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Wi-Fi
Haay. Naka dial-up lang ako sa bahay. Yung maingay. Yung eeeeeee grrrrrr eeeeee. Tapos failed, kaylangang ulitin ulit1.
Five of my high school friends invaded our home and abused our Internet connection via wi-fi. It all started back in Saturday, when I and some of my friends in high school (a few of them where the same people who invaded our home) played badminton. I did not play much and there was nothing special with it so I will not talk more about it. After we played, we went straight to a mall here in Pampanga, despite that something had blasted in Glorietta 2 the day before that which resulted to a big accident leaving the part of Glorietta 2 where the accident happened unusable, 11 dead, and 129 others injured2. As of the time of writing this, the investigators of the accident doubt that it was a cause of terrorism. They still don’t have a concrete evidence that it was a bomb or anything of that sort that set-off this disaster.
When we got there with all of the bags we were bringing, we expected the security guards to inspect us thoroughly. But we got inside without them inspecting our bags. Come on, they should do their job! They should inspect everybody and their baggages no matter what the gender, age, and how the patrons look like. You see, they were busy chatting with each other. Of course, they can talk freely but they should do what they’re supposed to do because they’re being paid.
We strolled around the mall and ended up in Greenwich. It has been ages since I last ate there. I ordered Lasagna Supreme. Their lasagna is really great and it’s still included in the list of my favorite foods. On that same day, I bought a wireless router. Our phone line is busted yet again for the nth time. We have a temporary line in our dinning room, but I really hate surfing the Internet there because I don’t have any privacy so I bought one.
I have successfully set up the router in no time. But it took me a day to set up the network in our home. Figuring the firewall rules on my Windows Vista and on the old computer’s Windows XP turned my brain into nuts. Setting the network was really hard.
And today, around noon, one of my friends IMed me that he wants to go here in our house and surf the Internet for his paper. He complained that the Internet fee in a local Internet cafe was expensive. I had only less that 30 minutes to prepare myself. He brought with him his notebook so we were able to browse the Internet at the same time. We also had a good time chatting. We watched the funny videos produced by Christine AKA Happy Slip via YouTube, laughed at the stupid answer of Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 to her question, shared with him some of the programs that I use, and he told me that he left his orgmates from UP who were in his house3. Lol.
And then, another friend texted me, she wants to go here in our house to browse the Internet too. But she was not alone when she got here. She was with three of our high school classmates. Ah, I miss my high school classmates. I miss the way they make me laugh. I miss laughing with them with almost anything we see, hear or read. I miss our bonding. I miss high school. I miss our stupidity.
Nevertheless, I had a good time with them and I really hope that I’ll meet most of my high school friends this semester no matter if there is an available wireless connection or not. What I am after is to see them and talk with them again like there’s no tomorrow. Currently, I have seen eight out of 47 high school classmates this sembreak.
Shampoo Commercials
Yes, it’s already my sembreak. There’s so much thing that I want to do, like I want to bake a peach pie, change the layout of this blog, finish watching House MD (special thanks to the piraters here in downtown San Fernando), read1, write reviews of the books that I have recently finished reading, update this blog, and the list goes on but since I’ve mentioned about updating my blog… I have to update it.
I’ve already mentioned here that the shampoo commercials in the country looked like they were taped in other countries but it turned out that they were taped inside a studio with the usual shocking green background. Honestly speaking, I’m always fascinated with these commercials. Of course, minus the stupid jingles and the weird dance moves. Whoever created them are brilliant and it must have used all of their creative juices just to come up with these funny yet sometimes stupid commercials.
And this bring us to our own version of one of these shampoo commercials featuring three of my high school classmates. I was the one taping this so you will not see me. The following video was part of our final requirement for Economics back in High School. We decided to come up with this stupid spoofed commercial just to have some sort of an icebreaker. And yes, it was an effective icebreaker.
You might still remember that in the real commercial, the product that was being advertised ends with the letter “E”, but in this case, we had to change product-that-ends-with-letter-”E” into one of its rivals because we did not have any bottle of product-that-ends-with-letter-”E”.
And now, the advertisers had put the competition to the next level. We have now separate shampoos for men and women. Great? No. I don’t get it why there should be a separate shampoo for men and women. I can’t see any other motives of the advertisers but just to get more people, in this case, men, buy their product.
It’s just like they are saying “Hey, use our new shampoo for men! If you don’t, you’re a homo! Gay!” Smart advertisers, hu? I checked the bottle of both men’s and women’s shampoo of the same brand yesterday, aside from the difference in the color of the bottle, and the men’s have the words “for men”, it turned out there are only two different ingredients used for the men’s shampoo. Now, I wonder what makes it more effective if a male used it.
Advertisers are smart, but we should be smarter than they are. Seriously, I don’t think a man using a so-called women’s shampoo would make him a homosexual and vice versa. Besides, these so-called shampoos for men and women are just new in the market. Last year, when these weird innovations were just a scratch, nobody cares what shampoo we use or if we use them or not. I suppose, they have created a separate shampoo for men because there were no male models for a shampoo in the past. Heck, of course, they would use a female model in advertising their shampoo because females usually have longer hairs. And now, they’re recruiting male models to advertise their shampoo for men.
PS: And when you can say a product is “new?” I’ve noticed that some shampoos — well, not only shampoos — have the word “new” on their containers for ages. Surely, they’re not new anymore, don’t they? Ah, another advertising tactic.
- I’m still reading 90 Minutes in Heaven and I’ve got a copy of The Best of Youngblood — finally. [↩]
Big Brother
Once you have entered any Big Brother house, I’m sure, your wouldn’t have any privacy and confidentiality, or if there is, only a little of the two. It’s sad isn’t? You can’t do things without the others knowing it, or should I say the whole world. It’s a breach to everyone’s right: the right to privacy. But then, to relinquish one’s privacy and confidentiality is a prerequisite or a mechanic or whatever you want to call it of the reality show. Besides, the housemates have consented to relinquish their privacy and confidentiality by joining the game.
Tomorrow, the gates, doors and windows of the Pinoy Big Brother house will open once again, and the cameras will start to roll and monitor every move of the housemates. And I don’t care. You know perfectly that I loathe the show. And let me state here that this post is not about the reality game show.
I used to abuse the unlimited Internet surfing my school offers for an exchange of a price of around Php 500.00 even though the only browser installed in the computers in school is the freaking IE and they don’t even have the latest version. Now, I’m wondering if their Windows are of legitimate copies. After surfing the Internet (in school), I clear the cache, browser history, cookies, and other whatnots for my privacy. I don’t want other students know what sites I visit. The last time I surfed the Internet in school, I’ve learned that they disabled access to the “Internet Options” unless you’re an administrator. And this really sucks.
This is another reason why Firefox is better than IE, in Firefox, you don’t need to be an administrator to delete all of those private data. When I’m on an Internet Cafe (which is very rare) — the Internet Cafes I have been to have Firefox installed — I just click Clear Private Data, and presto, no unwanted private data left.
Behind all of this, it’s really better browsing the Internet at home. No people shouting foul words at each other. No rude looking people reading whatever you are typing. No hassles of clearing your private data.
And this reminded me that if our phone line won’t get fixed anytime soon1, I have to buy a wireless router so I can browse the Internet in my room.
- We have a temporary line in our dinning room. [↩]
Desktop Madness
It has been ages since I last did a meme here so I stole this one from Juice. I am really itching to do this meme despite that I have to sit a final exam later this afternoon at 3:00 pm. Oh, don’t worry, it’s just Theology, and really, I don’t have to memorize anything, I only need to read pages and pages of photocopied lectures.
Without any further ado, here it is…
As you can see, my wallpaper is from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I’ve been using this wallpaper for months and I’m tired of it. I tried to look for another wallpaper but nothing suited me. On the left side, you can see my desktop icons. I only put two columns of icons on my desktop to make it look neat. On the other side is the Windows Sidebar. I don’t usually use it but I like its functionality and features.
And now, my top five programs.
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 I use this program to manipulate my photos and create the images that I use for my layouts.
- Yahoo! Messenger Aside from texting, I use Y!M to get connected to my high school classmates. This also serves as my connection to my online friends and present blockmates.
- Mozilla Firefox Do I still need to explain what this program does?
- Notepad For encoding my layouts. Yes, I’m comfortable using Notepad to encode HTML, CSS and PHP.
- Limewire and uTorrent (tie) For downloading mp3 files and other whatnots.
Feel free to steal this meme. I’m now signing off to continue reviewing for my exam later.
