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… I believe that toy balloons, can reach and touch the moon.
“I believe in dreams” by Janno Gibbs
Almost a huh
Nov 13
Humor, Top of my head No Comments
This conversation almost made it to my “huh” page if not it was intended to massacre the English language.
For those who don’t have access to the Picasa web albums, here is the transcript.
Alvin… paps
Alvin… r u gym?
Alvin… even though r u cook
Allan… i’m sure not
Too bad bash.org rejected it when I submitted it. 😀
ciao!
Rude awakening
Nov 12
Yesterday I had a literal rude awakening. Coming from a Friday cocktail party, I tried to get some catnap before dinnertime. I gave some parting instruction to Tina and Penpen to wake me up when dinner is ready since I am really sleepy.
Upon getting to my bed, I finished reading Deception Point and began reading Digital Fortress (The last in the Dan Brown books I am reading). Realizing that the bookworm in me will prevent me from getting the catnap that I went to my room for, I switched off the lamp in the night table and started to will myself to sleep. As was my custom, I laid flat on my back and covered my eyes with my right forearm. The idea is that the pressure and the additional “shade” provided by the forearm will help me lull into sleep.
After a few minutes I already reached a state wherein my mind is already entering the sleep state. And then something hit me in the forearm and chest area that bounced off to the right side of the bed. Pissed off and with a curse forming in my mind, I started to get a look at who thought it was a good idea to wake me up with a pillow. At the back of my mind I thought it was Jordan since he is the most probable suspect but then realization kicked in, my room was dark and I can still see that my door was still closed.
Puzzled I began looking at the floor beside my bed for the object that hit me. I usually sleep only on the right side of the bed so whatever hit me would definitely land on the floor if it bounced. I switched on the night lamp and saw that there is nothing on the floor. My extra pillow was unused and still on the head-area on the left side of the bed where it is usually placed.
Was I only dreaming, or did something really woke me? I didn’t know so I just got up and went to the living room where Penpen was watching TV. I would like to think that it was just my subconscious playing tricks with my imagination but I was pretty sure something hit me to wake me up.
I would like to think I am a logical thinker but I also believe that there are things around us that I still don’t and will never understand. I have my own stash of “paranormal” stories that is suited more in a camp fire telling, but with my more than four months stay in this apartment, I haven’t really felt anything different although there were times that I think I heard my name being called.
Chalk another one for mysterious things. Maybe I can add this in the shit happens category. 🙂
ciao!
Blame it on loneliness.
Nov 09
What do you get when you cross a Macbook, a guitar, and three people bored and lonely while being assigned to work in another country? The amateur video below is a close approximation of my answer. It was made by some of my co-onshore assignees here in Denmark to combat loneliness and boredom, and as far as I know alcohol was not involved.
Last I heard it was an impromptu parody of Marie Digby whom youtube has granted a stepping stone to fame and stardom.
Alright, so it might not be so impromptu as I implied but I swear it is as sudden because I only heard it being discussed while we were driving to work yesterday. Francis, Harold and Lance were yapping about guitar jamming and kidding about uploading a video that I didn’t realize they were serious until they began promoting their first youtube video this morning when we were on the way to the office. 🙂
Was the video good? Of course not, its youtube you ninny! Video quality gets a mandatory downgrade when uploaded to streaming sites. If you were asking about the performance then my answer would be Yes on the grounds that it is an amateur video, an initial foray into video entertainment, and it was made for fun. Nobody with a straight face expects it to be of concert quality, and the technical/onstage mishaps just adds to the clip’s entertainment value.
Things I find funny in the video:
- Soy is wearing a hearing aid.
- Harold and Lance in the background, giggling and throwing words of encouragement in the background
- The rollercoaster mix of vocals, guitar strumming, and laughter. Nevermind that the lyrics or chords sometimes get lost.
- The “Pump”.
- The patented Tsong Soy stare. Too bad he wasn’t able to pull it off in the end without showing any happy emotion.
I think they are planning to release a second video. Will there be another Maria Digby sensation in youtube? I am optimistic but I am not crazy. However this type of videos can give a different kind of sensation; the rib-tickling kind. 🙂
Trivia: If you stare at the video long enough, you may get a glimpse of Chona jamming with them. 😉
ciao!
Couldn’t have been timed better…
Nov 09
Garbage shithappens No Comments
The day after having posted the previous entry my blog went down, or something like it. The site is still accessible but accessing capsule will show the web installation page for WordPress. Oh great, so I will be losing at least two posts since I only backed the site up after the Kronborg post. Better than nothing, right?
And then I found out that my precious backup was next to worthless since it only contained the basic database structure (and not the WP tables at that). Something was wrong with the CPanel database backup routines, which created the minuscule zip file without any errors.
I logged a request to my provider last Friday night and thankfully it was restored earlier this week with all of my posts intact. What a relief! I thought I was going to redo the blog again from scratch. It might have been a good “re-birthing” experience but something that I don’t want to go through if I really don’t have to.
Kudos to the Web.com.ph technical support group for the restoration, but would really appreciate it if you can tell me what went wrong. 😀
Two morals to this post:
- Backup your data. Often. And don’t forget to validate afterwards!
- Shit Happens. Embrace it.
ciao!
Universal Truth
Nov 01
Starting from this point on there is only one universal truth for me:
Remember, if it happens don’t devote time figuring on who is to blame. Don’t over-analyze it, don’t dwell on it, and just let it go.
And here is the universal truth when distilled to the masses.
ciao!