74 posts from March 2009

• 00:40 Twitter Postings ff.im/1Nq3j #
• 00:52 just finished reading @cleolinda's latest Secret Life of Dolls entry (ping.fm/xMT1l) and I have to say the comments are as hilari ... #
• 00:55 @Nonya13 no teeth hurting, thanks for the concern! :) am actually about to go offline. it's 1AM in Manila now. #
• 00:58 @Nonya13 Re Stop Staring! - I do love the "little black dress"' concept, most especially. #
• 01:01 @richardquest in-room jacuzzi and a round bed? am so tempted to say "pics or it didn't happen"...sounds quite intriguing! *ducks and runs* #
• 01:07 @coffeebased OMG TINTIN! That series is just so much love (says the one who also adores the Asterix books). #
• 10:26 @neilhimself Just read "Past, Present, and Stick" on LiveJournal. Only one comment: Cabal is absolute love and joy, you lucky man! :) #
• 10:28 People, go read this (ping.fm/6GChq) and tell me that that dog isn't all kinds of cuteness! #
• 10:35 such a morning. finished with e-mail, Facebook, LJ. also finished two articles for newsletter. two more to go! #
• 10:58 RP ranks #1 in observing Earth Hour (ping.fm/uWm7b) Yay! For once, we're in the good news! #
• 13:13 @neilhimself The ending of The Pit and the Pendulum *haunted* me for several days after! Even now, I get wigged out by it. :) #
• 15:08 just up from first nap i've had in weeks. feels good! #
• 19:05 nearly done with last article for newsletter. then i can start managing household tomorrow, given our one maid wants to go home, too. #
• 19:17 FINISHED. *bounce* #
• 19:37 Hi! My name is Trixie! ff.im/1OiXa #
• 19:51 Mall Scenes ff.im/1OjHL #
• 23:50 SM to open new malls, creates 6,000 jobs (and SMIC now owns Makro as well? Holy Whoa...) ff.im/1Oz7d #

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• 00:40 Twitter Postings ff.im/1Nq3j
• 00:52 just finished reading @cleolinda's latest Secret Life of Dolls entry (ping.fm/xMT1l) and I have to say the comments are as hilari ...
• 10:28 People, go read this (ping.fm/6GChq) and tell me that that dog isn't all kinds of cuteness!
• 10:35 such a morning. finished with e-mail, Facebook, LJ. also finished two articles for newsletter. two more to go!
• 10:58 RP ranks #1 in observing Earth Hour (ping.fm/uWm7b) Yay! For once, we're in the good news!
• 15:08 just up from first nap i've had in weeks. feels good!
• 19:05 nearly done with last article for newsletter. then i can start managing household tomorrow, given our one maid wants to go home, too.
• 19:17 FINISHED. *bounce*
• 19:37 Hi! My name is Trixie! ff.im/1OiXa
• 19:51 Mall Scenes ff.im/1OjHL
• 23:50 SM to open new malls, creates 6,000 jobs (and SMIC now owns Makro as well? Holy Whoa...) ff.im/1Oz7d

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• 00:21 I'm getting real-time search results at TweetGrid tweetgrid.com/ #
• 00:33 Hey there, it's been a while ff.im/1MrPc #
• 10:42 Me in makeup - mobypicture.com/?vwpx1e #
• 10:45 Me in makeup ff.im/1MTE4 #
• 17:35 @Lauratheexpat Magandang hapon (good afternoon) from the Philippines! Had a sunny day, but not the killer heat of summer. Cooling down now. #
• 17:37 @tiffychua *high fives you on the new free casing* BTW, the phone is a plain Ericsson? Not like mine, a Sony Ericsson? :) #
• 18:44 @Lauratheexpat humidity is the pits, I agree! best weather here is Dec-Feb, generally. locals=sweaters. tourists=shorts! :) #
• 20:57 *snort* maid we had on trial as fill-in for the one going on leave? says she can't work it here. screwy timing, as usual. #
• 20:58 and my period is due any moment now. :E #
• 21:06 it is only beginning to dawn on me the manic potential of tomorrow, which is a Monday - trying not to borrow trouble, by twittering :) #
• 21:11 caught up with Twitter. finished with e-mail and Facebook a while ago. LiveJournal next, and maybe feeds. #
• 22:44 LiveJournal is done. Will leave feeds for another time. Now to final draft some articles. #
• 22:45 *frown* something crunched in my mouth. i hope it wasn't a tooth or an old filling. #

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• 00:21 I'm getting real-time search results at TweetGrid tweetgrid.com/
• 00:33 Hey there, it's been a while ff.im/1MrPc
• 10:42 Me in makeup - mobypicture.com/?vwpx1e
• 10:45 Me in makeup ff.im/1MTE4
• 20:57 *snort* maid we had on trial as fill-in for the one going on leave? says she can't work it here. screwy timing, as usual.
• 20:58 and my period is due any moment now. :E
• 21:06 it is only beginning to dawn on me the manic potential of tomorrow, which is a Monday - trying not to borrow trouble, by twittering :)
• 21:11 caught up with Twitter. finished with e-mail and Facebook a while ago. LiveJournal next, and maybe feeds.
• 22:44 LiveJournal is done. Will leave feeds for another time. Now to final draft some articles.
• 22:45 *frown* something crunched in my mouth. i hope it wasn't a tooth or an old filling.

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...not much, how 'bout you?

I feel like I've been moving around in a fog lately. Not the pea soup kind, more like a light misting. Had to give up some online stuff in order to keep my offline life in order. Submitted articles for a newsletter - then double-checked my deadlines, and they are closer than I thought. :P Life has been good, though. I learned long ago that I couldn't have it all, there being only so many hours in the day to divide between being online, knitting, and tending to family. Still, it's funny how, when I'm online, I can see pictures of yarn and want to knit up a few more rows in my current project. Or when I'm offline, I take a picture and want to share it via Mobypicture.

(Twitpic appears to have some minor issues with its database which are, in the main, all fixed up. However, a friend of mine wound up with Stephen Fry's userpic [!?] as his userpic, so...yeah. Especially since my friend looks *nothing at all* like Mr. Fry.)

Have been turning a few things over in my head recently. One of them was the "Nicole" issue. At this point in time, only God knows what really went on in that van. Srsly. But as far as I understand things, Lance Corporal Smith was prosecuted under Philippine law, in a Philippine court, and convicted by same. I don't recall people screaming about any miscarriages in the actual court proceedings; so I assume those most nearly concerned felt that due process was observed. So why he was not remanded into a Philippine jail...only those most nearly concerned will ever know. I certainly don't understand it.

Let's face it. If one of our own convicted politicians can afford to cushion his way through eleven years in jail - to the point where he had his own bar - I'm sure the US Embassy could have "arranged" for Smith's relative comfort in like manner. Such things cannot be unknown, though I doubt they would be acknowledged. In this country, as with God, all things tend towards the possible; and apparently there is more than a trace of the conspiracy theorist in my blood.

On TV news, when other countries convict foreign nationals, said nationals are remanded to the jail of the host country. Refer to those Americans (?) accused of falsifying documents to adopt Egyptian babies, when adoption is apparently not legal in Egypt. All legal assistance is provided, but I'm not sure I've seen convicted foreign citizens confined to their embassy and made to do clerical work while discussions are held as to who has custodial rights, as happened to Smith - and that time is, I think, to be credited as time served.

Does it make your head ache? It certainly did mine. The best conclusion I can draw from the whole affair is that it was a situation gone bad, extremely so. I've been wanting to blog my perceptions about the whole thing for quite a while, so I'm glad that's off my mind.

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In more recent events, this announcement by North Korea about whatever it is that's going to be launched, has my Dad convinced the apocalypse is on its way. Japan has announced that its citizens should keep in tune with the news and monitor the TV between April 4-8, when the launch may/may not take place. Ironically, this places it at the start of Holy Week, which ought to provide food for reflection while struggling through the last days of fasting and abstinence.

I am *this* close to wiping out the last of the debt incurred during Ramon's early hospital confinements. Just two more months, and I'm done! And strangely enough, I got a call from the credit card company, and the convo went something like this:

Credit: Hi! You've qualified for a special credit facility at only 1% interest, because of your good credit rating!
Me: Sorry, not interested - am wiping out current debt. Will pass.
Credit: Maybe you'd like to enroll your utility bills in your account?
Me: No, bills have been enrolled for the past decade or two with my bank. Not
gonna change that now.
Credit: You have other cards?
Me: Four, actually. *crosses fingers*
Credit: Maybe you'd like to transfer the balances for only .75% interest?
Me: Um, no. Two cards have no outstanding balances, will pay off the third in two months, not interested in moving balance on the fourth.
Credit: How about using our SMS inquiry service?
Me: No, the landline service serves me just fine, thank you!
Credit: (by now utterly defeated) Thank you for your time, ma'am!

My husband said that if they were really recording the convo, it would make a fine case study on how customers can refuse a bank's services. *chuckle*

The other bank wants me to have their card so desperately that they are willing to use information that is totally out-of-date to fill up the form. WTF? If this succeeds, I'm going to knock back a glass of red wine to soothe my brain cells while they process such a thing.

I read some things about the writing process that made me think that I perhaps I ought to remember that for my personal writing, I should write for myself, and not what other people are likely to think about it. Some of my best work emerged that way, after all. With that in mind, I started a drabble, and by the time the inspiration ran out, it was probably the longest thing I've written in quite a while - writing assignments don't count, that's a whole different ball game.

Anyway, I'll try and write a follow-up post tomorrow. This one is quite long enough, don't you think?

• 00:27 LoudTwitter MicroBlog ff.im/1Lkez #
• 00:27 @BackStory really, between the time difference and daylight savings, this show is giving me a headache; in a sort of good way. Yay Advil! :) #
• 00:28 @BackStory rank has its privileges, they say. #
• 00:39 @LizIxer yup! me and my new haircut. =) it doesn't show so well in the icon, but i like it. perfect for summer! #
• 00:56 @misshallelujah what is this midnight you refer to? my bedtime last night was pushed to 2am because i lost myself in a fanfic. *facepalm* #
• 13:50 slow morning, making up for it by running laundry now. 90.1 degrees F in the shade...umbrellas a must when walking outside! #
• 14:04 a telemarketer just called into my voice mail and mumbled her way through a spiel that I did not understand. at. all. #
• 15:03 Eerie figure haunts Scottish castle - CNN.com (Pictures of Ghosts?) ff.im/1M4SR #
• 18:58 Philippines Free Press commentary: The problematic “Nicole” ff.im/1McWg #
• 21:05 @Lauratheexpat I enjoy planning travel, too - my parents always put me in charge of checking their itineraries, etc. for family trips. #
• 21:06 @eddieizzard hot summer night in the city...which looks like it's under a power outage, thanks to Earth Hour :) #
• 21:10 hubby wanted to get Reunion.com account. problem=there is a fee involved. so i asked him to try Facebook first. at least we save USD15? #
• 21:16 ohhhh, no. i am at that point every month where my chocolate craving can only be assuaged by an Alprose bar. *flail* #
• 21:20 heh. at the horrific prices they charge for original Crocs, I went and shamelessly bought knock-offs at roughly... re: ff.im/1LAHt #
• 21:23 Gosh, I never realized Crocs could evoke such intense reactions from people. My feet like the knock-offs I bought, wear them everywhere! #
• 21:26 @tiffychua awww, my sympathies for the Ericsson! #
• 21:38 @newsjunkie365 twitter tells you when followers flee? i thought it was an app called Qwitter that told you that. hm, a glitch! #
• 21:41 @adelgabot re Knowing: then is it a good thing i passed up the chance to watch this movie yesterday afternoon? #
• 22:14 @richardquest now that's a question for the ages. i daren't say no to mine, she'd me mortally offended if i did! :) #
• 22:16 oh, my - just finished with Twitter review! #
• 22:17 @Nonya13 the Crocs? yes! :) #
• 22:23 @Lauratheexpat *nods* there is definitely a moment in time when surrender is the better part of valor. one can always exercise - later! :) #
• 22:27 @adelgabot from making The Crow/Dark City, to Shyamalan-esqe? *blink* that is some turnaround right there. hoping to catch movie this week. #
• 22:31 @Nonya13 true, that. though i'm happy with what i've got, which is a good thing for my budget! #
• 22:32 @Lauratheexpat it's rather like facing down the Borg: "resistance is futile", isn't it? #
• 22:35 thanks to @neilhimself, i have discovered the fun of Tweet Grid. *bounce* just what i need, a new shiny way to use Twitter! #
• 22:36 @Nonya13 ooh, thanks for the link, will have fun with it later :) #
• 22:37 @Lauratheexpat i can afford to be smug. had salad for lunch and dinner today. lots of veggies, chicken chunks and just a touch of mayo. #
• 22:38 @adelgabot well, at least it's Stephen Fry, and not some weird graphic. TwitPic obviously still with issues. #
• 23:02 @RALITSACNN hi! am from the Philippines, a fan of AC360 - those stories out of Mexico are SPOOKY. you're one of my favorite anchors! #
• 23:47 CNN's @richardquest wanted to know how to refuse his mom's insistence on feeding him lots of food. all the replies are saying "you DON'T!" #

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• 00:27 LoudTwitter MicroBlog ff.im/1Lkez
• 13:50 slow morning, making up for it by running laundry now. 90.1 degrees F in the shade...umbrellas a must when walking outside!
• 14:04 a telemarketer just called into my voice mail and mumbled her way through a spiel that I did not understand. at. all.
• 15:03 Eerie figure haunts Scottish castle - CNN.com (Pictures of Ghosts?) ff.im/1M4SR
• 18:58 Philippines Free Press commentary: The problematic “Nicole” ff.im/1McWg
• 21:10 hubby wanted to get Reunion.com account. problem=there is a fee involved. so i asked him to try Facebook first. at least we save USD15?
• 21:16 ohhhh, no. i am at that point every month where my chocolate craving can only be assuaged by an Alprose bar. *flail*
• 21:20 heh. at the horrific prices they charge for original Crocs, I went and shamelessly bought knock-offs at roughly... re: ff.im/1LAHt
• 21:23 Gosh, I never realized Crocs could evoke such intense reactions from people. My feet like the knock-offs I bought, wear them everywhere!
• 22:16 oh, my - just finished with Twitter review!
• 22:35 thanks to @neilhimself, i have discovered the fun of Tweet Grid. *bounce* just what i need, a new shiny way to use Twitter!
• 23:47 CNN's @richardquest wanted to know how to refuse his mom's insistence on feeding him lots of food. all the replies are saying "you DON'T!"

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• 00:32 Twitter Postings ff.im/1K2Eo #
• 00:52 @adelgabot oh, NO. *sniffles* #
• 00:52 RT @adelgabot: England Dan and John Ford Coley is just John Ford Coley now. A moment of silence for Dan Seals, 1948-2009. #
• 17:27 So I had a good day...things done, Chinese lunch, haircut. More later. :) #
• 19:00 My new haircut - mobypicture.com/?99gi68 #
• 19:01 @afuna_wired one day's leave, in all this time? better check if you can covert unused into cash later, else, use it or lose it! :) #
• 19:08 My new haircut ff.im/1L1dv #
• 19:29 @richardquest i trust by the time you read this, you will be returning victorious from the workout! #
• 19:32 @DanielEfton CSI Miami theme song - someone loves The Who real bad. If Baba O'Riley (CSI:NY) started blaring, you'd know for sure. :) #
• 20:12 I added three skeins of Bernat yarn, in different colorways, to my stash this morning. They are *so* pretty - picspam tomorrow. #
• 20:44 @afinighan what you need I think, is another day of not worrying about how the office is surviving without you. Do feel better soon! #
• 21:49 @richardquest muscles on your muscles; you really must cut a fine figure now. if somewhat achy at times. :) #
• 21:50 @KamikazeKitty doing fine! my brain feels like it's just come back from a vacation - have some writing to catch up with soon! :) #
• 22:08 @stephenfry Bali easily one of my favorite places on earth - and only 2.5 hours away, at that. A spa in Nusa Dua is calling my name... #
• 22:09 @afuna there is a beach or a mountain calling your name somewhere. *grin* or maybe a mall in Hong Kong? #
• 22:29 Installed Opera on Linux Mint. Switching browsers again for something that used to be familiar. #
• 22:33 *chuckle* posted about the new additions to my yarn stash and Qwitter tells me three people stopped following. better luck elsewhere! #
• 22:46 @misshallelujah congratulations on the mahjong knowledge! i can play vs. a computer but not live, not yet, not for a long time, I think. #
• 22:49 @Lauratheexpat cookies, and muffins, and there's AC360's Jack Gray desperately trying to avoid sugar! Good thing he's out of the studios ATM #
• 23:07 well...that's interesting. Opera went from normal to hissy-fit in the space of one tweaking. #
• 23:08 aha. back to normal after unchecking a few boxes. *nods* #
• 23:22 @Suw my husband can relate to that; whenever we visit the shelter, it takes ages to tear him away, he gets so invested in the sweeties. #
• 23:30 @Suw we try and donate a bag of kibble to ours whenever we visit. we've even had some of our cats "fixed" there. #
• 23:39 @Suw *grin* and on that day, there will be much contentment and jubilation, y/y? #

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• 00:32 Twitter Postings ff.im/1K2Eo
• 00:52 RT @adelgabot: England Dan and John Ford Coley is just John Ford Coley now. A moment of silence for Dan Seals, 1948-2009.
• 17:27 So I had a good day...things done, Chinese lunch, haircut. More later. :)
• 19:00 My new haircut - mobypicture.com/?99gi68
• 19:08 My new haircut ff.im/1L1dv
• 20:12 I added three skeins of Bernat yarn, in different colorways, to my stash this morning. They are *so* pretty - picspam tomorrow.
• 22:29 Installed Opera on Linux Mint. Switching browsers again for something that used to be familiar.
• 22:33 *chuckle* posted about the new additions to my yarn stash and Qwitter tells me three people stopped following. better luck elsewhere!
• 23:07 well...that's interesting. Opera went from normal to hissy-fit in the space of one tweaking.
• 23:08 aha. back to normal after unchecking a few boxes. *nods*

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• 00:21 Twitter Postings ff.im/1IJ9c #
• 11:14 @misshallelujah x.x o holy night...that is some mindbending sculpt, all right! #
• 11:21 @Shuster1600 that video was, as they say, made up of all kinds of win. :) Good for the two of you! #
• 11:22 @charlesatan polvoron *again*? that office has to stock up a wider choice of nibbles for the hungry, i s'pose. :) #
• 12:56 @misshallelujah the next thing you know, you'll be setting a b00bies "Secret Life of Dolls" the way @cleolinda does with her Tonner figures! #
• 12:58 @gloom_yasmin and now body glitter is synonymous with sparklepires. hoyay! :) #
• 13:02 @adelgabot sounds like pay per add-on...though i'm a plain vanilla user, so it won't affect me much #
• 13:08 Glacier melt redefines border between Italy and Switzerland ff.im/1JsiR #
• 13:10 60ft phallic drawing on roof escapes notice for a year ff.im/1Jsod #
• 13:12 @richardquest *blinks* oh, my goodness. i wonder how the parents found out if they missed it for a whole year? #
• 13:14 i found my Evian spray bottle! *bounce* i can haz cooler life now, yay! #
• 13:18 @richardquest old friends and true definitely make the best guests ever. #
• 13:25 @BackStory LOL! Imitation not only flatters, but acknowledges B/S mastery of Twitter and Facebook? #
• 13:26 @afinighan Awwwww! Just what you needed after the car breakdown and all the rest of it. Do rest and feel better soon - it's a public service #
• 13:28 @7dayshootout *raises hand* paying off last of hospital bills charged to credit card. freedom in 2 months! #
• 14:42 "it is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission..." - dedicated to those who had to clean up spousal/SO clutter behind their backs #
• 14:49 @eddieizzard 2.33PM in the Philippines. Manila had a night of real rain and lightning, so summer heat tempered with cool breeze today! #
• 14:51 @adelgabot being gifted with pizza rocks! i can just imagine how good it smelled in the airconditioned space! :) #
• 15:38 @stephenfry but you just got the Kindle barely a month ago? Surely you can't have been using it that fiercely? #
• 18:24 @richardquest re 1st year anniversary of LHR Terminal 5, dear heavens, how the time flies! #
• 21:44 @misshallelujah re coriander - my sentiments exactly. steamed crustaceans sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped cilantro...*tummy growls* #
• 21:46 @scottchurch that's a nice point. some feminists have spooked chivalry out of usage, at times, i've noticed. #
• 23:34 @neilhimself either a cold, or, as per Asian belief, a whole lot of people have been thinking about you this morning! *grin* #

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