Another world
Hotel reservation online
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Hotel Reservation is necessary when you are seeking the right place to stay. Whether you are seeking a place to hold a business conference or are simply passing through town, you need to have the very safest and most comfortable place to rest your head. You can easily find the hotel that you need. Enjoy [...]
Untraceable
Saturday, May 17th, 2008There are movies that restore your faith in human nature, even as they show how little faith other people may have. Films like The Green Mile, Syriana, Munich show the evil that men do, and what good men have done to counter it.
But when evil does not have a face, or too many faces [...]
Ma Mon Luk!
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Basta special, me itlog.
I really have to write about the origins of that statement above sometime, before I grow old and forget about it. It has nothing to do with where Sam and I went today though, on this rainy Thursday afternoon. I had long wanted to take a leisurely walk down Raon Street, haven [...]
Server backup in the third world
Monday, May 5th, 2008One of the services that the company I work for provides is a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program (BCDRP) that is tailor-made for offices based in various parts of the Philippines.
Practically speaking, in the Philippines there is no such thing as 100% uptime for any office, unless it has generators that automatically kick [...]
Where credit is due
Friday, May 2nd, 2008I always stay behind to watch the credits after a movie has ended. I do this whether I’m at a movie house or even when watching a home movie on cable or DVD. Staying behind to watch the credits has its advantages when in a movie house:
1. I don’t have to jostle other people also [...]
Tibetan personality test
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Got this about an hour ago from my cousin who normally doesn’t send me serious stuff. I’m supposed to forward this by email as well, but it may get more exposure here.
I took the test before I put this here, deciding to do so after being encouraged by the results. I didn’t realize how much [...]
How you gonna see me now
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008How you gonna see me now
Please don’t see me ugly babe
‘Cause I know I let you down
In oh so many ways
Albert Hofmann, father of mind-altering drug LSD, dies at 102
GENEVA – Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious “problem child,” has died. He was 102.
Hofmann died [...]
Robert Downey Jr. is Ironman
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I first fell in love with Robert Downey Jr in Heart and Souls, with a coterie of souls with unfinished businesses as his guardian angels. I almost went over the top when I saw him sing with Sting in Ally McBeal. He made deadpan hilarious in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and now Robert Downey [...]
There but for the grace of God
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I admit there are times when the line between needing and wanting something blurs, as my desire to upgrade or update anything that I have overpowers common sense.
But after going through this slide show I promise myself never ever to complain about anything material of which I would rather [...]
At another’s expense
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Around 25 years ago, the homeowners association of a small subdivision called Sto. Nino Village in Banilad, Cebu would sponsor a mass every Sunday. This mass was held at the Village clubhouse, and was attended by most of the Catholic residents of the village, as calling on God had become more convenient. Several priests were [...]
Listen to this lady and weep
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Her name is Madonna Decena and she is singing for her kids.
The show is called Britain’s Got Talent (American Idol in one of its various incarnations). There’s over thirty videos of her performance on YouTube, but I found this one to load the fastest, probably because its one of the later ones, and there were [...]
I can dream, can’t I
Sunday, April 20th, 2008A sort of tribute to the song which I remember best rendered by the late Karen Carpenter, which in Visayan colloquy has been expanded to include the phrase “libre bitaw” (it’s for free anyway), but in times when I know there are things that I would like for myself that are mere pipe dreams, I [...]
I inhaled
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Even as I had led a woollier than most teen-aged life I have (contrary to popular belief) never been in any drug rehabs. I confess to sneaking an Ativan 2 pill from my mom’s stash and drinking it one morning after one of my (maybe) imagined depressions, and I also pilfered the contents of a [...]
Dream getaway
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Dream summer getaway. Camping in Batanes–as the caterpillar has suggested–or walking on the cobbled paths in Vigan. Camping will require the usual sleeping and cooking paraphernalia, tents, sleeping bags, safety cutters, and don’t forget the matches or a lighter. The funny thing is that we’re probably going to forget the lighter/matches, because no one in [...]
Traveling light
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008When faced with the prospect of travel I always used to think darn, where will put my stuff? It’s not so much the stuff I have when I leave, but the stuff I tend to bring back as pasalubong, gifts and souvenirs from where ever it is I traveled to.
For example, when I went [...]
A new browser to press buttons with
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Have just discovered the web browser called Flock, and my initial opinions about this really useful browser (really fast too, faster than Opera on this machine) are on the revitalized Kusangpalo website.
On Press this Button I learned that Intel will soon be following Levis’ footsteps as it downgrades, or “ramps down” its operations in the [...]
On the road to Corregidor
Saturday, March 15th, 2008We’re looking at a quiet Holy Week this year. We will all be staying home this year. No trips outside the city to some cooler place, no long bus ride going up to the city of pines and lounging around the wooden buildings of Camp John Hay whose architecture which remind me of the condominium [...]
Running away on the train
Thursday, March 13th, 2008I used to be the main express
All steam and whistles heading west
Picking up my pain from door to door
Riding on the storyline
Furnace burning overtime
But this train don’t stop,
This train don’t stop,
This train don’t stop there anymore
This train don’t stop there anymore
–Elton John, Bernie Taupin
When I was a little girl I had always imagined that running [...]
Sophia mia!
Monday, March 10th, 2008I remember a time when women were rounded and full and voluptuous, not skinny and almost cadverous. I remember women like Sofia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, Catherine Deneuve, and our own Stella Suarez and Divina Valencia. Not just skin and bones these women were, but curvaceous and rounded. And they sure could fill out a [...]
PC vs Mac, South Park Style
Saturday, March 8th, 2008One of the best things about an extended weekend when you’re not expecting it is having the time to walk lazily around the Internet and finding really funny and cool stuff. Like the video above. Personally I can consider myself detached since I’m on an Ubuntu machine most weekends. But then again we use Windoze [...]
Half full the glass is
Friday, March 7th, 2008Of the numerous technicians, tech support specialists and programmers who have been a part of the company I work for, four are now in Dubai and seven are in Singapore. Greener pastures, they were looking for, either because they needed greener pastures, or the pastures needed them to feed. I don’t really understand why greener [...]