I Am Lyle

Fasting during the month of Ramadan is fourth of the five pillars of Islam which includes the profession of faith, prayers, distribution of alms and pilgrimage to Makkah, the Haj. Fasting includes abstention from food, drink, smoking, sexual acts as well as any bad habits such as profanity. This is meant to purify the soul of the Muslim.

This would be my second fasting and first time here in the Philippines. The first one I had was in Dubai with my wife. This was supposed to be my third Ramadan actually but it was already late since I converted in the last week of the 2007 Ramadan. At first, it’s very hard to adjust specially if you’re used to regular meals. Not to mention my monstrous diet. There was a time when I skipped a day of fasting due to extreme hunger. Hopefully this year, I’ll be able to complete the whole month.

To all my Muslim brothers out there, HAVE A BLESSED MONTH OF RAMADAN!

- Zayed Lyle

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A French teenager was said to be injured after his girlfriend’s Apple iPhone exploded, sending pieces of glass flying and one piece of glass actually struck the teen in the eye. It was just two weeks ago when a report emerged accusing Apple trying to silence the victims of exploding iPods. According to the teen’s mother, his son was near his girlfriend’s iPhone when it started to make hissing noise then afterwards the screen suddenly broke. The teen’s mother contacted Apple after that incident but there’s no news whether she’s got answers from Apple.

In my own thinking, I think this has something to do with the battery. Batteries have tendencies to explode if there’s an internal defect in the phone. So, what’s Apple gonna say about this? Is this one of those Mission Impossible’s disposable phones? LOL.

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My original plan was to invite elmot to come over to our house since he’s just a few clicks away. The plan turned out to be more fun than I’ve expected it is. Jedi Bloggers thirdworldgeek, bloggista and ceblogger also wanted to come over. It was around 6pm when Bonnie (thirdworldgeek) gave me a phone call asking for a route. I already asked him like 2-3 times if he knows his way here. Funny thing, they reached Sta. Rosa exit which is really far from the fastest route to Dasmariñas. He asked me if he could take Tagaytay road then all the way back to Dasmariñas. LOL. I was just thinking if they took that road rather than Carmona, they would have arrived around 10pm already.

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Since this morning I was wondering why in the hell is the internet very slow. Browsing any site is ultimately slow and I checked the internet activity and it’s sending and receiving very small amout of packets. At first I thought it was just because of number of people connected in the base station. But I wasn’t really convinced on idea. So to hold my peace, I searched around the internet for answers. And I found one. There’s a cut in one of the APCN2 (Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2) undersea submarine cable. It actually crippled the connection speed in the Asia-Pacific region particularly in Singapore and Philippines.

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It’s been only days since the microblogging service was shot down by unknown hackers when Twitter was once again attacked on Tuesday. Twitter said on its blog status that it was “analyzing the traffic data” so it could determine what kind of attack it’s getting. It lasted for about half an hour. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone stated in one of his emails on Monday that Twitter was continuing to come under attack.
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