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Someone once Googled – “When is the best time of the day to visit Shilin Market?” – only to realize later on that it is a `night market`. That was me. When I was doing my research on the popular local attractions of Taipei, Taiwan. I have always heard my former work colleagues in Singapore…
It is already the middle of March 2020. Almost a quarter of the year has already gone by. Not too long ago we were just celebrating the new year. Like it was only a few days ago. How fast time flies. Really. No matter how many times I say that, it still leaves me with…
Adventures in Taipei, Taiwan – This was way back in October of 2019. It was already late in the afternoon. Perhaps around 5:30PM-ish as I recall. We were already running a bit late from our supposed scheduled trip to the Taiwan National Palace Museum on that day. Yes, just a bit. That’s Filipino standard for…
… on the first day of our trip, right after getting off the Airport MRT. … and then I found it again. 15 mins later. Not on my seat on the train where I thought I dropped it. Not on the floor of the platform where it might have slipped off my left jacket pocket….
So I wrote a review about this place on Google Maps that people would know what I thought about it, my experiences, and how I truly felt. It was a mixed feeling overall. I did not feel happy or sad about that place in the end. Disappointing is more like it. I mean, in the…
“Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world’s economic pyramid—the next 5 billion people.” source: http://rivet.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/greg-goes-to-china/ WOW! all i can say is `wow` on this mission statement. i mean come on.. . who wouldn’t get wow-ed at it?! it’s pretty impressive ain’t…
last week, the Windows XP on my laptop just won’t boot properly anymore. the bootsplash screen loads for a few seconds, then i get dumped back to BIOS. selecting safe mode, last known good configuration, or any other mode didn’t work. i repeatedly did each of the options available to no avail. it was futile….
KDE 4 is the forthcoming series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. The first version (4.0) of this series is scheduled for release on 11 January 2008.[1] The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It will contain a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a…
weee.. . my blog zeroing in almost always lands on the first page of Google & Yahoo!, The search giants. just type the keyword “zeroing in” and it should be there. how wonderful! it should depend on the data center in Google’s case. but i’ve also tried using IPs from the US & Canada and…