About Me

Hello there, and thanks for making your way to my blog.

My name is Gabriel H. Mercado, aka Gary. I am a Writer, Internet Consultant, Applications Developer. I run Kaijuhost.com, a Hosting and Internet Solutions Company. I also run ClassicRidesPhilippines.com, a publication about vintage cars and automobiles.

I used to write for several publications, amongst them:

I used to write for the ff.:

  • PC World Philippine edition – About technology and hardware.
  • PC Magazine – Again about computers and technology.
  • PWIT (Philippine Week in Tech) – A tech blog, writing alongside friends and fellow writers / editors in Philippine tech publications.

I am a PHP / MySQL developer. I enjoy tweaking CMS applications, primarily WordPress and Drupal, as well as PhpBB forums and whatnot.

Cars, Politics, Basketball, Movies, the Internet, Writing..

I love to tinker with cars and particularly enjoy older ‘attainable’ models like late model Toyotas, Mitsubishis or VWs (as oppposed to those kept in museums). I would like to learn body repair and / or engine repair at some point in my life, to hopefully restore something of value soon. I enjoy taking snapshots of old, semi – rustbuckets lying around town in the hope, I think, of one day being able to purchase and restore them in my garage.

I would almost like nothing more than to live my life reviewing movies, and hence become an authority on these, and know nothing else in life but. Movies, if done well, are a wonderful opportunity to live a life outside your own, and to experience things you’d never have had a chance to otherwise. I enjoy almost all types of movies of any variety, as long as they deliver as promised, ie, a comedy will make you laugh, a horror flick will make you cringe, a drama will make you cry, and so on. It bewilders me how these lose track of such a basic thing.

While I have aspirations for writing more about my passions, the sad truth is, Marcos’ son Bong Bong has made his way into power via deceit, lying and taking advantage of my fellow countrymen’s easily swayed emotions and questionable morals.

As such I used this blog as a mini archive of Imelda Marcos and her childrens’ incredible, insatiable corruption and excess – all paid for by the hapless, clueless Filipino people. I tried to make a difference in the elections and while things did not turn out the way it should have, for all its worth the information I uploaded here will just stay as is.

What’s Lefthandedlayup.com all about?

I love basketball, and I named it such because a lefthandedlayup as any right handed player (such as I) will tell you is one of the most difficult shots to do. As such, one usually finds the need to layup with the left only when one is pressed to, since if you’re right handed you’ll almost always want to use your strong hand.

I’ve always felt therefore, that a lefthandedlayup represents how we should treat most of what life throws at us. Pressed to deliver, we surprise the defense, aka in my example – life’s problems, by unexpectedly laying up with the left.

Yes that’s cheesy as heck, but hey it works for me so far. Thanks for coming over to my blog. Stay awhile, and come back from time to time. And drop a note why don’t you.

Updated Mar 8, 2023
Previously, May 8, 2011