Is your girlfriend a hottie?

Check this out, a new social networking service by the people behind Eskwela.com, Xacktunes, and other homegrown social networking services. It’s called Blackbuk, a rating game which plays on the idea that most high school and College kids want to talk about their girlfriends. The photo is actually called a “girlfriend widget.”

Pinoy Flickr ‘addicts’ hold exhibit in Manila

Pinoy members of Flickr are going to hold their second photo exhibit in Manila. From sharing photos online, this group of Filipino photo enthusiasts are now allowing the rest of the world to see their work (hobby).
Read my the story here.

Brian’s Desk

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Brian’s Desk, originally uploaded by koolitz.
I got this photo from Koolitz, a member of the Flickr Philippines group.
Describing the photo, this is exactly what your desk will look like when you’re away for so long. [...]

(update) Meet the Flickr Philippines group

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DSC_3731.jpg, originally uploaded by dboy.
MEET Stitch, Jolengs, Akumach, Dirth, Bingbing, and Dboy. No, they’re not hackers. They’re part of a growing online community of “Flickr addicts.”
Flickr is now a popular online photo hosting service cum [...]

Tea in Taipei (and why they call it 101)

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — We had tea in Taipei. It was perhaps the most exotic tea I’ve tasted so far. Unlike the fastfood version, tea in Taipei’s Mao Kong mountains had to be prepared carefully. It was the traditional way of making tea, they said. But the wait was worth it. The traditional tea house in [...]

view from my room

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view from my room, originally uploaded by cyberbaguioboy.
My friend Jing Garcia started this, “view from my room” in his blog and found it interesting. Anyway, here’s one from me in Hong Kong. Nice noh.