October 28th, 2008 Appaloosa is a western along the lines of those maverick hero-for-hire adventures pioneered by Akira Kurosawa (in his case it would be katana-for-hire) and westernized, in both senses of the word, by quite a few filmmakers. The movie follows the story of Virgil Cole (Ed Harris), a traveling lawman-for-hire (nothing new, yeah?) and his sidekick [...]
October 28th, 2008 The Middle East or at least things that involve Middle Eastern terrorists is very much in vogue these days. Body of Lies is just one among that long list of movies (Syriana, The Kingdom, Rendition, and the recent Eagle Eye among others) and luckily, it’s among those on the top.
Roger Ferris (Leonardo Di Caprio [...]
October 28th, 2008 I usually get bored when I don’t have work to do in the office. Yeah I could visit Friendster, check my email, chat over YM, listen to MP3s and watch YouTube and I could still get bored.
I tried viewing blogrolls and listening to the radio through my phone but still I’m dead to the world.
And [...]
October 27th, 2008 To email or not to email? That is the question :P
I’ve been receiving email from friends in the industry, HR recruiting personnel, consulting firms and the like… from local employment to international deployment (Singapore and UK mainly).
For the past few days or weeks, I’ve been meaning to transfer to a different company. The thing is [...]
October 25th, 2008 I’m Chei… Jay’s hired writer.
While I’m here, I’ll let you have a sneak peek of him and/or of us… as you may have noticed, most of his posts are mostly techie stuff… nothing personal and almost none showing his feelings. You wanna see that, yeah? Let’s just hope he won’t edit or delete my posts [...]
October 23rd, 2008 I haven’t been updating this site as often as I would like. Partly because of work and partly because Chei and I have been doing so many things. So what’s the solution? Simple, ask her to write together :D So expect new, and more interesting, stuff from her soon. TTFN!
October 19th, 2008 Played paintball at Fort Bonifacio. There are actually two fields in Fort Bonifacio: a skirmish/scenario field at the Army Gym and a speedball field at the Army Adventure Zone. We went to the latter. We were supposed to start playing at 9 but arrived at 9:30, started playing at 12, and ended at 2. I [...]
October 18th, 2008 After over two years, one my Philips VisionPlus headlight bulbs finally died out. I was very happy with them so I decided to go Philips again, this time the Philips X-treme Power. It’s got the same attributes as the VisionPlus except this one offers not just 50% but 80% more light than stock bulbs. This, [...]
October 13th, 2008 So Chei and I spent the whole morning doing government transactions. She with LTO for her student permit and I with NBI for my clearance. It never ceases to amaze me how much time government transactions waste. And to think we we’re getting useless things. Student permit? Is there any government involvement there? Maybe parts [...]
October 6th, 2008 So the company suddenly decided to ask me for an NBI clearance. No sweat, right? NOT! The way things work is that you apply for a clearance, they get your personal details, fingerprint you, then run you through their database, and if your name matches a known person with a “derogatory record” you get a [...]