Archive | January, 2009

30 January 2009 ~ 26 Comments

Engagement: A tale set in Manila and Liberia. Also Diamonds.

If I were to write about engagements around 4 years ago, I would’ve probably written it with my friend Kenneth’s engagement in mind.
Kenneth was one of my best friends in college who proposed to his girlfriend about the time we were about to graduate from business school. Although Kenneth was one of my closest friends, [...]

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23 January 2009 ~ 11 Comments

Ugh! Kids nowadays!

Last week, I along with a couple of friends from the office went to this bar in the Ortigas Home Depot complex to de-stress and pop a few bottles. I’m not going to regale you with a colorful account of how we got a good buzz going, exchanged lame jokes about midgets and threw 80’s [...]

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15 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Taking Creepiness to a whole new level (aka a morning in the life of Mike Villar: Rising Internet Star)

Step One : Develop a borderline obsessive crush on a girl you absolutely have no shot of ever interacting with let alone, on a romantic level. You know? One of those “I shift uneasily on my seat whenever I see her on TV and sometimes my body even goes  to the extent of manifesting this [...]

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11 January 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Pulling off my OWN #daniela: The..um…”MV Foundation”

Last week, David Armano VP of Experience Design for Critical Mass and one of of the few bloggers I really look up to, brought the case of Daniela, a mother of three kids, forth in his blog and his 8,600+ followers strong twitter network.
Daniela’s family, at that time, was living in David’s house after years [...]

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06 January 2009 ~ 9 Comments

When I finally put up my own company…(A message to IT Administrators everywhere)

My workforce would be comprised purely of humanoid robots.
Specifically those that resemble a female human with 36c breasts and blond hair capable of performing fellatio and maybe a bit of sexy dancing.
These robots would be productive 100% all the time–I will mandate that each and every one of them are to log in and out [...]

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