Goodbye Whirled Peace. Hello Cebu Reviews – My New Home!

Party’s over at Whirled Peace.

All good things must come to an end, someone said.

When a door closes a window opens, said another.

If you like this blog, chances are good that you will also like my new internet home: Cebu Reviews. Read my introduction here.

Whirled Peace is a phase of my mental life, and now it’s over. I’m moving on to something more challenging, interesting stuff – things I like and am most passionate about. Hopefully you will like it too.

Always expanding and improving, Cebu Reviews is an online journal where me and my buddies will be entertaining you with humor, occasionally testy, articles, reviews, a lot of pictures and several mentions of cute cats (if you like cats), and information centered on Cebu.

I will be writing stuff, a lot of different, exciting and great stuff, in which not all of them will be nice, yet offer something of value to people I care about and help them in my own little way to make them become better informed when it comes to things related (or unrelated) to Cebu.

That’s that.

To those of you who visited this blog regularly, thank you so much. You are the best. To those who just stumbled upon this blog because we are imaginary friends and you like clicking links on Facebook, you have my thanks too.

My apologies for ending this in a disappointing note: party’s over at Whirled Peace.

See you at Cebu Reviews!

We All Need Pep Talk

Should I say more?

Also not cool Robert Frost.

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Miami Heat at the White House!

Hanging out with the President, enjoying themselves, japing each other. If you're the NBA champion, you can do whatever you want.

My Laptop Died (2008-2013)

I bought my Compaq laptop in 2008. It finally conked out on me last night. The poor thing had been my true constant companion since the early start of my journey as an internet scribe. Now he’s heading for the bin, laptop heaven or whatever. Need a new one.

Best Email Ever, From PayPal

Justice has been served today, thanks to the great guys at PayPal. Everything is fine again in the world. Take that 1andRun! I read this email and wept, a few times.

service@intl.paypal.com	3:48 PM (16 hours ago)
to me

Hello Jonas Perida,

We've finished reviewing your unauthorized activity claim and you'll
receive a refund for the transaction amount. It may take up to 5 business
days for the funds to appear in your account.

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Details of Disputed Transaction
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Seller's Name: 1&1 Internet Inc.
Seller's Email: paypal@1and1.com Seller's Transaction ID: 3L245396334162141
Transaction Date: Jan 1, 2013
Transaction Amount: -$10.99 USD
Invoice ID: K168565716/003600331407
Your Transaction ID: 3Y639998MV171734V
Case Number: PP-002-140-971-113
Buyer's Transaction ID: 3Y639998MV171734V


Any portion of the payment that was funded with your credit card will be
refunded directly to your credit card. You will see this in your
transaction log as two entries. The first is the refund to your PayPal
account, and the second is the credit to your credit card. Credits to a
credit card generally take 2-3 business days to post and may not be
immediately reflected in the card's balance.

For more information and to see the status of your claim, log in to your
PayPal account and go to the Resolution Center.
Thanks,

Protection Services Department

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1and1.Com Review: Cocksucker Stole My Money

Stay away from 1And1.com like the fucking plague, folks! Don’t tell me I’ve not warned you.

We take your fucking money and run. That's what we do.

This is my first post of the year and I’m pissed, fucking livid.

No one wants a negative post to start a new year, right? But what you’re gonna do? When someone steals money from you, you stop him or her or at least try to stop the fucker from doing it to others.

That’s how it is. It can happen to anyone. It can happen to you. So you do everything in your power to tell the wanker to fuck off, and see to it that what happened to you won’t happen to anyone you know.

1And1.Com Will Rip Your Hard-Earned Money Off!

1and1 is a web hosting company that offers the most effective solutions to steal money from people masquerading as a web hosting company that provides domains, eCommerce, servers, email accounts and many other best proven ways to dupe customers and take their money.

Don't just take my word for it. Read this, this, and this. Follow this Twitter if you like or this Facebook. Okay you now get the picture.

So guys, consider yourself warned: stay the fuck away from 1And1.com like the fucking plague!

Fucking 1And1.Com Is A Company That’s Full Of Shit!

Here’s what happened.

You see, I’m poor web writer trying to earn an honest living through some writing projects I get from the internet. I also try to find other helpful ways to eke out some income through a niche website. So I bought a domain from 1and1 which was a mistake in the first place because I am not much of niche website guy and I didn't do my research about 1andrun. I paid my money for the domain and just parked it there. After exactly a year I decided to let go of the domain and cancel my subscription of 1andshit service after receiving annoying emails from them something about reviewing my account, updating this and that and to top it off they sent me an invoice. Annoyed I cancelled my entire account in the last week of December.

But lo and fucking behold, when I opened my email on January 1, 2013, PayPal sent me this receipt:

Hello customer,

You sent a payment of $____ USD to 1and1 Internet Inc.

(billing@1and1.com)

1And1 Internet Inc Are Ran By Shitheads!

Fucking thieving wankers, indeed. How did they do that? They still have access to my PayPal? Don’t I have to confirm anything involving my money on my account before PayPal sends any money to anyone. There must be some kind of a mistake. So I shoot 1and1 an angry email conveying my displeasure and anger as their customer. Also notified PayPal. PayPal says they will look into this, wait for 10 business days.

We’ve some interesting exchange of emails with 1and1. Apparently, they are not sending back my money. Some guy named, John Keefer, maybe the unfortunate guy who got the unfortunate shitty job of dealing with pissed off customers like me, and they must have a lot of us customers they’ve pissed off, sent me the last email thanking me for my patience. What?! Really John Keefer? How about thanking me for my money, John Keefer!

As you can see, I have a big mouth when someone plays dirty tricks on me. So I sent them a final email.

So that's how you operate you fucking wankers! Stealing money from people! You dirty thieving troglodytes! Apparently, you haven't read anything by Zig Ziglar on how to treat customers. You should learn from companies like GoDaddy and M2Host. They treat their customers fairly. Companies like them will go far in the business. 1and1.com's naughty tactics and dirty dealings will be your sodding downfall. Mark those words. Also word-of-mouth from us customers will see to it that you cocksuckers will burn to fucking oblivion.

There are millions of us and welcome to a whole new level of fucking internet infamy, 1and1!

1And1.Com Will Bleed You To Death. 

Painful lesson, eh!?

With that, guys, use my experience to protect yourself and your investment. Be very careful with these kinds of companies that scrupulously use dirty tactics in the books to blag you out of your money.

Shit, shit, shit, fuck! I bloody work hard to earn that money, you fucking cocksuckers!

So remember everyone who makes a living off the internet, Stay Away From 1And1.Com Like The Fucking Plague. 

That Time of Year Again (Thanks 2012)!

There’s something about the end of a year that makes me a bit mawkish. So before I continue with this, if you don’t mind, I need to fix myself a nice cold drink of Chivas Regal.

Need to put these somewhere safe, in my stomach.

[Full disclosure about the Chivas Regal: it was actually a Christmas leftover my girlfriend and I nicked from my sister’s neighbor’s party. We were invited and there was this huge buffet with plenty of foods, beers and liquors. We sang songs with the nice neighbors, ate their food, drink their wine, played games with them. Before it’s over, we ensured the safety of the three quarters full Chivas Regal. It was a good party.]

Here’s to 2012! Cheers!

Now that’s better. 

Wait I need another one. Okay, that’s best.

Where were we? Oh. Well, it’s been a tradition on this blog since I started it in 2008 to write a post that wraps up the entire year, which also serves as a way to look back and see how I did. It contains mostly some of the highlights of another swell year gone by. Sometimes, or is it all the time, I include a few things I want to do next year – some goals I want to achieve, all that pretty stuff.

Let’s jump to the highlights.

First off, I’ve written 31 blog posts this year, 32 if you include this one, which make it 8 more posts than last year. That’s something to celebrate. Did I have it in my New Year resolution to blog more this year? Check. Taps back.

Here are the top 5 best posts of 2012:

• My Top Ten Best Books
• Blog Drunk
• You Are What Books People Give You
• Miami Heat 2011-2012 NBA CHAMPION! LeBron Finally Got the Ring!
• Lebron James' Reading List to Winning the NBA Finals

Most posts are short, but also a laugh to read and honest.

Second off is my reading. This could be the slowest year, sorry to say that, with only 28 books I’ve read in all. That’s lame. Here’s the list anyway:

1. True at First Light (Ernest Hemingway)
2. Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway)
3. The First Forty-Nine Stories (Ernest Hemingway)
4. The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories
5. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
6. The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)
7. My Best Friends (George Burns)
8. H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography (L. Sprague de Camp)
9. George Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography Based on Firsthand Information (Frank Harris)
10. The Mystery of Georges Simenon (Fenton Bresler)
11. Goldfinger (Ian Fleming)
12. The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
13. The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
14. Spider Kiss (Harlan Ellison)
15. The Hilliker Curse (James Ellroy)
16. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
17. A Game of A Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
18. A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)
19. A Storm of Swords (George R.R. Martin)
20. A Feast for Crows (George R.R. Martin)
21. A Dance with Dragons (George R.R. Martin)
22. Bukowski: A Life (Neeli Cherkovski)
23. Harlan Ellison's Watching (Harlan Ellison)
24. No Easy Day (Mark Owen)
25. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Eric Blehm)
26. On the Road: The Original Scroll (Jack Kerouac)
27. Post Office (Charles Bukowski)
28. Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

These are all great reads for me this 2012. Period. They enriched me and I’m always grateful for that. My only regret is that I failed to read more books. Hope 2013 would be a great year for reading.

Why I’m listing them? Because like some people, I love lists, especially this kind of list.

I also finished the whole Transmetropolitan comic book series by Warren Ellis, which was a great reading experience, by the way.

Third, something cool is in the works for 2013. Wish me luck. I fill you in the details later.

Chivas Regal is calling. And there’s still the countdown to usher in the New Year in some hours.

Cheers everyone! Hope you’d a great year, too. Feel free to tell us about your best moments and highlights in 2012 in the comment below. 

Khaleesi on Late Night

Enjoy watching lovely, lovely Emilia Clarke.

The End of An Era

It was a great, enjoyable ride till it lasted.

Thanks Manny Pacquiao for all the memorable fights and for making me a hardcore boxing fan. Well, not so hardcore I suppose as I don’t think I still have the stomach to watch or read about boxing again, at least for a while.

I know it’s coming. Heck, I even predicted it a few weeks before the fight. But I found myself unprepared for all the excruciating feelings associated with a loss like that.

Everything went slow-mo and I was in complete denial. It can't be Pacquiao face-flat on the canvass, not moving, for a couple of seconds.

I was used to seeing his opponents doing that part in many of his fights. It can't be Pacquiao. Just give him the chance to get up, beat the 10-second count. Please. Get up.

Still he remained there. His trainer Freddie Roach, cornermen, the ring doctor coming over him, checking him, all those standard medical procedure bit.

I downed a tall glass of whiskey. I watched the replay. The vicious fucking counter overhand right did it. And there goes the man. There goes Manny Pacquiao. There goes the end of an era of boxing.

I went to the Norkis Park after that, played a couple of pick up basketball games. All they talked about was the fight. I went to a corner away from them. I focused on winning my games and I did won both of them.

I still don't want to talk about it. My boxing fan heart is bleeding, hurting bad, testing my hardcore boxing resolve.

I'll be back when I'm back, more prepared for something like this. But not now or tomorrow or for the coming days, maybe weeks, or months. I don't know. Just not right now. 

Anyway, for all that has happened, good or bad, in boxing, that’s the reality of the sport. And that makes it so compelling.


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Sunday Random Thoughts: Shitty Weather, Transmetropolitan, Renato Madrid, etc...

- I woke up early at 6. Check the weather, take a shit. Check the weather again. Mild rain showers. Apparently not a good time to play basketball.

- Fixed a cup of coffee, a handful of biscuits, and turn on the laptop. Read the news on Mike Brown’s firing and the Lakers’ search for a new miracle worker/coach on Yahoo! Sports and ESPN NBA. Read everything I could find about the Miami Heat. First good news of the day: James and Wade practicing.

- Read some tweets.

- Now need a fix of Transmetropolitan. Have you read it? Know Spider Jerusalem? Cripes. Tell you what this is easily one of my best reads this year. I’ve heard of this comics, created by Warren Ellis, two years before while hooked on Hellblazer, in which Warren also had a wild, awesome run as a John Constantine scribe taking the good ol bastard to hell and back.

Meet John and Spider. They could be twins.

- November. There are still a few weeks to burn and catch up with my reading goal. As usual I bullshitted myself into committing to read 100 books this year. Hey, it’s an aim-for-the-moon-hit-the-eagle kind of goal and I think I am doing a decent job. Not good enough, but still…

- I was around 22 when I got the chance to teach Philosophy and Humanities in a college in Leyte.

- You’re old than you care to admit when you start talking about things that start with “back in the day” or “way back when.”

- In college I was like a sponge absorbing everything they taught me inside and outside the classroom. I was lucky to have excellent teachers like Fathers Joseph Tan, Dennis Villarojo, Ramon Echica, Leonilo Igloria, and, of course, Msgr. Rudy Villanueva aka Renato Madrid. Couldn’t ask for more. I'd my share of not good teachers too. Forget their names now.

- This rain isn’t stopping any time soon, and it may be for my own good. Now I can’t do anything but stay in my nook and scribble these things jumping off my head.

- A cup of coffee and my 7th cigarette and I’m still sleepy.

- When I lay down and close my eyes, I become restless. My brain roams, my conscience pricks and my heart admonishes me for being lazy.

- Need a drink.

The Fix Is In

The fix is in. I am just your regular junkie. I played basketball this morning with only a few hours sleep. But it was good as shit through a dusty gutterhole. We won, of course. And my body is crying for rest and food, a bottle of beer, cups of black as sin coffee, a stick of Marlboro. Thanks god for the gf. She’s sweet to me this morning. She always is. She cooked me breakfast – two boiled eggs, a half-bowl of oat meal, two packets of canton, two plates of rice. I’m a new man again. But I still need some sleep. We watched the Miami Heat-New York Knicks game on my laptop. My team lost by a fucking hundred margin. But sometimes the gods have to know defeat, or whatever that means. A short rest for the weary at last. The gf is taking a bath. I lighted a fag. Write a little. We will be going to SM to pay my piling bills. Need my bath now. 

Watch 'N Weep: When Hopkins meets Hitchcock

Let's celebrate Halloween watching this.





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So Here's What I Think About the New Cybercrime Law

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Wtf! I'm outta here!



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Jesse Pinkman Won an Emmy, He’s Also Very Confused

 

 

 

 

 

Ennui

"And it was all from ennui, gentlemen, all from ennui; inertia overcame me." ~ Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You know me. I’ll do everything I can to update this blog, giving you fresh posts as frequently as I empty a bottle of booze in my room, chucking down pages of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, which I’m now on the fifth book, A Dance With Dragons, and watching too much The Shield (wtf, is that Kavanaugh pitching his tent in The Barn?). He’s the annoying, creepy guy in the neighborhood who just doesn't go away.

So you see, I keep keeping my shit up to find/look for anything, anything that could give me a eureka, make me say that’s it, I want to blog something about it, and fuck them if they don’t like it, much less understand where my thoughts are going, but you know I am not the kind of person to fool around, to fool you, because you know we’re both too cool for that, except that I am the uncool one who blogs from time to time with some cool stuff, which you want to read because like me, you’re just another regular junkie, who feeds on uncool junkies like me who occasionally writes cool stuff that lessen the ennui, kill a few minutes of the boring hour, read something interesting, anything to cure the malaise . And we feed on one another, you and me.

That’s that. Come back later when I have something real to say to you. Now go away.

Best this Week: Philip Roth, Innocence of Muslim, World's Greatest Rock Writer

• · Portnoy's Complaint author, Philip Roth, writes An Open Letter to Wikipedia.
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• · Mark Owen, author of No Easy Day and former Seal Team Six, recounts the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on 60 Minutes.
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• · The fucking, puking movie that ignited some chaos in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. It was so fucking bad, extremists attacked innocent people in the American embassy in Benghazi. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died in the torching of the consulate. 
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• · Great news for Joss Whedon (creator of Firefly) fans: he's currently working on ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Pilot for ABC.
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• · Lester Bangs, dubbed the world's greatest rock writer, some years ago, swallowed a cocktail of drugs, fell into a coma and died. Here's a brilliant interview of Lester Bangs.

A Quick Breaking Bad Fix! Enjoy!

It’s been over a week since the end of the first half of the final season of Breaking Bad. The second half is slated next year. That's a sodding long wait.

Meanwhile, watch this beautiful animated version created by a French artist of the Breaking Bad opening credits:

Best This Week: Fifty Shades of Grey, No Easy Day, Lie Detective

From Gilbert Gottfried reading Fifty Shades of Grey to Lie Detective Jimmy Kimmel japing a poor kid, Whirled Peace gives you the best offerings from around the web this week. Now fix yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy.

• Gilbert Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades of Grey, reading it as only he can. Read Fifty Shade of Grey online.

• Meet Alex Honnold and be inspired. He's not your usual mountain climber. He's the best mountain climber alive today, maybe ever. He defies gravity, scales steep rocks with no rope and apparently no fear. Put on a diaper and watch the video.

• Royce White faces his fear. He just gained a new fan. Rooting for his success in the NBA.

• Cigarettes And Alcohol: The Extraordinary Life of Jim Thompson. A word of caveat: if you're a kind of person who faints at the sight of blood, phallic objects or somesuch things, stay the fuck away from Jim Thompson. You will not like him. He conjured up savage, dog-eat-dog world, characters and stories that will fuck up your brain. But if you're a kind of person looking to buy a one-way ticket to hell, he’s your man. One of few writers you should only read. Otherwise, you've been warned.

• No Easy Day by Mark Owen. I successfully snagged a copy of No Easy Day by Mark Owen, pseudonym of Matt Bissonnette, one of the members of SEAL Team Six that raided and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan. This is my first of a few books written by former SEALs, and I want to have them all. Read some chapters of the book with pictures, the parts that detail the killing of bin Laden and company.

• Lie Detective Jimmy Kimmel japing a poor kid.

This week is a relatively slow one for me. Actually it’s just me. I ignored other things happening around this week when I got my hands on No Easy Day.

That’s that. If you got a link or tip for Whirled Peace blog, holler at me in the comment below or follow me on Twitter.

Best of the Week Series: Bcoz Internet Wants One!

So I’m thinking of creating some sort of a series that will get my lazy ass off from bed and blog something that will kickstart the adrenalin, make you and me feel good, less bored.

A little bit of thinking gives me this: Best of the Week. So I said to myself. Okay, Self, lez do this.

I have a few pretty good reasons for doing it. One is to keep me writing, as often as possible, weekly, at the least. Second is to keep me honest and true to my resolution this year. Remember that resolution post this year to update this blog more than last year? This is one way to fulfill that promise.

So starting today, internet, and you, my dear readers (three of you out there), you will find me churning Best This Week blog post on my laptop with a steaming cup of 2-peso Nescafe, and Brahms or Kenny Chesney playing in the background.

Best of the Week will mainly feature links that will lead to:

• > Interesting, funny articles that I’ve read on other people’s blogs or websites during the week
• > Cool stories
• > Videos
• > Great tips about writing
• > Great tips to get a boner

In short, anything that excites, nourishes, inspires, impresses me. And hopefully it will do the same thing to you.

In short, Best of the Week is for all of us, yes, you and me – to get better, mentally tougher, stronger, funnier, better read and all that shit.

Now that’s a date, aieyyt?

Unrelated picture. To the face, to the faccceeee! 

You Are What Books People Give You

I don’t know about you but we’re a family who cherish people who gift us with books. My grandfather (bless his soul) in his old age would still recall the names of friends who gave him one. Now I’m very fortunate to have such friends (which names I am sure to recall in my old age) and more fortunate to have such as wonderful girlfriend who's true to her promise to buy me books if I accompany her to Ayala, which she doesn't even have to ask. Just tell me where to go, Luv, I'll go with you anywhere.

I’ll always cherish them friends. I'll always cherish her.

Now these are my rewards for being the best boyfriend evah. Because if I ain’t why would the best girlfriend ever bought me these wonderful, wonderful books?

Surely such books are the reasons we were given eyes and intellect. These are books you must not deny yourself. 

And now to read this book: