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Sigabong 2010 – Clash XXII: The Renaissance of Faith

deuts — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:35 +0000

The UP Hamili Brotherhood and UP Hamilia Sisterhood present the 22nd Edition of Sigabong – a prestigious annual battle of the bands in Iloilo City. This year’s edition features an Inter-School Battle of the Bands and will be held on March 6, 2010, 7:00 PM at Iloilo Capitol Grounds.

Participants to this event will include bands from:

St. Therese College;
Iloilo National High School;
University of San Agustin;
Western Institute of Technology;
John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University;
Collegio de San Jose;
Central Philippines University;
Alimodian National High School;
West Visayas State University; and
Iloilo Doctors College;

Which brings to mind: it’s been more than 10 years since my first experience as a resident when we held Sigabong in 1999. That really was a long time ago.

Good luck to the resident Su-ons from the UP Hamili Brotherhood and UP Hamilia Sisterhood. Cheers to your success!

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I learned about my passion in photography when I had my first digital camera in Sony DSC-S60. Then I took it the next level when I had a Canon EOS 30D. You can check out my latest photos at my flickr photostream or my self-hosted gallery (which I intend to update soon).

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Best Buddies Share the Best Tea

deuts — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:08:00 +0000

As the year comes to a close, just before the darkness captures the year behind, two buddies — two little kids that is — share a bottle of ~~wine~~ tea to celebrate the dawn of the new year.

Cheers for the new year

The future is bright for these young kids.

Let's Drink to That

Aching to get a taste of that Real Leaf Green Tea!

Welcome Year 2010! Let’s celebrate with a bottle of Real Leaf Green Tea.

P.S. This may be a little late for a New Year post, but what the heck, Happy New Year everyone!

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Deco’s Original La Paz Batchoy at Alphaland Southgate Mall

deuts — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:15:01 +0000

The first, and so far the only, branch in Metro Manila of the Ilonggo’s favorite ‘Deco’s Original La Paz Batchoy‘ opened last August 14, 2009, concurrent to the opening of the Alphaland Southgate Mall, at the corner of Pasong Tamo (Chino Roces Avenue) and EDSA, Makati City.

So it has been there for more than two months and I only knew about it today. And most probably a lot of Ilonggos still don’t know about it. Their marketing has really got to do a lot of catching up. You can’t even find any info about their opening in Metro Manila from their official website (these guys have yet a lot to learn about SEO, I mean look at the search results for deco’s lapaz batchoy, you’ll find their site at the second spot, but there are no descriptions whatsoever. Theirs is built on adobe flash that takes some time to load or nothing at all if you’re on a slow connection. Adobe Flash is maybe the thing for Hollywood movies website, but not for those who want themselves to be found by search engines for pertinent keywords, e.g. batchoy).

Anyway, I’m just glad we, Ilonggos in Metro Manila, now know where to go when we have the craving for this famous Ilonggo delicacy, or simply missed that *FREE* extra caldo!

Oops! I wasn’t able to catch myself. I missed taking a picture of the served bowl of batchoy before I even started eating. Sorry. LOL.

If you don’t mind, just check out the photo I took in Deco’s in Robinson’s Iloilo back in September 2008:

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Create A Custom Font Style Based on Your Own Handwriting

deuts — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:11:41 +0000

If you are like me who’s proud of your own handwriting, no matter how bad it is, or if you’re a person who wants to experiment with the different font faces for letters and numbers, the you may want to create your own font style based on your unique handwriting.

Here’s a screenshot of my handwriting typed in MS Word using the custom font style I named “deuts-print“.

Deuts Print Font Sample (Click image to enlarge)

What you’ll need to create your own font style

Printer;
Pen;
Scanner;
Internet connection;

To start creating your font style, just head over to fontcapture.com, and follow the step-by-step instructions.

To install the new font in a Windows computer, just go to the directory C;\Windows\Fonts then click on File>>Install New Font. This is applicable to both Windows XP and Vista.

What you need to know about your custom fonts

Note that you can use your custom font to print output from any application that uses the Windows installed fonts, like from MS Office applications. If you’re converting into a PDF document, you can also do so using your custom font.

However, if you email or otherwise transfer documents in your custom font, the recipient or the next computer where such documents will be opened won’t display the documents in the new fonts unless they install the same in their machine.

Download the deuts-print font

I wouldn’t expect you to like my custom font, much less my handwriting. But just in case you’re interested for a fresh (but ugly) look, you are welcome to download my font.

Download deuts-print font.

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Poll Result: Who’s the Greatest Player to Ever Play Basketball

deuts — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:56:26 +0000

Our survey, which arose from the heated discussion in Mon’s post, “Michael Jordan: The Greatness of his Airness, came to a close today after running for exactly one month. 52 respondents cast their votes, and here are the results:

Michael Jordan – 33 votes – 63%
Kobe Bryant – 6 votes – 12%
Deuts Ambuscade – 5 votes – 10%
Lebron James – 3 votes – 6%
Oscar Robertson – 2 votes – 4%
Magic Johnson – 1 vote – 2%
Larry Bird – 1 vote – 2%
Others – Manu Ginobili – 1 vote – 2%

So here it appears Michael Jordan is the clear winner. Of course we haven’t obtained the demographics of the respondents. So we really can’t tell whether MJ is still popular especially to the younger generations who haven’t yet seen him play.

Nevertheless, behind the result, I’m glad I was able to garner as much respondents. It’s really not that much but it’s actually beyond my personal expectations. Thank you to all respondents. Based on this, I think we should feature more polls/surveys here. Anyone suggestion for the next poll question? Drop a line in the comments below.

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Appearance Reboot: Back to ‘Simple but Elegant’

deuts — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:10:45 +0000

After almost one year with my previous theme (whose last screenshot shown below), I get bored with the same theme, so I decided to try a new one that’s back to the basic and what a real “theme” should be: simple but elegant.

The Last Screenshot of Deuts.NET

By the way, so far in this theme did I ever stick the longest in my whole WordPress life.

IntenseDebate Commenting System

The slow speed, especially at the backend, of my site could be partly attributable to a variety of plugins installed in the background that are directly or indirectly pertaining to and enhancing the commenting system. Now, there’s only one WordPress plugin to rule them all–IntenseDebate.

I couldn’t have just implemented this system with the previous theme because it (IntenseDebate) simply does not go well with dark-background themes.

With the new commenting system, you can easily comment using your profiles with these service providers:

Facebook;
Twitter;
OpenID; and
IntenseDebate;

Of course, you can always comment as a guest — just enter your name, email, and website (optional).

You won’t have to worry about security, logging in is not handled by Deuts.NET nor IntenseDebate. Instead, it’s directly handled by the service providers (as enumerated above) themselves.

In the Works

Maybe my site has grown in magnitude that keeping up with changes needed to be effected everytime I change themes can already be time-consuming. Anyway, the progress of the switch is documented at the dox.

Feedbacks

I have always been listening to feedbacks especially from friends and regular visitors. Please feel free to leave your comments below about this change, if any.

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Sherlock Holmes Turned into an Action Star

deuts — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:59:24 +0000

I used to love reading Sherlock Holmes stories. He was witty, smart, he introduced the science of deduction. But I never imagined him to be an action star.

Some of the comments found in the youtube page criticizing the trailer (thus, the movie), which I agree as well:

Why is Sherlock Holmes bare-knuckle boxing? This looks like a ludicrous, horrific murder of an english literary great.

I agree. They ruined a master-piece and turned it into a farce. They turned aristocratic, intelligent, and modest Holmes, into some Bourne, or James Bond figure. Can’t watch this.

Of course, in Chapter 2, “Mr. Sherlock Holmes”, of the first book, “A Study in Scarlet”, Dr. Watson described Sherlock Holmes as an “expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman”. But in the movie, I would least expect him to be an action super hero.

The film makers, I guess, have to do this to put more drama and excitement, to the extent of painting another image of the great legend, “Mr. Sherlock Holmes”.

Note: If you want to read the complete Sherlock Holmes stories (without the ads and other distracting contents), you may visit http://maximus.comze.com.

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The Midlife Drama

deuts — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:36:27 +0000

Not really. No drama here. It’s just that it’s my 30th birthday today.

But the fact remains: I’m ~~thirties~~ early thirties now.

This photo was taken in The Old Spaghetti House in Waltermart Makati earlier today.

Everybody in the office just actually missed my birthday. That forfeits their chance for a treat. Bwahahaha!

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The Deuts.NET Coffee Mug

deuts — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:50:27 +0000

Got a gift from my girlfriend for the 3rd anniversary of Deuts.NET, a mug printed with the front page of this blog. How sweet…. :D

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Deuts.NET: Three Years Online

deuts — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:34:06 +0000

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of this site. Nothing fancy about it, though. No celebrations, no party, no drinks. No milestones to brag about, no achievements, no nothing.

Moving forward, I’ll continue to be in pursuit of knowledge. No failed projects can hinder me.

So if you are still with me in this pursuit, subscribe now to Deuts.NET.