This is a very geek post for me, but I’m just stoked that my two-year old Zpdee connection suddenly gave me a speed boost, up to 1mbps. We’re paying about 900 bucks initially for around 380++kbps two years ago. About a year ago, the speed went up to 512kbps while maintaining the price. Zpdee didn’t [...]
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my zpdee now hitting 1mbps
Posted: October 16, 2008 in Personal Thoughts, TechnologyTags: chewy chua, chewychua, internet, internet connectivity, speed upgrade, zpdee
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Things I want, 2008 edition
Posted: September 27, 2008 in Gadgets, Personal Thoughts, TechnologyTags: chewy chua, chewychua, desires, gravanity, needs, wants
Last year, I posted this on my multiply site: http://chewychua77.multiply.com/journal/item/33/Things_I_need…_alteratively_titled_as_things_I_want “… I decided to make a list of the stuff I think I need and not just want… 1. a nice dell/acer/hp laptop with at least a pentium core 2 duo at 1.66ghz (up to 2.0ghz) at least 1gb ram (2 better) about 120gb hdd, [...]
Wireless in the Philippines – leadership versus influence
Posted: September 23, 2008 in Personal Thoughts, TechnologyTags: 3g, chewy chua, chewychua, Consumer, Globe, Globe Telecoms, mobile communications, mobile telephones, Philippine Telco, philippines, Philippines Telco, post paid, prepaid, Smart, Smart Communications, Sun, Sun Cellular, Telecommunications
Talk about wireless and mobile anywhere in the world and invariably, the Philippines will pop up as a model, a case study or a hot-bed of sorts. With 63 Million mobile subscribers (out of about 91 Million total population) and all sending over a billion messages per day, we still are the Text Capital of [...]
San Miguel Premium
Posted: September 22, 2008 in food review, Personal ThoughtsTags: alcohol, beer, chewy chua, chewychua, manila, philippines, review, san miguel beer, san miguel premium, taste, yummy
There’s a new beer in town, and it’s aptly named San Miguel Premium. Just had it in Mag:Net cafe earlier, and the group found it quite nice and agreeable. To sum the experience up in one word… heineken that’s the beer closest to San Miguel’s newest and supposed best. San Miguel is the [...]
Showing off the MSI Wind 100XP
Posted: September 20, 2008 in Gadgets, Personal Thoughts, TechnologyTags: chewy chua, chewychua, computers, happy, laptop, msi, msi wind, msi wind 100xp, msi wind 100xp pink, msi wind 100xp pink photos, msi wind 100xp pink pictures, msi wind photos, msi wind pictures, msi wind pink, netbook, notebook, pink, wind
Well, I’ve finally taken the plunge. After almost a month of internal deliberations, countless websites visited, over 20 reviews read, 15 computer shops, 5 demos and hours of milling around Greenhills, Park Square and God knows where else, I’ve finally decided to get the… MSI WIND 100XP Honestly, it really wasn’t a difficult choice. It’s [...]
The fad that was known as Badminton
Posted: September 16, 2008 in Personal Thoughts, sportsTags: badminton, battledore, centro, chewy chua, chewychua, enjoy, fun, memory, nostalgia, olympic badminton, sports
Five years ago when badminton was still in it’s upswing, it was quite difficult to get a court schedule in the Metro’s decent courts. There were the old haunts, like Valle, Crame, Moro and the like, and a spattering of upstarts. You had to call a week ahead of time to get a reservation – [...]
Netbooks on my mind
Posted: September 15, 2008 in Gadgets, Personal Thoughts, TechnologyTags: acer aspire one, asus eeepc, chewy chua, chewychua, compare, comparison, Gadgets, msi wind, netbooks, notebooks, Technology
Asus EEEPC MSI Wind Acer Aspire One HP Mininote All amazing machines, weighing in at less than 2kg, powered by relatively weaker processors, meager ram and storage, but still managed to spark a new mobile computing revolution. the past two weeks of my life has been about Netbooks… particularly about which one to get! These [...]
