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On Saturday, 12th January 2008, Lineage II - South-East Asia (L2-SEA) will raise the bar of how festivity should become. Whoever you are, wherever you would be - choose from the five different locations and blast off to the grandest SEA Commercial Kickoff Party dubbed as the L2 Launch!

Join the dash to SM Mall of Asia’s Music Hall to become part of one of the biggest event which will start eevery gamer’s year right. Simultaneously broadcasted via live feeds from four other locations - Baguio City, Cebu City, Davao City, and Kuala Lumpur - they will join forces to celebrate and highlight Lineage II’s grand unveiling.

Continue reading here to learn more what’s in store for YOU at the Lineage II South-East Asia Commercial Launch Parteh - the biggest and grandest party in the Asean region….

Back home, when we were still kids, we called this game “pik”, probably the Visayan way of saying “pick”. The game is played by two players first holding hands and then, on the count of three, releasing the hold to do a gesture of a “bato”, “papel”, or “gunting”. The rule is simple: Bato wins over gunting. Papel wins over bato. Gunting wins over papel.

And guess what? I have just learned from the Thinking Blog that there is actually a professional competition for the game complete with an annual world championship at that. This was held last October 13 in Toronto, Canada with a total of $10,000 in prize money. In the championship, a woman bested a man to become the first ever woman world champion.

Snail Game, one of the developers behind the largest MMO World to date - Dark and Light (I play that too) licensed HighStreet5 to EagleGame for U$3 Million for South-East Asia, primarily for Singapore, Philippines, and Malaysia.

HighStreet5 is a new Casual Game from China, and another addition to the growing number of Chinese made online games being licensed to the world (competing directly with S. Korea). It is a 3D Dancing Game that…

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It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times for international cycling as Tour de France sets the stage for the 94^th edition of the world’s most grueling race.

In the run-up to the 2007 Tour de France, a Spanish investigation called Operation Puerto uncovered a cache of 223 blood bags from over 100 top riders, in addition to the coded notes tracking their “treatments.” The US Anti-Doping Agency, meanwhile, is set to decide next month on whether or not to strip Floyd Landis of the 2006 Tour crown. And 1996 Tour winner Bjarne Riis admitting that he had used banned drugs while competing in the ’90s.

Joining Landis under the shadow of the doping scandal are the Tour’s top echelon riders: Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso, and Jan Ullrich. Except for Basso, all of them have been cleared by their respective teams to race. With the Tour’s house clearing on one side and the top pro riders on the other, this year’s Tour de France gets set to climb and sprint harder than it ever did if only to bring back the integrity of the sport.

But I, for one, intend to follow the races all the same, although only in the newspapers I must add. There’s something about the Tour that one doesn’t get to see every day. That time in 1995, say, when Miguel Indurain became the first cyclist to win the Tour five consecutive times, and still said in an interview that he had “never felt superior to any one.” Or that time in 2005 when Lance Armstrong won his seventh Tour and replaced Indurain in the all-time best list. They were triumphs of the human spirit. In the same league as that of Armstrong’s victory over cancer.

Probably the London-to-Paris route of the 94^th Tour de France is a very appropriate fortuity. This year’s Tour de France is going to tell the tale of the two Tours: the one peopled by athletes of the Indurain line, and the other Tour that has become ridden by scandal.

The Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia will have a tournament showdown this 30th May at the SM Mall of Asia, sponsored by Tycoon Synergy Experts, Inc. Invited star teams from Malaysia and Singapore are… continue reading here…

For the last several days, I have not rested much because projects have been pouring in from a lot of places. There’s this new site that I’m making where I need to write a few new applications and it drove me crazy. So to save what little sanity I have left, I took short breaks and during those breaks, I decided to think of lighter things. Here is the result:

AC SOL are a fantasy football club that’s supposed to be based in Tirad Pass, Ilocos Sur. They moved here from Manila just a couple of weeks ago and that’s when I started to think of making a website for them, as I’ve seen other Hattrick team owners do.

Read: AC SOL Fantasy Football or
Visit: AC SOL

–Flash Video of Inter Milan vs. Valencia–

I saw this in the papers the other day but it is only now that I found a clip of it. The clip shows the Inter Milan - Valencia brawl after their second leg match in the Champions’ League that ended in a draw. Valencia advance to the next round. I don’t know who they are to face next.

Anyway, speaking of the Champion’s League, I also found out very recently that my favourites Bayern Munich have beaten back Real Madrid 2-1 to also advance to the next stage (I forget where they are now, I think it’s already the final eight). The first goal came by way of a Roberto Carlos blunder– and I am so happy to be writing this. Hehehe! I never really liked the guy, at least his playing style.

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Hoping, wishing and knotting my fingers together will not help the Azkals in any way during their present campaign in the ASEAN Football Championship qualifiers. Nonetheless, I will continue to hope, wish and knot my fingers together– and continue to believe that one day, The Philippines will be among the great footballing nations in Asia. I know it’s a long shot, but it’s a shot that wants to be taken and I’m happy that our squad, despite the many challenges they continue to face on and off the field that seem to make it all a futile exercise, refuse to give up shooting for it. And that is all I have to say for now. Go Azkals! […]

Recently, a Russian cosmonaut successfully made a golf ball fly past into the space.
A Russian cosmonaut set a new record for the longest golf drive in history today after hitting a lightweight ball while tethered to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) (source)
Now, I am thinking if they can play volleyball in space […]

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