Dyosa & Ermitanyo's Digital Tambayan

Happy Holloween

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:00 +0000

happy holidays pala from Inochi da sleepy cherub!!

Inori's Mall Trips

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:53:00 +0000

Ino's very first mall trip to Marquee Mall & SM City Clark @ Angeles
Lakwatsero na ang baby!!

Butterball Fixes & Stuff

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:14:00 +0000

butterball checklist - complete na! pati GWK!

danjo palamig makina while watching NBA vids

linis wires at a/c ducts & palit bulbs

sparkplugs lang pala kaya palyado! by JC

throttle body & IACV cleaning for idle issues

Inori Stats

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0000

makuha kayo sa ngiti!

Ino @ 3 months & 2 weeks old
- weight: 6.05kg
- length: 62cm
- head circ: 42cm
- eyes: brown (ron's)
- hair: brown (aids' + nose, lips, ears, hands, feet, eyebrows etc :P)
- drugs: 2 shots 6-in-1 + BCG + HepB
- vitamins: cherifer + pedzinc C + ferlin
- formula: enfalac a+ (7~8/day @ 4oz.)
- diaper: pampers M (3~4/day)
- hobbies: matulog, lumaklak, umiyak, tumawa at pumu-poo

PotD - Water, Water Everywhere

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:04:00 +0000

PotD - Putakte Ka Ondoy

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0000

- typhoon ondoy gave a fistfull of headache! asar talaga!!
- inabot ng tubig carpet ni butterball sa nagdasig tapos muntik ng umabot dun sa garahe ni ka tateng!!
- si ino ayun nasira ulo sa brownout
- pero nalinis ko naman ng maayos lahat ng dapat!! grabeh isang buwang parusa!! gash!!!
- happy bertdey pala sa'ken sa tubig baha! haay...

PotD - Milo, Koko, Jim, Bandol & Ondoy

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Milo & Koko enjoying the Baha, sa tapat nila Ron @ ka Tateng's hardware with Jim & Bandol

Aids + Ino + PSP = # !?!

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:50:00 +0000

Aids: grrr... 1up 1up!!
Ino: pa-next naman jan!!
Aids: oo teka lang, ok!?!
Ino: Wah! Swapang!?!

PotD - History Repeats

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Kuya Joy & Adrian/me (1 month 2-weeks) - December 1981 circa
After 27 years pareho na kaming may anak (si Shane at Inori @ 1mo & 2 wks.) at nag papicture din na ganyan!!

PotD - Teka Si Ino Ba Yan?

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Okaerenasai Inori-kun

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:23:00 +0000

o' haiyou! Meet our baby boy INORI ( 祈り which means "prayer" in Japanese), born last 17 July. :)

Orange 1 Updates

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:15:00 +0000

orange 1 just had a quick splash on our street

had some minor mods and fixes since i've been with orange 1
- replaced Mugen type front chin with a smaller Type R
- installed DIY super security: you can't take this baby away from me! as in.
- replaced car battery, i lab u motolite!
- fixed starter solenoid contact, asar!
- installed new racing pedal pads.
- replaced brake pads for disk brakes.
- performed a DIY on restoring headlight clearness
- oil changed @ caltex cal.
- checked & fixed front muffler
- cleaned and fixed transmission oil seals
- cleaned oil pan & replaced oil pan gasket
- removed thermostat (i think it's a bad idea..)
- flushed radiator
- replaced rear shock suspensions

so far yun pala lang, tsaka na ang major mods baka mapalo pa ni misis!! hehe!!

iPod Shuffle from Hell & Beyond

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:11:00 +0000

ressurected. reborn. aleluia. after it died out on me last 3 months ago on a washing machine murder incident, it went back singing again after i usb'd it yesterday & still stuffed with my playlists. i heart u na epol.

Ichi, Waruboro, Dream & Go Go 70s

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:44:00 +0000

four movies that i watched & liked these past few rainy-summer days.

waruboro - switched bodies from an honor student to a deliquent (stars yui aragaki)
go go 70s - rebellion of rock music in s. korea during the 70s (stars shin min-ah)
ichi - female version of the blind swordman in the samurai era (stars ayase haruka)
dream - two people entwined by dreams as one (stars odagiri joe, dir by kim ki-duk)

It's A Boy!

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:15:00 +0000

boy na boy oh! + cranial diameter @ 23 weeks

our baby's heartbeat, skip-a-beat naman kame sa saya :D

A Valentine: To Remember

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:39:00 +0000

it was the 1st time na hndi namin ksama c mame dis valentine (physically that is!) so sugod kami sa rest place ng earthly body nya & sinama namin si kamoteng shane para matuwa sya dahil sobrang abnormal netong batang ehto!!

SiR Butterball

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:35:00 +0000

iPod: UnWashing Machinable

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:53:00 +0000

the case of iPod shuffle vs. boboknik labandero Adrianus

no you're not seeing a modified-jail-broken iPod shuffle, it's just the art of forgetting to check pockets before dunking it into the washing machine! ang galing may instant key chain ka na! Row 4!!

Euro Tips

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:54:00 +0000

official EU flag - wiki

here are some of the facts and nice-to-know things that i've learned so far while here in Europe for a month.

- before travelling to europe be sure to know & have a Schengen visa which is a counterpart to ASEAN network to us southeast asians.
- travel insurance & self-supporting papers aka cash/credit card is a must.
- be sure to brace yourselves when you come in the winter months. we tropical asians will consider europe as a sooper big freezer. ranging from -6 to 6degC on a scale. literal chillin' tol.
- shorter, i mean shorter day-hours & long hour-nights in the winter and vice-versa n the summer, gabi na alas kwatro ng hapon pa lang!!
- buildings (office, hotel, towers, etc.) floor levels/stories are labeled as numbers/integer so as to:
1st floor = 1; 2nd floor = 2; Ground floor = 0; Basement 1 = -1 ; Basement 2 = -2
and so on.. -1!! weird but logical!!
- travelling internationally within europe is most easily accesible by train system rather than airplane.
- be sure to make reservations before buying tickets internationally, ticket reservations are free on online bookings.
- be knowledgeable of the train & bus timetables all around europe, tables are based as per hourly-minute.
- toilet/rest room/comfort room(CR) in europe is WC (water closet), so instead look for a WC sign if ur looking for a toilet when in europe.
- almost every public toilet in europe is a pay toilet, usually around 40 Cents to 1 Euro, there's even a change machine for a 2 Euro coins.
- sooper madalang rice meals, OMGeesh! try ur luck to find a nice asian resto somewhere.
- sandwich is the main dish, breakfast, lunch & dinner.
- prepare your legs for long walks... long walks... and longer walks. try renting a bike perhaps.
- don't try looking for an air-con in your room, you'll instead find a heater system.
- try to at least learn basic languages from french, dutch & german - hi & thanks
- left-hand drive so don't be confused, only UK, Jap, Singapore & ml are (famously) right-hand driven(?)

yung iba ay nakalimutan ko na or tinatamad na akong mag type.

see my adventures na lang below:

- the netherlands

- germany

- belgium

- france

My Infinite Playlist

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist promotional pic

summary
It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget. Written by Anonymous from imdb.

this movie totally got into me! grabeh, ang lufet talaga ng group (team superbad, juno, 40 yr old virgin, knocked-up etc.) na 'to. deep comedy, shallow-true-teenage love kind of something, parang ganun! plus i like norah's character & actress kat dennings & syempre si nick pero parang palaging ganun ang character image nya, pero ok lang! recommended.

but for those who want to know, i really don't have an infinite playlist, konting songs lang ang trip ko. mas appropriate yung term na 'long-time' playlist sa akin. and these songs/albums have been in my playlist forever or quite recently but will stay fornever? :D

- fragmented by updharma down (super fave)

- bipolar by up dharma down (recent fave)

- d'sound selections

- lisa loeb selections

- e'heads live concert set

- nina & mymp selections

- utada hiraku selections

- iputok mo sa labas by brewrats (radio-drama) ??

- classical collections

.knil eht rof em mp tsuj

Francia

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:18:00 +0000

de la tour eiffel. c'set la vie!

euro trip no.4, destination: france. bonjour bonjour! it's paris pare! potek nakikita ko lang sa libro, postcard at internet sya dati! got all the luck right now! bwehehehe
after the belgium stint, we board our next train (thalys) to gare du nord (north station) in france, it was like 2+/- train ride hours from brussels.
when we arrived at the station we quickly went to the subway ticketing office and got so confused with the paris subway thing, it's a spaghetti railway of so many connections and train timetables and berth location that we're on the verge of a tourist breakdown! haha! we finally got our tickets via vending machine with a large roller for selection but got confused again to where platform do we ride. finally we manage to get to the right platform but as the train stopped and i already got on board windy was missing, he was not able to board the train because of so much people but he got on the next train and luckily before we (separately) board we agreed to alight at chatelét station. i got so worried that i even sms windy on our singapore sims, and who wouldn't? potek kaw ba naman maligaw sa paris!! yikes!
from chatelét station we were again lost as we are supposed to be headed to notre dame church, again, thanks to Bokia E66 GPS we got there just in time for the mass - which we never really attended (french mass) but was able to get lots of pics!
after notre dame, we are lost and confused again trying to find the right train to the arc de triomphe. but we got there eventually, and it was huge! we're not able to climb it because it's getting late and we need to rest, so finding the bus from arc de triomphe to ecole militaire (which our hotel is situated) is also a hunt.
after cheking-in, we dispatched our backpacks and walked from our hotel to the eiffel tower, it's a not-so-long walk and indeed we got there and saw light! ay este the malufet eiffel tower. i only saw small figurines of it back then but now it was so so much bigger than me and i looked like i am the small souvenir. grabeh ang ganda. we never hesitated to go up, so we paid up to the 3rd level to see it. up there it's breathless kahit na super laks ng hangin parang bagyo! ang LUFET talaga! lahat-lahat. ang lufet mo pareng gustav!!

Winged Nike of Samothrace and the 'feeling' boy

it has been a long saturday, and we won't stop. super early sunday morning, we're alredy checked-out of our hotel and off to musee de louvre, because of it's long-queue reputation that we're so early. it's also raining and somewhat a blessing that the line was not long, only windy got to queue as i was away looking for the ever-so-hard-to-find-a-nearby-starbucks-although-abundant. i had a loooong walk around the area but to only locate it so nearby the louvre (and @#$%* there's one inside the louvre! FTW!!), well i got my France & Paris city mugs and i'm mostly happy until i became more happier when we got inside the louvre, Whoa!! i saw almost all the famous paintings, sculptures, ruins etc. inside, i think whole day wouldn't be enough to view all the works of art inside. highlights of the museum was the ever popular Monalisa, Virgin of the Rocks, Winged Nike of Samothrace (fave), Venus de Milo, Artemis and a whole lot more grabeh. as in. tulala kaming umuwe ni windy hanggang sa loob ng train na straight run from paris to amsterdam (with a few stops of course).

but paris was not the paris that we expect to see, medyo magulo at madumi na din esp. the subways, sana maayos nila dahil sobrang dami ng tao na gustong makarating dun so tidy things lang dun. but paris is paris pa din. lufet!
it was a great weekend. napaka swerte lang namin ni windang dahil sa oppotunity na ito or talagang mga tsambalero lang kame. salamats pa din!! bwehehe!!

fyi - sabog ulit itong post na ito, wlang check-check ng grammar at errors

see more of the adventure here: flickr / multiply

next stop: italy?? (huy windy book na yan!!)

Belgiumia

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:58:00 +0000

trex @ the natural sciences museum, brussels

euro trip no.3. a saturday stop at brussels, belgium. early morning train from amsterdam to brussels. we alight at brussels-zuid/midi (south) station and quickly transferred to the express line to the airport, where i'm hunting for the starbucks brussels city mug. and i was lucky enough kase isa lang starbucks sa belgium and buti madali lang puntahan hehe!! then punta na kme sa dinosaur museum, we took bus 21 the airport bus and it was our first time to ride a bus in europe - fare=4euros.

we stop at luxembourg station and was nearly lost after the bus ride! salamats sa gps thingy ni Bokia E66 ko (yep nibenta ko kay sarah si htc touch dual ko in replacement). from there we walked our way to the museum, paid 7euros/person and tulo-walay ourselves sa loob dahil sa mga dinosaur bones. grabeh sa mga magazine ko lng sila nkkta dati at sa intornet ngyon eh hawak kamay na waaah!!!! lufet!!

after the museum we lamon muna sa sbarro sa brussels-zuid/midi station, waited until we board the train off to france...

some things i wasn't able to do while in belgium:

- forgot to eat at McDo there

- forgot to buy a belgium ref magnet souvenir

- didn't go to the Grote Markt - Grand Palace (time issue)

- didn't go to the Atomium (pero kita ko sa train)

- didn't see the Manneken Pis (time issue ulit)

- didn't ate any belgian chocolates

- 'di namin nakita yung crush ni windy si Miss Belgium 1994-Cristelle Roelandts haha!!

more pictures here:

next stop paris - bonjour!!

Germania

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:09:00 +0000

euro trip no.2: cologne, germany

after only 4 days in the netherlands we went snow-ballin' in germany on the weekend! sobrang excited!! haha!!köln = koeln = cologne it's quite confusing because these words are interchangeable when you see a map or a sign post. kaya salamats google!

here's what we did to get there:

- we went to schipol ticketing station and made ticket reservations (you need to make reservations for confirmed seats)

- bought the tickets and then checked the itinerary

- Amsterdam-Utretch-Koln was the main travel stops from Utretch we transferred trains to Koln (the ICE train)

- it was vice-versa when we went back to Amsterdam, night ride - so sleepy.

we got off at Koeln station in germany and immidiately looked for the starbucks coffee shop nearby, what for? of course for our starbucks city mug collections! when we got there i was surprised that they are selling all the other starbucks city mugs in germany!! well lucky me i don't have to go to munich, hamburg or frankfurt just to get those mugs!! madaya i know but nasa germany naman kame kaya medyo valid na yun! hehe!!

next stop was just outside the train station. the grandousnessshish cologne cathedral! man it was really breath-taking, as in sa sobrang lake at ganda ng church na yun sa labas palang nag yelo na mga saliva namin!! and more nung pumasok kame sa loob, as in sobrang taas ng kisame and sobrang ganda talaga! parang scene sa huncback of notredam or dun kay nelo nung bago sya mamatay. grabe talaga. on more thing was inakyat namin yung tower and it was a GRUELING, Psycho-fight, Freezing climb sa spiral 509 steps!!! i thought aatakihin na ako ng high blood sa sobrang hirap at taas, pero it was worth it naman when you get to the top, sobrang ganda ng panoramic view ng koel, germany. going down was kahirap-hirap din, parang walang katapusan ang pagbaba namin sa spirals!! whew!

after the church ay nagikot-ikot lang kame sa paligid at sa mga shops na sarado dahil linggo at nag ubos lang ng oras hanggang oras na ng train namin. nun ko lang naexperience ang mga kakaibang bagay sa buhay ko, snow, super cathedral, germans, the cold, the german McDo! and the trains. - sabog 'tong post na 'to haha!!

charge na 'to sa experience. more pics here

next stop: belgium

Nederlandia

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:36:00 +0000

click for more pics here!

it's the start of my own euro trip!!

last jan 7, windy & i flew to the netherlands for a month of job completion at our office headquarters here in bluewater, hoofddorp in nl. it was really exciting because for the first time i'll be in europe for free!! haha!! nooo.. my main purpose here is my job and next is to get as many starbucks city mugs as i can and third is to enjoy europe's freezing environment.

applying for the schengen visa was not really hard if you don't have any problems especially with papers and it's a plus if you're a singapore pr which means you're quite credible. basta! parang ASEAN agreement dito sa europe.

it was a 13.5 hrs klm flight from singapore to amsterdam and lucky for me i slept almost through the flight time, with time to time food and drinks it was nice!

we arrived in the morning of jan 8 and drop off at hotel de beurs, a nearby hotel about 12~15mins walk to the office, cold walk i mean.

so far our stay here is ok, ok naman except:

- walang kanin (more rice please!!)

- hirap maglaba... charge ko n lng kaya sa hotel!?

- sobrang lamig -4deg ba naman!!

- and hirap ng bus route system

- hindi pa ako makahanap ng tamang sim card

- walang friendster sa ofis.

- mahal ang mga bilihin

- nasabi ko na bang malamig??

- hindi ko kasama si ron :.(

well, nandito na ako kaya eurotrip na 'to to the max! wag lang sana mangyare sken yung katulad sa movie...

Pinas Holidays '08-'09

adrian.sabino@gmail.com (adrian) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:33:00 +0000

ehto na ang pinakamahabang hapi holidays ko since 3 years ago. ayows!!

from sa last day of work ko sa sembawang sg nung dec 17 at hanggang ipatawag ako ng nl embassy nung jan 4! wedep na yon!! dahil in 3 years ngayon lang ako nakapag new year sa pinas, 2006=sg, 2007=sg, 2008=sa eroplano, 2009=pinas! sarap-busog kina ronapie (squater pa kame doon kse blangko pa yung bahay namin hehe! meralco ano ba yan!!)

bale walang araw sa pinas na hindi ako ng drive dahil it's now or never, dapat master ko na mag drive, 3 taon na mula nung nabili ko si corolla eh hindi ko pa sya napapaligaya! ahahay!! at ayun kung saan-saan ako nakarating at dami ko din natutuhan! ehto ilan:

- hinding-hindi na ako mag ddrive sa may san miguel-san agustin area!! grabeh prang trial test run pag nagmaneho ka ng kotse dun sa gulo! but i survived.

- nalo-lock pala yung manibela habang full stop - samalats gasoline man!

- dapat naka segunda at ON at key switch tpos apak sa clutch then tulak pipol na then bitaw & gasolina & clutch ulit!

- dapat check talaga bago mag alight sa kotse baka may maiwang naka ON

- dapat nakababa ang windows pag nasa barrio nyo - angas tip

- paabutin ng syento mahigit pag oovertake para astig

- makipag silawan sa kasalubong mo pag gabi

- maging mabait sa pedestrian

- at mag karga ng gasolina kung may susunod na gagamit gaya ni dade!

hehe dami ko natutunan pero hanggang ngayon temporary pa din ang license ko! ehto iba pang kwento!

- 1st time namin pumunta ni ron sa ob nya last dec.

- 1st time ko din mag park nun

- 1st time ko din mag drive ng malayo ng ilang beses

- 1st time ko din sa NLEX

- 1st time kong indi makapagsimba pag Pasko, si Ron kamote kase!! Peace!

- 1st time kong mag New Year sa ibang bahay, luv it kina Ron! busog!

- 1st time kong mag alaga ng aso, si Milo & Koko mga Lab ni Jim

- 1st time kong malaglag sa hammock ni Jim, salamats shane!

- 1st time kong mag Christmas shopping dahil si Mame kase gumagawa nun at bumyahe na sya

- 1st time ko din mag park sa mall

- 1st time ko din umatend ng reunion, salamats Yamat fam.

- 1st time ko din magpa-gasolina dun

- 1st time ko ulit mag simba sa hagonoy after 6months yta

- 2nd time ko ng mag "no-show" sa flight bac to SG

madami pang nangyare sa amin ni Ron pero tinatamad na akong mag kwento at bakit ko ba bina-Blog ito!? <-- eh mayabang ka weh!