6 Year Old Blogger

Happy blogger birthday to me! Yey! Today, I'm officially 6 years old as a blogger. I can't believe it's been that long already. I remember starting this blog in my first job as a way for me to record my life. My goal is to make this blog an extension of my brain, a storage of events that I can go back to. And I did just that. I shared a lot of things on this blog, even made this my stress reliever, my go to place to rant. Now it's a place for me to share my thoughts and opinions and not just talk about how my day went and what's good or bad about it.

The first title of this blog is "Whatever Goes Here", basically me being lazy to even think of a good name. Back then I thought, I wouldn't have anything specific topic to talk about anyway, so whatever goes. My topics back then ranged from personal opinions, movie reviews, music, photography and camera blog posts (I was starting to get into photography then), TV series, anime and a bunch more. My blog, my rules. To think that this happened when this blog was open to the public. I got comments from random people before especially on my so-called movie comments. I wanted to ask them, what do they think of my blog although I'm sure they'll say it's a mess.

Then I decided that this blog is too personal to be out in the open. I said too many things here that can be used against me and now that corporate offices scan through the web to do a background check on people, it's even more of a bad thing to keep this blog public. So I changed the title and turned it to semi-private. At the same time, I toned down my rants and promised to only post happy memories on this blog. I did, sort of. The thing with my blog is, it will always be my stress reliever. Sure I can talk to someone else but I still want to have my thoughts preserved online though I have to admit, I haven't really back read on my posts. I tried it before but I couldn't help feel ashamed on the way I was back then.

I have to admit, I still wanted to share my thoughts to everyone. That is why I collaborated with Mike and made a series of posts on his blog Slide and Tap. I still have a couple more to go. That way, I can still have this blog and share my opinions to everybody else. But it felt that it wasn't enough. I wouldn't just talk about gadgets and technology, I have things to say about other things as well. So I decided to create a new public blog. Too bad jusap was already taken so I had to use I'm Jusap.

I'm Jusap will be my blog for public consumption and my plan is to still keep this blog for more personal posts. Technically, my other blog will be a mirror of this blog. As a matter of fact, I've already posted some contents on it based from some of the blog entries here from this year. I still have to make a banner, fix the skin and links, and maybe even change the title. It's basically a work in progress. And maybe at some point, I'll transition out of this blog and just continue blogging there.

Blogging is a good thing for me and it's one of the few things I've been committed to for a long time. I may not be as active in blogging as I was last 2008 but I am still here, posting away. To my friends, thank you for visiting my blog and commenting. It means a lot to me that you do. I know that this blog is practically an FYI blog about what I've been doing and that is why I'm changing it with my other blog. I'll continue to blog until I can't do it anymore and even though I won't go back to my previous posts (maybe I will in the future), I'll continue to pile memories on my blogs just as I did when I first started 6 years ago.

Happy 6th blogger birthday to me! :)

Blogging With Mikoy

For the first time, I’ll be making a blog collaboration! I’ll be posting on Mikoy’s blog Slide and Tap with a series of “opinionated” blog entries that will talk about the recent (and not so recent) gadgets of today, from the Fuji X10 up to the latest Macbook Pro with Retina display. I will share my insights on the new technologies and features of the gadgets and what why I think they're good or not for me. I’ve always wanted to do blog collaborations and join a blogging group. I was supposed to have a featured entry on Leave The Cube but it never materialized so guess I haven't left the cube yet. 

These series of blog posts will also be posted here but the reason I want to post it on Mike’s blog is because I wanted it to be public, since this blog is (semi) private. I want a bigger audience and see their comments. I remember before when this blog can be seen publicly, people would comment on my lowly blog posts about the movies I watched. It's fun to read other opinions. Technically, this blog still gets hits from the US and even Russia and I don't know how they find this side of the web. I actually thought of making a new blog just for those posts that's why it expanded my initial topics from 3 to 10 but I don’t feel like making a new blog. Maybe in the future, but for now, working with Mikoy is a good idea!

So 10 (or 8) blog posts coming up!

Photography Idols [Toto & Jaja]

This time, I'm featuring a couple of amazing wedding photographers whom I had the pleasure of meeting in the workshop I attended last week. Actually I already knew one of them for some time now because I like his style of taking photos and I get to know the other because she is one of the our instructors in that workshop and I'm glad I did.

Ladies first.

Jaja Samaniego

(Philippines)

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Hers is a style with simple and clean compositions and natural colors. She trained from Imagine-nation photography and it shows in her pro event photographs. She's been in the industry for 3 years now and she proves to have the eye for amazing light, the very ability I want to learn. What she originally wanted to do is take videos but when her dad gave him a DSLR, she fell in love with stills and the rest is history. I think she's a really good people person and this profession of doing weddings is right for her. Although she mentioned that she also do portraits though I don't see it on her blog. Here are some of her photos lifted from her blog. (I know I said she uses natural colors, but the picks I made are more of my personal taste.)

Toto Villaruel

(Philippines)

Facebook | Blog | Twitter

I don't recall where I saw his photos first but I know I had a Red Mango moment, where I was just wow-ed by what I see, when I saw his wedding shots. His has the color and tone that I like but with simplicity and the look that other wedding photographers don't subscribe to. He shoots weddings with his girlfriend Nicolai who is also has an eye for amazing photos. Both of them are living together right now and together, they make a very good team to capture such events. From what he told us in the workshop, he started as a photojournalist then crossed over to taking wedding photos. The thing that is amazing with Toto as well as Jaja, other than their photos, is that they both shoot with manual focus. Not just manual exposure but also manual focus and that made me say wow! Imagine doing a fast paced event with manual focus and capturing the right moments with manual focus. Now that's an eye for photography indeed. Here are some of his photos.

So if you're planning a wedding, I suggest you ask these amazing photographers first because I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.

As for the workshop that I attended, I'll make a post soon.

Photography Idols [Nirrimi & DigitalPimp]

I think I haven't made a photographer feature for the longest time so let me start it again. I have a couple of photographers that I would like to share to you guys. One I've been following for quite some time now and the other I just discovered in PinoyPhotography forum. Their photos are the ones I want to be taking as they have the aesthetics and the emotions I want to capture in my photos.

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There are some really young talented photographers down under and one of them is 19 year old Nirrimi Firebrace. As well as a very good photographer, she also is a good writer. She maintains a blog (see below) and she recently had a baby that she documented on her blog of course accompanied by wonderful photos. She was able to travel to the US for a campaign and recently Europe for another campaign. She's mostly shoots fashion and portraits but sometimes a slice of life.

What I like with her photos are the simplicity of each photo, the vintage feel, the beauty of the subjects perfectly captured, her ability to see beautiful light and the feeling I get when I look at her photos. It's calming in a way because the colors and facial expressions just works for me. Here are some of her latest photos from her blog. Visit her blog, bigger photos does make a difference when you look at them.

Nirrimi Firebrace 

(Australia)

Twitter / Facebook / Blog

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Nathan Hayag, also known as digitalpimp, has a couple of threads in Pipho forum titled Everyday People and Everyday Places that he maintains. Both started on 2009 and now has a lot pages worth of fantastic photos! He's also friendly and gives advices to forumers who asks about his photos. Let me concentrate on his Everyday People photos. As the title suggests, they are mostly street photos of people. His works are mostly from other countries like Singapore and Malaysia. I'm not sure if he is associated to a photography group or works solo as well as what his forte is but he takes very beautiful landscape and street photos.

What I like about his photos are his compositions, wonderful realistic colors as well as his artistic take on some of his street photos, just like the first photographer I mentioned, his eye for amazing light. Some people I see post process their photos too much for my taste. His are just right and that "just right" touch is perfect! Here are some of his photos from his Flickr stream.

Nathan Hayag 

(Philippines, Singapore)

Flickr / Website

I hope you guys saw what I saw in the photos from these photographers and why I like them. I suggest you guys follow their Twitter streams.

Hello "Maybe" New Readers

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I feel I have to address the sudden rise of blog views I've been having lately. It started last week when I checked my dashboard and saw a spike in the graph for page views. I though it was double the normal hits and I guess that was normal, but when I looked at it closely I found out that it was 600x the normal views. You see this blog isn't meant for public consumption. This is just my little place in the Internet where I let some of my friends check on how I'm doing. So imagine me wondering how in the world did I get that much blog views in a day. I was on DEFCON 4 and was nervous as heck as to where the leak came from. I actually asked some of my friends before who have my blog linked in their main blogs to kindly remove it since theirs can be seen by anyone. This blog isn't set to private but is actually known to only selected people.

Believe it or not, there was a time when this blog was actually public-public. I was getting comments from random people regarding my so-called movie reviews that were just rubbish, my reviews. I was getting spam comments as well, a hint that my blog then titled whatevergoeshere.blogspot.com  (typos included) was indeed getting a share of international views.

I do enjoy putting a piece of my mind in the Internet and sharing it with an audience. I'm actually quite opinionated with random topics and would want to share my thoughts and engage in a conversation with others. I want to see what others think about some things and why they do so. I actually tried to do that here but I feel I'm not reaching a big audience that's why I stopped and just made this a personal blog as seen in my previous entries. I also post any photoshoots that I feel are worth sharing to my friends, how my week went, really wonderful or really bad experiences, rants, and weird thoughts and insights about random topics. Most of the time these posts are accompanied by photographs (usually from DeviantArt) or songs that I feel are related (or not) to the blog entry.

So there, that's what this blog is for. I'm not sure where I'm getting blog views but if you are new here then Welcome to my blog! I wish you would at least leave a comment after reading this, old or new readers alike, and I guess I should update my profile description to be more descriptive. Hope your brain is still OK after reading my blog entries.

Yes, I'm assuming I have new blog readers.

Tubes, Tweets & Blogs

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I think I have a manageable case of Internet addiction. I have been suffering from this sickness for quite sometime now and I have been trying to find a cure for it for the longest time. There is no one sure way to cure it unless I start living in the mountains but I think I'm slowly making progress in my fight to get rid of this thirst for information that I can't really use that much.

I haven't been visiting Facebook that much anymore compared to the past few months. Believe me, cutting a website from my usual "need to visit pages" is a big deal. Before I would always check for updates in my "news feed" every night when I get home but now, nothing. I don't know how I did it but I find myself not longing to see what everyone in that website is saying anymore. Being a bit of a cyber introvert perhaps? I've contemplated on deleting my account numerous times to seal the deal with Facebook but I realized that I have a lot of contacts in their that I need for future projects so I'm leaving it that way. So now I won't go to that website until I have a notification in my email that compels me to take a peek. I'm still maintaining my account though, making sure I don't get tagged on garbage stuff and still collecting band names in my "like" page but you won't see me making wall posts and uploading stuff anymore.

I'll be confining myself to Twitter, Blogger, Pipho, Youtube, DeviantArt, my emails and download sites. I'm not entirely disconnected since I still have Twitter and Youtube and those two are like the gateway to Internet content. I just can't help but visit these websites for something, it's like I can't really not click on other websites as long as I can access Google. The trick here is to know when to say stop.

This post is my way of saying how dedicated I am to achieving this manageable Internet lifestyle. I wish that there will come a time that I will be satisfied with just surfing the web for 30 minutes a day and hoping that most of that time is just on emails... but then who am I kidding? It will never happen.

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I wish that certain people have blogs and Twitter pages. I'm really curious on what they have to say everyday. On the other hand, I'm also am glad that some people don't know my blog (yet) or follow me on Twitter because there are just some things I say that may be vague but some people might still get what I'm talking about. Actually I'm a little worried that they might know I'm talking about them. Yeah, I do that. But I actually wish they are on Twitter so that even though I'm in the Interweb, I can still talk to them.

I prefer a good blog post over a tweet. No matter how concise or meaningful a message cramped in 140 characters is, I still want the author to elaborate on his or her thoughts. But put a group of tweets together then that becomes a different story. I'm not talking about just dropping updates on a current event, it's more of someone tweeting thoughts in sequence about a certain topic. It's the same as making a blog post.

Another thing I found out that I like to do is just not tweet where I'm at and I actually find those kinds of tweets boring (even though I sometimes do that). Yeah, people do foursquare and other stuff that just announces to everyone where they are and that's it. What I'm after is what they think of the place rather than what's the name of the restaurant they are in. I realized this when I went to Hong Kong. Remember I wasn't tweeting at all? That disconnection from the sort of "need" to tweet stuff is like a whole kind of freedom in itself. In a way it made me focus on what I'm doing and what I'm seeing. If I would tweet about something, I would start talking about what I see and what I feel and not just say "it's beautiful", I'll go say why and how I find something beautiful.

I think tweets are no longer answers to the question "what are you doing?", it's more of "what you're thinking." Just like what personal blogs are all about. And that is why I like blog posts.

Bad side of Reading a Blog

In a phrase, too much information in the wrong time. There are just some things I shouldn't have read so that I can live in this bubble thinking that things are going OK.

Just when I thought that I had a spark of hope in my grasp, everything collapsed after reading a blog entry. True that I need to know about it soon but a sequel turning into a prequel just ruins the story altogether. I have to admit that what I've read isn't a big of a deal to most people but for me, it's a brick wall half my height. A seed of doubt that is planted in my head. The What If's starts to become complete phrases with question marks and I start formulating pessimistic answers that just don't do me good but over-complicate things.

I think it will be harder if I am to learn about those emotions after a certain period has passed but the thing is, there might be a chance that some thoughts and realizations would materialize in between now and that inevitable confession that might have changed the future of whatever we have going on.

Some might say that it's a good thing to know about some stuff first hand so that I can prepare but for me, when it comes to emotions, I am a total loser. I can't hold my ground and I can't keep myself composed. This is an area that I'm not that familiar with that's why, like a kid, I don't know what to do.

All I'm saying is that I think I don't know how to react. Like a turtle, I hide under my shell. I wonder where I can get some toxic ooze to mutate me to something that knows kung-fu/karate.

A Proper Public Blog

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I'm really thinking that I should make a different blog for public consumption. I know I have been "planning" to do this for a while and it looks like it has been reignited. I actually posted it on FB to see how people would react and I did get some comments from unexpected friends. Of course it would only be about photography related topics and my recent works. As you may have noticed, I don't post a lot of my works online. I actually just keep them to myself. When I feel generous, I post some, but not all. I actually feel more comfortable sharing some of my photos in this blog only. The thing is, if I make a public photography blog, I have to put watermarks on my photos and post them in lower quality to prevent people from stealing them (as if people would want them, still).

I actually miss the time when my blog was public. Remember when I used to make those weird movie reviews? Like I was capable of doing one? Yeah that! I was actually getting hits from Google and people were commenting on some of them. It actually feels nice when people comment on my blog posts. What I actually want is for people to comment on my thoughts since I'm a bit of an opinionated person and not just on "movie-reviews".

Maybe I can prepare a set of blog entries ready and by the time this new blog is up, I might have at least 4-8 entries. Of course, this blog will still be up and running, this is my little sanctuary.

So what do you guys want on this upcoming blog? basically it will be my latest photos and photography experience. Gear review? can't do that, maybe after 5 years.

Update:
It's 10:30 PM and I need a freakin massage! Body is sore like heck.

My Blog in the Old Days

I'm driving back in the memory lane. First, that previous post and now this. Jaidy's post made reminded me of the days when this blog was on full public eyes. I had ads back then and counters and map layouts and was actually getting traffic from Google search results. Back then I was doing movie commentaries. I wasn't able to catch the latest ones but whenever I saw a movie, I made a post about it and it actually made some visitors leave some comments. I know I'm not that good at making quality articles/posts before even now but it makes me happy whenever I see comments in my blog. I like to start a conversation on something I like.

Now that movie review posts is gone. Maybe I should bring it back but I'm under the radar now and it doesn't seem right to draw attention to this personal blog. This blog is in semi-public mode. You have to search hard in Google to find this blog not unless you know the name. The only readers of this blog are my friends. I did that because this blog has been my outlet about a lot of things including work and I'm afraid that my bosses and coworkers might see it. I'm a very shy person and I don't express my emotions to just anyone.

I'm actually thinking of a separate blog. One that is really on the Internet public's eyes. Maybe I can call back WhatEverGoesHere and move some of my commentaries from this blog to that one. But I think it would be such a chore. I am not a write (obviously) and I am bound to make a fool of myself with all the grammar errors that I will be sharing. Before, I didn't mind, but now I am more conscious about what I say and the way I say it. Plus I feel the pressure of giving content to my would-be readers. Maybe I can try to do a one blog post or two a week rather than updating whenever I can. But I do love to share a piece of my mind to everyone even though they don't want it.

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Regarding the previous post, some of you might think I'm still living in that "past". I'm not. I'm well over it. It's just a couple of things that happened in such a short time that reminded me and made me look back. Then I found myself having the urge to voice out the things that I've been saying before.

I've said what I wanted to say before. Friends helped me through it.

I tried to forget that/it but I didn't. I shouldn't. Because I learned from it.

Although what I'm guilty of is trying to elicit a response.

The Bad Side of Twitter

I think I'm on Twitter for more than a year now and I just crosses the 7K tweets mark. I started following friends and news feeds like digg and local news then some celebrities and bands. Just recently, I started spreading my reach and started following photographers from other countries, mostly those I have been watching in DeviantArt. Then I followed their FF (Follow Friday) recommendations. Plus I added some more local celebrities and a couple of bands and for now I can still manage my updates.

But I can't always be pro-Twitter can I? There are always two sides to a coin and in this case, Twitter. So let me list down the things I hate(not really) about Twitter.

• Only 140 characters. Sometimes I have to edit my sentences in order to fit them into a tweet. There are some APIs like tweetlonger or something but I'm a purist. I'd rather use some slight text shorthands although I hate using them. (But having a limit of 140 characters is good too)
• At times, its an information flood. Right now I am following some 200+ accounts. Not all of them are active but those who are, they tweet twice as much as I do. Mostly the celebrities. The website & news related accounts, I can deal with that. It's like a push RSS shoving updates right into my face. And if I miss a day's worth of reading the tweets, I will have tons of them in my timeline and sometimes I couldn't care less about the updates anymore. Good thing I have lists for my friends and photographers, those tweets that really matters.
• Some tweets makes me jealous especially those coming from photographers. When they post that they are going to this place for a shoot or when they share BTS shots of their current setup. I always wish that I was there to see it or it was me doing it. Other tweets that makes me want be the one saying them are those coming from celebrities or other random people when they say they are here eating delicious food. Yeah it's the food!
• Some tweets just makes me feel down, especially in my current situation. Can't help thinking that I can be doing that too or I can be there too if it wasn't for this and that.
• Sometimes, especially in local events, the news channels are just so irritating! Like that inauguration of Pres. Noy, Inquirer, ABS, GMA7, the news anchor's private accounts are all tweeting the same thing. Like when the president arrived, all of them sent almost the same tweet and my TweetDeck was going TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! 
• Yes, Twitter IS A DISTRACTION if you are doing something or you are using TweetDeck or other desktop applications that link to Twitter. When I'm blogging or reading something important, I turn TweetDeck off. 
• I like Twitter because I can follow those who I want updates from (like what I'm doing in Facebook now, filtering) but the thing is, you can't control what they'll share. You just have to take what they give you because you followed them. Again, another shove-it-in-your-face thing. Sometimes it's even TMI and when using desktop applications, it makes you look only to find out that it's about nothing.

Well I guess that's all there is to it. The things I hate about Twitter.

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In blog related news, I'm thinking of making a sub-blog from this blog where I post topics like this. You know, those topics where I give opinions and stuff for others to read. It will be just a copy and this blog will still be semi-private. I just want to share.

Update: On second thought, maybe not.

A New Blog?

I tried to make this blog interesting hence my posts about opinions, articles, animes that I recommend and other things like that. But then I realized I don't have to do that. I'm not trying to attract readers anyway, you guys read my blog to know what is happening about me. This blog is an "outlet" blog and it always have been. I have been ranting, praising, cursing, and laughing about a lot of stuff as well as telling stories about me and what I feel in this blog that it's practically an extension of myself. So there, I'm going back to posting such random stuff in here and tagging them all as ME.

With that said, I am now really thinking of making another blog. Something interesting or a blog that has a topic. I have 3 blogs right now, two of them private and were conceived because of my emotions. I have a tumblr but it's collecting dust because I'm not using it. For me blogger is still awesome. Twitter, well I hang around that social group everyday. I talk a lot there too like me in this blog on 2008. I wanted to do a photography blog and share it with everyone but I'm afraid of people stealing my photos (as if people would want them, but it can happen). I have seen a lot of photo blogs and even a skin to work with it and I want one. Maybe if I have enough funding again, I can schedule shoots and have more photos to to keep that blog updated. I don't want to create one only to make it idle.

Also, I wanna have a collaborative blog with others. Like multiple authors in the same blog.

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For today I keep repeating this, good things happen to people who wait, what Ice said in FB. wait wait wait wait... This is part of the thing that I wanted to post in twitter and in here yesterday.

New Skin!

Been so long since I changed the blog's skin. So how do you guys like the new layout? So simple right? As you can see, I removed my widgets (skin said so). I want it to be plain and exact to the point. You read and you go away. I don't want to take much of your time. I'm happy just by you visiting this corner of the web.

I'm actually thinking of tweaking the skin quite a bit. A lot more of those drop down javascript feature plus I can't figure out how to remove the "read more" link below each posts or somehow link it with the previous read-more feature of my blog.

Update:
I added a couple of widgets back, my blog list and the archives although I'm not that sure for the archives. This skin only lets me have 4 widgets. If I add more, I inadvertently place the last widget under the rest of the other widgets. and weirdly, I find typing widgets really funny. widgets widgets.

Update 2:
Can't find the "read more" code so I'll leaving it at is. I think it's in one of the separate javascript codes that I can't access. Oh well...

My Blog

With my thank you post this morning, I felt I have to put some of the things I'm thinking about to words about this blog.

This is a personal blog. A private blog but this can't be seen by google or any search engine (I think). I protect this blog from unwanted readers as I post a lot of thoughts in here. And I only give the link to this blog if I feel that I can trust that person It's up to that person if he/she decides to come back again. I actually am surprised that there are some people whom I thought to have left this blog to be still checking posts every once in a while. Although there are some people whom I wish would be here and reading this blog. I just can't express my thoughts in other places in the web.

As a phrase I've seen last week, your website/blog is your home. Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are your vacation.

Too Serious

I think this blog has become a little too serious for me or maybe it's just that twitter is down and I have nothing to do so i read all my recent posts again and weirdly, I find them to be on a serious topic. Most of them actually. Should I add a little humor? What humor? I don't have one. I'm the biggest corn-ball in the entire universe.

I'm not going out in the world so I don't have any stories to tell. Maybe if I get a job, then I might start talking about the work people there. Bashing here and what-I-think-about there.

How can I make this funny?

Tumblr

Should I go tumbling to Tumblr? It's a great community!

But would I leave blogger? Hmmm....

ganito nalang, I hope there is way for my tumblr posts to be automatically posted here. Para even if I post artsy (or arte) stuff in tumblr, my blogger would still be updated. nice :)

Now to google and see kung pwede nga :P

Damage Control

Sorry for the sudden change in the URL. I have to do some damage control after an officemate sent out the link of my blog to the whole team. Good thing the PM wasn’t included but the other TLs were also in the list so I must hide my blog again. I'll send out a formal notification to my readers tomorrow because I need to send personal messages in their fb or ym accounts.

Sorry for the crappy title. I wasn't thinking right and I'm currently at work.

Blog Revival

Here I am, up and about at 2 in the morning because it's EOM. Nothing to watch in the teli, everything is a replay. Even HBO, Cinemax and Star Movies don't have any movie worth my time. To keep me awake, I was eating ice cream a while ago. Sugar rush then sugar crash after some minutes. But I think that's unlikely to happen because I'm wide awake right now. About 30 minutes ago, I heard gun shots. Yes gun shots! I think it was 5-6 gun shots including the warning shot. Our neighbor is having an inuman and when I went outside to check and some of his friends are already standing by the corner of the our street. Then they immediately walked back and advised me to stay inside. They said that it was from the guard house and when they looked, the guard was running back. They are not sure what happened though. So there, that's why I'm awake. I'm wondering what happened.
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No call from the office. Looks like everything is going OK. Good then! Can't sleep yet though. If I pass 5 AM then I'm on the clear.
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Before dinner, now movie partner :) Can I call you that? Yah, we should have dinner again sometime.
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"I'd swim the ocean for you!" - Kelsey by Metro Station.
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This is my attempt in reviving my blog. I haven't been blogging lately. Technically I still am but on twitter, microblogging that is. So this time I'll try to post more here. I wasn't able to blog because I was really too busy and my thoughts are getting smothered by me worrying too much about work.

Update:
I got up a bit early, only 3 hours of sleep, because I need to go around the house for my morning chores. So before everything else, a trip to the bakery to buy my pandesal. On my way there, I saw a lot of people more than the usual in the guard house. As I passed by it, I saw a broken window due to a gun shot. Just as what I've heard some hours ago.

After getting my pandesal, I passed by the guard house again and just have to ask. The guards told me that the old guard on shift last night was shot and killed by some drunk person living on the Annex part of our Phase. That guy was an ex military and already fled. They said that the old guard wasn't able to fire back. He was supposedly sleeping that time and the warning shot I've heard came from the drunk shooter. Before he could fire back, he was already shot with 12 bullets. They said they saw 12 bullet casings. Now they are lighting candles in the guard house out of respect for the old guard.

I thought it was only some warning shots to scare someone and I didn't know that someone was killed. I feel sorry for the old man. He was just doing his job and wasn't able to defend himself. May his soul rest in peace and as for the shooter, you should get whats coming to you.

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Tunay na Lalake

Red recommended this blog the other day

Tunaynalalake!

Even if I'm coughing my lungs off, I'm still laughing in my seat!

I'm adding this one in my links. haha

Welcome Ate Ia!

Hi Ate Ia and welcome to my blog! Musta?

It's been a long time! Good to know that you're a Canon user as well :) We can share lenses! *hehe* Hope to see you again. Malay mo ako na ang bibista dyan. (hopeful)

Promise, I'll make a set just for you and when I'm done I'll post it in my multiply page.

Take care! Say hi for me to everyone :)

What Happened?

I said that I won't be posting for a while didn't I? But I just can't leave my blog alone even though I'm so tired and sleepy right now.

The main reason is that my PC at home got infected (already) with trojans and other malicious scripts. No matter how much scanning I do, there always seems to e a new one popping up. I've been downloading for ages and this was the first time I got infected from a file I downloaded. It's been a while since my PCs been penetrated by any virus and it just have to be a Vundo. tsss... I have to format it and upgrade to Vista instead (or even the Windows 7 Beta).

But I'm back. As long as I can connect to the Internet and I have stories to share, I'll be blogging. :) I can't help it. *haha*

So what happened? Well let see...

Tiny is back! Yes, our black lab is back. The family who got her from the streets saw outr posters and returned her the other day. They said that on the first two nights, she kept on howling/crying that's why they have to move her to their relative's house in another subdivision nearby because it's bothering their neighbors. God bless their good souls for taking care of our dog. My mom was telling me that the moment she called out to Tiny while she was getting off the car, she immediately started running towards her and was jumping. So things are back to normal here. My dad is OK now too.

What else... Ah yes, there has been a drive by just this morning. My dad was telling me this while I was in the car. We even went to the scene because I wanted to see what it looked like. (First time usi) It was a doctor from Unilab and he was supposedly shot 5 times in front of his own house which was infront of the church just this 6 am. According to the neighbors, the suspect/s were riding a motorbike. Scary stuff. The subdivision has increased security and we even saw a patrol car roaming around. I'm sure the guards would be diligently inspecting those on motorbikes from now on.

Can't make a post without talking about work. Well... ITS HECTIC!!! Worst way to start the year. Reports needed... Missing transactions... A build that went wrong... All happening on February. The shortest month ever. By the time I finish doing my workload, it would be EOM again. [insert long waaaah comment here]

DiLENSma. Thats what B2 called it. I was panicking this afternoon because of what I heard from Vince. Yes, this is the Upgrade 3. I shouldn't be thinking about it right now because my set deadline is for May but when I heard "Limited Stocks" and "Price Increase next month", my mind went into code red and was thinking of getting one as soon as I can. Thank goodness I asked my friends first and they managed to calm me down. Thanks guys. I'll be getting it tomorrow. joke! *haha*

Bes was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism. Get well soon Bes!

To Bic, it's a secret. No hints or anything else, especially infront of the cubicle club. They'll eat me alive and it would greatly affect the status quo. *hehe*

Happy Birthday to Vince, Carissa and Bes!

I'm reading Degree of Guilt, from Bic, but it's a book with small letters. Very intimidating. *haha*

I might be back in the DOTA world again. Last Friday, Red invited me to play with his former officemates in their office not far from where I work. Since I was on overnight stay that time, I decided to go after finishing my work. Played until 4 in the morning. It would have lasted until 7 or so if it wasn't for the occassion on that day. I now suck at DOTA. Haven't played for months... But its good to be back. Now, we are forming a team to challenge Red's former officemates in a game.

The lotto jackpot was 230++ million petot last Tuesday. By today, Thursday, it would be raised to 250-280. To the person or people who would win, please give me a balato of 50K. It's not much right? *hehe*

I've been yawning a lot for the past 4 paragraphs. That means I have to go to sleep now.

I guess that's it. If I remember anything else, I'll just make another post.