nyo ako idadamay sa kalokohan nyo... yari tayong lahat!

Shared to me by my beloved wife.

Feb 25, 2011

3G-Portal PH: New Blog at Webs.Com

I've recently created a new blog at Webs.Com named, "3G-Portal PH: Games. Gadgets. Girls." As it's title suggest, this blog was all about games, gadgets, and girls! I'm inviting everyone to join 3G-Portal PH Facebook Fanpage to get fresh updates about the latest games, hottest gadgets, and sexiest girls in the internet! Thanks!

Feb 23, 2011

Image Publication Permission by the Owner

After having a public apology yesterday, Miss Mulhfeld send sent me a letter in my gmail account:

As you can see, it was all a miscommunication between me and Miss Mulhfeld. And to resolved the issue, she voluntarily provided me her own picture to be posted in my blog post about her as Featured Pinay Gamer of the Week.

Thanks Miss Ailyn for providing a picture for my blog. =)

Feb 15, 2011

Thanks For The Valentine Cake!

Just want to give thanks to our beloved colleagues who gave a simple yet sweet gift this Valentines Day!




Thank you so much Westco Alliance Girls!!! Please accept our simple token of appreciation for your good deed!

Thank You Poem
I want to tell you "Thank you,"
But it doesn’t seem enough.
Words don’t seem sufficient--
"Blah, blah" and all that stuff.

Please know I have deep feelings
About your generous act.
I really appreciate you;
You’re so nice, and that’s a fact!

Feb 4, 2011

My 27th Birthday

Today, I'm celebrating my 27th birthday...
Though I have nothing right now
But a small birthday cupcake to blow with,
I'm happy and contented...
Because I know that from now on,
I will not grow older alone anymore...

Jan 28, 2011

Thanks for the Unexpected Blessing

Just want to express how thankful I am for the unexpected blessing that came today... While I'm thinking on how I will resolve the problem, it come in right time... I can't tell this in detail to protect what I need to... All I can say is "THANK YOU, LORD"... Thanks for blessing You gave to us...

Jan 19, 2011

First Wedding Monthsary Gift

It was our first monthsary as husband and wife yesterday. And for our first wedding monthsary, I've sent her a bunch of flowers in her school. I thought she will be the only one that will be suprise; I didn't expected that she also have a gift for me. She gave a purple shirt and a card as a gift for our first wedding monthsary. Here are some pictures of her gift for me:

Her gift for me; wrapped in purple "sinamay".

A sweet message from my beloved wife.

"Purple Legendary Knight"
shirt! Love it!

Thanks, Mommy*! Love you so much!

*the way I call her now.

Jan 18, 2011

Arbes-Pimentel Wedding Video

Finally, after a month since we got married, we already got our wedding video from Baruelo's Photo and Video Coverage. For our friends who wasn't able to attend in our wedding, here is your chance to watch us as we exchanged vows at National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima Church. The video was 1 hour and 38 minutes long; even it was possible to upload the part by part video in YouTube, we decided to make it available through download. Here are the download links for our wedding video:


To limit the downloading of video to those people are only known to us, we set some passwords to the the download links and to the files itself. To get the password for downloading and unzipping the files, leave a comment here together with your full name and legitimate e-mail address. We'll send you the passwords thru e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation.

Dec 29, 2010

Defining Love in Different Angle


"The best use of LIFE is LOVE.
The best expressions of Love is TIME."

I want to give credit to Chris Iguid who share his own point of view on what love is all about:

Why do we love ba?

So we can have somebody to talk to? Someone who can be there pag gusto natin gumala?

A person na pwedeng manlibre sa atin? Taong magbibitbit ng gamit mo? ALALAY for short!

Eh pano kung di ka nya mahal? ("You Broke My Heart!") would you still love him/her?

Would you still continue to care for that person?

Bakit naman hinde? Raise The Roof. You didn't love that person para magkaroon ka ng alalay, magkaroon ka ng instant meal dahil libre, taong gagawa ng assignments mo or projects, or taong mahihila mo if you want to go out... if thats what you think about love well sorry ang BABAW mo! Too funny... Loving a person doesn't need to have a criteria na dapat maganda o guwapo, dapat mabait or understanding, kasi once you fall inlove you take the risk of accepting dat person kahit maingay sya matulog (yung hilik ng hilik), kahit matakaw sya o sobrang fat na hindi kayo kasya pag puno ang jeep! Kahit sobrang moody nya na kulang na lang ay sapakin mo sa inis! yung sobrang selosa/seloso na pati barkada pinagseselosan...

Badtrip di ba? And yung napaka-arte OA kung baga! O kahit ano pang things that would turn you off... Hirap talaga magmahal pag trying to be PERFECT kase... Gusto mong magtagal pero hindi yun ang sagot sa lahat... ACCEPT the real person fully kase if you said na mahal mo sya, you don't need to find answers kung bakit mo sya mahal...

Kase lahat ng tao nagbabago but if you accept that person magbago man sya in the middle of your relationship hindi ka masasaktan kase you know that darating din yun.. tsaka tanggap mo sya ng buo... mahirap gawin pero masarap subukan dahil wala ng sasaya pa if you let one person feel na MAHAL NA MAHAL mo sya without asking for anything in return... then you can say wow un pala ang LOVE!

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections....

Nakakatawa talaga ang love. Isa siyang napakalaking oxymoron. Lahat ng pwede mong masabi sa kanya, baliktarin mo at totoo pa rin. Ang labo diba? Pero ang malinaw. Masaya magmahal. Malungkot magmahal. Di mo naiintindihan pero naiintindihan mo. Walang rason. Maraming rason. Di mo na kaya, pero kaya mo pa rin. Masakit magmahal. Pero okey lang. Sus, ano ba talaga?! Damn, Damn... May kaibigan ako, sabi niya dati "Love is only for stupid people." Nakakatawa kasi laude ang standing niya, pero dumating ang panahon, na-in-love din ang hunghang. At ayun, tanga na siya ngayon.

Lahat kasi ng nahahawakan ng love nagiging oxymoron din. O kaya paminsan, nagiging moron lang. Hindi lang kasi basta baliktaran ang pag-ibig. Lahat ng bagay nababaligtad din niya. Lahat ng malalakas na tao, humihina. Ang mayayabang, nagpapakumbaba. Ang mga walang pakialam, nagiging Mother Teresa. Ang mga henyo, nauubusan ng sagot. Ang malulungkot, sumasaya.

Nakakatawa talaga. Lalo na kapag dumadating siya sa mga taong ayaw na talaga magmahal. Napansin ko nga eh. Parang kung gusto mo lang ma-in-love ulit, sabihin mo lang ang magic words na "Ayoko na ma-inlove!" biglang WACHA! Ayan na siya. Nang-aasar. Magpapaasar ka naman.

Di ba nakakatawa rin na pagdating sa problema ng ibang tao, ang galing galing mo? Pero 'pag problema mo na yung pinag-uusapan parang nawawalan ng saysay lahat ng ipinayo mo dun sa namomroblemang tao? Naiisip mong wala namang mali dun sa mga sinabi mo. Pero bakit parang wala ring tama? Bali-baliktad din ang nasasabi ng mga taong tinamaan ng madugong pana ng pag-ibig. "Ngayon ko lang nalaman ganito pala. Sabi ko na eh!" "Ang sarap mabuhay. Pwede na 'ko mamatay. Now na!"

At hindi lang 'yon. Ang sarap din pagtawanan ang mga taong alam naman nilang masasaktan lang sila eh magpapatihulog pa rin sa bangin ng pag-ibig. Tapos 'pag luray-luray na yung puso nila, siyempre hindi sila yung may kasalanan. Siya! "Bakit niya 'ko sinaktan?" May kasama pang pagsuntok sa pader yon, at pagbabagsak ng pinto.

Hayop talaga. Mauubos ang buong magdamag ko kakasabi ng mga bagay na nakakatawa 'pag pag-ibig na ang pinag-usapan. Ang daming beses ko na kasi siya nakasalubong kaya masasabi ko nang eksperto na 'ko. Pero wala pa rin akong alam. Pero ang pinakanakakatawa sa lahat ay ang katotohanang kapag gusto magpatawa ng pag-ibig, ipusta na mo na lahat ng Yes ari-arian mo dahil siguradong ikaw ang punchline.

Nakakatawa no? Nakakaiyak.

Dec 14, 2010

My Best Christmas Gift!

Pugad Baboy Book 6 - 15
I have received this gift during our company Christmas last Saturday (December 11, 2010) from one of my colleague. Actually, I just requested for Book 6-10 of Pugad Baboy Series; but since I know that Book 10 was a little bit expensive (it worth P350.00), I put another set of 5 books (Book 11-15 of Pugad Baboy Series) as an alternative. I didn't expect that she bought it all for me as a gift! What so funny about this is that they didn't able to guess that I am "Wisedog" (the codename I've used in our exchange gift). No one might thought about it since "Wisedog" seems to be a bookish person (and I'm not look like a bookish one!) LOL.

Our Wedding Souvenirs' Teaser

Here are the our souvenirs for our wedding this coming Saturday (December 18, 2010). Check this out!

This is our souvenir for our guests who will attend to our wedding:


And this is our souvenir for our principal sponsors:

Nov 22, 2010

Some Nice Spots for Pre-Nuptial Pictorial

We're having our Pre-Nuptial Pictorial this coming November 28, 2010 at Park and Wildlife Center in Quezon City. I got curious on how the place look like now; so I search over the internet and these are what I've saw! Take a look on some parts of Park and Wildlife Center wherein we can have our Pre-Nuptial Pictorial:


For more pictures, you can check out this album:

Nov 18, 2010

Last Thirty Days of Being Single

It was exactly a month to go now before the biggest day of my life: MY WEDDING DAY. Yup, finally, after many years of searching for the "right one", I already decided to get married.

You might ask: how do I feel now? Excited, of course. We had planned this since last year; it took us a year to prepare. And now, we are on the last stage of preparation for our wedding day; that is why me and my fiancee was so busy this past few weeks.

Right now, we are waiting for our pre-nuptial shooting schedule. Hopefully, we'll have it on the last Sunday of this month (November 28, 2010). We still need to confirm to our photographer-videographer on where we are going to shoot for our pre-nuptial pictures. So excited for it!

We'll that's all for now. I'll just update my blog when I have some spare time. =)

Oct 16, 2010

Dragonica PH Warrior-Knight-Paladin-Guardian Skill Build


Updated: April 5, 2011

After the Reign of Frost Patch in Dragonica PH, I've changed (again) my preferred skill build for Warrior-Knight-Paladin-Guardian path. With the help of a popular Dragonica PH Guardian, Direi, here is the must-have skills that I need to maxed out and focus on when I reach Level 75 as Guardian:

Warrior's Must Have Skills:
Storm Blade Level 1: Creates a deadly whirlwind to hit mid air 6 enemy targets. Targets chosen at random. Maxed out this skill while you are at Warrior and Knight stage; then leave it to Level 1 when you reset your skill at your Paladin stage.

Sword Dance Level 5: Throws your sword, hitting 7 enemies and knocking them down. The higher the level, the longer range you can throw the sword to your enemies. Main catcher during PVP.

Hammer Crash Level 9: Smash enemies with a giant hammer with a 90% chance to stun enemies. Monster card needed to add additional skill level to this skill.


Knight's Must Have Skills:
Aerial Smackdown Level 1: From mid-air, dash into the ground launching 5 enemies into the air. This can be an alternative launcher (for Spin It Bear) in preparation for for Storm Blade skill.

Spear Jab Level 2: A 5 combo attack with a broom that knocks 7 enemies down. Best opening skill followed up by Cross Cut or Sword Dance.

Spin It Bear Level 5: Summon the spirit of the bear to cast a spinning attack. Though it require high amount of MP, but its really powerful, a good launcher asides from Aerial Smackdown.

Shield Mastery Level 9: Permanently increases Blocking Rate and Physical Defense. For Blocking Type Guardian, this is a must be skill. Need monster card to upgrade its maxed level.

Dodge Level 9: Temporarily increases Blocking Rate for 30 secs. A must-have skill to improve with Shield Mastery. Need monster card to upgrade its maxed level.

Impervion Level 5: Although Impervion has been nerf in this patch, this is still helpful most specially in Battle Squares and Emporia Wars.


Paladin's Must Have Skills:
Joint Break Level 2: Attack 6 enemies at their joints to decrease their attack and movement speed by 40% for 5 seconds and slightly launch them into the air.

Weapon Suspension Level 2: Attack up to 6 enemies and block their attack action for 5 seconds.

Weapon Crasher Level 2: Attack up to 6 enemies, damaging them and decreasing their physical and magical attack power by 20% for 10 seconds.

Cross Cut Level 5: Attack 12 enemies with a powerful crosscut and knock them down. A good combo skills with Spear Jab and Sword Dance.

Iron Skin Level 5: Increase physical defense by +430.

Barricade Level 5: Transforms into a combat cop which cannot attack but has 55% higher defense. When this skill is used, 5 debuffs are removed and a level 5 slow heal is applied for 30 seconds.

Cockroach Life Level 5: If cast when HP is lower than 25% of maximum, it will instantly return 40% of your max HP and increase physical and magical defense power by 90% for 70 seconds.

Time Reverse Level 4: Toggles a buff that decreases casting time and cooldown time by 1.6 seconds by consuming 24 MP per second. (Level 5 Time Reverse has no difference on Level 4 Timer Reverse; they both reduce casting time and cooldown by 2 seconds.)

** I'm still practicing how to make good combo using Weapon Suspension, Joint Break, and Weapon Crasher with other Skills for PVP and PVE purposes.


Guardian's Must Have Skills:

Rolling Ground Level 5: Move quickly, and spin rapidly while moving forward in a straight line. Attacks up to 6 enemies 13 times.

Ascending Dragon Lv.1 : Ride an ascending dragon to launch standing or mid-air enemies with 6 rapid attacks. At skill level 5 fallen enemies can be hit.

Dragon Dive Level 1: With the power of the dragon, perform a diving attack with a powerful spin. Attack up to 6 enemies 6 times, with the final attack launching your enemies.

** I just leave the 2 awakening skills to level 1 since it seems I will rarely use it.

I hope this guide will be more useful than before for Warrior-Knight-Paladin-Guardian skill build.

Special thanks to Rico Verzonilla a.k.a. Direi for helping me with this build.




Oct 6, 2010

Astig Na Graduation Speech

One of my friends in Facebook had shared this speech to me. This is a speech delivered by a La Sallian engineer during one of the graduation ceremonies at the UP College of Engineering. His speech is not like the typical speech you might already heard or will be hear during any graduation ceremonies. Here are some excerpts of his speech that really strucked me so much:

...Ang speech na ito ay hindi ko ginawa para i-acknowledge ang paghihirap ng ating mga magulang sa pagpapaaral satin. Hindi ko din ito ginawa para maghayag ng political statement, o kumbinsihin kayo na huwag umalis sa bansa at tulungan itong makaahon. Ang speech na ito ay para sa mga normal na estudyante na kagaya ng may may-ari ng transcript na hawak ko, dahil madalas, wala talagang pakialam ang unibersidad sa mga achievements nila. May mga awards na gaya ng “Summa Cum Laude”, “Best Thesis Award” at “Leadership Award.” Pero ni minsan, hindi pa ako nakakakita ng unibersidad na nagbigay ng “Hang-on and managed to graduate despite nearly getting kicked-out during his academic stay” award....

...Kaya ngayong graduation, ang speech na ito ay inaaalay ko para sa mga estudyanteng lumagpak, muntik-muntikan nang masipa o yung sa lahat ng paraang pwede, ginawa na para lang makatapos. Gagawin kong patas ang mundo para sa inyo kahit isang araw lang. Kahit ano pa ang sabihin ng ibang tao, kesyo kasalanan mo man na pangit ang marka mo o muntik ka nang makick-out, saludo ako sa hindi mo pagtigil sa pag-aaral. Saludo ako na may lakas ka ng loob na harapin pa rin ang mundo kahit alam mong hindi ito magiging patas sa iyo. Saludo ako na kahit pangit ang transcript mo, taas noo ka pa rin ngayong graduation at proud na proud sa sarili mo....

...This is a rebellion. I raise my middle finger to every professor, over-achiever, naysayer and detractor THAT TOLD ME THAT I CAN'T MAKE IT. I raise my middle finger to every valedictory or graduation speech that only gratifies the university, those who were achievers in school or those who gratify the country when it’s supposed to be the graduate’s moment of glory. You are supposed to acknowledge EVERYONE. Even those who failed many times.
Kaya sa inyong mga graduates na medyo hindi maganda ang marka, para sa inyo ito. Kung kinaya ko ito, kaya niyo rin to. Imposibleng hindi....

To read more this speech, check this out:

Oct 1, 2010

Tamang Trip Lang!

Here are some of the pictures of my colleagues (or should I say, TEAMMATES) from Team Yap last Saturday (September 25, 2010). Hehehe, I don't know how we come up with such name like that; basta ang alam ko, Team Yap kami!

Kaye and Joan

Behind UP Oblation (?)

Team Yap with Mam Dyrah

Kaye Jacinto: Busted!

Joan and Kaye: Busted!

Westco Alliance Girls Joan, Hazel, Mam Dyrah, Joy, and Joan
The Blind, The Deaf, and The Mute (Wag Limusan!)

the Writer, the Editor, the Uploader

** Sorry for the late upload and post; I was absent for a couple of days.

Sep 24, 2010

Controversial Dragonica Hydra Server

It was almost 2 weeks ago since we start to experienced difficulty in entering into Dragonica Online PH Client. Lots of us wasn't able to login our accounts no matter how many times we try it. (some said they tried to login for almost an hour, but nothing happened) This is due to increasing number of gamers playing Dragonica Online on Philippine Server. That is why, E-Games annouced that they are going to open a new server hopefully by the end of September, 2010. Some find it exciting, many find it irritating. Lots of players said that E-Games should open new channels instead of a new server. But E-Games didn't do it.

Why E-Games decided to launch a new server instead of adding new channels? I think it is because the current Dragonica Online PH server (Wyvern Server) already reached its maximum limit. Even if they add new channels at Wyvern Server, it will not increase the number of players' capacity that the game server can hold; instead, it will just divided the gamers into smaller playing groups.

Let us assume that Dragonica Server is a Family Sized Pizza which is good for 16 persons only. If the pizza is divided for 16 persons or less, each will recieve a fair share of pizza, and everyone will be satisfy, right? Now, Let's divided the pizza for 32 or 48 persons, do you think anyone will be satisfy on what he will recieve? No. The best thing to do there is to buy another Family Sized Pizza so that there will be ample or fair share of pizza for everyone.

Same thing goes to game servers. We can't force Wyvern Server to accomodate 16,000 gamers if it can only holds 12,000 players. That is why E-Games dicided to open up the new Hydra Server for them to accomodate the increasing number of gamers playing Dragonica Online. They are doing it because they want to satisfy us to the best that they can.

For now, while there are single server available for us, I'm asking my fellow Dragonicans to be patient as E-Games doing their best to launch the new server as soon as possible. =)

Don't hesitate to cast your vote here whether you agree with my opinion or not because all comments are appreciated.


Let you voice be heard by others; comment about the issue here:


Sep 23, 2010

Girls of Westco Alliance Dayshift Team

There is no occasion nor something special happened today; these girls just take pictures for fun! Here are the pictures of my beautiful female colleagues at Westco Alliance Dayshift Team:

(L-R) Kaye, Joan, Myjel, Ma'am Maya,
Hazel, Edith, Ma'am Dyrah, and Joy

Westco Dayshift Girls with their beautiful smiles

Girl Power

From Serious Post...

To Wacky Post!

Sep 22, 2010

Ikaw Ang Dahilan

Ikaw ang dahilan kung bakit ako nandirito;
Kung hindi kita nakilala, hindi sana ako nabuhay;
Kung ako'y mamamatay nang hindi kita nakilala;
Hindi ako mamamatay, dahil hindi ako nabuhay...

- Berso Sa Metro
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