Jepoy is the co-founder of GameOPS, one of the oldest websites and the first website dedicated to video games in the Philippines. He was born in the early 80′s at a hospital in Tondo, Manila. A hospital where babies are normally born on the floors, luckily, he was one of the fortunate ones to be born on a chair. At 3 months old, he was brought to Quezon City where he lives until today.
He studied at Saint Claire School in Quezon City from pre-school to high school and has always been part of the top 3 in his class. Saint Claire School is also where Jepoy met his GameOPS buddies Rocky, Glen and fellow ka-barrio siete blogger, anonymark. They have been friends since pre-school.
Because of his proficiency in mathematics, he was given an opportunity to attend special advance math classes called POEM (Program of Excellence in Mathematics) at the Quezon City Science High School when he was in grade school. POEM is a once a week class sponsored by the Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines and is still being offered to deserving grade school students. Unfortunately today, he cannot even perform simple addition and subtraction without using a calculator.
When he was in high school, his interests shifted from math and science to computers. He and fellow barrio siete blogger, anonymark developed a program written in BASIC for their school. They submitted this program to the school administration and was used during their Foundation Week. The program was developed via self study since their computer subject only tackled topics under Microsoft Office 97 and Windows 95. Besides, internet during that time was almost non-existent.
While still at high school, Jepoy and his friend/cousin Rocky founded GameOPS. It was the first Filipino website that catered to video game console gamers. As of today, GameOPS evolved to a blog and has been continuing to provide quality content to its readers.
After high school, Jepoy successfully passed an exam at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington for a game design course but was eventually turned down since at that time, they’re not accepting foreign students. Frustrated, he followed his grandfather’s wish and took BS Electrical Engineering at the University of Santo Tomas. He and anonymark were supposed to enroll in BS Mathematics Major in Computer Science at UST, but anonymark decided to pursue a different path.
After two years, Jepoy shifted course and decided to continue his dream to become a computer scientist and video game developer. He transferred to AMA Computer University and got his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and his Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) license 3 years later. While at AMACU, he became the 5th president of its largest student organization, AMA microsystems. This is where he met his girlfriend and soon to be wife, Lalaine.
Today, he operates an online store business with Lalaine and now earns mostly through his blogs. Jepoy blogs about technology on his main blog— Captain’s Log, video games and other technology stuff at GameOPS, and posts pictures taken by his Nokia N70, Canon A510 and Canon A470 cameras on his photoblog, On Screen. He’s also one of the forum administrators of myGlobe and occassionally contributes to TechBlog.ph.
Jepoy hates n00bs but loves newbies, has an eidetic memory and used to memorize the entire periodic table of elements a few years ago, loves Star Trek, and strongly dislikes liars like this writer at FV (Clue: his name starts with J and ends with ESTER-IN-EXILE) and a British old geezer named Timmy. He also collects old video game consoles, so if you have an old Atari 2600 or 3DO, just send him an email. You can follow his daily activities through his Twitter and Plurk.
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ayus. mahilig sa games ang kapatid kong bunso at kung anu2 binibili non online. rerecommend ko si boss jepoy! bibigat ang mga writers dito, astig!
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wow, may kamuka ka jepoy!!!
yun avatar mo sa mybloglog hehehhe
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kuya jepoy i’m sure i have lots of things to learn from u especially in the field where u excel.
and i’m following u on twitter na rin. hihi
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naku ang bobo ko sa mga subjects na yan. galing mo jepoy.
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geek,
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Kuya Jepoy (nakikuya para sa mga bagets ko, hehe), kapag may mahirap na assignment ang mga anak ko pwede bang magtanong sa’yo?
Hirap din ako sa subject na Math, nagdurugo ang utak ko diyan, hehe.
Mam Cat, baka sa lalong madaling panahon may eskuwelahan na rin dito sa Barrio. May potential na math, science and technology, english, filipino, at religion, teachers na tayo.
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geek pala sir jepoy… kayo ba yung nainterview sa tv? mel ang joey ba yun about blogging?
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at magkakaroon din tayo ng multo, engkanto at dwende stories. exciting.
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Oo nga, mam cat…parang alam ko ‘yun ah..hehe.
Di ba jologs? Pang-Barrio ang touch kaso sa city nagpaparamdam, haha
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hhhahhahaha, yung sa Wii at XBOX360 avatars
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@mel – finallow na din kita
@ms cath – Ako din n00b sa mga yan… ngayon dahil kahit basic progrmming wala nako alam. HAHA
@alex – ahahahaha! Wish ko lang ako yun sa TV. Si sir jangelo at si yugatech yun ininterview sa mel and joey
@yami – sige lang, basta walang sisihan pag mali tinuro ko. hahaha
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Syempre hindi mo ako tuturuan ng mali, hehe. Basta libre, haha
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Jepoy!
Counterstrike at DOTA tayo minsan! Hahaha…
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Jepoyeng, the geek of all the geeks of QC.
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dencios,
can you imagine kahit na ako? lola na, naglalaro pa nang Warcraft? hehehe!
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hahaha akala mo ba? i know how to play counterstrike! hahaha! inaabot kami dati till 2am playing this game! grabeee!!!
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hahaha hindi ako nahilig sa DOTA. Ano ba meron dun
@reynz – hahaha tara CS tayo minsan
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urur :p
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Hello Jepoy,
Looking forward to read more of your blogs sa ating pinakamamahal na Barrio Siete.
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bagets pa pala si jepoy? bata pa may mga achievements na,sama anak ko din maging gaya mo,ang hilig din sa games nun kaso bumababa marka sa klase
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Games and life, games and politics, games and business, games and lovelife – lahat may game factor kaya mataas ang relevance score mo Jepoy…
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