DIY: Archers Shoulder Transformer a.k.a Archery Rigid Formaster

My day job chains me to the desk from 7:00AM to 6:00PM.  Plus a few extra hours to make sure I survive the week.  Not to mention I’m still on call until 7:00AM of the next day and that our areas sl***m****r frowns on employees who go home when the clock strikes 6PM or those who do not render free overtime.  It’s part of time management “it” says.

I can only shoot arrows during weekends i.e. if the weather cooperates. Which means my development in archery both mentally and physically are stunted by the very thing that keeps me supplied with arrows. Tough luck.

My first attempt at simulating shooting arrows was to use a thick rubber band and pretended it was a fully loaded recurve bow by holding it with my bow hand and pullling it with my other hand.  I kept at it for a couple of days and just quit.  There has to be a better way. Continue reading

Road Map 1: Paypal, Mobile Phones and Your Email

Dollars dollars dollars

It is now very hard to earn large sums of dollars.  What once was super easy to do is now super difficult to achieve.  But the keyword here is that it is still doable.  With the right amount of planning and persistence,  significant amounts of income can still be squeezed out of the internet.

 

First, we will be going to establish your passive income network.  Passive income is income not earned from work.  It is revenue generated from any trade or business in which “You” or “Me” does not materially participate.  Think about book royalties and room rentals. Continue reading

Pentax Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) Camera Simulator

In my world, there are only types of cameras: Pentax and others. Why? What do you mean why? There is no why. It just is.

It is a fact that the best photographs were taken not by the best equipment but by those who used their heart, head and eye.  Still it goes without saying that a better understanding of the camera functions.. be it a Pentax or Others… is an essential to a time stopping photograph.
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A Roadmap to Little Riches

Money Money Money... In the rich mans wealth.

Don’t let the title fool you.  I was just trying to make it sound cool.  So what do you say to making “lots” of money.  I’m talking here about real money.  Not the kind  of money you earn when you waste your life toiling in Farm town or robbing helpless A-holes in Mafia Wars.  If you can spend hours and hours in Farm Town… OK!!! Farmville too… would you be willing to spend half of your wasted time (yes in the internet) to generate extra income?

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Tread Softly

Some people have surmised that the only way to be truly rich is to be poor.

The Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yeats

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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You Never Knew by tingkerbell

Sunrise behind a forgotten chruch

Everybody must have had a point in their life when something was forcibly torn from them.  That tear was so complete that recovery seemed impossible and that the only sane thing to do was waste away. But my journey has taught me otherwise. Time does heal all wounds and scars will always be there as a reminder.

Here are a few words from somebody named tinkerbell. She has a way with words that has aptly described the day when I realized wasting away was never an option to begin with. Continue reading

Road Rage and Insane Tricycle Drivers

Driving is a good teacher. It never fails to amaze me after so many years the lessons it provides to those willing to take notice. Take driving in General Santos City, one can never get enough of the roads jammed with tricycles.

Today I learned not to give in to road rage. I was happily chugging along in my BMW (in my dreams) when the tricycle ahead of me suddenly stopped in the middle of the highway to pick-up a passenger. No signals or anything… just a complete stop. Fortunately, I was able to step on the brakes and swerve to the right.

Beware of tricycle drivers. Most of them have the philosophy of nobody will touch me because Im just a teeny weeny tricycle.

Beware of tricycle drivers. Most of them have the philosophy of "nobody will touch me because I'm just a teeny weeny tricycle".

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NOW, LOOK AT!!!

Someone from facebook reminded me of this funny outburst from an ROTC commandant.

GED DEM IT CADET!!!
I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO IT!
NOW YOU DID IT!
NOW, LOOK AT!!!

Which also reminds me of Putol… the war torn commandant that ruled the LB ROTC with an iron hand (wala ngang ‘s’ kasi putol nga eh ang kulit).

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A Two Timer’s Goodbye

This post comes from my old Friendster blog. Ow. Friendster. It’s been 2 years since I’ve last visited it.  Anyway this poem was a note given to me a few years back when I was still bumming around in Los Baños.

Two timers's goodbyeI  like its melacholic spirit that I kept it for a time only to rediscover it again floating around the internet.  Amazingly the original was written by someone using the nick “teng”.  It was submitted to a website (i forgot which) and edited again by a certain “mimi”. However, the note given to me had additional words that I think did not come from “teng”. The additional words are in bold characters below.

Still it is a great poem.  I could almost see her again but not that clear anymore as someone has already taken permanent residence in my heart.  This time forever.

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Money Matters Again

Another old one… from an old blog.

“I remember browsing through a book in a dusty and dimly lit secondhand bookshop in Calamba. The book was written by some hot-shot woman named Zebra… Denton, Benton, Lebron… or something that sounds vaguely similar. It was all about creating mind sets and gearing it up to earn lots and lots of money. The book begins with changing how we look at money.

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