Mewt Online

I just downloaded and installed Firefox 3 and I am impressed. It’s a total overhaul from the previous Firefox versions both it’s core system and it’s user interface. When I launched it the first time, I immediately noticed the clean and glassy look which makes it seem like a vista or a mac application. The installation by the way is pretty quick, takes seconds to complete and it loads really fast. It has some pretty neat features too like a vista control panel and malware protection - a major improvement on it’s security. I will not mention everything on the release notes here (go visit mozilla). I’ve been a Firefox user since it’s second release and this recent release made me love this browser so much more.

By the way, I lost the bet. Goddammit Kobe, you suck!!! ~_~

Okay, nuf talk, let’s play Cabal.

Hah!!!! First win for the Lakers! Woo! That’s what I’m talkin about! Kobe has put on quite a show today with a huge huge support from Vujacic. Lookin forward in game 4. Hah!!

I’m running out of luck. The Lakers lost in game 2! What the hell is up with Kobe and Pau? Hey Mr MVP, I made a bet - 500 bucks for the series winner. I friken hate hate hate losing, I ain’t good at it especially if money is involved (oh shit, I’m beginning to sound like I’m a fricken gambler) so, you better do your job and you better do it good or.. or.. I’m gonna tear that wallpaper in my room ya hear? Some MVP. ~_~

Last week, there was an interesting incident in the office (I wasn’t aware of this until yesterday). Apparently, my former boss is involved yet again with another controversy. Damn, his popularity is rising to extreme heights he could probably run for the President of the company, haha I’m kidding. I think he knows this blog yikes! The other person involved (and she could be a very nice girl except that she can’t keep her mouth shut sometimes - really, I don’t give a rat’s ass if they read this blog, I’m resigning anyway :p) is also very controversial. I don’t know what the whole story was but I was told that this colleague curses a LOT and well, the boss being a good Shepperd, he probably told her that it’s better to just shut up than say something that invites negative vibe in the workplace. She didn’t take that lightly though, so yesterday I got this weird feeling that something is not right. See? The macho’s instinct never fails - dispute or die! The whole CR team might be plotting against him. I hear them trash talk when the boss is not around. Since the boss and I are pretty close, I’m not sure if they’re trying to send a message across or it’s just normal for them to trash talk while everyone is listening, but who cares. I might be very insensitive sometimes but if you ask me what I think about this whole mess, I didn’t like it when these people started to talk shit behind the boss’ back and they never have the guts to say shit in his face. Talk about immaturity and being unprofessional. There’s a channel for complaints for chrissakes if you don’t like confrontations!

I was at Mega this afternoon to get a credit card application form. I wanted BPI but I’m too lazy to look for their booth. BDO’s the closest so I got one. I’m dying to get one of those LCD TVs so they better approve my application!

Too tired. Need some rest. Ciao for now!

Oh God, words can’t express what I feel right now. It’s friday and I’m fricken bored. Bored as hell. Bored to the bones. I wish I’m home in front of my computer. Ahh.. my computer. I should give her a name, say ugh.. Victoria? My girl gets jealous sometimes with my PC. She said I prefer to be with my girlfriend (she’s referring to my computer). hehe She’s being cute and I lover her for that. Well then, it’s settled. My computer’s name is now Victoria. wooheehaa!

The Lakers lost in game 1. That sucks.. The Celtics are old. KG, Paul and Ray, they’re over 30 for chrissakes, how the hell did they beat Kobe and Pau?????!! huh? huh? huh? I’m cheering for the Lakers (bleh that sounds gay) but man, Ray is the shiznit yo! He’s a pure jump shooter with a stroke I would love to imitate (except that I can’t unless God grants my wish to add extra few inch of my height ~_~). Anyway, I didn’t finish the game because the Lakers are losing at the final minutes in the 4th. I can’t stand losing so shut up. The Celtics got a home court advantage, and that’s big because the crowd is like the team’s sixth man. They’re invincible in their own court. Ok, well I’m looking forward in game two. I’m sure as hell the Lakers will beat the crap out of those green freaks. They won’t get away this time! woo!

Today is Saturday! I can’t believe I don’t have plans this weekend! what to do? what to do???? I hope my girl visits me. I can’t stand boredom. I might just burn the apartment and the whole building and the buildings around it just for the heck of it. I’m kidding! Hey I’m a good guy. I heard Narnia and Kung Fu Panda are both in theaters. Godammit! I have to wait for 5 more days to watch these movies??? I don’t have money this week (thanks to my birthday bash I’m broke!) Payday is a week away, I need to cut down my expenses or I’ll end up begging in the streets.

darn! Here come’s the boss! cya!! XD

I hate being in a brain slump.

Normally, I have a lot of ideas that floats in my head. The difficult part for me is choosing the right one. My brain has been very slow lately. It just can’t formulate ideas that it normally use to. I’m blaming it to the lack of sleep and lack of information to digest and absorb. Ok ok.. and also because I have more time playing games now than reading stuff and blogging. Pfft.

I don’t know how other people overcome their challenges but I have this bad habit of losing focus in whatever I do (especially when faced with issues). Maybe because issues drain me hardcore to a point that it affects my physical health (and sanity.. ~_~).

I also notice the sudden change of my way of thinking. When given a situation to analyze, I look at the finer details and not the big picture. This isn’t good because the risk of making the wrong decision is high.

I need to revive mentally. I cannot let issues impede my brain functions. I have plans, and I am to achieve what I aim to get.

Wow, it’s been a while. Some interesting and unexpected things had happened in the past few weeks. My life became unbearably busy all of a sudden. Certain things happened, mostly bad, but I embrace the experience as it changed the way I see life. Decisions had been made that will most likely impact my lifestyle on the next few weeks. I want to tell everything and be open about it but it is hard for me to deal with some harsh truth that I decided to skip them.

The four days off from work were rejuvenating. It was unexpected but I needed it. When I got back, I surprised everyone with some bad “news”.

Sometimes I am inclined to think that everything will turn out OK. Shit happens but they happen for a reason right? I’m starting to dislike Disney movies. I mean they always end up the story “happily ever after”. That’s the biggest BS ever. It’s a dog eat dog out there and ‘lil Miss Riding Hood will mostly likely end up into someone else’s breakfast. We all have this overrated illusion of a purely fickle life. One day you’re happy, the next day you’re not.

Ok, enough of the melodrama.

Ever since I installed Ubuntu, I can’t stop using it. I actually have 2 desktop managers installed - GNOME which is the default desktop manager and my recently installed KDE. The difference, KDE looks more like windows XP and a bit faster too. GNOME on the other hand is eye candy. It looks great especially with compiz fusion running but one needs to have a faster processor and loads of memory to maximize the effect. One good thing of having Linux is you’ll never run out of options. That is what software is about right? Options. You can customize your OS to suit your needs.

I still keep Windows XP for my games though. My idle times are wasted to playing online games. I had tried so hard to quit my gaming habits but it’s in my blood. I can’t get rid of this sickness easily ehe. So, the latest online game I am currently playing is called CABAL. I have posted a pic of my character in my previous blog entry. I played the US version of CABAL but thanks to E-Games the local version is finally here! In fact, the close beta test which was done from May 15-19 was a major success. Open beta will start in 5 days, I hope. The best thing about this game is, it’s free to play. Woo! I am also addicted to Civilization 3. I mean who could forget about this award winning game? I was addicted to this game before, way back when I was college. I have forgotten about the game until last Saturday while cleaning my room, I didn’t know I still have the installer. After the installation I thought of trying it for a few minutes but I ended up playing the whole day! haha! I was addicted to Civ 1 and 3 but I never like the other versions. I also tried Lineage 2 with their biggest patch to date, the Kemael. I like the graphics and a bit of the gameplay (I still think it needs fine tuning though) but the fact that it’s P2P leaves most of the towns almost deserted. Maybe because it was midnight when I tried the game.

Oh shoot, I’m late. More entries soon! Cya!!

Fragged and re-spawned (ugh.. Another sporadic entry)

Guess what, I’m back online! woo! Well, it’s been a hell of a month. Lots had happened and I don’t know where to start. I’m feeling worn out to be honest. Our Productivity stats at work has been doing really really good lately and I guess I was too caught up with work that I became oblivious of so many things I love doing. I was in a state of mild bliss. On a positive note, the hiatus made me channel all the wasted extra time online into a more socially engaged activities. That’s good right?

My girl was kind enough to invite me for an out of town swimming a couple of weeks ago. It’s summer, perfect time to go out and swim. I forgot the name of the resort but it was jam-packed with people when we got there. We had a great time to say the least - her family has been really good to me. Meet the three sisters

Speaking of family, my life has totally changed right after my sister moved out of the country. You’ll be surprised to know how much I’ve changed (washing my own clothes and cooking food is something that I don’t do before. haha!). I can say that I’m more responsible and mature now than when I was with my sister that I can totally depend on. Living alone isn’t so bad. I get to play my favorite music all night without disturbing anyone. I can watch DVD movies anytime I want. Total freedom.

Now this is freedom -> I have tried a new MMORPG lately and I was kind of hooked up. It’s called Cabal Online. The local servers are going to be up late this month or early next month but I wanted to to try the game so bad that I downloaded the US version. There’s an IP ban but thanks to a nifty little program called “smart hide”. It’s a small application that allows you to change your IP to some pre-defined IPs in the application including a US IP address which will allow you to play mmorpgs outside your country with IP bans. Check out my girly character hehe.

My PSP has been the center of my gaming world for the past few days. I installed the game called God of War and man, this game rocks my socks!!! The graphics is stunning. The gameplay is simple - hack and slash - but I like the story. Greek mythology is one of my favorites, the gods and goddesses are part of the game story. The best part for me is when Kratos is fighting with Persephone - the wife of Hades. I felt sorry for Atlas though, condemned to hold up the world in his shoulder, Zeus is a bully. The only downside for the game is it’s a little short. The main boss is the queen of the underworld - Persephone. I was actually hoping to kick Hades ass in the end, a total disappointment. There’s a sequel to the game and it has been released for PS 2 console - it’s called God of War 2. I can’t wait for the PSP version, release date is yet to be announced.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to cut down my expenses lately and I’m failing miserably. God.. the idea is there but damn it I can’t control myself. I’m starting to hate malls. I’m no good at saving but I know that cutting down expenses means more money in my pocket. That gives me an option wether to save the extra money or spend it wisely. I’d rather save it though. There’s just no conscious effort on my part to NOT spend. Well, I’ll try harder.

A friend hates me. He’s a co-worker who is pissed on something that I do. If you don’t want to talk to me, then fucking don’t. One is only friends when it suits them. I already explained my side. My only fault is when I told you that there will be changes in last month’s report that I’m going to separate some tasks that you do just to be fair to everyone in the team, I merely assumed you understand that it’s going to affect your total output. I was goddamn wrong. What pisses me off is you started alienating some of my friends too like we’re on a god damn conspiracy. I understand if you’ll hate me but for fuck sakes, why them? If you want a skip level, go ahead. I’m not backing off.

ugh. I don’t want to ruin my day. bye for now.

Got too much goin on with my life right now, can’t find time to update this blog. Stay tuned!

Windoze?! Ever experience the deadly blue screen?

I have used Linux Fedora before. I had it installed in my old PC and it wasn’t really fun because of software compatibility issues but I kept it because I believe in the future of this OS. The Open source community is getting bigger and more people are devoting their time to improve this geeky OS. Last year I bought a new computer. It’s fast and works well with XP. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much space in my apartment. I gave my old computer to my girl. Their school technician reformatted the computer, installed windows and used it in their school. I thought that was the end of my Linux experience.

I still wanted a computer that runs both Windows and Linux but I never like setting it up with partitions and all. So, for several months I have been using XP and well, I’m quite satisfied but not happy with it. Just last week I was browsing a few tech blogs and I came across the word “Ubuntu” several times in some of my friend’s blog entries. I had no idea what that is. Good thing I remember a friend’s advice before - “If God doesn’t answer your questions, turn to Google!”. I found out few things about Ubuntu and boy I missed a lot. Ubuntu is a very popular Linux flavor nowadays. I’ve seen download and usage stats of Linux flavors and Ubuntu tops the list. Fedora ranks 3rd if I’m not mistaken. I wanted to try this Ubuntu OS everyone is talking about but this means I have to partition my hard drive which I never like doing. Again, I turned to Google. The next word that came out - WUBI.

WUBI is Ubuntu installer for Windows. You know what that means, no hassle of partitioning the hard drive or running a Live CD. I immediately downloaded the installer from Wubi’s official website. Took me about an hour to download the file and 20 minutes to install. When I first logon I was immediately impressed.

The amount of resources it uses is minimal. It has a set of software applications a regular Joe needs like Open Office, Evoluton mail, Gaim instant messenger, media players and a lot more. I was running Ubuntu 7.04 and they call it Feisty Fawn (the naming rocks!). After a day, I found out that there’s a newer version so I ran the update to install Gutsy Gibon (7.10). After just several days of exploring Gutsy Gibon, Ubuntu developers released the newest version Ubuntu 8.04 codename: Hardy Heron and it’s now running on my computer. The desktop effects are awesome it’s 100% customizable! There are still few glitches (I have experienced occasional crashes) but the current version is still on beta stage and the official release is some time April so I expect a lot of fixes and improvements.

In the past couple of weeks I have devoted my time learning stuff about Ubuntu. In my opinion, this is the best alternative Operating system and I would recommend this to everyone. I am switching to Ubuntu but I’m keeping my XP for my games. Hardy Heron is avaible to download and if you’re like me who doesn’t like installing OS especially if it involves partitioning a hard drive, you might want to try Wubi. Linux is a kick ass OS!

Mark, sorry dude. This is Jonas’ idea not mine! hehe. Enjoy your trip man!