Pichur!

Posted on August 9, 2008 at 3:47 pm | 12 Comments
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Okay, I’m really sorry for not updating this blog for uh, almost a month? I hope you’ll forgive me. I guess, a bug bit me. Well, yeah, I have a writer’s block right now. So yeah. That’s mainly the reason why there are no updates in this blog lately. Another reason is school. Though I have lots of new experiences, I can’t post them here. By the time I get back home, most my energy has already been depleted. Then, there are still other things that I have to worry like endless paperwork, Ms. Irresponsible1, and other things that make me annoyed. Besides, the reason why I’m keeping my identity would be defeated if I published them here.

But if you can’t resist2 me, I suggest that you follow me on Twitter and Plurk. Also add me as your friend, contact, fan or whatever on Last.fm, Facebook, Flickr, Delicious (The new Delicious site is… delicious!), Google Reader, and Digg. But erm, there’s no 100% guarantee that I’ll reciprocate. XD

So, what’s with the title? Well, I dunno if I’ve already introduced you to the word pichur. Haha. Obviously, it’s synonymous to the word picture. Use it in a sentence? Okay, here we go: Have you seen NYTimes’ feature on Angelica Panganiban’s photoshopped pichur? I guess this word was created circa 2005 by my chemistry-teacher-slash-adviser who has pronunciation problems.

Because I’m really out of words, I’ll be using photos to express myself and I’ll try to put a short description. Hopefully, this will work. And uh, I hate to admit it but this post is very random.

Let’s get the film rolling!

Agony in the Garden
Agony in the Garden - March 25, 2005

I’m pretty sure I’ve already posted this photo here. This is one of our heirlooms. My Dad reckons it was sculpted around the last quarter of the 17th century. That makes it more than a century old. Every Holy Week, we go to Dangwa Flower Market (near UST) to buy flowers for the procession. The float is designed with various flowers. Around six in the evening, the procession starts. But lately, I didn’t like how the float was decorated (20063, 2007, 2008). My Grandmother insists on buying white flowers only. It looked too simple to me. Currently, this photo is in Flickr’s Explore. Uh, if you have a Flickr account and you like this photo, please add it to your favorites and leave a comment as well. Well, I’m not coercing you. Haha.

Eat
Eat - December 24, 2006

A little bit of history about this phone: before it landed to me, my younger and sister and mother used it. Well, I’m not really a fan of phones. So even though it came from the Jurassic Era, I really don’t care. Lately, it was malfunctioning which forced me to use the other old phones here at home. But now, it’s working again. The culprit was its bloated battery. On a related subject, I’ve already owned one Smart, one Sun, and four Globe sim cards. Currently, I’m using two Globe sim cards. One is for my offline life, and the other is for my online life (but I don’t regularly use it).

Fully Booked
Fully Booked - April 06, 2008

You know how much I love books. Books are the fuel of my life. WTF?! I really enjoy reading books, that’s why I don’t mind spending hundreds of Pesos on them. Yeah, reading is an expensive hobby. Unless you have other resources like borrowing reads from the library or from your friends, you’ll surely get broke. But owning a copy is still different, eh? Right now, I don’t have anything to read. The books in the local bookstore don’t look interesting to me. Someone suggested a Chuck Palahniuk book to me, but after reading the synopsis on the back of his book, I hesitated. I think I will not like his style, besides, the synopsis kinda scared the hell out of me. I badly want to visit a Fully Booked store!

Bread Talk
Bread Talk - August 08, 2008

I have to say that Bread Talk is officially my favorite bakery. The presentation of their pastries and breads is awesome! I always salivate when I see breads (and not to mention cakes) from Bread Talk. And oh, the structure of their shops is also cool. Simple but amazing. The only downside is that their breads are expensive. Oh, look at that sign! The “NO PHOTOGRAPHING, no smoking, no eating/drinking, no shoplifting4” sign can’t stop me from taking photos of this amazing bakery!
PS: I submitted this photo to the Flickr 888 pool.

Print Cartridges
Print Cartridges - August 09, 2009

I’ve been bragging on Plurk that I’ve used my HP 56 Print Cartridge (as seen on this photo) for a staggering two years. What’s more is that I didn’t have to buy a new cartridge because I used up all of the 19 milliliters of ink but because the cartridge malfunctioned. That’s how tipid I am with ink. Haha. You see, I usually use “fast draft” for Print Quality (for text). Well, the quality is good and the text is still readable. Yesterday, after checking the prices of the print cartridges in four computer shops at SM City Pampanga, I bought the cheapest HP 56/57 print cartridge combo-pack for my old printer-slash-scanner-slash-copier I’ve found. I was able to save more or less PHP 1000.00. In one of the shops I’ve visited, if you bought a HP 56 and HP 57 print cartridges separately, you would have to pay them for PHP 2680.00 (I’m glad I didn’t buy from that store)! Now, that’s an impressive deal! I guess, those are that last print cartridges I would buy until I graduate from college. Haha.

Uh, I guess this worked for me! w00t! I now have my first post for this month. I actually enjoyed doing this. I’m off to visit your blogs, then, I’ll try to catch the Olympics (read this article: 10 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Olympic Games) later.

  1. That’ll be her name here in my blog from now on. Also, I believe that the whole class now knows how much I hate her. Wait, have I mentioned about her here in my blog? [↩]
  2. LOL. What’s wrong with me? Resist?! Seriously? [↩]
  3. Weird. I can’t find a photo of this in my Flickr account taken back in 2006. [↩]
  4. Uh, I’m not sure if it’s a “no shoplifting” sign. The illustration was so vague. [↩]

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Inday’s Deepest Secrets

Posted on February 29, 2008 at 11:50 pm | 8 Comments
Filed under Daily Dose

Surprise, our new maid who has been with us for only four weeks has got secrets. Secrets that cannot be hidden. Of course, every secret will find a way out, out into the open. The first time I saw her, I already suspected that she’s not going to be a good maid. True enough, she’s not. I even hoped that she would be good or even better than our previous maid. But actually, she’s even worse than what I feared. She’s a nightmare, honestly1. She’s getting into my nerves and I hate it.

The first thing that I hate about her is that she keeps on using the biggest tube in our house. I don’t get it why she still uses the TV in our living room when she has her own television. We provided her with a TV that she can use, and I don’t get it why she can’t stop from using our 60-inch TV that uses electrical energy at a rate of 160 watts. Maybe, one, she likes a TV with a bigger screen, two, the reception of the TV in our sitting room is better than the one in the extension of our house, and three, there are more channels available in the TV that she loves to use without our permission. She’s ghastly, isn’t she? Wait, you might get me wrong. We’re not stopping her from watching her favorite show, Kamandag (Venom), and whatever God knows what but then, she has to know that there are limitations. So what we’re doing now is that instead of turning our TV on the easier way, we turn it on using the much complicated way. I don’t know if you can imagine it, but so you can visualize it better, let’s just say that instead of pressing only one button, we have to press at least three buttons before we can see people and hear voices from our 60-inch tube.

Another thing that we’ve discovered is that she uses my younger sister’s phone whenever she cans. Let me tell you first than in my sibling’s school, no student is allowed to bring a phone, and when I say that they’re not allowed to do so, they really mean it. In her school, if you were caught to be bringing your phone, you would be reprimanded. So, she has no choice but to leave her phone in our home. And now, here comes our maid… she’s using it without my sister’s authorization . What is worse is that our maid uses my sister’s prepaid load to send SMS to whomever she’s contacting it. We haven’t caught her red handed but the evidences are all pointing to her as the culprit. And just this afternoon, we found out that she tried to use my sister’s phone: she tried guessing the PIN of my sister’s sim card, and now, it’s blocked. And since my sister has already lost the paper that has her sim card’s PUK, she cannot use it anymore. Too bad, that sim card has even prepaid load before it was blocked.

My mother asked our maid to clarify this incident but according to my mom, our maid only turned white — as if her face was soaked in vinegar — and she denied it. She said that she hasn’t touched my sibling’s phone. As my father is on a cruise that started in Hong Kong last Tuesday, this issue will be settled once when he gets back here in the country.

There are other things that I hate about her, this includes:

  • She’s not a good cook. All she can do is fry. I’m even better in frying than her. Lol. Now, I’m not wondering why I don’t always have appetite. One cannot live on fried meals alone. Remember that.
  • She turned on my book light and didn’t turn it off. Now, the batteries of my book light need replacement. Hell, I don’t have moolah left for unexpected expenses. I’m actually saving money right now so I really don’t buy anything unless I need it.
  • She is not as loquacious as compared to our previous maids. She doesn’t sound friendly at all. As a matter of fact, I have only talked to her a couple of times and there was only one incident when I had called her using her name.

We hired a maid because we need one. We took one not just to help us in accomplishing various household chores like cleaning our house, washing and pressing our clothes, and watering the plants in our garden but to also guard our house during those hours when we’re not home. But with what she’s showing us, it looks like that we cannot trust her. Maybe, she’s the one who is stealing our things. So, what do you think… shall we fire her? Who wants me to demonstrate defenestration? Lol. :lol:

  1. Lol. Hey, that sentence was a line from the Harry Potter films. Haha. For the previous week, I have watched the five Harry Potter films one more time. [↩]

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