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I don’t know if you’ve seen this video on youtube, but a friend of mine from work, Chris Evardo, showed this very interesting video to us.  It’s called Did You Know?  Contains very interesting facts and this video will make you wonder. This is the information on the video: “Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman, remixed”

Since Mr Jim has the addicting Blockhead on his site, maybe I’ll post two of my all-time faves as well…
Have fun!
Or, you can download the games here (excel files):
Golf Game | Pacman | Tetris | Sonic

I set up a blog for my wife Alou (with the help of Mr Jim Doran, thank you very much sir). I thought I had to pay for another blog site but anyway, it’s alonacomalacas.com. Check it out in about a week, so hopefully she’d get to write at least once a week. She claims she’s a very good writer, so we’ll see. LOL just kiddin’ baby… I love u!

If you watch ABDC, then you know what I’m talking about. Imo, the best performance ever in America’s Best Dance Crew, of all the seasons, was performed by Beat Freaks.  Beat Freaks is an all-female crew from Los Angeles with a B-girl style performance.  These ladies names are:
Lindsey, aka. “Out There”
Teresa Espinosa
Keeley “Lockn’Key” Kaukimoce
Maryss From Paris
Lady Jules
B-Girl Shorty
Rino

Although Quest Crew won the competition in Season 3, I still think this is by far the best performance. Jabbawockeez, Kaba Modern, Fanny Pak, Quest Crew and obviously Beat Freaks were my favs. Enjoy watching!

I’ve heard and read about other people’s experiences about getting their wisdom tooth pulled and all I learned was simply, it hurts! Growing up, I’ve never recalled myself going to a dentist and getting any of my teeth pulled out. All I remember was, every time I had a loose tooth, I did my own procedure. The procedure of just letting it be, and if I can pull it out, then I’d do it myself. But now, it’s a different situation. I had a problem with my lower right wisdom tooth, creating a pocket for food to get in. So I really had no choice but to take it out.

Four days ago was my procedure. It was early in the morning, still sleepy from sleeping late the night before. Didn’t like the people for they were somewhat unfriendly. With the slow service and unorganized help desk staff, I really didn’t want my day to start off in a bad/moody way. After at least 30 mins of waiting, I was led into the procedure room so I told my wife to come with me. “Ma’am, you can wait in the waiting area. It’ll be done in 20 mins.” the tech said to my wife. I was like “great!”. The only person that would comfort me throughout the procedure was not allowed to hold my hand. (ok i’m a baby, so what?! haha) Anyway, the dentist gave me a couple of shots to numb my gums and so I wouldn’t feel anything. But the injections alone gave me some painful stings. So after a few minutes the dentist started his procedure. He moved my tooth up and down, right to left, and up and down again. With my eyes closed during the procedure, I really was just imagining happy thoughts to alleviate the discomfort I was feeling. Then all of a sudden a sound of a drill starts, making it’s way inside my mouth as I hear the sound gets closer and closer. The dentist starts carving it’s way in, and the worse thing was I could smell the burning aroma. Not really an aroma, but u know what I mean. After hearing the freaky cracking sounds, more strong pushing left, pushing right, which led me into conclusion that this dentist was having a hard time pulling my tooth; it’s like a tug-of-war in there. My hands and feet started to shake a bit. But after a few more pulling and pushing, he stopped. I thought he didn’t take it out yet then he finally said, “that’s it!”. Finally, this awful experience is over! The dentist led me back to the help desk and gave me the prescription for the pain killers, hydrocodone, along with the instructions, ice pack and some gauze. We head home, and Alou stopped by the pharmacy to get the medicine.

It’s been four days since I haven’t eaten properly. I’ve only eaten soups, soft foods like my wife’s cheesecake and some tiramisu. The worse thing was, I had to be at my work’s surprise baby shower for my sister. It was tough being in a room full of good food and was unable to talk a lot. I still can’t open my mouth wide, and can’t even laugh the same way. The jaw area still hurts, although the pain is subsiding everyday. Just can’t wait for this thing to be over!

February is always a busy month for me. Aside from the obvious, the Valentine’s Day, we have a bunch more celebrations on Feb. First, Popoy’s birthday on the 4th, my birthday is on the 25th, our wedding anniversary on the 26th, (we are one year married! time flies!), Alou’s birthday is on the 27th, and my niece’s birthday, Avery, on the 28th. That’s four consecutive days celebration! Well for our wedding anniversary celebration, my wife and I went to Poconos in Pennsylvania. It’s about 3.5 hours drive from Bmore, but it’s ok. I love driving anyway, as long as I know where to go, it’s cool. Anyway, Poconos is a great place to be. Lots of activities to do. It was great coz there were only a few people there, perfect atmosphere for lovebirds such as me and me wifey. lol But it would be great for family vacations during the summer. There’s a lake, there’s golf, tennis, volleyball, badminton etc. I really recommend it!

Our friends took us out to Fogo de Chao. It was the day of Alou’s bday and I surprised her for she didn’t know our friends were coming. She only thought it was just going to be me and Avery. So she was really surprised and I also got her some cake from of course, Yia Yia bakery! I got one of them cupcakes that are put together to make as one cake. But let me tell you about Fogo, I love that place! If you want to feel like you are a celebrity, wait, let me change that, to a king or a queen, you better go visit this place. If you live in Bmore, you probably already know where it is, but if not, it’s by the Inner Harbor where PF Chang’s is right across the ESPN zone. Anyway, dining at Fogo was an experience. I would love to go back there again. Although it is a pricy, especially dinnertime, but it was worth it especially if you love meat, meat and more meat. lol Anyway, we really have great friends! We also got free tickets to the Orioles game and also to the circus! Thanks soooo much to Evelyn, Yary(she didn’t make it though), Oscar and Grewlyn, we had a lot of fun!!!

I’ve created a slideshow for Popoy before his birthday.  These are pictures we took when we got him last April  up to the present.    Hope you enjoy watching them!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I’ve created a slideshow for my Dad.  These are the pictures that I put up on the projector at my Dad’s wake.  These are just a few memories with Dad that of course, we’ll never forget.  I just wished I had taken a lot more videos before he passed away…

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

It’s that time of year again and American Idol season 8 has officially begun.  And this year, my favorite is a college student from Chapel Hill North Carolina.  Why is he my favorite?  Well, I’ve seen his videos on youtube together with the UNC Clef Hangers and they are just great!  Hopefully I am right about this one again because for the past American Idol Seasons, I was right about Taylor Hicks and David Cook (pinpointing them to win since their first audition).  Although Danny Gokey seems to have won some of the people and the judges last night, hopefully Anoop Dogg will go far this season.  Vote for Anoop!!!

I was so busy during Valentine’s Day I never thought of putting a shout out to all the ladies out there, especially to the women of my life (my family and friends), and of course, most especially to my wife Alona Co Malacas.

My Baby Ga, hope you had fun on Valentine’s Day with me, as opposed to me working in the lab (he he).  I love you so much and I thank you for sticking with me through tough times.  With endless appreciation, thank you for being a great wife and a great mom (to Popoy!) and  for the unconditional love and support that you give me all these years.

I love you with all my heart…