Apologies for the sudden deluge of RPlurk-related archive posts on LJ, all~ I finally got around to fixing all the backlogged threads, and it can't fit into a single post. o_o

This week has been pretty light so far~ today is notable because I had graded recitation in Lit 13, and it was actually pretty lively. Several nice conversations cropped up in the smoket too.

There's work to do, but all is well. Going to the office tomorrow to put in that day that I've been promising the people down there for nearly two months.

Seriously. All is well. Seems as though I've recovered from that small rut I had over the weekend.

Er. That's all. QUICK POSTS ARE QUICK.

...LJ icons will be the end of me, I swear. I nearly slept at 1 AM because I was deleting/fixing/shuffling the damned things in my collection, but I had to force myself up before 8 AM because I had work. SNWS conversations with kye_kestrel and the usual office banter between my Dad, my brother and my relatives sustained me though. Pio told us all about The Toilet Saga, which will likely be the first of many everyday trials he'll face now that he's married. XD

So, let's see -- I set up a blog for the company personnel at my Dad's request, then I generally lolled about, poking people on y!m and watching my downloads fill out (the direct cable connection has miraculously started working again). I tried to get some writing done, but most of my time was spent plotting weird stuff and talking gay with Lynffles. We keep each other alive on weekdays, yo. ♥

Relatives are over for dinner, but Mom gave me the license to retreat upstairs already. I'm going to see if I can go out tomorrow and meet up with yukitsu and kye_kestrel though... it's a bit short notice, but Lynffles won't be available this weekend. She also needs to get away from her weird relatives.

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Part of being the office means being able to mooch off the bandwidth, so here's moar music for you guys. XD


( Special Mix: Sadface Songs - The Polite Version (SET TWO) )


Cross-posted to ze_junkheap again. :o

PREVIOUS MIX/PLAYLIST POSTS:
Love Songs Mix: The Last Love Song on Earth (SET ONE)
Special Mix: Sadface Songs - The Polite Version (SET ONE)

The comments on my latest post have given me a rough idea of what it is like for yukitsu on a regular basis. SPAMMING IS AMAZING. LOOKIT ALL THESE MESSAGES IN MY INBOX! D8

And on other LJ news, I really need to renew my paid account soon. ._.

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I literally spent all of yesterday lying flat on my back in bed/slouched in my office chair in front of my laptop/rocking back and forth in the rocking chair in my parent's room/at the meal table, playing Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth on the PSP. THAT GAME HAS SWALLOWED ME WHOLE.

( Cut for geek talk. )

I've lost a good night of sleep to this game in spite of the fact that I said I'd go to bed early. =_= Curse good games and their effect on my body clock!

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I'm taking a break to write this post and idle, after having a sudden deluge of work to do at the office. LAN cable is still not working, but the wireless has gotten godly fast now that the weather is kinda-sorta clearing up down here. o_o I also need to slow down and idle soon, because I'll be leaving the office early. Heading to Greenbelt to meet Yukeh and Khursten! :3

...Not that I wasn't already idling earlier. kye_kestrel was subjected to the Long-Short Summary of the final and total revamp of Endtimes over y!m. GOMEN NYAA, LYNFFLES, I HOPE IT WAS WORTH READING.

Before all else, here's an important announcement on LIGHTS OUT, courtesy of magnetic_rose:

Lights Out would like to invite all Filipino yaoi fans to the the 5th Lights Out: Five Years of Fantasy! The convention will be held on the 6th of September 2008 at Ikeda Hall/Balay Kalinaw (next to Ilang-Ilang Residence Hall), University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, Quezon City. Festivities will start at 1:00 PM and will wrap up at 7:00 PM.

Tickets to the convention are pegged at PhP 150 each (inclusive of single-use event badge and Library pass), while tickets to Cafe Le Mirage are at PhP 80 each (inclusive of one half-hour tea set). Please visit the Events page for more information.

You can blame my long absence on me getting re-acquainted with my PS2. kye_kestrel was kind enough to burn me the undubbed version of Persona 3: FES (I actually downloaded it myself, but my image burner popped out faulty discs! ;_;). Unfortunately, since my memory card is STILL missing, I can't take advantage of all the work I did in the original version of the game. That means that I'm starting from scratch with P3, and I have to do things the hard way in the Aigis chapter of the game. >_> It's starting to get annoying.

Lesee, what other cool stuff has happened... my parents came home from Batangas on Sunday (big relief: crazy brother was starting to seriously get to me), and I got to COMPLETELY veg out like anything yesterday (read: PS2). Most of my time at work was devoted to fixing up my Dad's account on Multiply -- he wanted me to upload the pictures we took in Batanes so that we can tell the rest of the tour group about it. I also went out, briefly, to cash in my check for the time I put in last month. I think I can buy my new PC very, very soon. :D

...That's assuming that I don't make any other big investments in the next few days, though. I'm half-inclined to hit Data Blitz and check if they have FES out on original. There's also the fact that I need to get myself an original of Crisis Core: mine has started stalling on me, particularly whenever a summon DMW comes out. ._. And, of course, buying Crisis Core means that I'm obligated to buy Final Fantasy Tactics, since I'm a collector that way. AH, SO DIFFICULT.

Gamer and money woes aside, what's probably the best and scariest thing that happened today was that Ateneo's English Department phoned in: since the chair of the department knows me, I don't need to go through an interview with her. They want me to do demo teaching. Like, soon. o_o They actually wanted me to do it this coming Thursday, but I said I wasn't ready. But yeah. Fuck. O_O

It's semi-amusing that the teaching thing popped up before the results of my grad studies application though.

ON OTHER NEWS: yukitsu, your Lolichan is being stupid again. She signed up for the mini-bang at hitman_reborn even though she's never actually written anything or posted any of her fics online. Now half of me wishes that she'll submit an entry just so that I can smack her. :D

Facebook is bad luck: my Internet died on me when I tried to check it earlier, and the connection has been wonky ever since. B|

Right~ should've updated yesterday (Customary Work Post!), but I got lazy. It was a pretty slow day at the office, though... the only real interesting thing I did was go around the South Triangle area and help my little brother take pictures of landmarks. Our brother Pio wants us to take an inventory of all the good places. "Lifestyle pictures", he calls them. It's a good way of advertising to our clients.

Lunch ended up becoming a meeting for the shareholders in the company (my Dad, and the aunts and uncles working with us + Pio), so Peter and I headed down as soon as we were able. Listening to them talk about wage hikes and company funds and stuff was another reminder on how hard it is to be good in this country. Renewed my hatred for ignorant rallyists all the more too. *pif*

Enough of that though. I GOT MY MONEYZ FROM THE BANK FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF WORK. AND I DOWNLOADED LOTS BECAUSE I BROUGHT THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE OVER TO LEECH THE BANDWIDTH AND I SUCCEEDED.

Pio played funky music through the day at work -- I only caught some bits and pieces of his playlist, though, since I tend to plug into my earphones when I'm doing my thing. Not too many updates went up for the actual webbie, but I DID get to upload a lot of stuff and start that online archive that I've been meaning to prepare to host the company's critical files. There will be a lot more to look at when I go back to work on Tuesday.

Hurhur. Wrist seems to be good for the most part, so I finally got off my bum and registered at the Rizon web client thing and rejoined the chatroom at #oofuri last night. ♥ I'll have to take it slow though, with the typing and the carrying. I still get these numb bouts and stuff. Makes me wonder if I should go back to the doctor and double check. Maybe get a scan or two also.

...If the wrist wasn't enough of a problem, there's this summer heat too. It's not good for the skin, or for the lips. =_= Been surviving with lip balm for nearly two months now, and it STILL dries up so easily.

Slept relatively early last night, and did Ateneo grad studies stuff in the morning. Ran into a friend on campus, chatted for a bit and generally enjoyed myself. I have to go back on Monday for the last recommendation letter; I'll be able to submit my application by then, if I'm lucky. Front desk people in the grad studies office are lousy though. >_> Srsly, there's no need to be bitchy or act so condescending, man. I mean, fuck, for all you and I know, I could be paying their damned bills by enrolling.

/off rant

Not doing much of anything at the moment... I just took a break from marathoning the first four episodes of Haibane Renmei, and now I think I'll try and get some writing done. I want to see if I can summarize all of Endtimes -- and I mean, ALL OF ENDTIMES, main story and prequels and sequels and extras and all -- over the summer. I want to make that my big project for the moment.

INTERNET PLZ TO BE BETTER KTHNXBAI. I HAS TORRENTS, YO.

On other news, I am currently reading Norwegian Wood whenever I'm not on the computer. I realize that I might be a Reiko.

You can take that as you will.

...And a final reminder for my children:

World of Darkness folk, the campaign is TOMORROW @ MY HOUSE. Be here by 11 AM at the LATEST, please!

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THERE WAS AN EVIL BLACKOUT AND IT MADE ME GO TO THE OFFICE AND THERE WAS NO POWER THERE FOR A WHILE EITHER BUT IT WORKED OUT.

Capslock spazzing mostly because I gots paid for a day I wasn't even supposed to have. ♥ Got lots done though, so I suppose it's a fair trade-off. Everyone suddenly seems so interested in putting the website up. o_o

Spent some time geeking out with khursten over this function I accidentally discovered in y!m (I CAN HAS CURVY PRETTY QUOTATION MARK THINGIES THAR!), but then she went off for a loooong lunch and I spent the rest of my day tripping over some of the songs on my playlist and doing more web stuff. I tripped on the following tracks several ways to Sunday:

• Pink - I'm Not Dead
  
• Fall Out Boy - The Take Over, the Break's Over
  
• 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
  
• Ane Brun feat. Wendy McNeil - Such a Common Bird
  
• The Servant - Orchestra
  
• The Tea Party - Turn the Lamp Down Low
  
• A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless [the Underworld mix]
  

Note to self: make a music post for great leeching goodness sometime.

Oh, some of you will be amused to learn that Peter has a stalker. Like, one of our old clients keeps bringing her bug-eyed, fairly chubby, ugly granddaughter over to the office, and she keeps staring at Peter since he's working at the front desk. I ended up playing buffer and shield to him today because the girl apparently tried to talk to him.

Everyone at the office got a good laugh from it. Pio calls it "The Axe Effect". That commercial was accurate after all. *fufufu*

Went home to find the electricity back and my Dad bouncing along to some of the songs -- I gave him some music this weekend, and it apparently spurred him into downloading more. I told him about Peter's stalker. He laughed. A lot. Especially when my mom (and she said this in all seriousness) said that the girl appears to be mentally challenged. Now he keeps going on about how the girl's acting on "sheer instinct" like "a Black Widow spider!"

I'm supposed to have a meme up here (ficcintricity hit me with it), but I'm laaazy. B|

Sorry, kitsune_jade, I couldn't resist.

Until today, I was unaware of the fact that trolls on the Internet could ever get famous. THEN I found out about crawfordjeremy702000.

See this? He has an LJ community devoted to his attacks. Imagine: a fucking LJ community. How many people actually get something like that? o_O

I took the passage below from the comm's description.

The internet is full of many trolls, it's true, but few of them are quite as incomprehensibly bizarre as jeremycrawfordj2000. You might say that this community will only encourage him, but--believe me--he does just fine without any encouragement at all.

This community is here for the next zillion people who do a google blogsearch wondering who the !@#$%#^$@!$%! he is. Feel free to post amusing transcripts of him losing it at you, femslash of any characters he doesn't find hot, and Martha Kent/anyone who's NOT "a younger man".

Anyway, this guy. He apparently stalks fanfic writers online and bugs them to do fanfics for his pairings/fandoms. If they say no, he leaves them with messages like "Ok then WELL FUCK YOU LYING BITCH" or "GO TO HELL" and other endearing missives.

This actually makes me glad that I don't deal with idiots this bad. @_@

Anyway, life stuff. Did more webpage thingies at The Office. Second day of the bleeds, though, so I felt ill for about two hours after lunch. Still under the weather -- lying down for about 30 minutes after I got home helped, but tired is tired. Will probably sleep early tonight. Like, VERY early.

Oh. The laptop also had some sort of mini-breakdown after lunch. Like, I opened up a PDF file and the whole thing just froze. Had to restart twice because I got stuck on the blue "Windows is starting up..." screen the first time around. Thing seems to be running fine now, although the incident was like a kick in the gut. u_u Pammeth needs a new Alistair!PC and must reformat Aidan!Laptop, like, nao.

Quote of the day, courtesy of my brother Pio: "So apparently, when you get married, gaining 10 pounds after is part of the package."

DAILY POSTS ARE DAILY! :D :D :D

W00T.

IT IS A TUESDAY AND I AM POSTING!

BREAKING WEIRD ENTRY TREND = SUCCESSFUL!

*is shot*

Busy, busy day at the office -- that's not too surprising, though, given the fact that I haven't BEEN to the office in, like, two months. ~_~ Uploaded a bucket load of stuff (the Sales & Marketing page is in full swing, 'cept for the individual project sites), and I still have stuff to do when I go back on Thursday.

Peter is working as our front desk boy for this month and maybe longer. I'm glad he's there~ he's doing all the stuff that the old front desk lady never did for me. *coughs* NOW I HAVE SOMEONE TO ORDER AROUND FOR WEBBIE THINGS. I guess that's one of the perks of working in a family business -- being surrounded by, well, family.

THE GOAL: Don't miss a day of work this month. THE REWARD: 4,000 pesos (that's roughly 95 US dollars, I think). Measly, I know, but I could also be unemployed and not earning anything.

Half of me wants to relax tomorrow, but it turns out that mom wants me to do a second round with the doctors (endocrinologist and gynecologist this time); I also need to go to ADMU and ask for my transcript of records. And maybe drop off some recommendation letters with professors. So difficult, real life wa.

On other news, my house's fucked up electric grid has finally defeated my UPS; I spent a good fifteen minutes rewiring everything to a voltage regulator that'll take care of my gadgets until I find the time to buy a new one. AND THE HEAT. IT KILLS MY BRAIN STILL.

CONGRATULATE ME I'VE RE-DISCOVERED HOW TO DO THE FUNKY LINE THING.

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*points above* SEE? :DDD

...Anyway. While themodestotter and I were spazzing about her possibly going to Japan later this year, I casually popped the idea of her swinging over to the Philippines instead, or during her trip. She's being sent to Japan as a part of some sort of Christian mission, and since the Philippines = the most Christian country in effing Asia, it's a possibility. It's either that or I try and fly out to Japan when she's there and pay her a visit, although that's difficult due to moneyz and personal circumstances.

Anyway, here's the best part of our convo:

Otter: Man, that sucks. Is it hard to get out of your country?
Me: Nah, not at all since I'm technically Canadian. *passports win at life* Just, I think I'll be starting my MA around June. That, and I have no money to pay for my own ticket. >_>
Otter: Really? I heard it was hard to get into [the Philippines]. At least, mom is convinced that it is. She keeps going on about how there is some sort of political turmoil and religious fighting between the Catholics and Muslims, and I am skeptical like I usually am about her "information." I keep telling her that I have a few friends that live there and I haven't heard a word about it, but she tells me that you guys aren't allowed to talk about it or something. I DUNNO.

...At that point, I lolled. Hard.

Srsly, fellow Pinoys, since when did our country become North Korea? XDD

I guess they're not kidding when they say that the US media really does try to build up this culture of fear and suspicion where they are. What's even funnier is that some people actually believe it.

themodestotter, I ♥ you.

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Imma off to the doctor later today.

Don't worry, guys. It's not the annoying one.

Also, I'm being dragged back to the office. Apparently, my aunt is looking for me.

...I want a longer vacation. T_T

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On a final note, Here's some more fic dumpage over at stitchedophelia. :o

2008 Writing Meme requests (2 Persona 3 pieces, one D.Grayman and one Code Geass) for sindapa.
Persona 3 fic dumpage.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn fic dumpage. One of them is porny, and another one is just gay.
FFT flash fiction.

With all of that, I think I've managed to bleed the fangirl out of my system. ...Sort of.

Is it just me, or has the Internet suddenly gotten universally crappy down here? I mean, I'm finally not downloading some huge-ass file off BT, so I can effectively snatch stuff from DDL sites, but browsing has been strangely difficult. o_o ...Anyway.

Had my first regular day at school since I got back from my immersion, and I was greeted by a quiz in Theology 141 (which I totally failed) and a thesis class session wherein Sir DM had those who were ready submit their "final draft" before D-Day. He also proceeded to chew out those who weren't in the clear, and outline both the flow of the actual defense and exactly what was expected of us in terms of conference requirements. As of this moment, I am certain that I will be presenting my paper as a part of Panel 6 on either February 20 or 22 at the Natividad Galang Fajardo Room, Dela Costa Building. Mark your calendar, folks... I think you're all welcome to come and watch.

Righto. So I know I ought to be a little more freaked, but to be honest I only get a little twitchy when I'm sitting with the lit block, discussing thesis matters with Sir DM himself. I guess I could say that I'm very confident about my thesis -- I mean, I've run it by both Sir DM and Sir Vince (my mentor), and both of them say that it's already good. I think at this point it's just a matter of making sure I do even better than just good, and hoping to God that I don't get bitchy readers. I've already anticipated what some of t

On that note, I will be posting my thesis under a filtered f-lock soonish. I'll need people to read through it and help me condense the paper, as one of the pre-conference requirements is an extremely condensed version of our thesis that clocks in at about 8-10 pages -- perfect for a 20-minute presentation with a supplementary Powerpoint.

Beyond the thesis freak outs and Theology massive failures, I hooked up with archangel_dream, who showered me with chocolate chip cookies and more moneyz for the PSP Fund. I'll be cashing in my check from work soon, so I'm very, VERY close to my goal... if I scrimp over the next 2-3 weeks, I should be able to hop over to Greenhills and buy me a PSP before the lit conference. *fufufu*

My head was full of thesis by the time I got home, so the trip over to Pio's apartment was a very refreshing change of scenery -- Peter's birthday became a sorta excuse for everyone to get together there, since my Tito Lorrie and Tita Faye will be returning to the USA very soon. We celebrated with popcorn, tortilla chips and Toblerone fondue while Peter rolled around on Mai Mai and Pio's guest bed. Kid's tuckered out from all that parting, I think.

Other small victories include:

1.) Getting more dermatological gunk for my skin because I might as well have a clean face since I haven't been exercising.
2.) Backing up the 22 GB of Hentai titles that I kept from the original 53 GB download.
3.) Sorting more of my music.
4.) Nearly finishing my Darker than Black fanfic. Give me a bit more time; I may be able to wrap it up by the end of the week.
5.) Bonding with Liana. She's such a tough kid, but she does seem to like me. :3

Going back to work tomorrow. Dad won't be around (he's going scuba diving in Batangas again), but I think Pio will be, along with some of my aunts and uncles.