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30 Day Challenges Life Lifestyle Technology

Why Facebook is like Junk Food

I’m one day away from going back to Facebook. I’m not excited. Once in a while I give myself these mini challenges in which I get rid of one thing I’m addicted to for 30 days. Today is my day 29 without Facebook. It started back in 2012, when I caught myself mindlessly refreshing social network feeds every […]

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Asia Body Movement Singapore

Capoeira is Universal

Just me being me in another part of the world. Video taken in Universal Studios, Singapore, February 2013.

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Asia Music and Art Singapore

Norah Jones Before I Die

There are only a handful of people and bands in my “artists to watch perform before I die” list. And yes, this very short list includes Norah Jones. 

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Manila Philippines

Biorhythm: Music and the Body with some Buddies

Biorhythm is a travelling exhibition exploring the relationship between the music and the body. It was first exhibited at Science Gallery in Ireland back in 2010, before moving to New York and then Singapore. I would never have heard of it, except that apparently, since November 15, 2012, it’s been here in the Philippines at The […]

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Body Movement

Introduction to Capoeira: For World Youth Day Volunteers

In 2013, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil will be hosting World Youth Day (WYD), and we were fortunate enough to be invited by some Filipino volunteers to talk a bit about Capoeira, which, in a way, is central to Brazilian culture.

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Technology

Nokia Lumia Nation!

WARNING: Sabog! I know it should be all Gaga posts now and this is late and all, but I wanted this up because this is my first shot at shooting with the iPhone. It’s not whoa, but the pictures are sharper than any other phone camera I’ve seen (not that I’ve seen a lot). Whew, […]

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Technology

The WordPress.Orgy Shiz: A First-timer Moving In

I have completely shut down (actually, I just put it in private) vidasioson.wordpress.com. It’s not like there was anything special about it, I’m just sayin’… So if you have it in your links section, I’d love it if you could change the link to, ahem, vidasioson.com.

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Life Technology

Howdy!

Yesss! There’s nothing new to see here (except, perhaps, for the vanity address). Oh, check out my Facebook comments section – you can’t do that on wordpress.com so this better be better than Disqus. I wasn’t going to link to this until after a revamp, but having to juggle two addresses confuses my already confused […]

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Body Movement

How It Feels to be Kicked in the Face (Part 2: A Lesson In Capoeira)

Capoeira has always been known to be a “dance” type of sport. There is so much grace involved in it that people often forget that it’s a martial art. As the capoeira song “Zum Zum Zum” goes: Zum, zum, zum, Capoeira mata um! Translated to english, this means: Zum, zum, zum, Capoeira is deadly! It is.

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Body Manila Movement Philippines

Capoeira and the World (Brasilipinas 2012)

Though I’ve been doing capoeira for a while, I’ve never participated in a capoeira event that is not ours – that is, until yesterday. It was Escola Brasileira de Capoeira’s Batizado, which is part of a yearly festival called Brasilipinas.