Archive for May, 2007

69 Jaymee Joaquin pictures

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Sekswal 

My friend, Australian Wengz – Super Surfer, sent me a message in Yahoo! Messenger containing a link to a YouTube video – Mike’s Apartment’s Nagdedeliryo music video. He then followed it with a one-word message – sekswal. Intrigued, I decided to devote 4 minutes, 59 seconds of my time to watch it. Unworthy of the first 3 minutes of the video was the word sekswal, until 3:23 – which featured an act of titillation I am used only to seeing live. A striptease; the stripper – Jaymee Joaquin.

In Person

Almost two years ago I was given the chance to interview Jaymee Joaquin. She was the Dream Bembang! feature right after Jennylyn Mercado. Back then she was doing the show Bora, was hosting a tech-based television show, was omnipresent as hostess of all sorts of events, and was the ex-girlfriend of our batchmate in DLSU. In person, during the interview, she had the appeal of that which was normally reserved for amboys - which even she later on attested to. She had a LOT of things to say – borderline talkative. Her dream career path was that of Pia Guanio’s – smart, beautiful and sexy; I honestly believe she has what it takes. I distinctly remeber her stories of impulsive travelling – alone – all over the Philippines. I rank that interview high in terms of those I enjoyed the most.

Unpublished

Australian Wengz’s timing was impecable. It provided me a much needed push in order to cross out an item in my ever-accumulating to do list. The photo below will lead you to more in my gallery. I have around a hundred more; it was a time when my camera was fairly new and what I lacked in quality, I made up in quantity.

This post is confusing

I apologize. This is just a combination of an In Person post, a promotion of my gallery, small-time promotion of the band Mike’s Apartment, and mediocre story-telling. The title, well, I couldn’t figure out how many pictures to post, so I based it on a number that is dear to me. So there you go.

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The last of Rico Blanco

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

In Rivermaya, or, “Rico Blanco leaves Rivermaya”

Shocking. Common sense tells us that Rivermaya cannot and will not exist without Rico Blanco. Information came from The Dawn’s mailing list. Francis Brew (The Dawn’s guitarist) sent a text message to JB Leonor (The Dawn’s drummer) – which he posted to the mailing list, that said: “Confirmed! It’s Rivermaya’s last gig!!! They’re breaking up!” Here’s the link, but you must be registered. Then we can see that it has been confirmed because of this article from Indie Culture Online.

At least two things will surely happen – Rico Blanco will go solo and, Rivermaya will launch a reality-tv search for the next Rivermaya frontman, and main composer, and guitarist, and keyboardist, and band leader.

Google Supplemental Results victim

Monday, May 28th, 2007

For a while now I have been doing fine with this blog, especially in terms of search engine traffic. Then recently I noticed my top-ranking pages were disappearing one-by-one from Google’s index. Desperate to find some justice to my work, I did some research.

What are Supplemental Results?

There are a handful of articles explaining Google Supplemental results like this and this. And more articles that explain how one can get out of it. Simply put, Supplemental Results is Google’s way of ridding excess pages from your site from showing up on search results. If a page is a Supplemental Result, it appears like this. This prevents Google from indexing redundant content, better search results and better search engine traffic for sites – for some.

Thoughts In Binary and Supplemental Results

Unfortunately, Google saw my individual posts as redundant content and indexed the category pages and archive pages instead. And, a search for all Supplemental Results for Thoughts In Binary reveals around 2,000 useless pages.

List all Supplemental Results for your site

By the way, to list all Supplemental Results for your site, simply key-in the following code in Google:

site:yoursite.com *** -view

Desperate Measures

To revive my pages, I simply added a robots.txt file that instructs Google not to index my category pages, my archive pagesa and the individual feeds. I also added the whole gallery folder, with the exceptance of Google Images, with the hopes of re-indexing only the albums in the future. In 12 hours, Googlebot has read my robots.txt, I’m simply waiting for the results to kick-in. I hope it doesn’t take that long.

Leah Dizon

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Who is Leah Dizon?

Everytime I search for my missing Maria Ozawa post in Google, I always see this name oriented with her in the search results. I visited a couple of sites and found out the following.

Apparently, Leah Dizon is part Filipina (and Chinese, and French). She hails from Japan as a tarento, or simply put – a multi-talented celebrity. She did not start her career in Japan though; she was doing covers of popular import car magazines such as Super Street back in the U.S., after which her Asian fanbase grew and she was advised to start a career in Japan.

Her look is uniquely beautiful. A fine example of that new breed of Asian beauties popularized by the likes of Devon Aoki and The Fast & The Furious franchise. “She looks like a doll” is what I imagine me saying if shown a picture by someone. I wish she would find time to explore her Filipino roots, maybe visit us here someday. Get started on your quest for Leah Dizon by visiting her two “official” sites – one, two.

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Marlboro 5×4

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Check out the latest marketing gimmick of Marlboro. A pack of five sticks. It is called 5×4 because they are sold like those one-use shampoo sachets and each “line” consists of 4 small packs like the one in the picture. I bought this for Php 7.50 in my suking tindahan so a regular pack’s equivalent would amount to Php 30. Are they trying to make “tinge” extinct?

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Saguijo has set the standard

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

By which all gig bars should be judged. Saguijo Cafe + Bar, located sa Guijo street, Makati, is an institution for musicians, artists, bands, and fans. The place is surprisingly small – standing room at 200, and remniscient of a well-decorated house. The place in fact, is in a sort of residential area. What makes this bar special is it added class to what the likes of Mayric’s, Freedom Bar, 70′s Bistro, etcetera started. The place has it’s own regulars, and people will come whoever it is scheduled to play.

For the fans

Cover charge ranges from 100-150 depending on the bands and/or the production – usually consumable for 1 drink. San Mig Light at Php 50, Red Horse at Php 40. Food/pulutan from 150 up. Band schedule always updated and available online here. If you are planning to watch the likes of Up Dharma Down and Urbandub, make sure to go really early and have a high tolerance for heat.

For the musicians

I’m sure you already know what’s in store. Drums are fairly well taken care of, Marshall Valvestate and Peavey Bandit Transtube for guitars (I miss the tube Fender), Ampeg bass amplifier. Sound tech always present. Gate-sharing for in-house productions with free drink stubs (at least).

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The best of Puerto Galera

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Now that summer is officially over, I look back at that which I failed to accomplish – my yearly summer Puerto Galera trip. However, I am still able to say I have been to Puerto Galera six times in six years – twice in 2002. I am now only left to wonder what weird things happened this year in Puerto. That place still holds the record for the most gay people I have seen in one place. There is still place in PG for the straight man though, just make sure you are not homophobic. Here is a little compilation of the best of Puerto Galera 2007 online.

Puerto Galera getaway

Mindoro Slings, Blogging Chismis, Bikini Photoshoots and a Drunken Podcast

Cottage Hunting at Puerto Galera

Mindoro Sling

There’s a lot actually, especially in Technorati and in Google Blog Search. I’ll add some more once I sort them out. Feel free to suggest though.

I made an affiliate sale

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Unknowingly, from this blog

I have a handful of experimental posts in this blog, one of which is a series about television theme songs. Within the posts, I included a couple of Amazon links. For example – the theme from House M.D. is entitled “Teardrop” by a group called Massive Attack. Notice that Massive Attack has a link that directs to Amazon. That link includes my affiliate id. Anyone who buys the product from that link, I get a small commission from.

I know for some this is a bit elementary, but lately I noticed that readers of this blog are not really internet marketers. Also, this is actually my blog’s very first affiliate sale (without much promotion, just SEO) and I’m quite happy. There were 3 items bought already but those were just discs that cost around $10. Leaving me with measly cents, but at least I know that this blog has potential in the affiliate game.

The perpetual fuel consumption list

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Also “Gas Mileage” for Philippine automobiles

I just came up with this weird, but useful, idea of compiling a list of Philippine-released cars and their consecutive gas mileages. This list may take long to fill-up but in due time I hope I would have listed a handful of cars and their estimated fuel consumption, with a brief explanation for the source. Let me start with those that we’ve owned.

Toyota Innova

Gasoline version 8.4 kilometers per liter. Based on the Innova’s useful gas consumption meter beside the clock. Averages 10 km/l in the highway and 7 km/l in city driving.

Ford Escape 3.0 V6

7.6 kilometers per liter. 2003 model.

Honda City 1.5

Average 10 kilometers per liter. We have the 2003 model.

Nissan Frontier 3.2 1999 (automatic)

Diesel. Averages 8.0 kilometers per liter. This is my personal driver. Vehicle has been maintained regularly but has been modified heavily. 

Please feel free to comment, add and correct the figues with your own findings as a result of personal experiences, word of mouth or research.

Bianca King in person

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The inspiration for this post can be read at the last paragraph. But first, the report. I have seen Bianca King in person twice. The second time, I saw her in a two-piece. It was in Boracay so she was there for everyone to see. The first time was in Alabang Town Center. I think she frequents that place – or the south in general because I always hear stories of “I saw Bianca King.”

When I engage in Bianca King talk, there’s always one common denominator. She’s malaman. Particularly in her legs; in fact, she has big hips. This for most, and me as well, is a turn-on. In person, she can bring out the stalker in you. I might have stared at her without caution for over a minute. She’s sexual. Or rather, a more appropriate synonym combined with the proper pronunciation would be sekswal. Her look spells out sexy in all languages – borderline naughty.

Guess who I saw with Bianca King?

Confession first. I was not really physically there to witness what I’m about to say but I have no reason to doubt my source whatsoever. In fact, I consider myself as being there “in spirit.” Feel free not to believe, I don’t mind. Champ Lui Pio. Yes, Hale frontman and obsession of many. Starbucks in Madrigal Avenue, in front of Alabang Town Center. May 19, 2007 around 11:00 p.m. and get this, they were trying to bring a dog inside. By the way, here’s my poor attempt at paparraziing Bianca King in Boracay last year. Man, a recent commenter was right, this is a lame-a$s blog.