Second Day, Second Job

Pansin ko lang, kapag rush-hour marami ang mainit ang ulo. Kanina pinahinto lang ng traffic enforcer kaming mga tumatawid. Dahil may mga sasakyang hindi na makadaan sa dami namin, pinahinto niya kami. May nakipag-away kaagad.
Isa pa sa MRT, kapag may natulak, yung kahit hindi naman sadya dahil natulak lang din, madalas sigawan na yun.

Kanina, dahil nagmamadali ako, sumakay ako sa motor. Iyon na ang pinakamabilis na transportasyon kapag rush-hour dahil napakahusay nung mga motoristang makipagsiksikan sa kapal ng trapik. Naranasan ko yung motion blur effect dahil sa bilis ng takbo ng motor.

Iba talaga ang epekto ng damit sa mga tao sa paligid. Malaking patunay nito, sa mga naranasan ko, ang pagkapkap ng mga gwardiya sa mga malls. Kapag naka-usual shirt, pants, rubber shoes get up, kinakapkapan at hinahalughog ang bag ko. Kapag naka-formal naman, daan lang at hindi lang iyon, mayroon pang "Good morning/afternoon/evening". Swabe lang.

May batang babae kanina sa may kalye, hindi ko alam kung inaasar niya yung tatay niya o ano basta tanong siya nang tanong: "Papa, papa, bakit ayaw mong mamatay?" Talagang paulit-ulit. Tatay naman niya mainit na rin ang ulo pero halatang nagpapasensya lang at paulit-ulit din ang sagot na: "Ewan ko." Hindi ko rin alam kung bakit niya itinatanong iyon.

Ay yung job. Medyo nakakatamad eh. Hindi na kasi ako ganoon ka-enthusiastic sa mga ganitong bagay. Pahingi naman ng magandang attitude towards work, wala talaga akong kwenta eh. Sana nga talaga unang trabaho ko nalang, na-defile na kasi ang utak ko sa una.
Sa simula lang naman siguro ito. Isa pa pangangatawanan ko na rin dahil galing pa rin sa desisyon ko ang mga nangyayari.

The Wowowee controversy, again

Doon sa nakaraang blog entry, parang may kulang kung titignan ang iba pang mga nangyayari.

Bukod sa pagtaas ng ratings ng mga palabas ng dalawang istasyon dahil sa publicity, kakaiba ang swabeng timing ng paglabas nitong issue.

Bigla nalang nawala ang mga balitang tumutukoy sa Hello Garci at sa multi-million peso broadband deal. Yung mga ganoong tipong balita. Yung mga masayang malaman ang mga bagong kaganapan.

Ano ba ang nangyari? Suhol? Walang source? O wala nanaman talaga?

Diverting the issues, yet again. I wouldn't be surprised if everything about the issue is fabricated.

Kasalanan ko rin siguro dahil ang tanging pinagkukunan ko ng balita ay ang telebisyon.

Movies Watched July 21, 2007 - August 31, 2007

Many movies and little time to write.

Little Miss Sunshine
Good. Pretty corny but, somehow, it works.

Pan's Labyrinth
Good. This film is fantastic.

Dreamgirls
Bad if you don't like musicals. Otherwise, it's good. I never really thought that Eddie Murphy could sing.

Naruto Movie 3
Bad.

Death Note Movie
Good. Cool CG. Different presentation from the anime but as long as Light dies, it's pretty much the same.

Vacancy
BAD. Do yourself a favor, don't watch it. Stupid, sick movie. Sayang lang ang Kate Beckinsale.

Just Like Heaven
Good. It's about being dead. Well, being dead, as implied in the movie, is about having no life. So life isn't exactly about having a pulse.
I can relate to the movie because, somehow, I had to re-evaluate the status of my life.

Bourne Supremacy
Good, definitely.

I Think I Love My Wife
Good enough.

Mission Impossible 3
Okay. The story is kind of lame though. The girlfriend had to be a nurse so that she would be able to do CPR on Ethan at the falling action of the story. Masyadong pilit yung ganoong planned payoff.
Ang ganda nung Lamborghini. Almost 10 million pesos damn. You can give a living with that.

Shooter
Good. The speech is unpleasant, but everything else is great.

Stay Alive
Bad. Yet again, violence, shocking scenes, sex, and a bad story. Oh wait, there's more. Video games.

Chances Are
Good. It's an old film. 1989?
It's about reincarnation and remembering your past life. Robert Downey Jr. is good in it. And it proves that sex in movies has been there even waaaaaay back in the day.

The Lookout
Okay. The story is not very convincing though. It doesn't drive the nail into my head.

Dungeons and Dragons
Bad. The script and acting is awful. Hindi mo malaman kung ano yung genre nung film dahil dun sa Wayans guy. He is good at comedy but not in an epic movie.

The Break-Up
Okay. I don't like the way Vince Vaughn's talks.

Dungeons and Dragons 2 Wrath of the Dragon God
Okay. The casting in this movie is a little better than the first movie. It shows great management skills by a king. "Proceed in the belief that your comrades will succeed." Ang baduy nung special effects, particularly the lightning bolt. There is also that freshly carved sign on a supposedly old grave.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Bad. The Fantastic Four movies are time wasters. Yeah, they do have nice flashy stuff, but they have terrible stories. It's too bad that I've watched both.

MirrorMask
Good. A movie that goes to show that, sometimes, it may be easier to escape the harshness reality. Although escaping reality may imply more than just evading whatever is in it.
The make-up, effects and music are fantastic. The combination is remarkable and it created the on-paper fantasy world. It's definitely fascinating. My only complaint is the speech. It's kind of muffled at some points.

The Wowowee controversy

The way I see it: Two douche bags babbling nonsense on T.V.

They are wasting the time of the people who choose to waste time watching the noontime shows. The least the people behind the shows can do is to provide quality and non-controversial content. There is no need to cry in public. It is very lame.

Whatever they are doing, it's giving them an awful lot of publicity. Ratings. $$$

The senate? Why should the senate become involved with such nonsense? I mean, come on. It's annoying enough that a multi-million, under-the-table, money-wasting, obviously-corrupted national broadband network deal exists. Bringing an issue with this caliber to the senate? Absurd.

Relatives huh?

It's funny. We opened our 2006 Christmas gifts just now. That's four months before the next one. Hindi kasi namin alam na may gifts pala kami sa place ng mga relatives namin. Talk about no communication.

Magtatrabaho na nga eh

Makalipas ang anim na linggong pagtambay sa bahay, magsisimula na ang bagong yugto sa buhay kong ito. Ang pagbabalik trabaho.

Isang linggo nalang, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. nanaman. Ang dami ko pang hindi napapanood na pelikula. Pakiramdam ko kulang pa ang halos dalawang buwang pagtambay at pagpapakatamad.

Pangalawang trabaho ko na. Iba na kasi ang maganda ang attitude towards work. Yung tipong lahat nalang ng bagay sa trabaho ayaw. Marami nang nagsabi sa aking there is no perfect organization, napakahirap ko lang sigurong pagsabihan. Tigasin ang ulo. Maaari rin namang ayaw ko lang talagang makinig.

Ang dami kong pinagpalit na bagay at inaksayang panahon para sa trabahong ito, sana maging sulit.

Roll of Successful Examinees in the NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATION Held on JUNE 10 & 11, 2007

Click here to get the results.

June 2007 Nurse Licensure Exam

Marami ang pumasa, marami rin ang hindi. 31,275 of 64,909 + 248 of 336. Mukhang mahirap yung exam ano. Pwedeng bang mag-exam kapag hindi nag-take ng nursing? XD
Congratulations to all passers, especially my friends. To those who were unlucky, better luck next time.

Installing Wordpress and apparently AMP on Windows XP

Why? I was setting up a wordpress blog on my localhost to be able to do some local blogging.

Here's how I did it:

• Download Apache Web Server. I took the 2.2.4 version. At the time of this writing, these are the latest stable versions.
  
• Download MySQL Server. 5.0.45.
  
• Download PHP. 5.2.3.
  
• Download Wordpress. 2.2.2.
  
• Install them all.
• Test and figure out why it's not working.
  
• Tada, a fully functional system.
  

So much for detail.
The thing is, I've done this sort of setup in the past for the Joomla CMS. The installation is pretty much the same.

My Comments:

• Prefer to use these technologies in Linux because it is easier with all the shell power among other things. LAMP is LAMP after all.
• I'm kind of annoyed that the naming for the pages for the Apache Web Server is htdocs. It gave me some trouble looking for the file that contained the "It's works!" string.
• The httpd configuration file by default was set to only serve index.html. It did not include index.php.
• I encountered a bug wherein the PHP module does not work until the PC is restarted which was weird because it has been reported already 5 years ago. I had to restart the PC for the PHP module to work. This link helped me through it. Kind of funny because I was REALLY able to relate to the posters.

Dota Allstars 6.47

Dota Allstars 6.47
Click here to download it.
Or here.

* Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below)
* Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model.
* Fixed Planeswalker's Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes' innate magic resistance abilities.
* Fixed an old rare bug with Leshrac (and recently Storm) that would cause them to constantly drain mana.
* Fixed a bug when killing heroes with Crow
* Fixed Flesh Heap to work properly with suicides
* Fixed a bug in -dm -nd that causes the hero after Bristleback to have Warpath if Bristleback dies with the buff on, and the player quickly picks a new hero.
* Fixed the game mode text to display in proper order
* Fixed Starfall doing extra damage on the second hit
* Restored Freeze Hero functionality
* Added a command -test to enable single player commands to be usable in multiplayer for easier extensive testing
* Added new command '-terrain snow'. This transforms the current terrain into a snow terrain. This is a very experimental mechanism and is still very much a WIP in the visuals department.
* Fixed Death Pulse to hit properly non-magic-immune Ancients
* Improved Alchemist's movement speed a bit
* Increased ranged creep's mana pool
* Rebalanced Sanity's Eclipse (Less damage, better leveling)
* Improved Harbinger's casting animation time
* Fixed a visual glitch with Dispersion that would make it look like it did more Dispersions than it actually did
* Fixed a bug with Unstable Concoction when used during the transformation of Chemical Rage
* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
* Improved Lion's movement speed a little
* Fixed Panda's Storm Wind Walk stats
* Game now gives an error message when attacking Roshan from a disallowed area
* Added -nr(-norepick)
* Added -mute as a custom player command to disable kill sounds
* Fixed a bug with Weave and Reincarnation

Apparently they took this map off the site. Just archiving.

Malu Fernandez?

One-day-famous, elitist writer.

Lol. Natawa nalang ako. Banggain ba naman ang milyong Pinoy OFW.

Nakatikim tuloy siya ng hate mail, death threat, insulto, at resignation among other things.

Porn Again

Recently, there is this rumor that Angel Locsin did some porn.

I had to do the right thing.

I watched the rumored porn video.

I got the information from the local news. The news that everyone can watch.

The video goes for +32 minutes. I didn't watch it all. It is 3 in the morning after all.

Here are some of my findings regarding the video.

• Hell no, that girl is not Angel Locsin. Apparently, some prick with poor vision concluded that it is her because she does resemble the actress. Or maybe because he/she wanted the girl on the video to be the actress. Wicked sick. =)
  
• This is the first time I watched Thai porn. It's kind of weird that the face of the guy is censored. I just don't get it. Camera shy?
• There is piano music playing while the stars are doing their best. Come on. Hindi bagay.
  

As far as I can see, the "cleaning" of Angel's name is in the name of business. Another profit maximization strategy. That is because she just transferred to another station and all, which is another profit maximization strategy. But really, I'm disappointed in the fact that the network allowed to show the video on air. They shouldn't have.