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We've got an android ínside our ride this morning

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Lately we've been minding some few renovations inside our ride. When we have just purchased a new sound system inside it, we thought of actually having something to view upon. A mobile theater system so to speak. We usually place our notebook in the dashboard then let our kids watch from the backseat, but too bad, it doesn't have some solid state drive so we're afraid it might get damaged because of some vibrations. Then we just decided to buy an APad , a smaller one and something that would fit rightly on top of our dashboard. We grabbed a unit of an aPad ( MID APad M701  7.0 Inch Touch Screen  Android Tablet PC ) because its cheap and its running in Android OS. Android is opensource and there's an android app market installed in it where we can shop for cools apps for free. And for it's purpose as an in-house movie player for our car, it would serve very much beyond our need. I can do my e-book reading (as a colored version of a Kindle ), plants vs zombi...

Deciphering FX Driver Weird Phonetics

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Everytime I ride an FX on the way to school or the office, I am having this trouble understanding the terms that the FX drivers use when they talk over their radio (walkie talkie). It feels like I'm being alienated or whatever out of place in their conversation with another driver over their walkie-talkie. Quite strange, even wondered why are they having such codes? What if they are leading us to some odd place... "Money Market, Tango, Oscar Kilo Oscar Kilo!" WTF?  hahahah...  Here are some of their frequently used terms,  just so we may be well informed. oscar kilo - OK Tango Sierra - Tandang Sora double mama - MMDA Money Market - Terminal/End of the line, lugar na pinagkakakitaan (NOVALICHES BAYAN) Tango - Tao Uniform Tusok - U-Turn Sierra Mike - SM North Sierra Bravo - SB Road Spaghetti pababa - clover leaf sa balintawak White lady - north cemetery, bagabag cemetery Legaspi - mayon tamagochi -pulis yellow boys - SB traffic officer Kilo Papa - Kingspoint subdivision ...