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Sorry for the lack of updates

2007-09-12T17:59:00.000+08:00

Yes, I’m really sorry.

I mean, c’mon! Do you expect me to update three blogs at once? Let along my non-computer time?

If I could only get a few more hours of free time, I’d update more often.

Check out my other two blogs. They’re really interesting—for me, at least.

We had the most amazing tacos I’ve ever tasted

2007-08-26T23:47:00.000+08:00

Seriously. If you tried it, you will grow.

The ingridients could kill a man, but that’s not the point here. What I’m saying is, it was delish.

Enough said for now.

I made a new blog for Computer Science

2007-08-23T21:39:00.000+08:00

I have always wondered why we need blogs (short for “Web logs” for my information) when we could make diaries (which are more private), YouTube films (which are more creative, on the long run), or we could just make bands (just to be emo).

But, then again, it is used as design playgrounds by Web Designers, as news sites by various news sites, or even opinions by other people.

Man, we really need to lay off the emo juice for a while.

Prone to experimentation

2007-08-20T23:20:00.000+08:00

If I am not satisfied with this, I’ll revert to the normal presentation.

What that means is I’m doodling with the CSS, and wreaking havoc with the bloglook.

I'm having second thoughts

2007-08-20T22:23:00.000+08:00

Okay, it seems there was cloud forming a while ago (around five hours ago), and then it rained.

Well, so-ho-horry if I ever get it wrong. I’m human too, you know!

Hot hot hot

2007-08-20T17:52:00.000+08:00

The heat was really hot today.

As in, it's really, really hot.

Which is strange, in retrospect; yesterday, the clouds covered the skies, and a storm that passed us for the whole week.

It seems strange that life still goes on for the rest of us, like nothing had happened.

Blogger does paragraphs in auto

2007-08-18T19:32:00.000+08:00

It seems that the paragraph tag in Blogger’s Create Posts is in auto. What that means is when you put <p> in the Create place, in Edit HTML mode, you’d get two line breaks between sentences.

I'm reimagining this blog

2007-08-18T19:23:00.000+08:00

I'm re imagining this blog. Seriously.

Needs some improvement... previous posts were about leet (which sucked hard), emo rantings (which are gay), and total randomness (I’ll consider that one, just for the sake of humour?).

I'll also redesign this blog, just so that I can relearn all those CSS crap.

Time for some serious awesomeness.

Food Trips and April Fools’ Gags

2007-04-01T17:59:00.000+08:00

So, this post is two days late, but what the hey.

Two days ago, it was my dad's birthday. Nothing much, except for an all out food trip. Yeah, a food trip, as my brother calls it. Basically, food galore.

We went to Napoli for lunch. We ordered a ham-and-cheese pizza, oil-and-garlic spaghetti, onion bread, a beef sandwhich, some vegetable salad, and some spaghetti with this clam smell and taste, with four bottomless-till-you-die coke. And not just ordinary cocaine, it was Coca-Cola. We didn’t eat dinner that day. Oh, happy day.

My elder brother remembered our one food trip in Max's. It was like, “Whoa, we can't eat no more!” I do not remember what we ate at that time, nor how many.

Me and my still-older brother remembered a just recent food trip: watching 300 with a bagfull of chips. “Ang pinaka-sulit na food trip natin,” he once said.

These three food trips are perhaps my most best of my list of food trips, and sorry for the redundancy. Forget those food trips during road trips, those were just Chinese/Oriental restaurants, and we aren't even Chinese/Oriental. And because I remember those food trips, it made me think: “Whoa, those food trips cost us a lot of money, but we had a great, friggin’ time!”

It made me think that, yeah, wasting money for a ton of food is a waste of time, those were great times. Yeah, they were just short term satisfactions, but, who cares? We had great, friggin’ times! Don't you think it’s worth remembering great moments in your life that cost a lot of money than just saving them for the future? Yeah, you should save money, but that doesn’t mean you should save all the time. Your life won’t last forever, maybe it’ll end tommorow, so have fun for once, and cherish your life while it lasts.

On a sidenote, screw you greedy people! Screw you, greed! I'm gonna waste my money with people, so screw off!

BBC contemplates on April Fools’

2007-04-01T00:06:00.000+08:00

I read this article about BBC during the late 1950s showing an April Fools’ Joke mokumentary about spaghetti growing in trees in Switzerland to almost all of Britain, and almost everyone believing it, made me laugh. I mean, why would anyone do that? Haha. Man, if I tried that, that would’ve made me laugh like hell or something.

And it thought me some valuable lessons, to quote some:

[…]

“The really good ones succeed at making us believe something that we recognise, in hindsight, we really shouldn’t have believed because it’s completely preposterous,” he says.

“In a humorous way they teach us something about the limits of our own knowledge. They show us how unfamiliar many of the things around us—that we take for granted—are.”

The question has employed some of the world's finest brains. The eminent wartime scientist Reginald Jones, who headed the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence at the Air Ministry during World War II, […] came up with the equation [for the perfect April Fool's gag]: induction followed by incongruity.

[…]

“Basically he was saying lull them into a false sense of security, then drop in absurdities that just keep getting more and more extreme,” says Martin Wainwright, author of the newly published Guardian Book of April Fool's Day.

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