I'm stressing out!

I walked in last night and I saw that my class assignment is due today. Yesterday, I got word from Erna that she's going to be sending me the maARTe stuff today and that I have to work on my article a bit more. Its coming along nicely. Thanks to Maryanne for proof reading it.

On my assignment, it just needs a bit of reading and stuff. A bit of google searching too. But shouldn't take too long. I also have to help Archie out with his new computer!

Last night I also saw beautiful, it was a great "date" movie! Hallie Kate Eisenberg was great! She was soo cute! She's that little girl thats lip syncing to the Aretha Franklin song in the Pepsi commercial. Of course Minnie Driver is cute in a totally different way, and Joey Lauren Adams has a cute voice!

Erna, the way you fix your little problem is.....

set the width of the <td> tag from 30% to something bigger.... and set valign="" property to top. So all in all <td width=45% valign="top">... sounds good? hope so.

Aack! maARTe is going up on Oct 15 and I need to make some revisions to my article! abbie won't like that

On another note, last night I went to futureshop to get a crossover but there was none. Next on my list was a Sega Dreamcast, but there was none. Actually, that wasn't the problem. The problem was that there was no one there to help us out. I was a customer (with my friend who's in the same position I was) who wanted to spend money. Now, how many customers do you get that does that? But no representative was there, was it because we looked like a bunch of teenagers with no money? Was that the reason why the rep was talking to some "business person looking" customer? Why? I don't get it. I admit, I am somewhat babyfaced and I guess I looked like a young teenager.

I ended up buying a TV/FM tuner card from the nice kid (who didn't know what he was talking about) in the computer department. I would've been an easy sell for the $500 sony car deck!

i was hanging around yesterday with my friend and his family. looking at his car, and looking at my car, looking at his car, and looking at my car.

how come he has a better car than I do? i don't have any bills! he has a million! i don't go out that much, but he does. he has a family to support, well if you call a girlfriend a family then i guess i would be in the same boat (but its not!). so how come he has a better car than i do? its lowered, mag wheels and all these accessories galore, not to mention that he bought it brand new and me? i bought mine second hand. oh well, i guess it really helps to have 2 incomes.

one thing that makes my car looks crappy are the 2 accidents that happened on it. One I was parked and my neighbor backed into me, for some weird reason it was a clear cut case, but its still no resolved because she won't accept liability. <special note to my neighbor>Why won't you accept liability? Are you dumb? I wasn't in the car, theres a witness and you left the note on my car!</special note to my neighbor> the other incident was a 4 way accident where I was the first vehicle. I was completely stopped, and the other car behind me hit me and the 2 others hit him. <special note to the dumb person delaying the whole thing>Why would you guys not accept liability? Why? I was stopped?! I didn't do anything!</special note to the dumb person delaying the whole thing>

Bottomline, I want to get my car fixed and I want to get it done now!!

i wonder how we'll all be on our 10 year high school reunion?

i always pictured myself walking in and everyone looking back to where i am. i'd look around socialize, exchange stories with some old friends and relive some old school memories. i'd walk around looking for my ex-girlfriends and see if they're with someone, say hello and exchange friendly conversations. move on look around some more. i'd say wass up to my old teachers, and when they ask what i do. "Webdeveloper!", is what i'll say (proudly of course).

I'll wonder if that weird dude will be there, and what he'll be doing. Will he still wear his funky hair the way he did in high school, or his pants cut at an awkward length that you don't know if the pants are to short or pulled up to high? How about the class genious? Would I be smarter than her by now? Or maybe she discovered sex and turned into the residen slut and let her studies fall, never know, maybe.

I just want to walk in to the reunion, have the red carpet roll out. As I walk by everyone bows down. is that too much to ask for?

I don't know what to say but this is a story never to be forgotten.

this is pretty cool... did you know that i did this blog on my palm?

i'm still at work and actually reading my book because my brain combineh with the lack of sleep and other stuff going on, is fried! so what am i doing? i'm reading my book so i don't go nuts!

actually, i'll be quite amazed if this works. this would mean that i could just blog on my palm. technology is getting better and better every month. what sucks about this whole thing is the damn script. i mean i'm good at it, but not that good. hopefully i just need to clean my screen!

i don't think you guys will be seeing that many links. its too hard to make links especially when your writing with the stylus.

maybe its time to get that portable keyboard.

Aahh, a whole day that I haven't blogged. I need to blog something. It's a really bad addiction! But anyways....

Heading towards the afternoon, my brain slowly starts revertin back to its primitive caveman day. I'm usually alert and cheery in the morning due to popular beliefs but by the time mid-afternoon rolls around. I start loosing brain cells at an alarming rate. By the time quitting time hits, my vocaulary usually has de-evolved into a series of grunts and facial expressions.

Heheh, I just read team-advencha's little story.

uummm, I'm innocent? *shrugs* I think we've already been incriminated. I'm still thinking if I should post my pictures up to take them down with us. *thinks* I think I will.....but just 1 though (everything is soo bad! heheh).

This is Mike "Maxwell" Manuel and Matthew "Todd" Prescilla and we are TEAM ADVENCHA!!!!!

Enough w/ the introduction....we'd like to tell you some specific details on what happened last friday night....mind you that this information can cause our lives to be in danger.....Ritchie "Edge" Macapinlac has already threatened to shoot Todd and Maxwell with a pellet gun if we did not write this Blog.....our lives are in danger......just as it was last friday.......

This is how it went........

We arrived there safely...Matt, Jason, Dre and I....being the rookie's of the swollen saga, we decided to arrive there early...we lifted some weights....bench pressing to be exact....maxin' to the fullest....flexin' in front of the reflection of the window....havin a good time enjoyin' ourselves....enjoyin' our beautiful bodies...when came thru the door one by one the...the..........The Team that would destroy our wonderful cleansy evening!!! First entering the ring, Randy "The GodFaTHeR" Tabada...coming in with his Sisqo impression....and yellin' out "SMOKIN" CIGARS AiNT EASY!!!"......next to enter the ring was the Tag Team Champions, Jaime Gonzales and Ritchie Macapinlac "Christian and Edge"....coming in with there Fosters Lager, they took a couple 5 second indecent pictures (with Flash Photography) of the innocent Team Advencha by-standers by getting them really intoxicated......next to come in was John "Kurt Angle" Acosta.....carrying his Golden bottles that he won at the KoKanee Olympics....'OHhhh it's it's it's TRuE!"....next, Archie "The Big ShoW" Borja, yelling with his fist in the air, forcing Todd and Dre to play Grand Turismo while intoxicating them with KaHLuA.....Cedric "Triple H" Evangelista displaying that he is "THE GAME"....giving us safe directions on our journey home......and finally the one and only team member that just chillaxed through the whole event, wanting to join team advencha (j/k), G-RaRD "Ravishing Rick Rude" Dioquino....talkin' about all those bright shining stars that he wanted to reach out and touch....as PoGI Boys sang "Come With Me".....

The Main event of the night was.... The Ride Home....."The Ladder Match" =O

We got safe safe directions home given by The Game, and the Tag Team Champions....they warned me to watch out for Road Blocks"The Right To Censor" along the way.....I did come along one of those members of the Right to Censor Team....but our quick Tag Team Effort put us in a postion to take another route......I turned along RiVER RoAd....not knowing where I was going, while in the passenger seat, Todd was aching in every way...trying to climb the ladder....luckily the road turned into Cambie and headed us in the winning direction.....we were pile driving through Alex Fraser Bridge, with little time left.....Maxwell kept encouraging his teamate Todd to not give up....for they were almost home....we came through obstacles as I (Maxwell) glanced at my side view mirror, watching my teamate vomit out my window.....I screamed in my head "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! MY CAR!!!!!!!".....but he and I knew better.....it symbolized victory..... the referee had to stop the match 3 times along Nordel Way, 88th Avenue, and 148th street........Todd, not knowing when to stop, kept fighting......hanging in there......as he tagged his teamate Maxwell....as Maxwell brought the match home to Victory!! We won and finally arrived at the Smack Down Hotel, where he once again, and again took out all that was left in his body....

This story is nothing to be proud of in the participants part......just some memories that we would like to remember.......what a night it was.... the true victor was Todd's dad ...he stole Todd's Fosters beer....I put it by the bushes in front of Todd's house...they're not there...his dad mowed the lawn the next day.......

THE FINAL DANCE (Pay-Per-View Event): "TODD'S REIGN": The Third Weekend October

DESTINATION: UNKNOWN

Anyone interested in hosting this special event, please email us or contact us....

Thanks Ritchie for giving this space on the web to display our intriguing thoughts......

Missing: Andre

You see the funny part about me is the fact that I'm soo stubborn. Just ask anyone who knows me. Stubborn to the core! Lets take last night for example. I got off the phone at around 1:30 am, thought to myself, "yea, I should get going to bed". But what did I do? Check email, surf my usual blogs, write a blog, read some articles and then to top it off. I watched that damn anime video that I rented AND ate! It was a good 3:00 am when I headed to bed. I remember going to bed thinking to myself, "I'm going to be paying for this tomorrow".

And here I am at work, paying for it! But I am getting a lot of work done, I guess my brain functions better with less sleep. Wonder how I can do if I stay awake for 24 hours, maybe a week straight! Tell you the truth, it kinda doesn't matter to me anyways. I get work done, and I'm still sociable so it's all good. (i guess)

Brave man, very brave! *standing ovation* of course funny comes to mind to

I guess I fit the typical asian male (at least from these parts). Driving a civic, flashing that "peace" sign in the pictures, blonde hair, and I guess the attitude. I don't really know what to say, but yea.

I'm going to regret staying up this late!

Last night was funny. Everyone was there! The usual crew, Archie, Cedric, Jaime, Randy, John and Gerard. From the new crew, Mike, Matt, Jason and Andre. Dang I hope I didn't miss anyone because yea! Its kinda hard to remember. I hope Matt made it to work, at 7. I know I promised pictures but they're all incriminating! So no pictures.

Good good boy today Ritchie. First time I actually got on the net today. First time I'm actually blogging. I guess there is hope for me yet.

Last night team-swollen was over and we made some recordings. Of course, it sounds kinda amature but guaranteed that it will be streaming from our site pretty soon. Today, I also heard the G.O.A.T. cd from LL Cool J. It's pretty good! I can't believe that LL isn't finished with Canibus yet! Ripped him apart again. Of course it seems that his first rebuttle to Second Round Knock Out seems to be unreleased. Go get it here or here, not that I'm condoning you getting it or anything. The song is called "The Ripper Strikes Back".

Dang, when is perl going to get phased out? I wish there was some easy way to hook up to a database. Preferably an SQL database. I just don't get it, why do we even have this?

How can I not blog this? An internet radio station that plays R&B 24/7 365! hehhs

Last night I was taking a break from studying (or procrastinating) and I went outside. I closed my eyes and what did I hear? NOTHING! It was soo beautiful, hearing absolutly nothing (I think the voices in my head have stopped bugging me). For once, I felt peaceful but I was tired.

After I just walked back in, fell asleep infront of my computer.

If you guys remember, Matt was blogging for me when I was on vacation. He's moving to Australia this october. Amazing! You start talking to the guy and getting close. You know sharing laughs and jokes. It's a shame that he has to leave. Watch out for incriminating pictures of Matt after this friday. Of course you'll see Mike and Jason there too! Time to charge some batteries on the digital camera!

Thats a really good story Chris.

Ever had one of those nights where you had a million things to do, then you focus on one thing and you can't get it done for some reason and you end up waiting, not getting any other thing finished and you start feeling lazy so you don't do anything kinda nights?

Well, I'm having one of those nights. I was working on the poll but I can't put any changes through because its version 2, and lots of my beta testers won't be able to operate if I make the changes. I have soo many things to do, like study, play mario tennis, watch tv, revise the instruactions on the poll but none will get done tonight. Now, I'm starting to feel lazy too! I'm not going to get anything done. This is such a bad set up.

When do you expect me to study? Huh? Ohh, maybe I can put a tape recorder under my pillow and listen to it while I sleep so information will travel into my subconcious, or maybe I could just use my book and my notes so I can take the information through osmosis.

With work, friends, friends' computers, sleeping and mario kart.... I don't have time for anything anymore! Let alone school. Especially when your course is over the net, and its a course with a lot of reading plus its over the net. The hardest part is staying motivated. I wish I could lock myself up from the net, at least that way I could concentrate on reading. But the dang course is on the net! So its like a vicious catch 22.

le sigh

And for some reason, I just keep dreaming about everything.

Yesterday was the first time I tried to work on my classes. It went pretty well. I decided to start my studying in the public library near my old high school. To my surprise, the whole library has been redecorated, books moved from place to place, new computers added, and new tables added. The computer room still looks the same, which was new when I stopped going. It was just amazing, I must've spent at least 30 minutes walking around at the new interior design of the whole library.

Of course, the staff is the same. There was a lady who helped out with the photocopier and she has this voice that was squeeky. She also felt the need to announce it to the whole library when she was helping someone on the photocopier. I remember all this from before because I used to be the poor soul that always needed help with the photocopier. She would proclaim it to the whole library that she was helping me because of the printer setting. I just started giggling when this poor little kid turned red because the photocopier was printing to dark, something about printing on glossy paper. You'd think that they invested in a whole redecoration and a few computers, they'd have new photocopiers too. Aaah well.

I've decided to leave the blogging until after lunch. It's been a hectic day but I'm still finding time to blog.

Last night was interesting. I redesigned the photo album page, with a minimalist kinda look and feel to it. Well, not really but I did redesign. Next I'm going to tackle this blog. I will have a redesign.

So what to blog, what to blog. It better be something good because the white space at the bottom is getting big and this entry should fill it up. What to write about, I could write about how my day is going so far, maybe about the weather and my sunglasses. I guess I could rant about napster and how metallica are like the old people who don't like change. I could write about my terrible insomnia or how my webpoll is doing. But I'm having some trouble thinking of something to say (or write).

So I guess I'll write about the pringles cans on my desk. I have pringles can's on my desk. They rock, I love pringles but at the same time, pringles are the creation of evil (and no I'm not talking about Lasara)! They're soo addicting. You just can't have 1. Once you start you have to eat the whole can, or dehydrate from the saltiness trying. And whats up with those little cans of pringles? They're like a freaking tease for your taste buds. They're like the little freebee that a drug dealer gives to get you hooked and you'll go buy a bigger can cause you have to satisfy your addiction.

Wonder how that whole idea got hatched? Some CEO said, "Let's pattern our sales strategy after drug dealers! Sell them litte chunks, get them hooked. Then BAM! They go and buy another can!". Its evil I tell you, its evil! I'll even prove it works, I have 1 small can of pringles and 5 large cans.

good morning everyone, aside from loss of sleep last night. its still a good morning. my weekend was amazing too so who's to complain.

I swear I was better at keeping my blogs up to date before. I'm going to put new things up trust me.

So I took my rest, now I'm thinking a bit more clearer. I sounded quite cocky on my last blog post but let me tell you what I mean.

There were 2 teams, a defend and conquer type of situation. One team couldn't move from the set of bunkers and had to defend flag. Our team was attacking, trying to capture the flag. Since our tactics never worked in the previous games, Vic and I decided to go separately hoping we'd have more luck that way. Vic took the left side (ditch side), I took the right side (forrest side). After that I lost track of where Vic was and just wished him luck.

I started making my way through the forrest side with a whole bunch of people who didn't talk and thought that I was invisible. I still made my way with them. I saw the bunkers defending the flag and a lot of gun fire on the other side. I was crouched down making my way through the trees moving sideways and forwards. 2 people who were running with me moved to far forwards got eliminated, only 2 of us left. The other guy opted to stay back and give cover fire I wanted to move forwards. I moved from tree to tree, listening for the guy giving me cover fire to tell me where people are. I moved to one tree and had no other cover to move into. Either run in open field (which would be suicide) or go through shrubs and then run to the side of the bunkers being defended. I decided to head for the shrubs.

From the thin tree that was giving me the cover I needed to the shrubs which offered protection against paintballs but was still scarry. I signaled for cover, counted down and ran. Now I was behind the shrubs, seeing right through them I was able to see where I was and where the people defending were. Of course, if I can see them they could see me. Now there were 3 people who had the reputation to just shoot paint and wait until your scared enough to flank and take out. Big difference, they couldn't leave the bunker but they could still put out paint.

I looked and saw a couple of gun barrels taking aim for me. It was the guys who pumped out paintballs! Either run for next cover, double back or stay. Because it took me long to think and should have went with my gut instincts to run back, I got the shrubs painted with about 100 rounds of paintball. I ducked down almost lying on the ground. I yelled for cover fire, but I didn't know if it would do any good since they were firing through the cracks of the bunker.

My next move was still a decision to run back or move forward. I guess, its just paintballs and opted to move forward. Lying down I turned my laser sight on (thanks Melo for selling me your site), got myself into a crouching position and got ready to bolt out. Which ment, gun pointed at the guys who were shooting at me. I took aim for the little crack in the bunker that they were shooting through. I guess they were reloading cause they weren't popping out. I signaled for cover fire and did my little countdown in my head.

As I was running, one of the guys in the bunker popped out through the hole. I guess reaction and because I had my gun up (thanks Vic for the lesson) I was able to react first. I let 2 shots go. One hit the outside of the hole and one went right through. I made it to the cover but I also managed to take one of the guys out. The guy giving me cover managed to take the other one out (don't ask me how but he did). It was exciting!

So Vic's friend's stag party was in a paintball field.

It was crazy, first time playing in that field. I wish I took my digital camera. My gun needs cleaning, my mask too. I gotta get a new mask cause I think I broke it. All I can say is, pumping paint at me won't stop me. And having an angel pumping out 100 + paint at me will just make me run at you faster (can we say cocky? hey, when you go and take out some pro-wannabe player then you can be cocky like me).

I've made my little breakthrough on this project that I'm working on. I am going to celebrate with a pepsi! (maybe mix something in I don't know)

New on my webcam: carpenters and window specialists working in my room.

rant rant rant.... i'd rant about something but ahh well... i guess i won't....don't you just hate it when people read your blog? i'm using this to rant.

Shoot, I thought I was lazy! I can't believe the extent that people go through to achieve laziness in the long run. I've always thought that programmers are lazy. Always trying to find ways to make their job easier and blah blah blah. But this takes the cake!

and yes, I am a programmer and yea I am lazy (but not this lazy).

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aahhhh sexy! I keep forgetting that my webcam is up all the time. I just posted up the link so you can see me refreshed every 15 minutes or see my room change lighting as the day goes from morning to night.

Everytime I hang out with either Lloyd, Archie or Paulo....I go back into car mode. I'm debating which one on my list of car stuff I want to get first.

Well, it was a crazy morning. Meeting and coding, and meeting and a bit more coding. Then lunch hit. Chinese. I guess thats cool. I was about to get a dreamcast but then I had to spend money on books. Boooo!

Ah well, next time!

It was a crazy night last night, I'm going to be fixing some Javascript and starting school (well, my other course).

ick, Chicken Rice it was...

I'm craving some Thai food, or maybe some Chicken Rice....hummm How about Chinese food? Pita place? This is what happens when you work near a tourist park where theres lots of food. McDonalds is always close! or theres always the dreaded cafeteria.

See I'm a picky eater, I don't eat a lot of things. I'm like Grace in someways, I'd rather starve than eat what I don't like. But don't get me wrong I eat a lot! Especially when it comes to sushi? Sashimi and Japanese food over all. They have all you can eat Japanese restaurants here in Vancouver, so I'm always there. I must have a whle fish tank swimming in me right now cause I eat soo much. See now I have a craving for Japanese food. Shoot! I don't give my mom credit enough cause she is a good cook. Sometimes though she can cook some mixture of what seems to be tomato paste with water and beef, with a couple of left over vegetables. yuck! My dad, I remember thinking that he can fry eggs "like no body's business" when I was young. BUT he is a good cook aswell. I like to cook, but I can't. I attempt to though, sometimes I can get lucky and come up with something that tastes close to what good food should be tasting but most of the time it comes out tasting like nasty stuff.

now, i'm really really hungry!

Things you'd find on Ritchie's desk @ work:

• 4 full sized and 1 half sized pringles cans
• Computer Magazine, August 2000 issue
• A Baby Bottle
• A yoyo
• Ceramic Pigs
• Sticky notes galore
• Toy Story "Woody" McDonalds Giveaway
• Pokemon super bouncy ball
• A computer? duh!
• Blue folder that I don't know anything about.

Today, I'm a lean mean coding machine. I got sleep, and I'm going to get breakfast soon. I've already finished 2 admin interfaces, and debugged some strange error! On to database normalization! Whoohoo! Tonight?! Mario Tennis! (maybe get a dreamcast if my wallet can handle it)

So after work, I ran to walmart with Dave and John to check prices for the DreamCast. A bit pricy, but it was still below what I thought it would be. Prices would only drop from here. Since playstation 2 is coming out as well, they need to compete, how? Lower prices! The people have spoken.

I was able to control myself and not buy a DreamCast (because it was out of stock). However, all was not lost because around the corner was Mario Tennis. So guess what I've been playing all afternoon! I'm such a kid!

Yesterday, I bought new shoes! Sooooo comfy! Thanks Ced!

I can't believe that I'm actually here. I came in today at a reasonable time considering what time I was out last night. Helping a friend out, which is cool. I like listening to people, I guess it's a quality. I'm ok though, I'm soon to be wired on some caffine. Second Cup baby! Today, I'm going to check out prices on a Sega Dreamcast! After seeing what Ernie's been playing and the Tennis game yesterday at electronics boutique, I want one!

Gonna play Mortal Kombat at John's house too!

write a column on a local newspaper? Announce it to the world, Satan's retiring and Bill Gates is taking over. Funny article.

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Stinky feet? I can't believe, in this world that we live in there is a person who would intentionally infect his feet with athelete's foot. That's gross, but I don't know what's grosser, the pictures or the writing or the idea of the whole thing.

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I'm leaving work early to attend an orientation in school. I'm a bit excited because I haven't been back in school for a while, nervous too. My article is finished, I hope Erna doesn't tear it apart.

I also hear something from someone (how's that for vague), saying something that affected me quite a bit. It's like a blow from a hammer on your hand, where your just can't breath and stuff like that. Naw, everything will be ok. I've bounced back from harder things than this.

It's sunny today, the world will pick itself up and move on. Too bad that theres this pounding on the dang roof still. Did I mention that its sunny? My cool sunglasses are here with me, life seems like its going to be ok.

I also put an entry in my diary, but you guys won't get to see it unless you guys hack my password.

I see everyone seems to be posting their baby pictures. Well this one was from my old website, so I figured what the hell.

I saw the commercial for this. It was cool, I'm getting it. After I get all the stuff on my car stuff that I want list!

Last couple of days has been nostalgic for me. I've been hanging out with my long time buddies, Ced and Archie. It's been a while since we really went out and did something unplanned but for the past 2 days we have. Yesterday, we installed something in my car (good thing we didn't damage anything). Ate pizza and went to a poker game (no, I didn't win anything because I didn't bring money). I'm going to look for an old picture from before and take a picture of us now just to see how much we've changed.

Aack! Article due today! type type type....

I just realized something. Actually, it took Heather (like I know her personally) to notice it first. I travelled to london and being asian I liked to flash the peace sign. It was a cool thing then, its a cool thing now. Little did I know that turning it around and showing the person the back side of your hand instead of the usual front (just like kitschbitch) has an americal equivalent hand sign (familiar Gerard?). Funny, how I like to remenisce.

Jodee, where's that surprise?

And finally, I scored with my sunglasses. Its sunny, and I'm wearing contacts and I'll look cool when I'm driving home and it'll all be good.

Late as usual, but better than before.

Today I moved the dang alarm clock farther to force me to get up. Like John said, "You should maybe just sleep earlier (like before midnight)", I just can't. Last night I vegged out infront of the TV. I was supposed to go to the mall and pick stuff up, but nooo, Ritchie vegged out infront of the TV. I got to watch the MTV music awards. What a disappointment that was.

The Wayan brothers did a subpar job hosting it. Of course, If you make the same corny jokes as everyone else for the introduction then I guess it would be boring. Nsync was cool though, they probably had the best performance out of all the performers. That dude from Rage against the Machine was just wack. Making yourself look like an idiot on national TV isn't excatly fighting for a cause, is it? That show didn't meet any expectations. So I fell asleep.

At least smackdown was on last night too.

So why is it that things never seem to work out for me? Its not all the time, its just when I plan to do something and something would happen to keep me from doing it.

Let me provide you with an example. I have been wearing contacts for the past couple of days, to wear my cool new sun glasses in the sun. Because sunlight and yellow sunglasses make you look sporty and cool! But anyways, the past week around here its been really cloudy. I still wear them when I go drive home, but they're not as cool just dorky.

Yesterday, I got lazy and decided not to wear contacts, go with my glasses and leave the cool sunglasses at home. For all the people who live where I live, they know that it was quite sunny. Not to mention that I went to test drive a car yesterday and it was a convertible. Nothing spells cool as squinting in the sunlight while your driving with the top down for everyone to see. So I cursed being lazy in the morning.

Today, I went and ran around the house because I was late but I still managed to get my contacts on. Ran out the house, started backing out my car, but realized that I forgot my cool sunglasses at home. I ran in and got them. I go to work and I watch the sky turn from cloudy to more cloudy as the day passed. Now it's almost dark because of how cloudy it is. I hate it when nothing goes my way.

of course, i could just check the weather channel

That snooze button should be removed from every alarm clock!

Don't get me wrong, I wake up early. I wake up at 5:30 everyday and yet I still manage to come to work late. How? That snooze button! I keep hitting it and going back to my 9 minutes worth of peace. 9 minutes isn't enough time to fall back into sleep, it is however enough time to just get back to sleep. So by the time 9 minutes hit, you've just closed your eyes and your just starting to move back into slumber land. Then the damn alarm sounds, and you hit the snooze button once again.

So this happens about 10 times, and I'm not getting any sleep. It's like teasing and I don't like being teased.

I'm officially braindead! You can check for an electrical pulse and I guarantee that you will not find anything. I cannot create or form sentences anymore. If you ask me a question, I will grunt, drool and fall head first on my desk (not usually in that order). My limited vocabulary has been cut down to Grade 1 style. Brain is fried! Hold up I better get tissue because I can feel it spilling out from my ears.......aahhh ok. I'm soo braindead that its oozing down the side of my head out my ears.

After this, please drive me to the mental because I will not be able to interact with society. My motor skills are nearing ziltch to nill and what would you expect? Motor skills are controlled by the brain. There's some candies that I had to move out of my way. They've been sitting there exposed collecting mold, if I don't move them I might dip in and grab one. Cause my brain isn't working.

Yashmine, this is soo sad!

This morning, I started my drive to work at the normal time. I start moving towards the highway that I usually take to go to work, but theres traffic. So what did I decide to do? Pass by McDonalds. I order what I normally get there, which is the number 2 meal (sausage and egg mcmuffin). I get orange juice instead of coffee and I continue on to my traffic ridden drive to work.

So driving driving driving.... and what do I get when I reach into my takeout bag for my hashbrowns? A hashbrown of course (what were you expecting? a severed finger?) but the whole thing is greesy. I'm not just talking about the hashbrown, but the whole container thats holding the hashbrown. Its literally dripping with grease, to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if they dipped it in the frying chamber and put the hash brown in it.

The actual muffin sandwich was less greasy than the hashbrown. If your wondering if I still ate it, yup I did. Why? Well It's addicting! Mcdonalds food is like a drug, I wouldn't be surprised if they laced thier food with 20 mg's of cocaine. I'm addicted to it. I'll eat anything that comes out of McDonalds, remember the McRib? I ate that too! Greasy McDonald's Hashbrowns with greasy Hashbrown paper holding contraption? Yup ate that one as well. The dang orange juice is another story!

Now, I know that orange juice is supposed to be tangy. But where do you draw the line of being tangy? Obviously McDonalds doesn't know this. After I took a bite of my greasy food, I took a sip of orange juice. I swear I could feel my cheek bones suck in and my face start to implode. It was soo tangy! If you think your safe because you don't eat breakfast, take a breather pal. They probably just inject some CO₂ into the orange juice and filter out the pulp for the rest of the day.

Ok, now I think it's time to get my triple heart bypass because my arteries are clogged up. The funny thing is, I'll probably be back when I get my usual McDonalds craving.

oh yea, my prediction is correct! i'm sleepy as heck. tired, and i got to work as usual, late.

Another late night for Ritchie, but getting closer to getting my poll admin to something that i'm happy with. Thanks to John.

Seriously though, I gotta stop spending my late night/early mornings working. I'm totally going to be tired at work. Theres a chance that it won't be that bad, but hopefully I won't be too tired that I'll be dozing off on my desk. Which is bad since John is sitting right next to me. Hopefully people will be back tomorrow, its been really quiet at the office except for this banging on the ceiling. But thats been there for a while now. I really miss some of the people that's been away.

But all in the name of keeping busy, because a busy person can't really get himself into that much trouble can he(or she)? Good luck to everyone who's going back to school, including me. I'm really excited, its been a while since I've been in class. The wonders of technology never seems to amaze me. I'm taking both (yeap, i have 2) classes over then net. I don't know how thats going to work out. Hopefully I don't end up studying for the finals on the last day. I'll have to really budget my time.

I've been bugging Jodee cause I'm bored. Sorry man, poor guy must be getting annoyed now. hehehhe

I used to be addicted to Mortal Kombat. Not the actual act of killing some on a battle to the death, the arcade. It was a new high for me when it came out. The blood, the gore! It was a totally different game from the street fighter game 3 machines down.

The moves took more timing than street fighter, the characters weren't cartoons and the powers were cool. I mean who could have thought freezing a guy? or a spear coming from the hand to bring him close? It sure beats ryu and that spinning leg he calls a kick (I can just see the hate mail coming in now). I remember taking 1 look at the screen and hearing the words "fatality" from the game's speakers and thinking, "this is something I got to learn and be good at".

Well, after many many cash withdrawals and hundreds (no kidding) of dollars spent. I am now an expert, on Mortal Kombat I. I know every fatality in the book and every move. Heck, I can even beat the game with any character. From subzero's jump kick freeze combo to sonja's high punch leg grab delivery.

Now, where am I? Master of a game that has already (many times) past it's prime. I'm so sad, I need to but the arcade machine. I'm sure John can find out where to get it.

So I was reading Erna's post about being trapped in a place. I can totally relate. Sometimes, you've been to the same bowling alley and you've been to the same all you can eat japanese restaurant soo many times that you just get bored of it. Like a light in the end of a really dark tunnel you discover something new around town. A new place to hang out, a new club or even a new restaurant and then you realize that theres soo many more places to see.

But what really got to me was her post about the "crispy pata", now I'm craving for it.

nipple rings and sex links galore! and the faces are back again!



nope that's not me.... thats jodee.

look project update! pictures to come!

i was too tired to blog this last night

color coordinated clothing is a must in the clubs. as my friends know, i'm not the most color coordinated person in the world. i might as well be on the verge of color blindness. i tend to wear yellow t-shirts with blue hawaiian shirts, slacks and white runners. i'm a rainbow of colors when i walk around vancouver.

last night though, i was a bit better.i actually gave thought to my outfit. i wore one of those green gap long sleeves, slacks and white runners. i was a picture perfect gap model. except for the orange shirt underneath, i have no idea what compelled me to wear this shirt. i have other white shirts but when i was choosing, it beconed me to wear it. so i did.

big mistake. why? well, as everyone on the clubbing world knows. in a crowded dance floor it gets hot. boiling hot. wearing a long sleeves shirt in that environment can be really bad. it was hot, but what could i do? orange shirt underneath! so either, die of evaporation/perspiration or glow like a neon light under the club's black light. i love to dance (doesn't mean that i have skill, but thats another story). so staying would really be the worst since i move around a lot and i perspire like crazy (a faucet)!

Well, I opted for dying by perspiration, but eventually i cut out to the area where it was a bit cooler. so yea, didn't die and i didn't need to take off my long sleeve shirt.

So I just came home from fubar @ cheers. No DJ Alibaba and no vocal flex. It's just not the same. I miss those days when vocal flex was cool. A 1 minute freestyle battle over the great MC's in Vancouver. John and I won it once each. Like usual though, there was a tonne of people and you couldn't really dance. Much to my surprise though, rev was being sold. I loved rev in edmonton, it rocked. Mixture of caffine, alcohol and Mike's hard lemonade. So you get drunk and wired without tasting that nasty beer taste.

On an awsome note. I had fun. Everything is going good. Later on when I wake up, I'm going to work on my little article since Grace responded to my email already. Thanks Grace.

translation:

Joke of the Day:
WIFE: I got raped by the gorilla in the jungle
HUSBAND: What the?! I'm going to shoot it!
(Comes back)
WIFE: So is it dead?!
HUSBAND: I avenged you, I raped its wife!

And after I spent the entire afternoon uploading to zing. I finally have the pictures from my vacation up.

Last night, I've been having a hard time sleeping. It's usually about an hour after I lie down and thats when I start feeling drowsy. I think its because of all the things going in my mind. Not necessarily bad things. More like project deadline to meet and people to talk to and things like that. I think because of this I've been having the weirdest dreams.

I was dozing of in sleepy land and I woke up in a world of the future, of course with my friends Archie, Cedric, John and Gerard. We were staying at some guys place and I wasn't too comfortable with the settings. I told them, and I got the same feeling of uncomfortableness. We decided to move on out of there and look around and try to find a way out. Damn futuristic rooms, can never find our way around it. Well, apparently we weren't the only ones because there was this professor who was in a dungeon (in a futuristic house?). He told me (for some reason Archie, Ced and them weren't there any more) that someone needs to press the doorbell to save the family living inside from doom or something like that. (hey it made sense in the dream ok?) So here I am running around this house that I didn't know, avoiding people and dodging traps like a cross between matrix and indiana jones. Then the icing of the cake comes in.

I meet a talking bird. I'm not sure what kind of bird, but I think it was a parrot. That kind of bird that always bobs its head in a way that it looks like its saying yes all the time. But I met it, in the laundry room and it became kinda like my side kick. Except that it pooped on my when it got nervous because it was sitting on my shoulder.

Tell me the truth, I need help right?

Oh man, my article has to be balanced. There has to be more filipina bloggers. Sarah? Yashmine? Grace? Anyone? please get a hold of me.

Crash on world's fastest roller coaster, yuck. I don't even like rollercoasters. When I was about 17 years old. I went to sixflags with a couple of friends. Archie (who was also scared) and I didn't ride 1 ride. Although I do remember making some PKL t-shirts and watching some show. It was kinda funny.

This ride puts people at 140 kmh?! Thats it I'm never going on this thing ever. Well, it could've been worse. The cars could have de-railed and I could have been there pulling off a "fugitive" scene.

I don't get the dang concept of time. Particularly the concept of time slowing down or sitting still. How can time sit still? It doesn't have a butt or legs to allow it the ability to sit. It is a concept and a perception.

But what I don't understand, is the slowing down part. For example, if your quitting time is 3:00 pm and its 2:30 pm time seems to move slower. Its a concept I don't understand. The second hand seems to rotate on a slower pace and the blinking things on my digital watch seem to be blinking at a slower duration. But why? Does time actually slow down for everyone? If there was another person who just started at 2:00 pm does time slow down for him/her too? Hopefully not, because that would suck to have time slow down when you were starting your shift. But dang, its 3:15 pm and my shifts ending 4:00 pm and all I can say is that my digital watch is blinking once every meter the dang sun moves in the sky.

my prayers go with sandy.

hehee...rich...you an' Paulo gotta hook me up with a job first=)

This whole morning has been about remembering. Cheryl and I have been friends for 4 years. Amazing eh? Whats more amazing is that we've only met 2 times our whole life. We met online, through mirc. We were both in the same youth group, and we were both maintaining our respective location's website. Ever since then, we've been friends and our friendship just grew a lot. Through bad design and all this learning and graduating we've still managed to be friends. Worked on a couple of things too. We were even thinking of starting our own design team, but that fell through cause of time and school. No worries, we'll start one with Paulo when she moves down here.

Yesterday, I had a very interesting day. Metrotown, bought a GAP shirt and saw Bless. With all the GAP clothes I swear you'll see me in a commercial in 5 years singing some N'Sync. Cedric gave me a call and we hooked up and went bowling.

For some reason, everytime Ced and I go bowling we always play 2 games. We also end up with better than average scores and always ends with him winning 1 game and me winning the other. It's one of those weird phenomenon in my life. I just don't get why the heck I can't beat him in 2 games. For example, last night Cedric was playing really inconsistent on the first game. I ended up beating him by a fair bit. So I was thinking that on the second game, I would be able to take the lead easily. Ced just goes and proves me wrong. He starts picking it up, ends up with a really high score and beats me by quite a bit. I just don't get it.

but we beat abbie both times though. tee hee