Archive for April, 2008

The Serendra and Bonifacio High Street Experience

Posted by Mikko at 29 April 2008

Category: Food Trip

Yesterday, we (a group of bloggers) went to Serendra and Bonifacio High Street to have the second leg of SPOT Pass: An Exclusive Blogger’s Tour (speed-eating food tour). I was really amazed of the place; high-end restos and specialty shops flock around us. I’ve passed by the same area two years ago, but haven’t had a close encounter like I had yesterday.

While walking around the area, I noticed these countless numbers of pale yellow-painted condominiums. I can’t stop myself from thinking that the place was a perfect world. Later on, a question boggled my mind. Where the heck does those people park their cars?

Yes, indeed it was a perfect world. The question I had in mind was answered when I saw their underground
Rent a Parking Space area. Their Rent a Parking Space system was very Continue reading “The Serendra and Bonifacio High Street Experience” »

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SPOT Pass: An Exclusive Blogger’s Tour Day 1

Posted by Mikko at 27 April 2008

Category: Food Trip

Waaaaa, I hate to have the same title with my sister’s post bad sadly I can’t play with the title cause it’s the title of the event.

SPOT Pass: An exclusive blogger’s tour is a two-day food tour event organized by SPOT.ph, an online review central for establishments in the city. The first day was held last April 25, 2008 and I was there; the second leg would be tomorrow and I’m most probably attending it.

For our first day, we ate at Trinoma’s different restaurants. Almost all of them were super-high-end which I believe I can’t afford until I earn $1000.00 a month in Continue reading “SPOT Pass: An Exclusive Blogger’s Tour Day 1” »

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My First Three Days in the Metro

Posted by Mikko at 27 April 2008

Category: Personal

Hello guys out there.

I had a lot to share on my first three days here in Metro Manila. I’m lucky that a lot of blogger’s events got lined up just in time for my arrival. :D

Nothing so significant on my first day. I only queued up for about 30 minutes for my dorm billing form. Oh, I also had the chance to visit Trinoma that day.

Then the second day is the real treat. It was the spot.ph Exclusive Bloggers’ Tour. It was actually the first day, so we had it in the different levels of Trinoma. To give you an idea, spot.ph is a website which caters reviews of establishments around the city. I’ll be posting another one for this.

The third day was the iBlog 4 : The 4th Philippine Blogging Summit. I get to see bloggers which I only knew online. And of course, the Davao people were there (Ate Ria, Kuya Andrew, Kuya Blogie, Kuya Migs, Kuya Winston). After the summit was the 88db.com Party at Katip’s Bar. It was fun; we only had no seat to sit on. We (me and my sister) finished the human bingo — so we got the loot bags and our personalized business cards.

I’m posting more of each activity later. This is just an overview of my Continue reading “My First Three Days in the Metro” »

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Flying to Manila and Brand New Logo

Posted by Mikko at 24 April 2008

Category: Blogging

Hey guys, in 10 hours I’ll be flying to Manila. I’ll be going there to attend some blogger’s events and work on my enrolment in UP.

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I had this cool new logo from a guy from UIC, ragingfx.com. He sent me three variations; but the one at the top is what I like most.

Here are the two other variations.

I’m now working on my header; got to add it. :D

Also, please check out my super-cool 404 page. You can access it thru this page http://conradmiguel.com/i-want-to-see-a-404-page.

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Happy Earth Day and New Layout

Posted by Mikko at 22 April 2008

Category: Blogging

Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day, and I feel a kind of nostalgism (don’t care if the word doesn’t exist). It makes me remember of my last year’s Internship when I had the chance to participate on Earth Day events. We, the three Pisay interns, were even the ones who made the Earth Day Info corner in Sarangani Province’ Capitol.

Enough of it. So, I have a new layout. If you’re reading from your feed reader or email, you won’t notice this but I recommend that you visit my site so you won’t miss the thing.

The changes in the new layout are:

  • The design. (obvious)
  • No more twit box. (huhuhu.. not a big loss)
  • No more featured blog of the week pane. (I’m tired of maintaining it)
  • Removed some advertisements, specifically the DreamHost campaigns. (they suck!)
  • New and improved comment visuals. (gravatar love :D )

I designed and coded it. I made those boxes, shadows, etc. The vector graphics (RSS buttons, navigation icons) were taken from different authors but from one source, Continue reading “Happy Earth Day and New Layout” »

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UP Diliman Freshman Pre-enlistment

Posted by Mikko at 21 April 2008

Category: Random

For those who pre-enlisted using the crs2.upd.edu.ph, please pre-enlist again at http://freshman2008.upd.edu.ph. The crs2 subdomain was not working well with freshies.

UPDATE: You may login at http://crs2.upd.edu.ph/ . Just don’t mind the headers. Use your student number without the dashes for username and your PIN as your password. –courtesy of Kim Lagrama

UP Diliman Freshman Pre-enlistment is now going on!! Here’s the link to http://freshman2008.upd.edu.ph/.

Login credentials needed for pre-enlistment is student number and Continue reading “UP Diliman Freshman Pre-enlistment” »

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UP Oblation in 100-peso Bills?

Posted by Mikko at 19 April 2008

Category: Random

Yes, the UP oblation overprinted on 100-peso bills.

And Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has approved the overprinting of the image of the oblation on new hundred peso bills to be circulated soon.

An artist speculation has been rendered by philmoney.blogspot.com. And here’s how it looked like (subjective to the artist):

Looking forward to the circulation of these bills. :D

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2008 Incoming Freshman of UP Diliman

Posted by Mikko at 18 April 2008

Category: Random

Please spread the word to other co-UP Diliman batchmates.

Just recently, I have finished the 2008 Incoming Freshman of UP Diliman recompilation. With the recompilation of the list, viewing by course is now available. This is helpful when finding people of the same course.


students who will enter his/her YM ids will have a status button


and a mock contact card for those who enters their other contact details

Join the buzz now! Here’s the link in case you’ve missed it!

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Alexa’s New Ranking System

Posted by Mikko at 17 April 2008

Category: Internet

I admit that I am a one big Alexa fan despite the many criticisms surrounding it (from bitter people). So, as my usual weekly routine I checked my Alexa ranking.

It read 378,153. What?? 378,153 from a dazzling 300,715 last week? What the heck! So I concluded that the sudden plunge was caused by my gradual loss of traffic.

Then, I saw this cute button saying Our rankings have changed! Click here for more info. Thank God I found the answer.

With Alexa’s New Ranking System, it is more reliable as it collects aggregate data from different sources. They have also improved their methodology to maintain consistency and integrity. This move will most probably result to a better-than-ever Alexa ranking!

Congrats Alexa for than even though you gave my ranking a huge plunge!

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I’m Attending iblog 4!

Posted by Mikko at 17 April 2008

Category: Blogging

Yes, I am attending the iblog 4: The 4th Philippine Blogging Summit!

The iblog4 will be held at the Malcolm Theather, College of Law in UP Diliman this coming April 26, 2008. It’s the main reason I’ll be leaving GenSan early (this April 24) for my May 6 UP enrollment.

I’m very excited ’cause I heard a lot of other Davao bloggers are also coming. Woohoo! Ate Ria, the blogger behind My Davao City and a lot more blogs, will be speaking for the event. She’ll talk on “Blogging on the Countryside”, nice topic!

Sponsors (some link love)

I’m inviting everyone out there especially my kababayans in GenSan to join me there! I don’t want to be the only General (term used to refer inhabitants of General Santos) during the event, or worse the only Region 12 guy. Here’s the registration link for the event if you’re interested.

Then, what’s next after the iblog 4? Uhm, just like the Mindanao Blogger’s Summit 1, there’ll be a party after it. The 88db.com Bloggers’ Night! I won’t be missing this part, anyway it’s just a couple of steps away from UP. The 88db.com Bloggers’ Night will be held right after iblog 4, 7pm at Katip’s Bar in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City. During the party, they’ll be giving out everyone who wears as their blog (dresses up like his/her blog) a chance to bring home the brand new Sony PSP loot! Exciting.

I’m now thinking what to wear. Build that Geek — should I wear breadboards with microcontrollers or have a shirt printed with a PHP code?

Waaaaaaaa. That’s all for now.

Ooops, before I forget. The 88db.com event has only 200 slots. Have your slots now!

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