Mayweather vs Mosley

So, who did you bet for in the boxing fight of the decade yesterday?? I'm sure most of you placed bets that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will win even though you don't like his humbug personality, hehe! Me? I was just content to watch two black men fight it out and entertain me :p Though sports betting is rampant and very popular in our country (especially if there's a Manny Pacquiao fight!), I'm just not into it. I hate to lose money and losing money in gambling just sucks even more.

But enough of me, how about you? How much did you win yesterday?? ;-) Though I bet you and most of the Mayweather fans had a scare in the second round when he was nearly knocked down! Boy, Shane Mosley's right hand to the side of his head was so strong that Floyd's knees buckled a minute into the second round, and he had to grab Mosley to avoid going down. Mosley landed another right punch later in the round but unfortunately he failed to bring down Mayweather. Still it was all very exciting! Thank you Shane! ^_^

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

40-0 (25 KOs)

Age: 33

Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada

Notable wins: Juan Manuel Marquez, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, Zab Judah, Diego Corrales, Jose Luis Castillo

Notable losses: NONE! O_o

Shane Mosley

46-5 (39 KOs)

Age: 38

Hometown: Pomona, California

Notable wins: Oscar De La Hoya 2x, Fernando Vargas, Antonio Margarito, Ricardo Mayorga

Notable losses: Winky Wright (twice), Vernon Forrest (twice), Miguel Cotto

advance your IT career!

My husband has been working for Concentrix (formerly Link2Support) for the past 3 years or so. Currently he’s a senior technical trainer and an instructor in the newly put up Concentrix Institute. Hubby is a Cisco Certified Network Associate so he's more than qualified to teach and review Cisco stuff. My advice to his would-be students is to get ready for his surprise quizzes. Don't say I didn't warn you, hehe! Anyway, the said institute is kinda like a review center for Cisco certifications and IELTS (hello grammar quizzes!). It is fully equipped with high-end computers and the review has tons of laboratory activities using test softwares to give the students a hands-on experience. I volunteered to post information about their CCNA Certification review hence this post. Do spread the news and help someone advance their IT or BPO career! =) The institute's contact information is below the figure. And the figure below? It's all about advancing your IT career via Cisco's certification tests.

CONCENTRIX INSTITUTE - Center for Technical Knowledge and Development would like to announce that they are now accepting enrollees for CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certification Review. Kindly contact them via:

*e-mail: ci_info@concentrix.com

*phone: +6382-235-5099

*office: Damosa IT Park Bldg 2 (back entrance) along JP Laurel Ave, Lanang, Davao City and look for Miss Joy.

waiting for baby Iya.. =)

In two days, we'll be in our 39 weeks of pregnancy. Add one week to that and we'll hit baby Iya's due date (March 26). Already I'm getting antsy to give birth. I'm plain tired of carrying all the extra weight (13kg in my last weigh-in!) and of course, we wanna see our newborn already =) Waiting for baby Iya to come out is one of the longest wait that Labsie and I ever experienced. We're normally very patient persons but this time, we wanna see our princess already!! Guess most first-time parents are like this, hehe!

Anyway, we're all done with the welcoming-baby-Iya preparations. Our bedroom is optimized for baby co-sleeping, Iya's baby corner is done, I had my hair trimmed + manicure + pedicure, our hospital bags are packed, needed paperwork and money are all set -- we're practically 99.9% ready to welcome baby Iya to the world! Now all I need is for labor to start and find my beloved eye glasses! I have had my maroon frame glasses for the longest time (see it in action below, circa 2007) and two days ago, I lost it. I was just at home that time so I thought that with diligent search, I should be able to find it. Unfortunately, I had no such luck =( Today's my third day without my glasses and it really sucked watching TV coz I can't see clearly without squinting *sigh*

Right now I'm still thinking if I'll buy new eye glasses (which means I have to go the mall and I don't have that energy now) or just keep looking for my old one. I'm sure I won't be needing one when I give birth (it will just slide off my nose with all sweat during labor, hehe) but I will certainly need it when I go out of the house or watch TV or view far-away objects. Decisions, decisions! I certainly don't need this predicament right now, just when I'm focusing to give birth already! :p

in the last stretch of my pregnancy

Top view of my belly in the third trimester ;-)

It's been more than six months since Labsie and I officially found out we were having a baby. From looking for maternity clothes, pregnancy pants and baby layette, to attending childbirth classes and touring hospitals -- we are now finally on the last stretch. Soon, we will see our firstborn.. ^_^ But even though time did not fly by that fast and I had plenty of time to think about being a mother, I'm still finding myself not quite ready for the motherhood thingy. Truth be told, having a kid is not among my life's goals. All I ever wanted were:

1. become a licensed medical doctor (done last 2008) and help people
2. travel around our country (mostly done), the world (err, 1% done! LOL) and go into outer space (this is NOT a joke!)
3. live normally and happily with my family and loved ones.

As you can see, even having a wedding and marriage were not on my list! But right now I can honestly tell you that I'm loving married life with Labsie so I'm really hoping I'll learn to love motherhood too. I just hope our baby Iya will be a good girl and won't give us headaches, hehe! ^_^ On a side note, exactly today, I'm on the 36th week of my pregnancy. Yep, we're on the 9th month already! In just a few days, I'll be giving birth (normal and easy delivery please!) and married life as Labsie and I know it will soon be over. SO HELP US GOD!

time to get my own hosting and domain name! =)

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Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009

My husband and I are avid torrent sites users. He usually use it to download songs and games (PC and PSP) while I use it to download TV shows, documentaries and movies we missed watching. Sure, downloading these stuff online are barely legal but heck, we have spent obscene amounts of money on buying original games and albums, and watching movies in cinemas -- aren't we entitled to free torrents download every now and then?? :p Anyway, without much further ado, here's the Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009 as chosen by TorrentFreak.com --

#1 THEPIRATEBAY.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 4,467,074
- Pageviews: 26,177,054 (5.86 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #104
- Compete Rank: #787

#2 TORRENTZ.COM
- Daily Visitors: 2,656,483
- Pageviews: 12,963,637 (4.88 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #180
- Compete Rank: Currently Not Available

#3 ISOHUNT.COM
- Daily Visitors: 2,461,643
- Pageviews: 16,566,857 (6.73 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #186
- Compete Rank: #1,226

#4 MININOVA.ORG (our fave!! and it's now closed, boohoo!)
- Daily Visitors: 1,406,653
- Pageviews: 6,597,203 (4.69 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #96
- Compete Rank: #1,123

#5 BTJUNKIE.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 1,321,113
- Pageviews: 6,143,175 (4.65 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #403
- Compete Rank: #2,286

#6 TORRENTREACTOR.NET

- Daily Visitors: 898,167

- Pageviews: 1,796,334 (2 per visitor)

- Alexa Rank: #391

- Compete Rank: #1,500

#7 TORRENTDOWNLOADS.NET

- Daily Visitors: 888,663

- Pageviews: 1,581,820 (1.78 per visitor)

- Alexa Rank: #1,086

- Compete Rank: #3,477

#8 MONOVA.ORG

- Daily Visitors: 622,539

- Pageviews: 1,512,770 (2.43 per visitor)

- Alexa Rank: #1,736

- Compete Rank: #11,068

#9 EXTRATORRENT.COM

- Daily Visitors: 594,026

- Pageviews: 2,952,309 (4.97 per visitor)

- Alexa Rank: #1,199

- Compete Rank: #5,760

#10 BTMON.COM

- Daily Visitors: 551,256

- Pageviews: 1,025,336 (1.86 per visitor)

- Alexa Rank: #1,754

- Compete Rank: #7,009

For the not-so internet-savvy: torrents are are specialized files utilized in peer-to-peer (P2P) network environments. P2P is a network of personal computers that communicate with one another by running proprietary P2P software. Unlike usual downloads off the internet, torrents do not point to a single source when requesting files. Instead, torrents contain specific information that multiple computers in the network can read to send various parts of the requested file simultaneously and en masse. Torrents keep active track of which parts of the file are needed to complete the request. By downloading bits of the file from dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sources, large files can download very quickly. And that's why we love torrents so much!! ^_^

searching within file-sharing sites

I’m a certified bookworm — I read anything and everything I can lay my hands on. When the Internet came into vogue, I plunged head on to reading ebooks and other stuff in PDF form. PDF, of course, is the popular file type from Adobe. My only problem in sourcing PDF ebooks was that it was so hard to search for it in the Internet -- specifically in RapidShare, 4shared.com and other file-hosting / file-sharing sites.

This is how these type of sites work: you want to share a file but it’s too big to send over email so you upload it to them. If it’s successful, you will be given a unique download URL, and when you share this URL to users, they’ll be able to download your file. No user is allowed to search the server for content; all files have to be downloaded by clicking the unique URL. This is where search engines specific for file-sharing sites come in — it allows users to search for files within RapidShare or 4shared.com! No more waiting for somebody to send you a URL, just do a File Search within the specialized search engine and boom! You can now download the uploaded file. Easy huh??

Now I can only hope there will be a specialized search engine where all the files they index are in PDF format. Books, textbooks, documents, manuals, guides, I want it all! ;-) It would also help if this search engine will regularly update the PDF database so I can have more and more PDF ebooks to download -- and read! ♥ ♥ ♥

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Friday Frustrations: Computer Issues

Welcome to Friday Frustrations, a weekly blog carnival dedicated to getting things off your chests whether big or small. If you would like to participate, grab the button and enter your Friday Frustrations link on Conversations with Moms Friday Frustrations Blog Hop. You can write about several frustrations or just one. It’s up to you.

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It's my first time to join this meme and the frustration topic is just perfect! =) You see, my brother changed our PC operating system from Windows XP to Vista to Windows 7 in just a span of 2 months! While I was still learning to navigate Vista, he installed Windows 7. Now, I have to relearn things all over again! I'm more than computer / Internet literate but Windows 7 is really frustrating me. The search feature sucks (too complicated and doesn't find things! grr!), Google Chrome crashes every 30 minutes or so, my other programs that require Windows 7 support need reinstalling which is a hassle, and last, bootup is longer than Vista! I tell you, I was not excited with bug-laden Vista but Windows 7 is rapidly eating up my patience.. Argh!! I just wish we're using Windows XP again. Life was much simpler back then! -_- And that ends my rant for today -- come back again next Friday! Hehe!