Woke up around 3am. Took some cough medicine my mom's been bugging me about. Then I found out I wasn't to eat anything for at least an hour after.

 

I didn't have dinner last night. Slept through it. Now my stomach is consuming inself in lieu of my delayed breakfast. I imagine this is how one feels one one is imploding.

 

Question is, do I go out with a

!!!BANG!!!

or a quiet

-poof- 

Got an email from JD. No word for one month and suddenly she's engaged. How 'bout that.

Good for her, though I can't help but feel a little sad. She was an escape into another world, some place glamorous and beautiful and wild. Life was a masquerade and I enjoyed every minute. And now she's gone and shackled herself. Pft.

"...All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away..." - from Shimmer by Fuel

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On another note, here are Mahasa's gigs for the week.  

April 18, Tuesday - Gweilo's Libis
featuring
3rd Orb
MAHASA
Bigmic
The Firm
LBM

Gig starts at 830. Entrance is P150 with 1 free beer

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April 19, Wednesday - Louie's THX, Makati
with Iñigo doing double duty for both
MAHASA
and
THE HANEPS

No entrance fee.  Open air.  Clean fun.

There might also be a gig at Jam 218 on the 20th, but we've still to flesh that out.  Check the mailing list for further information.

 

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Lastly, I dreamt that a ninja hit me with a karate chop to the nape... I can still feel it. Ouch.

I've got a lot of tech-geek in me. Not as much as some people I know, but enough to get excited whenever my PC gets an upgrade. And now, thanks to a graphics card from Martin and a new motherboard, my PC has improved quite a bit. Well enough to run... Konfabulator!

"What's that," you ask? Konfabulator is a nifty little program by Yahoo! which mimics the Dashboard for Mac. If you're not familiar with that program either, then let me just say that Konfabulator lets you run components (called widgets) that add functionality to your desktop.

For example, I've added a widget that puts a bar on the bottom of my screen less than a centimeter high. That little bar shows me pertinent information about my system such as CPU memory usage and used hard disk space. It also checks my GMail inbox and alerts me whenever I receive new mail.

Techie stuff like that not interest you? Well how about a widget that gives Tarot card readings? A widget that lets you shoot-up your desktop? A widget that plays any of 350 Chuck Norris quotes with a click of the mouse!?!

Sigh... widgets. I should've been working, and instead all I did was browse widgets... and read Chuck Norris facts. But now my desktop is super functional, a fact that comforts me each time I realize that I'm 3000 words under quota.

"Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried."
- Top 100 Chuck Norris funfacts

Click to see a picture of my Konfabulated Desktop!

It's hot. Really hot. Brain frying hot.

And as an added bonus our fridge is dead. No... Worse than that. Our fridge is now a keep-warm closet. Cold water does not exist in this house.

My mom is on a cleaning spree. She's been painting the walls for the past five hours. The air is thick with paint fumes. And dust. I'd cough except that it just churn up more dust.

Even the mosquitoes are lazy. The moment I notice one on my skin, I just hit it with a slow swat. They don't even try to fly away. I've killed three in the past hours.

I want to move out. Become a genuine starving artist. Not that my home life is bad. It's just... stagnant. This limbo I'm in is sapping all my creativity. I haven't drawn for a week.

I get paid next week. But I worry that it won't be much. I've been under quota for the past three days. Dial-up don't cut it no more. I wish I had DSL.

I have no more clean clothing. I have to do laundry. Some laundry. Any laundry. Do laundry... Maybe tomorrow...

My Firefox is fucked up. I updated it last weekend. The update fucked it up. That's fucked up. Fuck up.

...

Chuck Norris!

-end-

Tarot cards have always interested me. Not so much the fortune telling part, but the cards themselves. When I take a look at a tarot card, especially the old hand-drawn cards, I can't help but wonder what it means. I have a tarot fortune widget installed and it's given me a bit of insight to the subject. Just enough to spur me into more research.

Puttering around google I found this simple quiz. I think it suits me quite well. Although I prefer this image of the moon card.

Natanggal si Kelly Pickler sa American Idol! Noooooo....

With Taylor Hicks running as close second, Kelly's the most entertaining contestant on the show.

Dumb blonde. So what? It's what makes her endearing. She blurts stuff out like a child and I find that cute. Martin agrees with me on this.

Now what I'd really like them to do is kick out Paris (Benett?). Magaling man kumanta, mukha paring treasure troll. Nakakairrita pa yung speaking voice niya. Can't she just talk the way she sings? She'd be so much more tolerable that way.

Pft. What a gyp. So long Kelly Pickler. The show's that much duller without you.

Misnomer
~ A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object. In this case, it's a website. Try clicking this link:
Manyak.com
The results may surprise you.

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Evil Meat

from the webcomic Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida

If pork is evil then pile a big helping right onto my plate. I'm hungry and there doesn't seem to be anything to eat in the house except Nagaraya and two pieces of refrigerated pandesal. And all because the damned fridge is being serviced. Curse you Kelvinator! You taketh away my sustenance!

If I had money, I'd mosey on over to the Burger Machine down the street for some Baby Barts. I have no idea what Bart Burger patties are made of. Ground pork, breading, egg and seasoning is my guess. Though I wouldn't be surprised to find some 'other' meat in it.

Regardless, I'm addicted to them. I'd order a half-dozen if I could. Scarf down five and take the last one to go.

Ah well. I guess pandesal will have to do for now. To compensate, I'll just mix up a 'mug' of coffee. Actually it's not so much a mug as it is a flower pot with a handle. It takes about the same amount of liquid as a Starbucks Venti cup. I looooves mah kahffee.

Burger burger pork burger burger. When shalt I taste thee once more? I have high hopes that 'tis soon... But, I know, 'tis not tonight. Why? Because I'm cashless (again)!

But there's hope over the horizon. Tuesday! Pay day! Finally, I can pay off some debts! I can set aside money for DSL! I can buy myself a goddamned burger!

Just one more day... arrrrgh!

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Sarah Meier


I don't know much about local celebrities. Probably wouldn't know one unless he or she came up to me wearing a shirt that says "I am a celebrity." But there are exceptions to the rule. Like beautiful women. Last week I was walking in front of Theatre Mall when a very hot chick stepped out of a car. After a second or two, I recognized her as Sarah Meier. I'm pretty sure. Like 90%ish.

Now, I'm no big fan of hers. I've seen a couple of her photos and I wasn't really impressed. Her jaw looks a bit wide to me. But seeing her in person taught me something: Sarah Meier is hot.