Kwarenta: My 8-Hour Ondoy Experience in 40 Txt Messages

My grueling experience yesterday is incomparable with what’s happening with our fellow Filipinos still waiting to be rescued right now. And I’m praying for my friends and family who are still stuck in their homes and on their roofs.

I know most of us lived through our worries yesterday by texting and calling our loved ones. What I have here is a very small part of the millions of text messages sent on September 26, 2009 that clogged even the biggest communication networks in the country. These messages don’t account the whole riot I (and my office mates) experienced. It’s actually just the tip of the iceberg.

Though my phone got soaking wet, fortunately it did not die on me. Here are the messages in my Sent Items texted to different contacts:

CokskiBlue’s Very First Single (err, Jingle)

Flippish Made Me Sing for the Philippine Blog Awards!

“Jingle” is a really fun song I wrote and composed in the wee nights of the morning. It basically symbolizes the diversity of the Philippine blogging community and the unity most of us are aiming for – hence this year’s PBA theme “One Blogging Nation”. The blogs or names in the song are there to

Recommend Your Favorite Video Blogs to the Philippine Blog Awards 2009!

The Philippine Blog Awards is back! And this year is looking extra special with more categories including Best Videocast. For two years, podcasts and video blogs are grouped into one batch. So it’s about time video bloggers get their very own niche on PBA.Nominate your blog or recommend your favorite videocasts: Recommend/Accomplish a Nomination form

Calling All Video Bloggers! Subscribe to VideoChops.com!

Hi guys, Coy here. I know, I know! I’ve been gone quite a long time now. And this is the main reason why – I just had a new baby. Yes guys, it’s a bouncing baby blog!

I’ve been planning to do this since the new year started – a blog which is focused on the craft of Video Blogging. So after a few weeks (err months) of “preparations”, I finally launched IT – VideoChops.com!

So what is VideoChops? Here’s one quick CHOP about the blog:

Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs of 2009 [UPDATED]

Photo by Markku

This writing project by Janette Toral got to be one of the best things that happened to me when I first started in 2007. I know how good it feels when your efforts are recognized. That’s why I’m a big supporter of this project.

One thing I would like to change about it though is for more entries to include video blogs in the list! Hehe. 2007 got CokskiBlue. 2008 got You Got Tech. Two video blogs in 2009 are not too much to ask, right? Now here are my bets (divided into 2 groups):

CokskiBlue On-Air: QTube’s Blogger’s Digest & i-Share Exclusive

Last May 14, I got the honor of getting featured again on TV – this time, on one of my favorite shows – QTube! I would like to thank segment producers Japs and Lawrence for giving me this opportunity. I got quite more awesome feedback from visitors because of this feature (a lot better than what I got from “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho”) ; thanks to the more in-depth (lengthy 8-minute) interview and i-Share exclusive, show!

Also, special thanks to my awesome Chong Roy for giving me a Flip – the smallest (and coolest) HD video recorder in teh wurrrld (featured here on the show)!

Here are the 2 parts:

Blogger’s Digest