Monday, June 29, 2009 Please vote for Xandra for the best style in XING street fashion Labels: ad Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 8:12 PM [Review]Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen  The latest installment of the Transformers movie franchise entitled Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is a mix of CG eye candy, Megan Fox and anything else. I know a lot of you guys think that this movie is a "bomb". It's a bomb alright, litterally. Heck the whole movie is splattered with explosions every now and then. Even scenes which doesn't require explosions will have one! If you remove all the "explosive" scenes I think the movie will run in an hour and a half. But I guess it IS a Michael Bay film after all. The problem of the film lies in the character development of its cast. Unlike its prequel, this movie revolves around Sam, Optimus and Bumble Bee only, and the rest are really just a supporting cast. Have you seen most of the Autobots or the Decepticons deliver an important plot-related dialogue? And, Jetfire, what the hell have they done to Jetfire?! Sorry no spoilers here so you better watch the movie. The master-padawan..err apprentice relationship has been a cliche this century and Transformers 2 is no exception and oh don't forget the hero complex plot you can find in most Japanese animes out there. These blemishes were compensated by one factor alone...Megan Fox! Come on admit it, she's HOT. Megan Fox walked, changed clothes, ran, jumped, you name it, Megan Fox delivered it intensly hot. These are just my opinion and posting a hate comment really makes you an effin' idiot, a troll and a loser rolled up into one. Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:45 AM Saturday, June 27, 2009 Many things happened yesterday, heck I didn't have the enthusiasm to post it due to depression I guess. First of all, Michael Jackson, the king of pop, died due to cardiac arrest. The world is blanketed with sorrow as the pop icon will never do the moonwalk again. Next, Farrah Fawcett from the original Charlie's Angels succumbed to cancer. Finally, my cellphone was stolen from me from Cubao MRT station by a level 99 thief with a max skill level of steal. He managed to get it from inside my bag in the midst of the jam-packed passengers. Take note, I didn't even brought it out in public. But as they say, today is a new day and I do hope it will get betterLabels: daily-life, news Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 10:49 AM Friday, June 26, 2009 This is a great story from the book Chicken Soup for the Soul:
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Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:11 AM Tuesday, June 23, 2009  One of the popular application of Facebook today is a game where you can create your own restaurant and make your way to be the top restaurant in the city. This game is none other than Restaurant City. Many Facebook users are familiar with tis game and many became addicted. It's easy to learn, first you are given 2 employees, a stove, 3 tables and chairs. You need 1 cook and one waiter to operate your restaurant. Don't worry, it's not like Diner Dash where you manually command your employees, just place them where you want them to be (cook or waiter) and everything is automatic. Now the numbers on the upper left is your earnings that makes it possible to buy more stuff. The numbers on the upper middle is your Gourmet level, when leveled up, will increase the size of your restaurant (in terms of number of tiles) or allows you to hire more employees (max number is 8). The number on the upper right is your popularity points, which I say is important when you need to level up your restaurant or to earn those cash. The higher the number, the more customers will enter your restaurant. Beware though that you cannot accomodate more that you can cater so it may sometime result to a negative feedback on your behalf. The numbers on your employees represents their health when reached 0% will make them exhausted and not work anymore. you can give them food to regain their strength for a price. The maximum level of your restaurant so far is level 27 and I had reached this level recently. I would like to share these tips for you also to achieve this level with a bit of patience and dedication. 1.) 1 cook can efficiently serve 3 tables 2.) The less your waiter walks, the more time saved when serving the dishes. 3.) Furnitures like chairs and stoves are all THE SAME in terms of function regardless of their price, so spend wisely especially in the beginning. 4.) Your employees will work less productively when their health reaches below 80% 5.) The maximum earnings you can get when logged off or not inside your restaurant is $2000 regardless of dish level 6.) Your earnings are affected by the health of your employees and your popularity points when you log out. You need 100% health and a minimum of 23 popularity points to get $2000 after 5 hours or longer. 7.) Your waiters can serve diagonally, so this layout is advisable: [T][T][T] [C]W[C] [T][T][T] T= Table C=Cook W=Waiter 8.) Waiting chairs can help lessen your popularity drop due to customers waiting. but it is advise not to place more than 8 waiting chairs. 9.) Customers when sitted on a waiting chair will proceed to an available arcade machine thus preventing a drop in popularity. 10.) Making a maze for your customers may help delaying them but keep in mind that when a customer enters the restaurant, it will lock-in automatically into a chair. 11.) Level 8 and above will require you to have a toilet for customers who wants to do their "business". So you must require a cleaner to clean the toilet from time to time, This can be troublesome especially if you are in need of cooks and waiters. This can be resolved by going to the design mode, then removing the toilets, return to the restaurant, then go back to design mode to return the toilets. When done, your toilets will be magically cleaned. 12.) You can have a better ingredient if you answered successfully the daily food quiz above 7 seconds. 13.) The day will reset at exactly 8am (Philippine time) thus a new daily quiz will appear during this time. 14.) You don't need to max out all your dishes (Royal a.k.a. level 10). One Appetizer, one main dish and one dessert is all you need. These are just tips for your reference and it is up to you to follow these tips. May you have a successful restaurant and may you enjoy the game. Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 6:16 AM Monday, June 22, 2009 [Review] Blood: The Last Vampire  Remember Jeon Ji-Hyun? For those of you who lived under a rock all this time, she was the oh so adorable lead actress of the Korean film My Sassy Girl (which was later adapted by the Americans) Well, she's known now as Gianna Jun in the US as she stars on this Japanese-adopted-by-American film Blood: The Last Vampire. Wait wait, a Korean girl is starring on a Japanese movie produced by Americans?! Yeah, much like Memoirs of a Geshia, Chinese girl (Zhang Ziyi) starring on a Japanese movie produced by Americans. Let's cut the chase, If you watched the anime version of this film then I recommend you stay away from this "adaptation". The story sucked big time due to the Americans "forcing" their own story to the plot, Admit it, Alice's story is not relevant to the main story, heck the story can progress and end without it! Why oh why do you always ruin such a good story just to add your "westernized" version? Anyway, the action sequences were good but I was dissappointed when Saya flying kicked one of the vampires, darn it! why is she wearing shorts?! What's the point of wearing a seifuku (sailor uniform) if there's no panty shot?! hahaha peace! Even though this movie has its ups and downs it is all forgiven due to the fact that Jeon Ji-Hyun acted well on an action film. God I love this girl Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 8:32 PM Thursday, June 18, 2009 Playing games is a way we people relax our minds and body when we feel stressed or tired. Some play games to kill time, some play games just for the sheer fun of it, and some play games and dedicate their lives to it. The World Wide Web a.k.a. information superhighway is a multimedia paradise for everyone. Reading articles, looking at pictures, watching streaming videos and listening to music are just some examples we do while connected to the internet. Gaming and WWW joined together and created what was the multi million industry we knew today as online gaming.Multiplayer Online Gaming (MOG) spearheaded the online gaming industry by means of server-client based games like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) connecting players across the globe. Whether you're from Netherlands or you're from the Philippines, you are united into a virtual world were you are free to do what you can't do in real life without repercussion. Using avatars to express their feelings and emotions, online gaming takes you away from the problems you bear in real life. Then, Web 2.0 came. Unlike its older brother Web 1.0. "Two-point-oh" offered interactive content to internet users. The once static,dull and monotonous webpages became a multimedia rich content that users customizes to their heart's desire. Spawning online communities like Friendster, Multiply, hi5, Myspace and Facebook. What made these websites popular is that because of the user customization of 2.0, people who cannot afford web space and domain can call these their own. It's easy to customize and it's absolutely free. 2.0 also opened what made online gaming highly successful today, and that is browser gaming. As the name suggested, browser games doesn't require you to download clients like those in MMORPGs but only require you to use what we used in connecting to the information superhighway in the first place, the browser. this casual gaming made old games like Pacman immortalize using flash animation. Strategy games like Ikariam, Travian and Freesky became an everyday ritual with an ease of you-can-access-anywhere. Facebook boosted browser gaming even further by adding applications to their content. Games like Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Pet Society, Restaurant City, Farm Town and Castle Age make you "use" your online contacts as elements on the game, thus utilizing the "friend connection". The web is still growing as we speak, and there are more possibilities in the near future. Labels: my-two-cents Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:14 AM Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Vote for the Best Photo Editor of Joycee's Photo The following is an advertisement of one of my friends: Please go to the said website and cast your vote. Thanks :D Labels: ad Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:12 AM Wednesday, June 10, 2009 No not me!The one who started it all. My inspiration and idol. The one, the only (drumroll please) Eikichi Onizuka! After the manga ended 7 years ago, an anime adaptation and a live-action drama to boot, the hentai sensei is back. Seriously, he's the main reason I became a teacher and this news is a shocker to me. The new serialisation is entitled “GTO SHONAN 14 DAYS”, and begins with a 55 page chapter in issue 28 of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, It is still written by Tohru Fujisawa, so there will be no problem. It is not clear how long this serialisation is intended to continue but as one of the die-hard GTO fans, I'll definitely follow this. Cleary you see Onizuka sensei made a Haruhi itasha on the vice principal's Cresta  Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:04 PM 1/1 Scale Mobile Suit Gundam RX 78-2 completed  Any mecha fan recognizes the name Gundam. What more to celebrate the 30 years success of the franchise? Build a 1/1 scale (life size) of the Mobile Suit Gundam RX 78-2. The behemoth stands 18m and they plan to unveil it on July 11. Visit the official site for more info (that is if you can read Japanese). More photos after the jump.     Labels: ad, anime, technology, toys Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 10:24 PM Tuesday, June 09, 2009  We all know Palm intentionally launched their Palm Pre 2 days before Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and it shook Apple alright. Now heir counterattack? A $99 iPhone 3G and a brand new model of iPhone named iPhone 3 GS. Same iPhone but with faster ARM processor and double the RAM. Also it will be equipped with the new iPhone OS 3.0 that finally let the user record videos. There will be a voice recognition integrated with the apps and the battery is beefed-up once more making 12 hours of talk time from the previous 10. The camera was upgraded to 3.0 megapixels with autofocus. The 16GB version of the phone will now sell for $199 with a two-year contract with AT&T. The previous generation iPhone 3G sold for $199 in an 8GB configuration or $299 in a 16GB configuration. Looks like someone is going to make his father buy an ithe 16GB version of the phone will now sell for $199 with a two-year contract with AT&T. The previous generation iPhone 3G sold for $199 in an 8GB configuration or $299 in a 16GB configuration.Looks like someone will make his father once again buy him a new iPhone when it hits our shore hehehe. Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 6:15 PM Monday, June 08, 2009  As a Palm owner I am pleased to see yet another Palm product out in the market, this time, a smartphone that was dubbed by techies as the "iPhone killer". Ladies and gentlemen, Palm Pre is here! Now, the world consists of two people, the iPhone fanboys and the rest of the world. I'm not against those iPhone owners (except those who own one but it wasn't them who paid for it. spoiled brats!) but will the iPhone hype finally end here? Will the Palm Pre reign supreme with its new WebOS and Touchstone technology bundled with its app store? The answer is in the hands of the consumer (me and you duh!). Palm Pre specs and the amazing start-up video of the phone after the jump
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Posted by Siopao Master @ 9:33 PM Tuesday, June 02, 2009 Microsoft recently launched their new search engine named Bing to take down Google. But can Bing defeat the search engine that's already a verb?Bing has a feature wherein it will automatically play a video you just searched. Talk about instant porn! But what matters most is it's search feature "duh". So how did it performed when I key in the word siopaomaster? Well my domain wasn't on the damn first page! Unlike in Google where it is on top of the list. (see pic below). Don't know about you guys but Bing needs some tweaking.   Labels: news Read Full Entry
Posted by Siopao Master @ 11:39 AM Siguro maraming nagtataka kung bakit madalas ako mag post ng mga "cheesy" na lines tulad ng "Ikaw ha naglakwatsa ka na naman, pati sa panaginip ko nakakarating ka" at pati yung banat na "Aanhin mo pa ang bahay niyo kung nakatira ka na sa puso ko?" Ang korny di ba? hehehe pero hindi natin maiiwasan maging korny kapag in-love ka...Pero kanino ba? Maraming nagtatanong sa Facebook at plurk kung para kanino yang mga banat na yan, hindi ko sila masisisi kasi noon ang lagi nila nababasa sa akin eh puro kadramahan, "emo king" nga tawag ni Odang (acad head ng info) sakin eh, pero mabalik tayo, para kanino nga ba yang mga hayup na pick-up lines na yan? Sino ba nakakapag pasaya sa akin at nagagawa ko yang kahindik hindik at karumaldumal na bagay na yan? Pero bago ko sabihin yan (syempre bibitinin muna kita) ilan na nga ba minahal kong babae? Yung seryoso ha..kung alam mo ang sagot i-text lang sa SIOPAO(space)ANSWER and send it to 2233, ang mapipiling home partner ay magwawagi ng isang kutos at tadyak. Sirit na? Tatlo lang...kasama na yung ngayon..sa mga nakakakilala sakin alam ko mag rereact kayo, pero yung tatlo lang naman talaga eh..Bakit hindi kasama si ganito o si ganyan? Well..yung una, siya yung hindi ko pinili dahil ang pinili ko si Girl # 1, oops yung iba diyan na gets na pero wag mag rereact ha. Yung isa, estudyante ko yun eh..tsaka kaya lang kami umabot sa ganun eh pareho kaming sawi sa pag-ibig..binasted ako ni Girl # 2 nun at siya naman ay kaka break lang sa bf niya..alam na! Next three ay mga best friend ko. Yung isa kasal na kelan lang, yung isa ikakasal sa August at yung huli helloo..may dalawang anak at may asawa na yun..tsaka best friend nga eh, kapag babae ka at tinuring kitang best friend, wag kang umasa na papatulan kita (hahaha kapal ng peys ko no?). Sa wakas..ang tatlong Maria sa buhay ko..bakit silang tatlo lang? Well kasi sa kanilang tatlo ko lang naranasan ang tunay na kahulugan ng "pag-ibig" Si Girl # 1 ay yung instik (pure mehn), siya yung kaunaunahang babaeng naging close ko, kasi nga nung highschool ang bano bano ko sa babae eh, kaya nung college ko lang naranasan ang mabarkada sa babae. Siya ang nagturo sa akin na masarap ang mga babae este masarap sumama sa mga babae (hahaha).Ano ba nangyari samin ni Girl #1? Ayun, ok kami sana eh kaso may nakialam, ayoko sisihin yung pakilamero pero (insert favorite foul word here) siya talaga eh, kasi siya rin ang dahilan kung bakit hindi kami naging in good terms ni Girl # 2. Anyway, matagal na yun at nakapag move on na ako, pero tuwing nakikita ko ang pagmumukha nung kupal na pakilamero eh hindi ko maiwasan ang mag flashback ala Chuck. Nasaan na ba si Girl # 1 ngayon? Ayun nasa ibang bansa na siya...may iba ng mahal.. Next si Girl # 2 ang babaeng nakapag patibok ng puso ko nung una akong nagtrabaho, Yung mga estudyante ko sa AMA alam na hehehe...Si Girl # 2 naman ang nagturo sakin na dapat pinaglalaban mo ang pag ibig mo. Bakit ko nasabi yun? Kasi hindi ko siya napaglaban eh...Tinanong ako ng close friend niya kung nanliligaw ba ako, ako naman aanga anga sinabi ko hinde kasi sabi ko hindi considered pa yun as panliligaw. Ayun, simula nun badshot na ako sa kanya, sinamahan pa ng kakupalan nung pakilamero kaya lalo ng naging magulo ang lahat. Ano na kami ngayon? WALA! As in nagpalit na siya ng number, tinanggal niya connection namin sa Friendster, naka invisible siya sakin sa YM at ang malupet, tingin na nya sa akin eh isang manyak na stalker...saklap nun no? Simula nun ayaw ko na..sabi ko sa sarili ko ganun at ganun ang mangyayari sa akin..eh nakilala ko si Girl # 3..nag iba ang perception ko sa babae..ewan ko ba..ungas yun eh..sa totoo lang basted na ako sa kanya..kasi ayaw niya sa akin...hindi pa siya handa umibig ulit..pero bakit masaya ako? Kasi sa kanilang tatlo, siya lang ang ka close ko parin hanggang sa ngayon, wala lang sa kanya kung bumabanat ko paminsan minsan ng kung ano ano, saya no? Tsaka ako lang daw sa ngayon ang nakakapag pasaya sa kanya. Pero hanggang kelan kaya kami ganito? Darating ang panahon at makakhanap na siya ng taong mamahalin niya, ang taong magpapa ibig ulit sa kanya...at ano mangyayari sa akin? Siyempre bye bye na...pero balik tayo sa tanong..bakit masaya parin ako? Kasi...masaya ako kapag nandyan siya, masaya ako kapag kausap ko siya...dumating man ang araw na matapos na ang lahat, at least, naging masaya ako kasama siya..at bawat nalalabing araw eh papahalagahan ko...pag-ibig nga naman.... Read Full Entry
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