Listen to the Beat

This goes out the the people who are wondering what happened to me for the past few weeks.

Yes, I'm still alive but not so well, I think the stress from last month's activities has finally taking its toll. First I had sore eyes, then cough, and now, I have a flu.

I want to get better, but my body is not complying. I don't want to stay at home because it makes me feel sad and lonely, I want to go out, and get back to work. I tried to show my parents today that I'm better and I want to drop by the mall to buy some comfort food. At first they won't allow me , but as usual, I insisted, I just don't want to be stucked at home. I got to the mall and I was welcomed with lots of people, the mall was packed with people, and I mean PACKED, apparently, Jasmine Trias is going to be there. Arrgghh, there are so many people!

I went to the restroom and looked at myself at the mirror, it was so obvious that I was sick, I think I've also dropped a few pound and my waist shrunk a bit. My first stop is Starbucks, I got myself a Grande Peppermint Mocha, it soothes my throat and gives me that much needed jumpstart. Then I went to buy a Greenwich Lasagna Supreme and a KFC original fried chicken.

Just when I thought my body is a bit better, I ws hit with a dizzy spell, so my food shopping was cut short and went back to our car. Darn it. I don't want to go home just yet, I wanted to shop for new clothes and books.

Ok, I must go now, I'm not suppose to use the computer.

A Warning for Philippines-based fandom groups
During the last quarter of 2005, MIKE ABUNDO bought the domain and created an online cosplay forum answering to the name "PINOYCOSPLAY.COM"

doing so, he has bypassed an already existing yahoo emailing list named PINOYCOSPLAY, which was already active and in existence in the year 2000, during the years following the first major anime conventions in the Philippines (ANIME EXPLOSION & ANIME QUEST of the years 2000 - 2002)

Members of pinoycosplay mailing list who are also active administrative members of FILCOSPLAY.TK, (a cosplay forum created during 2002, and thus older than pinoy cosplay) pointed this out to Mike Abundo.

Mike Abundo denies his knowledge of the existence of the pinoycosplay ML, saying if it existed it was an old and inactive group anyway, and it did not register highly in Google searches.

When NOELLE DE GUZMAN, founder of the pinoycosplay ML, spoke with Mike Abundo, he admitted that he did not, in fact, make a google search for the keyword term "pinoycosplay" before buying the .com domain and creating the forum.

Mike Abundo, in the latter part of the conversation with Noelle de Guzman, proposed that the pinoycosplay ML merge with his pinoycosplay.com forum, saying the mailing list would benefit from the boost of traffic that would soon visit his pinoycosplay.com site, claiming that his .com site was far more accessible to people everywhere.

Noelle De Guzman rejected the offer and said the Pinoycosplay ML will not be affiliated with Pinoycosplay.com under any circumstance. Mike Abundo chose to keep the name of his .com site, saying that he has already invested his monetary resources into the creation of his forums which, in reality, uses the format given by the invision.net service providers on the creation of an online bulletin board/forum.

Mike Abundo bought the site domain name pinoycosplay.com to lead to the www.invisionfree.com/pinoycosplay forum.

Since then, Mike Abundo, who is also a member of Filcosplay forums, a cosplay oriented forum not unlike his own pinoycosplay forum, has frequently made various attempts to lead members of the Filcosplay forums to his own pinoycosplay forums by posting his site links within the threads of conversation in the Filcosplay forum, often times in a blatant manner thru hotlinking and making off-topic posts that pertain to his pinoycosplay forum site.

additionally, Mike Abundo has often criticized the Filcosplay forums by emphasizing the advantages of his Pinoycosplay forum - like accessibility.

Pinoycosplay forums do not require member registration to enter, in contrast to Filcosplay forums which require this. Mike Abundo claims that this enables more user traffic to his pinoycosplay.com site as this registers higher on Google searches and has more memory recall than a long series of link names like filcosplay's "S7.INVISIONFREE.COM/FILCOSPLAY" link.

Also, as filcosplay uses the "WWW.FILCOSPLAY.TK" link as an alternative to its original "S7.INVISIONFREE.COM/FILCOSPLAY" link, Mike Abundo claims that some people would have difficulty going to filcosplay, as the filcosplay.tk link suffers from regular downtime, unlike his pinoycosplay.com site, which is a more direct connection to his own forums.

The filcosplay forum moderators have generally ignored Mike Abundo's actions, reprimanding him only when his actions were excessive, but allowed him to remain a member of the filcosplay forums.

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Early this january 2006, the Filcosplay forum moderators have found out that Mike Abundo has bought the domain name of "WWW.FILCOSPLAY.COM" and uses this as a link to his own pinoycosplay.com forums.

When Mike Abundo is confronted by the moderators of Filcosplay, he says he will gladly give the www.filcosplay.com domain to filcosplay, only when the moderators make a public announcement of Mike Abundo's "generous donation" to filcosplay.

As of this writing, many filcosplay members have aired their concerns over Mike Abundo's actions.
Meanwhile, the Filcosplay forum moderators are making plans with how to act against Mike Abundo's virtual act of cyber terrorism.

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Other anime/manga/cosplay/fandom related groups should be warned against making future connections or working with Mike Abundo. Take utmost care against this person and his underhanded dealings.

pertinent links to this report:

http://s7.invisionfree.com/filcosplay or
http://www.filcosplay.tk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pinoy_cosplay/

http://www.mikeabundo.blogspot.com
http://www.filcosplay.com
http://www.pinoycosplay.com

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Help pread the word, and post this in your journal.

Recuperating

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