Briathrail // Albert 2MNG

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So, for a start. My top 5 for the week:

1. Season’s Call – by Hyde
2. Sekirei – by Saori hayami
3. Burial Applicant – by thE GazettE
4. Resonance – by T.M.Revolution
5. What If God Was One Of Us – by Alanis Morisette

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Work sure is getting hard. I mean, they take things very seriously, and I had to learn along the way. But jobs in the Philippines are scarce, and I consider myself very fortunate to even land a job.

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The 2008 Beijing Olympics is already over. Records are broken, history was rewritten, and achievements were cemented. But one thing did not change. Philippines = 0 gold medals. Or more correctly put, no medals whatsoever for this Olympics.

I can only say one thing: the Olympics is a committment. Most of the athletes signed up for long-term training, and trained for more than 2 years in preparation. Most countries pool their resources on 2-3 sports only, and focal points were narrowed down to sports which they think they will excel. If the Philippine Olympic Commission thinks that sending half-baked cookies with little preparation to the Olympics is enough, never expect anything in return.

Lessons are learned in defeats and setbacks, but the government… never learn, and maybe never will.

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The US “Redeem Team” won the gold medal for Men’s Basketball in the Olympics. Aside from that corny tag and the obvious egotistical idea of “US winning the basketball games everytime because they invented basketball” which is pure bullshit, they did fine. Now Kobe can put the Shaq image behind and truly stand out like “I can win a gold medal without Shaq”. Now dig that.

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The Comiket 74 comics are quite good. I collected most of it (scans), and aside from the censurable ones it was like seeing the future of Japan’s manga industry one booklet at a time.

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I’m getting the hang of this “Wiki-surfing”.

My workplace has this so-called great tool for self-indulgence, called “WebSense”. It blocks huge virtual continents such as blogs, forums, gaming sites, social sites, disturbing sites, file sharing sites, entertainment sites, and the ever-popular carnal continents. Ugh, so much for censorship.

Thankfully only two websites are good to surf in: http://ph.news.yahoo.com, and Wikipedia.

Recently one Saturday anime marathon night I chanced upon this guy with an unusual past-time. He goes to “Yahoo.com”, clicks random links, and clicks every 6th link he finds on the page until he finds a dead end, backtracks, and clicks away until he eventually tires out of his random surfing.

I tried to apply it in the office, since I’m on a free basis and maybe I could use some hour burner. So I decided it was time for idle surfing.

I had to choose a starting page, and this is what I chanced upon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2008

Then I clicked on random links per day, and usually I chance upon weird websites along the way, but it was a pretty fun exercise. I learn, yet I am loafing the hours away. It’s like an interesting set of encyclopedias and you just have to move a hand and a pair of eyes just to be amused.

Thankfully it’s still good to be young.