happy birthday glenna!

so its glenna's b-day. see we went to school together (and our school is known as the boot camp of technology schools around here) and now we work together. she's funny to have around, smart and hardworking (your head getting big yet glenna?). but yea, thanks for letting me copy all the homework that i did and all the times that i had to poke you and wake you up cause i needed something explained.

did i ever mention that i fall asleep on the bus? since my bus ride home is around an hour and a half and i'm really tired after a hard day's work the natural tendency is to fall asleep. what could be more peaceful? riding on the bus, someone else driving through rush hour for you and drops you off right in front of your house (well, for me because the bus stop is beside the house). theres one downfall though, usually embarrasing situations are around the corner.

for instance, today on the drive ride home. i fell asleep just like always and i started dreaming. i don't remember exactly what the dream was about but i jerked when i woke up. i think i startled the poor lady sitting beside me cause she had this look when i realized what i did. she had this terrified look that said "oh my gosh the guy sitting beside me just came from the mental hospital and is going to go into an insane killing spree at any moment". i wanted to laugh, but i was soo embarrased i just looked away and hoped that no one else saw it.

to every student out there. when you can't get to your notes and it seemed that you've thought of every freaking search term out there to search for a "how to" tutorial on a topic. when you've almost given up looking through the library, your books and german literature (because thats the only thing that seems to come up on google). when you've almost given up because your frustrated and all.

boys and girls, don't forget to check your textbook. cause when you do that, you find out that the damn ward and mellor notation is just an add-on the a normal data flow diagram. damn it!

so once i get this whole car thing resolved i'm going on a shopping spree!

first thing i'm buying is a gap leather jacket (or maybe danier if silvia can get me a discount)! maybe new pants or something. but i am going shopping. shopping is my stress relief. it makes me feel good and forget my problems. not that i have any problems, but it generally makes me feel good about a lot of things. so christmas is coming up and no one knows what i want and it looks like a wishlist is the best thing to get. but setting up a wishlist isn't exactly like shopping because it doesn't come with the same thrill the same guilty feeling that you just blew a whole paycheque on one piece of clothing.

so what am i supposed to do? well, as soon as my car stuff is finished and the next paycheque has come in. savings places in the right place. i'm calling sylvia (my shopping buddy) and running to the mall.

holy smokes! i just saw the perfect storm while i was procrastinating finishing my overdue paper.

all i gotta say about that movie is that it sucked! i didn't like it. i mean, yea it was suspenseful and yea it had its moments but all the good things kinda got nullified when it got to the end. the big huge gigantic scene where the hero slays the beast isn't exactly what you expected. i don't want to go and ruin the movie for everyone so i'll just be vague like that. i hate endings that don't work out the way a movie is supposed to.

so i better finish this blog before i spoil it for the people who haven't seen it cause i'm just soo pissed cause i didn't have that sappy nice nice happy happy movie feeling when it finished.

ooohhh i'm pretty cheap too ya know. but yea if everyone is in lets just get like a huge room with a few beds, room to party and maybe mj could bring the maracas? but yea mj i'm down in sharing a room. (anything in the name of being a cheapskate tee hee)

oh yea, erna? if yer reading this.... you still owe me some print packages :)

so last night i bought my ticket for sxsw. i'm still trying to get people to go like gerard, and jodee. ern-dawg has taken the plunge and bought tickets with me. so at least i'll know someone thats going and i won't be too scared about socializing. so like ern, i've decide to blog about what i'm scared of @ sxsw. so presenting the top ten things on ritchie's head about sxsw.

• finding out that webloggers are really from another planet, and i'm in a conference full of aliens
• all the foine lady webloggers are really guys writing to attract a "different" type of audience
• i end up running into my stalker and they treaten to kill me and sell my face to my fan club for cash
• ern and i just ditch the conference to try our hand at riding the bull at the local pub where the play all dixie chicks all day
• i melt from the heat
• i come back from texas sporting a cowboy hat, leather boots, tight jeans and a cowboy shirt all in my favorite color (yellow).
• i get lost in the crowd and end up in the "bad" part of austin, where they do unspeakable things with lasso
• i might end up thinking i'm ben brown
• my digital camera might get stolen just when sexy women start hitting on me and no one will believe me when i tell them the story
• i could write another topten list on how much i like texas

so i kept working until i got this done for you guys. it took a loong time because i actually had to sort out which pictures i should've put in it. i decided to go with the decent ones, along with the "not so" decent ones. i'm pretty sure i'll be getting some emails about some of the pictures. i loved it though. check out Pilipino ninja, Jason's "too sleepy to even make it to the bed", and Justin's "i see dead people in a phone booth inside my house" pictures. oh yea, there are some camp pictures as well.

i love weather after the rain.

it was raining hard this morning on my drive to work, soo hard that i had to put the wiper blades on high. it stopped when i got into my parking space. good thing to because i had to walk to my building without an umbrella. it was just perfect timing, the weather wasn't too cold either. i was just wearing a fleece sweater and jeans. i didn't really do any work to bundle myself. i had my heater in the car to keep me happy.

but now, the rain has stopped, its a bit cloudy but the sun is still shining through. its just a bit nippy, but still nice. i like this weather. the only missing thing is the rainbow. the little kids playing in the puddles. but other than that, i love this weather.

ack, soo many things to do....i'm swamped! even at home i'm pretty busy. i hope i can relax during the christmas holidays.

oh yea, ern-dawg.... wass up with sxsw?

so i did wake up last night, and decided to do a whole photoalbum on the weekend since i do have a lot of pictures. over 30 i think.

so i look back at the weekend, and i get mixed feelings about it. part of me things that i shouldn't have gone since i was sick and i do have lots and lots of homework another part of me is glad that i did go. i got to meet a lot of people and re-aquaint myself with them too. but, if i count the memories that i have during the trip i can say that it was worth it. i have a lot of fun positive memories that far outweigh the bad ones.

so what did i get out of it? i'm not quite sure yet but ask me when my brain isn't lacking of sleep and filled with headaches.

i just got home from the camp this weekend. i'm tired. i have lots of pictures to put up. lots and lots of embarrasing photos to put up but right now, i just want to sleep and relax. maybe later on tonight if i wake up from my nap.

well, maybe i will blog for a bit. so the camp was good. it was really good, too bad i was sick. i was actually feeling bad since friday. i should've gone home, but when someone depends on you, its not good to back out on them last minute. so i go. conserving every ounce of energy that i had. dayquill was my savior this weekend, and thats all i have to say about that. so i did have fun. learned somethings like, dr ho is probably the weirdest massage/muscle toner machine there is on the face of this planet. dayquill only lasts me 6 hours and milk isn't my friend (cause i'm mildly lactose intolerant). wendys drivethru window is open really really late too.

ooh yea baby! its up, with the teaser design! i designed the technical stuff in the background ie, the database that keeps track of everything and displaying everything. so the plan is 1 article from the supposed regular columnists to give everyone a feel of what the articles are gonna be about, then the new design kicks in. theres actually going to be a few people working on this. so hopefully it'll be cool.

icemag.org

so its friday thank the stars that it is. i've been a bit on the crazy side this whole week.

so do you think i'm looking forward to the weekend? well, yes and no. yes because theres a yfc camp and i've been asked to help out (and excercise my bass playing), no because i know that i'm not going to be getting any rest. i will be taking some medication, and i do forsee myself as running on coke and coffee this whole weekend. its not going to be a fun thing.

see a yfc camp was fun when i was around 17-18 years old, used to be the rowdiest person who was serving at the camp. i'd be screeming and laughing cracking jokes all day long. the participants back then look back and see a 180 degree change in me. i'm the quiet guy, playing with the guitar hardly talking to anyone just there to do his job and help out in anyway he could. a pretty drastic image change from the uncontrollable laughing all the time guy. so what brought this change about? i don't really know, its like one day i just woke up and said "well, you know this whole funny guy stuff is cool but its getting a bit played out". so i just stopped it, it wasn't hard.

so people think that i've actually grown up. well, not really, i'm still very child-like. i still play with dreamcast, computers and i still like my electronic toys. its all fun and games for me sometimes but i just don't show it as often that i do. could it be that i'm developing a serious side to my personality? probably not. do i think i will develop a serious side? probably not.

but i should stop talking serious like this, i'm starting to get a headache and jet grind radio has been on pause for too long.

and just when you thought that ritchie has nothing else to say......

and when you thought that ritchie was enjoying taking the bus to work.

I'm not really in the mood right now to blog, I'm bitter and pissed off at the world. Especially translink, the company that operates the buses around here. See, today unlike any other day the weather was pouring rain. I stepped outside hoping that the bus would be there but I guess the bus had already passed (10 minutes early). So I was left in the rain like a human sponge soaking up rain from the sky.

Eventually though the bus does make it there and I'm sitting on a cold seat because the heaters haven't kicked in yet. So I sat down, and because of fatigue from the night before my eyes finally found its resting place. Usually, I don't fall asleep for the whole trip but this time I woke up just when the bus was pulling into the last stop. So I stretch, yawn, rub my eyes and what not, eventually start my movement to the cold outside. Noticing that it was unusually cold around the left area of my pants, whatever I disregard it and continue on my way.

So the next step on my commute would be the sky train. Which also means that I need my transfer (usually kept in my left pocket). So I reach in, noticing that my leg was all cold, and my hand upon reaching was wet. I look down and what do I see? The left side of my pants are wet, from the waist all the way to the knee area. Beautiful! Now I'm walking in the rain, cold, grumpy and sleepy (did I mention without an umbrella) looking like I need a pair of depents to control my bladder. Its not a funny sight, especially when your wearing slacks and the little water "accident" stands out in a crowded city within a 6 block radius.

email your "haha ritchie needs a pair of depends" joke here. not like i haven't heard them all already

oh ok, i take it back... there is something to blog about today.

today is christine's birthday Happy Birthday! see, i have a story to tell about her. well not about her, about me and how she affected me. i was surfing at work one day and i was looking at my usual sites, zdnet, wired, cnn and metafilter. nothing really special, until i came upon a thread in metafilter talking about the webby awards. I was looking at the personal sites category and she was nominated.

Being filipino myself, I recognized her domain. Maganda means pretty in tagalog (a filipino's native tongue). I visited the site. It was different from any other homepage that I've ever seen. It had her thoughts, her writings it was her coming through this website. Her writing kept me interested, her design was very simple but still reflected her personality (well, it helped that she was cute too). So I became a regular reader that day. I visited that site amost every 5 minutes for the next couple of weeks. Just waiting for an update (yes, for a while there I was starting to feel like a stalker).

I was writing technical articles too. Nothing too fancy, just little tutorials but I was getting feedback that I was actually interesting. People wanted to get to know me. So hey, why not make another site? A personal one. So macapinlac.com was born, using the same naming conventions used by my co-workers: frank and dave. So here I am, semi-inspired exploring a new world where I write about myself and not about what I know. Thanks Christine, may you have many more to come.

ps. did i ever tell anyone that i've once in a while ran into maganda.com because i just forget that her site is .org and not .com

so wednesday is the hardest day to come up with some content.

nothing usually happens on my ride to work and the night before cosisted of freezing my butt at starbucks. although a drunk dude, who swore he wasn't drunk, started talking to me while I was waiting for my bus last night. i got dizzy on the ride home mainly because i sat at the back and the bus driver was slamming on the brakes causing the back side of the bus to have the equivalent of 10 foot waves. and everyone knows how well i stand up to being seasick

So I've been promising a couple of people that I'd blog about them but I've been putting it off to the point that I've already forgotten. Ms. Jen de los Santos (she's the one with her eyes open), hey how much have you spent on phone cards calling him or him (yes, i know its the same guy i just had 2 embarrasing pictures of him) up? hummmm, well I'm kidding anyways, by the way (btw, in irc/icq/aol talk) the room is done for you guys. Paulo (if you look really closely, or here but you gotta scroll down), thanks for helping me out with my car stuff. Cedric, thanks for listening buddy. Why is it that you always end up listening to my rants and whining? Team-Swollen, hey so I guess the dance is a team-swollen productions? How the heck did we end up with that name anyways? Maybe I can sell the domain off to a porn company.

The list really goes on and on, and I don't really want to keep going.

Filler wednesday? Can we say copy-cat? Well suck.com still does funnier filler wednesdays, and she's probably better looking that I am too. but hey, who'd blog about embarrasing pictures of his friends? me or her? me!

Jodee's back! I'm soo glad. Not that I follow his site religiously or anything. I mean, I'm not that kinda of person really! Its all good man, you know life goes on right?

Last night, I (re-)discovered why I don't sleep late. The main reason being is that I don't get enough sleep and I do a perfect imitation of Micheal Jackson's Thriller video zombie extras when that happens. So as everyone knows I take the bus now. Usually, when I drive and I'm lacking sleep no one else sees me mumbling and groaning to myself because I'm in the car, trying to stay awake, driving to work, while I'm drinking coffee and having a smoke (oh no, here comes the email from my mom). But since I've been having to take the bus, my moans and groans of the morning.

So I'm getting on the bus, barely making it because of all the layers of clothing that I put on just to survive morning chills. And NO, I don't think it even reaches negative numbers here in Vancouver but I get cold easily. Just to let everyone understand how much I wear; I wear a t-shirt, a vest, a sweater and another vest (and a beenie hat). Yes! I am intolerate of cold weather. One thing that I also hate are morning people! uuugh!

I finally make my way to my usual seat and blast my minidisk player so I don't have to talk to anyone. At this point morning routine dictates that I stare blankly at the moving scenery of Vancouver as the bus makes its way from one destination to the next. So anyways, this lady sits right beside me and just looks at me. Of course, stupid me, I look back (I hate getting stared at). She flashes this colgate smile and says good morning. I try to smile back but end up flashing a bad Rock impression crossed with a mediocre smile but I manage to mumble a good morning back. I look away again, and not 2 seconds pass and this lady is nudging me again. I look back (just a little bit frustrated because she's interrupting my listening to dixie chicks song playing) and she tries to strike a conversation. And being the nice person that I am, I just eventually fall asleep with my eyes open and nodding every couple of minutes letting her think that I am still talking to her.

I swear I'm not a morning person. It's not pretty!

my friends and i are soo bad, we are the dang definition of gluttony.

Ok being concious and being at work when your a recovering flu victim sucks.

I'm coughing uncontrollably and I just can't seem to focus on one thing that I want to do. I keep jumping from one thing to the other and to all the programmers out there that sucks. Because you need to have at least some train of thought to be able to transform whatever algorithm is floating in your head to any sort of understandable (hopefully working) code. So thats what I don't have.

Lets talk about what I do have. What I have is a congested head, and a lot of phlem (spell checker please). I'm pretty sure ern-dawg can relate to this. He was sick on his party and after a lot (see, I'm making ya look good man) of alcohol he started throwing up. I guess I should take that lesson not to mix dayquill with alcohol. But I'm at work, I don't think theres any alcohol around here. But anyways, back to my congested head. All I know is that the rave music (Ernie's recommendation) that I downloaded yesterday is making the sounds echo in my head. Its a freaking trip, no wonder people like doing all these stuff at raves. whoo hoo the colors, the colors

So I'm here at work, still a bit sick but a lot better.

I just realized that I whine a lot. Oh wells, so I was reading my usual blogs and I see this post on Stacie's blog saying that you should turn of the archiving on your blog so you have an easier time publishing it. Hey, if this post shows up then I guess it worked. Last night, I was trying to record a new minidisk so I have something new to listen to on the bus. Its just that I start falling asleep with the music that I have on the disk that I'm playing. And this is what I think about sleeping on the bus.

play sleepy music --> sleep --> drool --> wake up --> look around to see that everyone's staring at you wiping your drool

It's not a pretty picture folks. So I'm actually putting in music that would probably keep me awake. Thanks to Ernie I have some of that mind blowing rave/trance music that would make your heart pump right off your chest! So yea hopefully this will be the last day I sleep/drool on the bus. Hey, can I help it if I sleep late and catch up on the bus?

Being sick sucks. Your throat hurts a lot, you can't talk and you just feel like you can't do anything but watch dvd's and play dreamcast. So many things keeping me from blogging, first the server problem now being sick. Well, my thoughts are just jumping all over the place. So I'll just blog about whatever, and if I start not making sense. I'm blaming it on the flu medicine.

There are soo many people with their b-day's in November. My buds Archie, Andrew and Randy. Not to mention Jerwin and Ernie. For the 3 doods over here in Vancouver, we got them pretty drunk (sorry guys). And for Jerwin, I just bought him something from his little wish list. Ern-dawg however, I was gonna call him last night and hear him all messed up but being sick sucks. Thanks Gerard, too bad I just couldn't stay up any later. So yea, plus.... I'm starting to forge some plans for next year. Just to mention a couple.... I want to go to sxsw, because thats where all the cool web people go and my old classmates and I are planning to head down to the philippines too (back to the motherland).

Speaking of sxsw, soo many people went there last year and I just kept looking at pictures and interpretations of it. It sounded like they all had a great time! Plus I've never been to a conference before so, this will be a great experience.

So guess who's stuck at home sick? At least theres dreamcast (jet grind radio here I come)!

just my luck, the day i decide to end my bloggin hiatus. blogger decides to have server problems.

So guess who's back from the week of non-blogging? me! I know I know, big whoopin deal. But hey, it was nice not to think about what not to blog and to all the people who AOL IM, ICQ or EMAILED. thanks again. There were a lot of things that were all happening at one time to me but its all starting to calm down and I'm starting to iron out my life. Thats a good thing. I'm the busy busy one again as usual, I think its an implanted gene from my mom cause she doesn't stop moving too.

My poor car isn't insured yet. It's not my fault. Damn RCMP! I think they're just a bit power hungry with everything. But thats a whole new chapter in my life. School is going good. I have a couple of trips planned. Hopefully, I'll get to go.

So yesterday I was going to continue this little blogging outage but there are just soo many things to blog about that I need not worry about things as much as I used to. Thats all, welcome me back! Wheres the party at?

I know I said I'm taking a break but this was just too good to pass up. Ernie, man I like this dude. This was way better than my GAP commercial idea. so back to your regularly scheduled blog outage.

i'm not in the mood for blogging right now. maybe for a long time.

maybe down the line i'll be in the mood for blogging but right now, there are things in my life that just isn't in the best shape. i know how much everyone likes to read up on stuff but this blog hasn't really helped me release any tension like it usually has. so i'm going to be taking a small break from it, i might discover new things. i might not. i don't really know what going to be happening in my life in the future. lets just hope that i get through it.

to everyone who's been showing concern for how i am and how i've been, thanks.

CORNY!!!!! sometimes i wonder where my friends get their sense of humor.

From: Andrew Ingco [mailto:d_only1@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:51 PM
To: ritchie@macapinlac.com
Subject: RE: buddy!


oh man...thats it!!!

ur not invited anymore..... i need drinks! not hammers!

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From: "Macapinlac, Ritchie" <ritchie@macapinlac.com>
To: "'Andrew Ingco'" <d_only1@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: buddy!
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 14:03:04 -0800

yeap i'm there buddy! hehehhe thats where i'll get you hammered!

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From: Andrew Ingco [mailto:d_only1@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:58 PM
To: ritchie@macapinlac.com
Subject: RE: buddy!


yep... tha's how ya sell out on ur friends bday...

hehehe... all good... friday for sure... spread out the word for Boston
pizza around 930p.... (boston pizza along ***st near silvercity and the
keg)

kool?

so last night was archie's b-day schindig! it was an interesting sight to see a friend who's shy and quiet turn into a wolf-whistle blowing guy. interesting, it was just a funny sight. my only regret was that i had to go to work today and still staying out. but it was fun contributing to my friends little downfall last night.

today, i'm regretting last night. i have a major headache and i didn't get as much sleep like the smart people who took the day off. i woke up very late and through a miracle i was still able to make it in on time without hitting any cars (or pedestrians). i'm at work, and i feel like curling on the top of my desk and falling a sleep.

i got of to a rocky start this morning too. i slept right through my alarm and didn't wake up until 5 minutes before the time that i usually leave for work. its really hard to panic when your at the state that i was in as well. so like a slug i dragged my self to the shower and opened up one of the taps. i decided that i'd rather take a gamble so either the water was gonna be really hot or the water was going to be really cold. turns out that the water was really really really cold. that woke me up really really really quickly.

i'm still tired, i still want to sleep. maybe i have a pillow under my desk or something.

amen to this brotha! i don't really keep up that much with the economy of the philippines. all i know is that it started going down when he was president. even logic kinda dictates that he shouldn't be president. i mean (1) he was an action star who's trademark was to wear a wristband on one arm. (2) he's an actor, so he can probably b.s. (and we're not talking about bad smell) his way out of anything. (3) the dude can't even speak straight english, well i dunno i guess its better than not being able to read or write.

theres soo many erap jokes floating around there in email forwards land. i think there were even some books published on it.

so tell you the truth, just for those reasons alone i wouldn't vote for him. i mean look, if he didn't even want to take that sillie wrist band thing off while he was wearing formal wear that should say something to you.

its lunch time already and i feel like a damn zombie. i'm sitting here and i feel like i should be wearing a cheezy torn up football uniform and star in micheal jackson's thriller. its almost lunch time and i'm soo tired. i'm more tired than hungry. i just want some coffee but i don't want to overdose it on the caffine (otherwise i'll be bouncing off the walls and someone will have the unfortunate job of scraping my carcass of the walls). its like i'm awake but my brain isn't functioning.

its sunny outside but for some reason my vision is blurry and i can't seem to appreciate it all the much (not that my view of cargo ships and a boat yard is much to look at anyways). i'm trying to sieze the day but i just can't (cause i'm still captured by the night...cheeze!). but on a totally serious note.... i'm soo tired i just want to go home but like thats going to happen. when i get home, i have to fix a million things then go to archie's little bash.

good thing, i have gerard to amuse me right now or else i'd be sitting here with a faceless expression.

just watch:

g: i think i have an idea that will work.
g: we will train our sons
g: i will give you my son and you will give me custody of yours
g: so that when they are grown up, they will have learned to combine.....
g: THE TWO STRONGEST TECHNIQUES!
r: which is? at this point i was starting to think that the conversation was going to turn explicit
g: i don't know yet

so maybe your expecting someone who's cheery in the morning? ummm nope sorry look in a different place today. i'm totally not in the mood to joke around. last night while working on the video for sunday's cotillion i came upon some problems with winzip (at least thats what logical thinking tells me). i was downloading 2 critical files last night and it wouldn't let me run them. apparently, something wrong with the winzip header. but it was telling me that there was a download error. which was highly unlikely because well, i tried downloading it a few times and it wouldn't let me fix it. that was around 3:15 this morning. i just decided to call it quits and get the small amount of sleep that i was going to get.

and now look who's paying for the consequences. me! tonight is archie's little b-day bash thing too. driving to work was a totally not fun either. lets just say that you shouldn't be driving when you only had 4 hours sleep and no coffee. i am a bit happy now, i stopped by mcdonalds before i headed up the stairs to work and i got my breakfast food (of course coffee too).

so? does anyone notice anything different? you might have noticed the frontpage, has old stories. one about hair and another about a bomb threat. the journal finally got a new look. the blog got a new look too. the bookmarks? well, it got rearranged and updated. the moments, well its up with a fairly recent story. and the guestbook, well it hasn't changed. so sign it, please?.

I'm not the artistic type so yea please forgive the simpleness of the designs. Basically, I found some font, looked around and saw some ideas, and I redesigned. The redesign isn't complete yet but part of it is up there. I'm just trying to justify going to sleep at 3:39 am doing jenilee's video and all this. I'm going to regret this tomorrrow.

I'm heartbroken too, I took down the link for my little forwards section. just because there wasn't anyone who submitted and I'm heartbroken. It's still there though, just no links to go there.

And for lunch, guess who went to John's house? Me! (and Dan) Got to play Mortal Kombat along side with his dreamcast and his two other arcade cabinets. Theres an arcade cabinet auction and you can get cabinets for cheap, really cheap! I'm going and I'm not telling any of you guys when it is.

So when I was around Grade 10, I used to play mortal kombat all day long. Skipped class, after school and laundered my underwear just to get quarters to play (mom if your reading, ignore that last part cause I'm making it up, really). But eventually, I got really good at it. Able to finish it with any character, I was also unbeatable. The person that other players gets scared of because its a lose-lose situation for them when I play against them. So anyways I got really good at it people grovelled at my feet to teach them. But now, where am I? Where did it get me? Well, I'm a computer programmer for ICBC.

Whats the lesson to be learned? Kids, bug your parents to get you that dreamcast! Trade your underwear or socks for quarters. Get really good at some r-rated game, and sell your soul to learn all the moves.

*Ferris' thoughts* - "society is sooo screwed up! how come grown ups dont get to trick-or-treat?...we have as much right as little ones do!"

yup, thats how October 30th comes and goes...man, its weird cause i remember before when i was a kid, i used to always love halloween. now, it seems like just another day...of free candy. oh well, the (dis)advantages of ageing. last night was so funny cause we spent our halloween night at Jenny's house w/ Ryan, Gen and Geraldine...and we rented some scary movies: Wishmaster, Lord of Illusions, and Final Destination...the latter being the most fun. Now, something happened that night that freaked the hell out of all of us...we reached a scary moment in the movie and it was one of those girl-jumps-out-of-her-seat-while-the-guy-puts-his-arm-around-her moments that we are all so familiar with in the theaters...(before i go on, let me remind you all that we were watching 2 and some odd hours of blood and gore and body parts coming off...) anyways, we all screamed in terror when all of a sudden, Jenny's sister comes out and starts yelling, "CALL 911! i think my friend just blew up his hand!"...apparently, this guy was setting off firecrackers outside and one of them blew up in his hand...and as it turned out, his hand DID NOT blow off, but it was all black and numb. (word of advice: if you ever have a firecracker blow up in your hand and it is still intact, pour under cold water and keep ice on it.)

note to joanne: check first before screaming about somebody blowing up their hand...for curtiousy to others.

p.s. i forgot to welcome ritchie back! WELCOME BACK RITCHIE...may you enjoy the fresh rain we are having! : )

I just went through a whole damn bag of candy here. Thanks to Betty, our manager here at work we all have a equally distributed bag of candy from yesterday. I'm really starting to think that my desk at work never gets cleaned and I think I'm going to have to clean it myself. My little garbage can didn't get emptied yesterday and I have paper all around the desk. My mouse chord is dangled and is collecting dust at an alarming rate. I already cleaned out all the pringles cans but it all still seems dirty. I'm scared to fall asleep on my desk because I'm afraid that my cheek will stick to the desk. Since my desk was probably infested by rat piss cause there is apparently a rat infestation going on here. Yuck!

I can't connect to the newly redesigned bantu. I signed up at FilDesign too.

okay...so why am i blogging right? when rich's back...well...here's the basic annswer...i'm soooo bored...i'm done in class...i've handed in my ishh with 2 freakin' hours to go!!! isnt that crazy?!...yea..so i'm sittin' here doin' nothin...waiting for all this crap to finish...i'm so tired...an' winter's comin'..ooohhh...i gotta try snowboarding this winter=)...i'm goin' to practice BEFORE i hit the slopes in vancouver...*ahem,ahem*...heheee...but yea...i think we're goin' to hit the slopes this year with the heads from montreal...woohoo...an' i think summer we're goin' white water raftin'...cheryls TRYING to be all brave an isshh...hehee...daredevil..hehee..yea right..neways...gues gotta find somethin' else to do..there's only so much i can write...byyeeeeee!!!! - oh an' rich..welcome back=)...so when are you sendin' my pasulubong again?=)....

So last night was a bit different for me, I worked on this the whole time I was home. After I finished, I sat myself down infront of the TV and started watching. Like a potato! Eventually, I fell asleep since thats what happens when your brain just goes in to stand-by mode (at least it doesn't hang like my computer when it does that). I actually went to bed after the game and slept pretty early, which is a first for me.

The alarm clock still beat me though. I woke up and hit my head on my night stand (don't ask how) trying to hit the snooze. I think setting the alarm clock an hour ahead (or just forgetting to set it to daylight savings time) really helps.

Look I woke up early again and I updated the front page. What the heck is wrong with me?