How to Make Romantic Videos for Your Monthsary

     Common perceptions of couples on Monthsaries is that it should not be as "earth-shattering" or dramatic as their anniversaries. Flowers, chocolates, a teddy or a short letter may be common and their acceptability for most women who measures men's efforts depends on the sincerity of the giver. So here's another common idea which could still surprise your partner in your special days - show her a short romantic video.

    It does not actually need professional skills to edit one. Though if you're really serious you could hire somebody to do it for you. But still, just a few tweaks in an hour on your Windows Movie Maker could actually work if you try to do it on your own.

   I was first inspired to this when my girlfriend surprised me in Valentine's back in 2013 by asking me to watch a video she made. She was hesitant about actually making me watch it, but since she already told me about it and the suspense was killing me, I insisted.

   Here it is, so you could get an idea.

   Hope you finished watching the video and seen how much effort she made on the dramatic transitions between slides of our pictures. :)

   So you see, simple picture slides actually have emotional impact to anyone who watches that video. Much more if those pictures of yours show sweet moments that would make people say awwwee.

   Alright so if this is the first time you will be navigating Windows Movie Maker, I will still assume that you understand certain buttons to press on whatever WMV version you have there. It really will not matter.

   1. First, choose your sweet pictures and gather them in your folder named you could easily locate. It would be easier if it is in your desktop.

   2. Now, open your Windows Movie Maker. Go back to your folder, select everything (Ctrl + A), copy (Ctrl + C) then paste them on your wmv (Ctrl + V). Or your could simply drag and then release them all on your wmv.

  3. Now you could see all of your pictures as part of your "Imported Media" tab.

  4. Depending on your prefered order on your movie, you can now start holding and dragging your pictures one by one to the "Timeline" below. You will notice each time you try to release each pic, there will be a line / cursor so you will know where it will stay in case you change your mind and insert it to a previous one.

  5. Now when you're done arranging your pictures in your chosen order, choose your song in ".mp3" format and drag it to your wmv. When it's copied, drag it again to your timeline below your bar of pictures.

 6. And that's it! You could click on publish, then slide the computer and your picture will turn into a movie when it's done.


I would suggest to leave it that way without transitions simple because the simpler the presentation is, the more impact it gives. But if you want to, you could just simply click on transitions, choose from the list, drag them and release in between pictures.


Here is my own edited video without transitions and it gained a lot of likes when I posted it on facebook on our 22nd Monthsary :)

Happy Editing!

5 Simple Steps for a Successful First Dubsmash Video

      Almost everybody who hangs in the cyberworld knows what Dubsmash is. Though dubbing pre-made audio is easy, acting out your character requires skill. This is contrary to most netizens participating in the crowd have an impression that as long as they could synch their lips to the audio, their dubsmash is done and successful. That is where your hidden acting comes in. Now, I'm not saying my acting in this video is superb I'm just saying if you are going to show the public your dubsmash video, be prepared. You may want to be funny to go trending but it may turn out to be embarassing.

    So this may be first dubsmash act. It took 3 days, 47 takes, 56 clips (mostly deleted) and 80 minutes of audio cut so every scene will fit in.


1. Use several props for each scene
2. Minimize looking at the camera to make it more realistic
3. Focus on performing the appropriate expression of each scene you are dubbing.
4. Minimize smiling or any unnecessary facial expressions that may ruin your act. Just be true to your character.
5. Watch several dubsmash videos copy a few but make sure act will stand out from everybody as unique.

2048: Play it When You're Late

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Jigsaw Meets Sudoku

Game Review By Joey D. Bidan Jr.

            Ever since Sudoku became a household name as the ultimate brain game, there are other number games that attempt to modify the rules, gameplay and design of Sudoku to keep up with its worldwide popularity. The Japanese were still the ones who were good at inventing such games. For instance, “Kakuro” and “Hitori” where in the Philippines, people like me loved playing them to kill time. If you haven’t heard of them yet and you want a few unique variations in the monotonous “number arrangement” scheme in your favorite Sudoku, better go check them out Kakuro has a math twist and Hitori is simple logic. They’re both available now in iOS and Android.

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            Speaking of Android, the latest craze in the smartphone community is “2048” (no, not the hotel room number) which I call as “the moving Sudoku”. For dummies who are still unaware of its existence, imagine a Sudoku board with its mini boxes but instead of writing down numbers in fixed positions inside them, you get the ability to push, pull or swipe them all around the board whichever direction you want (up, down, left, or right and no, you can’t move them in diagonals).

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            You should’ve pictured it out by now why I called it as a “moving Sudoku” because for me, that’s how the gameplay really feels. It’s only similar to Sudoku at a glance but the rules to “survive” the game are different. The mechanics? Swipe the board so that the numbered (and colored) squares move altogether in the direction you chose. Numbers that are beside each other and the same combine into one (just like piling plates of the same sizes) such that 2 and 2 becomes 4, 4 and 4 becomes 8 and so on until it accumulates to a single square of 2048 and/or beyond (hence the name of the game). Pretty simple huh? But what happens to numbers that are not alike? Of course, they pile on top of each other to consume the empty unnumbered spaces on your board. And you don’t want that to happen since every time you swipe (regardless of direction), a single square of either 2 or 4 will appear. These new squares will keep on showing up and if you fail to combine more squares as you can to make more empty squares for them, you’ll run out of chance to move any square at all – an obvious Game Over!

            My strategy is to organize the numbers in such a way that it will be easy for me to add up those new numbers that appear until they pile into bigger ones. The way I do this is to make sure the biggest numbers are on top so I could freely move and add up the smaller ones below them.

            There are other variations to 2048 like “2 in 1” and “Threes!” which they say are more challenging since you have to pair a 1 and 2 first before starting to combine from 3’s, 9’s going up. There is also a version with an “undo” button so you could go back in time and reverse your mistake for a nonstop million points game! Whatever it is, 2048 will surely challenge your focus but not as much as “Flappybird” to make you throw your phone to pieces. It’s just the perfect time-killer.

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