The St. Louis Cardinals are going to the World Series

Last year the St. Louis Cardinals failed to reach the World Series as they were beaten by the eventual world series champions, the San Francisco Giants. This year they are in the National League Championship this time against the popular team, Los Angeles Dodgers.

Today, the St. Louis Cardinal finally beat Los Angeles Dodger 9-0 with a very dominant pitching performance by the series MVP Michael Wacha. The Cardinal will wait for the winner Boston Red Sox - Detroit Tigers ALCS series as the World series will be held first on the American League Champions home field.

Apple to Announce iOS 7 and iPhone 5C & iPhone 5S

For gadget geeks like me the announcement of the Apple's upcoming release of the iOS 7 operating system as well as the announcement of the two new version of the iPhone aptly call the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S.  What's interesting about the new iPhones is that the latest versions uses gold casing which is change from it previous hard glass back casing. 

There will be a Live Blogging Event from the Cupertino headquarters on the day of the release so it would be wise for Apple lovers to mark this event on your calendars.

Football Season is here

September is one of the busiest season in the United States as Football (the American football sport not Soccer) Season starts this week. Both the National Football League (NFL) and College Football (NCAA) will be the topic of discussions by most American as this sport is one the most exciting sport of all.

I am one of few Filipinos who follows this sport as compared to the majority who are  basketball fanatics. If someone would ask why you prefer football over other professional sport? Simple. It only takes one game to determine the champion (compare to basketball, baseball or even hockey which would need 4 wins out of 7 games to determine the champion).

There are several Filipinos who play or has  played in the NFL: Eugene Amano formerly of the Tenesee Titans, Chris Gocong formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles and the most popular Manila born NFL player is Tim Tebow.

Upcoming Movie to Watch: RoboCop (The Remake)

 The Original RoboCop was released in 1987 which stars Peter Weller and it's considered one of the acclaimed movies at that time. Next year, RoboCop the Reboot version is surprising good visually and as the trailer shows it has much better action. My only personal comment about the reboot is that the new RoboCop looks more like Judge Dredd than a cyborg supercop, but the rest of the movie looks promising.

Celebrity Sex Scandals: Why They Never Learn

Sex Scandals have been one the most talk about topics in interwebs particularly in on social media to the point that it spreads like adding gasoline to already dangerous fire. 

Recently there was the Chito Miranda - Neri Naig Sex Video on which the video was supposedly obtained from the stolen hard drive of the Mr. Miranda. Now there's a new one this time it's comedian Wally Bayola having a tryst with EB Babe Yosh Rivera.  This new sex scandal has a much harsher outcome as both personalties might lose their jobs and on the case of mr. Bayola he might go to prison for concubinage since he's married.

My take on this events is that why these celebrities risks on engaging on recording their "private moments" with the risk of being distributed illegally and spread it all over the Internet. In this day of age of the social media, Everyone should be responsible on what they do may it be "offline" or "online".

To end this blog post here are some words to live by:

"If you play with fire, you'll likely to get burned" #justsaying

54 Fantastic Everyday Scenes From The Philippines

Based on the the everyday news and daily lives, the Philippines is known for it's boxing (Manny Pacquiao, Brian Villoria and Nonito Donaire to the the famous foods like Adobo, Lechon even the famous exotic food "Balut". However I found a nice article called 54 Fantastic Everyday Scenes From The Philippines which showcases the Philippines' fantastic sceneries that travellers might want to check out when they visit.

I am  proud to know that  Davao City has several mentions on this list which includes Kadayawan Festival and the Talikud Island. 

Spurs Watch: My newest Sports Blog

The blogger in me has been dormant for quite sometime now but I got renewed vigor when I was so very active in discussing my favorite NBA team, the San Antonio Spurs. At least talking about basketball has a larger following here in my country unlike my ultimate favorite sport which is american football (NFL).

My new blog is entitle Spurs Watch which is blog about the San Antonio Spurs. I usually post my opinions about the latest new about the Spurs which includes but not limited to the off-season, the summer league, the NBA draft and of course the upcoming NBA seasons. 

So for loyal fans of the San Antonio Spurs, visit my blog at Spurs Watch

note: The Spurs logo is a copyright of the San Antonio Spurs and the National Basketball Association

MY Top 10 Songs that you should play when you drive

If you plan to take a vacation by land or if you just want to have a "feel good" feeling while driving here are some of the best songs that you can play on your mobile sound system.

1.) Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
2.) Glass Tiger - Someday
3.) Lou Gramm - Just Between You and Me
4.) Toto - Home of the Brave
5.) Kenny Loggins -Playing with the Boys
6.) Judas Priest - Painkiller
7.) 30 Seconds to Mars - Closer to the edge
8.) Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked
9.) Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane
10.) Shinedown - If You Only Knew

For serious metals head (like me) you can add these on your list:

Shadows Fall - What Drives The Weak
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
Devil Driver - Clouds Over California
AC/DC - Dirty Deed Done Dirt Cheap
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Lamb of god - Black Label or Pathetic
Megadeth - Train of Consequences or Holy Wars..the Punishment Due
Primal Fear - Six Times Dead (16.6)
Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bone Trailer

 I have been a fan of the young adult book series called The Mortal Instruments series by renowned author Cassandra Clare since last year and I was able to finish all of the five books (with the 6th and final book entitled City of Heavenly Fire which will be release next year). There were buzz that there will be a film adaptation of the book "City of Bones" which stars Lily Collins as Clary Fray and Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace Weyland. 

As with other book-to-film titles this would be much anticipated film by the fans of the book and personally I would hope this film hold up and do the book justice.

Time to Reflect

It's been a while since I posted an update on my personal blog and good thing it's Holy Week which gave me some time to ponder and do some spiritual reflections. Clearing my mind from burdens of work and other things. 

We all need the time for some spiritual reflection as this is the day that the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for our sins. 

May everyone has a safe Holy Week.

Google Panda and Penguin Survival Tips

Google has recently rolled out their Google Panda and Penguin updates to "clean up" search engine results from websites that are spammy and/or have low quality contents. As a webmaster or blogger you should know guidelines on how to avoid your website being penalized.

Here are links that you might want to check out:

Google Panda Tips

Google Panda: 5 Tips You Should Know

Google Panda (wikipedia)

Google Panda Survival Guide

Google Penguin Tips

10 Tips to Adapt Google Penguin

4 Tips to Avoid the Next Google Penguin Update

Google Penguin (wikipedia)

What is SEO? My personal explanation

A lot of people still does not understand what SEO is even though the said internet strategy has been around since the early incarnations of search engines. Working as an web designer/ webmaster and SEO specialist for quite sometime now I can share my two cents on what is SEO all about.

If we go over to wikipedia:

"SEO or Search Engine Optimization is "a process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results.  In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines".

Unlike Web Designing, Graphic Designing or Web Development on which once a website is built, you can now turn over the project to the client, SEO is an ongoing process since every website has its own degree of online presence, the better we do SEO to a website, the better we maintain his visibility on the first pages of each major search engines.