I won a Schützen® Notebook from BatangYagit.com

I was blog hopping last week when I was at work since we don't have much of work loads. I was reading my feed subscriptions in Google Reader and noticed this new blog entry from Batang Yagit. Batang Yagit to those who doesn't know, is one of the most read blog in the Philippines. Going back to the post I mentioned, its all about a Christmas Gift that Batang Yagit will be giving out to his readers. There's a catch though, you will have to join the contest weekly to win the prizes. That's the challenge there. You must exert a little effort to win prizes. The first gift is a Schützen® Notebook, a locally produced notebook with an elegant and synthetic leather cover.

The first contest is too easy, you just have to fill-in the bubble thought of Batang Yagit. I tried my luck and replied to the post saying, "Yagit nga, blogger naman!". Not realizing that that line will be the choice of  Batang Yagit and his Friends. I am glad that I won the contest. To be honest, it was my first time winning a contest both online and in real life. Lol. Thanks to Batang Yagit and to Hildebrand for the Notebook!

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New Firmware For Nokia's Ex-Flagship Phones N95 and N82

 Nokia recently announce the latest firmware updates that they'll be releasing for their ex-flagships N-series phones. I have been waiting for an update since the V31 for my N82 and was glad about this upcoming updates. At first, I thought it would just be the N95 who's lucky to have an update but when I dig in over the web, I found out that even my N82 will have a brand new update to V35. I haven't updated my phone actually to V31 since I don't want to hack it again to install unsigned applications to mobile phone. Its not that I don't know how to do it, its just that I am tired of doing it and I don't have my own computer to install the NSU.

The past few weeks, I have been longing for an update to my N82 maybe because I'm tired of the V22 on my phone. With this brand new update, V35, I will make sure that I'm gonna have this update on my phone. I hope this new update will fix some minor issues on my N82. I'm still waiting for some elite hackers who can be able to reverse engineer this new firmware update of Nokia's ex-flagship phones N95 and N82. I will update soon once I found some hack for the V35!

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Jelly Lens -- Mobile Phone Camera Lens

Few weeks before, I have been continuing my search of a lens for my mobile phone's camera. Been wanting to have one since I'm into photography too. There's a lot of option available over the internet but I don't have credit card to buy them online. And those lenses are only available overseas. So, that's gonna cost me the price of the product plus the shipping fee. I'm done with the local malls. A forum member at Symbianize once told me that there's an available Optical Lens for Mobile Phone in Mall of Asia. I went there and find the store but didn't have any luck at all. Then I went back online to find some lens again.



Searched at Google about "Lens for N82" and it gave me a lot of results. Then one result struck me saying Jelly Lens for your Mobile Phone and Camera. I checked on it and I thought that its cool. Its a fancy little lens that you have to mount at the lens of your mobile phone. You can even use this on your camera phone. I bought 4 Jelly lenses at a local mall. One is for Macro, the other one is for Fish Eye, the third one is for Spark and the last one is Polarizer. I am really enjoying the Macro lens and the Fish Eye lens. I was so amazed that this fancy little lens can be able to satisfy my need. The Fish Eye is good for lomography too. The only con that I have noticed is that the jelly loses its stickiness fast and also, it doesn't fit that good in the lens of my N82 phone. I'm so jealous with my friend's phone because my lens fits well on their phone. So I'm planning to buy a low-end mobile phone but have a good camera for me to use the lens on them. I already have a sample shots in my Facebook account.

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Dumb - Dummy Man

This day is really frustrating for me. I messed up a lot with my girlfriend. My girlfriend got her pay yesterday with her 13th month bonus. She want her money to be in one of my ATM because she really had a bad experience with her current ATM provider. So I agreed to that and we went to the bank. Deposited all of the money and then went out the bank. My girlfriend decided to go to a mall to look for a dress and a shoe for her party next week. We are all set but when I was about to withdraw money from the ATM, I forgot the PIN of that card. I punched in 3 different PIN but the machine doesn't seem to accept it. I was so frustrated and also my girlfriend. We went to the bank and the bank just told us that they can't do anything about it. They can't give me my correct PIN and can't even allow me to do withdrawals over the counter. Its so frustrating thinking that we don't have enough time to go back to the mall and do some shopping chores for my girlfriend. Since the bank can't do anything about it, we too can't do nothing about it. I'm so upset and felt sorry for my girlfriend. It was all my fault. She got mad at me. Real mad. So we both decided to just go back home since we have 24hours wait time to access the ATM card again. Hoping that tomorrow will be a success for this ATM card.

When we got home, we just go all the way to the bed and sleep since we both came from our shifts. We woke up late at night and was very hungry. We decided to go to a nearby food chain, Chowking, and ordered some meals to satisfy our cravings. I asked the attendant to put our drinks in a disposable cup. We had our order and we ate. I noticed that the cup doesn't have a lid so I asked for it to the waiter. The waiter gave it and when I put on the lid to the cup, the cup broke and the drink flooded the whole table. I wonder why am I so dumb this day that other people are suffering of my dumbness. Good thing, was my girlfriend understand me and was very patient to me. I am the luckiest guy in the world thinking that I have the cutest and the loveliest girlfriend in the world.

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Where to stay in Davao?

I'm all set to travel to Davao next week with my girlfriend and her family. The problem is where to stay. I actually grew up in Davao but our old house is being rented by somebody and I don't want to barge in to my aunt's crib. She might be surprised that I'm there sitting on their couch watching TV. So now, I'm planning to check in to some cheap inns in Davao City together with my girlfriend's Tito. I already got a list of them but I just don't know if they are quality inns. At least this names are not on the list of those "biglang-liko" inns/motels in Cabaguio. I think I'll have to research more about this because I don't wanna get there spending doughs to some cheap ass inns. I might be needing some help with some of my friends there about their personal insight about this inns. Below are the list of the inns I collected online.

Carpel's Pension House

Tel: 221-1641

P400-500/RM

Davao Fortune Inn

Tel: 221-0819

P190-900/RM

Davao Imperial Inn

Tel: 222-4930

P402.50-665/RM

Royale House

Tel: 227-3630

P200-700/RM

Sampaguita Tourist Inn

Tel: 227-2958

P175-550/RM

Courtesy of: MyDavaoCity.com

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My New BP-6MT

For over how months, I have been sacrificing with my battery's performance. The life of my battery didn't reach for over a year but I think that it is just normal with the way I use it. I take pictures a lot, play music a lot, use wLan almost everyday and play with my GPS when travelling. While doing those chores, my phone is plugged in to its charger that triggered its performance specially when getting online. Then, I noticed that my phone keeps shutting off because of "Battery Empty" message. I really hated it because it caused me trouble specially when I'm having calls. Then, I will have to carry my USB Charger everyday to the office to charge up my battery. Now I realized that charging battery in an abnormal way is not healthy at all. It doesn' really help your battery performing well. I know what are the pros and cons when charging my battery even if its not empty its just that I'm an OC with my battery life. I always make sure that it is full barred every day. When one is missing, I will then charge it even if its not empty. I don't know. I've been doing this since I first got my first phone (3310 era). Just this afternoon, I bought a brand new battery, BP-6MT, for my N82 phone and I will always make sure that its emptied first before charging it up. With that, you're not gonna damage your charger and you're gonna have fun doing your chores with your mobile phone. This should be working fine after 6 months because beyond that, its not gonna be covered with its warranty. Good luck to me!

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Days Are Being Counted For Nokia's N-Gage

When I first got my N82, I was so happy that there's a built in N-gage application in it. I made ways to get updates on the games and to download the latest games that N-gage will release. One of the best is the "One", my all time favorite. But this doesn't seem to work at all. I just heard some rumors that the N-gage gaming platform of Nokia will soon be closed.

What I like more in N-gage is that its bundled with my phone. No need for me to bring any additional gadget just to pacify me when I'm out waiting for nothing. But it seems that the Market is not that fund of playing N-gage games. Classic games has been released by N-gage like Worms World Party but competitors like PSP, Gameboy, Nintendo and other portable devices are still on top in the industry. The only problem with N-gage is that there's no way for you to transfer the your paid content to a different device.

What I heard is that it will soon close on September 2010, after how many years of service.

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