Grilled Mussels, Oysters and Tilapia Dinner

Grilled Seafoods

It's once again dinner time, and the shaman's having fun with food again. We had some Tahong (Mussels), Talaba (Oysters) and Fish (Tilapia).

It's a good thing having fast metabolic rate, eating will not get you fat. For this evening we decided to grab some grilled seafoods, since the red tide warning has been lifted and he haven't tasted tahong and oyster for quite some time.

The shaman fired up some uling (Coal), and placed  tahong and oyster over it. It cooks fast, and its quite half-cook compared to conventional cooking methods. Vinegar sauce/dip will make it more tasty and complete the cooking process. Like kinilaw recipes, It applies the same method. For our vinegar sauce, I diced some onions, sili (pepper), pepino (Cucumber), a bit of salt, and sugar.

Cataclysm Calls Forth Heroes to Arms

A new nemesis has surfaced, a new era in World of Warcraft. Calling newbies and retired gamers to return and be sucked back.

The shaman returns, from a long slumber. Everything has changed, Everything is new.

And my auctions has expired. Looking forward to face cataclysm soon.

Cheesy Lasagna Sunday

Our first lasagna

This Sunday, We have Prepared Lasagna.

This is our first time to cook lasagna, since this food follows the same path with baked macaroni. We just followed the same procedure to as how we make baked macaronis.

Using the Flat sheet pasta used for lasagna, Ground beef, Spaghetti Sauce, Quick melt Cheese, Tomato sauce, Onions, Evaporated milk, Butter and all purpose flour.

First up we boiled the pasta, then prepared the red sauce similar to spaghetti sauce procedure. As for the white bechemel sauce, Butter, Flour, all-purpose cream on a sauce pan.

Penne Carbonara and Whole Meat Ham Dinner

Holiday Ham

Our Galera Trip was cut short due to Work-Related Hazard so we treat ourselves with this feast for dinner last Friday.

What I usually do with the ham is boil it with pure or concentrated pineapple juice with a few pineapple chunks untill the sauce thickens. No additional seasonings required.

And a Typical carbonara recipe using penne pasta sizzled with italian seasoning.

The shaman's trip to the beach

Sorry Yuki you can't

The shaman's recent visit to puerto galera for a little R & R.

Off-peak season is a nice time to visit, have a few people around, and everything is cheaper compared to peak seasons.

Resonance Speaker

CD-R King Resonance Speaker

Recently got curious about a resonance speaker I saw at cdrking pavilion mall in binan.

The shaman was urged to take a look at and, googled it up. Next thing is I grabbed one. Resonance by definition, "in physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitude at some frequency than others."

"Resonance occurs when a system is able to store and easily transfer energy between two or more storage mode" (wikipedia)
In this case, Resonance speaker Produces sound and transfer it to any flat surface the

Pork Adobo with Ashitaba

Pork adobo with Ashitaba by my sister

For those of you wondering, what is "ashitaba" click here. This is an alternative way to make your regular dishes healthy using ashitaba leaves or commonly known as "Tomorrow's Leaf"

You can basically use it as a garnishing, to common Filipino Dishes. Already used ashitaba in "Tokwa't Baboy," Papaitan, Nilaga/Bulalo, Sinigang  both on Pork and Fish. Sorry I have no images when I cooked them five or more months ago.

Later on I will do post them as I cook them.

Lechon Kawali and Pancit Habhab Delight

Lechon Kawali

This is what the shaman prepared for dinner lastnight, Lechon Kawali non-fry and Pancit Habhab. Thanks to Connie over at homecookingrocks.com for the wonderful idea. It turned out well, crispy and oil free.

After boiling the pork belly slab with salt pepper, onion and garlic. I let it cool for a few hours without the pork stock.

Then shoved it to a turbo broiler, I didn't preheated tho, took me 40 minutes under 325 farenheit.

Even though it didn't popped that much, the skin has the similarity to lechon baboy (Roast pork) skin.

Why is it good to have a live linux iso, cd or usb drive

Linux Mint 8 Helena

My slowest computer running winxp, when it crashes. Using my ready-made linux distros live cd installer saved on a 2GB flash drive. I just boot up the pc, and run a live session to access files or perform a backup even if your windows system won't boot up. I have a backup windows ISO saved on my external drive.

Since when you use linux live cd, dvd, or usb drive. All devices works out of the box, even your cd burning optical drives. Looking at the image on the left, I am burning an installer from my backup ISO, because some of my installer is not with me at the moment. Also I managed to get some files out to completely perform a clean install on this machine.

The shaman and letran batch 95 @ sutukil bar

Sutukil bar & cafe

The shaman went out with his highschool friends and batchmates at Sutukil Bar & Cafe last Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010.

After a long stretch of 15 years, it's good to see old friends and buddies. Facebook groups brought us together that led everyone to decide its about time to get those old grumpy folks back and have a break, do some chatters over food and beer.

Not to mention the songbirds to enlighten the crowd over at the stage for live music and KTV.

How to configure a router to your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem

Here is an example of a typical router ports

It's been awhile since my last blogpost, been busy. This is for my friends asking How to configure a router to use with Globe Wimax.

How to Configure a router to use with your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem by Huwaei Technologies?

There are two types of router, namely the wired and wireless. What I have here is an example of a wireless router.

Wired and Wireless router are the same in terms of usability except for the fact you don't need wires for wireless, and convenient to use with wireless devices and gadgets.

Firstly, connect the router to your PC lan ports, Plug the cables to the number 1 port, not on the distinguished WAN port. Fire up a browser and type in to URL address bar, where you type website addresses to browse pages, type in http://192.168.1.1, this is always a default.

Sand Trailing at the beach of General, Nakar, Quezon

The Coconut Farm

Last Saturday, October 23, 2010 my wife ninei's birthday. I went out with my dad to visit our family roots. The town northeast of Rizal. I accompanied him doing his rounds along our properties in the area. We then visited a nice location at the beach where a fine brown sand beach front is located on the eastern side of the town facing the Pacific Ocean.

On the way there, we encountered some soft sand and some minor obstacles as deep as 1-1.5 feet.

I was surprised to see this area very fresh, underpopulated and clean. A nice resort or rest house would be nice to be built here. A nice place to relax away from city noise and pollution.

Jolicloud 1.0 First Look

The shaman came across Jolicloud 1.0 thru rinaz.net's blog post about it. I grabbed a copy thru jolicloud's site and tested the live cd session, then after a few testing and tweaking, decided to replace the currently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on the shaman's MSI wind U100 Plus.

I haven't tried the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but I think it is in the same category, with a rather different approach. Booting in to the system and logging in you will be asked if you are connected to the internet, then declare it by clicking "I'm already online" button.

Oops, I forgot to install image-magick

The desktop is over-run by the jolicloud launcher, and by default the desktop couldn't be seen. Wallpaper is black, I tried to replace it, by going to the appearance tool, and replaced the wallpaper. On the app menu, you can't see the wallpaper either, next is the console. I love the terminal, I feel incomplete without it. I hit alt-F2 to launch an application and typed in "terminal." The terminal app launched maximized on the desktop. I enabled the transparency, so there. I finally get to see the desktop.

I find jolicloud very nice, and it will be a good operating system for online use heavily, but for offline mode I am not sure and haven't figured out how. Since at login the system connects or searched for

The Patch to Cataclysm and The Acer Restoration

Acer 5720G running Windows 7, patching
WoW backup on the external
500GB Drive

Patching World of Warcraft while taking a break from programming and getting the Acer to get back in shape before 12.07.10.

The Shaman's Acer 5720G that encountered white screen of death, During the time I tried to troubleshoot the error. I tried compiling  my own kernel at the time. So as to suspect a software glitch or error have caused this.

That led the shaman out of the game. There are many instances that I tried to isolate the problem whenever I got the time. And numerous occasions It get's to narrow the issue from a broader spectrum. Since most LCD has slim chance of getting defective than the inverter circuit. And several signs that make me suspect issues with its graphics card.

The Acer which eversince was running linux since I got it, from linux mint, fedora and much longer with ubuntu, accross each updates. I have been playing world of warcraft on this rig thru wine.

Looking back at CS 1.6

Arctic(one-shot) over at cs_assault

Back in the days when half-life burst out from valve, a mod got famous known as CS or Counterstrike. This is usually the common and most widely used online FPS games in the market.  Noticeably can be seen in any internet shop, including mine. Aside from Starcraft and Diablo II.

I remember the days when tournaments are being held almost everywhere, or team versus team winner takes all scenarios are rampant.

Where players practice tactics or strategy on how to defeat the enemy team, both on running Counter-teriorst or being a Terrorist. Days where youths played for hours and trained like there is no other. Joining regional or national championships and all.

The Troll likes Ribs for dinner

Pork Ribs

This is how the shaman prepare pork ribs. Yes the shaman knows how to cook, but not better than ninei.


I boiled up the nasty ribs for 3 hours to tenderize it then marinated in soy sauce with a mist of calamansi, onion and garlic and some seasoning.

The Shaman visits 8corners

8corners Paciano Branch - photo from
bebe fajardo's facebook

A rainy Friday night yesterday, the shaman and ninei headed out to visit 8corners, Paciano Branch, Calamba City. Just a few minutes away from our dwelling cave. This is a restobar that has live bands performing on the roof deck. We just occupied the ground floor, for a little drinks and grubs.

We were entertained by the owners, Bebe Fajardo and Tita Beth our good friends. We talked about stuffs like technology, facebook games and all while we lounged.

We had a good laugh with facebook game, especially cartown and others. Then we started the night with a pitcher of mixed drinks and some tasty grub dishes.

Food is superb, service is excellent. I only have my camera phone with me at the time, with no flash but somehow have a good shot with night mode.

Mini Burger and Spaghetti Meatball Dinner

Spaghetti Meatballs

The shaman is back, just want to share this dinner my wife prepared. Spaghetti Meatballs, and mini-cheese burgers.

Watermark Orientation

Wishlist Figma 014-Miku Hatsune

I posted an article about batch watermarking in linux here. A problem for me is locating the watermark on the images to my preferences, recently found out the correct syntax for the -gravity. Which is "center" for center, "north" for top and "southeast" for bottom right. So edited my script from tuxtweaks, and edit a new watermark that has yuki on it. here are more photos and images from last time with the new watermark.

On with the others photos.

How to use Globe Tattoo on Ubuntu 10.04

Yuki with my Openline Globe Tattoo

It's handy to have a plug-it internet or USB HSDPA Modem that you can use when on mobile and or when your main internet connection is down.

Here's how, first in order for your system to read your modem as a modem and not as a storage media, you need usb-modswitch installed.

You can do that by typing at the terminal.

"sudo apt-get install usb-modswitch"

Batch Watermark using Imagemagick Script

Here is a a sample of batch work I tested it with

Finally got some script thanks to tuxtweaks.com.  Using my same template, here are some of the photos and screens.

I tweaked the script to adjust to my preference, like changing the scale, watermark image folder location, removed the -gravity center to default it to the edge.

I am still waiting a reply on tuxtweak asking for help on some other options on how to place the watermark other than this locations.

Below are more pictures and images I tested with the script. If you guys on Ubuntu want to do the same,

Yuki's First Photo shoot with the shaman

Rock on

Here are some photos taken last week. After I got Yuki home.

I decided not to make a review about this figma for the reasons that I was too overwhelmed and excited to have my first figma figure.

Quality is superb, with a lot of action poses you can make. She can stand on her own with a lot of accessories she comes with, hands for different uses, her witch costume, the cat, the guitar and all. I liked and very much satisfied with her. She will be a big part of this blog to be there as the shaman goes and documents everyday life inside and outside World of Warcraft.

I'm too lazy to put watermarks on the photos, as I haven't got any batch watermarks yet available for Ubuntu. So for those of you who like the photos, if your going to use it somewhere don't forget to link or credit me.

A Sunday Morning

Kain tayo (Let's eat) - Yuki

The shaman just want to share his Sunday breakfast this morning. Hotdogs, Fried eggs, Tortang Talong (Fried Eggplants with eggs), Dried Fish (Dried Fish with salt and fried).

The traditional Rice Meal for Filipinos. Coupled with Soda drinks makes our day pleasant.

Good service is the key to keep customers happy

Yuki thanks you SM Advantage Contact Center

I have this Sm Advantage card, that they swipe when you shop at any Sm department stores or SM supermarket. I have been using it when I buy groceries or shopping at SM. I was wondering how can I track how many points I earn, so I can keep track and use the points when I get enough points. They have a website for that at sm-advantage. I enrolled my card but having some trouble because the PIN code is wrong, First I thought must be a system glitch, then I tried again today. It's really wrong. I saw an email address to contact I got from the website. Tried emailing it, I am not expecting a response anyway, it is weekend and off-office hours.

Online Commerce on Facebook

An online shop with baby toy products

Nowadays, you will find online selling with in facebook.com. Since it is more popular lately from previously was in multiply.com.

Gadgets, clothing, figure, toys, gift items and more can be found at facebook, it is done by connecting to more friends and tagging the photos or albums to spread the word of products sold by sellers using facebook.

Figma Yuki Nagato Witch Version Unboxing

Green Tea anyone?

I recently acquired Figma 015: Yuki Nagato Witch Version. Last Saturday, August 28th, 2010 from ebay seller loveonesixth*2010. A guy I would say the "veteran" Collector, manage to have take good care of an unboxed copy of this figma. Last words he left me before bidding goodbye was, "take good care of her." I would say, "I will because Yuki is very special to me."

Yuki checking out a mobile phone

Cleaning up my 500GB backup drive.

I was sorting thru my backup drive and found some old photos, worth sharing. Taken from my old camera phone Nokia 6680.

Seafood platter

The Shaman and his first figma

Yuki Nagato Commander Version

And so the shaman wants to start his figma collection. For his first figma he's eyeing to buy Hatsune Miku or Yuki Nagato. Been looking at several online shop but since this particular figmas are mostly sold out. Luckily found someone selling both figmas in good unopened box condition.

The Troll Shaman is on Vacation

Ninei a year ago searching for Time-Lost Protodrake and
found Vyragosa's corpse instead

It's been awhile since you see posts about World of Warcraft. This is because the shaman has been offline for about a month now. The shaman's Acer 5720G still collecting dust, broken LCD and a near possibility with a defective Nvidia 8400M GS. For now the netbook MSI Wind is in play,  before when the netbook was running WinXP we can run WoW with a reasonable Frames per Second thru Directx using Intel Graphics. Good running quests and 5man instances, but definitely harder to be on 25 mans, 10 mans is quite nice also.

Since we are running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on it now, its OpenGL drivers is only 1.2 whereas running wow on opengl needs atleast 2.1 same on the Acer.

Stormtroopers Inlove

It's good to see inlove people like Red and Jonny over at flickr. The photo album features their honeymoon, and their shared fun and interests. One thing I can say to have a lasting relationship is sharing common interests, they sure did find theirs.

This couple is cute and awesome. They sure made every moment fun. Very inspiring to see them, share everything and everyday life.

I might as well get a couple of stormtrooper helmet myself for me and my wife. lol

The Shaman's Acer 5720G with Busted LCD

The shaman's gear, ACER 5720G has a busted LCD (no display) but the system overall is still good, has display using external monitor. I tried installing several Linux distro, but seems to have a garbled display. I have a doubt that the Nvidia 8400M GS might be busted or something.

How to unlock Echolife Bm622 Wimax Modem's Admin Settings

The shaman wants to share a procedure to unlock your Echolife BM622 CPE Wimax modem's Admin Settings. This is for Globe Wimax Modems so you can see additional settings, be advised not to play with your configuration if you don't know what you are doing. It may make things worst, for those of you that doesn't receive your subscribed speed, i.e people who subscribed for the 1 mbps plan and receiving half or around 500kbps, your are bandwidth capped from Globe's datanet server. The modem has nothing to do with it. You will need to call customer service to update your account.

To unlock your Modem, open up a web-browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Oracle, Safari, Iceweasel, etc) and go to url "http://192.168.1.1" and login with this credentials, username: user and password: user.

If all else fails, compile your own kernel

The shaman is currently compiling his own kernel via ssh. Installing gentoo to an acer 5720g laptop with dead LCD, so installing it via ssh is the best option.

How to Unlock Smartbro USB HSDPA Modem

WM66A Longcheer HSDPA USB Modem

This will be a guide for you guys that wanted to unlock your usb hsdpa modem dongle, but doesn't know how. First things first, the shaman doesn't know what kind of modem smartbro is using.  This one is WM66A.(looked it up on google.)

Step 1. Google is your friend. Always, if you don't know something and wanted to know and doesn't know who to ask. Google it up, you might end up to find that there are others like you looking for the same answers. You will be surprised to dig up something somewhere, and might also have a scenario that your question have been answered to the nth time since last year. You will be lucky then, and follow the instructions you will find. I googled it up and found some message boards discussing about unlocking your usb dongle.

Penne Pasta Carbonara

The shaman loves pasta, particularly penne pasta and so much as penne carbonara.  Happy Dinner to all.

The Shaman, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and MSI Wind

Yes, finally decided to take my wife's MSI wind to open source operating systems. Featuring Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Right now, after installing linux, I am right now updating the system, while waiting for it to finish, I decided to post my progress.

Great lunch

Had a great lunch today, honey glazed porkchop, pacham, fried tilapia. I will soon cook some myself and show you guys. For now its all tweets.

Been out of the loop

Its been awhile since my last post, I've been working on a joomla site at www.panaseanrealty.com. It is a real estate brokerage website I developed for my uncle.

Check it out guys, let me know what you think by commenting below. Thanks

The shaman hits 20

Today the shaman hits level 20, now i can get my first mount so traveling thru the world gets more easier and faster than running on foot. At 16 I got my ghost wolf form, running speed at 40% and 60% on the mount.

Welcome to www.dashaman.com

I have decided to host my blog with its own domain name. Still in the process of migrating stuffs. Will post progress from time to time.

A Journey of a Troll Shaman

I've started a new troll shaman in a whole new world. The harsh world of a pvp realm, where meeting an opposite faction possess a threat. I am now a bonafide Horde. I was a former Alliance, played as a warrior and a shaman. I am new to the journey where all hordes takes. When Cataclysm hits the shelf I would like to try rolling with a worgen, but I wouldn't be a shaman anymore. Since there are no shamans for worgen class.

Globe Wimax Review Final Take

I have been newly subscribed with Globe Wimax, so I can give my take with this 4G infrastructure Globe is boasting about consistent and stable broadband wireless internet. What I notice about this is that, when you first subscribed the installers will bring the blender (Globe Wimax Modem), and an aerial antenna. When you subscribed for 1mbps, you will only get 512 kbps bandwidth. The technician/installers said it will take a few days to get your blender MAC address configured on the datanet server so it will give you your subscribed speed. You can speed it up by making a call to support but one call is not enough, However the representatives is not very helpful and delude you that the problem is with the subscriber setup, like computer hardware, antenna, everything that they can think of to get you to stop whining.

Globe Wimax Review Second Look

I made a review on globe wimax recently, check it here. I was doing my usual task, and decided to test my bandwidth, out of the blue and noticed an improvement.

The thing is, my house is under renovation, that needed me to relocate my stuff. So I setup my globe wimax modem outside the house in our nipa hut at the backyard, grabbed my antenna from the roof and just put the antenna pole on the side of the nipa hut roof with no strings attached. It is a temporary location. I have less signal in this location but higher link quality signal, two bars on the blender (globe wimax modem).
Signal strength at 49%, Link Quality(CINR Reuse1) at 19% and Link Quality(CINR Reuse3) at 29%




Got this bandwidth. Hooray! Finally after three weeks of constant calls to customer support. It finally got what i subscribed for.

Better than having this from my previous speedtest.

Ashitaba: Tommorow's Leaf

Ashitaba (Japanese name "ashitaba", Angelica Keiskei Koidzumi), or commonly called by Filipinos as "Asitaba," A herbal plant originated from Izlu Island. That gives profound effect if administered vocally orally like a lettuce. My father at age 60 consumed the herb regularly, and he experienced a revitalizing effect with his eye sight. He usually uses a reading glass in able to read text messages with the help of magnifying glass. Afterwards, he doesn't use the glasses anymore. With his arthritis also, that usually gets a load of his uric acid and making his feet swollen has magically improved. Several friends of him have began using the said plant, and testified favorable results in their blood pressure, diabetes and colon ailments. I am also convinced, and using its boiled leaves to make milk for my two baby girls. I also have tried and used ashitaba leaves to several dishes such as papaitan, sinigang, tokwa't baboy, nilaga, bulalo, adobong pusit and ensalada.  Later I will post articles on how to use ashitaba as veggie to common filipino dishes. Making your everyday food into a healthy meal. So stay tuned. It's up to you my readers to believe it or not, you can always do more research in order for you to determine if this benefits you or not.

Why the shaman?

I play as a shaman in World of Warcraft, Alexstrazsa Realm US. As an elemental spec for DPS and as a Healer for Instance and Raid.

I miss WoW, haven't been playing for about a month now.

Globe wimax speedtest

Here is a video of another speedtest using Globe Wimax using wi-tribe speed test tool and speedtest.net using Globe Mandaluyong server.

Another unhappy day of fast internet by Globe wimax technology.

Globe Wimax Review

Recently subscribed to Globe Wimax to get 4G technology. I have availed the 1 mbps package for 995 pesos.

What I can say is that, the signal is consistent. There are very few bumps I encounter, intermittent disconnection.  My signal strength is around 80-90% seems good so far.
Now with the juicy part of reviews when it comes to internet service providers, the speed test.

Just made my watermark template.

Yes, got myself my own watermark I'll be using henceforth on my image uploads.

 I miss my linux system, its easier to find the right software whenever you need one.

 The watermark software I got was a trial ware, but it would be nice to have something to use to get batch photos watermarked than one by one using adobe photoshop.