Archive for February, 2008

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This blogger will guest on TV!

February 28, 2008

thesweetlife.jpgLast week I was invited to guest on the show “The Sweet Life” – an early evening lifestyle talkshow hosted by Lucy Torres with Wilma Doesnt as co-host – as their topic will be about bloggers. The episode was taped early last week and I was informed it will be aired on Friday (Feb 29) on QTV channel 11. Since the station airs American Idol season 7 (which was promoted locally by way of a Vespa motorcade) in the former’s timeslot at 7PM, it would be safe to assume that the bloggers’ episode will be moved an hour earlier or later. hehehe

Anyway, the guest lineup consist of both celebrity and non-celebrity bloggers. Here’s a snapshot that my wife took while we were taping. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Personal, Photos, Television, Topic Off-Vespa | 16 Comments »

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Art Vespa 2007: Who won the Vespa LX?

February 27, 2008

The winners for the Art Vespa 2007 spearheaded by Vespa South Africa has just been announced. Click the images below for a closer look of the Top 3 placers.

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The first placer will receive a brand new Vespa LX sporting his winning design. It was reported that Francesco Maffe, the contest’s judge, had a tough time choosing the winners from this year’s collection of sensational designs. In the end, the ones that caught the judge’s attention are those which stayed faithful in answering the brief (keep it simple, bold and add 2-dimensional color to painted areas only) in the most creative manner.  The 2nd place looks like it’s from the pool of delivery scoots from Yellow Cab Pizza.

To see the rest of this year’s batch of Vespa designs, you may preview the downloadable wallpaper of this year’s submissions. Read the rest of this entry ?

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Topic Off-Vespa: “Someone Someday”

February 27, 2008

Hope you would excuse this very personal blog entry. What prompted me to post this is the untimely demise of a good friend, Paulo Clemente. He is a colleague in the wedding industry who’s made a name for himself as a talented wedding singer. If you know him, I have written some other details about this very sad news in the W@W News Blog.

Anyway, a couple of years ago, I asked Paulo if he could sing the demo of a song I have written. Entitled “Someone Someday,” it served as a personal anthem when I was still in my early 20s at a stage in my life when I didn’t know what exactly I wanted to do. I had just graduated but couldn’t land in a job that I like. I somehow knew then that I’ll be able to achieve something but I just didn’t know how and when I’m gonna get there. Maybe I wrote it to cope when my self-worth was at it’s lowest. As a songwriter, I vowed then never to write sad songs, but only to write about things with a message of hope.

I’m finally posting it here in memory of Paulo, a friend who gave life to the song. Hear it here. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Music, Personal, Topic Off-Vespa | 8 Comments »

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‘Use your Brain’ tees by Scooterista

February 18, 2008

Raoul Floresca – Features Editor/Creative Director of Scooterista magazine — posted in the Vespinoy forum about this interesting graphic shirt. This is the first of a series of shirts that they plan to produce to promote safe riding. Here’s the design:

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Here’s what Raoul has got to say about the shirt: Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Local Scene, Pinoy Iskuterista, Rider's Tips | 13 Comments »

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Allan & Shiela: A Vespa Valentine Story

February 13, 2008

The story below has already been posted in the Vespinoy forum and Bimbo’s blog. But I personally felt that this particular story in the lives of Allan Malubay (scootzilla) and Shiela Montaño is meant to be shared to as many people as possible so I’m spreading the love especially in time for Valentine.

Here’s Allan telling their story.

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Hello Vespinoys! I just want to share with you the story of how I got my first ever Vespa. Let me first tell you how I got “bitten by the bug” as they say.

Two years ago when I was reading Scooterista Magazine, I was able to read this article where the Ochoas were sitting on a Vespa GS. From how I remember, it was an interesting and beautiful scooter. Then I saw in the ads section of the same magazine that there’s this store named 2211 which distributes Vespa scoots. I was already planning to go there to get some back issues and to sign up for a subscription, so I asked my fiancée Shiela to accompany me and check the place out.

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When we arrived there, we saw the same scoot I saw in the mag, and Michelle (2211 staffer), confirmed that it was the same Vespa GS I’m talking about. I asked her if i can take pictures of it and maybe sit on it as well. When she allowed me to do so and I was on top of it in no time, I said to myself that one day I will also have one of these in our garage. However, the price tag did not seem to agree with me, and besides, Michelle said the GS is not for sale because it already belongs to a collection and the price is more than P100k. “What? A P100k for a scoot?” I blurted. You have to forgive my ignorance then because I only had Asian scoots and I had no idea how expensive a Vespa scoot can be. But even so i said to myself one way or another i will have a Vespa. After that I started my Vespa collection from t-shirts, stickers, keychains, bags and diecast figures but the actual scoot I continued to save for.

After two years of logging in to Vespinoy.com and MotorcyclePhilippines.com, I still don’t have a unit of my own since my budget is still not enough and besides, I’m also saving for my wedding, and one of my plans is to have our prenuptial shot taken with a Vespa. Read the rest of this entry ?

Posted in Local Scene, Pinoy Iskuterista | 5 Comments »

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Download: Vespa template for your WordPress blog!

February 5, 2008

The past weeks have been really busy with work and rides. Mountain biking took a back seat and so was blogging here. I can’t say that I’m really back to blogging here since there are more things that I need to do. :(

In the mean time, let me share this Vespa I’ve spotted recently in the blogosphere. This is for wordpress bloggers hosting their own blogs especially for those who want a little Vespa-flavah in their blog layout.

Presenting… the Vespa moto theme for WP!

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This 3-column template was designed by mikozv and it’s so fresh that only five downloads have been logged as of this writing. Thinking of starting your own Vespa blog? This could well be the perfect template/blog layout to start with.

• you may view a sample page of this particular Vespa blog layout here
• If you like what you see, you may download the Vespa moto template here

Vespa blog now. :)

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J0HNRANA

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Posted in Downloads, Screen Caps, Vespa Spottings | 6 Comments »