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Fr. Jun Pascual's Farewell Tribute Video
Thank you Lord for the blessing that is Fr. Jun. If you ever find this blog Father, ...
23rd
Merry CHRISTmas!
Merry CHRISTmas! Don’t forget the reason for this season! Here’s 5 of the best Christm ...
24th
Safely Remove Huawei Mobile USB with HotSwap!
I’ve been using a Huawei Mobile Broadband USB (model: E1550) for several months now. It ca ...
26th
LW Metro UI : A WordPress Theme
LW Metro UI is a WordPress theme inspired by the Metro design of Windows Phone 7 and Windo ...
6th
Honoring All the Saints
November 1 is All Saints Day. It is the day set aside by the Church for commemorating all ...
1st
A PREX Graduate, at last!
The Parish Renewal Weekend is a conversion experience. It is a strong recall into belong ...
25th
A Metro UI WordPress Theme for Apple Fanboy
Last week, my cousin Daryl and I were chatting and he mentioned how he would like to have ...
14th
syaoran.net :: The All-New Homepage
The countdown is over. You can now see the all-new syaoran.net page. syaoran.net S ...
8th
Grateful for World Mission Magazine
There are many gracious words that could describe this magazine but informative and insp ...
24th
Schedule Desktop Images with Walyk Wallpaper Manager
Tired of changing wallpapers manually? Wishing you have better control of automatic wallpa ...
20th
A Merry Trans-Siberian Christmas!
100 days to go before Christmas! Thanks to the incredibly amazing WolframAlpha for hel ...
16th
Asking God's Help and Being Confident of Regaining His Grace
My son, I am the Lord, your stronghold in the day of tribulation. (Nahum 1:7) Come to Me w ...
12th
Happy Birthday Mama Mary!
"The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through ...
8th
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars
I’ve been watching some good anime movies lately and I thought I’d share two of them which ...
4th
"Volition" - A Short Film on Abortion
Volition (n) - The act of making a choice. Sometimes the choice of inaction has conseq ...
3rd
Ooberfuse at World Youth Day 2011
So World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid just ended and naturally, it was a huge success! I am ...
24th
Backup your Tweets with Tweet Nest
Twitter has an API limit of approximately 3,200 tweets. This means that when your tweet co ...
16th
The Proof of True Patience
The man who is only willing to suffer what seems good to him and only from individuals o ...
12th
Speed Up Your Blog with Google App Engine as CDN
Are you in a shared hosting account? / Is your blog hosted on a slow server? Does y ...
10th
OneRepublic AOL Sessions!
I think this marks the first time I've dedicated a blog post for this band. Well, it's lon ...
5th
TIN ID - Not Valid for Philippine Passport Application
For first-time passport applicants not renewals. If this is your first time applying fo ...
28th
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - The 3D Review
Now, about the 3D, I think viewers are split on this. Some thought it was completely unnec ...
20th
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Movie Review
What kind of Harry Potter fan would be over 20 minutes late in his first screening of the ...
18th
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 ...
10th
Z1-Ultra : New Favorite Theme for Opera
I just upgraded to Opera 11.50 (thanks to WordPress 3.2’s Browse Happy integration) and fo ...
6th
ABS-CBN's "100 Days to Heaven"
The new inspirational TV show of ABS-CBN has been making waves ever since it premiered las ...
31st
The Privileged Planet - A Documentary Review
Astronomy has always fascinated me ever since I was a small kid. It's no big secret that I ...
21st
A Prayer for Strength
Lord, please fill my heart with courage during this difficult time. Free me from the dis ...
19th
Blessed John Paul II and Osama Bin Laden
Last Sunday, May 1, 2011 was the day that Pope John Paul II was beatified and officially p ...
3rd
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 ...
2nd
5 Lessons in 2010 : Lesson #3 - The Dangers of Spiritual Pri ...
Easter signifies new life and new beginnings. Instead of looking at the ugly, I prefer to ...
28th
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 ...
27th
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 ...
26th
The Few Who Love The Cross of Jesus
Jesus today has many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few of them carry His cross. ...
21st
The Social Network - A Programmer's Movie Review
It's been a while since I wrote a movie review here (or any review for that matter). So wh ...
23rd
New Year 2011 in the Philippines
Happy New Year! We’re almost at the third week of 2011 but hey, better late than never, ri ...
13th
Ngayong Pasko Magniningning ang Pilipino
*In keeping with the essence of the song, this article is written in Filipino language ...
15th
Chords of Strength and Peanut Butter
I didn't really have any plans to write here today but there have been a lot of signs late ...
30th
A Fanboy Meets David Archuleta at SM Skydome
Needless to say, I still can't get over the fact that I actually met and shook hands with ...
20th
My Seminar at UST: The Rundown
So what really happened on that fateful day of 17th September 2010? Well, I gave a ...
25th
9 Ways to Screw Up Your Speech
1. Before the speech, don't ever think of interacting with your would-be audience. ...
25th
Avatar: The Legend of Korra – coming this 2012!
Update! (October 14, 2011) - The show's premiere has been moved to mid-2012. There wi ...
14th
Really? - The Best Cellphone Ad
The message is quite simple, really. And I can truly relate to this video because I ...
12th
A Good, Good Life
Well, well, well. So what do you think about the idea of having a blog and not updating it ...
10th
Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. ...
16th
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 ...
25th
You Lifted Me Out...
Happy Easter! So how did you spend your Holy Week? Hope you spent this holiday wisely. We ...
5th
EB with Plurk Friends : February 2010 Challenge
WARNING: This article is filled with childish reasoning and juvenile thinking. For example ...
17th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 03/12/2010)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
15th
I never turn off my computer.
Okay, that was an exaggeration but important thing is I got you reading. Now don't stop ju ...
10th
Little Wolf's February 2010 Desktop
I almost forgot about this. But looking at the wallpaper, I won’t be surprised if I had re ...
8th
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 ...
7th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/26/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
1st
YouTube is now 5 years old!
It sure feels like it’s been around far longer than that. But no, it’s only been half a de ...
24th
I'm Alive Again!
I’ve been jobless for almost half a year. A few weeks ago, I tried applying again at a ...
22nd
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/19/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
21st
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 ...
17th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/12/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
15th
"The Last Airbender" Trailer Frame-by-Frame!
Just a few days after the Superbowl TV Spot, we now have the first official trailer of The ...
12th
Salamat "May Bukas Pa"
So, it's finally over. :( I loved the small twist in the last episode. Just when everyt ...
7th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 02/05/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
7th
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 ...
5th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/29/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
31st
Little Wolf's January 2010 Desktop
January 2010 – My Percy Jackson desktop (click for larger image) Every mont ...
30th
The Last Airbender - Aang and Zuko Character Posters!
New movie posters for The Last Airbender! (courtesy of Yahoo! Movies) They feature Aang ...
28th
More Percy Jackson "The Lightning Thief" Movie Posters!
Here’s another batch of movie posters for Percy Jackson & The Olympians : The Lightnin ...
26th
Experience Hubble 3D on IMAX
If you love space and astronomy, then this is something you definitely have got to see! ...
25th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/22/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related artic ...
24th
Goodbye Plurk...
I stopped plurking but I'm not deleting my profile. I froze my karma to mark the level I r ...
22nd
1st Philippine International Pyromusical Competition this 20 ...
As we all know, World Pyro Olympics 2009 (WPO) was postponed. I didn't go to see the one a ...
18th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/15/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related and Filip ...
17th
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 ...
16th
How to Enable ThinkPad Trackpoint Scrolling
I use a Lenovo ThinkPad R61 laptop and one of the many things I love about it is the track ...
14th
My 2009 Music Year-in-Review
Here are the songs that will remind me of the year that was 2009. For those who don’t know ...
12th
Percy Jackson : The Lightning Thief - New Character Posters!
Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson Son of Poseidon – Yeah, he is the son of the god of t ...
11th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/08/10)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related and Filip ...
10th
Blogging with WriteMonkey
It's been a while since I wrote anything tech-related here and I thought it's only fitting ...
9th
The Lightning Thief – Movie Trailer, Wallpaper and Pos ...
With just a month left before the premiere of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians mo ...
7th
My Resolutions and Plans for 2010
I thought I'd do this first before I get back to my irregular blogging routine just so I r ...
6th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 01/01/10)
First post of 2010! Happy New Year/Decade! :D Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find ...
3rd
New Year 2010 Fireworks of Trinoma and SM North Edsa
It’s the last fireworks display of the North Edsa malls this 2009 holiday season and I mus ...
31st
My 2009 in Sentences
I got the idea from Tina of refineme.org and I thought it would be really cool to see ...
28th
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 12/25/09)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web to find the most interesting Philippine-related articles, ...
27th
Dahil ikaw Bro, ang Star ng Pasko
You didn’t think I’d miss the chance to write about Christmas here, did you? :D ...
26th
SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks (2009) : The Final Round
As promised, I took a different approach this time in capturing the fireworks displays. I ...
23rd
AVATAR at SM North Edsa IMAX 3D - The Real Movie Review
If you haven't seen AVATAR yet, don't worry because there are no spoilers here. This is ju ...
21st
The Best of Pinoy Web (week ending 12/18/09)
Every day, I scour the Pinoy web for the most interesting Philippine-related articles, twe ...
20th
AVATAR at Gateway Digital 3D Cinema
Update: Ignore everything that I said here about Dolby Digital 3D being close to IMAX 3D. ...
17th
9 O Holy Nights - A "Simbang Gabi" Special
In just a few hours, Filipinos all over the country will be waking up to attend this year’ ...
16th
YugaTech Great Gadget Giveaway – Round #1
Sir Abe is having a really generous contest for the holidays! Join and stand a chance ...
14th
SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks (2009) : Round 2
This is embarrassing! You’d think I would have been better prepared for this since I’m mak ...
14th
AVATAR (3D) on SM IMAX theaters!
Update: You can now read my comprehensive review of AVATAR comparing Dolby Digital 3D ...
14th
HOME : The Most Beautiful Nature Documentary You'll Ever See ...
Do you know that the world spends twelve times more on weapons than on aid to developing c ...
10th
SM North vs. Trinoma Fireworks 2009 : Round 1
If there's one man-made spectacle I never tire of watching again and again, it would have ...
8th
The Return of SYAORAN.net
Surprised? Yeah, well this new design has been in the works for almost 3 months! I didn't ...
4th
2012 is an utter disaster!
Literally. It is the ultimate disaster movie because of the technical aspect but it fails ...
17th
Michael Jackson's "This Is It" - Movie Review
I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of this concert film ever since I saw the a ...
29th
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 ...
28th
Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” – Mov ...
It’s the concert movie event of the year featuring the greatest concert that never happene ...
16th
The Sacrament of Waiting
It has been a week since my last post here. I voluntarily placed myself in a kind of spir ...
11th
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 ...
4th
I found my lost Harry Potter card game, packed away all my b ...
I figured I’d just write slice-of-life posts once in a while to cover those stuff which do ...
2nd
Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?
For many Filipinos, September marks the start of the Christmas season because it’s the fir ...
1st
21 WordPress Plugins That May Not Be Essential But Are Still ...
Sorry I couldn't come up with a shorter title. Anyway, this is part 2 of my “Thank you ...
30th
Review: “Asia’s Titanic” on National Geogr ...
I was barely 2 years old when the Sulpicio Lines passenger ship MV Doña Paz and the Caltex ...
27th
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 ...
25th
The Battle of My Greatest Guilty Pleasures in Music
Entertainment Weekly’s website is conducting a series of surveys to find the greatest guil ...
23rd
James Cameron’s “AVATAR” teaser trailer is ...
I saw the 20-minute preview on IMAX 3D! Check out my review here. The teaser trailer fo ...
21st
11 Absolutely Essential WordPress Plugins
I was inspired by this article to write a series of “gratitude posts” for WordPress plugin ...
18th
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 ...
15th
Create your own URL shortener for WordPress using YOURLS
If you use WordPress with your own domain and you also promote your blog updates on Twitt ...
12th
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 ...
11th
Happy 4th year anniversary MuggleCast!
Astronomy Tower of Terror! Hahaha!! These guys (and Laura) never fail to crack me up! I’v ...
8th
“Asia’s Titanic” on National Geographic Channel this August
You can now read my review of this documentary here. NatGeo Channel’s lineup these ...
7th
Cory Magic! – Web 2.0 Style
Tita Cory's magic lives on... on the web! :D [nggallery id=1]
6th
Thank you Tita Cory!
It seems like Filipinos around the world are all united in paying tribute to her heroism s ...
4th
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 ...
2nd
Happy (29th?) Birthday Harry Potter!
Crossposting this since it’s a pretty important event. I was initially planning on publish ...
31st
Harry Potter: Books or Movies?
Why choose between the two? I've decided to address this issue in a post because it's be ...
26th
The Lightning Thief – Teaser Trailer!
The teaser trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief premiered last ...
23rd
Solar Eclipses and Light Pollution in the Philippines
The solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 is the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century ...
21st
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Movie Review
THIS REVIEW IS FREE FROM MAJOR SPOILERS. However, the comments could contain spoilers! ...
20th
SM North Edsa IMAX Theatre – My Early Thoughts
SM North Edsa, the Philippines’ largest mall just opened the second IMAX theater in the c ...
16th
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 ...
15th
My book review for “Kapitan Sino” is up!
Crossposting this because my book blog isn’t getting enough love unlike my journal here. : ...
14th
Happy Birthday Li Syaoran! ^_^
Today is July 13 again and it's that time of the year again. He's probably 23 now which is ...
13th
More Michael Jackson tribute on Philippine TV this weekend
MTV Philippines MJ Program Schedule on July 12 (Sunday) This is an awesome line-up. Chan ...
9th
“Harry Potter 6” tickets and schedule - IMAX Mal ...
HP 6 is already in cinemas! This post will not be updated of new schedules and was on ...
6th
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 ...
29th
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 ...
26th
My Own Story (so far) of Twitter (and Plurk)
Manolith.com recently posted a brief history (so far) of Twitter - the popular microblo ...
25th
The Last Airbender – Teaser Trailer!
Oh my.. oh my.. OMG! I seriously can’t get over this freakin’ epic teaser for the first Av ...
23rd
I am The Bookish Pinoy!
After weeks of backbreaking hard work, I’m finally launching my second blog! And it’ ...
22nd
My Tweets for 2009-06-20
I've decided to move the launching of my new blog later tonight. Just thought of add ...
20th
My Tweets for 2009-06-19
Overslept again! Argh! Okay, I will definitely launch my new blog today and that's f ...
19th
The Giver by Lois Lowry [Book Review]
“ is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and graduall ...
26th
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Unknown to most of my friends, I was named after St. Patrick by my mother. My mom bein ...
17th
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 ...
10th
ABS-CBN's "May Bukas Pa"
Update: The show has ended. Read my thoughts on the finale of "May Bukas Pa". http://www. ...
14th
Just a quick update…
I’ve been wanting to post here for the past few days but just didn’t know what exactly I w ...
3rd
Little Wolf’s Lair 2009
I changed the name of my blog several times before. “Little Wolf’s Lair” was one of them. ...
14th
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 ...
9th
New Year, New Theme!
I'm presenting to you, Syaoran's Journal 2nd theme: Little Wolf's Desk. :D The 1-col ...
4th
Happy New Year!
I didn't want to end this year with some unfinished business in my blog. :D I'll start of ...
31st
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and your family a great time this Christmas. Let us not forget the reason f ...
25th
I want to ____ this month. (November 2008)
Before I list what I want to accomplish this November, I'll rate myself first based on how ...
2nd
Consumer Electronics Live! Manila 2008
Summit Live! has organized Consumer Electronics Live! (CEL) Manila 2008 - an exhibit for ...
20th
I want to ____ this month. (October 2008)
I want to ... ... learn Ruby on Rails ... ... start reading a fiction book again every n ...
7th
My Most Played Music : July 2008
Is there anything new on my top songs list? Here's my extremely late monthly report on mus ...
18th
Explore Davao - Part 8 : Crocodile Park
Don't think I forgot about this... I saw Mt. Apo for the first time on this day. It was me ...
18th
"Everytime" : a Cardcaptor Sakura Anime Music Vide ...
For those who don't know yet, I made lots of CCS music videos back then and this was one o ...
30th
Explore Davao - Part 7 : Banana Farm
Let's have something educational this time around... :) Explore Davao - Part 7 (40 ph ...
28th
I'm still a Harry Potter fan!
I just finished listening to the latest episode of MuggleCast and I thought this would be ...
27th
Creative Zen Review
Even though the Zen X-Fi is out now, I'm still writing this review since I don't really pl ...
24th
Explore Davao - Part 6 : Morning at Paradise Island
This is a continuation of the previous part and this is where I wake up in the beach to do ...
20th
Testing Windows Live Writer
This is a test post using Windows Live Writer. An image from my Flickr Bold Italic ...
14th
A Cake for Syaoran Li
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13th
Explore Davao - Part 5 : Paradise Island
This is the first part of our trip to Samal Island in Davao. Not much to see except this s ...
13th
Explore Davao - Part 4 : Philippine Eagle
We went to this Philippine Eagle Center in Davao. I saw here the famous Philippine eagle n ...
13th
My Most Played Songs: June 2008
This is a bit late but better late than never! I'll make seperate lists this time around. ...
13th
Happy Birthday Syaoran Li!
Just to clarify, this is for Syaoran in Cardcaptor Sakura. That's why I addressed him with ...
13th
Explore Davao - Part 3 : Skyriding
This is a continuation of the previous part because it still happened on the same day, Jun ...
27th
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 ...
26th
Explore Davao - Part 1 : First Flight
I'm starting this series aptly named "Explore Davao" to chronicle the interesting happenin ...
16th
I miss...
... the Internet The place where I stay here in Davao doesn't have one. But thankfully, ...
12th
My Most Played Songs: May 2008
I used to do this in my old blog so I'm bringing it back here but I will be including all ...
3rd
A Series of Incredible Events: The Beginning
It's funny how events could take a completely different turn just when you least expect it ...
29th
Davids and Fireworks
Tons of things to talk about but I'll just pick two topics for now... American Idol (20 ...
24th
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! ...
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