birthday - another excuse to post something in this blog

In a few hours, I'll be twenty-eight. And, according to this Wikipedia article, twenty-eight is the natural number following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine. Yeah... it's such a deep and profound fact, it has just made my age so much more interesting that I wish I could stay twenty-eight for the rest of my life. But honestly, if were to choose which age I'd like to be stuck in, I'd choose to be seventeen. Man... those were the angriest days of my life.

Normally, most people write reflective blog posts during birthdays. You know... enumerating "significant" events of the past year and then, topping them of with pretentious realizations hoping that people reading them would give out affirmative sighs in unison and go "awwwwww". But that's just boring and... icky. Yeah, "icky". Removing nasal hair would be more fun than doing just that.

SO... here's to the first day of being twenty-eight years old, the age following twenty-seven and the age preceding twenty-nine. Because, really... that's just what it is.

Lo and Behold! No more knee braces...

I just came from my doctor's clinic (Yes, the one that poked my knee with drills). He finally took my knee braces off but, he prohibited me from running and jumping - yeah, as if I'm crazy enough to do something like that barely two months after the surgery. Anyway, I've been on those braces for past six weeks. It was real nuisance at first - like a booger that keeps on sticking on your fingers no matter how many times you've tried to flick it aside - but after a while I sort got the hang of it. Right now, I feel a knee-brace lighter and a grin that's ten inches wider. Getting closer and closer to being able to walk and jump normally feels exciting... NO, it's feels really good, SO good that I finally had the motivation to edit the video I've been talking about ever since. The links to the videos of some of the "significant" parts of the surgery are found below (BE WARNED: even if I ripped out the really gory parts - specially the part when they placed the screws on - these may still be a bit gross for the squeamish types).

video 1, video2, video 3 and video 4.

here is my vote

I'm voting for Filipino Voices for two main reasons,

First, it is by far THE most active Fililpino grassroots journalism blog - and to think that it started just a couple of months ago.

Second, we live in a shitty country. But at the same time, we happen to love this shitty country in ways that only a genuine rice eating Filipino can understand. To me, Filipino Voices represents THAT idea and as far as I can see, no other nominated blog has that character.

So, please please please... on September 21, let the Filipino Voices roar!

taxi drivers say the darnest things (yet another lame attempt to post something on this blog for the sake of posting)

I've been riding taxi cabs everyday since last month. I usually ride jeepneys but they're not the type of things you would want to get on when you're "disabled". So, even if a taxi ride costs approximately seven times the price of a jeepney ride (from my apartment to the office), I think it's worth every penny - jeepney drivers are known for dropping their passengers off to their destinations... literally. But this post is not about the jeepney drivers, this is about the taxi drivers and the things that they say.

Before I go on, I have to digress a bit. I just have to say that I'll be posting what the drivers say in Visayan simply because it puts the word "darnest" in "taxi drivers say the darnest things". Also, I won't be posting any translations. If you can't understand the language then, sorry.

So, without further ado, here they are (limited to five because they're basically all I can remember):

  • "trapika uy... lami kaayo mo patay ug tao, kung dili pa lang ko ma priso, mo patay gyud ko ug tao kada-adlaw"
  • "`matay... nindota anang iPhone bosing sah? kun mo gamit ka ana mura ka'g naa sa laing kalibutan"
  • "kaning mga koreana lami kaayo... puti man gud, pero pwerte lang baho-a, kanang lain kaayo nga baho... kanang anghit... dili man siguro ni sila ga ligo"
  • "basketball diay naka disgrasya anang imong tuhod? abi nako na dasmagan ka ug truck"
  • "hala! bossing wala ko'y sinsiyo ani... gikan pa man gud ko sa grahe"
We'll that's it. They say the darnest things.

I bought my self a new toy

I (read: FINALLY) purchased a shinny new PC the other day. I 've been thinking of buy one since early this year but I was holding off on it because of the scheduled knee-poking-activity that pushed through a month ago.

This is what I got:
  • Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H Micro ATX
  • AMD64 LE 1640
  • Kingston 2GB DDR2 800
  • 160 GB Seagate Hard Disk
  • Foxxonn Casing
Obviously it's not the perfect rig but it went within my budget and it's definitely faster than what I'm using now.