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Oh well, here’s my (current) top 5 on my pod playlist:
1. Walk Away – by Franz Ferdinand
2. Kuchizuke (TV Ver.) – by BUCK-TICK (gah, I’d wait for the full version)
3. Realove:Realife – by SPHERE
4. Rem – NIGHTMARE
5. Dokudanjou Beauty – by BUCK-TICK
Gravity, thou are a heartless bitch.
Currently I’m on borrowed time as I’m co-using this “free”, new non-Websense-stricken browser at my workplace. And since I have some free time on my hands, might as well start getting my fingers busy.
History, unroll. This is a long verbal soiree.
Since last November, I had gotten real, pretty busy. Projects here, projects that. Work on this and work on that. Sure, I had free time, but only at the office. At home, I am still being utilized to be this “male nanny” thing while my sisters just laze all day. So my time was squeezed to a minimum, and I get very lazy (or tired, mentally) at posting some on this blog of mine.
I also noticed most of my blogging acquaintances have moved on and/or retired. Oh well, such is life. I don’t know when I will retire this either.
Oh, and one of my sisters failed her first attempt at a licensure exam. Which entailed her to a one-way-ticket to six months of being a ronin. SIX MONTHS. I can do two accounting web applications with that period of time and still spare two months to spend on vacation.
Oh well, it’s her ball now. If she fails again, at least her first failure wasn’t a fluke.
I switched from 8-5 schedule at work to 9-6. It wasn’t pretty at first since I basically forced myself on that schedule. Since I engaged in that “forum” thing, and my sister’s laptop failed on her (due to her characteristic stupidity at handling her own things), she basically bitched her way to using the family’s antique laptop and lorded over it.
It wasn’t until July I managed to get another, but I opted for a netbook – smaller, lighter, cheaper. And it has Windows 7 Home for free, so cool.
But I had sentimental attachments to my family’s antique laptop. After all, I was the one who took good care of it – kept the fans cool, check for overheats, antivirus installations, maintenance (I brought it to people who know internal laptop maintenance), and all of it came from my effort and pocket. More akin to a gardener attached to its owner’s garden simply because of care. The laptop was bought using part of my sister’s winnings in a telecom promo.
In late 2008 my sister got this brand-new HP laptop with Vista, for about 30,000+ Php. And it has a fingerprint scanner, which made it ultra-cool. So she ditched the old laptop to me and our youngest sister, and went off not caring anymore about it. So me and my sister used it in turns. Eventually my little sister moved on to using my mom’s brand-new laptop she bought in middle of 2009, and I was left with the almost-3-year-old laptop.
Then the bitchy sister (she’s the middle of us three) encountered something as worse as a repetitive blue screen of death – a faulty LCD screen. It was like a Tim Burton version of the Pokemon seizure episode, rendered in 8-bit, repeatedly played on a screen. So she can barely recognize the screen contents, so she bitched her way to use the old laptop. So I was rendered incapable. Of sleeping a lot earlier.
I tend to finish my internet escapades by 12AM, but since my sister tends to release laptop use by about 11PM, my sleeping habits got screwed since I have to rush everything. I even have to drop my forum habitats from 5 to 3 a day.
I hated it, utterly. But what can I do? She already “bought” her way to it, even my parents are mum on it. God, that’s one reason why I won’t live under one roof with this bitch by the time I finish my contractual period at my work.
But I still performed maintenance on the laptop, simply on the thought of sparing my little sister the anguish of being hijacked by a 21-year-old bitch, let me suffer for the meantime.
Thankfully, I was able to get my hands on a netbook by July, so I transferred all my files and personal things in that old laptop to the new one. I then bade it goodbye. No more maintenance for you, little buddy. I can’t polish off the fingerprints off your screen, I can’t lessen the internal heat anymore for you, I can’t buy you new parts, I can’t perform regular antivirus scans on you, I can’t look out for you anymore. It’s you and this big pompous bitch from now on.
Die in peace, and let the bitch feel the heat.
At work, I tend to find that the greatest obstacle lies in spending 8 hours if you have no workload to do.
Since our workplace have WebSense, I tend to have a bad time spent by randomly browsing Wikipedia entries and Googling recipes (I love cooking).
I have watched a fuckin’ lot of movies since January, enough to fill three rows of shelfspace in a regular video store. I watched all the “The Big Bang Theory” episodes, 2 seasons of “Lost”, all James Bond movies, and a whole load more thanks to a nifty tool called LANSearch.
I noticed in our very structured office place that there’s a lot of red tape. Sign this, sign that. Pass this, pass that. Make this document, make that document. *sigh* Cut a few red tapes and programming development would be a lot more efficient.
Also, I have managed to improve greatly on my web applications, in succession, and in the last one I managed to heavily use JQuery with ASPX. Cool.
Every application thrown to me is a challenge in itself. Improve, improvise, provide. And I managed to finish my applications a lot quicker than the schedule.
But I’m still at a crossroads as to if I will remain with the company my agency assigned me to. I heard the benefits are tremendous, but the starting pay is measly compared to the contractual pay. I have experience now, I have cred, and which I can put in my resume to search for greener pastures.
One more year, yeah. Then I’ll decide.
Ciao for now. Hopefully I can get my hands on this again and release more steam for it.
^_^
Briathrail // Albert 2MNG 
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