The Misadventures of Penoi

#mount the samba share

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //server/share /mnt/database

#backup database

for i in $(mysql-uroot -password -e "SHOW DATABASES"|tail +2); do mysqldump -uroot -ppassword $i | gzip -9 > /mnt/database/$i.sql.gz; done

#unmount the samba share
umount /mnt/database

Last December 2005, i started my first picture blog. At first it shows pictures of flowers and some experimental images. But after the success of Pinoy Jokes, i added pinoy funny pictures. It was in hiatus for almost a year, but now, i reviving it once more to give you my collection of never before seen funny pictures, travel photos and images taken from the internet. Please visit the site and see this Special Jumbo Siopao, shot from my officemate's merienda.

No, i will not give you a free download pdf edition of Playboy Philippines :) Due to the fact that this is the first edition of Playboy here in the Philippines, i wont miss the opportunity to have my own copy coz it will be a collectible in due time. I may say that this local version of Playboy has the censorship suited for a conservative(?) country. Yes, you will see half naked girls, but not as vulgar as those images that we always see on Tiktik, Sagad, and even on FHM.  It doesnt have articles like on FHM's Ladies Confession and Sex Positions. My girlfriend commented that this magazine is more of a Men's fashion magazine. Oh well, just grab a copy and see it for yourself.

wget http://www.osnews.com/files/xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz

tar xvzf xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz

cd xmms-mp3-fc1

cp libmpg123.so /usr/lib/xmms/Input/

1. Install CWRsync: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69227&package_id=68081

2. Create ssh-rsa for the server(password-less rsync)
cd "c:\program files\cwrsync\bin"
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' (hit enter twice)

3. Upload your generated key to the backup server
rsync -av "/cygdrive/c/documents and settings/administrator/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" root@ipaddress:/home/root/

4. SSH to your DNS-323 and copy the new id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys
#cat /home/root/id_rsa.pub >> /home/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

5. Create a Batch file in your Windows

@ECHO OFF
REM *****************************************************************
REM
REM CWRSYNC.CMD - Batch file template to start your rsync command (s).
REM
REM By Tevfik K. (http://itefix.no)
REM *****************************************************************

REM This is where we can find our .ssh

SET HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator

REM Make environment variable changes local to this batch file
SETLOCAL

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Specify where to find rsync and related files (C:\CWRSYNC)
SET CWRSYNCHOME=%PROGRAMFILES%\CWRSYNC

REM Set CYGWIN variable to 'nontsec'. That makes sure that permissions
REM on your windows machine are not updated as a side effect of cygwin
REM operations.
SET CYGWIN=nontsec

REM Set HOME variable to your windows home directory. That makes sure
REM that ssh command creates known_hosts in a directory you have access.
SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

REM Make cwRsync home as a part of system PATH to find required DLLs
SET CWOLDPATH=%PATH%
SET PATH=%CWRSYNCHOME%\BIN;%PATH%

REM Windows paths may contain a colon (:) as a part of drive designation and
REM backslashes (example c:\, g:\). However, in rsync syntax, a colon in a
REM path means searching for a remote host. Solution: use absolute path 'a la unix',
REM replace backslashes (\) with slashes (/) and put -/cygdrive/- in front of the
REM drive letter:
REM
REM Example : C:\WORK\* --> /cygdrive/c/work/*
REM
REM Example 1 - rsync recursively to a unix server with an openssh server :
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/work/ remotehost:/home/user/work/
REM
REM Example 2 - Local rsync recursively
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/work/ /cygdrive/d/work/doc/
REM
REM Example 3 - rsync to an rsync server recursively :
REM (Double colons?? YES!!)
REM
REM rsync -r /cygdrive/c/doc/ remotehost::module/doc
REM
REM Rsync is a very powerful tool. Please look at documentation for other options.
REM

REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Enter your rsync command(s) here
REM You want to copy C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\ to DNS-323
rsync --progress -aurp --delete "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/" root@dns.ip.address:/mnt/HD_a2/Mydocs/

1. Download and untar funplug(i have problems with 0.4 version cause there's no dropbear.sh in the package file)

http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.3/funplug-0.3.tar.gz

2. Copy fun_plug and fun_plug.tar into Volume_1 of Dlink DNS-323

3. Restart Dlink DNS-323

4. Telnet to your DNS 323

#cd /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/start


#sh dropbear.sh start

5. Set your root account

#echo "root::0:0:99999:7:::" >>/etc/shadow
#passwd root

6. Test first your ssh access with the new password

7. Store your root password

#/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/bin/store-passwd.sh

8. Configure your dropbear.sh and rsyncd.sh to start at bootup

#chmod a+x dropbear.sh

#chmod a+x rsyncd.sh

9. Disable insecure telnet

#chmod a-x telnetd.sh

10. Restart your DNS-323

Tired of unorganized ssh putty sessions and don't have the budget for SecureCRT??? Use PuttyTabs!!! PuttyTabs is a utility use to organize your ssh on tabs. It has its own docking window that you can hide in your desktop.

Installing Security Auditor's Research Assistant(SARA) in backtrack linux 

Install tcsh. Perl needs the csh shell to execute SARA
#wget http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/slackware/slackware_source/a/tcsh/tcsh-6.15.00.tar.bz2
#bunzip2 tcsh-6.15.00.tar.bz2
#tar xvf tcsh-6.15.00.tar
#cd tcsh-6.15.00
#./configure
#make
#make install
#ln -sf /usr/local/bin/tcsh /bin/csh

Download and install SARA
#wget http://www-arc.com/sara/downloads/sara-7.5.2.tgz
#tar xvzf sara-7.5.2.tgz
#cd sara-7.5.2
#./configure
#make
#make install

Add sara user
./add_user

Scan a host
./sara -a4 <ip.address>

Run SARA in daemon mode
./sara -D

Now browse to http://localhost:666

my 30 days lab access ended last February for the security course that im attending. Im still waiting for a May slot and extend another 30 days access. For the meantime, im struggling to learn perl and python programming needed in some of the course lab exercises.

SEO Poisoning Attacks 

"Online fraudsters have continued to expand their efforts this week to inject iframe attacks into the optimized search results of major Web sites.

The attack abuses a common practice among Web sites -- caching search queries -- an activity designed to boost their rankings among major search engines, such as Google, according to security researcher Dancho Danchev. The attackers inject common search terms and an iframe script designed to send victims to other sites hosting malicious code. The search term and iframe redirect get cached in search engines such as Google."

Its Holy Week again!!! Time to pray and to ask forgiveness for our sins. Nakakalungkot isipin, pero  kapag narinig natin ang word Holy week, ang unang pumapasok sa isip natin ay BAKASYON, BEACH at HIKING.

So saan ako ngayong Lenten Season??? sa bahay lang, kasama ang buong pamilya at buong araw ko lang kukulitin ang aking mga pamangkin :)

March 11, 2008 -- A new chapter in the legendary career of multi-Platinum rockers JOURNEY--Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and Arnel Pineda (vocals)—will begin on June 3 with the highly anticipated release of REVELATION, a three-disc CD and DVD package to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores in North America.

The first disc will consist of 11 re-recorded classics, the second is filled with 11 new songs, and the third is a live, in-concert DVD. All of the music on REVELATION was produced by Kevin Shirley (who previously worked with JOURNEY on their Platinum-certified TRIAL BY FIRE album).
JOURNEY will take REVELATION on the U.S. concert trail later this July, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.

taken from journeymusic.com

My officemate created a Xen Windows 2003 server virtual machine on one server. The virtual machine supposedly was configured to eat up 30GB of hard disk space but unknowingly it goes up to 85 Gb which eats up all of hd space and cause my server to hang.

I have to restart and fix all of MySQL table crashes. Here's a simple script that i created that will help me monitor my server's harddisk and mysql crash

*************************************************************************************************

#!/bin/sh
#check harddisk space
date > serverhealth.log
echo "******** Disk Space **********" >> serverhealth.log
df -h >> serverhealth.log
echo "********Check Eventum database ***********" >> serverhealth.log
#check Mysql datase for errors
mysqlcheck -umysqluser -ppassword mysqldatabase >> serverhealth.log

SUBJECT=`hostname`" Automated Server Health Alert"

TO="admin@admin.com"

mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < /root/serverhealth.log
**************************************************************************************

"the art is not in the machine"

- taken from imag photography magazine

im a newbie in dslr photography and still learning how aperture, shutter, flash, etc. works. Photography is addicting especially in upgrading gadgets if you have the extra bucks :)

check out some of my photos at penoi's multiply site....

Now, i have my own The North Face HotShot bag. It has many pockets and a laptop sleeve that i always wanted on a bag.

Arnel Pineda Faithfully with Journey!!!! Journey Philippine Tour please!!!!

[root@localhost]# postgres
"root" execution of the PostgreSQL server is not permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
possible system security compromise.  See the documentation for
more information on how to properly start the server.
[root@localhost]#

im starting to like PostgreSql...

I might be wrong or maybe there are still misconfiguration with our ISA configs( we are not that expert though), i noticed that every time you browse the net, you're always authenticated by the Active Directory, not a one-time-only  authentication. After weeks of messing with Microsoft ISA and still having issues and problems, we finally decided to bring our old proxy server back.

Being lazy-as-i-am person, i dont have any documentation of process on how i installed our Squid+Dansguardian with WCCP support. Thanks a lot to Sun's Big Admin Portal for their step by step installation and i was able to setup our proxy server in just a couple of hours.

My Toshiba Satellite M50 laptop now runs Backtrack v3 Linux!!!! The installation manual was straightforward although i have to mess around with lilo bootloader and the computer's mbr. Copying the livecd's xorg.conf to my HD installed xorg.conf fixed the LCDs resolution :)

Our Microsoft Exchange fucked up leaving headache to the whole department. Two of the RAID 5 disk crashed and we have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Fedora 9 Alpha is now up for grabs!!!!  Talk about rapid development :)

Microsoft will acquire Yahoo??? It seems Microsoft can't compete with Google's search engine technology. I've playing with search engine optimization and sometimes Microsoft's Live engine took months to update its cache. While in Google, it will just take minutes to update its cache if your site is optimized.

This is my new external 160Gb hardisk that now serves as my backup storage for my mp3s, isos, documents, movies and pictures. So what's new??? i was asked to handle the corporate team lead position but i'm not that good in management.. really :(  this is a new challenge for me so help me God :)

Bad news for the Filipino bloggers. Starting January, Google Adsense will no longer support referrals from the Philippines. Hopefully it will not be a start of banning the Philippines in Adsense.

Nessus is a free, up to date and easy to use vulnerability scanner. You can find the official documentation of how to install Nessus here.

Download and install Nessus rpm package from the Nessus download page

[root@nessus chris]# rpm -ivh Nessus-3.0.6-es5.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:Nessus ########################################### [100%]
nessusd (Nessus) 3.0.6. for Linux
(C) 1998 - 2007 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Processing the Nessus plugins...
[##################################################]
All plugins loaded
- Please run /opt/nessus//sbin/nessus-add-first-user to add an admin user
- Register your Nessus scanner at http://www.nessus.org/register/ to obtain
all the newest plugins
- You can start nessusd by typing /sbin/service nessusd start

[root@nessus chris]#

Add the first Nessus user, it will be the admin account

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-add-first-user
Using /var/tmp as a temporary file holder
Add a new nessusd user
----------------------

Login : admin
Authentication (pass/cert) [pass] :
Login password :
Login password (again) :

User rules

----------

nessusd has a rules system which allows you to restrict the hosts
that admin has the right to test. For instance, you may want
him to be able to scan his own host only.
Please see the nessus-adduser(8) man page for the rules syntax
Enter the rules for this user, and hit ctrl-D once you are done :

(the user can have an empty rules set)

Login : admin
Password : ***********
DN :
Rules :
Is that ok ? (y/n) [y] y
user added.

Thank you. You can now start Nessus by typing :

/opt/nessus//sbin/nessusd -D

Start Nessus service daemon

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D &
[2] 1454
[root@nessus chris]# nessusd (Nessus) 3.0.6. for Linux
(C) 1998 - 2007 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

Processing the Nessus plugins...
[##################################################]
All plugins loaded
[2]- Done /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D

[root@nessus chris]#

Obtain your Nessus registration code in the Nessus website and register your nessus installation.

[root@nessus chris]# /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --register putyourregcodehere
Your activation code has been registered properly - thank you.
Now fetching the newest plugin set from plugins.nessus.org...
Your Nessus installation is now up-to-date.
If auto_update is set to 'yes' in nessusd.conf, Nessus will
update the plugins by itself.

[root@nessus chris]#

If you want a Windows-based Nessus admin console. Download and install Nessconnect

Singapore  IT Security Seminar
Training Fee: P 59,500.00 (+VAT)
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March 13-14, 2008 | Thur-Fri  |  9am-5pm

Fee includes: Airfare (Roundtrip), Hotel accommodation (sharing) for 2 days and 1 night, food, 6 training manuals and 6 Global Knowledge certificates.

TOPICS:

System Forensics, Investigation & Response

- Mr. Ariel Ilumin, enCase Certified, CIDG Philippines

Do you know what to do if your organization's security is compromised? Threats of computer crime against an organization's infrastructure have grown substantially, but there are steps you can take. In this course, you apply the latest Windows-based computer forensic techniques to uncover illicit activity and recover lost data. Every crime leaves behind clues. With the right tools, you can effectively respond to and counteract security threats.

Network Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking

- Mr. Ariel Ilumin, enCase Certified, CIDG Philippines

Find Security Flaws Before the Bad Guys Do

Security vulnerabilities such as weak configurations, unpatched systems, and botched architectures continue to plague organizations. Enterprises need people who can find these flaws in a professional manner to help eradicate them from our infrastructures. Lots of people claim to have penetration testing, ethical hacking, and security assessment skills, but precious few can apply these skills in a methodical regimen of professional testing to help make an organization more secure. This class covers the ingredients for successful network penetration testing to help attendees improve their enterprise's security stance.

Assessing and Security Wireless Networks

- Mr. Eric Macatunggal, CCNA, Wireless Technology expert

As organizations provide greater mobility to their users, the risk of threats to security grows and the need for secure wireless networks becomes of paramount concern. In this course, you gain the skills to defend against attacks and maintain security within your wireless network. You learn to detect weakness in your existing network and design and configure a cost-effective security solution.

Securing Windows

- Mr. Wilbert Ontoy, MCSE, MCSA, Oracle Certified, Certified Ethical Hacker

The Securing Windows course is a comprehensive curriculum for securing Windows networks. This program brings the confusing complexity of Windows security into clear focus by starting with foundational security services, such as Active Directory and Group Policy, and advancing in a logical progression to particular products or features which rely on these foundations, such as IIS and IPSec.

Securing Oracle

- Mr. Wilbert Ontoy, MCSE, MCSA, Oracle Certified, Certified Ethical Hacker

Experts agree that Oracle is one of the most complex software packages available today. Unfortunately, complexity often introduces an increased risk for vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are being increasingly targeted by attackers.

Throughout the course the student will be exposed to the database as seen through the eyes of an attacker, including public and unreleased techniques that are used to compromise the integrity of the database or escalate a user's privileges. In this fashion, the student gains a better understanding of how an attacker sees a database as a target, and how we can configure the database to be resistant to known and unknown attacks.

Securing Unix / Linux

- Mr. Mike Liguit, Linux expert, Network Security specialist

The courses designed to teach individuals about securing Linux and Unix. Content is obviously dictated by course duration, but a good course will instruct the student about the various threats to the *nix platform and the countermeasures that can be brought to bear to defend against them. In most cases the student would be expected to have a reasonable understanding of *nix and be able to navigate around it.

Experience in-depth coverage of Unix security issues. Examine how to mitigate or eliminate general problems that apply to all Unix-like operating systems including vulnerabilities in the password authentication system, file system, virtual memory system, and in common network protocols such as NFS, NIS, and the Unix RPC mechanism. Learn the exact steps necessary to secure the two most common Unix flavors-- Solaris and Linux-- and get specific advice for securing some of the most common Internet services on the Unix platform, including Apache, WU-FTPD, Sendmail, and BIND

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One way of bypassing internet perimeter is using Internet Proxies, but there is another way of surfing anonymously by means of TOR networks. Xerobank incorporated TOR networks and Firefox in its XBank browser. It also offers services of high speed browsing from 200kbps, 1,500Kbps and 40Mbps bandwidth. You can also install XeroBank browser in your USB stick and have your privacy any where you go.

One disadvantage of this technology is empowering users to bypass corporate Internet Security which is a major threat. There are many ways of how to out-smart your IT guys, but it will be an endless cat-and-mouse chase :)

oh my!!! my google was redirected to Nederland by XeroBank browser

Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII scheduled for its USA release on March 25, 2008. Characters present are Zack Fair, Jenova, Professor Hojo, Sephiroth, Aerith Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart, Yuffie Kisaragi, Cait Sith, and many more.

I once played final fantasy VIII on Playstation One because of its famous soundtrack " Eyes on Me" and as always, a FF game sure is a smash hit for gamers.

Introducing the free Spiceworks IT Desktop. Designed, tested and used by 200,000 IT pros in 194 countries. Spiceworks has the everyday IT features you need:

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Arnel Pineda in CNN



Goodluck Arnel Pineda!!! Goodluck Journey on your new album!!!

Backup your Server's files to a remote host using rsync

Setup SSH RSA Authentication

#ssh-keygen -t rsa
#scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-host:/user/
#ssh user@remote-host
#cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

Make sure that .ssh/authorized_keys has the following permission

-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 393 Jan 9 09:45 authorized_keys

rsync -avhe ssh --delete /folder-to-backup user@remote-host:/backup-folder

For an automated backup, use cron. For other rsync command switches, refer to the documentation or issue the command "man rsync"

Another not-so-good American Pie Movie. I will not consider Beta House as a legacy of the famous cult-favorite American Pie Series(American Pie, American Pie 2 and American Wedding). Beta House is all about the Stifler's with their Beta Delta Xi House Fraternity , the Geeks Fraternity, boobs, strippers and more Sex.

Rating: Not Good

Want to surf the net anonymously??? use Proxybeat.com list of available proxies in the internet. Or, you can use proxybeat's list in your URL filter's/black lists

I celebrated my bday with Rachel last Friday in SM Mall of Asia(MOA). After Don hen, we spend our time in Big apple whole body massage. Now that was a relief after days of stressful work.

Penoi in Don Henricos

Penoi Before

Penoi After

I need a tool that can list all of my server's vulnerabilities. Sigvi does it all. Although the process is not yet automatic. It will compare the vulnerabilities that it has received from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) with the softwares that we installed on our servers.

"SIGVI is an Open Source application, under GPL license.

Basically, SIGVI is an application to detect vulnerabilities on our network.

It is not magic (still ...), simply compares the vulnerabilities that it has received from the sources with the software that we have installed on our servers. Those vulnerabilities are stored into the database creating a vulnerability repository.

When finds a software version that is vulnerable, it creates an alert and send notifications to all the administrators of this server.

The SIGVI has been (and is being) developed at UPCnet, from Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain."

Tired of using Google in searching hard to find documents(doc,pdf,ppt, etc)??? try using Scribd!!!

" Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web."

Proud to be Pinoy!!! Been watching this clip the whole day in Youtube. What a great singer!!!! Another reason to be proud of being a Filipino.

When you made a personal copy of a legally purchased CD is illegal as stated by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA). So it means when you rip your CDs into mp3s or any digital formats, you are violating copyright laws. Oh well, just support the music industry by purchasing original CDs.

Lego Racers

Rachel gave me a Lego toy as her Christmas Gift to me. Actually, when i was a child, I used to play my cousin's huge collection of Lego, and it is my first time to have one. Thanks Rachel!!! your an angel to me.

The finished product

I was happy when Google added Western Union Quick Cash to deliver earnings and speed up Adsense payments. This morning i went to a Western Union Center here in Batangas to get my earnings. I have Social Security System(SSS) id and Tax Identification Number(TIN) card but they said that my TIN card is not a valid government issued ID card.  Ok,  let me enumerate some of Western Union's so called valid government issued card.

Philippine Regulation Commission(PRC) card - not all people take PRC board exams

Government Service Insurance System(GSIS) card - hey not all people are government employees

Land Transportation Office (LTO) Driver's License - not all people know how to drive

Passport - is passport an identification card??? not all people wants to go abroad

I still believe and campaigning that our TIN card to be considered as a valid government issued ID because it is one of the many proofs that you pay your taxes(?).

let's learn some naruto basic hand seals!!!

Tiger

Snake

Rooster

Rat

Ram

Ox

Monkey

Horse

Hare

Dragon

Dog

Boar

I always wanted to have my own Nikon D40X DSLR, but instead, i settled with Ludwig drums equip with 4 piece Sabian Cymbals, a latin percussion jam block and a Gibraltar cymbal stand.  So what will be my birthday wishlist January next year?? A SennHeiser HD-215 and a new Ipod headphone :)

Yep!!! Please Visit my new site www.Penoycentral.net

Oi!!! This is my first post in my new not so ordinary blogsite. After spending two years in my blogger account. I've decided to again have my own domain(after someone squat my first domain).  Yep, first post, not so good news. It seems that crackers find ways to hijack into Google Text Ads which installs TROJ_QHOST.GC trojan. This trojan modifies the HOSTS that prevents users in connecting to page2.googlesyndication.com and redirects the request to gambling and pornography sites.

Company Xmas Party namin at muli naginit ang damdamin namin sa musika. Maaaring hindi ganon kami kagaling tumugtog subalit hanggang nasa puso mo ang bawat musika, mananatiling buhay ang ingay na inyong nililikha.... Ayan ang The Romy Diaz Project

" ikay multo sa paningin" with Dodong Cruise

the romy diaz project

Awww.... what can i say. My 2007 rocks!!! Simula ng taon, medyo hindi siya maganda.. Andyan na biglang nagsarado ang company na kung saan ako nagwork. Bigla tuloy akong nagkalaptop kasi hindi sila nagbayad ng suweldo namin. Buset!!!
Hay, ang hirap talaga ng walang pera, hindi ka magalaw ng maayos. buti na lang at nanalo kami sa SEO contest ng Ituloy AngSulong.. at ilang raket sa isang training center sa Ortigas. kahit paano nakaraos naman
Naemploy ako ng isang Danish company sa makati na kung saan i handle IT Security. Naging maayos naman ang aking pananalapi. hindi kalakihan, ngunit hindi din naman kababaan ang salary. kung baga tama lang.. for the meantime.. hehe...
Last quarter ng taon, muling sumigla ang aking buhay musika... naka-iskor na ako ng sarili kong drumset at muli nakapalo na ulit pagkaraan ng napakahabang panahon...Pero ang pinakamasayang part ng taon at sana maging panghabang buhay na ay ang aking pagkakatagpo sa babaeng mamahalin ko.. muli kong naranasan na magmahal at mahalin din ako... naging masigla muli ang aking mga araw sa tuwing kasama ko siya... salamat po at dumating ka sa buhay ko... sabi mo nga... life is fun!!!! :) looking forward for 2008, 2009, 2010 to infinite para sa ating dalawa....

Incubus Live in Manila
March 9, 2008
Araneta

Rock On!!!

JOURNEY WELCOMES ARNEL PINEDA
WITH “OPEN ARMS” TO THEIR FAMILY
AS THE BAND’S NEW LEAD SINGER

December 5, 2007 -- After much speculation…the wait is finally over.

JOURNEY--Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums)--is proud to introduce fans all over the world to their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda (“pin-eh-da”). He replaces Jeff Scott Soto, who parted ways with the band earlier this year after stepping in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the band in 2006 for medical reasons.

Arnel hails from Quezon City in the Philippines and has been singing Journey songs--in addition to original material--with his band, The Zoo, for the past couple of years in clubs all over his homeland. Joining the legendary band is a dream come true for him.
“It’s so exciting to sing with one of the best bands in the world. It’ll be a lot of hard work on my part and I’m actually looking forward to the scrutiny I’ll get from the hardcore JOURNEY fans. I know they’ll expect me to sound exactly like ‘the voice’ (Steve Perry), but that will never happen. I know there's only one Steve Perry in this world.”

When it was time for JOURNEY to look for a new lead singer, the internet came to their rescue. Guitarist Neal Schon wanted someone new to the music business, so he turned to YouTube. After finding Arnel singing “Faithfully,” he knew he had found the perfect frontman.

“I was frustrated about not having a singer,” explains guitarist Neal Schon, “so I went on YouTube for a couple of days and just sat on it for hours. I was starting to think I was never going to find anybody. But then I found The Zoo and I watched a bunch of different video clips that they had posted. After watching the videos over and over again, I had to walk away from the computer and let what I heard sink in because it sounded too good to be true. I thought, ‘he can’t be that good.’ But he is that good, he’s the real deal and so tremendously talented. Arnel doesn’t sound synthetic and he’s not emulating anyone. I tried to get a hold of him through YouTube and I finally heard from him that night, but it took some convincing to get him to believe that it really was me and not an imposter.”

Arnel Pineda picks up the story: “My friend Noel picked up the message on YouTube and told me it was from Neal. I thought it was a hoax so I ignored it. Noel said, ‘what if it really was Neal and he wanted to offer you the chance of a lifetime?’ So I e-mailed Neal back and the rest is history.”

“Arnel brings a soulful and passionate voice to JOURNEY,” continues keyboardist Jonathan Cain. “His personality is very well-suited to our music. He’s a sincere, authentic person with a great smile and a big heart. I think fans are really going to love him. With Arnel’s soaring tenor, Journey returns to our heritage sound.”

Schon agrees, “We feel reborn. I think there’s a lot of chemistry between the five of us. At first we were going to go into the studio and just write 4 songs, but now it’s escalated to a lot of great new and diverse material. The stuff sounds tremendous. Everyone’s so stoked about it. We feel very fortunate to have found Arnel.”
JOURNEY is currently working on a new album with legendary producer Kevin Shirley, which they hope to release by spring/summer 2008. Details will be announced early next year.

Rock the Riles 2007 @ December 9 at MRT stations!

Cubao station: Phil. Violators,Datu's Tribe,The
Wuds,Drip,Toyo,Typecast,FMD,Jeepney Joyride, Nityalila

Shaw Station: Pumping Pluto,Nyko Maca,Noel
Cabangon,Sound,Chicosci,Salindiwa,Area5,

Boni Station: Fig,Analog,Chillitees,Blue Ketchup,Bagetsafonik,Happy
Happy Joy Joy

Ayala Station: Musical O, Swissy, Sugarfree, Paramita, Sleepwalk
Circus,Updharmadown,Giniling Festival,Radioactivesago
project,Ang Bandang Shirley

Christmas and Birthday gift sa sarili ko

The Romy Diaz Project ang official name ng band namin for our Company Xmas Party. Siguradong kuwela ang set namin. For years na hindi ako nakakapagperform, i will give the best sa gig na ito... kating kati na kasi ako na makapagplay ulit.. Oh well, musician will always be musician... malungkot nga lang ako at hindi ko puwedeng isama ang special person ngayon sa buhay ko.. hehehehe.. naks... sorry po :( limitado lang daw ang head count ng venue... kung pede nga lang magdala na lang ako ng pizza para makapasok siya...