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Google street walk

August 26, 2008 By: marvin Category: news, Travels, weblinks, Geeky Gadgets 5 Comments →

google and wii
want to travel the world but strapped for cash? well a Japanese inventor has found a way to combine google’s street view and the Wii balance board. making it possible for the average joe to walk the streets of New York, Tokyo, London and Paris nekkid and all in the comforts of your room. news found via DannyChoo.com.

mobile images

August 19, 2008 By: marvin Category: Stray Thoughts, Travels, funnies, Random Rants 17 Comments →

First off, a word of warning, this is a image intensive post, so loading might take a bit of time.
I decide to clean out the images I had on my mobile phone. However wanted to share some of it to the world first. Most of the images has been in my phone for months, but all of them makes me feel sorry that I can’t bring my DSLR with me 24/7.
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Sign reads, “do not cross, it’ll kill you”. They actually have this sign posted on streets all around the city.
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Medical equipment uses Microsoft Windows, pray it doesn’t give you the blue screen of actual death.
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Bonifacio High Street

August 17, 2008 By: marvin Category: food, Stray Thoughts, Travels 3 Comments →

Realized that it has been a while since I did a, “places to visit in Manila” post. so here’s one. Bonifacio High street, located in Fort global City. The area used to be an American military base called Fort William McKinley, turned over to the Philippine government and renames as Fort Bonifacio then later on converted into a upscale commercial and residential park.
Bonifacio High Street
although Bonifacio High Street contains mostly shops and restaurants, there are a number of residential areas nearby to keep the place sprawling with people.
Fort Bonifacio
It’s also quite possibly the only place in the Philippines one might find a five story books store (including the basement where they keep all the comics and manga).
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Cebu, Tarlac and La Union Philippines

June 11, 2008 By: marvin Category: food, Stray Thoughts, Travels, Personal 6 Comments →

Been out of town these past few weeks having to attend weddings and some work related activities. and while traveling around the Philippines just had to check out some of the more touristy places along my stops. just click the read the rest link below to check out more images from the trip.
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Life Sized Naruto

April 17, 2008 By: marvin Category: Anime, Travels 3 Comments →

With nothing to do yesterday my wife and I decided to go around SM Megamall, and while walking around a toystore I found this life sized Naruto statue beside Mazinger Z and another anime character whose name escapes me. devilman maybe. ^^; Then again I probably shouldn’t consider the Naruto statue exactly “life-sized” since its about as tall as a full grown man. and Pre-Shippuden Naruto is supposed to be a small kid. ^^;
Naruto statue
Naruto to Mazinger: Psst.. why is the martian manhunter in our anime section? ^^

Naruto and Mazinger Z
move over Kira Yamato and Shin Asuka, Naruto Uzumaki is in town. lol ^^; guess these guys have their anime all mixed up

Naruto

Mazing-GO! ^^ wouldn’t mind getting this to guard me front door. ^^
Mazinger Z
Mazinger Z: hey! I ain’t a Gundam!

picked up a couple of speedgrades from the store as well. ^^ good thing Bandai decided to use boxed packaging on the new speedgrades, instead of those old foil bags at the back.
SpeedGrade gundams