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A Merry Trans-Siberian Christmas!

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Asking God's Help and Being Confident of Regaining His Grace

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Happy Birthday Mama Mary!

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars

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"Volition" - A Short Film on Abortion

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The Proof of True Patience

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Speed Up Your Blog with Google App Engine as CDN

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OneRepublic AOL Sessions!

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - The 3D Review

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Movie Review

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It All Ends... at SM North Edsa IMAX

Finally secured 9 tickets for me and my family to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly H ...

Z1-Ultra : New Favorite Theme for Opera

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ABS-CBN's "100 Days to Heaven"

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The Privileged Planet - A Documentary Review

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A Prayer for Strength

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5 Lessons in 2010 : Lesson #4 - The Humble Programmer

And you thought all the lessons would come out of books. Well, you were wrong because I do ...

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Easter signifies new life and new beginnings. Instead of looking at the ugly, I prefer to ...

5 Lessons in 2010 : Lesson #2 - The Growth Mindset

Easter signifies new life and new beginnings. Instead of looking at the ugly, I prefer to ...

5 Lessons in 2010: Lesson #1 - The Presupposition

I have resigned from my job. It was both a sudden and a long-awaited decision but I have n ...

The Few Who Love The Cross of Jesus

Jesus today has many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few of them carry His cross. ...

The Social Network - A Programmer's Movie Review

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New Year 2011 in the Philippines

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Ngayong Pasko Magniningning ang Pilipino

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Chords of Strength and Peanut Butter

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A Fanboy Meets David Archuleta at SM Skydome

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My Seminar at UST: The Rundown

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9 Ways to Screw Up Your Speech

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Really? - The Best Cellphone Ad

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A Good, Good Life

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Do It Anyway

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A Day with Percy Jackson, Moleskine and NBI

The day was February 10, 2010, a Wednesday. It was supposed to be my first day at the new ...

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The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 03/12/2010)

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I never turn off my computer.

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The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 03/05/10)

This is sad. I’m just updating this blog with a new “Best of” article. Whatever happen ...

The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/26/10)

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YouTube is now 5 years old!

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I'm Alive Again!

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The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/19/10)

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Movie Review

Percy Jackson is a dyslexic boy who finds out that he's a demigod. That means half-human a ...

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Plurks and Calls : January 2010 Challenges

A lot of things happened in the past few days so I wasn't able to blog as often as I used ...

The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/29/10)

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The Last Airbender - Aang and Zuko Character Posters!

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More Percy Jackson "The Lightning Thief" Movie Posters!

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Experience Hubble 3D on IMAX

If you love space and astronomy, then this is something you definitely have got to see! ...

The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/22/10)

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Goodbye Plurk...

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The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/15/10)

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Direct Folders : The Quickest Way to Access Folders on Windo ...

Do you download several kinds of files on the Internet? Is your desktop a huge mess becaus ...

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My 2009 Music Year-in-Review

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Percy Jackson : The Lightning Thief - New Character Posters!

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Blogging with WriteMonkey

It's been a while since I wrote anything tech-related here and I thought it's only fitting ...

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My Resolutions and Plans for 2010

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New Year 2010 Fireworks of Trinoma and SM North Edsa

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My 2009 in Sentences

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SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks (2009) : The Final Round

As promised, I took a different approach this time in capturing the fireworks displays. I ...

AVATAR at SM North Edsa IMAX 3D - The Real Movie Review

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AVATAR at Gateway Digital 3D Cinema

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9 O Holy Nights - A "Simbang Gabi" Special

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YugaTech Great Gadget Giveaway – Round #1

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SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks (2009) : Round 2

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AVATAR (3D) on SM IMAX theaters!

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SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks 2009 : Round 1

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The Return of SYAORAN.net

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2012 is an utter disaster!

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Michael Jackson's "This Is It" - Movie Review

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Want to wave with me on Google Wave?

UPDATE: Changing the rules now because I got more invites. You don't need to have a we ...

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The Sacrament of Waiting

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History Channel's "The Universe" is back!

OMG! I can’t believe it has been two weeks already since the start of the newest season of ...

I found my lost Harry Potter card game, packed away all my b ...

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21 WordPress Plugins That May Not Be Essential But Are Still ...

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I was barely 2 years old when the Sulpicio Lines passenger ship MV Doña Paz and the Caltex ...

Preview of James Cameron’s “Avatar” at SM ...

I wasn’t expecting to win ClickTheCity’s contest when I blogged about it last week. But lu ...

The Battle of My Greatest Guilty Pleasures in Music

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I saw the 20-minute preview on IMAX 3D! Check out my review here. The teaser trailer fo ...

11 Absolutely Essential WordPress Plugins

I was inspired by this article to write a series of “gratitude posts” for WordPress plugin ...

Dancing to Super Junior’s “Sorry, Sorry”

It has been ages since I tried to learn a dance routine. I had never imagined that my next ...

Create your own URL shortener for WordPress using YOURLS

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The 3 Best Twitter Desktop Apps

A few days ago, I got a tweet from someone who seemed to be surveying on which is the bes ...

Happy 4th year anniversary MuggleCast!

Astronomy Tower of Terror! Hahaha!! These guys (and Laura) never fail to crack me up! I’v ...

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You can now read my review of this documentary here. NatGeo Channel’s lineup these ...

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Thank you Tita Cory!

It seems like Filipinos around the world are all united in paying tribute to her heroism s ...

Bad customer service or just a really stupid customer?

I feel like a dragon right now that’s about to breathe fire through his nose. I am starti ...

Happy (29th?) Birthday Harry Potter!

Crossposting this since it’s a pretty important event. I was initially planning on publish ...

Harry Potter: Books or Movies?

Why choose between the two? I've decided to address this issue in a post because it's be ...

The Lightning Thief – Teaser Trailer!

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Solar Eclipses and Light Pollution in the Philippines

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Movie Review

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SM North Edsa IMAX Theatre – My Early Thoughts

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New “The Last Airbender” promo pic with the 4 el ...

At last, we get to see some of the main characters in one promo picture! I’m trying to kee ...

Crossposting this because my book blog isn’t getting enough love unlike my journal here. : ...

Happy Birthday Li Syaoran! ^_^

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More Michael Jackson tribute on Philippine TV this weekend

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Favorite Music Update (2009-06-29)

It’s been a while since I last did this. The previous one was posted back in January. That ...

Wakoopa’s improved Profile page, Usage graph and more…

It’s probably a little-known fact that I’m a software junkie and I also like trying out ...

My Own Story (so far) of Twitter (and Plurk)

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The Last Airbender – Teaser Trailer!

Oh my.. oh my.. OMG! I seriously can’t get over this freakin’ epic teaser for the first Av ...

I am The Bookish Pinoy!

 After weeks of backbreaking hard work, I’m finally launching my second blog! And it’ ...

I've decided to move the launching of my new blog later tonight. Just thought of add ...

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The Giver by Lois Lowry [Book Review]

“ is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and graduall ...

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Unknown to most of my friends, I was named after St. Patrick by my mother. My mom bein ...

Pendragon, The Little Prince and Google Reader

I never start writing a blog post without having at least an idea what I’m gonna write abo ...

ABS-CBN's "May Bukas Pa"

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I’ve been wanting to post here for the past few days but just didn’t know what exactly I w ...

Little Wolf’s Lair 2009

I changed the name of my blog several times before. “Little Wolf’s Lair” was one of them. ...

Favorite Music Update (2009-01-09)

Instead of just listing the titles of my favorite songs like I did last year, I'm doing a ...

I'm presenting to you,  Syaoran's Journal 2nd theme:  Little Wolf's Desk.  :D The 1-col ...

Happy New Year!

I didn't want to end this year with some unfinished business in my blog. :D I'll start of ...

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you and your family a great time this Christmas. Let us not forget the reason f ...

Before I list what I want to accomplish this November, I'll rate myself first based on how ...

Consumer Electronics Live! Manila 2008

Summit Live! has organized Consumer Electronics Live! (CEL) Manila 2008 - an exhibit for ...

I want to ... ... learn Ruby on Rails ... ... start reading a fiction book again every n ...

My Most Played Music : July 2008

Is there anything new on my top songs list? Here's my extremely late monthly report on mus ...

Don't think I forgot about this... I saw Mt. Apo for the first time on this day. It was me ...

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Let's have something educational this time around... :) Explore Davao - Part 7 (40 ph ...

I'm still a Harry Potter fan!

I just finished listening to the latest episode of MuggleCast and I thought this would be ...

Creative Zen Review

Even though the Zen X-Fi is out now, I'm still writing this review since I don't really pl ...

This is a continuation of the previous part and this is where I wake up in the beach to do ...

Testing Windows Live Writer

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A Cake for Syaoran Li

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We went to this Philippine Eagle Center in Davao. I saw here the famous Philippine eagle n ...

This is a bit late but better late than never! I'll make seperate lists this time around. ...

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This is a continuation of the previous part because it still happened on the same day, Jun ...

Explore Davao - Part 2 : Taj minar

Part 2 and 3 covers one day only - June 8, 2008 which was a Sunday. From bars to skyriding ...

I'm starting this series aptly named "Explore Davao" to chronicle the interesting happenin ...

... the Internet The place where I stay here in Davao doesn't have one. But thankfully, ...

I used to do this in my old blog so I'm bringing it back here but I will be including all ...

It's funny how events could take a completely different turn just when you least expect it ...

Tons of things to talk about but I'll just pick two topics for now... American Idol (20 ...

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