Blabberings Of A Taciturn

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You might have noticed by now that I can barely update this blog. Oftentimes, I can manage more than 1 update when I'm hit with an inspiration. But that's a rare occasion.

The problem with writing is how you actually start the article. Now for a non-writer like me, that's like asking a scientist to prove God.

So, just to update this blog, I'll try to uncover the inner depths of my brain and try to come up with worthy articles(hopefully). According to the workshop I've been to, "if you want to write, then all you have to do is write". Thus here I am trying to accomplish just that.

For starters, I just want to thank DavaoBloggers for the opportunity they've given to someone like me. Also, I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Rene Lizada. The knowledge he imparted and shared with us will highly be venerated.

And so, from now on, I will try to uncover my skills in writing (if ever there was one). Wish me luck guys.

How about you? Do you have any difficulty when it comes to writing? Hope you can share some tips for me. Lolz Read the full story

Christmas is only a couple of days away, less than a month by the time of this writing, and people are packed in malls trying to buy Christmas decors and food to prepare for the Noche Buena.

Malls are looking vibrant with colorful Christmas decorations as well as Christmas lights for sale. Buyers crowding the Christmas lights section choosing and testing what light decoration to buy.

It's like a tradition to put Christmas lights as part of this joyous event.

We went to the mall for the sole purpose of just going out of the house once in a while. It's boring staying inside the house for 2 days, sleeping and staring at the computer. Getting a whiff of fresh air to revitalize the body is good (though it's not that fresh anymore).

Anway, we passed by the section of the mall where they sell Christmas ornaments, Christmas trees, and other Christmas stuff.

I for one doesn't like putting Christmas stuff in the house. I don't really know, I just don't feel and like to. However, the missus likes these kinds of stuff. And I thought, why not go for a change for once (Take note on the emphasis on once.. LOL).

I decided to buy several Christmas lights for the house. Looking around, I found some Christmas tube lights which are very good and appropriate for putting outside since these kinds of light doesn't easily get wet. As the lights were tested, other customers found out that it was beautiful. In fact, people doesn't have enough idea on what actually were the use of those tubes on the floor until we bought some. We settled for various color tube lights.

These Christmas tube lights consists of tiny light bulbs encase in a plastic tubing. With these construction, it can easily bend around and appropriate for outside use.

We also bought some Santa-on-sleigh, perfect for putting in doors. We also bought some regular Christmas lights serving as extension for the Santa-on-sleigh lights.

At home, we mount the tube lights we bought around the tree outside the house and positioned Santa above the door. We had trouble layouting the regular Christmas lights on the windows. After a while, to hell with it, just hang them around the windows, there's no point in actually layout it so hard.

We also attached the old Christmas lights we had last year. We eventually finished putting the Christmas lights outside and it's time to turn them on. The arrangement looked pretty good and the Christmas tube lights were brighter than what I expected.

Now, we wait for Noche Buena. Can't wait for the food which will be prepared this Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone. Read the full story

I started with my new client for a few weeks now, and mostly I've been dealing with Wordpress as a CMS. Wordpress in itself is quite powerful yet very simple to use. Its flexibility is known to every web developers and website owners.

With its flexibility, its quite easy to make it behave as a CMS, and most people are doing this. And this is where I encountered my issues. My client uses Wordpress as a CMS for his clients.

I've been using Wordpress in some of my blogs and I am very happy working with it. But, frankly, why use a blogging web app as a CMS. It's like walking with your hands. Possible but not appropriate.

There are simple CMS web apps out there that does the job perfectly. I'm not saying that Wordpress should also try to be a CMS. Its flexibility makes that very possible.

All I'm saying is blogging is blogging, CMS is CMS.

Well, I guess to each his own. Read the full story

Assembler. A machine level programming language. It is much difficult to learn than high level language because you are talking machine language here, thus you will be dealing with registers, bits, bytes, binary and hexadecimal values.


We had this subject way back in college. I was very excited with this subject and my heart was beating like crazy. So many questions ran into my mind, "Can I handle this subject?", "Will I be able to understand and absorb information about machine language?". It's quite different since it's not like the common English words we use during programming. This is machine language we are talking about. All those 1's and 0's.

But anyway, as I was recalling my college years. I thought that I would like to refresh my knowledge about assemblers. So I downloaded a TASM installer. Sad to say I left my notes during college at home in Koronadal. With that, I just downloaded some manuals and tutorials off the net.

Take note that I'm not going in-depth, just a mere refreshal. Now I'm ready to refresh my assembler skills. Wish me luck..^_^ Read the full story

Phew! It's been weeks since I last posted here... I guess I was busy playing Ragna. ^_^ Got me self some priest, soul linker, sniper and creator.

I was getting bored playing since I can't kill most of the MVP's and I can't find any party.

Oh well, here I am wondering what I'm suppose to do. I've put cooking aside since I have many expenses and payments to prioritize. I was also thinking of photography as a hobby, that will surely keep me busy, interested and create a lot of ideas to keep me out of boredom. But the only problem is I don't have a camera. So, currently I'm saving for a digital camera. I'm researching Canon cameras but I'm still open for other brands.

That leaves me with nothing.. Hmmm, I do scribbles and sketches occasionally. And I thought I'm going to keep this up.. I'm not really good in drawing but I'll do my best and hope I can improve it.

Here's a (somewhat) cartoony-caricature of me.. @_@ (done with The GIMP)












It's not finished yet though. I'm kind of preoccupied at work. So check it out soon if I can finish it and hopefully make it a lot better. Read the full story

I'm back with the Ragna Addiction. ^_^

It's been years since I last played Ragnarok. Back then it was a pay-to-play version, but it gets really expensive once you take it seriously. And I'm not going to spend thousands of my money just to play this game.

I had once got a copy of the offline version of Ragnarok. It was nice, I can warp here and there, I can have the best items I could never get with the online version. The only problem is I am the only one playing in the Ragna World. There's no one I can talk to. No persons to trade items with. No party while hunting bosses in Ragnarok. It was just lonely.

Then I heard that there are private servers for this game. They have increased experiences gained when fighting enemies. There are other people you can socialize with. I can also have the best items since most of the enemies drop a lot of items. Some for zeny and others for equips. The private server I'm talking about is DarkRO. They even have classes that were taken from Star Wars. @_@

Unfortunately my PC broke down and my hard drive was broken. It was years from then that I stopped playing RO.

But now, I'm back in the game. My brother had downloaded another private server of the game. This time it's MyRO. Currently I have a priest, a soul linker, a TK kid, a sniper, and an alchemist.

My favorite class in RO and in any game, online, offline or RPG is an archer and with MyRO, already transcended my hunter to be a sniper, a blitzer or falconer. It was fun.

But it couldn't get much exciting with the alchemist. Having a homunculus was great. My homun was much stronger than I am. Fast attack rate, Insanely high defence, and Insanely large health. A tanker homun. All I had to to is to sit down and watch my homun kill all the enemies. @_@

Currently, I'm trying to get it to level 99 so I can transcend to Creator. heheeh Wish me luck. Read the full story

At last, after many months of thinking and making the design for my portfolio, it is nearly finished finished. I'm not really good with designing. Hope that will change soon, it's just so difficult to come up with a design.

There's so many things that enters my mind and yet it just doesn't fit at all. Everything just doesn't fall into place. I envy those people who can easily create a design for a website or a blog. Where do they get these kinds of ideas. amf!

I'm trying to get into the trend these days. How do they start in designing? How do they know that this effect goes well with that effect and in the total layout? So many questions, so little time.

Anyway, I hope I can finish my portfolio website soon. It's been pending for almost half a year now.. hehehe

And also, I hope that I get good tasks at the office. Submitting articles is just not appropriate for an IT graduate who wants to improve his skills in web design and web development. Read the full story

As i opened my account Google and check out my feeds on Google Reader, to my surprise GIMP 2.4.7 was released, I immediately went to GIMP's site and downloaded the installer.

Okay, 52 minutes before my download completes. (I can do that!! No problem). After 52 minutes of sheer excitement, the download was completed. Avoiding to waste any precious minutes, I immediately installed it. And to my surprise, there was an error on the installer.

Disappointed, maybe it was an error during the download from GIMP's website, I tried again on the filehippo website. Another 44 minutes of waiting before the download completes. (sure, no problem)

I waited again for another 44 minutes to complete the download while watching the clock after 5 minutes or so (I don't want to be late for work).

My 2nd download of The GIMP installer was completed and I ran the installer, a message box appeared and it displayed a runtime error.

Grrrr. My excitement died, I think I'll do it again tomorrow. Hopefully, the installer will be okay by then. Read the full story