Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Starting the New Year Productively
What am I doing on New Year's Eve? Well, I'm in the house right now with the windows all shut, in anticipation of all the smog produced with the fireworks later at 12. I wouldn't even imagine myself holding a firecracker, since most of my work depends on my fingers. Having to see all those horror stories of people blowing their hands off because of mishandling them has already got me jittered. I'm trying to fight procrastination or perhaps work compulsiveness. I mean, I want to reformat my unit tonight and make necessary repairs, but simply thinking about all the hassles I have to go through just makes me want to sit around and have another DVD marathon until the wee hours of the morning. I spent this afternoon at John's house watching him play Final Fantasy X-2, much to my delight. I mean, I'm just in the game for the sake of the story really. The gameplay is starting to frustrate me a little since I'm not that adept in the "active mode" style of playing the game. Ramon dropped by as well, and had me help him out with some Outlook Q&A. Had to leave around 5 though to make it to the annual merienda at my grandmother's house.
Are there things to look forward to in 2004? Well, I'm not really so sure. I hope the good things would never change the bad things would just go away. My folks are into this aroma therapy kind of thing, so they habitually light up glass burners in the house with scents ranging from eucalyptus to apples. It's been driving me insane. I'm not really the kind to complain about it to them, but I just hope they would just keep the smells within the confines of their own room? The only therapy I'm getting out of it is a low-grade migrane. I'm not the type to make resolutions during New Year, since I don't get to do them anyway, so why bother make one? If there was any, I guess is to break this habit of procrastinating.
What am I doing on New Year's Eve? Well, I'm in the house right now with the windows all shut, in anticipation of all the smog produced with the fireworks later at 12. I wouldn't even imagine myself holding a firecracker, since most of my work depends on my fingers. Having to see all those horror stories of people blowing their hands off because of mishandling them has already got me jittered. I'm trying to fight procrastination or perhaps work compulsiveness. I mean, I want to reformat my unit tonight and make necessary repairs, but simply thinking about all the hassles I have to go through just makes me want to sit around and have another DVD marathon until the wee hours of the morning. I spent this afternoon at John's house watching him play Final Fantasy X-2, much to my delight. I mean, I'm just in the game for the sake of the story really. The gameplay is starting to frustrate me a little since I'm not that adept in the "active mode" style of playing the game. Ramon dropped by as well, and had me help him out with some Outlook Q&A. Had to leave around 5 though to make it to the annual merienda at my grandmother's house.
Are there things to look forward to in 2004? Well, I'm not really so sure. I hope the good things would never change the bad things would just go away. My folks are into this aroma therapy kind of thing, so they habitually light up glass burners in the house with scents ranging from eucalyptus to apples. It's been driving me insane. I'm not really the kind to complain about it to them, but I just hope they would just keep the smells within the confines of their own room? The only therapy I'm getting out of it is a low-grade migrane. I'm not the type to make resolutions during New Year, since I don't get to do them anyway, so why bother make one? If there was any, I guess is to break this habit of procrastinating.
Sunday, December 28, 2003
Living a Pathetic Saturday Night Life
Where in the world is everybody? I mean, I was supposed to go out tonight with a couple of old friends and have a drink, but unfortunately plans didn't turn out the way I wanted them to be. Most of them already got other places to go, and I though last-minute partying is the way to go, not last-last-minute change of plans. What am I doing tonight? Well, asides from blogging, I'm keeping house in the home network right now and fixing up my HDs, or at least taking out the useless clutter and being obssessive compulsive about things. I think I might reformat the main unit some time tomorrow, when things settle down with the mess. Windows has been acting up strangely for the past few months, and it just got worse recently when the unit would just restart coincidently when I'm editing some huge image in PhotoShop. Speaking of which, just got myself a copy of the Adobe Creative Suite, which is totally amazing. I might pay another visit in Greenhills tomorrow and look for more software. I was going through my stuff and I saw this old Word doc labled, "Seattle Adventure". Lo and behold, it was my journal about the MVP Summit early this year. Amazingly, all 7 pages were literally hand-written on a small screen from a Pocket PC. Would be posting the entire thing on my new website due this coming new year.
Did I tell you I'm addicted to Final Fantasy X-2? Well, been playing it ever since it arrived at John's house early this week. Too bad I was only able to stay overnight because of family events. I don't have a PS2, so having to stay at John's was my only way to play the game. I'm just disppointed though that there's no XBOX version for Final Fantasy... Asides from living a pathetic life tonight, I was able to create a new homebrew coffee mixture from the usual ones I have. I remembered buying chocolate syrup a month back for Rachel's surprise dessert, so I used that as substitute for sugar. Didn't taste quite as sweet as I hoped it would be, but I guess it's enough to give me that mocha-ish flavor. There isn't anything that could be considered evening-edible tonight, and the only viable thing I saw is pandesal (round bread), which is already semi-stiff because of the weather. Pandesal I think should always be kept in warm weather to retain its softness, or does the flour play a big role in it? Oh well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm just making do with semi-stiff pandesal and experimental mocha. Anything else for my evening? Well, nothing really asides from the PC chores I have to finish. Hope you guys enjoy the new year, with all of your fingers intact.
Where in the world is everybody? I mean, I was supposed to go out tonight with a couple of old friends and have a drink, but unfortunately plans didn't turn out the way I wanted them to be. Most of them already got other places to go, and I though last-minute partying is the way to go, not last-last-minute change of plans. What am I doing tonight? Well, asides from blogging, I'm keeping house in the home network right now and fixing up my HDs, or at least taking out the useless clutter and being obssessive compulsive about things. I think I might reformat the main unit some time tomorrow, when things settle down with the mess. Windows has been acting up strangely for the past few months, and it just got worse recently when the unit would just restart coincidently when I'm editing some huge image in PhotoShop. Speaking of which, just got myself a copy of the Adobe Creative Suite, which is totally amazing. I might pay another visit in Greenhills tomorrow and look for more software. I was going through my stuff and I saw this old Word doc labled, "Seattle Adventure". Lo and behold, it was my journal about the MVP Summit early this year. Amazingly, all 7 pages were literally hand-written on a small screen from a Pocket PC. Would be posting the entire thing on my new website due this coming new year.
Did I tell you I'm addicted to Final Fantasy X-2? Well, been playing it ever since it arrived at John's house early this week. Too bad I was only able to stay overnight because of family events. I don't have a PS2, so having to stay at John's was my only way to play the game. I'm just disppointed though that there's no XBOX version for Final Fantasy... Asides from living a pathetic life tonight, I was able to create a new homebrew coffee mixture from the usual ones I have. I remembered buying chocolate syrup a month back for Rachel's surprise dessert, so I used that as substitute for sugar. Didn't taste quite as sweet as I hoped it would be, but I guess it's enough to give me that mocha-ish flavor. There isn't anything that could be considered evening-edible tonight, and the only viable thing I saw is pandesal (round bread), which is already semi-stiff because of the weather. Pandesal I think should always be kept in warm weather to retain its softness, or does the flour play a big role in it? Oh well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm just making do with semi-stiff pandesal and experimental mocha. Anything else for my evening? Well, nothing really asides from the PC chores I have to finish. Hope you guys enjoy the new year, with all of your fingers intact.
