This ain't your happy yahoo office party

It's not a secret that Yahoo in the golden days liked to splurge on their employees. They rented out warehouses, free beer and drugs err food. Here where I work is no different... actually let me correct myself, it's very different.

Today we had a fundraiser for one of those charities that support starving children in Oomfoofoo. It resulted in a very large gathering infront of the building complete with hotdogs, beverages and Shania Twain impersonator.

Yes, you heard read right... a Shania Twain impersonator belting out country-pop tunes. That didn't seem so bad from the 5th floor but got incrementally worse as you came closer to the stage. I'm not usually one to complain (ok, fine. I do complain and I do it a lot), but hotdogs, chips, no-name brand pop and an impersonator?

I'd rather have the Yahoo themed rave and the drugs.

guilty pleasures

Don't worry babies, I'm not dead... yet. I am keeping myself pretty busy but during my small amount of down time, I like to endulge a bit. Which leads me to my quick listing of guilty pleasures.

1. Reading fashion and tech magazines! Humm, this has to be at the very top of my list. I've always been the unfashionable nerd (- I still am actually). I think it's pretty cool that there are magazines like cargo and sync who cater to dorks (like me) who want to look fashionable at fashionable people. Cool by association... even when you're just reading it from a magazine.
2. Listening to my music. Ok, now you'd think that being a blogger I'd flow with the best of 'em listening to Estero, Supreme Beings of Leisure and Jason Mraz. You would think that wouldn't you? Actually, if you've been reading here for a while you'd know my musical selection consists of teenie-bopper music like Christina Aguilera, N'Sync and Jesse McCartney. The only difference now is that I've started listening to the teenie-bopper music from other countries like Puffy Ami Yumi. May the music Gods be merciful to my soul.
3. Hummm Television. I'm not too big on reality shows. To be honest, being filipino allows me to witness drama first hand. I don't really need a reality show to watch backstabbing, gossiping, slutty underage women and general immature behavior. i do watch cartoons though. yay for cartoons!

The list goes on but I'll stop there. I am trying to expand my list of guilty pleasures. So please, share your list in the comments field.

full renovation/interior design mode

so here i am, 2 years of living in the house and just getting into my full-on attack on renovating ... everything. i don't really have a rhyme or reason to how my place looks, inside or out. i have certain pieces of furniture that i've either inherited/pawn-ed off or liked and bought from ikea. so today, my place looks like an interior designer (from ikea) brought in a cat with little or no design savvy, had it cough up a hair ball of interior design no-no's and smeared it on my walls.

so the last few weeks i've been researching on interior design/renovation and giving your place a new image. i'm quite surprised on how a lot of things can be applied in both web/software design and interior design. things have to color coordinate (unfortunately, i am apparently color blind and am in dire need of a color wheel and swatches), you have to unify the theme of the different rooms (modern, modern contemporary, classic, cartoon... i dunno), usability is always important (who wants to run their shins into table corners every single day of their life) etc.

this past weekend, i took the first major step into re-doing my place. i actually purchased new couches and hardwood floors but i'm still lacking a theme. i'm going for modern minimalist with lots of pictures (oh god, it seems like i'm going to be copying this website's look and feel) but i'm totally open to suggestions, tip-and-tricks and any help that you guys can suggest. in other words... help, i'm in over my head.

older, wiser and deaf-er...

Nothing can possibly make you feel older than going to a Maroon 5 concert. I enjoyed the show a lot. I really did! I'm a 27 year old with a teen-bopper media selection. I've been a pretty big fan of the band even before they got hot-momma kelly preston in their music video (shame on you adam, making mrs john travolta cry!).

Ok, so there was one part in the concert where the band induces this crowd screem thing. It's basically a 5 minute continuous burst of screeming from the crowd. It was deafening to hear a stadium packed full of screeming teen age girls sustain a 5 minute high pitched glass shattering screem. I think my hearing has permanently been damaged.

I give the concert 8.5 out of 10 overall, but I'm hardly the person to be reviewing concerts and performances. I've been held guilty for going to the Tony Braxton/Kenny G concert where the highlight of the whole concert was Kenny G popping out at different exits of the stadium.