I can blog from my palm?! REALLY?! *jumps for joy*

I am now what you consider a complete geek!

It's really amazing how much you can accomplish in a day when you put your mind to it. Or when your just too braindead that you just want to get everything done and finished so that you could just go home and plunk into bed.

I found out somewhere that "in theory" a person only needs 4 hours of sleep and a 30 minute nap every 8 hours. So tell me why the heck am I functioning with less than that? Maybe I'll get brain damage if I keep this up or maybe not. When I was a little kid and moved to sleeping in my own room, I was traumatized. I couldn't sleep. I needed to be comfortable in my room, which I wasn't. I would try different sleeping positions, postures and directions. Nothing worked. I even remember trying to sleep with my feet and legs up against the wall.

So eventually, I developed insomnia. Couldn't sleep without my security pillow, or music playing in the background. Even with that, it was still very hard to fall asleep. I think I carried it over to my adulthood.

or it could be the coke/pepsi that i drink before bed.

Holy Snap (what a ritchie thing to say)! The nominations for the philippine web awards ends today! Good luck to all the nominees in my category. Jodee, Jerwin!

It's not good when you've gone through your "today's list of things to do" sheet and you've already accomplished 90% of the tasks and it's the middle of the day. I'll just start on my "tomorrow's list of things to do" sheet. Aak! My article is due tomorrow and Grace still hasn't responded to my email. I'm gonna be dead! Extension please Erna.

So I thought that writing an article and being a "journalist" would be a cool thing. Since I've been writing a lot lately. There is a very big difference! What you may ask. Well my blog is what's on my mind at the moment. My journal are things that I would like to remember for any reason, or lessons that I learn, and/or feelings that I have; but anything that I want to remember that occurs on a semi-daily basis. My moments page are writings that occur in my life anytime that I want to preserve through the story that I tell.

So what's the difference with these writings and journlism? One thing is that it's easier to write about expeirences in your life than being given a topic and writing about it. It almost felt like research and report writing for school (but it was fun). It was a challenge though, a new hurdle to jump and a new bump in the road that I'm going to run through at 90 kmh. I loved it though. I like challenges and taking them on, am I weird? I don't think so, I think everyone has that sort of drive in them.

I'm at work, blogging in my usual time. Reading articles, fixing scripts and thinking of ways to make life easier for everyone here.

During my regular exchange of emails with some friends, I realized something. I have friends who help me out, who I can reach out too. Soo many people who help me out in my dark times of need; thank you.

Yeap, it's time for a change in lifestyle. I've been soo worried about everything and anything that pops up, I think I'm headed straight for a nervous breakdown. Well, no more. I came back from my trip a couple of days ago a new person in everyway. In a way of thinking, ambitions, priorities, and appearance.

yeap, you heard me! appearance! I have blonde hair (just like Jerwin) and I'm going back to wearing my contacts. I'm trying to shave my facial hair regularly, not like before when I'd just let it grow (slowly) into a forest. Its a new different outlook in life and I'm enjoying it.

too bad in the process I don't get any sleep either

Its almost quitting time here. I'm tired, and something is in my head thats been bothering me subconciously for the past couple of months. I just have that uneasy feeling. I wish it would go away. I want it to go away. I've fought so hard to not have to feel it again. But again, I feel it. Again I see it creep into my life. I just seems like no matter what I do it finds a way to come back into my life.

I think I'm going to regret blogging this. Frank, John and Dave aren't gonna stop bugging me about it.

So I figured out why I stopped wearing contacts this morning. It's a pain to put them on. I'm not the most adept person in trying to put them on my eyes. The idea of putting a piece of plastic/glass (or whatever material they're made out of) on your eyeball is gross too. But hey, to wear my new sunglasses? Anything! But I'll tell you, with the combination of me not being a morning person and being mechanically challenged to put the contacts in isn't a good combination. I must've struggled at least 5 times each eye to get it in there. Plus the fact that I was putting them on after my shower, meaning, the mirrors were all foggy and would fog up every 2 seconds after wiping.

When I got out wearing my new sunglasses what did I see? A cloudy day! Can you believe my luck?

I'm back at work! I actually missed it. One thing that I also missed was being able to sleep in. I guess the first day when you get back from vacation can be rough.

I've taken notice to that graphic of that guy on ilovebenbrown. Doesn't he look like the spank my monkey dude? I might just be imagining things.

Some people just have too much time on their hands.

I can't believe that I missed soo much during my week off. Survivor blog was started (Ernie, i want to be in the next one). Jodee has gone into hiding.

So yea, you guys have missed a lot too. Guess what? I'm going back to school! BCIT baby, bachelor of computer science? me? ahh well. I guess, I'm ambitious that way. I finally got that book from the ASKasp awards program. When I got into my room yesterday, it was soo nice. My bed the way it is, nice and soft. Computer desk all messy and just being in my room was cool. Today, I'm not leaving my room! I've missed it!

alright...so the guys are back...hehee..all in one piece i hope..heheee...i'm glad you guys had an awesome time in edmonton...all the stories you've put on rich make me wanna go an' visit them too...i will one day..hehee..i'll go east to west...checkin' out tha yfc kids...awww...i wanna do it now...but does that go AFTER the all-inclusive in the caribbean rich?...hahahaaa..a-ites..ooohh...you guys have to see andrea's hair..from what i heard you're all in for a surprise!=0

The "official" last day of my vacation. Although we arrived yesterday and actually got rest. Today, is my last day without work. I knew I had to get myself out of bed because I've been sleeping in for the past week. I had to get myself back into the rhythm of getting up. I woke up at 8:30 am, thats earlier than my usual 1:00 pm waking time. That was terrible, I have a HUGE headache right now. I want to snipe the first thing that I see moving with my paintball gun and I think I'm getting a tick on my right eye. It just keeps moving involuntarily.

Eventually, I'll fix everything. I'll pay my bills, register for my classes, catch up with my friends, write my articles, finish my programs and transform myself into the happy guy that everyone knows. that's after my nap though

There are a few times in your life where people would come along and move you in a certain way. That's why memories need to be remembered all the time.

So yea, guess who's back from their vacation?

heheee..guys!...yuck!!!...well...i knoe..i haven't been bloggin' lotts...been kinda hard...since at work i didn't get the chance...an' at home my computer's disconnected...'coz we took it to sum company to see what they could do for it to upgrade it...an' i've been too lazy to hook it back up..heheee...sorries rich...but yea..here i go..bloggin'..an' you know why?!...'coz i can't do nethin' else nemore!!!!!!...the network put up a sonicwall against hotmail an' bantu on my computer...so..boooo...i don't have nethin' to do..an' ne1 to keep me company...how sucky is that....*sigh*...so rich..or ne1...if you're wonderin' why you aren't seein' me on icq nemore..that's why...*sigh*...i'm sooo sad...

Well, I don't really blog about my penis but I think I'm up to the challenge to blog about breasts.

Today, I woke up (late as usual, because thats what you do when your on vacation) and I got myself to the shower. I took my shirt off what did I see? A gut and boobies. My girlfriend loves these, I guess you can call it a fetish. I don't know. I'm kinda on the chubby side, if you can tell. So I guess I do have boobies. So I'm staring at these pectorals, and I try hard and flex. Nothing happens. I keep trying, and no response whatsoever. So now I'm all tired and staring at my boobies. Ugly picture ain't it?

But I guess what I'm trying to get at is. My boobies are my boobies. I'm happy with the way my body looks right now. Well, maybe 20 pounds lighter and a little bit more toned, but I am happy with it. They jiggle when I run and give me a funny feeling. You know that feeling girls, when you need a bra? Something like that. So yea, I'm perfectly happy with my body. I just can't go out topless with it.

but hey, abbie doesn't complain so why should I?

Lasara again. Please stop applauding, really, you're far too kind. Anyway. I've been debating over whether or not to blog like Ritchie or blog like me. If I were Ritchie, what link would I choose? It's hard trying to think with your penis when you don't have one. That's one thing I don't understand. No woman is scorned for thinking with her breasts. Of course, she may hear some remarks if she thinks or dresses with her breasts in mind, but breasts in general aren't regarded the same as the male organ. But breast oriented clothing is a topic we've all seen on late night t.v. I haven't seen anything picturing women be the bad gals. Nope. You'll never hear, "Oh Geez, there she goes, thinking with her breasts, again!" or "I wish she would stop thinking with her breasts!" or "There's so much estrogen in this room, I could grow some breasts!" It's never going to happen. *sigh* Maybe I should venture into the other side of the video store.

You know what's sad? I'm talking about breasts and I know Ritchie would never blog about breasts. Beause Ritchie doesn't have them. :)

Ohhh, I miss cable! Really! I miss it. Or should I say, I've missed it. I'm never gonna go back to dial up. Uuugh! Thank God for Madeline. She has cable and Ritchie is back on high speed internet access. I'm still here in Edmonton, going to hit the mall today.

One more thing that I miss, is my bed. I've been sleeping on the floor, other people's bed's and matresses. Not that I'm not grateful, I am. I mean, I could be sleeping on some grass bed outside, for everyone to rob me right? So I am grateful. Just miss my bed. I miss that really really hard spot where my head is usually is. I miss how it feels on my when I sleep. But I just gotta hold out until Sunday, after that, I'll be back curled up with me 100000 pillows, my blue blanket and my nice and comfy bed.

of course, I miss my parents, my girlfriend and my friends too..... my computer too.

Alrighty, today... I'm itchy. Why? because last night I went clubbing and I drank some liquor. Why did I do it? And knowing well enough that I'm allergic to alcohol? I don't know. All I know was that, when you go clubbing you have to drink, smoke (maybe) and dance. It's like a trio kinda thing. You can't do one without doing the other ones, thats how messed up that clubbing world is. When you get sucked into it, you have to do all those things. Blah blah blah. But yea, now that I drank, smoked (maybe) and danced now I'm all itchy.

Sucky sucky sucky, I'm sooo itchy! I can't scratch anyways cause it'll get worse. I'll break out into rashes when I scratch! Allergies suck!

Mike what are you talking about man.... i miss abbie of course.

Yo wassup....my apologies to Ritchie for not bloggin' on the page lately. I got caught up with work and other stuff. But i'm back in action. Heh.....that's how packin' ice gets in the way of bloggin'. But anyways, yes i worked today as usual. After work, PAZ (the guy you talks really loud and flexes his arms with no muscle ) and I went to Geraldine's house to chillax. Met up with some peeps there. Gen left for Chicago today. I was supposed to go with her which makes me really sad....=( She's visiting her cousin's Jeneca and Desiree.......*sigh*......i miss those guys.....*sigh* If you guys are reading this right now (Jen and Des) sorry i couldn't come......But yeah "BLAH" as someone would say.....ohh-kay..i'm talking to ritchie as we speak online from edmonton. He said that he's havin' a sweet time and that he misses his computer. Notice how he doesn't miss any particular person......just his computer....iono....that's what he told me right ritch? hehehe...i think he misses his car too.....that crazy guy.....but anyways....my words aren't makin' any sense right now if you noticed. I think it's b/c i've screwed up my sleeping patterns....one night i get 4 hours of sleep, the next night i get 8 hours of sleep....i think i need sleep....so imma bounce to bed now.....until tomorrow.......

i'm soo glad for internet connection! I just wanted to blog something before anything else. The Untalans have the best hospitality in the whole world. There soo nice. Thanks for taking us out and taking us in. We're staying with them and all that. We just came from a little safari trip where we saw some bison, gophers, and moose. I got some pictures and stuff like that. But to give everyone a preview of the up and coming photo album that I'm compiling for team-swollen.com. This is called, Gerard trying to be a Raptor.

hehee..i'm glad you're havin' fun rich..mayn..thin's are slow at work w/o ne1 to talk to ALL day..but..it's a-ites..woohooo!!!!..jus' 2 weeks before my last day...kinda like a double edged sword though...since it's 2 weeks 'til my last day at work..but it's also 2 weeks 'til skool starts..mayn...*sigh*...at least i only have one 8:00 class=)..hehee.the rest of the week i start at 11 or 12...an' i think i have fridays off=)...woohoo!!!...now i gotta find another source to my cash flow...*sigh*..sucks...well...i'm glad you're havin' a blast...an' gen..i heard you made second cut!!!...congrats!!!..heheee...we got a sista here too who made second cut...wouldn't that be wild if both o' you were in it?!!!..heheee..woohoo!!!..you guys better remember me when you get rich an' famous=)...*hugz*..God bless guys..i'm outts=)...oh an' one more note...if ne1 can help me out with flash..hehee..i'm sooo lost on that program..i can open up an' deal with illustrator an' photoshop an' golive an' even quarkxpress..but flash is a different story...if ne1 can teach me...email me

I miss Vancouver, and I'm sure these guys do too but they just won't admit it. hehehe until the next update...

Hey hey hey, this is Ritchie from the Untalans here in Edmonton. I'm doing this in secret because the guys don't even want me to log on to the net. But hey I'm getting my fix right now. We've been having a blast. We miss all of you guys! I miss playing email tag with cheryl. Matt, thanks for taking the responsibility dude (can you ask mike to show you have to put in a nick name?). Mike, where you been? Cheryl, great job! You rock sista! Lasara, about the boob thing? Well, I'm getting a bit chubby and I think I'm starting to get boobs. I miss all you guys over there in Vancouver. I'm coming back with more than 1000 pictures dude, damn! I've taken so much.

Did you guys know that theres a freaking dolphin tank inside Edmonton Mall? Dang, a freaking submarine ride, and a full sized pirate ship? Not to mention the waterpark the 100000 + stores? It's huge man! Theres at least 3 GAP stores and 2 of everything else. I'm getting a cowboy hat just to fit in. Archie already bought one. And if I'm not getting any email, I think its because I left my Outlook open at home and now all my emails are in my home computer and I can't use hotmail to check it.

So yea basically, we've been having an awsome time here. We've pretty much conquered the whole Edmonton mall. We've been with the YFC Edmonton since day one. Right now we're resting up a bit and then we're going to head down to some Safari sight seeing thing in Ellis (is that how you spell it?) island. Hopefully, I can log on once in a while so I can update everyone on how we're doing.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH...."the ability to swear in public"(justin-"shutup...you know damn right)...just a small message i'd like to send out to the computer world....(words from jaygq)....hey ritch!! thanks for givin' me the oppurtunity to work on your site...but dude this is how the rhyme flows.... ahem!!!!.....i got somethin' in my pocket/is it a lollipop/ or just some gum that i picked up from the parkin' lot/ ya'll probably don't know who i am.....hey i just started talkin' to ritch a couple of month ago....don't really wanna bore you guys w/ info on me....but...if you know who i am.... just wanna say that i got till november to chill w/ ya'll....i'm headin' to AUSSIETOWN..which is kind of a sweetest bitter sweet feelin'.....i'ma write some more lates...hopefully somethin' interestin'....and hopefully i can work on my html skills.....HOPEFULLY is the keyword....aiight peace GOD bless

Lasara here. I'm honestly flattered that Ritchie thinks I'm cool, and I do believe it's humorous that he thinks he's cooler than I am based on the color of this here blog. But he doesn't have breasts. Nope. Ever since I met my mom when I was born, I've been convinced that the coolest people in this world have breasts, and unless Ritchie is hiding something, his lack of breasts leave him at a level of coolness lower than my own. So there.

hey!!!...woah...it's me again...i better stop soon..'coz you guys might get tired of me...well...i'll be away at a YFC camp this weekend neways...so i won't blog at all...probably not until sunday if even...but yea...i was surfin' on the net..at work..yea..'coz work is sooooo slow today..ti's been like that all week...but that's beside my point...i came across this site ...heheee..do you guys remember that?!...mayn..take me back...i LOVED the fraggles!...hehee..even loved the dozers!..hehee..those little blue men...mayn...nothin's better than those old skool stuff we used to watch on tv...mayn...she-ra..my little pony..cabbage patch...potato head kids...transformers...gi joe..an' even jem..shoot..mayn...*sigh*...hehee..can i be a kid again?=)

you guys heard about that russian sub thing rite?!...isn't that the stupidest thing you've ever heard?! russia wastes 3 days of their men's oxygen because they're too proud to ask for help from anyone especially the states...so now..here they are...soo many of their men killed? an' for what? pride...*sigh*...what's with guys an' pride? talk about the perfect storm syndrome...*sigh*...*tsk,tsk*....

hey guys! good mornin'! i guess since i cant' send rich my usual emails good mornin', i might as well blog it in while he's gone. for the while that he's gone, i'll probably be blogging more on his, than on mine...*tsk,tsk* i knoe=)...but well...at least you'll get to knoe me=)...

okay --so here i go, i hope i don't disappoint anyone. be nice to me okay?=) i hope this goes fine. and wow! look! it's mike! i knoe mike, right?=)...heheee..okay you guys gotta deal with me now. i guess i should warn you guys. there are many things going on in my head, and my problem? i have no idea what to type out first - so be patient, even i can't get the thoughts straight in MY head...heheee...as you can see...so i'll try my best to keep you as entertained as rich...awww...booo...rich! i'm goin' to miss you--hurry back! i'm goin' to be sooooo bored at work!=\ have a safe trip. be careful=) an' tell john i miss him...an' tell archie i totally want to see him next time i'm there=)

For those who do not know who I am, my name is Mr. Mike Manuel, otherwise known as Maxwell. My buddy Ritchie (owner of this beautiful site) will be gone out of town to Edmonton with other members of Team Swollen and left me and my other buddy Matthew Prescilla a.k.a.Todd in charge of his Blog. In this upcoming week, you will discover many intriguing things that go through the minds of Maxwell and Todd. Team Advencha has arrived!! Have a safe trip Ritch and i'll see you guys when you come back!

I'm the worst at keeping secrets and things like that. So if you have a really really really big secret don't tell me or I might blog you. So as you can tell, I've been rounding up 4 of my guest bloggers. This whole week, with sporatic updates from yours trully, they will be maintaining this blog. Blogging useful, non-useful and somewhat useful information. Lets hope that everyone gets along.

So introducing.....

Lasara, one of the cooler people on the web. Of course, I'm cooler than her cause my blog is in yellow. I could never have the guts to put my face on the site no matter how recognizable it is. I read once that she was planning on conquering the world and that she was going to do it one island at a time or something like that. She also writes tidbits of information on her site, and she does have her own blog. So watch out for her.

Cheryl, now what can I say about Ms. Baldovino? Well, we've known each other for quite sometime now. When ever I'm working on the web, I'm reminded of her. She was one of the first people I've built a friendship online. And she has been there for me! Although sometimes she gets lazy updating her page. But not this time, she will be sharing her thoughts, links and other small morsels of information that she can spit up. She does have her own site, and she does have a blog.

Now there are the girls that are blogging. The guys are going to be a surprise. No, its not Vic, although I know thats one of the guys that you guys would be expecting. It's not. I wanted to get people who would be a total surprise to everyone. Well at least to the people who are the people I hang around with. I wanted to get people who would knock your socks off. But I had to settle for these guys..... kidding! Without further ado.... welcome to the guest blogger team:

Mike, who's singing voice and cute grin would light up any room. He's actually very cool. Young too. Single I dunno, something that he doesn't tell me. Its not like I reach out and ask him if he's single, that would make me a different kinda friend. But I'm not so there. Mike is also learning these things and he said that he'll try to blog a lot but work @ the ice factory has got him down. You know taking those ice trace trays and putting the ice in the plastic bags are cool too.

and last but for sure not the least is Matt aka Todd, aka Prestige. Theres a candy in my pocket, is it a lolipop or is it gum that I picked up from the parking lot. Thats his famous line in his latest rhyme. He's a smart guy, works out like a dog and of course has aspirations of getting the great Team-Advencha website up. Did I inspire him? I don't know prolly not. So there! But he's learning html to. So please bear with him.

So there you go, consider all you guys formally introduced and you all should be good. The whole world sees what all of you write and what you write about is your life. Geeze eh? Its like a Big Brother / rip off eh? So guys get along, don't vote anyone off.

This should be very interesting!

I have 2 people confirmed to take care of my blog while I'm gone. The site prolly won't see any update, well maybe the photo album. I haven't decided yet.

Survivor Rudy still in running, even after bungling challenge, I can't believe that Rudy made it this long into the show. Some people seem to think that he's going to win it. I don't think so, I think 'trucker sue' will take the whole shabang! On another note, doesn't sean seem a bit "duh" to be a neurologist? I'm glad he's gone. I wanted Colleen to win the whole thing. Cute people deserve to win, right silvia?

The blogging team to take over my job while I'm gone is slowly being assembled. I'm soo excited for you guys! I have made a couple of changes to the layout of the blog as you guys would have noticed. Just so you guys know who's talking and stuff like that. I don't want to confuse anyone. This is the first time I've done this and yea I don't really know how everyone is going like it.

Hey! Hide your kids, if you have any!

I haven't told any of you this. I'm actually going away on vacation. Yea yea, I'm going to edmonton later on today (cause its already 12 midnight). I'm driving with 3 of my best buds Gerard, Archie and John. It would have been with Paulo and Cedric, but Paulo's going to vagas and Cedric is sick (get better man). I've been meaning to tell you guys but I really didn't have the heart. I'm going to get a guest blogger as soon as I find someone to blog for me. I want it to be someone cool. I want it to be someone you don't expect. I'm still not sure, I'll decide tomorrow and introduce him/her formally to everyone.

I'm sure I'll find some internet access in the flat land they call Edmonton. So rest assured I will be blogging when I'm there. I'm taking my digital camera and my dad's laptop (thanks dad), so rest assured that there will be a lot of pictures when I come back.

I bring you, 10 more things you didn't know about Ritchie. Continuation.....

1. Drinks water all day until his bladder can't take any more, then he goes runs to the washroom for exercise.
2. Carries a palm, a notebook and post-it pads with him everywhere he goes, he carries the palm in the notebook and on the palm, he has some sticky pads with notes.
3. Has 2 baby bottles, that 2 different people gave him cause he's the baby of the bunch (well, not anymore right dan?).
4. Once won the freestyle vocal flex at Cheers.
5. Developed a natural defense for rough floors because he never wore his tsinelas (sandals) in the Philippines, yuck callus!
6. Has about 20 Pringles cans on his desk at work, they've been there since he started.
7. Has since developed a taste for raw fish!
8. His favorite restaurant's name always has "all you can eat" in the title
9. He's a mutant that can suck you into his dimples by just a nod
10. He secretly thinks that ralph wiggum is cool

Just after I blogged about last night, Jerwin blogged something about sleeplessness. Coincidence? I dunno

Today, I went to sleep and decided that my alarm clock has been blinking 12:00 too long. Before I headed to bed, I fixed it. This was around 1:30 am, I've been working on some scripts and writing journal entries. I took the small clock and fixed the time, and fixed the alarm to go off at 5:00 am. To everyone reading this, THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA! I have no clue what came over me. Just think, If you go to sleep at 1:30 am and wake up at 5:30 am that leaves you 4 hours of sleep. Sleep my friends is a precious thing, not to be taken likely. So I'm begging all of you, don't touch that blinking 12:00 on your alarm. Just leave it the way it is, let someone else with a better sounding voice wake you up. Not some crazed ear piercing sound from a little contraption thats build to annoy you just to wake you up.

Sleep is a good thing my friends, no matter what the teachers at BCIT might tell you.

Thanks Cheryl for calming me down, talking to me and everything else that you do for me.

Today, I didn't get any sleep. Why? I can't say. I was mad, yelling and hurt. All these things said and all the pain there. It's still there. What can I do? I don't know. It's feelings, something that I can't explain. Something beyond logic, pure emotion. When will the time come when I'm not bothered by this? I don't know. When will the time come when I'm listened to? I don't know. When will my feelings be acknowledged? I guess when we stop thinking of our own feelings, and think about the other person. I want to get my point across, so here goes:

b: I want my hamburger with relish and ketchup.
g: Ok *goes and makes hamburger*
b: I'll just wait here for it, you go and do what you gotta do
g: *Goes and puts mustard, instead of ketchup and relish*
b: But I'm allergic to mustard, I can't eat this
g: oh but I thought thats what you wanted?

Well, no one's really at fault here and you can't say its a communication problem because its not. Its a problem with g, thinking that the best way to solve a situation is her way. Sometimes, theres a reason why the b says what he says. He might be allergic, or dying. Something like that. Hope I got the point across.

Holy snap! I can't believe that they still have this. OMG, I can't believe that I just blogged it!

I'm weird I guess, I can totally feel bad and depressed at one point in my life. Then totally, ok the next.

Ernie has spoken! Aww man, you mean I'm not part of some cool clique on your site? Damn, I thought I was.

ER Surgery Saved Madonna's Baby, dang I hope she's ok. I'm not as big of a fan as some people, but of course its sad when a baby has to undergo surgery.

Ernie's hilarious, last night I was going to blog this but I never got to. I'm pretty close to my mom (understatement of the year, more like nominee for mama's boy of 2000) and I can relate to all this.

Downey, Jr. Joins 'Ally McBeal', I can't believe that this dude isn't dead yet. All the stuff that has happened to him and all the crap that he's been through. I'm surprised that he's still ticking.

Cannibalism testimony heard , I don't really know what to make of this. If I were a family member of the victim, I wouldn't really want to think about it. Imagine it, "yea, my sister/brother/cousin was eaten". Its just not a good dinner story (no pun intended).

I find it really interesting at the power of the internet to spread news/gossip. You can really see the power, with it being meeting new friends, or just plain old learning. The major power has been to allow people to get their voice out, share information or get information on just about anything thats under the sun. I'm just happy to be in the field, even happier that this is my chosen career path.

I have this thing for toys. It can be gadgets or anything. I want this. I wonder if you can get them up here in vancouver. I'm gonna check toys 'r us today, going home. I'm soo bad! See watch it be like around, 30 bucks and watch me still buy it.

This weekend was actually nothing like my other weekends. I helped out at the basement. I was totally lazy with my sites too. I hung around with my friends on sunday. See, they were at a camp and I had to bring them there and pick them up. Nothing that they wouldn't have done for me, but it was tiring though. I'm pretty much tired and sleepy today. I just got in and I want to go home now!

I'm talking with Ernie right now on AOL. Its funny how you read someone's blog and get to know them through that but never talked. Today, I got to meet him. It was really interesting, we're both developers and basically out of school and working. We both like writing, and filipino food (which is weird cause he's chinese)! Funny how this blogger community has brought me to meet some very interesting people. I'm thankful for that. I love meeting people, learning about them and basically get to know them.

Thanks Jerwin!, quick responder too.

Dang, ok last time I'm staying up that late. Its 12:00 and I just woke up. I missed my saturday morning cartoons! Everyone is in the GAW too, sucks. I wonder what Archie is doing. He said something about this being a chilling day. Oh wells, I guess the best thing to do is get a bite to eat. COFFEE!

Ernie, I'm always happy to help. Why don't you send me the page?

I just got home from gerard's house and we watched American Me. Now, I know I'm like late in the times and all that stuff cause this movie came out in 1992. It's really really good. I'm not really into the "gang movies", actually I make fun of a lot of them but this one was really good. The main character caught my attention. The struggle and the development and all that junk was really well played out. It was sad, and I don't like sad movies. BUT! I'll make an exeption to this one, because it wasn't really sad. It was more of a damn, stupid guy realized too late kinda thing. *I hope I'm not giving away too much of the story* I was about to cry at the end, but you know guys don't cry at movies.

I give it like 2 thumbs, 2 toes and 1.... oopps rated g blog. kidding. You get the picture; it was really good! I'm going to look for the dvd (but i don't think it exists).

One more thing that I got from the movie, was how good life here in Canada is. I should be thankful and stop whining about blah blah blah. I really have it good. Sometimes, I forget that.

Its finished and all I got was a crappy certificate (and valuable SQL knowledge, yea right)!

Aack! Brain dead... what to... do .... next?.... no.... more.... s....q....l....mind.....can't......take......any......more.....beeeeeeeep *flatlined*

I'm here at this course, all I gotta say is. Thank God its the last day! Dave and I feel like we're back in high school. Its crazy! I'm having flashbacks, the only difference is that. I'm not going to beat up the annoying kid cause if I do, poor guy might snap in half. And the test today, I can't get 5 of the questions. I'm totally confused. Going nuts, been working on this since 7:00 am and its already 11:15 am. I'm sleepy, I'm tired and I have to drive paulo and a couple of people to Mission tonight for GAW.

I'm gonna get Dave hooked on wrestling! Its, ummm, ahh true. Its true.

I'm @ home right now getting ready. Thinking a lot about this thing that I have to write. Its prolly something that I'm giving myself time to do, well, because I want to do a good job on it. Plus the fact that this is the last day of my (accelerated) class and the teacher gave us some takehome quiz that I didn't even look at. I will look at it, later. Man, I wish I got more sleep. My body is rebelling against me, its saying that I should be in bed sleeping and not up yet. Well, I'm fighting it and I'm up, next step: drag myself to the shower. This head ache is the worst soo far in the world. I have to call Gerard later so he can make a reservation for a van on our vacation next week. Hopefully, It won't be that expensive.

Last night, I was tired. I talked and I listened. My eyes are opened. Amazing how people can open your eyes to things.

Also, on another note. From the people who brought you this and this; when our webdesign aspirations were really high. Welcome Cheryl into the Blogging community. Its no problem that I helped getting her blog up. See her blog here.

I'm home, I'm brainstorming for my column and stuff like that. I'll let everyone know for sure!

Dave, you know I'm not always bloggin you. Especially when you overfilled your cup and the cute girl was looking at you. She was prolly thinking, "nice looking guy too bad no hand eye coordination"..... kidding!

Good Luck on the popstar thing Gen.

Since I'm taking a class this whole week, I've created a whole new section on the left column: Ritchie's Classroom Rules

Grace is soo funny. She's scared of her 10 year old neighbor. In the philippines, I used to be scared of my aunts hairdresser, he'd/she'd (i really don't know) rub up on me a lot for some reason.

I promised that if I ever remembered my dreams, I'd blog it. I had the wierdest dream last night. It was really really weird, if there are anyone who knows how to interpret dreams? help me out here...

I was in a school, I think it was high school but it looked like the pound. There were all sorts of animals, like cats, dogs but the focus of the dream were mice and snakes. Now, there was only me in the school and no I wasn't naked or anything but I was the only person in the whole building. Just to give a background, I hate snakes, I really hate them. I don't like the way they squirm, and blah! I just hate them. So why they would be in my dream, I have no idea. So anyways, I guess the snakes were like baby, boa constrictors (is that how you spell it?), well I'll explain why. So the snakes were out in the hall, slithering around and the mice (who were really cute, like they came from the movies or something) were in their aquariums. There were 2 aquariums, right accross the hall way from each other. So I'm walking around and la la la, I grab one of the snakes by the back and just hold him around. I see a can of coke, and well, for some reason I thought the snake was thirsty. So I opened the can of coke and poured it down the snake, using my grip to hold it's mouth open. Weird yet? well it gets weirder. The other snake, well I guess it disappeared for now. So I'm walking around with this snake in my hand, and I decided that this was gross.

So what did I do? I put the snake in the aquarium where the mice were. Naturally, boa constrictors they just wrap their victims, squeeze, then eat them whole. I've never seen any footage where a snake eats a cute mouse. So I don't know where I saw this, or knew how it looked like. I was watching the whole time. So I found the second snake that magically appeared, and I put it in the second aquarium. Now, the second aquarium had like a "family". And I remember as the snake ate the mouse, the other mouse was fighting with the snake. I even remembered one mouse, jumping (like a human) up and down on the snake's head. Then I woke up, with this really "ummm" look on my face.

vic, i'm here for ya man. i'm your friend that will never change. sometimes knowing that you have someone to turn to is everything and the only thing that you have. my friends have proven time and time again that they will always be there. it helps. i'll tell you something though. just 1 thing, i have learned throughout my whole life, throughout my times of trial and heartship. family is always there. most of the time, you don't know where to turn to, you don't know how to take it how to handle it. i will swear to you that family is always there. they're God's manifestation here on earth, the angels given to you to lift you up when times are down and to comfort you and to hold your hand. sometimes, thats all that keeps us going on in this life. its the fact that, you know that God is looking out for you, through them. trust me, if you need someone to prove that to you. look at a living proof, me.

sometimes the whole world seems to be turning their backs on you. sometimes there isn't anyone there. family will always be there, in the background. you know when you close your eyes and it seems like its soo empty? but you always know that you exist in that darkness. you have that conciousness in that darkness. its the same thing, they're there to never let you be alone. especially in that darkness. the love that they give out might not be the light that you expect, they're usually that conciousness letting you know that you are never alone. especially when facing that emptyness inside. to hold your hand, to show you that all you have to do is step into that other world where everything is ok. trust me.

I just had a passing thought:

I'm going to name my kid 'NULL', just to screw microsoft up.

dave says, i'm a nerd... wah wah wah

I'm at the SQL course, and Dave is right beside me. We just finished the "hands-on" part of the module 3. Checking email every 10 minutes, and finding out that we have no friends (prove to me that i do have friends, please!). Just came back from lunch, the course is pretty good. Kinda fast though, finding myself reading the chapters with one eye and having another eye on the instructor. But it is fun, learning a lot.

Ok today, I'm on course and I'm still blogging. I'm late (i think), but i'm still blogging. I still have to drink my morning coffee but i'm still blogging. what da?! Where are my damn glasses?! wheres my palm iii?? my notebook? pen? pencil? aarrrgh!!! stressed out, trying to catch the damn bus, but i'm still blogging. does that say anything about me?

hopefully not, cause i love to blog

The Psychology Of Plagiarism, I'm only starting to understand how hard it is to come up with an interesting piece of written art. I can relate to the journalist who suffer from their work being plagerized. Hopefully it will stop.

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I'm just about to go to sleep. Just wanted to tell everyone that I'll be on course this whole week so there won't be that much blogging from me this week. Hope you guys understand, gots to work too ya know.

The Keyboard That Does Too Much, I don't know where I would use the extra buttons for. I mean everything is like a mouse click away. One day, we'll all evolve to blobs of goop with 1 finger and a keyboard. Cause isn't that what evolution does? When you don't use something then that something will break off or something to that extent? I personally don't want to be a blob, do you?

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I know the search templates are ugly right now, I'll learn the template and fix it soon I promise.

Updates to macapinlac.com...... I have followed the lead of some bloggers and added a search to my site! Actually I have 2 search engines. 1 to search the blog and the other to search the entire site.

To search the blog, click on the link on the left side of this page.

To search the site, click on the RSM on the bottom frame.

Lazy day at the macapinlac household? I think not. We're working again on the house, this time outside. My dad's mowing the lawn, I'm moving logs, taking apart garden boxes. Throwing away cedar logs. All around clean up outside! All I can say is allergies suck! I want to help out but I can't do that much because once I step outside, the pollen factor doubles. Thank God for hepa filters!

Later on in the afternoon, work on the downstairs will be done, thats when I will be able to fully help out.

Happy BC Day!

yes today I do not have work. This means I am @ home. Chilling, email me.... ICQ me..... voice mail me mailbox:16042728836..... anything.

I don't usually feel like getting up in the morning. Sometimes I dread it, because I have to face a new day. Not that theres anything thats going on in my life right now that would make me not want to get up. Its just that butterfly in your stomach that is fluttering around inside and causing all these anxieties. The worst part is that I can't seem to figure out where this feeling is coming from. I can't pinpoint where it is. I wish I could also say that this feeling is just happening in the morning when I wake up. It doesn't. It happens in weird parts of the day.

We miss you too! Come back already!

Like in all webdevelopment projects, once the product is released. There are problems. Thats prolly why I've been up. No biggie though. If anyone is having trouble signing up for this, send an email over here.

I've done at least 8 hours of work into this site, and its administrative functions. I feel soo motivated! But now I can feel the effects of the 2 cups of coffee that I drank earlier wearing off. I think I'm going to sleep now.

Ok, yesterday played tennis with benji. <note to self> warming up and stretching before having a really intense match is a good thing</note to self>

Aaargh, I'm sore! Tired!

of course, i guess i could be working instead of blogging all this in.

ok, so right now I'm at work, supposedly going home, but still here. Soo many things to do. Next week I'm on course, for SQL 7 and I get to play around with it. The week after that is migration week, and the week after that one is vacation week. Looks like a busy week, plus I gotta get that admin interface done for my poll web application.

Whoa, I was doing a search on my name in blogger and this site came up, I was like whoa (not that I do this all the time, right fry?). But thanks for the compliment Romina. This article was actually my second one, written in my whole life. Now, I love to write. Its a release.

hy·po·ther·mi·a (hp-thurm-)
n.

Abnormally low body temperature.

cause I'm soo cool to be with. hehhehe I can hear everyone go riiiiiggghhhhttt, ritchie's been smoking that funny stuff again.

Wow, meg, went on vacation and she's getting her mom to blog for her. Cute, I should do that. Today, along with work I have to research on rental car companies on renting a Van for our up and coming trip.

This day is an awsome day! I can't believe how crazy its been. Lets just say that I have 1 more thing going on. I don't want to talk about it yet but its big! Really! Well, at least for me its huge!

So to everyone that didn't know, I've been writing articles for askASP.com. I haven't written that much, but its something that I really enjoy doing. Well, today I won in the author awards program. The email went like this:

This month's winner is 'Ritchie Macapinlac' for his article 'Write Your Own Webpage Counter'. His article not only ranks in the top 5 for hits, but also has received the most positive feedback from users of askASP.


Thanks :) I love you all.

Deepleap has a great idea. Keeping everyone's bookmarks in a central place, and then having the ability to share it to everyone else.

I saw this link from Jerwin, kinda reminded me of this.

Oooohhh man! Don't mess with the Little Asian Girl.... and thats all Ritchie has to say about that.

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Hey Ernie, don't worry about it, the whole web developer's community is making more than I am and I'm doing SQL, ASP and VB (can we fit more acronyms?). But yea, I figure I like the people that I work with and I'm still learning a lot. So thats why I'm here.

They should also bring out the pitchforks and torches. Seriously, they do have a lot of time on their hands. What if that thing that they find is just an over grown eel?

And whats with this?! It sounds like something straight out of a cartoon, but thats a mean thing to say.

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The fish are attacking! The fish are attacking! Run for your lives!

Aack, CBS played us all for fools! I hate getting played for a fool! I was resigned to the fact that Gervase would win it all! I can't believe that I got played for a fool! Aaaaarrrgh!

Colleen is next? Oh no, why?! At least thats what Frank says, and he's the resident survivor expert.

Today we commit Mr. Victor Naval into a metal institute. I will email his family with the details. The poor soul, he was found running around the office backwards with a half eated donut being used as a hat complaining that he ran out of coffee. *shakes head* poor guy.

This is funny, first of all I didn't know that Hotmail was running on Open-Source Unix (funny how that link goes to some weird page). But the whole move to Windows 2000, do people think that 2000 can handle the load? Well, I think that Blogger is running on NT 4 and its doing fine. I guess thats provided that the backend database will be SQL 7 and not Access 97 right Dave?

But personally, I think that Windows 2000 is pretty stable. I've been using Windows 2000 professional at home and its great, too bad there aren't that many games for it yet.

wasn't that a microsoft intensive blog?

I got this email from my friend cheryl who's totally stressing out from work.

ack!!!!

guys!!!..i'm goin INSANE!!!...the work has totally piled up on my 
desk!!!!!...an' it's crazy...

So to help her out, I decided to do the following:

• First, I ask my boy jeeves "How do I keep from going insane?"
• Seeing that it didn't really help, I did another search, thinking that she might be suffering from some anxiety disorders.
• So I was thinking that I'm not a doctor, so I better let her diagnose her own symptoms.
• Now, I was thinking that she just might be crazy, and nothing else can be done, so why not just smile about it?
• Or you can just call Dr. Bob

But then I realize that its the work thats crazy and not her. So maybe she needs something to organize her work. Maybe a cool online app? Then again, she might be the one crazy, kidding.

So cher, thats pretty much it.... Thats the best advice and research on the net that I can do to help you. Hope yer smiling.

I can totally relate to this, I don't want to not spend less, but thats what I need to do. Budget is a horrible word!

I just noticed that I generally update at the same time everyday. I'm just blogging right now to keep consistency, and to say that I'm hungry. I have a meeting in an hour. I have SQL problems to solve, and ASP scripts to fix. What else is new at work? I finally figured out what I'm going to be doing, or my next home project. I still need to develop the admin interface to this. I also have a couple of ideas for additional fuctionality, I'm not going to say but it'll prolly involve xml.

So I actually got sleep last night. Nothing really that big of a deal, just the fact that I was able to get sleep. LA is leaving today, driving him to the airport tonight. I guess thats what you gotta do eh? I did a whole bunch of updates on my site, and all these little things made me realize how much my site has grown. I've never put in this much effort to update a site. Actually, before I used to do everything in bursts but usually stopped after the first couple. Like this, this was supposed to be my personal site, updated very frequently, but as everyone can see, it hasn't been touched since I uploaded it 2 years ago. I don't even know the password to the ftp account anymore. *sigh* But what can we do? We grow, and focus changes. Today, I love this site because it gives me a way to express myself and show everyone how I really feel, good or bad.

I love my moments page, it keeps memories and its fun writing all the moments. I finally have a way to get all these stories out of my head. This next moment really did happen. It might sound like I'm making it all up, but i'm not. I'm an organized freak!

thanks to abbie and my mommie for proof reading it