at the office on a friday night

i spend roughly around 3% of my time riding elevators now. it's getting to be a familiar scene -- the elevator doors, the security guard, and the waiting chairs beside him. i glance at the office door and realized that i belonged to the other side of it now. i remember the time when my place was at the lobby -- getting a visitor's pass, rehearsing interview answers in my mind, staring at my rarely-worn formal shoes.

for a moment, it felt surreal.

sometimes, i just feel old.

often, i just feel too contemplative.

twilight zone

By moonlight many years ago,
my true love did I know.
And by that moon I begged her wait,
but that night did she go.
So young lovers heed my words,
don't squander love away.
The moon is changing ever still,
soon comes the light of day.


did you like that poem? was it a little familiar? if yes... then buko ka na! dawson's fan ka no? :p it was the poem used for the episode near the finale, i believe. this was unearthed when a friend asked me for the url of a website i made way back.

i'm talking about way back 2nd yr HS, when i first learned how to code html. and you know how thrilling that can be for a geek like me. :) my (over)enthusiasm was obvious -- with the moving marquees, frames, overloaded backgrounds, midis (midis! eek.). it unanimously screams 'NEWBIE!!!'. picture me cringing right now. yeech.

for the spcp friends who want to take a nostalgic trip, visit ishg.tripod.com/a. while you're at it, you can visit ishg.tripod.com/parokya and ishg.tripod.com itself for some dawsonisms, quotes, etc. (eeek! so high school!) but don't say i didn't warn you. :)

yoohoo, tickets, where are you?

it's a pretty slooow day for the service queue today. all afternoon, i had 8 tickets. the same 8 tickets i had morning, save for two E2E auto-tickets. TWO AUTO-TICKETS?!? come on people, something must be wrong here. our web apps are too quiet...

(haha, i'm not really complaining. i'm just in disbelief. :p )

bored to death? then click away:

need a no-brainer break?
http://people.freenet.de/schnubelken/bunnys/

lie-detector manual
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php

is music your life?
http://www.pandora.com/

kaleidoscope world
http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

ascii image maker
http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/asciiomatic_afterupload.php?fileID=4790&fileTitle=

windows auto-philes
http://www.cothrun.com/gallery/albums/Misc/windows_mix.swf

mag-aartista ka, kid

i met the most adorable kid during the ride home. i know everyone says theirs is the most adorable kid, but out of all the adorable kids, this guy was the most talkative.

he wasn't even on the jeep, yet he had us all secretly smiling. when told by his mom to go ahead and climb up the jeep while she paid their fare, he shouted "ma! may driver! ayoko pa, baka biglang umandar!". once inside, he was told to sit across the free seat from his mom. "ma! gusto ko kumandong sayo!", he retorted. (i know it sounds whiny, but imagine that it was said in a cute way :p )

talk about being kidnap-prone. he chatted with anyone and called them 'ate' and 'kuya', he sang 'makita kang muli' for everyone in the jeep, and i believe he told everyone about yesterday's episode of Panday too.

i guess little tykes aren't so bad after all. :)

starstruck

i got another cool link! for fellow stargazing geeks, check out http://www.neave.com/planetarium. i wonder if i can get this as a screensaver?

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i must say, i'm downright in love with HP right now. it's my first night stint, i shadow for the 8pm to 5 am shift. after going through hell on tuesday morning trying to commute at 5 am (everyone was going TO makati, kamusta naman?), i availed of the Late Night Shuttle service at HP. as i climbed up the van, the driver started the engine. i asked him, "kuya, tayo lang po?" and he nodded. hanep, it was like having my own van. diretso hatid pa sa bahay. hanep. manong driver, sana yumaman ka talaga.

i also got to work from home for the first time. hanep talaga! i could work draped in the comfort of my big shirt and shorts.

they say i'm just in the honeymoon phase right now. maybe they're right, but right now, i don't really care. i'm currently happy with my delusions. :)

fresh from workload management training

this was the sort of things they should have taught way back in high school. i thought i was good at juggling, but boy, was I way behind. we got tips from the pros on how to stick it out in the big league.

i especially liked the idea that saving time was a myth. no one can ever save time; we can only invest in it. this means one should spend time wisely as to spend less time on tasks in the future. bear in mind that it's a matter of working smart vs. working hard.

handy, eh?

feels weird

a full moon is more often than not a beacon that weird things are coming.

like how my sister and i got lost at the makati walkway in the morning searching for kfc. we ended up at mister donut.

like how i thought my biggest problem of the day was my HP password conking out again.

like how i got the call which said that my mom got hit in a car accident and was rushed to st. luke's. like how you never never expected for the doctor to say that she needed bed rest and that she shouldn't move for 3 weeks if she didn't want an operation.

i know moons aren't stars, but still i find myself wishing on one.

muni-muni

Everybody has their own 'mot-mot' (e.g. "emote-emote") time. I usually have mine during the ride home from school (er, now, I guess it's from work).

While trying desperately not to hear an over-enthusiastic cellphone call next to me, I zoned out and thought about college. I'll probably never get over the 'I-miss-UP' phase.

And who can blame me? College life truly magnified every fear I had; I never felt more incapable in my life. But it also equipped me with skills and an outlook that is priceless, probably more than I could ever fathom.

It taught me that the first step to being wise is to acknowledge that you are stupid. Being wise doesn't mean knowing the answers to everything. The trick is to know where to find the answers when you need them. Meanwhile, just learn and learn; the thirst to be educated should be insatiable and the well of knowledge is bottomless. Never waste mistakes; they probably are the best ways to learn.

Also, all my life I've been taught to play nice. But now I've learned that if you play by the rules, you get burned. Instead, play smart. Never cause another person misery on purpose though; pissing off karma is a recipe for doom. Play smart instead. Make mistakes and you'll know what I mean.

too much time on my hands, eh?

then check out Spell with Flickr. enter any word,

and it'll skim through letter photos from flickr to spell it out. if you happen to not like

any letter, just click on it and the site'll find another photo for you. cool. come to

think of it, this is good for ransom notes. or fanmail. or whatever.



what, still bored? i got some more sites left, although i haven't checked out some:

http://imageeditor.net

Online photo editor. Very handy.


http://30gigs.com

30 gig Mail service. Yep, it's yet another email provider, but this one lets you see from which countries your emails are coming from thru a map. :p


http://www.ksolo.com/

Up for some karaoke? This site lets you sing, record and playback your fave songs.


http://goffice.com/

Online office suite. Handy for cramming.


http://allmydata.com/

Online data backup. No more my-pc-crashed-and-it-had-my-thesis-on-it! excuses.



this is what you get when you put a restless loony in an office.