Sunday Ride: Marifanta

MARIFANTA - Marilaque Twisties  and Infanta, Quezon (Marcos Highway R-6). This is the route for NOS' Year End Ride for 2011 last December, 11, 2011. Road Condition is smooth twisties to technical, a few rough and hazard cliffs, rain and fog.

Pic heavy stuff after the break.

Time to Remember, Time to Ride

The Shaman Supports MRO (Motorcycle Rights Organization), MAP (Motorcycle Advocates of the Philippines), H.E.L.M.E.T. (Help EncourageLawful Motorcycling Environment Together) and Time to Remember, Time to Ride Event on November 13, 2011. Excerpts from MRO Invitation from Motorcycle Philippines Federation as follows. Official Thread and discussion can be found here.

Final Ride Destination, Rules and Regulations and Agenda

WHAT: Time to Remember, Time to Ride
When: November 13, 2011
Where: Starting at SM Fairview (Group 1) to Macapagal Avenue (Group 2) and heading towards Aguinaldo Shrine, Kawit, Cavite
Group 1 (Main): SM City Fairview Parking Lot (Back area)
Group 2 (Sub): Petron Macapagal avenue
Assembly Group 1: 5:00AM
Assembly Group 2: 6:00AM
Takeoff Group 1: 5:30 – 5:45 AM SHARP
Takeoff Group 2: 6:30 – 7:00 AM (Will gear up and roll out before group one reaches Taft)

General Purpose of the Ride:To remind every rider of their main purpose and their reason for riding, may it be a hobby, a passion, a way of life or one’s means to commute. We share the roads with not just fellow riders, but other vehicles and pedestrians as well. How we must maintain dicipline, safety and responsibility for our property and when we take on the roads with our motorcycles. How we must be prepared to accept and acknowledge the problems and do our part in helping out in fixing these problems. How we must embrace change and help instill it with every single rider out there.

Sunday Ride: Laiya, Batangas

Petron, Lipa, Batangas @ 7:30 am

NOS sets out for a day ride last Sunday, October 30, 2011 to Laiya, Batangas. Took off 4:00 am in Manila down south thru SLEX service road heading to Calamba City by around 5:50 am. Clear Skies greets us and clear asphalts and pavement. Giving us smooth cruising to reach Lipa City by 7:30 am.

Head over the jump to check out more Pic heavy goodness.

How to make home-made pizza

Sometimes we get bored on a lazy Sunday or weekend, we then try to do something to keep us occupied. Now here is an easy way to make your day, Cooking a home-made pizza. This is very easy and if your ingredients is also easy to grab.

October Loots

cam phone: yuki trying out mikurus outfit

Once there is one and now they are Three. Recently acquired two Asahina Mikuru Figmas, 033 and 036.
Figma Asahina Mikuru Cheerleader version and the battle waitress version. Also have a little keychains with Mikuru grown-up version and school uniform version.

Tagaytay GPS Roadtrip

Traveling with GPS can be fun; here is a road trip to Tagaytay via private road inside Canlubang Estate, without using the most common roads.  

There are several ways to get to Tagaytay;

1. via Zapote - Dasmarinas - Silang

2. via SLEX - Starosa

3. via Tanuan Batangas - Talisay

4. Via Tanuan - Tagaytay Highlands (exclusive/private road)

5. Via Canlubang (private road)

Infolinks Ads Marketplace - The first Self-Service In-Text Advertising for your ad Campaign

Infolinks, the world's fastest growing In-Text Advertising network, have been served on this blog for about a year now. Recently they have launched a new model for Advertisers. The First Self-Service In-Text Advertising Marketplace where you can target specific contextual keywords that are relevant to your campaign and distribute it to 250 billion pages and reaches 350 million unique visitors each month.

Have you ever wondered what's the new Globe Wimax BM622i user password is?

BM622i

New BM622i modems being issued and released by Globe has new user passwords. To date, there is no known exploit to hack the admin user for this new set of modems that I am aware of. If your BM622 modem is not a patched firmware, unlocking its admin settings still works as I have posted here before. Now a new generation of modems such as BM622i has new passwords to begin with, the old user-user combo trick doesn't work anymore.

So have you ever wondered what's the password? 


Read more and I'll tell you what.

How to troubleshoot Garmin GPS Navigator on No-Name China GPS

Splash Screen booting up

Ever wondered buying cheaper GPS devices from your recent trip to China and later found out it can't get a decent satellite lock here in the Philippines? Here's what I did to workaround the problem.

I am refering to this no-name China GPS you can buy online from your favorite China goods seller. This particular device used for this guide is a 5 incher running a custom firmware and win ce 5. It comes preloaded with Garmin Mobile XT version 5.010W.

When I fired up Garmin it loads a script Garmin.mscr which preloads Port Splitter 1.20 before it loads the Garmin software. It takes forever when detecting satellites to lock into within Garmin. I have tried every ports listed and no luck.

Why Globe Customer Service Sucks?

First BM622i

The Shaman have been a Globe Wimax subscriber for more than a year. I made several Globe Wimax Experience Reviews a year ago here, here and here. I have two active accounts, mine and my sister's. Three weeks ago, we reported about the drastic slowdown of bandwidth giving us a pathetic 10-100kbps on my sister's account that we are paying for 1 mbps.

From our experience. Subscribers call on the hotline at 211 to report technical and customer service issues. Customer Service Representatives then files a report where a Job Number will be generated and passed on to Sub-Contractor On-Site Technicians that visits your service address to fix whatever there is to fix.

Wordless Wednesday: Fall in Line

Wordless Wednesday: Mirror Mirror

Wordless Wednesday: Thirst

Wordless Wednesday: Broken

Wordless Wednesday: Bite me

How to turn your PSP as a learning media for your kids.

My 3 year old baby "Ham" is addicted to PSP (Playstation Portable). She plays, Monster Hunter 3rd Portable, she can't hunt Dragons (Rathians or Rathalos) yet, but sure can hunt the small to medium monsters. Ham also plays Patapon 2 and Tombraider as an alternative. And occasionally World of Warcraft.

Lately it's been hard for me to part her away from my PSP. We argue over her playtime.

So I decided to turn her enthusiasm into a more productive experience, When she was 1 year old, I spent time teaching her ABC's with www.starfall.com a site dedicated to learning how to read, learning ABC's and numbers.

Wordless Wednesday: Our Old Rings

NOS Father's Day Ride to Kwebang Lampas

The Sands of Kwebang Lampas

150th Birthday of Dr. Jose Rizal celebrated June 19, 2011, Father's Day and NOS's RIDE Day while heavy rains devoured Manila.

Majority of the participants with this Ride to Kwebang Lampas, Pagbilao, Quezon was last accounted to 10 riders. Due to the rain and zero visibility, four remained and took off from Manila 0600, armed with rain gears, and trailed old highway alongside SLEX to head to Calamba City to join up with The Shaman (saisake mcp). 0730 the fantastic four arrives and becomes the furious five and continued on the journey. With minimal rain and dark to clear skies onwards, NOS cruised the road until they reached San Pablo City and stopped for a quick break (45 minutes to 1 hour.lol).

The journey just started, read on after the break.

Wordless Wednesday: Sleeping like a...

Globe Wimax plus One year of Service equals HP Officejet J3608 All-in-one

Globe Telecoms/Innove with their Globe Wimax offered us a Free HP Printer/Fax (Officejet All-in-one J3608) for being a subscriber for one year. Yes, It's been a year since my Globe Wimax Review here, here and here. They sent it thru courier after receiving a call from them regarding our One/First Year with the internet service.

The catch? Stay with them for a couple of years, two years to be exact. We have nothing against the service tho, except from the annoying customer service representatives. So we decided to stay, what the heck its FREE and we needed a new printer anyway.

The unboxing experience and test print up next.

Wordless Wednesday: Smokeless

A Troll is born

Figuratively speaking, My Baby boy, opens his eyes to a new and bigger world called life.

Alaric Gavin, or "buns" (a new brother to "ham" and "chiz", I know I have funny nicknames for my babies).
gave me a blank stare when I first saw him at the nursery, a few hours later. He's beside my wifey's bed, crying when he wakes up, use up his diapers with baby poo. That's right, I changed his diapers, his first one actually. The same way on my two girls.

Watching him sleep makes me think of the future ahead, what would he be like as a troll, err a kid. Where will he be interested on doing and all kinds of stuff that runs around my head. For now, I will enjoy his childhood, the same way I enjoy my baby girls childhood.

Random stills from the hospital after this break.

Troll Wife's Singing Sunflower Pet

Ninei's Troll Resto Shaman, recently acquired the "Singing Sunflower Pet." It actually sings from time to time, like a small girl's voice. Singing to the tune of Plants vs Zombies theme.

You can easily acquire this vanity pet by completing the chain quest, or should I say, play Plants vs Zombies, World of Warcraft Style.

Wordless Wednesday: On guard duty

Wordless Wednesday: The Troll's first Wordless Wednesday

Troll's Sunday Ride with The Like Riders Pilipinas

The Troll (saisake - Nouvo Owner's Society from MCP boards) rides with TLC (The Like Club Pilipinas) last Sunday. A quick ride to Real, Quezon for a little road adventure, Twisties and a lot of cornering.

Responsible Riding, Traveling, and Comraderie are the three basic things you will have if you travel in packs. Inclusive with a bayanihan meal of seafoods served in a long table on banana leaves.

A group of riders left Calamba at 6:30  am, and a few more joined us from Los banos, and Sta Cruz until we reached Famy/Siniloan Area where we meet up with the Manila Pack who traversed Rizal and Marilaque Area. Together we joined force to travel Real-Siniloan Road.

More Photos after the cut.

The Troll salvaged whats left on a defective 250GB Hard Drive

The troll was able to salvage files from MSI Wind's defective Drive, all in-tact from /home ext4 partition.

Using CDRKING's IDE to USB Bridge and a cool gadget to bridge  SATA and IDE.

It took awhile to read files due to data corruption, but was still be able to extract the files from the disk. After a few hours of it, was able to delete every partition; swap, /, /home and created a single ntfs partition.

The bad news is it's having hard time reading data. Saving files on it is very risky so I might use it as a nice paper weight. More Photos after the break.

Mother's Day Date with the Troll's Wife

Happy Mother's Day

For all mothers out there, The Shaman greets you Happy Mother's Day.

My wife and I hanged out at SM Calamba City and watched Fast Five. Action-packed and oozing with pure awesomeness. For those of you who haven't seen it, watch it you will surely enjoy every minute of it. [Spoiler Alert] After the Movie flashes the cast and credits, stay in your seat, there will be a short Movie that will leave you hanging.

Ninei had her hair done at the salon for a little trimming. Then we head out to be surprised that there is now a Mernels cakes at the ground floor. Now if you are not from around Calamba City and Los Banos Area, but have visited our hot-spring resorts in Pansol and aware of our Buko Pies. You need to try out Mernel's Cakes & Pastries.

Figma Mirai Suenaga

Figma Mirai Suenaga will be on shelves on June 2011 on play-asia.

Another Figma on my current wishlist, the beautiful Mirai Suenaga, Danny Choo's Mascot.

Photos grabbed from goodsmile.info.

You know the drill, if you want more photos head over the read more link or click here.

Figma Miku Hatsune now on Pre-Order

Goodsmile will be releasing their Figma. Miku Hatsune featuring a new design set for November 2011.

The 100th Figma sculpted by Masaki Asai. Photos grabbed from goodsmile.info

Found her on pre-order at Hobby-Search.

More Photos after the break.

Weekend BBQ

Weekends are great time to have family bonding and cooking.

Here are some simple dishes we had that made us occupied.

More close up images after the break.

How to Replace Harddisk on MSI Wind

The 250 GB Hard Drive (OEM)

This is How, Use some precision screwdrivers to remove the screws from the back side of the laptop.
There's no need to remove the keyboard panel, just the backside only.
First is to remove the battery out of the way, then track down the screw holes.
Use your thumb to lightly lift the plastic on either side of the battery bay.

Don Henrico's Festival Mall, Alabang Experience

It's been awhile since my last blog post, the shaman have been busy with stuff here and there.

Earlier this evening, I visited Festival Mall in Filinvest Alabang. Meet up with wifey and have dinner. This is not a review but my experience with an ordinary fellow whom I would say enthusiastic and dedicated.

Kudos to the security guard named "Makki," He's the guy wearing long sleeved polo barong looking like PSG (Presidential Security Group) the counterpart for Secret Service for the US. He's the guy incharge of the door welcoming customers, opening door and such.

I prefered eating outside so I can smoke, this guy welcomed me and offered a table inside. I insisted to eat outside otherwise. He gaved me the menu, my wife ordered pizza and a double roast rib. Then beer for me and bottomless iced tea for wifey.

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Monster Sandwich

My PSP is in use again thanks to MHP3, and a couple
of ham sandwich my wife made.

This is my first post for 2011, I have been busy since last December 2010. A lot of things happen one after another.

With the recent release of Monster Hunter Portable 3, the shaman raids and hunt dragons and monsters.  Rathian, Rathalos, and Tigrex is my top 3 favorites from earlier versions of MH series.

Still in Japanese version, with a few english patch. Still waiting for the US version to go out.