before leaving philippines

09/04/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

pics of friends who stuck with me while my stay in p.i., i earn friends not by the amount, but by trust and loyalty.. these are pics before leavin p.i., glad to be back at vegas though.. :) .. back on that daily grind ish.. back on my life and family..

the journey continues.. more to come!!

me, lyka, harold at tokyo tokyo, moa

harold, me, lyka takin pic at ice skate moa

lyka, harold, me takin pics at ice skate moa

(from left to right) pau, kim, eych, harold, lyka, robin, me takin pic at yellowcab taft, near dlsu

konektado.com going away cake :) .. thanks mike, j-hon, and konektado fam

j-hon, amats, benj, me at amats computer shop

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a toast to HipHop

08/07/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 1 Comment

my dream?….. i use to think it was fame and fortune.. but then i realize, its self-improvement and clarity so i can think wiser and work harder.. appreciate and never forget the small simple things coz this supports and creates the bigger things in life.. again.. toast to HipHop, you saved my life!!!

Sunugan Battle Royale

photo by: Fatti Abimal

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Konektado.com Online Store Koming Soon

07/30/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

Online store am working on along with the new Konektado.com web system.

konektado products.. online store koming soon

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Konektado.com – Sunugan Battle Royale @ Ka Freddie’s Bar

07/26/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 1 Comment

Failed on my 1st freestyle battle last night, but who cares?!?.. haha.. its all good.. like what i always keep in mind “ok lang yan”.. thats how we do it on KONEKTADO.com events!!!.. good vibes, peace and along with it comes a strong sportsmanship!!.. SUNUGAN BATTLE ROYALE event was a SUCCESS!!! (^^,)..

Congratz to Dello for winning the 1st Sunugan Battle Royal and 10gz!! Thanks much to Mike Swift for the event, Jed Li (from People’s Future, dude I battled) for the freestyle battle experience, all the participants, everybody who came regardless of the weather condition, and yea Ryan, dude, we gotta practice!!!.. haha

Click on Link Album below to view Konektado.com Sunugan Battle Royale events pics!!

konektado sunugan battle royale

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am still here.. :)

05/21/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 2 Comments

so its been awhile, i’ve been really busy this summer, even though i just stayed here at EGI dorm, I had a bunch of activities going on simultaneously. Not only that, am starting to see the bigger picture, the question thats been bugging me, and finally this summer i was able to find the answer. :) .. Ofcourse, i could have not done it without the help of few people who stayed regardless of my low energy “emo” attitude i had for the past 4yrs, and am really thankful i met them. (^^,).. and now i can officially say, I’ve broken that barrier in my life thats been keeping me from the things i wanted to achieve.. :) ..

so lately, activities i’ve been engaging to are websites.. i’ve been doing konektadoTV version 2 for Mike Swift. through this i was able to apply the IS & business system books/articles i’ve read when i was in vegas. am applying business here, don’t get me wrong, i still and will always have madd respect for the art “hip hop”. not only am i doing websites, i’ve been also going out, attending Mike’s events, just trying to expose myself and get myself use to meeting new people. am also planning to go back to music, and yea, i’ve been doing a few collaborations and yea, I did a track with Mike Swift and them about hip hop revolution.. chyeaaa.. this is my root and it was such a relief composing those rhymes.. i’ve also been working out, jogging at roxas blvd and boxing at elorde gym. hehe.. just trying to be energetic and lose a lil weight.. :) ..

well, more things to come.. after summer, expect more changes with RLynOnline.com..

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fire at archers building (i think)

02/13/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

yea,, my dorm mates woke me up around 1:30am saying there’s a fire near our building. Our floor guard said its the archers building.. and what i heard, 4th floor of DLSU has been affected.. i dunno what building..

anyways.. around 12:30am i heard a bit of explosion, thinking it might be fire crackers since its valentines day or chinese new year.. knowing it was from archers, we were speculating the cause of the fire might be from electrical wiring.. the fire went on from 12:30am to about 3:30am to 4am.. i guess egi taft tower (our building) was lucky because the wind wasn’t blowing our way, but I hope no one got hurt to those who were affected by it..

we were at 8th floor EGI taft tower dormitory when i took this pic.. a building away from the incident.. going right side of pic is LRT/Taft Ave and on left is DLSU..

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Aesthetic class

01/28/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 6 Comments

I’ve been learning alot from my Aesthetic class, especially judging works of art. I’ve glimpse a formalist’s point of view on criticizing such artworks. Formalist is a type of aesthetician who judge a work of art by its layout, structure, design, etc rather than its feeling or pleasing scene (Emotionalist deals with this type of judgment), usually works of art that takes a breath away.

Anyways, earlier at class, we were doing a color wheel by mixing primary colors. I thought of stroking and rubbing (basically playing around) my paint brush on a bond paper to clean it everytime I change color. Our professor saw this and said am an expressionist type of artist. *grin*.. lol.. My group mates suggested I should frame it or submit it to an art exhibit if there is one.. Well, I’ve never really given much thought about my personality on art, so I guess, it was surprising and interesting knowing I got a place in Art.. :’)

i consider this my first real artwork.. :)

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first day of school

01/18/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 3 Comments

I just got back to dorm from school and I am soooo damn drained.. ughh.. but I had fun, really. De La Salle – College of St. Benilde is definitely the school for me. I like the environment and attitude of my fellow classmates. They seem perky, expressive, and happy all the time and its kinda affecting my mood even though its not obvious. lol..

Anyways, first day was enervating, but amusing. Just sitting in the corner of the classroom brought back alot of young college memories. lol.. and that feeling of sigh bliss.

Below are some pics of how I spent my first month in my dorm while awaiting for first day of school.

@Robinson Manila Midtown

@persian restaurant, Rob Midtown w/ pau and andrei.. eating some iranian food..

ate here with pau and andrei (her bf).. :p

@rooftop of Rob..

trying something different.. hehehe..

ribs, java rice, some some chips and dip

new hang out place.. starbucks is kinda getting overrated!!.. ughh...

bunny is asking a favor, for me to eat more salads and vegies.. ughh.. now everytime I eat fried unhealthy foods, I hear bunny's voice telling me to stop and think.. lol..

@starbucks taft w/ reb, eych, grace

new laptop bag.. ughh.. bunny is right.. theres something about me and bags/boxes.. lol

finally.. first day of class.. I thought I was late.. lol.. I guess not!!

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Some useful Mac Apps worth the post

01/17/2010 by Reina Lyn Ben 2 Comments

I’ve been spending more time on my MacBook Pro since I landed here in Manila, P.I. I thought of sharing some Mac Apps I discovered because this will be my last day (Sunday) of disenrolled undergrad college kid. I was a Window User since birth, I recently started using Mac when iPhone App Development was starting up on its prime. So below are some useful Mac Apps I think are worth the post and I’ll associate them with what I do.

First off, lets start with School Apps.
1) iCal – Good for entering all school events.
2) NoteBook – I like this app because it offers different paper style like Ruled, Graph, Engineering, etc. which emulates the physical notebooks.
3) Journler – Perfect for organizing documents, blog entries, and school tasks.

Photo Management
1) iPhoto – Filters my photos via date and organizes them by Album, Folder option.

Blogging
1) MacJournal – I do use Journler as my main offline blogging platform but MacJournal is more integrated with online blogs like WordPress.com, Blogspot.com, etc. although it still lacks functionalities of Journler.
2) Journler – Perfect for organizing documents, blog entries, and school tasks.

System Utility
1) CleanMyMac – I’ve been using MacTuneUp but it seems it doesn’t do a good job cleaning my mac. I noticed my Mac usually lags when I start VMWare Fusion with Windows 7, but when I started using CleanMyMac, my main OS still runs smooth.

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how i spent my christmas

12/26/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

It was mix feelings I felt this Christmas. I was pissed coz my aunt didn’t gave a proper full-blown Christmas celebration for my Lola and Lolo, I mean come on, where the eff did my mom’s remittance went? Anyhow, I don’t want to get into detail coz its too personal for public view.

I was at Robinson yesterday. Had a meal and chilled at Starbucks.

@Robinson Manila

shiney.. lol

had a meal @ Max's

hehe.. def had to take a pic of this. my fave sauce @vegas.. didn't know they have this here.. hehe..

chilling @Starbucks, good thing I still caught a cushion seat

my gift from Starbucks.. LOL.. i've been chilling at startbucks too much, didn't notice I had last sticker

close up pic :p

look bunny.. Evo shop!!.. LOL..

waiting in line for taxi

outside Rob, got bored in line

but I guess, its good to stop sometimes and observe the scenery

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its official I got a school

12/18/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

Uhmmm.. this is weird, I feel kinda blank right now. I wanted to blog, but nothing seems to be occupying my mind. I’ve collected a couple of thoughts, but its hard to construct it in a paragraph. I use to write entries for the feel of it, but recently, I’ve been considering this as a line of work. It is not a hobby anymore, rather its a job and a responsibility. All these activities am currently into, am doing it for the sake of my career, and the term “hobby” is just a word that I once knew when I was a Kid.

Anyways, I finally completed my school enrollment at De La Salle – College of St. Benilde taking Information System. I will definitely make this as my last “college-hopping” odyssey.. *sigh* Hey, as long as my family can provide my tuition fee, sh*t, am G-double O-D GOOD. LOL..

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relationship challenge

12/08/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben 2 Comments

Well, its been almost a month since I left Las Vegas and one of the most challenging thing I encountered is being apart from my love ones, especially my boyfriend. It’s 11:17pm here, Manila time, and I still can’t sleep. At night it just gets lonely. I use to miss being single, but I never thought at the end of the day, you still need someone to hug and talk to at night.

As I can see, this situation made our relationship stronger. It made us miss each other and I can tell he does coz he never gets mushy when we were together, he usually hides it, but now, he gets expressive.

I remember having this same feeling for someone, that pain, like something is missing, but it was worst coz I don’t get love in return. Am just glad that the person am missing and love right now feels the same way. :) So, as I’ve been told, never let this feeling turn into depression or sadness, instead, be happy about it.

I trust him and I know he trust me. I guess that’s the reason why until now where still together (its been almost 2 years). Must also be our personality, his ISTP and am INTP. ahehe.. Anyways, whatever it is, we both admit we feel right for each other.

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i know, they know, you know.. lol

12/02/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

yesterday, i just got done with my school interview and i wasn’t expecting it the way it was. I had school interviews before, freshly highschool grad, but it was tough because i barely express myself and speak what i know. Yesterday.. ughh.. was something different, I ended up speaking all i know.. lol.. here is a conversation of me and bunny discussing about the issue.

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updates?

11/23/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben 1 Comment

Well, I’ve been wanting to update this blog since day 1 of my arrival here in P.I., but I can’t seem to get my head straight, everything is disarray especially with whats going on with this school I’m applying for. There was alot of confusion and miscommunication involve. I guess, I got use to transactions using 95% of technology and internet, but here, it seems everything needs to be done manually. Also the fact that I need to be sensitive on instructions and come up with strategies to make things convenient. I know, I got this tendency to compare, and if I pursue this attitude, I’ll never enjoy Manila. I’ll never be back in Las Vegas just a blink of an eye, right? I got to suck it up and deal with reality. Just go with the flow as I use to say and before I know it, 2 years have gone by.

Talk about age issues, I know, I will be called “Ate” in school, but real world experiences are my advantages despite the fact that am 2-3 years older than my future classmates. I feel am fully equip with proper knowledge, and that, these school tasks are just bits of pieces to my puzzle.

Anyways, I took my entrance examination yesterday, and am glad am through all that, I’ve learned my lessons and I will definitely apply this wisdom on my school and daily tasks.

at korea, incheon airport

*no pics for ninoy aquino airport, I was too busy gettin’ my stuff together.. hehe

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off to P.I.

11/11/2009 by Reina Lyn Ben Leave a Comment

I only got 8hours till I my departure, technically, I only got 5hours for preparation and run small errands.. I never thought it would be this hard. Last night, I almost cried in my room with bunny, my face got warmed, as if a flu suddenly struck me. Bunny kept telling me, its for the future and that I used this to condition myself by repeating this phrase in my head. Damn, hope I don’t cry later at the airport, I gotta be strong..

Oh well, no pics for now.. I’ll get back on this blog as soon as I get access to an internet in P.I..

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