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It feels good to finally find a way out of the jungle named “Websense”. Hopefully my DSL connection at home can be resolved by Sunday and I’ll be blogging happily ever thereafter again 😀
Weekly Top Five:
1. Lacrimosa – by Kalafina (sidenote: Kajiura-san never seems to run out of good music nowadays)
2. Naked Love – by Nightmare
3. Janie’s Got A Gun – by Aerosmith
4. Harana – by Eraserheads
5. No me Ames – by J-Lo and Marc Anthony (the best Spanish song I ever heard)
Truth be told, I really missed blogging even if I’m really absorbed by work.
But, I did have some interesting encounters throughout my invisible 3 months.
Q.A.
It’s the acronym for Quality Assurance. One of the very things a programmer both love and despise. I mean, they have the tools. What errors I cannot see in my program, they see right through it. They suggest very very beneficial things that really enhance my work. They have these beautiful ladies that saunter right through your cubicle to discuss with you. They handle the technical details of a project, paperwork, footwork and lobbying in one. And believe me, they do work hard.
But there are three beefs I have with them:
1. They never attempt to ever soften the blows.
Sure, the “error trapping” they do help me. But at the same time, they’re blows. Pacquiao-like blows. They never use soft words. Instead, they prefer to use blunt, chiselled words which do not fit with company wording etiquette. I actually hated my IPMsg for a while. Given a medium in which they can use very very informal words that can go unsupervised, they literally take off their gloves and suckerpunches me verbally. I prefer they use email instead, because I prefer talking using soft words in work. I reserve my salty tongue outside my workplace.
2. They attempt to “personalize” the GUIs.
One project I had involved me making a standalone webpage for their “portal” which I definitely made using very very general ideas. Initially I had it both red and blue, but suddenly they butt in, and wants the header image – of all bad hues there are in this godly fucking world – semiviolet purple. Damn. I asked them for the reason why, and they said without any hint of restraint – “it’s their choice”. C’mon, this company we work in is in red and blue, and purple is something you get from a 5-year-old’s water color palette! They insist. They have the upper hand, I surrender. But my finger is up in the air anyway.
3. They try to make the impossible demands.
The list is too many to mention, but some of them were really freaky in nature. They actually tried to ask if the Javascript’s Ok-Cancel combo can be changed to yes-no! Goddamn. But I learned one thing from them too: they have complete disregard for functionality as long as aesthetics of theirs are followed. I tread the delicate balance between functionality and aesthetics in a web page, and these people do not. They just play catch-me in the places of no sane return.
But I still like them. I can’t really hate girls, I just sometimes disagree with them but I’ll never cross the line 😀 and work, is just a “that’s it” affair.
It’s getting really pricely to eat here at Makati.
Yes, my workplace’s got a canteen or two but they mostly server food that can remind you of hospital food, and I’m sick of it. The vegetables are rarely green, the meat is usually rehashed from yesterday, and the soups are rarely delicious.
If you eat here at the Makati area here in Ayala Ave., Philippines, you’ll at least see me in one of these establishments at lunch time:
Max’s Fried Chicken (Glorietta branch)
KFC (Greenbelt and Landmark branches)
Jolibee (Greenbelt and Landmark branches)
Food Selections (Glorietta)
Tokyo Tokyo (Greenbelt)
Landmark Foodcourt
The Enterprise foodcourt
Ineng’s (Dela Rosa branch)
However, eating at these places always leave my wallet dry and gasping for more money.
And, as usual, Philippine politics is a disgrace to the entire human race.
I’ll try to drop by again soon. Thanks for dropping by. 😀
Briathrail // Albert 2MNG 
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