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[06 Apr 2011|08:23pm] |
I feel that the local TV shows are getting more stupid every day.
I'm watching Weeds these days and it's just so much fun to watch. It isn't like one of those series where every episode has an expected problem or issue that they have to deal with before the show ends (e.g. Charmed). One of the problems with this is to understand the story in the later seasons, you have to go back to Season 1 and watch every single episode to appreciate current episode. Well that's what I think.
Lately I find myself happier than usual and I wonder if it's a good thing. I always thought that when you're happy, there's no other way to go but down after. But about about happier? That was never an option for me. Especially living here in Manila where more than half of the people are below the poverty line. It's almost like a sin to be living the way I do without working.
I wonder what I'll have for dinner tonight. I am not strict today on my diet, this is a treat for myself for working out harder than expected and sticking to the diet the past few days. But that doesn't mean I'm eating like there's tomorrow. I'm just not counting calories today. Breakfast, I had that round bread with eggs, sausage and cheese (450 calories if I had to count) plus non-fat latte. Lunch I had salad greens with vinaigrette and 3 meatballs. For afternoon snack, I had a bowl of cheerios with non fat milk. I haven't had dinner yet.
I'm excited with American Idol. This week's episode is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Wanna bet James Durbin will be screaming again? He's cute and all that but I can't help but think he's the inferior version of Adam Lambert as far as his singing goes. He screams ala Adam and Steven Tyler but his voice gets really thin when he does that. I don't really see Stefano Langone as a great singer, at all. He may be cute but that's it. I love Paul McDonald but I don't really see him winning, just because his type of singing/songs isn't that mainstream-y. It's like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it flopped but it gained cult-like following even until today. I wish he'd get to at least the top 3.
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[06 Apr 2011|08:18pm] |
Maybe I should backdate these entries or something.
March 13, 2011
10:29am
Past few days we've been seeing on tv news about the tsunami in Japan which worried us a bit because we'd be coming here in Boracay. Boracay is on the affordable side and not that ripped off as I expected. Drinks were P200 and less which is cheaper than the P600 drinks back at the hotel in Makati.
Today is a cloudy day and many white people are at the beach, taking this opportunity to start their tanning process. Yesterday I learned a lot about white skin, how very easily they burn. By Filipino standards I am fair skinned but I never really had the problem of getting burned. I'm not that stupid and/or ignorant enough to go sunbathing for hours non stop anyway.
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March 22, 2011
6:29PM
Dear Diary,
Worst flight ever by any standards. But what can you really expect from budget airlines. What just made things suck is we paid full price for the air ticket. One day I'll write about the horrible Cebu Pacific experience of ours.
When we were about to land, I was taken aback-ish by what I saw outside the window. The trees were different from the rest of what I've seen in this country. It reminded me of the jungle scenes from movies, hardcore jungles. There were also plains with yellow grass with trees growing here and there. It was more humid than the rest of the country, so humid that it was a bit hard for me to breathe.
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March 24, 2011
12:30pm
Just woke up from a nap. Dreamt I was something like an entity ala the blue guy from Watchmen. I was on a planet, Earth I presume, then I flew up the air seeing the color around me change from blue to dark blue and before it turned black, before the planet's gravitational pull on me was gone, I dove down straight into the blue ocean which turned blue to black the deeper I went down. My breathing slowed down, too.
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[06 Apr 2011|07:29pm] |
The living room looks lovely now. It's so nice that when it's 100% done I'll put a photo here. Speaking of photos, I'll put up my photo with the boys in the living room. No matter what happens, they will always have a special place in my heart.
Tomorrow I'll be going to Landmark to look for K's mom's rooster. A few days ago I found myself walking through Landmark, from Glorietta to Greenbelt. I just missed the days when the boys were here. One of the happiest days of my life but I know K wasn't feeling that well that time and G was getting on-and-off crabby. But I think if ever they return here to visit again, it won't be that bad for them. They'll know what to expect, where to go and what to do.
I'm having a ball with Android. I just worry about viruses though. But for someone who has been using a jailbroken iPhone and running banking apps on them, I shouldn't really complain much about that. But I have some sort of utility for the virus in my phone now, though. So many Apps but as I go through the Android Market, I couldn't help but notice how more mature and streamlined the iOS apps are compared to Android. Maybe it's true developers enjoy developing apps for iPhone and it's such a pain for Android. Mainly because of the different screen sizes of the Android devices while with iPhone they only have to deal with one for the 3G and old touch, one for iPhone 4 which is optional, and the iPad. But because my phone is so nice, everything looks nice! I love the Skype integration with Android. It feels like Blackberry's without looking to nerdy when it comes to the settings. Weatherbug's awesome, too. I don't know if I'll be listening to music in this device. I wonder if it has its own iTunes. I still have to figure out how to copy songs to my phone.
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[06 Apr 2011|07:27pm] |
7:14am
This sucks balls. LJ is still under attack. I hate bullies. These hackers are just another form of bullies and are going for LJ.
Cant'f find my wallet in my little bag. I must have left it in the car. But I'm not really sure. I'm too lazy to go down and check. When I stepped out of the house to go to Starbucks for breakfast, I couldn't find my Abercrombie perfume. What the heck is going on?
I can smell paint fumes right now. The TV commercial for smell-free paint has been there for more than 10 years already. I wonder why they didn't use that. My mom loved the paint job, though. It completely changed the texture of the wood (e.g. the counter top) giving it a smooth fiberglass feel.
I feel like cleaning at least 15% of my room right now. Just getting rid of these Starbucks cups littered all over would be a big thing.
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7:26am
Went down to check the car for my wallet. Couldn't find it. On my way back up to my room, I made a mental list of things that needs to be replaced. Like which card with which bank. I have limited myself to 3 cards now, down from 5. I find it easier to control my spending and now I only have 3 cards to deal with when paying. Only 3 cut off dates to think of now. I plan in completely paying off one of them and just concentrating on 2.
I don't have a job but look at my finances. Dammit. I'm just glad I paid cash for most of the transactions when the boys were here. When things are paid in cash, it's over and done with. Things purchased on credit can haunt me and I hate that. It ruins the very reason why I bought something--buying and owning something new makes me feel good. And if that purchase only makes me feel bad about myself in the end, maybe it wasn't worth it. But of course, I'm talking about the unnecessary stuff. But things you really
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8:46am
Livejournal is still down. I don't know if I should give in and move my journal somewhere. That is just giving in to bullying. Or maybe Livejournal should have a better tech support team or something. But I'm sure they're doing what they can about the attacks. LJ is an institution in the blogging world, even the Facebook founder kept a journal there. I have seen many sites become popular and then disappear. Some of them get purchased by bigger companies and then when they really don't earn the expected income, they disappear. Just like Geocities with Yahoo! The annual update of Encarta was stopped by Microsoft because people preferred Wikipedia. Rocketmail was bought by Yahoo!
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[06 Apr 2011|07:14pm] |
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This is what's going on with Livejournal right now. I seem to be obsessed by it but I just can't believe something like this still happens to the Internet world. It was up earlier today but it went down again.
Okay, now back to regular programming.
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[06 Apr 2011|06:59pm] |
Alright, stop! Collaborate and listen!
Some hackers are giving Livejournal a hard time so here I am with Scribbld. I think I can post here in public since nobody knows me yet. I went through sites that are using Livejournal's code (it's open source, I think) and this is the most promising one yet.
I really don't know what to do with two journals now. At this very moment Livejournal is inaccessible and probably will be until the Russian elections is over. I've been with Livejournal for a decade now and I didn't know about the transfer of their servers to Russia. I don't want to discriminate and say just because it is outside the US or because the servers are in some communist (or socialist?) country I don't feel safe with my data. But there is actually something going on there, these denial of service attacks is at first for me was a form of bullying but now I feel it's terrorist in nature. A huge bulk of the LJ group are in Russia and there's a group that wants to deny the Russians freedom of expression. It's nothing new. Blogger and Google are blocked in China.
I feel bad for the Livejournal staff in Russia though. I know the last thing they want to happen is for users like me to leave. But I am not leaving for good. I've taken leaves of absences from LJ before when I decided to start blogs in Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type, Tumblr, Vox, etc. but I always return to Livejournal. Maybe next year I'll be back or sooner.
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