I only got to register for Eskwela.com a little while ago. Thanks to Celeni for the invite. Eskwela.com is a school social networking site, much like Friendster. You invite and add friends, and browse through other people’s profiles and “testimonials”, upload pictures and the works. Unlike Friendster however, this social networking site is specialized for students in the Philippines. Networks and cliques are formed through university, college, course, and/or batch associations. A part of the site is also dedicated for students’ classes where users may leave comments regarding the subject and the professors.

I haven’t totally browsed the site for all its features. This website looks promising. Registration is by invite only, as of now, as it is apparently just in its alpha stage.

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Who would contest that karaoke singing is one of the Filipinos’ most loved past times? I’ve recently stumbled upon a website that allows users to sing along to popular songs and even record their singing online for other users to listen to and rate.

Of course, it is no match for the real thing. K Solo is largely, as it’s name implies, a solo thing that one only enjoys in front of the computer without the company of friends, food and drinks.

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While browsing through my past blog entries on Undas, I noticed that I wasn’t able to post anything about it on 2004. That was the year we spent the Undas holidays with a vacation in Hong Kong and Beijing, China which was why we went to the cemeteries days before November 1.

These pictures were taken at Dangwa flower market in Sampaloc, Manila on October 29, 2004. I wonder if it still looks the same today. I haven’t been there since then.

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The coffee that will be served in our soon-to-open restaurant is sourced from my father’s homewtown, Amadeo, Cavite. This cup of cappucino is made with pure Barako coffee from Amadeo. It will cost someone 30 pesos.

Amadeo is the Philippine’s self-proclaimed coffee capital. My grandfather’s farm, aside from papayas, pineapple and cocoa, is planted mainly with coffee. As young children, much to the annoyance of our elders, my cousins and I would play on heaps of fresh and colorful coffee beans being sun-dried in the backyard.

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