I've actually avoided talking about my little 2 week vacation for a reason. I was writing something during the vacation and I just finished it this week. It was something that I wanted to share with everyone. Basically it was my opinions and thoughts about taking a vacation with your parents....actually, to be a bit clearer, Filipino parents. Not quite clear enough? My Filipino Parents. I love them both to death and here it is. The combination Photo Album and Article: "Concept is Good..."

I hope everyone enjoys it.

This has got me all paranoid now. At any point someone could shine a handheld lazer in my eye and permanently blind me. Everyone is an enemy!

Maryanne, thanks for taking care of the site while I was away. I actually got some feedback from people saying that they liked it when you were blogging. Not that I'm jealous of the blogging skills or anything. Thanks.

So I'm actually early for work, well 5 minutes but thats still early. I woke up before the dreaded alarm and I got a good nights sleep. Which is a totally good thing. I'm not grumpy or anything. I like helping people out today so come and the guru is in today. I have I complaint with my MiniDisk, the cord that goes from the unit and the headphones is too long! I was walking down to the office from the car and I almost tripped over the cord. Its also the combination of the electronic macarena (checking for the palm, the stereo faceplate and tucking the minidisk into the pocket) and trying to open an umbrella all while trying to catch the "walk" light. So anyways, I think this lady who was driving saw me almost trip and she almost swerved into the oncoming lane.

Vancouver weather could be better. I woke up and it was still dark, a little drizzling too. That was almost 3 hours ago. Right now? Its still the same, I don't see the sun anywhere, its still raining and being the cheapo that I am, I parked on the street (cause parking is free and if the street cleaners come then your car gets a good wash). So if the weather continues to be this way, I'm going to get soaked after work walking to my car.

remind me again why i was in a good mood?

my final blog... i promised ritchie i would write a short "farewell for now" blog and here it is... i should be sleeping but i'm just too worried about my project right now. oh well, i know i'll get it done - cuz i have to... the quality, that's a different story.

back to my farewell... i just wanna say thanks to ritchie for giving me the opportunity to do this (it's quite relaxing), and also thank the readers for, well, reading i guess... Ritchie, i'm so glad you're back cuz now i have someone to icq with again when i'm home alone. =) i promise i'll chat more after i hand in this project! i hope this little vacation of yours helped you clear your mind more than it cleared your wallet =). i'll see you online kid!

well, take it easy everyone and it was nice blogging to you (and with you to fellow bloggers). till next time.

maryanne =)

*Ferris' thoughts* - "YUP...thats, thats how im finally blogging..."

Thank you Ritchie for that lovely introduction...but you failed to mention my dashing good looks and girl-getting personality...but thats ok...im sure they all know that already..hehheh. for those who do not know me, my name is Jason Villanueva (you can call me Ferris), and i hail from the lovely (yet boring) city of Port Coquitlam. hmmm, there is a lot of things to be said about myself, but since i would rather go eat than type out all those boring details...ill give you all a brief summary: i like to play sports (preferably tennis so i can beat Ritchie), watch movies, read novels (yup...i read), hang out with friends (preferably girls), EAT (richmond sushi....duh), YFC (God is GOOD), and look at Britney Spears ...oh yeah and predict what people are thinking...yup, thats about it. until then ill be blogging more interesting blogs later on...(after all, i didnt take Journalism 11 and 12 for nothing!) have a good one! : )

actually, one of my friends asked me if he could blog before i went away but i never got around to it. its all good though cause i just set him up and now i have a new blogger on my team. so here's Jason, the guy is hilarious when we hang out. we're actually in jenilee's cotillion together and we just laugh our faces off everytime we see each other. when your walking down the street in vancouver, he's usually the guy whispering to his friend trying to predict what some poor stranger is thinking. he's also the guy in the picture in my about page. Of course, I can go on (well, not really) and on about him but i'll just let him do all the talking since he is a talker.

Congratulations Jerwin

so i'm back @ work! i keep thinking if i should be in the process of redesigning this site soon, i'm getting tired and eyestrained of looking at the yellow background. i'm still going to be working on stuff, and I actually forgot jenilee's pictures in Archie's car! So buddy, if by chance you skipped work today and your at home reading this? Come over and bring it, i need to get that done. Being on vacation for two weeks can really set you back.

i'm really enjoying my MiniDisk, it was really cheap! i also bought a pair of Oakleys, just cause it was cheap too. i wanted this pair though, but this one is too expensive and i'm too cheap to shell out the money. i think i spent too much money.

she thinks I'm cool. I'm flattered. she's cool(er) anyways (i think). victor welcomed me back, but we all know that he thinks i'm cool too.

Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000
From: Ritchie Macapinlac <ritchie@macapinlac.com>
To: "the whole world" <theworld@hotmail.com>
Subject: tired....

so i got back yesterday from florida, it was fun. eventful interesting. i'm glad to be back though. i had my fun and now its back to reality. whatever reality might be. i'm happy that i'm back, really i am. i love taking vacations, its relaxing and leaves you away from the normal reality.

a few things that happened when i was away. jenilee, i'll learn that dance real quick i promise (even if i already missed half of the practices). my article came out with a lot of help from erna and her boyfriend. victor seems to be getting linked more and i'm sure that his traffic is skyrocketing. team-swollen has a performance on dec 8th, and a new layout coming soon!

theres a new project that i'm working on that was put on hold, and thats gonna get done soon. but yea, its soo cool that all this is happening. i love to be back. i can't say that enough times. i have a new moment coming up soon, with pictures and its going to be about the trip. i have a whole new outlook too. i guess that comes with being away from home a lot. i think i spent waaay too much on bling guys.

i'm glad to be back! i missed all of you! (i'm sure you guys didn't even miss me cause i was on icq a lot)

p.s.
oh yea, gerard is really cool. but you already knew that! (move to vancouver man, i'm sure we can hook you up here somehow)

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so......uummm......guess who's back in vancouver?

gee whiz... i was the last one to blog and i'm blogging again.... i've been waiting for others to blog cuz i don't want to hog the whole page, but no one else seems to be writing and i'm impatient... so here, i'm writing again. =) i talked to ritchie on icq today, his cruise seemed to have gone well... aside from the many who experienced sea sickness - i understand totally! i get sick on our ferries here to Victoria! Ritchie's probably still recuperating in the hotel room right now.... apparently he ate steak like 24/7 on the ship... eeewwww. anyhoots, he said he's starting to miss home - two weeks seems to be enough. but he misses his computer the most.... a direct quote off icq: "i'm such a geek heheh i miss my computer... when i get back i'm gonna give it a hug" ... hahha.... what a funny guy! that's ritchie for ya!

anyhoots, i have to head to the library soon.... yes, it's a friday night and i'm going to the library... i need books desperately and i'm working all weekend!!! my project is due on friday - i still have one more teacher to interview!! I was supposed to interview one this morning at 8am but i completely slept through my alarm!! so now i have to make it on monday... school work is neverending! i've been on the computer all day... yes, icq-ing... but mostly surfing all the librarycatalogues looking for books! good lord.... and i just finished a midterm on thursday, stats... it went okay... i don't want to say anything more positive than that until i, hopefully, get a good mark!! well kids, time for me to head off to the library... a great place to go on a friday night! =)

Hey Ritchie, I clicked on the link to read your article, but for some reason it's not going there... for me anyway. I wanna see I wanna see!!! Ritchie, you're not that much of a rookie... I thought the article was good. It was really interesting - fellow bloggers, you should check it out, since it's about blogging/bloggers. And all you others should read it cuz it's an overall well done and interesting read! How's that for advertisement! =)

So, only a few more days till Ritchie comes back. Back to the routine life that we're all living (most of us anyway). I hope everyone's doing well... with work and school. No need to stress - it's weird, I have a midterm tomorrow and a huge project that I haven't started that's due next week, and I'm amazingly calm. I got a paper back today and received an A+, haven't seen one of those in years!! I was/am so happy! Better than the stats assignment I got back with a 47% - I realized the day it was due that there was a back page to it with another question to answer!! I was so mad!! Oh well. There's a lesson to be learned here kids... check BOTH sides of the page when given an assignment handout! Anyhoots, I should get back to my studying for stats... oh how I looooove this course! I must, since this is my second time taking it!!!!!!! Have a good one peoples. =)

Last night, I was checking email and I saw Gerard online. Nothing usually special, cause whenever I'm online, Gerard is usually is too. So he ICQ's me and he says that the article is up. I was like, "huh? really? you must be kidding." but it was! It was there right up there.

So actually, Erna (Ms. Editor Extraordinaire) helped me out quite a bit! I'm a rookie at this journalism thing and my English 12 class didn't really explain it that well (or I just wasn't listening which would explain the grades). The article itself actually got edited a bit, but thats cool cause well all the "rookie" skills that I got. I just chalk that one up to journalism lessons and the article looks really good and it makes me look like I'm good (thanks Erna). I like the layout of the whole zine they did a great job.

Hey whats up to everyone! so it looks like that I'm coming around the last corner of my vacation. Today, is shopping day not that I haven't been shopping I guess its just that today is shopping day. I don't know when I'll get to blog again since I've been heck busy on vacation. But just cause I'm here, doesn't mean that I've forgotten about all the people back home. Actually, I've been hanging out here thinking about what I'll be doing when I get home. I know I have to redesign, and put up a new design of team-swollen.

Hey Dave, look! You probably took a picture of these when you were at disney and universal studios. Just thought, since your a fan and all.



Joanne, don't worry I got your keychain. I also got all the boys the same keychain (of course different letters).

We actually drove down to Fort Laughderdale yesterday. It was a loong drive, around 5 hours. Of course, doesn't compare to the trip to Edmonton.

The caption contest? Well, everyone should be getting their little captions in. And don't worry, I can take it. You all can be mean, its all good. I'll be doing a cut off tomorrow and deciding who wins when I get back. But don't worry, thanks to my mom you all get something. I hope you guys like pens... heheh kidding. But yea, I'm having fun. I'm having mixed feelings about coming back, I'm enjoying myself too much. Don't worry though I'll be back. I'll be back, hopefully in one piece. I hope everything is still good over there.

Actually I've been wearing shorts the whole trip (oohh noo!) because it has been soo hot. I hope that when I get back, that its not snowing.

I just want to send out a little message saying "HeLLo" to my fellow bloggers......I don't think any of you know me but I know sooner or later you'll get the privilage to meet me some day. But anyhoo, I had the chance to talk to my friend Matt on the phone today; you know the one that went to Australia. He called me up and told me that he's doing fine. It was so weird talking to him on the phone knowing he's all the way down under.....but I was happy that he called......what else happened today.....? Oh yeah, I finally set a date for my trip to Chicago. Yes...yes....i'm going to Chi-town with my buddy John in December. Why you ask? Just to visit some friends....y'know? Heh.....and for someother reason......=P.....I can't wait to go!! But before I get too excited, I have to get through one more month of school and work....Booooooo!! It's all good though....at least I have something to look forward to........we'll, that's about it from me today....take care everyone....

Note to Ritchie: When are you coming back buddy??

okay so ritchie... i was watching discovery channel the other day and they were showing all these tuna fishermen beaching thousands and thousands of dolphins... they were killing them and the water was all bloody like pure red..it was so sad. they were doing this b/c they thought that the dolphins were a threat to their buisness... how ugly is that? I can't believe that people would go so low as that.... it was so graphic and so brutal...I totally cried. but yeah you're so lucky that you got to pet them i'm so jelouse... about the llamas..jarv took me to the zoo on my birthday and we saw two llamas but the zoo keeper took one of them for a walk and the other one that got left behind...he was totally going psycho looking for the other one it was sweet he was totally crying and running all over the place looking for his other half...aWwww..I love llamas... anyways... MaTT told me to tell you hi... I gots to go sleepy sleep now got school real early tom yeah.... but i love it...hehehe no more complaining from me... dont forget to brush your teeth at night and eat all your vegatables =)

haha... yup, i'm posting again.... i'm bored and i'm procrastinating (i still have lots of work to do)....

i woke up to an empty house today.... i hate that... my boyf's at church and no one's on icq... waah... i have a life... really, i do... hehe... oh cool! someone just icq-ed me! friends!! yay.... well, anyway, my first interview for my education project is today with my cousin cuz she has kids... it's a project on children's self-esteem in the classroom... i have another interview to do on Wednesday... i went to the public school on my street to find a teacher to interview, but it was professional day... some mean prick lady was like "what do you want!? it's professional day..." looking at me like i was some kind of idiot... mean lady! i'd say that i'm not gonna go there again but i need another interview and it's close to my house! oh well... i have to finish an assignment today too... sucky! i should have stayed home and worked on it last nite, but we had volleyball and i never wanna miss that!!

dang, i better get off this thing.... i have so much crap to do... anyhoots, i hope you people are having a lot more fun than i am... i hope all is well with you Ritchie! take it easy

hhmmm.... my caption for the pic... okay... if you all don't know, "Web Site Construction Zone" is another name for "Computer Geek Escort Service"... it's a computer geek thing... why do you think Ritchie's there??... heehee... anyway, picture a speech bubble above Ritchie's head that says: "Aaawww yeeeaaaahhh, I'm gettin' mine tonite! Werd! See boys, I told you I could get it anytime I want... cyber sex my ass... this is where it all happens! SH@%!*#T" And there's Ritchie's mom in the background saying: "Come on Ritchie, hurry up or you'll get the ugly one again!".....

hehe... yup, that's my caption... i'm just bugging Ritchie... you know I love you kid! =) I just wanna win... =P

hehee...here's a thought for the caption..."the story of ritchie's life"...hahaaa..i knoe..it's lame...but hey...sorry...a caption that came from the subconcious....oh..note to jaime: i knoe you'll be readin' this..hurry up an' save your money=) 'coz when i get to vcity i'll totally take you an' p up on that offer for snowboardin' in whistler=)...hehee...rich...mayn..if you even find the net in the bahamas..mayn...it's over...you are total geek then..heheee...luv ya=)...bye guys...

Alrighty, since I do have net access and I am on vacation. I decided to have a little contest between the bloggers and maybe anyone else out there. Depending how good everyone is. So everyone probably knows me and who I am (hopefully). Yes, I know I'm copying an idea originated by Ern-Dawg, I'm sure he wouldn't mind if I borrowed the idea.

Ok guys and gals. Here's how its supposed to work. See the picture? The blogger who can make the funniest caption for the picture will win something. What you may ask? Well, its a surprise (well, actually I don't know yet.) But whatever it is, it'll be from here (Orlando, Florida) and it'll be from me... whoooo! So for all the bloggers out there who wants in on the action, just post something up then email me and tell me where I can see your posting.

Hey boys, no worries... Matt should be fine. I bet he'll miss you all so much that he'll be back within 6 months! It's a possibility... To Matt: good luck down under.... fly high and party hard! Must be nice to leave the continent!

As for me, I'll be stuck here doing the exact same thing that I've been doing for the past three years....... school work school work... oh, the excitement is killing me. I wish money and careers grew on trees! They probably do, I'm just setting the roots in I guess. Haha! Interesting analogy... heehee. Hmm, I'm kinda stressed with school right now. It's mainly this big project I have to do. I have to interview 2 teachers and 1 parent, transcribe the interviews, get five research articles, and write a paper on the whole experience using the articles as reference..... it's just a huge hassle. That's due in a couple of weeks. After this weekend, I have to conduct the interviews, study for a midterm, and do an assignment! Good lord. I also have work! Aiya! Oh well, it's Friday now and my main concern is finding out what to do tonite! Definitely not homework! I envy all those on vacation in sunny spots right now!

Note to Cheryl: hey there! nope, don't believe we've met, but nice to see you on here! =)

I thought I'd log on today since Matt left and I never got to say goodbye.

Too many things going through my head. People leaving, perspectives changing and I'd like to think that inside I'm the same person but I'm not. Too many things going through my head. But let me just try and sort things through. Matt, I've only started knowing you this year and each time we've hung out its been a totally different experience. Each time brought me closer to you as a person and learned something new. I can totally understand how Mike feels because I've felt it with all the friends that I've had to leave behind. But really, its more of a "see you later" than "goodbye" thats how I look at it. Matt, imagine this...a brass ring, across the room, you on the other end of the room and us (all your friends) behind you. Just keep going for your dream man, we're going to miss you but we're proud of you too.

Matt I wish you all the luck in everything that you do. And remember that conversation that we had if Canada ever going to war with Australia? Don't bomb Richmond OK? At least not the peach colored house with the new hardwood.

Ritchie, sounds like your having a crazy time there. Keep having fun and enjoy the weather aiights??

Well, today was a sad day for some. It was the day that I had to say "Goodbye" to one of my best friends. I know that it's not good bye forever because I know that he'll be back in a year to visit. The person i'm talking about is Matt Prescilla. I had the privilage to see him off today at the airport along with some other friends. For those who do not know, he is flying off to Australia to persue his dream to be an Air Force Pilot. It was hard to say bye to someone that you've grown up with and grew closer as each day passed by. I video taped his departure, but as I did, I thought to myself, "Why am I taping this?" I know that I won't want to re-live this moment. Tears fell from my face as I said my goodbyes to him. I know that he is happy and i know that this is what he wants to do with his life. All I can do is be proud of him. He is my companion, friend and most importantly, my brother. It still hurts to think that he is gone....but he will never be forgotten. I know that there will be alot of things that will keep on reminding me of him. Those memories that I have of him are all that I can cherish. No one can ever take that away from me. Vancouver is losing a soldier but Australia is gaining one. Matt, I love you Bro. Good Luck in the future. I'll see you in the skies aiight? I miss you dude.....

hey rich! i'm glad you're havin' a blast down there...i knew you would..you're such a kid...hehee..an' your parents are the same i totally knoe where you got it from=)...ooohh...maryanne...hi..nice to meet you...i've been to vancouver twice before..but i dont' knoe if we've ever met...but hi=)...i'm cheryl=)..trip to europe?...sounds noice...mayn!!!..i'm so tryin' to plan for that...i wanted it to be next year...but..where has all of my money gone?!...mayn..i couldn't even tell you...*sigh*...as for stayin' in toronto the rest of my life...i dont' knoe..i love it here..i love bein' with my friends and isshh...but...i want to experience sumthin' else...i think vancouver is so pretty an' i dont' think it has as much concrete as toronto does.hehee..we'll see where He decides to place me...but if ever i moved...i'd love it to be either vancouver or europe=)...

well frick, you know, i had a whole blog written up about 5 hours ago and then the whole thing just got erased itself on me when i hit the post button!! i was sooo mad cuz i spent a while on it. i'm thinking that's why it got erased, cuz i took too long. oh well. i'm not going to repeat what i said in the last one cuz that would just be gay.

i think i need a vacation... just like our pal ritchie over in orlando - though i don't know why he insists on spending his vacation on icq!! i can't believe i caught you on there boy!! go soak up the rays, spend more of your $$$$!!!! but yeah, i need to get away for a bit. maybe i'm just caught in the middle of a bad mood swing right now, but i just feel like bitching about everything! good lord... i think this is a pretty good way to let off some steam. i think what i need is some white wine and a bubble bath...haha... it's funny that i say this because i haven't even acquired a taste for wine like i've been wanting too. hhmmm...... a hot, sunny beach in hawaii sounds great right about now....... or maybe a stroll around europe - visit the mona lisa and figure out why some people say she's not as spectacular as you'd expect her to be. i have actually just started my "trip to europe" fund, which hopefully will grow sooner than later. i was successful with my computer fund.. quite happy about that, since it's what i'm using right now. but yeah, i need to experience the world outside of this continent.... but, i don't think i would ever leave this place permanently - vancouver is an excellent place to live!

yeah, i think i should shut up now, since it's getting kinda late AND considering that i haven't read a thing for my huge education project. ah yes, a vacation sounds like a perfect idea right about now....i shall live vicariously through you ritchie, so make this holiday of yours a good one! =)

oh, how rude of me... a note to my fellow bloggers: hello! and it's nice to "meet" you all... that's it for this blog i guess.... have a good one readers! =)

All right, I'm struggling with this 56k connection. I miss my Cable!

Amazing, being in a foreign place and I'm on the net. Being able to see my ICQ contact list through bantu, and getting my email through hotmail. Isn't technology amazing. But today, I spent a good portion of the morning waiting for the rental car to arrive, after we started our little adventure around Orlando. First, heading over to this place called Gator Land, it was cool but not for me. It would've probably been ok if was around 12. All it had to show were alligators! Alligators left and right. Well, there were some other animals in the petting zoo, but the main attraction were alligators. I don't think I can look at another alligator for the rest of my life. It just looked like I was going to get eated everywhere I went.


I guess I should've helped them out instead of taking the picture, but as you can see, my dad has everything under control

After, headed over to NASA, lots and lots of things to see and learn. There were robot tours, which were about satellites and how they explore. And other interesting stuff. All I can say is that, I need a bigger memory card for my digital camera.

hi ho hi ho off to work i go...okay okay i wasn't suppose to work today b/c tuesday is my day off but someone called me and asked me to work b/c she has like this big dramatic health problem wich I KNOW she's lying about... but yeah i need the cash i guess so i'll disregard the lie and go along with it even tho i know she'll be back at work tom morning feeling all fine....*sigh* so am i the sucker for going along with it or is she the sucker b/c i know she's lying??? oh wells anyways i just wanted to leave a short blog for now just to say ~*HuGgiEs*~ and a hi hi to aTe Cheryl of course I remember yOo gUrl! how's it going!?! but yea... thas all folks......

heheheee...leave it up to 'geek boy' himself to find the net at his hotel in ORLANDO when he should be doin' all that disney stuff an' universal isshh...an' enjoyin' the sun..while some of us up here are in sweaters 12 degree-weather (celcius for all you farenheit people-it's not that cold yet!=)...heheee...HI RICH!!!!...look!...i'm blogging! but just for you 'kay=)...so when you're shoppin' at disney...remember me=)...an' don't bother checkin' my blog, i haven't touched it since i was bored at work durin' the summer=)...hi madeline!!!=)...hehee..i don't even knoe if you remember me..we met in the vancouver room that saturday nite in seattle=)..but hi=)...an' hi again to all those people reading ritchie's blog...i haven't blogged since the summer so i guess i'm a lil' rusty...but i'll save you from your boredom every now and again...hey rich!!!...did you guys go to downtown disney yet?...i told your mom about it...hehee..an' she said she'd go...hehee..your mom's so kyoot...i talked to her when i called that night before you left...but since you were away at Church i forgive you for missin' my LONG DISTANCE call=)...instead...i'll say what i had to tell you now...have an amazing time, 'kay?!=)...an' remember...KEYWORD---PASALUBONG!!!!=P...hehee..okay...that's it for my ramblin'...byeeee!!!!=)

So yea, its not feeling like vacation yet. At least not now. I just got up from the most uncomfortable sleep that I've ever had. The usual wake up call and the stressing out. Fellas, and ladies out there, vacationing with your parents sound good on paper, but in actuality it just doesn't work. Well, I'm dismissing the whole idea and it's only been one day, but yea we'll see. I'm having fun still though. At least on my own I can go wandering, galavanting around the hotel. But yea, its good. The internet access is a free account through costco, and its 50 cents a call because Ramada, is too cheap to offer free local calls through the hotel. I think I'm going to try and ambush some guy for his i-net phone.

I'm missing everyone out there. Its acutally pretty hot here, kinda on the tropical side. I'm going to wear shorts today. I know you guys are jealous.

Its actually kinda funny, being the guy with the most recent experience travelling, and I've been doing it a lot lately. I'm cleaner, (and a bit more organized) than my parents are. In the room, I have my own little "mini" room. And outside (in the main room), all they're stuff is on the floor, all over the bed and crowding the washroom. My stuff hasn't even left the bag yet. I hate being disorganized on trips. Although, in edmonton, I just threw all my stuff on the floor (but it was one part of the floor). I guess its not fair comparing this trip to edmonton, cause that was with the fellas, and here its with my parents.

Today, we go to universal studios. I wrote in my journal last night just to recap and remember the first day. I took 3 pictures with the digital, and 2 seconds worth of video. I guess you can't really do that when your crowded by a lot of people in the plane.

by the way, that was my only and last time flying continental airlines, it was a horror!

okay, so like the other day i turn on the t.v. (something I never do b/c i'm either not home, too busy studying or on my comp) but anyways..I turn on the tube and there's this music video on S Club 7 ....something weird like that..and i'm sitting there listening to the music and watching the images flash before me and i'm thinking... old school kung fu movies... yanno how the dubbing is all bad where the lip movement doesn't match the actual voices, well this was like modern day s club 7 cinematography where you'd think the director would notice that when they show images of the boys of the club singing....the vocals of the actual music are of the female essence... so here you see this dude and the music coming out of his mouth is female...I dunno if it's suppose to be like that or whatever, maybe they're turning dragish...or maybe these boys actually can sing that high...or maybe just maybe this s club 7 thing is pulling that milli vanilli stunt all over again. I dunno but they really gotta fix that, I'm not saying that milli vanili was bad or anything but at least they were subtle about it.....What does the "S" in S club mean anyways?!?

I hope a lot of things go right for you, Ritchie. I mean, I'm sitting here wishing you could get drunk and blog about breasts since you previously stated that only through a drunken stupor would you ever discuss that. I'm also sitting here wishing I could get drunk so it wouldn't be so odd that I discuss breasts and the coolness of it all. I have them, and for as low as 29.50, you could too.

So guess who has internet access in orlando.....but i'm tired so i'm not going to blog much. but i'm ok.

hey hey... okay this is my first blog ever..and i'm not quite sure if i'm doing htis right but we'll see..Anyways, it's onlEe me Madeliene or in ritchie's typing Madeline..b/c he always spells it wrong but that's okay hehehe, everybody does. So..I'm me from E-town..hehe nothing much happening here in e-town same old thing everyday.... work, school, work and more school...I can't wait till vaction time...Ritchie if you're reading this I wanna wish you a great vacation while all of us are stuck here in everyday routine I wish you the funnest trip ever...also if you can for me..enjoy the relaxing time...soak in the sun and smell the breeze! I gots to go to works now so yeah..I'll blog later on...to everyone else *shakes hand* NiCe to mEet you =)

i like the link mike.... thats not him by the way. i'm finally done packing. and stuff now its time to rest! i wanted to stay up and work on some stuff and wait until mr sandman, hits me but theres just too much happening in one day. too much, i can't control. too many things bugging me. i just can't believe it. tomorrow, we leave. maryanne, i'm finally packed! look! i wonder if i'll be able to have net access all the way over there in florida.

but thanks to all the people who said they'll blog and keep everyone entertained. hopefully, lasara doesn't challenge me to blog about my breasts again, cause i got in a couple of snickers (well, more like full out laughter) from my co-workers that last time. trust me if i do blog about it, it'll be under the influence of alcohol or something.

i'm still compiling a list of pasalubong (gifts you bring back for people) so get the 5 people to blog it here or email me what you want. Joanne, I still haven't forgotten the "J" mickey mouse keychain don't worry.

oh yea, and i'm disappointed....i didn't even make it to the list of semi-finalists. But Jerwin did! Waaay to go! Jerwin, I'm rootin for ya man!

Well, I guess i'm back on this blog once again. I promised Ritchie that i'd blog more than once this time. Oh...oops, my name is Mike by the way. I'm very sleepy at this moment but i'll keep you updated on what's going on in my world as the week rolls in. Happy Surfing everyone.

Note to Ritchie: Have a great trip Ritch. Don't forget my PASALUBONG!!

So, I'm a chosen one. I feel so special =) Ritchie has already kindly introduced me, I'm Maryanne. We've known eachother for quite a while now, but way back when I first met him, in our youth group thingy, I think the most we ever said to eachother was "hey". Plus, he lives all the way out in Richmond, which is a good 40 minute drive for me. No thanks! Not that you're not special, Ritchie, I don't think I had a car back then. Anyway, that was like 3 or 4 years ago. I "re-met" him on ICQ... heard that he was ALWAYS online, and what a coinkydink, so am I!! So, I looked him up, added him to my list and a few months later here we are, chatting it up practically everday. You're gonna make me fail, kid!!! j/k =)

A little bit about myself, whether you care or not. Hehe. I'm a year younger than Ritchie. My life is pretty much filled with work, school, and boyfriend. I'm in third year at SFU taking Education... I wanna teach kids... not to be like Ritchie! I guess he is right, I do bug him huh. I'm sorry, oh well, live with it. =) Right now I work in a mall... in a store.. it was cool at first, but now I'm hating it. I only like it cuz of the kids. So now I'm "trying" to find a different job... and frick, is it tough. Anyone wanna help me out? As for the boyf, we see eachother practically everday... we're doing well - a year this early November. Let me tell you, it's really awesome when you're friends for a long time first before feelings start to develop! Anyhoot, I think I'll end this here and leave room for the other five chosen ones. Laters =)

Note to Ritchie: Have a good trip kid. Remember what I told you about the digital video cam!! Realtime, and make sure you tell me beforehand!! =P Don't forget your tooth brush and some clean undies! Heehee. Thanks again for letting me blog on your page! Time for you to relax, take it easy... have a good one!

So I've been kinda tired not to mention very busy with everything. Not only at work, but also at home preparing for the trip. I can't believe that my parents bought a digital video camera this morning. That took up the good part of my day, since we had to go buy some formal clothes for the cruise that we're going on. So what else did I do to prepare, well I bought a Neo Geo Pocket color and a few games. I bought batteries for my digital camera. My dad got a new laptop so I inherited his laptop, I'm going to be formatting that tonight so I can work on my little fun project over there.

I've been very vague when I talked about the vacation. I think its time to let everyone know, not that everyone doesn't already. I'm going to Orlando, land of the mouse and the whale (?). I'm going to be gone for 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to this whole vacation because theres been a lot of stuff thats been going on around here that I want to get away from. Things that cause panic and stuff like that. I really don't like it. On the flip end, getting ready for this whole vacation was terrible. I haven't even packed, I had to look for a guest bloggers, and i haven't cleaned up. plus! I'm still doing homework thats due tonight. Well, at least I have the guest bloggers thing finished. I still have to fix the template of this blogger to show names again so you guys know who's talking. I'm going to recruit, matt, mike, lasara and cheryl again too. So 6 guest bloggers for the price of one!

So without further delay. The newest guest blogger for "My.Blog". Ladies and Germs, put your hands together for Madeline! I met Madeline on my visit to edmonton. She was one of the nicest people that we've met. We actually ended up staying at her house for a couple of days. We talked gotten to know each other and all these things. Now she's one of my good ICQ buddies.

The next person that I asked to blog will surprise a lot of people. But not really, she's actually surprisingly nice. Cause before she used to bug tease me a lot, but thats all behind me now. *sniff* I met her through my Church group, Youth for Christ. She's the cousin of my good friend and the sister of my other good friend. Talk about 6 degrees of separation, eh? She helped me proof read my article and listened to me whine and b*tch about a lot of stuff. I better introduce her before she can't get her head out the door. So everyone, be nice to.... Maryanne. Surprised? don't be.

They're all interesting people from different backgrounds. I guess you could say maturity levels too heheh. Well the guys I'm not too sure. (just kidding)

I did it, I felt dirty, I felt bad. Then I opened it. Took it out of its packaging, slipped it into the hole and ....

Well, I bought the Neo-Geo with 2 games. I'm really quite amazed, and a bit broke. But its really good, I'm not sure why they're phasing them out. Now the big challenge is to quickly snatch up all the games there is. Unless I have a reader in Japan, because I think they're still out there (if you are email me please?).

Its really good. I recommend it. Excuse me while I run to the nearest Electronics Boutique. *run*

I have put my mind set on buying a Neo Geo Pocket Color for my little trip! I know its just another game boy, meets sega, meets the arcade system portable game thingy. But see heres my reason, I'm addicted to Neo Geo. Ever since Fatal Fury 1 came out, I've been playing it, when they rolled in metal gear in the arcade near my house, my parents saw a disappearance of funds from their savings account. I know its a bad thing for me to buy this, with school and other things going on in my life. But I need a break!

All my co-workers are buying dreamcasts, I kinda want one but I'd rather get the Neo Geo. I'm set on buying one. I know its an impulse purchase, but heck what hasn't been? Now, the decision is.... how many games do I buy for it?

impulse buys are my specialty, no one knows impulse buys like me!

Friday, the last day before my vacation. I have a million things on my plate, and soo little time to do it. Its not like I've been procrastinating either. Its just no time to do anything. I've been working like crazy. Homework here, article there, more homework here, cotillion practice here, and of course cleaning up and packing. But when do I get time to myself? Well, I will I guess, on the plane. At least thats the plan.

I'm going to get me a new picture with Mickey Mouse!

I just came out of a meeting, at work. I got that nasty sinking feeling that I hate when I ride rollercoasters.

And you thought I was a slacker? I'm at work and look what time it is!!! Amazing. Actually, I'm going on vacation with my family and finishing up some homework. Since I don't have a desk at home and I'd rather write on a desk than a messy bed, cause we all know how hard that is.

I'm Mr. Code Machine today! I can must have turned up a million lines of code during the day today. I'm a freaking machine man! I'm freaking unbelievable, and to top it all off I did it with 2 hours of sleep!

I'm starting to wonder if I can fit my head through the door?

Hey Vic? What if you move somewhere else? Then archangel604.com wouldn't really work would it? How about VictorNaval.com ? RitchieWillAlwaysBeCooler.Com ? iwishicanbelikeritchie.com ? icanspellthisurl.com ? heheheh hey this is kinda fun.

Last night, I didn't get any sleep. I was planning on going to sleep early too. 11 pm is early for me, and that was the time I was gonna head down.

So why didn't I get to sleep? Why am I a walking zombie today? Well, I blame Alexander Grahambell (did I spell that right?). I hate the phone, I dread it everytime I pick it up to answer. I hate it, it causes me sleepless nights and restlessness. Its the cause of me sleeping at 3. I thought I was on track, but after last night I was in total chaos. I cannot figure out my homework either. Does that help? No.

Today, I'm in a panic. Thanks Dave for helping me out on my assignment. Its due today. I have my workbook with me and all my notes. I guess I'm staying late since I don't have a desk at home until I move downstairs and actually buy a desk.

Ritchie is pissed off and confused

My parents are chronologically challenged. No, don't call the hospital and check them in yet. It just simply means that they can't wake a person up at the time that they ask to be. How do I know this? Well, its a reoccuring issue in the macapinlac family household. During my studies I would go to my mom and say "ma, wake me up in an hour. I have a test to study for" or homework that I have to do. She would say yes, I would go to sleep and 3 hours later I would wake up (on my own) and find her humdiddling away with her little tasks.

Today, I asked my dad "hey dad, can you wake me up in an hour?" response: "yea sure, i'll wake you up for dinner".... 3 hours later (2 hours after supposed deadline)... Ritchie wakes up, dad is in the other room snoring away.

I think it's time for Ritchie to get 2 alarm clocks, one for morning wake up (that he hates soo much) and one for nappy time getting up. Now I'm going to be awake for the rest of the night doing homework.

Vic, don't forget to add your footer! footer? is that like a foot but better? ha ha get it? I'm soo freaking corny! And what would be the equivalent of best? footer-er? (get it better-er?)

30 minutes early! Amazing!

One more thing I keep forgetting to mention, congratulations to Ernie on a job well done on SBlog. I could totally tell how much work went into it. You would think that 10 webloggers would provide enough content. But, no! Coming up with immunity challenges, dealing with my poll and all the other stuff, that was stressful! Keeping the log from becoming quiet as a mouse and other stuff like that. Ern, hats off to ya man!

I love it when I wake up before the alarm clock. Already in the shower when it goes off! I don't get that ugly feeling when your awaken by your alarm. See last night, I was doing my homework (didn't even get that much done). I decided to take a 2 hour nap, but I guess when you have a lot on your mind you can't get to sleep. I missed Dark Angel last night, I really wanted to watch it. The boys came over last night just to copy mp3's, eat my dinner and take my Mario Tennis! I guess, it was a good thing cause I actually had nothing to distract me last night.

busy busy busy

There has to be something wrong with me. I'm awake early! I don't get it. Don't get me wrong, I like waking up early. But I'm worried about waking up too early! Well, maybe it'll give me sometime later to do my piling up homework. I still have to read through the notes, but I kinda understand whats going on. I just wish I had more time to tackle it yesterday.

I also got a copy of directory. I've created the storyboard. But from the looks of things, I don't think I'll be tackling this project until I get back. I want to, but too much stuff to do before I leave. I have homework due tomorrow and saturday.

I just noticed how incredibly dull I am during the morning when I just got up.

It's all actually a little bit better to come in a bit early. Once 3:00 pm hits, I'm tired already. Keeping my eyelids open with toothpicks. Its really bad! I want to sleep, I hope I don't fall asleep at the wheel on my drive home. With school? I've been totally neglecting it! I have homework due like crazy! Reading to do. So thats what I'm going to do tonight (at least try and start it). I can't work on my new idea, yet. I gotta plan it really well have sketches out. I'm not that artistic, and my thoughts tent to run wild when I'm doing something "artistic". Always ending up killing my whole idea.

Maybe get borrow evaluate a copy of director from John while I work on my homework.

oh yea! almost forgot! thanks vic! Glad to see you finally have your permalinks to work.

People might thing that I had an eventful weekend. Actually, it wasn't at all interesting. This is what I was working on. Nothing really special, but I've been promising pictures and updates to this site for a while. I will get to it. Sometimes I think that this blog is the only part of my site that gets updated. My journal hasn't been touched in a while, and when I do get a chance its not really that interesting. My moments page, well, lets just say that nothing funny has happened to me in a long time. No one forwards me any emails anymore, which is hard to believe. All I get is spam from porn sites and that sucks.

I have homework to do and its due on thursday! and before I forget, belated Happy Birthday to John!

Today, I let my alarm clock wake me up. I made a total effort not to switch it off and stick to the dreaded snooze button. And as we all know (i blog about my alarm clock too much), Satan made that button. It's a damn tease. It lets you sleep for 15 minutes which is enough time to just fall asleep for a good 2 minutes. Then the damn alarm goes of AGAIN! I actually woke up! I hate the damn snooze button! Its the worst! But look 30 minutes earlier than my usual time! heheh amazing!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

i love long weekends

Aahh, recovering from my sick days is awsome. Stayed at home and helped out with the parents put in hardwood floors for our basement. Other than that, all I gotta say about last night is "I've never felt soo out of place in my whole damn life!", but I still had fun. Right guys? I'm still installing, still installing, and still installing. I need a cd burner! Something that can handle CD Text so my car stereo player can handle it.

I wonder what people are doing tonight, being long weekend and all. Well, around here theres only one thing to do on the long weekends if your my age. Club! It's FUBAR! I don't think I'm going though, I dunno. After the "wild" night we had last night? *sarcasm* I love recovering!

But on a different note! Erna? I have the article, with changes. Of course I'm still waiting for one person to get back to me with her answers to my ground breaking interview questions! I will have it for you before I leave. Promse!

I will update today if it kills me. I will burn Archie's CDs on this 2 times (4 year old) burner that I have. I will have a DreamCast and/or I will get better at Mario Tennis. Oh yea! of course, I will get my homework done by thursday.

back to work for me....i have no clue why i'm back to work. i think its guilt, cause i have soo much work to do and soo little time to do it since i'm leaving for orlando too. family vacation. i've been soo lazy with updating the project/basement renovation site that i made. theres actually a whole lot of work thats been done. this weekend we put in floors, i think unless the "supervisor/hardest worker" (mom) wants something else done.

being sick isn't the prettiest picture in the world...all the things stuck inside your thoat and no matter how much you cough or weird noises you make, you'll never dislodge it. so today, i decided to just stay home, take my antibiotics, drink my neo-citran, and get knocked out by nyquil. well, after i get a bite to eat. eating isn't a pleasure either. your throat hurts when you swallow and you can't eat, but your hungry. you all you eat is damn macaroni chicken soup, but thats not filling. but you eat it anyways cause your hungry! hopefully i'll be fine after i knock myself out with the damn nyquil!

nyquil? yea its made by vicks! its got alcohol in it! whoohoo! can you talk about drugging yourself up? i think thats what puts me to sleep right away, the damn alcohol. See I'm not an alcoholic. As Matt would put it, "I'm a lightweight". It only takes me on beer to get buzzed and anything else after that would send me to the edge. After all the energy has been exhausted, I'll be snoring in a corner my cheek to a pillow and drooling. you guys get the picture...alcohol and me don't mix...

ritchie being sick + some nyquil = party time!

I'm sick and I'm struggling getting through the afternoon! My brain has gone into shut down mode (just like windows) and it has hung on the shut down screen (just like windows). Nothing seems to work, eating, chewing gum, drinking juice, nothing is working! It's like that deadly circle. I want to get work done, the more I get work the more I get sick. The more I get sick the more brain cells I destroy and convert into mucus. The more brain cells I destroy the less work I get done! So how the heck am I supposed to break that cycle?

It's not a good thing when your wondering how to code something that you've coded a million times! Break something that your supposed to be fixing!

ritchie's going to check himself into the metal where theres medicine and vomit proof walls.

This is soo cool, and if I had a fully functional brain last night I might have enjoyed it. Even the website is pretty good. I'm impressed.

Spiralling into sickness..... I wonder how long it will take me to collapse? Do you know what's worse than being sick? The whole process of getting sick! The churning stomach, the spinning head, the pounding head ache and of course the whole hot/cold feeling that runs down your body. It's not fun! At least I'm not having fun. Because your head feels soo congested, your cranky and grumpy! You try to show your good side but your bad side just keeps coming out. Aack! People should just stay away if they know whats good for them.

Now lets get back to the topic thats called my stomach! It feels like its on a roller coaster ride! And you know what happens when I'm on a roller coaster ride! I get dissy, and when that happens things come out! Its not a good thing. I turn into a human gun for vomit! I can spray anywhere and be able to cover a 3 meter radious! Might not be much but thats still gross!

and i'm still at work cause i'm scared to take a sick day......

don't mess, i'm a walking artillery of disease!

I might be sick, but I think Ruben needs to get out of work more (maybe rushed to the hospital?)! Ruben, stop working late man I think its really getting to you!

I had this whole entry about being sick. I had everything written out and checked. But... you won't get to see it. Being sick really sucks. It puts you into this mood that nothing seems right. My throat really feels funny, like its scratchy and all that nasty stuff. When I breath, it feels like pure heat is coming out of my nose. I'm in one of those sick depressed moods, listening to sick slow depressing r&b music and a tissue in my hand. I have the nasty case of the sniffles. Of course, I dare not get up cause my head feels like a bowling ball. I feel like when I move it from left to right it feels like its going to roll down my head.

Everything feels dirtier than usual. My desk, my hair, my phone! All icky icky icky! I feel like splashing my face with water just to cool down. I feel soo gross! I just wanna jump into bed and tuck myself away under my blanket and hide from the world for a couple of days. I guess I won't get to do that yet. Its only tuesday! And to make things worst, now that I'm waiting for saturday. It'll come slower than a turtle with a 50 pound weight on its back!

The worst part (and you thought it couldn't get any worse) about this is the mucus! Yes, that gross semi-solid, semi-liquid thing inside your throat and nose. The reason why your mom asks you to blow your nose when you feel that something is hanging from it but just can't seem to grab it with a tissue. It might be useful in a lot of ways but the moment it leaves your body through any orifice it turns into a revolting liquid goop. Sometimes I think that it has some sort of sick connection with that ecto plasm that shipped with the slimer "ghostbuster" toys of the 80's. Its gross, so I think it has something to do with the contact with air.

yuck!

Filipino's facination with sushi. C'mon you know it had to happen sooner or later. I always seem to talk about it, but always held of because I didn't want to seem like some overweight glutton, but now I guess I am.

Why is it that we (i'm talking about filipinos here) as a people have this insatiable desire for japanese food? You never noticed? Well, try mentioning the words teriaki chicken, sushi or oyster motoyaki to a filipino. Let's examine the signes. Of course his heart beat will get a bit faster, why? To prepare himself for the onslaught of cheeze and mayo sauce that comes with the motoyako. His(or her) mouth starts to drool because of the thought of wasabi and soysauce together. Of course the mere thought of dipping sushi into that wasbi soy sauce mix will just push his craving over the edge! After all the drooling and slurping, they would most likely head down to an "All you can eat" Japanese restaurant, or spend a good 50 bucks on sushi, california rolls and motoyaki.

I never had the taste for raw stuff, but hanging out at a sushi restaurant would develop your taste for it. Then once you start liking it, you'll start craving it and once that happens... its over! Every other day till the dang cows come home! I just had sushi last night and after writing this journal entry I'm craving it again!

hi, my name is ritchie and i'm a japanese food addict

I think I've been out of school too long! I know I have to work on setting my priorities and being able to change them when things come in.

Last night, I was on the phone till around 2. I'm not exactly sure why because this is what happens when your brain is sleep deprived. To make matters worse, I had homework that was overdue. I've been procrastinating with doing it, finding other things to do. Like help my parents out, help my friend out and just over all became busier and busier as the hours went by. I tried to work on anything but homework. But I guess it clicked into me last night.

So today, I'm braindead because by the time I finished my homework it was 4:00 am and waking up in to an alarm clock isn't exactly the best way. I'm a hazard driving to work because I almost hit 2 cars. To make matters worst, one of the cars was parked.

<note to everyone>procrastination and the phone is hazardous to your health</note to everyone>