... in which the Fool is disappointed by his usual netshop

I just borrowed a 128Mb flash drive from Dennis, and I wanted to test it out, just to see if its still ok, and to see how susceptible it is to online threats.

So after some lunch at Jolibee, I headed over to my usual netshop just beside my review school, and lo and behold!!!!

They had units that could handle the flash drive!

Giddy as a little girl, I tried my best to hide my excitement, while "calmly" inserting the device to the USB port at the back of the CPU. I sat back and accessed the many different sites that I was itching to download stuff from, and imagine my surprise when everytime the final window to click comes on, it suddenly times out...

At first, I thought it was a glitch, that one of the sites was just having problems today. Nope. No such luck. I tried downloading small files, music, anything I could get my hands on... Nothing. It looks like the only pc that had WinXP was barely configured, it was there just to humor people who wanted to use XP features, and use basic functions, such as office and browse the net...

Bah. That means I'll have to go either to school again or to Netopia (that overpriced friggin' netplace) just to get my stuff.

Anyway, here's a little something I got from Santi's record:

Seven in Maker Model

Despite numerous attempts by the government to conceal it, Seven (Johnny Depp) accidentally explores a large crate marked "Do Not Explore". His weblog posts about it are the talk of the blogosphere, garnering him the attention of a handful of the wrong people. Jenny (Drew Barrymore) is put out of the picture by a fiendish double agent, Terence (Jimmy Fallon). Turn on a paradigm, and become part of this adventure this July!

Produced by ianiceboy

Try it too if you've got the time.

Anyway, I'm getting irritated by this keyboard I'm using, the "R" key has sunk to the bottom of the keyboard, and I have no idea how hard or soft I'm supposed to push the damned key just to write anything with an "r" in it. I have no idea why out of every key here, its only the "r" key that's sunk that low, while every other key is perfectly alright.

Nowhere near as irritating as last night's traffic jam though. My family and I went to Makati Shangri-la last night to celebrate an uncle's 60th birthday. We ate at Circles, that buffet restaurant thing that serves chinese, indian, american, japanese, and italian cuisine, plus a huge dessert, appetizer, and seafood table. The place was impressive, and I went back several times to the buffet table to have some more food (the roti canan with orange or yellow curry was particularly worthwhile).

Of course, there's the matter of going home after dinner. Since we were safe inside the hotel last night, we had no idea how strong the rain was outside (we knew it was raining, other people texted us to be careful on our way home because of the rain, and possible flooding). We were already fortunate that the rain stopped when we finally decided to stop pigging out and leave.

Unfortunately, the trip home took something like 2.5 hours. We got stuck in South Super Highway with hundreds of other people, all probably wondering why in the world the cars in front were not moving. All the while my uncle was mouthing off like a raving lunatic that we should have taken this route or that route just to avoid the traffic despite the fact that he absolutely no idea how to get to or from Makati in the first place. And his endless complaining about the traffic was not helping matters at all...

Sigh. What a horrendous ending to such a nice day.

Well, anyway, as a result of that, I felt like a zombie this morning. I woke up at 6, moved from the bedroom, to the master's bedroom to watch anything on tv to rouse me up. It didn't work.

This is what happened:

6:00AM -- alarm clock blares in the background. My poor tired brain interprets the noise as some form of background music in my dream, and ignores it. It takes me over 5 minutes to even think of waking up and checking my alarm clock if it rang.

6:30AM -- slowly move from one bedroom to the other, turning on the TV just to make sure that I stay awake.

6:31AM -- manage to switch the channel to something that shows aerobics. I think of joining in to wake myself, but decide to do so after 5 minutes of sleep.

7:30AM -- wake up just to realize its way past 7, and that gransazers is on tv.

7:31AM -- unconsciously drift back to sleep.

8:00AM -- wake up feeling the heat, turn on the fan only to realize that its already late.

This pattern continues as soon as I arrive in school, sleeping through readings until the last module, where I find myself very excited that its nearly over.

Bah...

... in which the Fool starts his countdown

How You Are In Love

You fall in love quickly and easily. And very often. You give and take equally in relationships. You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time. You love your partner unconditionally and don't try to make them change. You stay in love for a long time, even if you aren't loved back. When you fall, you fall hard.

How Are You In Love?

Your Seduction Style: Fantasy Lover

You know that ideal love that each of us dreams of from childhood? That's you! Not because you posess all of the ideal characteristics, but because you are a savvy shape shifter. You have the uncanny ability to detect someone's particular fantasy... and make it you. You inspire each person to be an idealist and passionate, and you make each moment memorable Even a simple coffee date with you can be the most romantic moment of someone's life By giving your date exactly what he or she desires, you quickly become the ideal lover. Your abilities to make dreams come true is so strong, that you are often the love of many people's lives. Your ex's (and even people you have simply met or been friends with) long to be yours. No doubt you are the one others have dreamed of... your biggest challenge is finding *your* dream lover.

What Kind of Seducer Are You?

Your Blog Should Be Purple

You're an expressive, offbeat blogger who tends to write about anything and everything. You tend to set blogging trends, and you're the most likely to write your own meme or survey. You are a bit distant though. Your blog is all about you - not what anyone else has to say.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

Interesting... I didn't know about these things before... I've taken some other exams as well, and the results were pretty interesting as well. I feel like I've been looking away from myself for so long I didn't recognize myself when I looked back at myself...

But anyway, all I really needed was a few new pretty pictures for my record. Just in time to start my personal countdown. I have to cut down on plenty of stuff for the next month, just to be sure about a few things.