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After getting some truly unforgettable answers (Manolo Quezon challenges me to Trivial Pursuit. Jessica Zafra believes she'll write the next, great Filipino novel.) I've gone ahead and interviewed more bloggers here at Bulletproofvest. This week kicks off with 10 Questions with Yugatech, whose immense popularity proves that there are enough geeks online to make him the geekest of all.

1. If you weren't blogging professionally, what would you be doing? Bug fixing for a Forbes 500 company at 3 AM? Answering tech support calls at 4 AM?

I graduated BS Chemistry so I would have taken that job at Johnson & Johnson applying beauty lotion to pretty women all across Asia.

My note: Geek god of lotion! Okay, I'll stop now.

2. How many cease and desist orders have you received from the local telcos?

About 3 or 4 but who's counting?

3. You're the geek, right? Is there a way to rig my Friendster account to see if my ex-girlfriend's been viewing my profile and not give myself away?

I've been asked to do that many times in the past but unless you have a huge checkbook, there's nothing impossible a task. The right job at the right price.

4. Three things that don't have batteries or don't plug into a wall that you own AND love. Books, CDs and DVDs don't count.

I have a real samurai sword! I bought one after watching Kill Bill. Keeps the burglars away. Then there's the 5-year old billiard stick I wouldn't part with. Does the car that blogging bought qualify?

My note: Not suprised with the billiard stick. Every pinoy has one.

5. Five years from now, you'd be the country's youngest media mogul, and your advertising margins will be through the roof. What do you think about my prediction? Would you hire me?

It may be even sooner than you think. Send me your resume. I get tons of emails each day and I have no time answering each one of them. How does Electronic Communications Manager sound to you?

My note: I want dental, okay?

6. Do you have bad eating habits? Or, any bad habits in general? (Are you OC? Shock!)

Nobody would believe me whenever I say I normally eat just once a day. It's a huge meal though. I was a starving scholar at AdMU so I had to get used to one or two meals a day that's why I kept myself fit and toned. Now that I have the money to buy me 6 meals a day, I still eat just once or twice a day.

My note: Yeah, that's pretty bad. Think of what you could be doing if you weren't starving all the time.

7. For my peeps: because you're yugatech, do women find you hot? I think you should wear a cape everywhere you go. Ever had to fight off a fan?

Funny you ask that. Wasn't it you who pretended to be a kolehiyala who kept on sending me indecent email proposals?

My note: Yeah that was me in the hotpants.

8. The first 8 websites you look at when you get up in the morning (excluding yours).

Google.com/Adsense (does that count?), Digg, Netvibes, Inq7.net, TechCrunch, ShoeMoney.com, GigaOm.com, Google Blogoscoped. The rest all lined up neatly in my FeedDemon RSS reader.

9. What will the country's technological landscape look like 10 years from now? If you can, hypothesize on the government (more surveillance?), political (more informed voters?), education, workplace and personal levels.

Hopefully, we won't end up to be a country of just call center boys and girls. No offense here but I think we're more talented than answering phones with an American accent. I always try to stay away from issues on politics and governance as I feel it's just a waste of time and talent.

What I am really hoping for is a generation of Filipino netrepreneurs.

My note: "Netrepreneurs"? Is that a typo? Kidding aside, I saw a TV program asking random people on the street if they knew what "netrepreneurs" were. Answer: lambat-dealers.

10. If I had Php 10 million to invest on anything, where would you tell me to put it? Why?

Content is still king. The Philippine mobile industry has a lot of potential and delivering content directly to individuals via their cellphones will be more prevalent in the next couple of years. The mobile penetration is around 40% and it will continue to grow. Think of a popular online commodity or service and port that to the wider mobile phone market.

Bonus Question: What's Connie Veneracion like?

She can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Period.