Announcement On Topic Change

I wish to announce that I moved my personal blogs to BlogSpot after some serious efforts to make it as presentable as I wanted it to be on this site. I am sorry to say that this specific theme in Calliope private blog platform has a bug that I cannot tweak. My blog title will only show font size 20 no matter what kind of font I use. Increasing the font size would make the title garbled and unreadable.

My personal blogsite is now entitled EdZee’s Web Logs and still on free hosting basis at http://edzee.blogspot.com/. Aside from possibly better response and uptime, I am banking on BlogSpot’s connection with Google for more traffic not only on my personal blogs but also for my Owning a Café niche blogs where I have the Internet café industry in the Philippines as my target audience. Please follow my personal blogs in its new site and my niche blogs at http://xicowner.jefmart.com/.

I wish to take back my words that I am leaving this site. I want to clarify that I only moved my personal blogs to the new site. I will continue writing on this space but this time it will be to share my opinion on the current events happening in our country, the Philippines. I will be coming out with my first opinion blog soon.

Why I Retired at 45

In some of my web bio, you will read my self-description that says “I retired at the tender age of 45″. Let me first qualify that what I mean by retiring in such statement is I stop working as an employee when I was forty-five (45) years old. Also, let me add that I did not suffer any physical nor mental disability when I did that. I was physically and mentally fit at the time. (more…)

Traffic During My College Days

Nowadays, traffic jams in the major streets and thoroughfares of Metro-Manila are so dreadful you have to really plan your trip if you are going to drive your own car. Traffic jams are not only time consuming, it is also a big drain on the pocket. What with more than PhP30.00 per liter cost of gasoline which could make you travel only five (5) kilometers on heavy traffic situation. (more…)

My Site’s Header

How does the header of this site show on your browser? Can you read the name of my weblog? It is actually “Just Another Xicowner’s Blog” using MarkingPen Heavy font with size 100. It is showing perfectly on my Mozilla Firefox (MF) browser but my son noticed the appearance problem when he browsed it in his computer. I suspect it will show on other’s browser (more…)

When I Was Young

I grew up in a rural area not very far from the urban cities of Metro-Manila. Yes, we were just about fifty (50) kilometers away from Maynila but I was in the city only once a year and this was during Christmas. I got to go with my parents to visit some relatives including my ninong (godfather) who would be gracious enough to give me five (5) pesos, an amount sufficient to pay for fare (more…)