7
Jan

benjamin_button

Who is Benjamin Button, you may ask? I should say, this is one film which you should not fail to watch this year. I was invited to attend the Press Screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last Monday at the Gateway Cineplex 10 in Araneta Center. The film revolves in a very touching story about life, love, and relationships. Here’s a write-up about the film:

“I was born under unusual circumstances.”

And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards:  A man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time.  From New Orleans at the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, on a journey as unusual as any man’s life can be, the film tells the grand tale of a not so ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds and loses, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Kennedy/Marshall Production A David Fincher Film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton.  The film is directed by David Fincher.  The screenplay is by Eric Roth, with screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin.

The behind-the-scenes team is led by director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designer Donald Graham Burt, editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, and costume designer Jacqueline West.  The music is by Alexandre Desplat.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens in Philippine cinemas today. Total running time is more than two and a half hours.

Visit www.benjaminbutton.co.uk

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3
Jan

As DAR Secretary Nasser Pangandaman appeals to bloggers:

Appeal to bloggers

Since Bambee’s blog, the story about the incident in the golf club spread through the Internet.

Bloggers condemned and some even put up a signature campaign for Pangandaman’s resignation.

Pangandaman said his family is hurting because of the bad picture being painted on his name and family.

He appealed to bloggers to stop accusing them on the Web. The secretary even warned bloggers against karma.

“I appeal to the bloggers to stop this. They also have their families, they have parents and siblings. Our family is already hurting. I hope this doesn’t happen to you (bloggers),” the secretary said.

Get rid of traditional politicians now! Sec. Pangandaman, resign now. Being in the cabinet will have an effect on the on-going investigations about your son’s incident / brutality. Talking about karma, had you taught this to your son? Maybe, he had thought of it first before getting into such mess. Tamaan sana ng kidlat ang hindi nagsasabi ng totoo!

Now, another reason why you should resign: remember the farmers? I am not just talking a particular set of farmers, let’s talk about all farmers in general. What had happened to the lands promised to them? Is that what you call agrarian reform?

RESIGN NOW! Don’t wait for bloggers to kick you out of your post — we almost did this to the President. For your son, he should rot in jail, before going to hell!

Popularity: 2% [?]


1
Jan

Some 2008 quick stats about my site:

  • There was a total of 31,801 visits to bobreyes.com
  • A total of 40,916 page visits landed on my site in 2008
  • 26,170 visitors went to TurfSite Manila
  • 67.26% of my visitors were Referred by Search Engines; 17.85% were Direct Traffic; and 14.81% came from Referring Websites
  • Most people who visited my website uses Firefox on Microsoft Windows (48.81%), while 40.89% uses Internet Explorer on the same OS. 2.14% uses Mac OS & Safari
  • The Top Keywords were: jun lozada, plaincart, msn groups closing, swing out sister, earth hour philippines, wordpress cart, typing speed test, hacking smartbro, smart money, & umobile.

Popularity: 3% [?]


1
Jan

First Post for 2009

Author: Bob

Happy New Year everyone! Hope that you will continue to visit my website this year. More hits to come to all of the Pinoy Bloggers!

May the Lord continue to bless us with his blessings in 2009.

Popularity: 2% [?]


30
Dec

Had you ever asked yourself: What does it take to be a Rizal today? I guess, some will answer that they need not to be a hero, as we know who Rizal is. Some will even say that if Jose Rizal was alive today, he will be a blogger.

Now, let us put it this way: Why do college kids needs to study Rizal, even if it is a boring subject? Why do we need to read Noli and El Fili in high school? What is it in Rizal that made him our National Hero? Why Rizal, nor Bonifacio?

I wonder, too. I guess, being an ordinary person can bring out the Rizal in us.

Today is Rizal Day, a holiday. Wala lang.

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25
Dec

nativity

May of all us have a Blessed Christmas 2008. Do not forget to thank the All Mighty for the wonderful gifts, both tangible and intangible, that we had received this year.

Maligayang Pasko sa lahat!

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24
Dec

Proclamation Number 1695 had just been released by the Malacañang today, declaring 02 January 2009 as an additional holiday. With this development, the next working day after close of business hours today will be on 05 January 2009.

Proclamation 1695 (65)

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23
Dec

carcass-band

When our in-house band invited me to play keyboards for them during our Christmas Party, my instant reply was, “Yes!” How I missed playing for a band. The last time I had seriously played for one was almost a decade ago. I got so excited that I brought half of my musical armada at the office (my Yamaha PSR-100 and Roland E-16) plus the a standby unit Korg DX7 (at my back).

Popularity: 5% [?]


28
Nov

Having a Personal Area Network (PAN) with the help of a Bluetooth dongle is not enough for me. I need to have access access to the internet anywhere within the house.

Tonight, I paid CD-R King a visit and grabbed the cheapest Wireless Broadband Router they have. I was given with the LP-8186.

The LP-8186 is a wireless broadband router that support 802.11b/g, as well as WiFi a & n classifications. What made me bought the unit was the fact that it also supports up to 4 wired network connections, as a regular 4-port hub will do.

From the time I opened its box, attach the Smart Bro UTP cable to the router, turned on my PC, and launched the setup program, I just took me around 7 minutes. Fired up my desktop’s internet browser and it connects to the internet. Fired up the internet browser in my HP Mini 2133, which is around 10 feet away from the router, and bobreyes.com loads.

To ultimately test its capabilities, I went up to the second floor of our house, tried to surf, and it worked!

Here are some specs of the LP-8186 as printed in its box:

  • Supports Gateway modes
  • WEP, WPA Encryption - 64/128bit (WEP), WPA TKIP
  • TCP/UDP/ICMP/ARP protocol stack
  • Dynamic DNS
  • DHCP Client and Server
  • PPPoE PPTP
  • UPnP

Tomorrow, I’ll test on how far can the AP reach — car port? sidewalk? sari-sari store?

Popularity: 14% [?]


24
Nov

Just acquired a secondhand Roland E-16 synthesizer last Saturday. The moment Robyn woke-up Sunday morning, and saw the keyboard, he immediately sampled the great sounds it prod

Popularity: 18% [?]


16
Nov

An experiment if I can setup a home network for less than PHP500 proved to be a success. I just needed to shell out around PHP300 and some minutes falling in line, and wallah! I can surf the net wirelessly thru my HP Mini 2133 anywhere within the range of our Home Network.

Here’s how I did it:

  1. Go to the nearest CDR King branch and buy a Bluetooth Dongle. I went to CDR King Park Square earlier today, and was able to get the smallest bluetooth dongle (the size of a USB stick cap) at PHP300.
  2. Head back home, attach the USB Bluetooth Dongle to your Desktop PC (mine is running Windows XP) and install the drivers.
  3. In your Desktop PC, open your Network Connections and open the Properties for your Internet Connection, or simply double-click on the Network icon from your Task Bar.
  4. Click on the Advanced tab of your Local Area Connection Properties, and make sure that the Internet Connection Sharing checkboxes are ticked. Click on OK and close the Properties window.
  5. Open a Command Prompt window (the shortcut is by Running the CMD command at the Start Menu). Check on what is the IP address of your bluetooth network by executing the IPCONFIG /ALL command. Take note of this IP address.
  6. Now, fireup your bluetooth enabled device, say a laptop. Connect to your PC using the bluetooth connection. In my HP Mini, I simply right-click on the Bluetooth icon from the Task Bar of Windows Vista, and click onJoin a Personal Area Network. Now you are connected to your Desktop PC.
  7. To verify that your are indeed connected to your Desktop PC, execute a PING of the IP address that you had seen earlier. If you will encounter a “Request time out” error, it simply means that your laptop is not able to connect to your desktop.
  8. On your laptop, launch the Connection Properties and supply an IP address for your mobile machine. This IP address must be different to the one that we had seen from our desktop.
  9. The IP address that you got from your desktop PC will be the Gateway in your mobile device or laptop’s Connection Properties.
  10. Now, launch your favorite internet browser and you should be able to surf from your mobile device or laptop, utilizing the connection from your desktop PC.

Popularity: 15% [?]


15
Nov

Attended the briefing about Sky Cable’s Digibox this afternoon at the Hotel Intercontinental Makati. It was hosted by TJ Manotoc. The Sky Cable people, led by their VP made a demo of the Digibox — really kewl features like channel preview, a full week lineup with preview, lots of channels, and channel lock.

People from Sky Broadband was there, too. And as TJ describes it: insanely fast! How fast was it, 12Mbps for a residential broadband.

All bloggers went home with gift certificates from Sky Cable — free installation and rental of Digibox, plus a quarter subscription to Sky Cable Gold at zero cost. Kewl, isn’t it?

(Some pics grabbed from Az — thanks Az!)

Popularity: 19% [?]


11
Nov

Though it does not run on Intel, still this toy is an HP. Clad in aluminum shell, packed with 120GB of harddisk space and 2GB of ample RAM, I was able to install Microsoft Office 2007, Visual Studio Express 2008, and Adobe CS3 Web Premium on top of Microsoft Windows Vista.

Popularity: 19% [?]


8
Nov

Today, as we celebrate five (05) fruitful years of blogging, I am writing this article using my HP Mini 2133 — first post using the HP Mini. Indeed, a very portable device for bloggers, like me.

Happy anniversary to TurfSite Manila!

Popularity: 15% [?]


1
Nov

I knew it! John McCain is gay! Do not vote for him — not because he is gay, I just don’t like him to become the President of the United States.

Popularity: 17% [?]






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