A friend of mine Nikki! Taken in Serena Resort, Moalboal, Cebu City.

San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen

One of my favorite! I know you’ve seen this image already, so here’s the original! If you want to use this photo just let me know.

The Beach

Cheers to the Sun

My Band of Brothers

Taken in Bantayan. Patrick took the photo, made some enhancements in Photoshop. This is the only photo on this set which is a Point and Shoot and camera has been used. The rest were taken on my Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile Phone which is so handy!

I’ve been wanting to see this movie!! I am an X-Men fan! Can’t wait to watch this this coming May!
And yes I saw Gambit and the little white hair prolly its Storm.

Well, this calendar is a flip calendar the one that you maybe have on your desk.  This will be printed and you are entitled to have a copy of this calendar.  This calendar is from January-December of which I planned to distribute second week of January 2009 or earlier.

Since I’m still waiting for sponsors response, I made another plan if ever we couldn’t find one, which is I am going to give the full resolution of this file to you (January - December including the cover page).  So may have the option to print it and style your own flip calendar.  But that is just my Plan B.  And we still have a lot of time to find one.  Still being positive I know we could get sponsors.  So sponsors, this is an opportunity for you.

Here’s the preview.  Hope you like it! (I know you love this one!)

The other step of which some have been helping me out for looking a generous sponsor, this part is crucial in the success of this project. I thank Iris Camille of PinayAds for helping me out looking for sponsors. To be positive, we’ll get sponsors since this is the first Blogger Calendar to be released.

UPDATE - 12/12/08

Total cost of printing for the 50 flip calendars is now P 14,950 each would cost P 299.00 pesos.  Wrong computation was given to me yesterday.

Right now 6 generous sponsors will do.  Sponsorship was reduced to two thousand five hundred P 2,500.

UPDATE

This is how the calendar will look like. I made a canvass already for the printing and binding of the 2009 Blogger Calendar and it would cost around P 17,500 14,950. But, but, I’m still on negotiation with REDTAG which will handle the printing and binding for sponsorship.

The final list of bloggers who made it to the first 2009 Blogger Calendar.

January - Rabsin_d, Kevin Ray Chua and Jehzlau
February - Gail, Tonyo Cruz and dRei
March - Redlan, Mel and Bong
April - Chiq Montes, Ria Jose and Iris Mejia Acosta
May - Micamyx, Sire Arevalo and Mark Monta
June - Dong Ho, Drew and Earthlingorgeous
July - Winston, Kosa and Madjik
August - RJ, Mark Aethen and Fjordan
September - Ada Lajara, Sarah and Liquidskinn
October - Paul Villacorta, Mark and Hannah
November - Curside Puppet, Ponchong and Sinjin
December - Abou, Rara and Montsch Acosta

Thank you for supporting this project! And please check your emails for further instructions. Hope you could submit your photo by this week.

For Sponsorship

I’m planning to only have 6 generous sponsors.  Generous enough to sponsor three two thousand five hundred pesos.  But still a fair worth of one thousand five hundred pesos is welcome.  So what do sponsors get?

• Logo on the cover page
• Logo on every month
• Logo on the sponsor page
• Sponsors will be acknowledge by the participating bloggers.

Are you ok with these guys? Or if you have any brilliant ideas on your mind please let me know.  Thank you!

January, April, July, August, September, November and October are already full.

For those who have joined already kindly submit 3 different photos of yourself, preferably wholebody of halfbody shot.  Could be formal or your wacky shot, do it in your creative way.  And please do not submit images with pornographic or nude content.

Thank you again and kindly please share it to others!  Still working on the sponsors so hang on or If you knew someone who would like to sponsor this feel free to email me at pwvillacorta [at] gmail [dot] com .

Thank you all!

UPDATE

Only 2 slots left, 1 for June and May.

UPDATE

FInal list has been moved on this link.

This time I will be making the calendar featuring three (3) bloggers on each month.  I am planning to print this out and I’ll find sponsors so that I could send a free copy if you wish to join this 2009 Blogger Calendar.  I hope you could help me save time by referring me to some sponsors so that by January I could start distributing it.  A target of 50 copies will be distributed for the bloggers who participated and the rest will be for the sponsors.

For those who wanted to become a sponsor,  I will put a logo icon on each month and a sponsor page.  For inquiries feel free to email me at pwvillacorta [at] gmail [dot] com

If you want to know how it will look like, I made a sample.

If you wish to participate, feel free to comment and put the month you want.
ex:

Paul Villacorta
October
http://www.paulvillacorta.com
and email me also your personal pic at pwvillacorta [at] gmail [dot] com

I will update this one for the final list of those who joined! Stay cool and keep the excitement!!

UPDATE
This is exclusive for Filipino Bloggers and this is limited only to 36 Bloggers.

UPDATE
I have moved the list on this link.

I am sharing my selected artworks which I have personally created for myself since 2005.  Good thing I still have my copies on my hard drive.  I didn’t know I already have created more than hundred of artworks which some are for other companies that I have been working as a freelance during college.

These are some that I did during my vacant hours.  I have never been into an Art Course or Art Class.  I learned this the hard way and I really really really love art!

Faint

Hope

Abstract

- I’m just playing with some Photoshop brushes which I got from Smashing Magazine.

iPod RED

Nike AirMax 360

Paris Trip

- A Parin inspired design.  This was supposed to be a design for sling shoulder bags.

Durian

- A fruit only in Davao City, Philippines.  Some says that this fruit smells like shit but it really tastes like heaven.

iPaul

- an iPod inspired having a theme of “I see no evil, say no evil and hear no evil”

Strawberry

- been in love with this fruit, so I made this one on an MS Paint due to the unavailability of Photoshop being not installed on the computer.

Boo

- my first Vector Illustration artwork which I followed on a tutorial on a magazine Digital Art.  This was around 2006 already, and it was followed by an illustration work of my face.

Me

- my second vector illustration art, me as the portrait.

Beat It

- this was the original version of my Beat It v2.0 which I have submitted as my entry on Art In Site magazine.  Drawn by Nicole Oropesa and digitized by me in a Vixel (Vector + Pixel) art.

It’s just a week passed when they introduced the Video Chat on GMail and now they’re showing more! Kinda cool eh?! We love new things on those things were using on.

How do I change my theme? I’m too excited!!

1.) Upon checking your mail you will notice this Notification Layer located on top of your GMail screen below Google Services. see image below

Or

2.) If you didn’t find the Notification Layer, just go directly to Settings -> Themes

My friend was jealous because I already have this kind of feature on my GMail.  He didn’t have it yet, if you felt the same way with my friend… Just wait for a while, for sure Google will give it to you!

Updated! Previews

After several hours of being in a “Maintenance Mode” its quite alarming already.  So I checked on Friendster’s Forum and Ross made a post

We’re aware of the problem that some users are having with missing friends.  We experienced a major power outage the other day, that we’re still recovering from.

We are actively working on resolving the problem with missing friends.  Rest assured that no friends have actually been lost — even though it may appear so on the website!  The problem should be fixed within the next 24 hours.  We apologize for this inconvenience.

Friendster Team

So its a power outage eh? Another post which leads to a much specific information where did this occur.

A friend of mine just called me to tell me that QTS’s Sunnyvale had a major power event today. Details are slim, but apparently it was an entire site outage. He told me that he’s about 50th in line to get access to the facility right now. Due to this outage, Friendster is offline right now.
- mhalligan

Now that its clear what happened you might try logging in now into your account.  Friendster’s already up tho there are still some inconsistencies and page errors that you might encounter.

Just a while ago friendster have posted a Service Update on their Friendster Blog.  Click on the link below.
Friendster Service Update - please read

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but this project is not associated with my employer in any way.) - t_rank

No cool images and designs can be found on the website yet, if you wanna know why? you may read Twitterank FAQ.

I have a Twitterank of 33.52 on my twitter account. Check your Twitterank too!

So it is true, rumors that made to be real.  Nowadays Filipinos are into the craze of the online world, and this time Apple Online Store is here in the Philippines.

Check out their Exclusive benefits like Mac Customization, Free Personal Engraving & Signature and Gift Wrap and more.  You might get a chance to have a limited Apple T-shirt if you purchase a new Mac or iPod.

Check Apple Online Store (Philippines) now!

This killer feature sure is gonna kick off! Since I’ve been using GMail chat most of the time, this time I might be able to chat lively with my friends, clients and my Cebu Directories colleagues.

Read the full post of Google’s Gmail Blog

Well last November 1st, WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 was released as the first public beta and then a week after WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 was released and its ready for testing.  For me beta 2 seemed to be stable compared to its early version.  With about 23 major and minor fixes from the previous beta this beta version seems ready to be the final version.  Detailed information of changes could be seen here.

Download WP 2.7 Beta 2

And for the complete transcript see it on CNN Obama’s Victory Speech Transcript

The soft launching of Defcon Philippines (DefconPH) on December 20, 2008 will bring together IT Security Professionals and Hackers to discuss their solutions, exploits and experiences in this complicated and critical field of IT Security arena. Attending this launching puts you one step ahead in preserving your company’s reputation, keeping your company solvent, and showing your value to your employer. DefconPH is a registered Defcon Group International as DC6332.

This half-day power packed event will cover the latest topics in IT security, hacking and protection. Learn how to avoid embarrassing and expensive data breaches, protect valuable information, and many more. Launching of this organization will commence in Handuraw, 460 Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City from 1PM to 6PM. For more details visit the official website at http://www.defconph.org or email maxtor@defconph.org now.