09.22.07
OSCAR’S DILEMMA
Oscar de la Hoya, himself, disputed the authenticity of the controversial photographs showing him in a scandalous woman’s dress. In the picture, the boxer was shown almost bare as a fish clad in a pink panty while wrapped in a dragnet, striking poses near the sofa, astride a tub, one with the “ya, go on sex me up” look. The complete set could be found in x7online, the same ones being pandered by the woman who allegedly took the said pictures.
There are some who claim that the photographs were fakes and airbrushed. And there is big possibility that they were, in my opinion. For instance, the heads on some pictures were a bit unproportionate from the rest of the boxer’s body. So unless someone could produce the raw photograph, no one could really say for sure. Anyway, here is one of the controversial pixes. Judge for yourself. For all we know, he’s just playing I-am-a-fish-queen for a day. 
09.19.07
NBN FIASCO
This FG guy is becoming such a nuisance. I mean besides being an eye soar he has this knack for inviting trouble. It’s not surprising because just look at him – bloated and all – one would think of Nero or some Roman pig who has overindulged and would not bat an eyelash when accepting a bribe. In all this time, he has managed to sabotage what his spouse has done so far. Whatever happens now – they would have their comeuppance.
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OT: I am depressed today, because the radio played a Christmas song. Wah.
09.18.07
MOODY OR NOT?
I am currently blogging from my Mac. Yesterday, my PC chose to shut itself down. It was making some noises prior to its death and I mistook it for some desperate attempt at throwing a fit. Anyway, the offshoot is I was forced to tinker with my Ibook and learn the rudiments of its ethernet. And so here I am, taking extra care not to sweat too much because it stains the white palm rest. But having accessed DSL, I am now able to download stuffs again for my mac, which is uber nice.
I have been preoccupied with the Widgets after browsing apple.com. Well, Widgets is a Mac feature, which is… well, quite hard to explain. Lol. There’s this animated dashboard, accesible through a shortcut (for me it’s F8) which contains widgets from calendars to small funny games, to youtube and ESPN, among others. It’s really an eyecandy which Yahoo, I think, have simulated for the PC. If you own a mac you might wanna try these:
Moody or No:
It gauges the global mood by asking people to rate how they feel. Like today, the worldwide happiness is placed somewhere within the 68% range (I am onof them 
).
Plasma Tube:
Decorates your desktop with a fancy Lava Lamp. I honestly don’t know what this is for besides animating the Dashboard. But it does look pretty and it’s a pity that I couldn’t take a screenshot.
Currency Converter:
Instead of googling yourself to sites such as xe.com or logging on to Inquirer in order to find the inconspicuous Metrobank currency converter there, get this widget and calculate your offshore moolah with just one click.
Flappie 1.1:
This is a virtual pet. Lol, I have one and its currently dozing for like 1 week already. Haven’t woken it up and I think it’s still alive. According to Apple, you have to keep it flapping, hence, the name Flappie.
EmitSMS:
This is useful when there is a hottie in the cafe and you want to know the number. It could send an SMS via bluetooth though you have to pray that he or she has theirs enabled. Of course, one can always scan and pick people with the name cute attached to their visibility ID.
There are tons of other widgets – some utterly stupid, some useful, and some weird. You have to give it to Steve Jobs and his techies, I heard some of these stuffs are being copied by the Vista. Oh, well.
09.13.07
SPENDING FAKE MONEY
I have decided to be nice as much as I can. Really, I easily get pissed. And so, when the taxi driver said his cab overheated, I said that’s fine. “Tabi nyo na lang bosing at baba na ako dito.” I had an appointment, see.
“Ay, ala ho akong barya nyang 500.” Futek naman, it’s almost 3 PM at wag mong sabihing kalalabas mo lang. As a rule, I never said this.
“Kunin nyo na lang ho 200, kelangan ko na hong bumaba.”
“Tignan natin sa Shell baka me barya.”
To make the story short, we parked at the gas station and I waited. I have already counted from 1 to 100 but the driver was taking so much time. I came out to inquire.
Apparently, the Shell attendant has some issues with my 500 bucks. “Naku, ito ho kasi umilaw.” He must be referring to the machine that they use to check the authenticity of the darned currency.
“O, umilaw naman pala. Ano hong problema?”
“Kaso lang inde ko kasi makita yung 500 mark dito.”
“Ibig sabihin fake yan? E galing lang yan sa ATM e.” The bosing taxi driver is starting to size me up and down.
“E bigyan nyo na lang ako ng ibang 500 nyo. Mahirap na kasi.”
I could have argued for a bit more but I was really getting late, so I gave him another bill and thankfully, though they came from the same machine, it was okay.
I mean, wtf. I got those 2 500-peso bills from the EPCIB ATM near Central Market in Sampaloc and he was telling me it was fake. Or was it really a fake? I made a mental note to complain in that bank the day after. But the problem was, during that night when I remembered the incident and fished for the money, it was gone! Syet, I spent it already and it must be in circulation as we speak.
I felt a bit guilty about the whole incident but what can I do?
09.06.07
FOR MJ
Its during the cold like this
when I shiver
that I think of you most.
If you are here by me
I might be gritting my teeth
And you’ll be gritting yours, too.
I can imagine your eyes,
you see.
Then, we’ll smile
And by then I’ll know
that all is well.
Perhaps…
No, it will be surely,
that when the lights go out,
we’ll kiss also.
09.05.07
Fern-C
As the Boy Scout oath says, one has to be “laging handa.” And it does pay to be safe all the time. So, I was buying a, er… rubber. @.@ alright, condom… this morning. I am 24 (woot) but up to now, I am still embarrassed to order around the counter people and say condom aloud without me blushing to high heavens. It always elicit those knowing smirks either from the cashier or the person behind you in the queue. That is why I am thankful, that one can just say, “meron kayong Trust?” because it sounds less scandalous.
However, I found out Trust robs one of the feeling tremendously that one might as well wear a rain coat or something to that effect. hehe. Good thing a friend recommended Frenzy, which to my surprise worked better indeed.
Never mind that it’d make everything wearing it look like a neon sign in bright shade of orange or yello, it was definitely Frenzy this morning. The drugstore exchange went like this:
“Ten pesos each po. Ilan?”
“Dalawa lang.” It should be in a pack. And they come in sets. Two packs?
A while later here comes the salesperson hobbling with two capsules. I swallowed hard. I thought, were these new condoms – capsulized ones? (Futek, what an idiot, eh?) Apparently, he mistook my purchase for the Fern-C, the darn ascorbic acid supplement. I did not dare correct his mistake. So I was forced to drop by another drugstore (such an ass) and declared Frenzy one more time.
I asked how much. She, the druggist, said, 7 bucks. I thought, surely the girl knows her business plus the price is significantly lower so I did not add “yung condom ate.” It turned out, she was also one dumb version of the previous moron so I got another pair of Fern-C. Gawd, I thought I was being punished by someone. Lol.
Anyway, I got the right one finally with the third druggist. Sheesh, I felt so stupid and pathetic… noob.
09.03.07
A SCENIC VIEW
Is it the 5th or the 6th of September? That was my father’s birthday to you. Anyway, I thought it would be nice to give him something ok for a change. I mean, these past years when I could afford gifts, he’s got a stream of liquors. And so I was thinking about what one of my cousins told me about a time to pamper the folks. I will not dig unto it further because its pretty morbid topic and that the upshot was I bought him a 32″ LCD TV.
Really, the purchase is not entirely, er… altruistic. See, I also was dying to have the Samsung TV I constantly pass in Abenson’s. I was pretty sure it was begging for me exclusively to do so, so, finally yesterday, it got owned. Wahaha.
Well, what can I say? It is extremely delicious (not to say more delicious than the others since this is the first time we’ll be having one). The deal went with an equally nice home theater system which literally sent me to the edge of my seat as we tried dying hard 4. *wink
You’ll find that one of the pitfalls of LCD TVs in general, besides decimating your bank account, is that you could not enjoy the 24 in one dibidis in the black market. Lol. The screen is humongous and you don’t expect the cheap pirated movies to cope when the picture is stretched up to some degree. It will pixelize. You’ll be forced to dig dipper in the tiangge and find the high quality films or, of course, you can always buy original.
There are some purchases that I regret but this is not one of them. The folks are happy, and I am too. The baby is currently blasting Akon away.
