too much time!

whats the definition of too much time on your hands?

learning the mario brother's background song (classic as it is) on piano. i mean, its a classic video game song and every person knows that its cool. the problem is taking it to the next level and learning to playing it on the piano. then posting it up on the internet.

oh well, it got one other kid famous (at the expense of being labeled the starwars kid for the rest of his natural born life).

Run! i'm SARS infected!

its unbearably hot in my house. The electric fan doesn't offer any help either. all the windows and doors are closed because of my allergies.

ultimately, the solution would be to open the windows and doors so some cool air can come in. i did find a temporary solution to my problem tho. i decided to buy those face masks that blocks pollen particles. they look very much like those face masks in toronto or china. last night i was able to open my windows and my door.

i think i freaked out the local neighborhood kids tho. i was wearing my mask while opening the windows when two of them were walking past my house. i guess the mask doesn't filter all of the allergens in the air because i let out a little sneeze. they looked at each other said something in chinese and ran away faster than size 3 shoes from star jones. i think i over heard one of them saying something about sars.

i sure hope that they don't quarantine my house when i get home later.

wrong! it's soo wrong!

in one sweep, i managed to completely mess up my sleeping pattern. i fell asleep around 9pm and being that my body is only used to 4 hours of sleep managed to wake itself up at 1am. i woke up thinking that it was 5:30am. now it is 4am.

have you ever had the feeling that it was going to be a rough day?

weekend was all good. fun had by all.

this weekend was very productive. i set up a new server for my friend's wife's website. i saw the hulk (albeit everyone's warnings). i cleaned and i worked. i also went to a bbq where i had the biggest and best-est hamburgers in the world (too bad i can't remember the type of patties they were).

a year ago yesterday, my best friend got married. now they're expecting their first child. i don't know what's scarier. the fact that he got married and lasted this long or the fact that he's procreating. i'm joking!

its summer and i need to start getting out and taking pictures again.

i'm entering the hack-proof network contest!

i was reading cnn.com and i found a news story on building a hacker proof computer network. that got me thinking of a solution. although, i'm not a big network guy and i have about as much network knowledge as a hampster coding c++. i have full confidence my solution will take the prize.

my solution is 2 fold: take my 486 computer that is running under my desk. unplug the connecting network cable from the router and plug that end into my laptop. now, remove everything else from the room and then lock all windows and doors. now isn't that a hack proof network?

granted, there isn't really a way for those 2 computers to do anything and one will eventually crash because it's windows xp, but its still hack proof. now wheres my money?!

jumping on the damn bandwagon.... again!

so the latest one of the circulating internet meme is friendster. i've been hesitant joining because the name automatically implies pr0n and email spam in my head but i've given in. i signed up a few days ago and to my disbelief there were a lot of people who have signed up as well.

basically its a stalker wall. i have friends who have friends and i can look through their friends and ultimately see who i want to date. actually, i can even recommend for someone to date another person. its quite funny and sad at the same time. i'm sure it makes ernie's life a bit easier because most of his friends seem to date each other. this way they can just browse his friends list like a menu.

i can also see the popularity factor coming in. i have a possible grand total of 18 friends in my galary. most people have 100+ people in theirs; others run up the total to 200+. its the whole, "link me! i want site traffic" scene all over again. and we all know how poorly i did on that meme. read: please sign up and make me your friend. i'm a sad, sad boy with only 18 people in my circle.

gardening will forever be the bain of my existence

see, i've never had a green thumb. i've never taken care of plants my whole life. all of a sudden, i'm left to take care of a whole garden. yes, i've given conseration to not taking care of it and having a jungle upon entering the property but my neighbors are all retired people with nothing better to do other than take care of their garden. their lawns look good and i really don't want to be the eye-sore in the neighborhood.

so yesterday i did some gardening. actually, i mowed the lawn, watered the grass and applied some weed killer. see, i don't have a vast assortment of plants to take care of. i only have grass and 1 mini tree. my lawn is like my website; minimalistic (oh god i just compared my lawn to my website). i wouldn't mind getting some variety in it.

so here's what i'm looking for. suggestions on something easy to plant, easy to take care of and ultimately looks good. i will try and dedicate garden time twice a week for this. i think its time to go to costco and stock up on allergy medication.

like crap...

its allergy season once again. i'm tired. i'm sleepy and i'm fighting off the pollen. i'll blog more when i'm in a better mood to write something. right now, i need to get coffee.

nothing happening here... move along aka this is what i had for breakfast

yes folks, i've been very boring. nothing happening, in my life thats worth mentioning. i think my boogienet.com website gets updated more than this blog lately. i've just been very busy working and being a good worker bee that i am. i'm not on hiatus, trust me. i open up blogger everyday to see if i have anything interesting to write and i stare at a blank screen. i even became a human test guinea pig for mcdonalds; trying out their new breakfast sandwich pancake-bun-drenched-in-syrup concoction to try and get some content in here. here's my review: it was alright. this is my obligatory 'here is what i had for breakfast' post.

on a totally different tangent. i got spam today and they must be getting better with their target marketing or something. the subject line said "Hi, Ritchie. No more FAT for you." damn it! i think i'm going to shoot myself now.

commuting to work.

yes folks, you get to hear all about my commute to work this nice morning. today is commuter day. this means that people go nuts because we're aware of the environment today. just today, and only today.

it actually started last night when i was getting my things ready. downloading songs into my mp3 player and getting my palm sync'ed so i could read my homework on the sky train and look cool doing it. see, since i moved i'm very close to my workplace. to be more accurate, i'm a 10 minute drive away. sometimes on lazy mornings, it takes longer to warm-up my car than drive to work. it was a struggle getting out of bed since i went to bed at 2am last night, woke up at 5:30am this morning and out of my door at 6:30am.

when i take the transit, i take about 45 minutes from my front door to my desk. days like this, i don't mind it. it's sunny and warm, hardly any weirdos in transit. i was strutting my way to the train station while listening to the animatrix soundtrack. the whole experience wasn't bad, i'm actually considering commuting for the rest of this week. what do you guys think?

and on a totally different tangent. i was surfing around and came across moulann. not only is she a talented singer (enough to actually get to step 3/4 of signing up in mp3.com) but she also has a blog and that means i can see what she had for breakfast and stuff.