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FxCamera at random
This is one of first shots I took using FxCamera for Android. I absolutely suck at getting good shots of the most prestigious objects that are supposed to be good by itself. Now they are ruined.
Anyway, one of the cool features of FxCamera is its ability to take shots using different effects, one at a time. Sometimes you also call it ‘random’. This Android camera application has a lot of amazing effects that I didn’t even bother counting. This application is absolutely free and definitely available from your local android market.
What is the best Android camera applocation you have ever tried?
Pacman’s knockout favorite: Tinolang Manok
As a way of ‘honoring’ or shall I say cheering on our Pambansang Kamao in his upcoming fight with Cotto, I am blogging about Manny Pacquiao‘s favorite dish of all time, Tinolang Manok. Tinolang Manok is one of the easiest soupy yet ‘malinamnam‘ chicken dishes that we Filipinos have. This dish has actually been a favorite of Pinoys even way way back. This was even mentioned in our National Hero, Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere.
This is also a favorite of mine, I like the taste of Sili leaves, the ginger and of course the delicious soup and the fall-of-the-bone chicken! So here it is, (wag na natin patagalin) my recipe for Tinolang manok.
This bowl of Tinolang Manok is for my hubby Aldrin
Ingredients:
- 1 kilo of Chicken cut-ups (Tinola cut is also available, the pieces are usually the bony parts, but I like chicken wings, legs and thighs for my tinola)
- 1 medium sized onion, sliced
- 5 cloves of garlic, crushed (I’m a garlic person sometimes, I use 1 bulb)
- 1 medium sized ginger, sliced, crushed
- 1 medium sized green papaya, seeds removed and sliced lengthwise
- Sili leaves
- 1 Siling haba
- patis
- a dash of salt and pepper to taste
- 6 cups of water or reserved chicken stock. (you can also use Knorr chicken cubes, I like this product and been using this to enhance the flavor of my chicken tinola)
Ingredients for Tinolang Manok
Procedure:
- In a pot, saute the onion, garlic and ginger until the onions are transparent.
- Add in the chicken, and until the chicken has changed color.
- Add in the water or reserved chicken stock. Or add the water then the Knorr chicken cubes, I think 2 cubes will work.
- Add in the sliced papaya.
- Let the soup simmer for about 15 – 20 minutes until the chicken and papaya is thoroughly cooked.
- Season with patis, salt and pepper according to your taste. Throw in the Siling Haba.
- Lastly, just before you turn off the fire, add in the sili leaves, give it one more stir to soak the leaves in the soup. And voila, you have your Tinolang Manok!
Almost done!
So, easy! You can also try this with native chicken, at my in-laws, in Mabini, Batangas, they include the liver, gizzard and even the chicken blood in the tinola. The soup is more flavorful, yummier, it’s even greater when it’s native chicken.
You can also try Tinolang Tahong (Mussels). Almost same ingredients, you just replace the chicken with tahong. Just don’t overcook the tahong. Will cook this again and post pictures as well. So, what are you waiting for, go to your nearest grocery or market, buy the ingredients, and cook your own steaming Tinolang Manok. 
Good Eyesight
There’s something I noticed about Globe Mobile Plans site. Not a big deal actually but I guess they need someone with better eyesight.
AFETER = AFTER
FREE = FEE
How to Upgraded to WordPress 2.7 Easily
After many hesitations to install/upgrade this blog and my other blogs to WordPress 2.7, I finally decided to give it a try. We all know there are detailed instructions on WordPress.org but as a man who doesn’t have time reading tips and tricks, I just don’t read it.
Really excited about the new admin theme of WordPress, I take all the risks and installed to the latest. I did not backup, did not follow all the instructions and just overwrite everything with the new files. And it worked really perfectly without having any issues. And now I encourage everyone to upgrade right after reading my personal tips.
1. Download the latest WordPress package
2. Extract the package in any folder on you host. It will extract the files inside a folder named ‘wordpress’
3. Copy all the extracted files. (not the whole wordpress folder)
4. Overwrite all the files inside your blog’s wordpress directory by pasting the copied files
5. Go to your admin page. You will be prompted to upgrade, do as it says.
6. Done.
This process is risky but it did not bring any at all to me. It’s safe in my case.
And apparently, wp-config file doesn’t require any changes as well.
Proverb #4
Are you unique? Let me get you a little confused.
Being unique is a state of having something that only you possess it. Not with anybody else. That’s the literal meaning. Let’s say you have something that nobody else has. Does it make you unique now? I don’t think so. Because there’s certainly someone else out there who possesses something nobody else has. And it makes that person pretend to be unique as well. Then there’s 2 of you who pretend to be unique, and it makes you totally not unique.
Get the point?