Trivial Four

Four jobs I have had in my life: *
1. Student Assistant (SAL UP EEE)
2. Instructor (Pisay, OLGP-VTS, DFA)
3. Web Developer (UP HRDO, Cube, AIQ)
4. Shutter for Hire/Photographer

Are you bulimic Ther? You read my mind :))

Four places I have lived: *
1. Balintawak, QC
2. SAL
3. RE's Place
4. Adrian's Place

Four places I have been: *
1. Pangasinan
2. La Union
3. Pampanga
4. Boracay

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Jolly Choco Hazelnut Sandwich
2. Triple Egg Soup
3. Lengua
4. Nilaga

Four places I'd rather be:
1. Boracay
2. Japan
3. Google Labs
4. M5 with Kari Byron

*Four friends or relatives I think will respond first:
1. Mika
2. Dionne
3. Mic
4. Markku

My First... and The Last I'd Ever Need

I once read a story about a man that died due to his greed (summary). It is one of my early lessons in "Needs" and "Wants". In a twisted way, one can interpret is as "secure what you need, then go for what you want :P"

So when the opportunity presented itself, I decided to buy the last thing I'd probably need. It's a 12"x12"x12" niche located in Our Lady of Grace Parish, Caloocan City. This is despite the fact that I haven't decided if I'd like to be buried, burned or burned-and-sprinkled-over-a-lake. I doubt if I'd care what happens to my remains anyway when I'm dead :))

Living for the Now, ready for tomorrow :D


(grabe, kahit ang daming smilies, morbid pa rin ng topic)

Christmas 2007

Christmas has been fairly busy due to my sister's plans of spending it together at Makati.

Run up to xday: My brother had the idea of giving our dear mother a second hand laptop for xmas and asked me to scour around for one that would only cost 10k. Aidz previously mentioned to me the price of the eeepc thru tipidpc. So I thought... I can just split the cost and get our mom a kickass gift. So I called up Sir Kojak to confirm if they had stock and told him that I'll pass by to get one that same day.

Star Mall Mandaluyong: PC Home was the shop he told me to get it from so I went there. Unfortunately, someone swooped down a bit earlier and bought 2 units to give as a gift too. Had to wait a bit but the staff updated me often as they brought it from Megamall to the branch I was in. So a few days from xday, I was in possession of a kickass Mom Laptop. I got to play with it a bit, but had a bit of trouble because the eeepc seemed to hate my cheap surecom broadband router. Looks like its time to upgrade to a Linksys wireless router :P (Update: Installing Windows XP kinda solved the router issue)

Xmas mass in Makati Shangrila: While in Manila, my sis was staying in a company leased condo at Shang Grand Towers. It was really cool, spacious and probably damn expensive. We went there and used it as a staging point to go to mass. The mass was held in the Rizal ballroom of the Makati Shangrila hotel. There were lots of families with kids, and the choir itself was composed of lil' children. After mass, we went down to Circles to eat the buffet dinner my sister reserved for us.

The food was ok, I especially liked the dimsum and siomai. So come 12mn, we presented our gift. She liked it, was able to check her email, because the place had wifi. Like our dad, we love making our Mom the coolest one around :D Pics Here

After Noche Buena, we went back to the condo and drank vodka-sprite to chase awfully bitter red wine. Christmas day itself was slow, sleepy and ho-hum. Merry Christmas everyone.

Delusion

"... laboring under the delusion ..."

-phrase twice used in the Harry Potter books.

There comes a point where you can't fool yourself anymore.
When pictures show what you do not want to see.
Clothes do seem to be tight in places they weren't before.
When the scale says that I'm in the Heavyweight class when I'm ideally in Middleweight.

I know for a fact that it will be easier for me to start an Exercise Habit than to do a proper diet. Thus I turn to "Hip Hop Abs" upon the recommendation of my sister. With the Christmas season around the corner, this strategy will be put to the test.

Google continues to steal my stuff!

But does it in a good way though. Stolen probably in this order:

• Search - No need to explain.
  
• Calendar - I stayed away from Outlook so I used Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Calendar. Google had .ics support so that got stolen.
• Translate - Babelfish was the bomb. I use this now. Jap to Eng anyone?
• Docs - I prefer keeping documents locally, but instant publish is cool. Ohh, here is a list of movies I decided to organize.
  

What has Google stolen from you?

Albus on Avenue Q

Read the article here.

JK Rowling still had some surprises up her sleeve even after finishing the last book of the Harry Potter Series. The largest bomb she threw was that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School, was gay. There's nothing too wrong about that, I just laughed and thought that Voldemort was probably afraid of Albus because he's a homo-phobe :))

Ohh, "If you were gay" is a song from Avenue Q, which i got to watch with Tseri and Miriam. Rachel Alejandro's performance is brilliant as well as the other cast. Additional dates will be shown, so go and watch it if you can.

Got Stabbed...

or is the term pierced? Same difference. Was looking around for an earring to replace my clip-on when I noticed UniSilver also offered ear piercing. So its 70php for the bullet earring (dunno what its called... compatible with the piercing gun) and 120php for the bad ass chain thingie.

The earing that came free with the piercing... or was it the other way around?

Clip-on on top. Chain-thingie combo at the bottom. Red stuff is Betadine.

Murdered In Cold Blood

Warning: Very Graphic Photograph

With just the image above as your guide, can you tell the whole story?