It’s been my tradition here in my blog to post a yearend entry (2005, 2006). I usually post the most memorable things that happened to me from the very first day of January until December in my year ender specials, and in 2006, I’ve also included a list of my favorite entries for the whole year. But this year, I decided to make seven lists of seven. The lists talk about the best of 2007 except for the news category. I’ve also added notes here and there, and some are potential spoilers so be warned!
Most of the things that I have listed below are in either chronological or alphabetical order.
Books
This year, I was able to read 15 books, almost twice than last year. I really had fun reading this year.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — JK Rowling: The ending of Harry Potter’s epic tale was really fantastic. JK ended it with a fitting finale. How I wish there is a sequel to this book, but then, the time has come to end this very fascinating story.
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini: I like this book very much. Furthermore, this is the best book I have read in my entire life. Unlike other fiction reads, this book is realistic. I recommend this to all, but most especially to those people who are not hooked into books and to Afghan refugees.
A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Chinese Cinderella — Adeline Yen Mah: [My edited by Artura, et al: If you’re into Filipino literature, this is the book that you should buy. Very entertaining. And this is not fiction, by the way. [My Review]
The Dogs of Babel — Carolyn Parkhurst: The weirdest book I have ever read. It’s about Paul, a linguist, who tries to teach his dog how to speak. No, not because he’s out of his mind but because he wanted to know the real cause of his wife’s death. The words Parkhurst used in the ending of the story were really strong. [My Review]
For One More Day — Mitch Albom: Another tale about death. Yes, it’s a good book, but how I wish Albom would explore other topics. [My Review]
If you have read these books, you would notice that most of them are sad stories, but yeah, the characters lived happily ever — Feist
Chasing Cars — Snow Patrol
Here (In Your Arms) — Hellogoodbye
How to Save a Life — The Fray
Marching Bands of Manhattan — Death Cab for Cutie
Samson — Regina Spektor
Such Great Heights — The Postal Schedule: My craziest misadventure this year. In this entry, I wrote how I spent almost 12 hours… in the mall.
The Perfect Duo: Chemistry and Zoology: You would fail these two subject if you don’t know how to memorize. And would you believe me that I enjoyed them? Haha.
The Divine Subjects: A review of my subjects back in first year, second semester. I used Dante’s concept in his Divine Comedy to give the final verdict for each of my subjects.
Stinks and Sells: I particularly enjoyed writing this. It’s my own version of what’s in and what’s out.
Big Surprises: The story how I acquired my notebook.
Let’s Talk About Grades (Part 2): What I realized in these posts was that grades aren’t everything.
Signs and Symptoms of Stress: The title says it all. I had a good time writing this and rereading it makes me laugh. XD
I know that the title of this entry says that for every list, there are seven items. But I have to break that because I reckon I have more interesting entries this year. And so we Commercials: A rant about Day Disaster: I don’t want this to happen again!
Sisa Kalusa: The story of my friend who got insane.
An Open Letter: I included this not because I like the post, but because the bad experience I related in this entry never happened to me before and I never expected it.
Web Apps
Last.fm: A cool way to discover music.
Google Reader: This one is a bit old, it’s been out since like two years ago. But it deserves a spot here.
Twitter: Who doesn’t love Twittering, eh? It’s enjoyable even though there is a maximum of 140 characters per tweet.
Sxipper: This one is actually a Firefox plugin. It can automatically input your information in every single form. It can also remember and generate passwords for you. A similar service is Apps: Sign up and get your @yourdomain.com mail. All of the essential features of GMail are included. There are also other available applications that you can use.
News
Unlike the other categories, this one does not talk about the bests of 2007. These are the breaking news here in the Philippines. Majority of these are bad news.
Bus Glorietta 2 Blast: What’s the latest developement? Have they solved Ampere’s Suicide: A very very sad Pardon: No way!
House of Representatives Peninsula Hotel Siege: Trillanes, please spare the hotels. Increasing Value: How come we cannot feel hosting her blog, by the way. But I would not reveal where you can find her blog
I had fun reading your blogs! Keep on writing interesting blog entries!
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Yes, I know, most of things/persons that I have listed above (Especially in books, songs, web apps, and bloggers) were not published/released or didn’t start blogging this year. But then, this is my blog. Haha.
Well, I suppose, this is my last entry for this year. May everyone have a prosperous 2008! Rock on!
Before you launch your website there are many elements to it that need to be considered including content, design as well as functionality. It is not enough to simply have a website that looks good and interesting and which functions well. There is also need to look for web hosting companies, who have their own servers and it is important to note that the quality that the web host provides can make or break your website.
Thus, it pays to know how to locate a good web hosting company and the simplest means of getting to know about one is to read web hosting reviews. Otherwise, it would be much like needing to compare apples and oranges and though it is possible to plot different variables by using spreadsheets or tables, it will take you many days to sort out all the different aspects to web hosting.
It is much simpler to read web hosting reviews because the experts have done all the checking for you and they can provide you insights that you may not be able to gather on your own. So, you can find two types of information available by reading web hosting reviews and these are tables that you can view at one glance, and those that are reviews of various web hosts.
The bottom line is that reviews will provide detailed as well as reviews of different web hosting companies, and such information is valuable when you need to find a certain type of web hosting service.
Good morning everyone! Thanks to a bad case of Strep throat, have been awake since 4:00am. Not my idea of fun, but sometimes life is like that.
In terms of my project, have finished creating the MySQL database tables and can now get down to the site coding. More on that in my next post. For now, and because I am so tired, I am going to send out a shameless plea for help. I can’t really offer monetary compensation at this point as my current budget is just shy of $0, but I can, and will, shamelessly plug your products and services. Monetary compensation may come later once we start making money.
You can contact me via AIM, Yahoo, e-mail, Skype, Facebook, etc…all details can be found on my Contact page (you may even catch my mug live streaming on uStream.tv). Need help of all kinds. From PHP coders to graphics design, hardware and software sponsors to domain and hosting services…heck, I’d even take help in driving traffic to this blog…need the AdSense clicks!
Anyways, drop me a line if you or your company can help or to offer a word of encouragement. Looking forward to hearing from you!
12/30/2007 
