Author: Jayvee Fernandez

Technology Editor for The Philippine STAR and founder of A Bugged Life. Seasoned content marketer and Anvil Awards juror.

My very first colored laptop was an IBM Thinkpad back in the early 90’s. Technically it wasn’t mine — as I was too young to truly own one — it belonged to my dad, and this was my first experience to really feel what it was like to use a workhorse of a computer. I’ve previously used heavy Toshiba laptops with mono LCD displays but the Thinkpad was the first device I had experience in actually upgrading, pumping up its RAM to 4MB (yes MB not GB). I remember being enamored with the “nipple” mouse, as this has been an…

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Editor’s Note: This is a retelling of an original post, with the addition of photos taken with the Xiaomi 13T w/ Leica lens technology. There’s a bike route I’ve been following more often. And the irony is the trail is within a mall. The Festival Mall canals are really something else. In a way it reminds me of the huge ponds of the former QUAD (now Greenbelt) in the 1980’s and Virra Mall but on a larger scale. Festival Mall’s humongous expansion extends the mall towards Asian Hospital with new outdoor areas around a forum that follows the freshwater Alabang…

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As someone who has dabbled in the tech industry for roughly two decades, I’ve seen how technology has evolved from clunky and quirky gadgets (remember the Nokia lipstick phone?) to a more mainstream and sterilized environment (all phones have one form factor).

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