New blog/website: Urban Rivals Guide

It's been almost 3 months since I discovered Urban Rivals while playing the game on my iPod Touch. Since then I have been playing the game almost everyday as long as I have a wifi connection. With that said I have written several Squidoo lenses about the game and yesterday, I finally purchased the domain "urbanrivalsguide.com" and create my own game guide website/blog under that said domain using blogger.com as my content management system.

A Day of blog updates

I was fortunate that today is a non-working holiday and I was able to do some blog updates on some of my blogs. Some are really in need of an update (been really busy of of late) so here are the blogs that I recently updated:

ICNSQ Tech blog (2 posts)
CNSQ Online Blog (Web Development / Wordpress) - (2 posts)
Visual CNSQ - 2 New Photos
Digitaltoolz
How to update your Twitter via SMS using Gladlycast

Also for Urban Rivals fanatics
Urban Rivals deck construction tips
Best Cards in Urban Rivals

Check them out now

New blog: Crime Scene TV Blog

I've been a long-time fan of forensic-themed TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, NCIS, and Criminal Minds and the new ones like NCIS: Los Angeles, The Mentalist, Lie to Me, and the newest Criminal Minds spin-off show.

And on that note, I created a blog about these shows called Crime Scene TV blog which is a blog about the aforementioned shows.

So if your into these shows I invite you to please do visit my Crime Scene TV blog and please do leave some comments on some of my blog post.

Kadayawan 2010 Festival Starts This week

It's August again and it's also the start of the Kadayawan Festival which is celebrated annually usually on the second week of August. For those who aren't aware, The term "Kadayawan" is derived from the Mandaya word “madayaw”, a warm and friendly greeting used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good, or profitable.

Expect tourists from other parts of the world will grace this annual event. I'm still hoping the I can get my own DSLR camera so that I can join the coverage of some of the events like pictures here taken by miss Jojie Alcantara.

Friday the 13th Blog

Actually there's really no special reason for this blog post just because it the Friday the 13th, but to some who believe in the urban legend that this day is called the "unluckiest day" is (in humble opinion) an exaggeration because they put in mind that the 13th day that fall on a Friday is always unlucky.

I believe that things happen for a reason and we should not put our minds into this "dreaded" number that has hounded most people

Lunch at Coco's South Bistro

Another Sunday Afternoon blog for me and I would like to do a short review about our experience at Coco's South Bistro. My brother has been raving about the baby-back ribs on this place and my wife and I decided that we try it out. When we arrive at the place, it was not yet full as it still quite early (we went in around 11:30 AM). We ordered Onion Rings (for appetizers),  Baby Back Ribs, Chicken Salad with Caesar's Salad dressing, Corn-on-a-Cob (my daughter's favorite).

The food was great and I will really recommend the Baby Back Ribs as it is tender and very tasty. If you want to try it out Coco's South Bistro is located at Victoria Plaza compound, JP Laurel Avenue, Davao City (beside Metro Bank).

Update Twitter and Plurk via SMS

I have been having some problems with my internet connection here at home as of late so I wasn't able to update my Twitter and Plurk statuses online. Good thing a colleague of mine at work suggested that I use Gladycast. It's an online service on which you can update your Twitter and /or Plurk via SMS by associating your mobile number to your Twitter or Plurk account. And since then I never miss a tweet or plurk in a day. 

Live Writing Again

It’s been a while since I used Window Live Writer since most of the time there’s an internet connect, Yet as of this writing, the internet connection here at home is still intermittent for the past three days now. I don’t know why that everytime there’s a rain, the out ISP connection bugs out. *sigh*.

I would that by the time this blog post gets posted online, that our ISP (which I will is called “PLDT”) would finally stabilize their internet connection. 

Final Fantasy 8 Triple Triad Game on PC

Its been years since I finished playing Final Fantasy VIII during my early college years and since then, I got hooked on the the trading card mini-game called Triple Triad. Just recently I found a like on some gaming forum that we can play the same game of Triple Triad on our very own PC computer by going to the Triple Triad Gold site and download the game for free.

You can also play the game with your friends via your local network or with your friends online and experience the games like those times when your playing it on the Playstation.

The Hof Gorei Beach Resort Escapade

This is a late post as this happened on July 17, 2010. We visited Hof Gorei Beach Resort (located at Kaputian, Island Garden City of Samal ) as part of our company's team building workshop. I won't be able to talk more about the place since I was to busy with the team building but I would say that we had a good time on that place.

Urban Rivals and Warstorm Online Trading Card Games

Online trading card games has been my favorite pass time for recent month now since I can no longer afford to go back playing in playing Magic:The Gathering might as well play games similar to it online.

Some of the games I am playing (which I play on Facebook) is Warstorm and Urban Rivals. Warstorm is very much closer to MTG in terms of the fantasy theme that it brings but unlike MTG each faction is divided between the following races: Humans, Elves, Orcs, Undead and Demons.

On the other hand Urban Rivals has a different style of play and theme from Warstorm. UR has a street fighting theme with over twenty different factions or "clans" (unlike the Warstorm which only has five). You can create a deck of eight cards from one or several clans depending on the success of the dynamics of each card similar to what we do on MTG.  Urban Rivals can be played on three seperate online venues: It can be played from the main Urban Rivals site, as the aforementioned Facebook app and in your iPhone and iPod Touch as an App.