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For the first time in my entire life, I won something from an online game. It’s just so unbelievable that our single entry would win the grand prize. The contest was sponsored by Nescafe. Mechanics are: the participants must take a screenshot, add a tagline starting with: “Perfect World is best played while sipping Nescafe 3in1 because…”, and edit the screenshot a little bit, and that’s it.

Here’s our winning entry:

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Our tagline: “Perfect World is best played while sipping Nescafe 3in1 because… the heavens agree that something so delicious should be best shared with races far and wide.”

Category: Perfect Romance

My two teammates: Subaru and HaRdWare

Our Prize: Sony Ericsson k800i phones, Nescafe 3in1 Gift Packs and PW Goodie bags

Some didn’t like our entry because they didn’t understand the real meaning of it. Fortunately, some did and they helped us explain our art to those close-minded people.

Quote by one of the GMs:

I really don’t like it when people say na may “palakasan” or something.

Those who have complaints, you can come here to our office and talk to me. I can show you all the entries and why we chose the winners as the winners.

Also, let’s not make any accusations to anyone. Don’t accuse any of the winners as well. If there’s someone you guys/gals want to talk to, it should be me. No need to bash opinions over the boards. Anyway, I don’t want to preach but if you have any questions on the winners, I suggest you come here to our office and I can show you all the entries.

The winners are the best entries on their respective category.

Here are the criteria on how we judged it:
Creativity (composition, lighting, concept, blockings, etc…) - 60%
Tag line (relation to the screenshot, relation to Nescafe 3in1 branding) - 30%
Diligence (following the instructions, attaching the image to the email, proper linking of source file, cleanliness of entry form) - 10%

by one of the forum members:

When you say Romance does it mean it should give the viewer the kilig factor? then limited lang ang understanding mo ng romance. stop hanging out with your boy pals and try to mingle with the other gender. there’ is life outside of your circle of friends. two beasts pasSionately staring at each other with an angel overlooking them and with a slogan about sipping coffee out in the snow just simply hit the judges’ bullseye. just because they are beasts they are not entitled to romance? i dont know if you watched the nescafe commercial when the two lovers running for shelter because it is raining hard and took a timeout to drink coffee while still raining. one moment. one nescafe. romantic,eh? they just replaced the rain to snow and the two human lovers to beasts and suddenly it is not romantic?

… the heavens agree that something so delicious should be best shared with races far and wide.

Even my sister left a comment:

Criticisms are always welcome. but it would help more if they are constructive, which are based on well-placed analysis, and stripped of pure personal antipathy. Being accused of having connections - in colloquial terms, “may kapit” connotates that - is not a criticism but a knee-jerk reaction, an irrational form of derision. What we made may not reflect the commonplace image of romance, but it did paint another shred of meaning for the said concept. An unorthodox view - may it be in the piece that we crafted, or in written word, in a song, or any creation for that matter - should be welcomed and not shot down. One, because this broaden the perspective on reality’s various facets, and two, it ups the ante for talent and artistry.

To say that there’s ‘palakasan’, means we have connections to the judges, when the truth is not one in our team have.

Anyway, out of my excitement, I pushed and hit my brother yesterday. xD No need to worry, he din’t get a single bruise.

Please support this online petition to somehow encourage Jive Records to release ‘Toy Soldier’ as the fourth single for Britney’s Blackout album.

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For a few hours it did. ~_~; I received an invoice for the payment last night. Well I have no time to pay it at that time, so I paid it at 8:30 AM in the morning. I took a shower and rushed to LBC (a delivery company like AIR21/DHL). I mailed them back and just after few minutes my site came back from its graveyard.

Now my only problem left is the payment for my webspace and bandwidth. The first one was just for the domain name.

So anyway, care to donate? hehe u_u;

Today’s the first year anniversary of my site/s. I changed two of my site’s layout, this and my anime site ‘afufu.net’ (check it out!). I can’t celebrate as much as I want to ‘cuz I have a feeling that tomorrow my site would be shut down. As you can see today is also the expiration date of my domain name ^^ (not including the webspace and bandwidth). If anything comes to worse, I’ll just pay the fee tomorrow morning.

Goodbye for now.

I’m a Google Adsense publisher from Philippines, and in the last week of January I received an email from Google stating that they have sent my Google Adsense PIN, and it should arrive after 4-6 weeks. I waited, but after 2 months nothing came. So I checked my account, and I clicked the button that says ‘resend my pin’ (or something like that). I used it twice, ’cause I still didn’t get any mail. Few days after I clicked the button for the second time, I finally received the mail, which took about four months (Date received: May 22, 2008).

I have two things in mind which could be the reason why the mail took so long to arrived. First is because I didn’t manage the Tax Information in my account. Second, our country’s post office is just slow in managing mails.