The Whoas!, Ooops!, and Acks! of a less than ordinary individual who would want to live a more than special life in the Philippines.

30 June 2004

"The Best philippines porn Sites we've Found"

Ummm.... Ok.

So I've been listed at this site as one of the best Philippine Porn Sites found. Well not the best since Slashdot is listed twice and they're ranked 3rd and 4th. I'm ranked 5th.

I wonder how far up this post will show up in Google? Maybe it's a sign...


28 June 2004

BIRTHDAY BASH

The event was a success.

It fell on my birthday.
It was real fun. A couple of friends showed up. We partied.
We all had Skyy Vodka.
Everyone was happy;
Everyone was dancing;
Everyone was drunk;
Most everyone took their shirts off.

No kidding. Most everyone was topless.

It's just my luck that it was the Gay Pride Event.

The hazards of work.


26 June 2004

SUBSTANCE

Substance. That one factor that makes an entry stand out. I've been missing that these past few weeks.

Maybe because I've been busy.
Maybe because I've been lazy.
Maybe because I haven't been observant enough.

Substance. I should keep that in mind the next time I post.


FREE GMAIL INVITE SIGNUP

OK. Here it is. Just post your name and email address and I'll send you an invite. First come, first served. And absolutely NO HOTMAIL or YAHOO ADRESSES.


25 June 2004

MY BIRTHDAY

So, my birthday is on Sunday, June 27. Now, now, no cheesy greetings. Since I can remember, I never have celebrated my birthday. Even now... Well, actually more so now given my low financ... oops. Getting too personal there.

Anyway, if you two loyal readers out there have noticed, I haven't been updating this blog regularly. It's just that things have gone real busy these days. I mean, it's like my job just got fueled up by some high octane ingredient.

It's so hectic that I haven't chatted with my brother in three weeks. It's so hectic that I haven't played Counterstrike for the same duration. It's so hectic that my characters in Baldur's Gate are still stuck in that danged dungeon!!!

Hope everything dies down in awhile. Even Tess is getting worried I'm stretching myself too thin. Last night, I went home a bit drunk after ten shots of Jagermeister and five beers. Perils of working for On Premise marketing for a wines and spirits company

And if I could add, on Sunday, my birthday, I am the point person for an event since it's in my territory. I have to attend it and take care of it.


23 June 2004

FREE GMAIL INVITES AGAIN!

NOTICE: I WILL IGNORE YAHOO AND HOTMAIL ADDRESSES SINCE I HEAR THEY BLOCK THESE INVITES.

I have a couple of invites (4 actually) that wasn't used by the recipients. I'll post the link in the comments one at a time to prevent hoarding. What the heck! Here's the first one...

I have another SIX invites to give away! After going thru these four unused ones, I'll open the comment box again to post your emails. REMEMBER, if you are a hotmail or yahoo user, go check the the spam boxes since I hear they have been blocking emails from GMail. My daughter also has received additional invites.

So, if you have had the opportunity to post here, you're sure to have an invite. I don't want to have wasted invites like the four I have now. A lot of people want these so it's a waste if they go unused.

Here's an idea... Do not use your HOTMAIL or YAHOO addresses. If you have an alternate one, use that. After a week, I'll post any unused invites.

Got it? DO NOT USE HOTMAIL OR YAHOO AS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT AN INVITE. I'll just ignore those.


19 June 2004

BUSY BUSY BUSY

I had a lot of things to post but I've been too busy to do it. And what's worse is, I gorgot most of them now.

Well, not all of them. Some of them are too private to post. Now that the kids regularly check my blog. And I don't want to open up another one for those private moments.

Let me see, what has happened this past week? Hmmm... let me bulletpoint it:

* Went to work on Monday after a week's sick leave.

* Received a voucher from a resort owner for a whole weeks stay in Boracay for FREE! It's just my luck that I went on a week's sick leave that I can't afford to go on leave for awhile.

* I found out that I still have market value! Well, I can't go past that...

* I'm still stuck in a dungeon with a bunch of vampires, skeletons, and mummies in the next room. I keep dying cause, the vampires just attack and turn my.... ooops. Baldur's Gate.


FREE GMAIL INVITE REDUX

**** CAREFUL! CHECK YOUR MAILBOXES SINCE YAHOO TREATS THE INVITES I SEND AS SPAM!!! ****
**** TO ALL THOSE I SENT INVITES TO BEFORE BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THE SPAM BOX, SORRY BUT I HAVE TO PRIORITIZE THE NEWER ONES. ****


Wow. To date, I have given everyone who has asked, a gmail invite. That free gmail post has been my most popular post ever.

And to think that I had only two invites. After finishing it off, GMail gave me 5 more. After the 5, I had another 5. It seems the invites are now a permanent feature.

So, anyone who needs an invite, just post your email. Oh, and be sure to double check your address. I had two come back because of a mispelling.

I HAVE INVITES AGAIN! GO CHECK MY LATEST POST!


16 June 2004

MORE FREE GMAIL INVITEs

**** CAREFUL! CHECK YOUR MAILBOXES SINCE YAHOO TREATS THE INVITES I SEND AS SPAM!!! ****
**** TO ALL THOSE I SENT INVITES TO BEFORE BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THE SPAM BOX, SORRY BUT I HAVE TO PRIORITIZE THE NEWER ONES. ****


GMail sent me some more invites to give away! Wow!

Anyway, you know the drill. Just leave your email address. And I'll send you a free Gmail Invitation.

I have four right now...

ADDITIONAL: PLEASE POST ON MY LATEST GMAIL INVITE ENTRY.


Mozilla Firefox 0.9



Mozilla Firebird 0.9 is released. I'm not updating yet since I seem to have problems with the mouse gestures and tab browsing extensions....


15 June 2004

The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman

The latest Jerry Seinfeld and Superman episode 'HINDSIGHT IS 20-20
' is up now.

And no, Superman still doesn't go back in time.


14 June 2004

A THOUGHT...

Is the cup half empty or half full?

To me, either way, it's only as half as satisfying as a full cup.


11 June 2004

RAY CHARLES 1930-2004


"Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73..."

He was a real music influence to me. That's all I got to say about that.

(via CNN.com)
 Posted by Hello


DOES THIS SOUND RIGHT?

"...He pointed out that when Ferrer came out on TV and raised complaints against Belo for a procedure that the doctor's clinic had done on her face, 'she had waived whatever rights she may have had in respect to the treatment done on her and any information she gave the doctor.'... "

Does what the lawyer, said have any real legal bearing? I usually ignore these kind of showbiz talk but a statement like that... Maybe we should review laws covering malpractice, if ever we have any.

I'm not a lawyer or a doctor. I've only been a patient once. My wife even complained that when they gave me a shot of painkillers, I was snoring like an elephant in the emer... oh wait, I'm digressing.


10 June 2004

WHY DON'T WE HAVE LIVE MOMENTS LIKE THIS ANYMORE?


"Let me set the scene: the SNL announcer says: "Once again here's Elvis Costello" as the band launched into a slightly hyper version of "Less Than Zero". Elvis is wearing a grey jacket with a dark tie and a striped shirt, plus narrow-leg blue jeans. As Elvis reaches the line about "there's a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo" he stops short, not quite getting the word 'voodoo' out as he starts to turn, yelling frantically "Stop! Stop!" to the Attractions. The second "stop" is almost inaudible as he has his back to the microphone by this point. Having gotten the band's attention Elvis turns back to the audience and rather earnestly announces "I'm sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, there's no reason to do this song here". He then turns back towards the band and says "OK, Radio Radio... 1, 2, 3, 4" and the band crash, slightly awkwardly, into the opening chords of 'Radio Radio'..."

Elvis Costello, Saturday Night Live, December 1977. I only saw the clip now (check out the whole article here and the clip here) but I could imagine how watching that felt like then. I think that's what's missing in television these days (not counting brains); spontaneity. Everything is scripted. Script. Script. Script.

Live gag shows here in the Philippines, albeit non scripted, still lacks one thing though; taste.

So I guess that don't count, don't it?

(via Tom McMahon and Elvis Costello Online and Andre Torrez)Posted by Hello


FREE GMAIL INVITES

**** CAREFUL! CHECK YOUR MAILBOXES SINCE YAHOO TREATS THE INVITES I SEND AS SPAM!!! ****
**** TO ALL THOSE I SENT INVITES TO BEFORE BUT DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THE SPAM BOX, SORRY BUT I HAVE TO PRIORITIZE THE NEWER ONES. ****


OK. So I gave out GMail Invites.

But, checking the kid's account. Gabbi still has one more invite left. Tess has one invite left. That makes two more gmail invites to give away. Actually Tess has one more and Lulu has two but I think they're going to use those.

Anyway, that means there's two more GMail invites I can give away free to those interested. And they say it's hard to get a Gmail account!

ADDITIONAL: GO POST ON MY LATEST ENTRY IF YOU WANT A GMAIL ACCOUNT. I SEEM TO GET PERPETUAL INVITES NOW


09 June 2004

A DAY WITH THE KIDS

So I was in bed, noontime, sleeping. Gabbi barges in, wakes me up and asks me, "Are you still sick, Papa?". Parental love kicks in and starts administering extra large doses of control and patience. I look at her and feebly answer, "Yes". She stares at me for a second and goes out the room. I could hear her talk about her first day of school. How math is her first subject tomorrow, etc. etc.

Lulu comes home around two or so. I don't know since she didn't wake me up. Nice girl. Well, except that she used the computer when she wasn't supposed to since it was a school day. I woke up around three pm at the tail end of their illegal computer time.

I go back to bed around five when the two kids with MY WALLET in hand barge in and noisily ask if they can have McDonald's fries and sundae. Too weak and groggy to think, I mumble a yes.

Lulu comes close and touches my forehead, "You're still sick". I am amazed that she wasn't blinded by the obvious. Gabbi lies down next to me and starts singing a Hilary Duff song. Something about Math. Just when I'm close to escaping back dreamland, the kids are shouting again. The food has arrived. They noisily come in, marching back and forth. Holding the fries and sundae as if it was to be used as a ceremonial sacrifice.

I look at them. And smile.

Man. Pure unadulterated fatherhood. That's the only medicine I need.


AEON FLUX The Movie


"Frances McDormand will co-star with Charlize Theron in Paramount Pictures' bigscreen live-action adaptation of the futuristic MTV toon series "Aeon Flux."

McDormand will portray the Handler in the pic, produced by MTV Films along with Valhalla Prods. in association with Lakeshore Entertainment. Lensing is slated to begin in August in Berlin for a 2005 release...
Posted by Hello


GMail Invite

So I have two invitations to gmail that I can pass out to people. Anyone interested?


08 June 2004

MY FIRST AUDIO POST

I'm sick. I'm bored. My whole body feels like it went through a meat grinder and turned into Soylent Green. Well, close enough since I feel like Soylent Green.

Anyway, what do I do? I change the template of the blog and try out the new Audioblogger service of ummm... blogger. Yup. Three-fourths of my cell phone load down the drain to test out this not-so-new but newly-free service. Cool enough.

Gotta excuse my voice and what I say though... I'm just blabbering.

this is an audio post - click to play


FLAT TIRES

Nothing beats the gloom of a rainy monday stuck in bed and incapacitated. My plan to explore Baldur's Gate II and to frag terrorists in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fizzled out. I've been planning to dig in on those two games since last week. Well, there's always next weekend. Baldur's Gate II really is one big time hole. I can spend days with that game.

I'm so sick that cigarretes feels like steel wool on my throat. Coffee? Think sliding my tongue on asphalt. Can't even talk since it really brings on the coughs.

Since last week, things have been so off-tangent. I don't even know how to close this po...


03 June 2004

THE LAST DAY

This is the 3rd and last day of my so-called vacation.

It's raining outside.

Bummer.


02 June 2004

The 2nd Day

Today is the second day of my supposed vacation.

I have an event that I would have to attend to. It'll last from 4pm to 1am.

This is utterly unbelievable...


01 June 2004

YOU KNOW...

You know your life is still the same when you apply for a vacation which was approved, then you find out on vacation day that you have very important things to do at work on that day...