January 30th, 2008 Saw my umpteenth chick flick (I was coerced, your honor). and it’s just amazing how they haven’t changed. They ALWAYS follow the same age-old formula: girl meets guy, they don’t like each other (either that or the girl hates the guy’s guts), girl finally figures out that hey this guy is cool after all (doink!), [...]
January 28th, 2008 My boss mentioned that the level of economy is proportional to the level of trust. Thinking about it, it does make sense. For every business transaction, you would add the cost of contracts, lawyers, and the risk premium to cover for the probability of your partner not meeting his obligations. Not only would this cost [...]
January 23rd, 2008 The first thing that I saw, as I checked the news this morning, was “Heath Ledger Dead”. I was like WTF! He’s such a promising actor. He shone in roles in movies like Brokeback Mountain, A Knight’s Tale, heck even Ten Things I Hate About You. And I heard he absolutely rocks as The [...]
January 19th, 2008 Joy gave me joyous news today: Rei Ayanami has arrived from the land of the rising sun! After a long long wait she’s finally here! I lost no time and met up with Joy and Lem for lunch and, of course, to pick Rei up. But I didn’t open the box right away. I wanted [...]
January 15th, 2008 After a long long time, I finally got my own French-English dictionary: The Oxford Color French Dictionary Plus. Aside from a French-English and vice versa word dictionary, it also has other helpful features like a grammar guide, letter writing guide, and even an SMS/texting guide. Nifty to say the least.
January 14th, 2008 Yesterday, I played badminton again after a long hiatus brought about by the holidays. And I didn’t just play, I played hard. So today when I woke up, my muscle were screaming in agony. Someone (Marcinko?) said pain is good, it lets you know you’re alive. Oh yes, I do feel so alive. Argh!
January 12th, 2008 Yesterday, as I was heading out for lunch, I encountered Tessa at the elevator lobby. She was carrying this small black neoprene case that almost without a doubt contained an electronic gadget. From the dimensions, I concluded that it was an Asus Eee which I’ve heard and read quite a bit about. But to be [...]
January 11th, 2008 Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse. We were almost done with the restoring of files to the RAID server when two more drives failed. We had to hurriedly buy extra drives from Gilmore and rebuild the RAID server. This effectively negated one week’s worth of backup restoration.
And that’s not all of it. [...]
January 9th, 2008 I attended Beth and Banjo’s wedding last sunday and there was this opera singer singing at the reception. I mentioned it to Paul and he told me about the video of this guy, Paul Potts, who won BGT. He sang Nessun Dorma during the auditions and also in the finals. This led me to a [...]
January 8th, 2008 The University of the Philippines is celebrating its 100th year and the celebrations kick off today. It will start with a mass at UP Manila, then a motorcade to UP Diliman, flame passing and cauldron lighting, ceremonies, revelry, a concert, and finally fireworks!!! More info here.