Archive for December, 2007

Goodbye 2007; Hello 2008

In a few hours its gonna be 2008 - so let me write my last blog post for 2007.  Hmmm, so what can i say? Its been quite a year for me.  A lot have happened and a lot more will continue to happen this coming year. Anyway, here are my last thoughts:

- I still have some unfinished business and some thoughts to ponder on.  I think i have to reevaluate a few things that happened in my life and decide on what i should do next about it. But before that, i need to clear my mind…. how? i don’t know honestly, but i’ll think about it and find a way. hehe

-  For the first time in my life, i manage to keep a blog updated for 2 months straight now. Way to go Kath! hehe. I guess factors that made me do it are: 1. i’m paying for my webhost so might as well use it; 2. i have a faster internet access at home plus the access i have at my office, so i’m estimating that i am in front of a computer with internet access for at least 8 hours a day - meaning i can access my blog anytime; 3. personal choice - yup, i decided to put this up, i decided to update it as many times as i could if i have something to write about, so here it is; 4. um… what else?

- I put up PinoyTwitterS.com! its all because i got fond of Twitter and how people get addicted to using it. Seeing that many Filipinos use it, i made a way to unite fellow Pinoy Twitters where we can connect to each other, learn and share anything twitter-related for our benefit to make our twitter-life better and more fun.

- this year, i spent my christmas bonus that was given early to buy a new set of computer- that’s my Baby Abit. my little sister’s old pc gave up and she badly needed a computer for her school works plus my grandma misses my cousins in the US so much that we need a computer and a dsl connection to be able to make a videochat with them and i need a computer too. I can’t live without one. hehe. So there, myBaby Abit is born. I think the only old thing about him is the second hand monitor a bought from our company garage sale, all else are new :) so thats where my 13th month pay all went to. sheesh. But hey, good thing coz i’m starting to learn to take care and manage a personal computer. Would you believe that a computer science graduate like me, who started using a computer when i was in grade 4 only learned to format a computer last month? haha. funny and stupid - but true ;)

- I had a lot of frustrations at work this year but good thing i had the chance to clear itall up with my new team lead. Hopefully this coming year would be a better one for me - coz i know i deserve better for all my hardwork. Or maybe i deserve something else,  somewhere else. who knows? like what my grandma always tell me - there’s a reason for everything,and no matter what happens i just need to do my best. God has a plan for me, i just need to be patient. i know she’s right, so even if i had a not-so-good life at work this year, i just need to continue the hard work i’m doing and next year, maybe, i’ll get what i deserve.

- My love life - okay i won’t talk much about it but heck its been one tough year for me, or i could say one crazy year for me. I just wish… i just wish…. if only…..*sigh*

- Money …. geez i’d fire up again if i’d talk about it, lol.

- Friends … okay one new year’s resolution i’d make is to try to contact all those friends i had before that i consider close to me and try to bring back the good old days. Some may not welcome me anymore and some may be glad to welcome me back. I guess after all these years, i’ll finally figure out which ones are my true friends. 

- I just remembered, could i be dead already? i mean last time during the Glorietta 2 blast, it could be that i am one of those people dead or injured with that incident. It was a friday and my officemates and i were supposed to have out lunch out in Glorietta that time. Good thing one of us felt lazy to walk all the way from Paseo de Roxas to Glorietta that we decided to eat at a nearby building instead. And the recent earthquake, that was strong! and we’re in the 16th floor of our building so we really felt it. I was really scared that time. One of the last thing i would want to happen to me is to be on a 16th floor of a building when a strong earthquake would happen and we would need to walk down on what seems like an endless stairway and everyone especially me would be panicking thinking the building might collapse. hehe

 - I hate New Year’s eve. Well its all because of the noise people around create - the sound of torotot everywhere, and the firecrackers people use which always make my heart leap and sometimes (well most of the time) make me shriek. I hate it when people especially children play with watusi and those that throws firecrackers near people. tatawa-tawa pa sila pag nagulat mga tao. how i wish masabugan sila so that they’ll stop doing such things during new year. I hate noise. I guess i’d prefer a loud sound of cool music or just watching lots of fireworks displays. That would really be a peaceful and wonderful new year celebration. What i like about new year, when we have some special good food for medja noche and when i sit on our roof or on top of our van to watch the sky filled with fireworks display from a nearby village of affluent people. I like it too when my grandma throws coins around the house and me and my cousins would pick them all up and have our pockets filled with coins; when me and my sisters would stay up a few more hours after midnight and grab some snack and a bottle of wine and some beers and chat till we feel sleepy. hehe

oh well.. that’s all i could think of right now. i’m on my headphones listening to loud music so i won’t hear the noise outside that i didn’t hear my grandma calling me. hehe. gotta go back downstairs and help out :) Happy New Year!!!

Blog upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations.

I’ve just upgraded my wordpress and good thing it went smoothly. Its my second time to upgrade my blog and i’m learning each time. Thanks to this tutorial that is really very useful and easy to understand that’s why i had a hassle-free upgrade :) Now off to upgrading my plugin versions.. geez …

Pon and Zi

I love Pon and Zi!!! they’re sooo cute and adorable….. really. and lotsa people are fond with them. I first learned about them through my sister. Thanks to her i found them. hehehe.

Here’s are my Pon and Zi favorites:

Azuzephre - the creator - Jeff Thomas’ website
Pon and Zi - the biggest and best UNOFFICIAL collection of Pon and Zi cartoons on the web

What i got for Christmas

well, i only had a few christmas gifts but they were nice and i’m glad i still got something rather than nothing.. hehe

1. A gold Havaianas slippers - finally, i got one from my elder sister. Its really nice and well if she didn’t give me one, i would have never owned one. haha

2. silver butterfly earrings - from my younger sister, its cute and good thing she knew the type of earrings hook that i prefer :)

3. a blue pillow from bluemagic - from Paolo, my officemate. Its for the final gift-giving in our team

4. other nice stuffs from some officemates like a penholder, a pen with flashlight, a portable comb and mirror, a mini fan, chocolates, cookies, tiny teddy bear, bagtag, pen with a rabbit stuffed toy on top, a gel pen, a cute necklace, bracelet, notepads, etc…

Still my wishlist haven’t changed and will always wait for the right time to have it..haha

1. a bluish silver car or a black toyota fortuner
2. a mini lightweight laptop
3. the very huge garfield stuffed toy from the garfield shop
4. my own room - or rather my own house?
5. a toyger (its a cat-tiger breed)
6. my own supply of Cowhead milk and Yakult
7. a new phone
8. trip to Disneyland USA
9. trip around the world
10. God-given hubby… hehehe :)

Merry Christmas!!!

Just wanna greet everyone a Merry Merry Christmas !!!!

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some rants for 2007

when i started hating my neighbors…

have you ever hated your neighbor? i thought i would never feel that but heck since our new neighbor came a few months back, my weeknights especially my weekend mornings has been a nightmare. The wife and daughter of our neighbor came from the squatters area, so its not surprising that they talk so loud and has this certain tone of voice that’s so irritating even when they are just talking normally. And when they’re having an argument (which is like every night and very dawn)… triple the headache you’ll get hearing them. Worse thing about them, they always turn on their radio so loud you can hear it streets away. And i hate them most during weekends. You see weekends are the only time i am able to wake up late at around 7-9am and yet i would always wake up to their loud music of very old disgusting songs and there’s this specific song i always hear every morning - something with the line “napakasakit kuya eddie”… grrrrrr whatever it is, i hate that song!?! how wish they never came to our place…. *sigh*

when i realized i’m over pigtails

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ranting about PDLT MyDSL

Damn it! Sorry but i can’t help but curse PLDT MyDSL now, a few hours before Christmas eve. I can’t believe what i just saw on our telephone bill! Sheesh its been only a month now since i subscribe to the PLDT MyDSL Xperience plan. I had no choice. I’m sick of dial-up and i badly needed a faster speed. I tried Globe broadband, ZPDEE, BayanDSL but my area wasn’t covered yet so i had no choice but to have PLDT MyDSL. So i gave in and since day 1 here are my rants:

1. At first i got pissed with the technicians who broke my computer. They accidentally installed a driver from my mobo which conflicts with my video card and so i had the dreaded black screen and had to reformat my pc right then and there. Then they told me my mobo ethernet port has a problem and was trying to sell me a P800 lan card. Do they think i’m stupid? first, my mobo port is working, the driver isn’t just installed. Second, a 800 pesos lan card? hell with them.

2. Since day 1, its either after 1 hour, or after 3 hours, and lucky if i its after 7 hours that i encounter the “dead connection” problem where my connection suddenly dies but you’ll see that the connection says “connected” and i have to restart my computer to have it working again. So much hassle specially since i can’t leave a download working overnight.

3. The worst thing ever - the bill! I was expecting the P999 bill and the 1k modem fee and other little fee on my first month of subscription. But what surprised me when i read our telephone bill for November-December is this “MyDSL period covered: 12/01/2007 - 13/01/2008 P10,732.29″- now where the hell did they get this ?!?!?!?!?!!

Surely.. if there was any other choice for a DSL connection, i would never ever have chosen PLDT!!!

Free Rice

I recently came across a site that donates free rice through the United Nations for every correct word you get in the online game. Its nice coz you not only enrich your vocabulary, you also help out when playing the game :)

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Acts of Kindness

I recently got an email from BlogCatalog about the Acts of Kindness which challenges members and bloggers everywhere to do something good offline — an act of kindness — and then post about it, using words, pictures, and/or videos to tell the story on Dec. 17. I visited the site to check it out and see how others have participated. Well, a lot did and maybe its not just because of the prize, but maybe its because they really wanna share something kind they did and somehow inspire others to do the same thing.

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